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@erupton.bsky.social

An insignificant academic. Musicologist: Medieval+ European music, 60s pop, medievalism. I like BTS now.

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Once again: All of the screaming about how Kamala/Dems had “bad messaging” was bullshit. How the fuck are you supposed to “message” against this type of mindset?

15.02.2026 03:40 — 👍 130    🔁 43    💬 10    📌 1

There’s nothing like having the full support of terrorist organization that tortures & murders its citizens, rapes its hostages. As they toss around words like conscience, human values etc etc.😒

15.02.2026 01:04 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

It’s big autocorrect.

15.02.2026 04:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

15.02.2026 02:25 — 👍 938    🔁 632    💬 58    📌 42
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Perspective.
The class war is at critical mass, exacerbated by the fascist government.

15.02.2026 02:29 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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I call bullshit on the DOJ release of names in the Epstein files

They are including names that show up in press clippings that Epstein happened to forward or that were forwarded to him!

This is a ploy to cover for the fact that Trump's name is REALLY in the files--& a smear of innocent people

15.02.2026 01:23 — 👍 624    🔁 192    💬 20    📌 3
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“What I endured lasted from the very beginning to the very end.”

Released hostage Arbel Yehud was sexually abused “almost every single day” by her Palestinian Islamic Jihad captors during her 482 days in captivity.

LISTEN. BELIEVE. SHARE.

14.02.2026 10:10 — 👍 71    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 2
Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty

Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)

Credit: Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Brazil's Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, center, winner of an alpine ski, men's giant slalom race, jumps in celebration on the podium flanked by second placed Switzerland's Marco Odermatt, left, and third placed Switzerland's Loic Meillard, at the 2026 Winter Olympics.(AP)

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

14.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 5097    🔁 871    💬 54    📌 53

The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...

15.02.2026 02:27 — 👍 351    🔁 103    💬 12    📌 8
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Trump: ‘There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!’ "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," wrote Trump, who is not a lawyer.

Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.

Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

15.02.2026 00:15 — 👍 5363    🔁 1677    💬 284    📌 59
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Taken from The L.A. Times on May 14, 1948 an article about Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Notice how the article mentions independence after 20 centuries of foreign rule. Get the point now? Israel has always been the Jewish homeland even when it was colonized by outsiders.

15.02.2026 02:09 — 👍 26    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

I will say what I said when I saw this posted the first time

I heard the messaging loud and clear so did the 92% so did anyone else who voted for her

If she didn’t she wasn’t paying attn

14.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 59    🔁 18    💬 8    📌 0
this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the
memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link
between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the
common civilization to which we have
fallen heir.

this continent long before. The man who settled and built the nation of my birth arrived on our shores carrying the memories and the traditions and the Christian faith of their ancestors as a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new. We are part of one civilization - Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...

15.02.2026 00:47 — 👍 1666    🔁 422    💬 43    📌 277
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When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

14.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 4536    🔁 1685    💬 266    📌 90
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The research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation called Trump's asinine tariffs "the largest U.S. tax increase as a percent of GDP since 1993."

Read here: https://bit.ly/3MJ2Ric

15.02.2026 01:00 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 2

ICE has completely broken our social contract.

They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

14.02.2026 22:55 — 👍 2388    🔁 858    💬 44    📌 17
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digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/s...

“[W]e live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.” — Stephen Miller

14.02.2026 23:58 — 👍 23    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0

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14.02.2026 23:12 — 👍 507    🔁 187    💬 71    📌 11
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib • @afalkhatib
X.com
The Great Hospital Con: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) pulled out of the al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and just yesterday explained its decision. It has said exactly what I have repeatedly talked about for over a year and shared personal examples of friends of mine being imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured within various facilities inside the hospital from Hamas's intelligence and security services. MSF is two years late to this recognition but it is ultimately confirming what even a child in southern Gaza could have told the organization or the NYT, Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera and countless others had they bothered to ask - which is that Hamas has literally turned Gaza's three main hospitals into headquarters for security, ministerial, and administrative operations.
When I said this time and again, people would yell and scream how I was irresponsibly justifying Israel's targeting of the hospital, even as the same people would not utter a word about their favorite terrorist fascist organization jeopardizing the safety of medical facilities for two years of the deadly war.
Congratulations "pro-Palestine" activists: you have been conned by your beloved resistance organization which has caused the death of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians by its conduct and behavior.
Get Hamas out of Gaza's hospitals now!
nd stop some medical activities at Nasser hospit
facility in Gaza, as of 20 January 2026, due to concerns regarding the management of the structure, the safeguarding of its neutrality, and security breaches.
In recent months, in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, patients and MSF personnel have seen armed men, some

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib • @afalkhatib X.com The Great Hospital Con: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) pulled out of the al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, and just yesterday explained its decision. It has said exactly what I have repeatedly talked about for over a year and shared personal examples of friends of mine being imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured within various facilities inside the hospital from Hamas's intelligence and security services. MSF is two years late to this recognition but it is ultimately confirming what even a child in southern Gaza could have told the organization or the NYT, Washington Post, BBC, Al Jazeera and countless others had they bothered to ask - which is that Hamas has literally turned Gaza's three main hospitals into headquarters for security, ministerial, and administrative operations. When I said this time and again, people would yell and scream how I was irresponsibly justifying Israel's targeting of the hospital, even as the same people would not utter a word about their favorite terrorist fascist organization jeopardizing the safety of medical facilities for two years of the deadly war. Congratulations "pro-Palestine" activists: you have been conned by your beloved resistance organization which has caused the death of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians by its conduct and behavior. Get Hamas out of Gaza's hospitals now! nd stop some medical activities at Nasser hospit facility in Gaza, as of 20 January 2026, due to concerns regarding the management of the structure, the safeguarding of its neutrality, and security breaches. In recent months, in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, patients and MSF personnel have seen armed men, some

Get Hamas out of Gaza's hospitals now!
nd stop some medical activities at Nasser hospit sion to suspend all non-critical medical operations in! s of 20 January 2026, due to concerns regarding the m ality, and security breaches.
hospital in Khan Younis, patients and MSF personnel f the large compound of the hospital. This had not bee of the hospital compound. With an uptick since the ce ptable acts, including the presence of armed men, inti ion of suspicion of movement of weapons. These incid ients.
r strong concern to the relevant authorities, and emph: medical mission. Hospitals must remain neutral, civili: re the safe and impartial delivery of medical care.
facility in Gaza, as of 20 January 2026, due to concerns regarding the management of the structure, the safeguarding of its neutrality, and security breaches.
In recent months, in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, patients and MSF personnel have seen armed men, some masked, in different areas of the large compound of the hospital. This had not been in areas where MSF has activities, but in other parts of the hospital compound. With an uptick since the ceasefire, MSF teams have reported a pattern of unacceptable acts, including the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients, and a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons.
These incidents pose serious security threats to our teams and patients.
MSF formally expressed our strong concern to the relevant authorities, and emphasised the incompatibility of such violations with MSF's medical mission. Hospitals must remain neutral, civilian spaces, free from military presence or activity, to ensure the safe and impartial delivery of medical care.
6:20 PM • 2/13/26 • 214K Views

Get Hamas out of Gaza's hospitals now! nd stop some medical activities at Nasser hospit sion to suspend all non-critical medical operations in! s of 20 January 2026, due to concerns regarding the m ality, and security breaches. hospital in Khan Younis, patients and MSF personnel f the large compound of the hospital. This had not bee of the hospital compound. With an uptick since the ce ptable acts, including the presence of armed men, inti ion of suspicion of movement of weapons. These incid ients. r strong concern to the relevant authorities, and emph: medical mission. Hospitals must remain neutral, civili: re the safe and impartial delivery of medical care. facility in Gaza, as of 20 January 2026, due to concerns regarding the management of the structure, the safeguarding of its neutrality, and security breaches. In recent months, in Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, patients and MSF personnel have seen armed men, some masked, in different areas of the large compound of the hospital. This had not been in areas where MSF has activities, but in other parts of the hospital compound. With an uptick since the ceasefire, MSF teams have reported a pattern of unacceptable acts, including the presence of armed men, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients, and a recent situation of suspicion of movement of weapons. These incidents pose serious security threats to our teams and patients. MSF formally expressed our strong concern to the relevant authorities, and emphasised the incompatibility of such violations with MSF's medical mission. Hospitals must remain neutral, civilian spaces, free from military presence or activity, to ensure the safe and impartial delivery of medical care. 6:20 PM • 2/13/26 • 214K Views

Israel was accused of all sorts of treachery after telling Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to leave Gaza because it wouldn’t guarantee non-cooperation with Hamas.

Now MSF has admitted the truth itself. Hamas has been torturing and murdering Palestinians in Gazan hospitals.

Just as Israel said.

14.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 47    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 7

The only thing he wants to make free in NY is to make it free of Jews.

Damn every Democrat who endorsed this "abandon Harris" clown.

15.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
A red card, given out with a red rose in Los Angeles today. The card reads “My love song is (      )” A QR code is in the lower right corner.

A red card, given out with a red rose in Los Angeles today. The card reads “My love song is ( )” A QR code is in the lower right corner.

Sure! (Let me know if this is clear enough…)

15.02.2026 00:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The anti-trans propaganda push is one of the best examples I know of real-world disinformation in action.

15.02.2026 00:13 — 👍 774    🔁 242    💬 6    📌 0
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Regretful Trump voters say their lives are 'getting worse by the day' Follow-up interviews with Trump supporters one year later reveal a souring on the administration’s policies — and not for just one reason.

I give the same number of effs about them as they did about the rest of us and the country when they voted for him three times.

www.alternet.org/trump-voters...

14.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 144    🔁 33    💬 16    📌 10
Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis- CNN

Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis- CNN

It every time I see a headline now it feels like I'm watching someone play a game of Evil Madlibs

15.02.2026 00:14 — 👍 182    🔁 38    💬 4    📌 0
Two red roses, that my daughter and I got at LA’s The Grove mall today (2/14/26). In the middle ground is a fountain, with the Love Song rose wall in the background.

Two red roses, that my daughter and I got at LA’s The Grove mall today (2/14/26). In the middle ground is a fountain, with the Love Song rose wall in the background.

15.02.2026 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The members gather closely for a group selfie. 
Their love song is: Life Goes On

The members gather closely for a group selfie. Their love song is: Life Goes On

BTS
What Is Your Love Song
www.instagram.com/stories/bts....

15.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

Next winter/spring rotavirus season for all of the infants that don’t get vaccinated is going to be an eye opener for a generation of pediatricians that have rarely seen severe dehydration in infants because of this vaccine. EDs and wards will be slammed.

15.02.2026 00:06 — 👍 96    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0
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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

14.02.2026 23:34 — 👍 3683    🔁 1976    💬 169    📌 159

This is just as fascist as what donald does.

15.02.2026 00:09 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

How does this bring about affordability, free and faster bus service, freezing rents on stabilized apartments? Someone break it down like I’m a 3 yr old

14.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 46    🔁 23    💬 9    📌 2

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