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Romeo Kokriatski

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 11d

Your newspapers are lying to you. This week, we discuss the lies, lies, and dirty lies present in a WaPo piece on Kash Patel, among others. Give us a listen

open.spotify.com/episode/2Wtj...

'Kash Patel, ICE raids, and State-sanctioned murder' with SK Media

open.spotify.com

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 2h

This is a headline and lede so fucking delusional that it isn't even propaganda, it's simply a fantasy story that shares coincidental names and places with reality.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, of course, the known peace activist is lying about the actions of a government that has openly bragged about the torture they subjected her to. That's a reasonable position to take.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 4h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 4h

I do recall that foundational myth of America - where Good Ol' King George was simply too generous to the colonies and we all lived happily ever after.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 5h

This was inevitable, I think we can all agree.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 7h

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 9h

Read "He would appreciate any plot ideas he could use as prompts" five minutes ago and have yet to stop sneer-chortling.

Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty sure it was reported that this dude was killed around the start of the full scale invasion

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

A soldier’s backpack—the safest place in the world for this tiny companion.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 10h

"Just win elections!"

Yep, that's we told formerly enslaved persons after the Civil War. Ended in something called 'Jim Crow', which was 100% legal for quite a while. Might wanna look it up.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, he won't answer it. Yes, they'll probably take your credentials & access away. Yes, then it will probably end up as a sycophantic court of far right-enabling journalists. Yes, this is how you go down swinging in the face of authoritarianism.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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correcting typo and derailing riff @stefanheck.bsky.social · 17h

I would honestly rather read a handwritten note from my parents in which they say they regret ever adopting me

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 10h

He cooked his brain in incel culture (his buddies were on the forefront of creating it). Has no one to blame for his complexes but himself.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 15h

This is also basically what Patrick Bateman does. Treats you nice to your face while fantasizing about violently killing you

Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 1d

Every Republican under 30 is a Nazi. Every single one. No exceptions. No, not even that guy who you think is your friend. He’s being nice to you in person but talks about how you shouldn’t have rights in his discord chat.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 10h

Screen for the blocked?

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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 20h

Y'all, things in Chicago are very very bad, but it's not OCCUPIED.

Crimea is OCCUPIED. They don't display their flag because they'll get arrested. They don't post about the regime on the internet. They don't even think about protesting.

Calling Chicago "occupied" is ceding power they don't have.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

Gettin real tired of the constant NYC bashing. Oh, you don't like people? You don't like food? You don't like paying 67% of your monthly income in rent to a slumlord who last renovated your unit in 1986?

Fucking poseurs.

Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social · 2d

Overheard at dinner: “Do you think New York is the best city in the world?” “Probably, but I hate it.”

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

There isn't a single GOP elected that isn't either a gleeful genocidaire or someone who doesn't mind palling around with the same. The Nazi bar rule, as always, applies.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

Cowardice in the face of fascism is morally equivalent to collaboration.

Love Wins Always @lovewinzalways.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's too easy to assume they're all willful accomplices. It seems self-evident that quite a few would normally object—but are *justifiably* afraid of having family harmed/disappeared.

Murkowski in April tried to raise the alarm but people interpreted it as mere fear of being primaried.

‘We are all afraid’: Murkowski says fear of retaliation from Trump administration is ‘real’

The senator said this week that she has been “just trying to listen as carefully as I can to what is happening."

www.politico.com

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a tuxedo is asking why are you booing me i 'm right

ALT: a man in a tuxedo is asking why are you booing me i 'm right

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, I gave up hoping Yud had a spine when his little buddies started incels fanclubs to talk about how girls are icky. That was a decade or so back.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Elite solidarity is so funny

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

If Yud had a sliver of moral courage, he would have denounced the Nazis and fascists that have embraced his 'ideology' years ago - but he decided his ego is more important than preventing human extinction, so.

Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I'd feel bad for Yud if he wasn't one of the key factors in pushing the technofascist hellscape his billionaire buddies have built for us.

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