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@bartek73.bsky.social

Major parts of my life: reading, music, naps, down-sizing (HAHAHAHAHA! I'm a hoarder), PC games. What good is money if you don't have any. UBU, always.

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#Ukraine #UkrainianView

05.12.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Remember when he claimed he won the โ€œMichelin Man of the Yearโ€ Award when no such thing existed?

Somehow this FIFA medal is even more embarrassing.

05.12.2025 19:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3526    ๐Ÿ” 570    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 188    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

05.12.2025 18:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.

The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.

"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"

Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."

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05.12.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5761    ๐Ÿ” 2482    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 401    ๐Ÿ“Œ 259
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My latest artwork โ€” a portrait of my beloved Frida.

05.12.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 570    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

05.12.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9568    ๐Ÿ” 2222    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 343    ๐Ÿ“Œ 101
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Itโ€™s clear heโ€™s selling pardons. Itโ€™s become a corrupt practice.

04.12.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4601    ๐Ÿ” 1656    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 248    ๐Ÿ“Œ 95

A doctor with Hep B explains how she acquired it and why a birth dose of Hep B would have likely prevented transmission (likely from her parents). This is likely not the "lived experience" this committee wanted to hear. But we are here for it! Thank you for speaking out

04.12.2025 19:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 529    ๐Ÿ” 136    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
The moon and moody clouds in the sky, small specks of night being through the cloud cover while the street lights slightly illuminate the tops of trees to the right

The moon and moody clouds in the sky, small specks of night being through the cloud cover while the street lights slightly illuminate the tops of trees to the right

05.12.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1583    ๐Ÿ” 115    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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365 Challenge No.2 2025 - Publish a photo each day on a weekly topic
Week 48 (Old) - Day 6 - Old sycamore seed

See more at fotosbyfaj.com

#fotosbyfaj #365challenge2025 #old #macro_brilliance

04.12.2025 07:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œWhat have I done!โ€ ๐Ÿคก

05.12.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15209    ๐Ÿ” 4385    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1147    ๐Ÿ“Œ 498

Why does @realDonaldTrump lie?

He claims that he is bringing in so much import tax money (tariffs) that income taxes will go away.

You have paid $259B in tariffs, not the trillions Little Donnie claims.

$259B can't replace $2.5T in income taxes.

Even that dolt can do that math.

05.12.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 376    ๐Ÿ” 81    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

04.12.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11037    ๐Ÿ” 1607    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 414    ๐Ÿ“Œ 131
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Faith groups join other death penalty opponents in new campaign (RNS) โ€” The new initiative points to an increase in the use of the death penalty over the past year as public support for it has fallen in the United States.

โ€œWhen you look at the death penalty itself, it epitomizes all the deep wounds in our society, and top-most among that is that you use violence and cruelty to solve social problems,โ€ said Sister Helen Prejean.
religionnews.com/2025/12/04/f...

05.12.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Your disability is not your fault. Not at all.

05.12.2025 13:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Lucile Atcherson wearing a WW1 uniform. She is a white woman with what might be dark hair (hard to tell due to the huge slouchy hat).

Lucile Atcherson wearing a WW1 uniform. She is a white woman with what might be dark hair (hard to tell due to the huge slouchy hat).

#OTD, 5 Dec 1922, Lucille Atcherson is appointed in the US Diplomatic Service. She was the first woman appointed, and was finally allowed an overseas posting in 1925.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

05.12.2025 09:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tomorrow is the Budapest Memorandum anniversary, and I still canโ€™t get over this question:
Why did the U.S. insist Ukraineโ€™s nukes go to russia instead of being destroyed or transferred safely to the U.S.?
That decision armed a future genocidal regime and left Ukraine with โ€œguaranteesโ€ no one kept.

05.12.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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#UkrainianView
Narratives matter, because they are the prerequisites for any kind of political decision-making. Something that we currently see within the Trump administration, that normalizes evil and does victim-blaming.

05.12.2025 07:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Let's talk about the Trump Institute of Peace....
YouTube video by Belle of the Ranch Let's talk about the Trump Institute of Peace....

There's so much more to know than you've been told.
youtu.be/IyE0yjUXfNY?...

05.12.2025 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CARTOON OF THE DAY

05.12.2025 04:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13860    ๐Ÿ” 4942    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 278    ๐Ÿ“Œ 141
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The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests."

Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race."

Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?

05.12.2025 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4665    ๐Ÿ” 1505    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 279    ๐Ÿ“Œ 84
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โ€œRiots Ragingโ€: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trumpโ€™s decision, ProPublica found that Foxโ€™s portrayal of โ€œPortland riotersโ€ routinely instigating violence wa...

ProPublica examined months of Fox Newsโ€™ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

05.12.2025 04:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1734    ๐Ÿ” 762    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53
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โ€œIโ€™m disgusted, because it wasnโ€™t only myselfโ€” it was my elderly mother in her 90โ€™s and my sister too. It makes no sense. Who bought him off?โ€

A victim of David Gentile, a private equity CEO Trump pardoned after doing just 12 days for defrauding investors of $1.6 billion

05.12.2025 05:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1613    ๐Ÿ” 719    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35
In countries where religion is followed the most, the condition of women is mostly the worst.

Simone de Beauvoir

In countries where religion is followed the most, the condition of women is mostly the worst. Simone de Beauvoir

05.12.2025 00:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone defending execution as a reasonable punishment for drug smuggling is a Nazi. Pass it on.

05.12.2025 04:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4672    ๐Ÿ” 1187    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 197    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

Last week, Amnesty International released a detailed statement documenting that โ€œIsraeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.โ€

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The blatant use of false, inaccurate histories to arrive at a decision the majority of the Court clearly wanted regardless of the facts is a feature of both Dred Scott and Dobbs. Itโ€™s an apt comparison. ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

05.12.2025 00:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 744    ๐Ÿ” 162    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

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