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Thomas 🇺🇦
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Clevelander, Ukrainian-American
Highly functioning
antisocialite
Pinned
Sequoia Trees in the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite NP, Spring 2007
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Sluggo got it bad, got it bad, got it bad.
December 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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HEROIC: A civilian stopped one of the terrorists and took his gun, saving countless lives.

What a hero!
December 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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4of4
December 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.

But ProPublica did.

@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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When I started making YouTube videos, I did not imagine that I would one day make one with this title. Watch here for my breakdown of the new U.S. National Security Strategy.
New U.S. security strategy calls for regime change in Europe
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Next week the Supreme Court will hear another engineered case with fake plaintiffs, which presents another opportunity for the GOP justices to blow a hole through what remains of our campaign finance laws—this time, by turning political parties into a conduit for bribes. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court Is Poised to Revive a Key Feature of Nixon-Era Corruption
The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, a case cooked up by the GOP itself.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Woke up to our first real snow of the winter in Santa Fe, so I thought I'd stick with that them and share one of my favorite wintery photos I've taken, from a visit to Canyonlands National Park back in February 2019.

Nikon D750, 70-200mm lens at 200mm, f2.8, ISO100, 1/1250 second, +1 exposure comp
December 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Self driving horror
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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As media report that Chancellor Merz is heading to Brussels for talks on russian assets, let's wish him the best of luck in this mission.
December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Trump is all out Putin's loyal biïtch
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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MAGA mantra

Versions of the same:
For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.

One group the law protects but does not bind; and another group the law binds but does not protect.

And that foundation of fascism everywhere: the strong do what they will, while the weak suffer what they must.
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Republican Rep. Don Bacon calls for Witkoff to be fired. May it be the first call of many. Witkoff needs to go, now.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I dont get the celebrity-worship. 😒
Mamdani was raised by this man
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We Got You Covered Dept Part 9

Kelly Freas • Issue No. 48 • 1959
Norman Mingo • Issue No. 61 • 1961
Richard Williams • Issue No. 253 • 1985
Mark Fredrickson • The MAD Gross Book • 2001

#madmagazine
#theusualgangofidiots
#alfredeneuman
#whatmeworry
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Ahem
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Venezuela has thick, sulfurous oil that cannot be refined in typical American refineries. There is only one refinery in Louisiana that refines it, IIRC.
It's not "our oil".
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
@basshaving.bsky.social I am curious of your impressions of Singapore. My employer moved part of my company to Singapore almost twenty years ago. Then I started learning about "civics" in Singapore.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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To sum up the “peace plan”:

- US + Russia divide frozen Russian assets meant for Ukraine
- Russia evades accountability for war crimes
- Europe stuck with bill for Ukraine reconstruction
- Ukraine kept a half-state that never becomes the Ukraine that is a significant power in Europe, for Europe.
The “peace plan” for Ukraine is just a framework for Russia & the US to take assets away from Ukrainian recovery, and to ensure Russia evades accountability for war crimes

Europe can, and must, craft better with Ukraine

A point by point analysis of the shambles:

www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Trump publicly called for the execution of 6 members of Congress yesterday.: FULL STORY: https://socialcontra...
Trump publicly called for the execution of 6 members of Congress yesterday.
FULL STORY: https://socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/podcast-hes-an-immediate-danger-to?
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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American cross-country skier Jessie Diggins says she'll retire at the end of the 2025-26 season.
Jessie Diggins, Olympic gold medalist in US cross country skiing, to retire after 2025-26 season
American cross-country skier Jessie Diggins says she'll retire at the end of the 2025-26 season. The 34-year-old has won three Olympic medals, including the first cross-country Olympic gold for the United States with Kikkan Randall in 2018.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The House has defeated a GOP plan to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett D-VI and kick her off the House Intelligence Committee. 6 Republicans refused to go along with the plan - and those were the key votes.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Release the transcript.
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.

He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.

Release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM