PastinVA
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PastinVA
@pastinva.bsky.social
Purveyor of fiercely lukewarm takes
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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War. War never changes.
December 25, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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What's happening to @thekrebscycle.bsky.social is disgusting

He's one of the most hardworking, dedicated and smart people I'm lucky enough to know, and he showed a LOT of courage when he fought back against attempts to undermine the 2020 election result

I hope Americans will stand behind him
April 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
March 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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After years of alarm over unelected bureaucrats pulling the strings, what better example can you find than this moment the US government is in? DOGE is the thing it claims to fear the most. Elon Musk is the problem he purportedly wants to solve.

Doge *is* the Deep State. @brbarrett.bsky.social:
DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Ok. Once and for all. Trump is anti Ukraine, anti Democracy, anti Europe and, above all, pro Putin. There can be no more doubt—it’s just a disaster it’s taken so long for people to understand it.
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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MTA suggesting that you'd need to go through NEPA to shut down congestion pricing is lol, dare I say it, L M A O

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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January 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Understanding the extent to which “community engagement” is absolutely DOMINATED by older, mostly white homeowners is absolutely key to understanding why your city looks the way it does.

Graphic via Boston Planning Department
August 23, 2024 at 9:38 PM
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A vast, covert Russian influence operation on TikTok involving 12,800 fake accounts spreading disinformation about the war in Ukraine to millions of users in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Israel and Ukraine, has been uncovered by BBC Verify and @dfrlab.bsky.social.
Ukraine war: How TikTok fakes pushed Russian lies to millions
The BBC uncovers a vast Russia-based network of fake TikTok accounts pushing disinformation about Ukraine.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2023 at 1:08 AM