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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h

The normalization of government-wide corruption is failed state stuff

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 6h

Two photos of today haunt me: a civilian lying dead beside his car in the Donetsk region, and an elderly woman in Kherson next to her goats. Both killed — hunted — by russian drones. Both murders were deliberate.

Those who support russia share the guilt and the blood on their hands.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 9h

Russian comments on Monday suggest that the Kremlin may not even agree to a Budapest summit. So the only point of the Putin-Trump phone call was to dissuade Trump from providing Tomahawks to Ukraine. Once again, Putin gets his way with the US president.

Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d

Putin is Lucy, Trump is Charlie Brown, and peace in Ukraine is the football. wapo.st/49eip6r

Opinion | Trump keeps getting played by Putin. Will Budapest be different?

A Russia-Ukraine ceasefire might be possible if only Trump would apply more pressure on Putin.

wapo.st

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 10h

Grandma Lora had 20 goats.

The picture will likely be covered to protect you from seeing it. She was not protected or covered. Neither were her little goats.

Russia killed her in Kherson. With a drone.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 10h

The Kremlin is leaning into its cognitive warfare effort to portray Russian forces as relentlessly advancing and a Russian victory as inevitable. This effort aims to obscure the reality that Russian forces are only making minimal gains at disproportionately high manpower costs... 🧵1/5

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 19h

🧵For those who don't know, I spent over a year in Tbilisi, Georgia, and went from there to Kyiv just before Putin invaded.

I lived right below Bidzina Ivanishvili, the oligarch thug who's working to get Georgia back in Putin's grip.

Everyone should be paying attention to what's going on there...

Georgian police raid homes of former officials including ex-prime minister

Authorities in Georgia have been clamping down on figures accused of trying to overthrow the government.

www.aljazeera.com

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 16h

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll explain the context of the upcoming Budapest Blunder, and how it follows the infamous Alaska Fiasco from two months ago and Trump’s absurd delaying of serious aid to Ukraine and effective sanctions on Russia for the past nine months.

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🇨🇦Trescee @teemack.bsky.social · 11h

Canadian Celly 🇨🇦🎉
Fans at the Calgary Flames game #bluejays

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13h

Graves in the yards of Kostyantynivka.

The same scene now unfolds here as in other cities and towns where the russian army advances reducing everything to dust and rubble and murdering everyone.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 20h

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12h

🔴 Russians had killed a woman and her goats in the Kherson region on October 20, according to journalist Zarina Zabrisky.

She added that just a few weeks ago, she spoke to Lora about how the Russians had destroyed her and other villagers' homes.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21h

The bat flip inning was crazier, but this is a game to go to the World Series

MLB Daily News @fantasymlbnews.bsky.social · 21h

GEORGE SPRINGER 3-RUN HOMER SENDS TORONTO INTO A FRENZY

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18h

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but.

More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025

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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 20h

me, I don't have to worry about whether my favorite baseball team would accept a White House invitation, and I think that's beautiful

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🇨🇦Trescee @teemack.bsky.social · 20h

Fantastic series by both teams and feel for Mariners fans - Toronto fans have been there! Also u gotta know we will be BELTING out O Canada in the World Series

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🇨🇦Trescee @teemack.bsky.social · 20h

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 21h

The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series

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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 21h

HOME RUN BLUE JAYS

IT’S A SPRINGER DINGER

THE JAYS LEAD 4-3. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE

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🇨🇦Trescee @teemack.bsky.social · 20h

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 22h

amazing stuff from our modern-day spartans

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

REAGAN: “When someone says let’s impose tariffs, it may look like they’re doing the patriotic thing… but over the long run trade barriers hurt every 🇺🇸 worker.”

🇨🇦 Ontario just ran this👇🏽powerful ad using Reagan’s voice against Trump’s trade war during game 7 of the ALCS ⚾️

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 23h

I dedicate this post to the formidable @annabower.bsky.social

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme but about everything being off the record

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23h

so much about this case is judges in extreme distress

"I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer."

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🇨🇦Trescee @teemack.bsky.social · 1d

Trump complained about not receiving Nobel Peace Prize during meeting with Zelenskyy – WP

US President Donald Trump reportedly "went on and on" about not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize during his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House last week.

www.pravda.com.ua

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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