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November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This (on 10/2) was pretty interesting too:

«EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

…declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artificact from the library's permanent collection»

open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If Trump Admin + MAGA behave like Russians towards Americans,

We Americans will fight like Ukrainians.

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October 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
2/2:
Beware poor modeling from destructive leaders.

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carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

A useful workbook:
AwarenessWheel.com

Section on Unaware Reactive behaviors - recognize, step out of them.
October 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If only Trump could do something to avoid the government shutdown 😉

Thank you Seth!
#DonaldTrumpsShutdown

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September 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
We all want a budget that counts people’s wellbeing—protecting healthcare, lowering costs, and ensuring government works for everyone, not just the wealthy.

Who would rather force a shutdown than serve American’s wellbeing?

#DonaldTrumpsShutdown

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September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We won’t stand idly by. No one should rubber stamp a reckless budget that worsens a healthcare crisis created without American people in mind.

Trump et. al. are threatening shutdown because they refuse to fix the disaster they manufactured.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
From Csikszentmihalyi’s Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life, chapter “Love of Fate”

2/2
September 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I think Csikszentmihalyi’s words on “Good” and “Evil” are worthwhile here, in the context of @gilduran.com’s, Paulina Borsook’s, and @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s words:

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September 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
P.S. - Kimmel’s words not widely shown, so here:

www.msn.com/en-us/tv/new...

If ABC/Hulu/Disney (and CBS/Paramount) bend knees to federal intrusion - this begs the question:

Is the relevance of primary networks now over?

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(What fills the void?)

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September 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Freedom of speech matters.

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With Freedom comes Responsibility.

Speak responsibly.
Talk straight; Speak for yourself.

Listen to others who speak responsibly,
and Think for yourself.

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img via Marijn Markus
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Helland’s article about similar issues in Georgia: “A feudal order in modern dress”

terjehelland1.substack.com/p/georgias-p...

Helland’s thread overviewing this:
bsky.app/profile/terj...

Gift link (in replies 2 @anneapplebaum.bsky.social post):

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

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September 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
August 23, 2025 at 2:03 AM
6/6

The Kremlin’s formula never changes: conquer, erase, reprogram, redeploy.

And if the world lets it succeed in Ukraine, it will repeat the cycle — again and again.

via @rshereme.bsky.social:

www.linkedin.com/posts/roman-...
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
5/6

We’ve seen this before.

• Since 2014, Ukrainians in occupied Crimea and Donbas have been conscripted and thrown into “meat assaults” against their own country.
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
4/6

We’ve seen this before.

• In the 1990s, Chechens fought for independence. Today, after decades of repression, indoctrination, and terror, many are forced to fight in russia’s wars — including against Ukraine.
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
3/6

We’ve seen this before.

• Just 35 years ago, Soviet troops — including Ukrainians — sat in East Germany as part of Moscow’s imperial machine.
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Step 3: Reeducate and brainwash.
Children stolen, families broken, loyalty drilled in at gunpoint.

Step 4: Redeploy.
Turn the conquered into tools for future wars.
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It’s not complicated.
It’s not new.

Step 1: Erase Ukrainian identity.
Ban the language. Destroy the culture. Silence the history.

Step 2: Replace it with a russian one.
Force propaganda into schools, rewrite textbooks, glorify Moscow.

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August 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A worthy point, and read from DW Phillips.
August 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
russia’s wars drive nations toward NATO — not the other way around - it’s a centuries old pattern with russian states.

Blaming NATO flips cause and effect.

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Stand against wars attacking civilians:

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August 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM