Ragathiel
@ragathiel.bsky.social
He/Him; BLM, abortion rights are non-negotiable, expand SCOTUS, make DC & PR states, aggressively expand voting rights everywhere. The GOP is a fascist menace to be fought at every turn. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Ragathiel
@ragathiel.bsky.social
· Feb 28
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
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i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:32 AM
i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people
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If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
February 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...
After my 12ft tall Minotaur exemplar, next character will be Zirku Brassfire, kobold Commander/Investigator, field marshal of the Darkstar Legion on Triaxus and master of cool poses.
#miniatures #pathfinder #trrpg
#miniatures #pathfinder #trrpg
February 17, 2026 at 12:38 AM
After my 12ft tall Minotaur exemplar, next character will be Zirku Brassfire, kobold Commander/Investigator, field marshal of the Darkstar Legion on Triaxus and master of cool poses.
#miniatures #pathfinder #trrpg
#miniatures #pathfinder #trrpg
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This is the time of year I'm most pissed off by how Protestant even Catholic USA is, apart from New Orleans we don't even celebrate Carnival season. GOD, look what you all could be doing instead of working today!
February 16, 2026 at 9:07 PM
This is the time of year I'm most pissed off by how Protestant even Catholic USA is, apart from New Orleans we don't even celebrate Carnival season. GOD, look what you all could be doing instead of working today!
Today added some Dangerous Terrain for my Trench Crusade games on some unused bases; if y’all aren’t using Dirty Down rust effects you really, really should be!
#miniatures #wargaming #trenchcrusade
#miniatures #wargaming #trenchcrusade
February 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Today added some Dangerous Terrain for my Trench Crusade games on some unused bases; if y’all aren’t using Dirty Down rust effects you really, really should be!
#miniatures #wargaming #trenchcrusade
#miniatures #wargaming #trenchcrusade
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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Yeah, this went quickly from happening to me seeing it to “I should write about this” to me being unable to do anything else until I got this out.
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission
Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Yeah, this went quickly from happening to me seeing it to “I should write about this” to me being unable to do anything else until I got this out.
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...
Aw hell yeah, Paizo teaming up with OPR and potentially theming the monthly releases to whatever the current AP is…this is laser-targeting at my interests.
onepagerules.com/news/press-r...
#pathfinder #wargaming
onepagerules.com/news/press-r...
#pathfinder #wargaming
OPR News | Press Release: Paizo And One Page Rules To Bring Paizo Printables Miniatures Into One Page Rules’s Wargaming System.: Feb 10, 2026
Keep up with new miniature releases, onepagerules events, and video from around the web.
onepagerules.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Aw hell yeah, Paizo teaming up with OPR and potentially theming the monthly releases to whatever the current AP is…this is laser-targeting at my interests.
onepagerules.com/news/press-r...
#pathfinder #wargaming
onepagerules.com/news/press-r...
#pathfinder #wargaming
A unit of exo-jaegers, elite hunter-killers tasked with eliminating HVTs, joins the Ironstar Expeditionary Corps.
#miniatures #wargaming #onepagerules
#miniatures #wargaming #onepagerules
February 15, 2026 at 1:22 AM
A unit of exo-jaegers, elite hunter-killers tasked with eliminating HVTs, joins the Ironstar Expeditionary Corps.
#miniatures #wargaming #onepagerules
#miniatures #wargaming #onepagerules
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Me starting a new bulb of garlic and getting all the plump outer cloves: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me going back to the same garlic and only having inner cloves left: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me going back to the same garlic and only having inner cloves left: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
February 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Me starting a new bulb of garlic and getting all the plump outer cloves: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me going back to the same garlic and only having inner cloves left: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me going back to the same garlic and only having inner cloves left: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"
February 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"
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His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :
Worry, Don't Panic, Over Trump's Efforts to Subvert the Elections
America's system is quite foolproof but he can still try to delegitimize it
www.theunpopulist.net
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
His attacks on the midterms are real and dangerous… and aren’t going to work. Running down the case for an optimistic threat assessment @theunpopulist.net :
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Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
These fucking bastards. ICE delenda est, and the entire MAGA project with it.
EXCLUSIVE: A Ukrainian dad escaped Vladimir Putin’s drone and missile attacks back home only to be grabbed by a band of laughing ICE stooges in a Walmart parking lot in Minneapolis.
Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart
Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.
trib.al
February 13, 2026 at 2:36 PM
These fucking bastards. ICE delenda est, and the entire MAGA project with it.
Even if I believed in hell there would not be a pit deep enough for Elon Musk and Donald Trump
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...
Expert insight: U.S. withdrawal from WHO could affect global health - Western News
History professor Mitchell L. Hammond explains how the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization could affect global health and disease threats.
news.westernu.ca
February 13, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Even if I believed in hell there would not be a pit deep enough for Elon Musk and Donald Trump
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hasan, who is not trans or queer, saying that Dems would shoot every trans person in the head to win elections, is just straight up ratfucking, indefensible
February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
hasan, who is not trans or queer, saying that Dems would shoot every trans person in the head to win elections, is just straight up ratfucking, indefensible
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When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:48 PM
When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.
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really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 PM
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
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According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 3:28 AM
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
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All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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This is an absolutely iron clad argument for DC statehood.
All federalized National Guard troops have been withdrawn from LA, Chicago, and Portland per WaPo.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This is an absolutely iron clad argument for DC statehood.
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So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine
The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:24 AM
So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Cool.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.
February 11, 2026 at 5:11 AM
A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.
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This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw
We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
February 11, 2026 at 1:20 PM
This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw