Baņuta Rubess
@banuta.bsky.social
Writer, theatre artist, hyphenated, traveler
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Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
I OC = Russian sycophants
Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified before his first run at the 2026 Olympic Games because of a helmet featuring images of Ukrainian athletes kіІled by russia. The IOC called it a violation of Rule 50 and bаnned him from using it, treating remembrance of the fallen as a political stаtement.
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I OC = Russian sycophants
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Please share: Latvian Olympic team skeleton coach Ivo Šteinbergs submitted an official protest to the IOC regarding the ban of a Ukrainian athlete for honoring Ukrainian Olympians killed by Russian invaders. All national teams should join him to protest the disqualification of Vladyslav Heraskevych!
February 12, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Please share: Latvian Olympic team skeleton coach Ivo Šteinbergs submitted an official protest to the IOC regarding the ban of a Ukrainian athlete for honoring Ukrainian Olympians killed by Russian invaders. All national teams should join him to protest the disqualification of Vladyslav Heraskevych!
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 11, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
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„The picture painted by the Epstein files of the brutal, child-abusing network of international elites is so monstrous that our societies will perish unless everything is investigated transparently and completely – without regard to the individuals involved!“
Johannes Hano
Johannes Hano
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
„The picture painted by the Epstein files of the brutal, child-abusing network of international elites is so monstrous that our societies will perish unless everything is investigated transparently and completely – without regard to the individuals involved!“
Johannes Hano
Johannes Hano
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❌ It seems that WhatsApp is now completely blocked in Russia - Russians report the disappearance of the messenger domain from the DNS servers of Roskomnadzor.
February 11, 2026 at 4:51 PM
❌ It seems that WhatsApp is now completely blocked in Russia - Russians report the disappearance of the messenger domain from the DNS servers of Roskomnadzor.
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Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
February 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
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Bondi shamelessly lies: "Robert Mueller found no evidence of foreign interference in 2016. Have you apologized to President Trump?"
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Bondi shamelessly lies: "Robert Mueller found no evidence of foreign interference in 2016. Have you apologized to President Trump?"
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I don’t keep up with explosive technology, so learning about these new bombs is giving me the same feeling as learning about Hiroshima as a child. Deep, deep sadness that we are capable of such things. Both kinds of weapons killing so utterly that there’s nothing left to grieve.
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 AM
I don’t keep up with explosive technology, so learning about these new bombs is giving me the same feeling as learning about Hiroshima as a child. Deep, deep sadness that we are capable of such things. Both kinds of weapons killing so utterly that there’s nothing left to grieve.
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When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”
February 10, 2026 at 10:43 PM
AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”
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Pat turkiem viņš riebjas.
February 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Pat turkiem viņš riebjas.
If you need to relive Bad Bunny and read the footnotes
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 AM
If you need to relive Bad Bunny and read the footnotes
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Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate.
“We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”
“We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”
February 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate.
“We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”
“We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”
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To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow:
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
February 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
To all our international friends attending the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan tomorrow:
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
Please loudly boo JD Vance and his delegation. Make him feel like shit. We encourage it. We wish we could be there to boo him, too.
Signed,
the American people
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The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
This should start an avalanche
I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...
WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
youtu.be
February 4, 2026 at 12:51 PM
This should start an avalanche
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"It takes planning to make sure you have at least a liter of soapy water mixture with you when you're going to a protest... leaving your house for any reason whatsoever, even just sitting quietly in your home... any place where you might conceivably be pepper sprayed in the United States."
#Pinks
#Pinks
What To Do If You Get Pepper Sprayed
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"It takes planning to make sure you have at least a liter of soapy water mixture with you when you're going to a protest... leaving your house for any reason whatsoever, even just sitting quietly in your home... any place where you might conceivably be pepper sprayed in the United States."
#Pinks
#Pinks
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This is the only way.
Offices of Musk's X in France have been raided by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office.
www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
Offices of Musk's X in France have been raided by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office.
www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
Les locaux de X en France perquisitionnés, la justice veut entendre Elon Musk en audition libre
Une perquisition est « diligentée dans les locaux français » de la plateforme X par la section de lutte contre la cybercriminalité du parquet de Paris, a annoncé ce dernier mardi sur les réseaux socia...
www.lemonde.fr
February 3, 2026 at 10:09 AM
This is the only way.
Offices of Musk's X in France have been raided by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office.
www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
Offices of Musk's X in France have been raided by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office.
www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
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AOC: Why haven’t so many people been prosecuted? Why are Pam Bondi and the DOJ continuing to hide the majority of the Epstein files, which they admit contain even more direct evidence of genuinely shocking crimes and abuse of women, minors, and increasingly men…
February 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
AOC: Why haven’t so many people been prosecuted? Why are Pam Bondi and the DOJ continuing to hide the majority of the Epstein files, which they admit contain even more direct evidence of genuinely shocking crimes and abuse of women, minors, and increasingly men…
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A mother’s confession on SNL😂👇
February 1, 2026 at 12:17 PM
A mother’s confession on SNL😂👇
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Sunday morning cartoons in Canada.
February 1, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Sunday morning cartoons in Canada.
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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
January 31, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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Favorite review: “It is the most terrifying horror movie I have seen since Eraserhead. The tension! Will the table setting be symmetrical? If the fork is out of alignment, will the simulation crash?”
February 1, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Favorite review: “It is the most terrifying horror movie I have seen since Eraserhead. The tension! Will the table setting be symmetrical? If the fork is out of alignment, will the simulation crash?”