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Not a pander bear. #standwithUkraine 💪 I support Universal Healthcare, vaccines 🚫spam accounts

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NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Picasso's Guernica (1937) was painted in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It remains one of the most powerful anti-war statements ever created".

From May 16, 2012
by Thomas Ponniah

Picasso's Guernica as symbol of the peace movement

Seventy-five years ago Nazi warplanes -- aligned with Franco's Nationalists -- bombed and destroyed the Basque town of Guernica. In response, the Spanish Republican government asked Pablo Picasso to c...

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NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · 5h

Karoline Leavitt is a circus clown put on display and meant to destroy the USA. These are clowns that never loved America.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11h

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out, libertarian carnivores and MAGA ranchers have more in common than just red meat.

NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · 5h

Despite nationalist rhetoric, MAGA policies protect big agribusiness, not small farmers or ranchers.

American Asado: Trump defends proposed beef imports from Argentina | Watch News Videos Online

Watch American Asado: Trump defends proposed beef imports from Argentina Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · 5h

Despite nationalist rhetoric, MAGA policies protect big agribusiness, not small farmers or ranchers.

American Asado: Trump defends proposed beef imports from Argentina | Watch News Videos Online

Watch American Asado: Trump defends proposed beef imports from Argentina Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

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NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · 5h

The “America First” approach didn't always mean “American rancher first.” It often meant “corporate profit first.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Making Argentina Great Again

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westofyou @bberts.bsky.social · 7h

I think Toronto should invite Bad Bunny to sing at the opening game of the series and that both anthems should be sung in Spanish

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21h

I will not to entertain these made up stories that DJT didn’t not tell Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms.

We had enough sources telling the exact same story of cursing, throwing around the maps Ukrainian delegation brought in and telling Ze that he has to give up Donbas or Putin destroys him.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21h

And Zelenskyy confirmed this in his talks with reporters in Kyiv on Sunday.

Translated from Ukrainian, this is what Zelenskyy said:

The position of the Russians hasn't changed. They want us to withdraw from Donbas - not the entire East, but specifically Donbas, that is, completely from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. I made it clear that Ukraine's stance in this context remains unchanged. I explained this both to President Trump and to Mr. Witkoff. We understand that Mr.
Witkoff is simply conveying what Russia means; this does not necessarily reflect his own view, at least according to him. I made it clear to him that there are some misleading impressions. The story is that the Russians claim they supposedly held a referendum among the Russian people in Donbas, and that they supposedly want to join Russia. But first there was the occupation, and only afterward did something uncontrolled and clearly illegal happen, which they called a "referendum." Moreover, I would say that these signals from the Russians are so far from reality that ten years passed between the start of the occupation and the so-called "referendum." Do you see where it doesn't add up? Mr. Witkoff points out that it was incorporated into their constitution. So I explained to Mr. Witkoff once again that if tomorrow Putin adds something else to their constitution, after the war ends in one way or another, will we need to withdraw from some territory again? And if, for example, I amend the Constitution of Ukraine to include two regions of the Russian Federation, would they then leave those territories? This is a non-functional model.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 19h

The EU is preparing to strengthen its authority to board and inspect tankers linked to Russia's so-called shadow fleet and is negotiating with some of the flag and coastal states to take measures, according to a draft proposal by the EU's diplomatic service (EEAS), seen by Kyiv Independent.

EU mulls hitting Russia where it hurts — its shadow fleet

LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg — The EU is preparing to strengthen its authority to board and inspect tankers linked to Russia's so-called shadow fleet and is negotiating with some of the flag and coastal sta...

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NerdyCanuck🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mushroomfiend.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, F!

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12h

The 2011 BBC show 'Romancing the stone' showed a reconstruction of what historians thought Wells Cathedral in England may have looked like before the late 14th century based on tiny fragments of paint that survived the horrific "scrape" of the Victorian era.
I made a gif:

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 12h

@historyrage.bsky.social 'Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward', an 1874 oil painting by Luke Fildes.
The poor and destitute waiting outside a police station to be given a ticket for temporary admission to a workhouse for the night.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applica...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

Trump admin is planning to furlough the vast majority of the civilian staff at a key agency that helps manage the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, per notice NNSA sent to lawmakers obtained by POLITICO.
National Nuclear Security Administration, under DOE, will exhaust its funding on Oct. 18

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, The Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on the reappearance of unmarked “little green men” on Estonia’s border — a chilling reminder of Russia’s hybrid warfare tactics from 2014.

Trump holds back Tomahawks | Ukraine This Week

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

Even if these people are drug smugglers, there are international rules for intercepting them.

But if they really ARE fishermen … holy shit.

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Chris Knox @chrisknoxphotog.bsky.social · 3d

Let's go Blue Jays!!!

#WantItAll

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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sarah Tooley had a badass response to this in her DC neighborhood in 2009. She made such a stir that it was a cover story in the city paper. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/2276...

Bench Warfare

For roughly a year, artist Sarah Tooley had observed people coming and going from the green benches at the tiny triangular park at 14th and Ogden Streets in Columbia Heights. Through her back bedroom ...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Hostile architecture, like leaning benches and armrests designed to stop houseless people from occupying public spaces, makes things terrible for everyone.

The Slow Death of the New York City Public Bench

www.nytimes.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Trump: "The only price we have that's high is beef, and we'll get that down. And one of things we're thinking about doing is beef from Argentina."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 3d

Q: Justin Trudeau said that Canada would honour the International Criminal Court arrest warrants, i.e. Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he came to Canada, does that stand under your leadership?

CARNEY: Yes.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 2d

If Ukraine surrenders the entirety of Donetsk region to the Kremlin as Putin is demanding - Ukraine would lose its ‘fortress belt’.
This would leave the steppes in the Dnipropetrovsk Region to the west wide open to an invasion by the ruzzian horde opening a direct pathway to the city of Dnipro.

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Question - if wealth taxes don’t work and raise only paltry amounts, how come whenever we start seriously discussing them rich people start pouring resources into trying to start race and class wars as a distraction?

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 2d

The foreign-born, pro-Russian tech-bro oligarchs aren’t even hiding how much they despise democracy in the US

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