Melissa
@mballardj.bsky.social
Blue dot in the red state of Alabama.
Supporter of Ukraine.
I’d rather be at the lake.
Supporter of Ukraine.
I’d rather be at the lake.
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1:09 am in Kyiv.
Calm is over.
Missiles.
Every Friday night 🙄
Calm is over.
Missiles.
Every Friday night 🙄
December 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
1:09 am in Kyiv.
Calm is over.
Missiles.
Every Friday night 🙄
Calm is over.
Missiles.
Every Friday night 🙄
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The EU triggers emergency powers (under Art 122) to permanently immobilize Russian assets to help rebuild what Russia destroyed.
This is European sovereignty in action.
This is European sovereignty in action.
EU agrees to indefinitely immobilise €210 billion of Russian assets
The EU has decided to keep the assets of the Russian Central Bank immobilised for the foreseeable future. The ban, which is based on a provision for economic emergencies, pushes back against external ...
www.euronews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The EU triggers emergency powers (under Art 122) to permanently immobilize Russian assets to help rebuild what Russia destroyed.
This is European sovereignty in action.
This is European sovereignty in action.
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We’ll soon know which teams will be competing at Gillette Stadium in the 2026 World Cup. Here's what to know.
The groups are set for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and we’re a step closer to knowing which teams will play in Foxborough - The Boston Globe
While the groups for the Gillette Stadium games are set, the specific matchups won’t be released until Saturday.
trib.al
December 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We’ll soon know which teams will be competing at Gillette Stadium in the 2026 World Cup. Here's what to know.
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From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: The U.S. will face Australia, Paraguay and a playoff team in the 2026 World Cup group stage. Follow for more on the draw. nyti.ms/4rEVRCD
World Cup 2026 draw live updates: Results, groups and match schedule from today’s ceremony
Follow reaction to today’s World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: The U.S. will face Australia, Paraguay and a playoff team in the 2026 World Cup group stage. Follow for more on the draw. nyti.ms/4rEVRCD
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I saw it today –
two banks of Kyiv:
one with electricity,
the other without.
A powerful sight.
two banks of Kyiv:
one with electricity,
the other without.
A powerful sight.
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I saw it today –
two banks of Kyiv:
one with electricity,
the other without.
A powerful sight.
two banks of Kyiv:
one with electricity,
the other without.
A powerful sight.
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After midnight in Kyiv.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
After midnight in Kyiv.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
Air raid alert.
Drones.
Missile threat – maybe even tonight.
Nothing new, actually.
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Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee after visiting two exhibitions
and one Christmas tree.
Showing you a traditional 🇺🇦 costume of the 19-20th centuries.
where I’m having a warcoffee after visiting two exhibitions
and one Christmas tree.
Showing you a traditional 🇺🇦 costume of the 19-20th centuries.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee after visiting two exhibitions
and one Christmas tree.
Showing you a traditional 🇺🇦 costume of the 19-20th centuries.
where I’m having a warcoffee after visiting two exhibitions
and one Christmas tree.
Showing you a traditional 🇺🇦 costume of the 19-20th centuries.
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@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”
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Pete Hegseth is a national disgrace that needs to resign or be fired immediately. Let’s push hard to make it happen.
Tell Congress: Demand the resignation of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Pete Hegseth is a national disgrace that needs to resign or be fired immediately. Let’s push hard to make it happen.
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Mark Kelly is not going to be silenced by the sick buffonery of Trump and Hegseth, two deeply unserious people. They picked a fight with the wrong guy.
Wow. Mark Kelly’s Devastating Takedown of Trump.
December 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Mark Kelly is not going to be silenced by the sick buffonery of Trump and Hegseth, two deeply unserious people. They picked a fight with the wrong guy.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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The Kyiv evening gently falls onto your feed –
the art gallery and the Great Lavra Bell Tower in view.
the art gallery and the Great Lavra Bell Tower in view.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Kyiv evening gently falls onto your feed –
the art gallery and the Great Lavra Bell Tower in view.
the art gallery and the Great Lavra Bell Tower in view.
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I stand with Mark Kelly. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
I Could Be Wrong.
cbwrong.blogspot.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I stand with Mark Kelly. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
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When Mark Kelly spoke to the troops, he wasn’t talking politics. He was reinforcing the pillars of a free country.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
When Mark Kelly spoke to the troops, he wasn’t talking politics. He was reinforcing the pillars of a free country.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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The draft dodging idiot posted a pic of this West Point plaque. It contains these words:
“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”
That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition
“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”
That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The draft dodging idiot posted a pic of this West Point plaque. It contains these words:
“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”
That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition
“Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.”
That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition
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This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro must begin serving his 27-year prison sentence for plotting an attempted coup, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ruled. https://cnn.it/4p1dgDV
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is exactly what you do
With presidents who coup
With presidents who coup
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Kyiv today.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Kyiv today.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
The harder the attack,
the more determined I am to look for something good.
Christmas magic in the windows of a central department store –
installations inspired by the works of Grasya Oliyko,
a Ukrainian illustrator.
Doug Jones is the person Alabama needs. Bourbon MeeMaw needs to go!
Right on!
Alabama finally has someone ready to fight for the Alabama instead of letting Tuberville, a non-resident drifter, run his mouth from Florida.
Doug is stepping in with actual roots, actual plans, and an actual stake in the future of the state.
#DougForAlabama
Alabama finally has someone ready to fight for the Alabama instead of letting Tuberville, a non-resident drifter, run his mouth from Florida.
Doug is stepping in with actual roots, actual plans, and an actual stake in the future of the state.
#DougForAlabama
So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.
#DougForAlabama
#DougForAlabama
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Doug Jones is the person Alabama needs. Bourbon MeeMaw needs to go!
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Greetings from Kyiv.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
I’m having a warcoffee,
reading the news about the ‘peace plan’.
And the feeling that it leads nowhere
becomes stronger and stronger,
despite all the loud and ‘promising’ words.
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Mark Kelly: "The message he sent a couple days ago was he declared that loyalty to the Constitution is now punishable by death. Those are serious words coming from the president. He's trying to intimidate us. But I'm not going to be intimidated."
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"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
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Rep. Eugene Vindman: " I want to start by condemning the president for calling for six Democratic members of Congress, all of whom are patriots who served our country to be hanged. It is the kind of thing we expect from a Saudi Crown Prince, not an American President."
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Rep. Eugene Vindman: " I want to start by condemning the president for calling for six Democratic members of Congress, all of whom are patriots who served our country to be hanged. It is the kind of thing we expect from a Saudi Crown Prince, not an American President."