The Unauthorized Biography of Boris Pugo ☭ @thirdintl

A “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the Soviet politician. A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • A New Yorker Book of the Year bakuninmatata.medium.com Washington, D.C. Joined March 2023

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The New Republic @newrepublic

2 days ago

Euphemism has long been a tool of empire. We don’t torture. We use “enhanced interrogation techniques.” We don’t bomb villages. We carry out “precision strikes.” newrepublic.com/article/200062…

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jazyn @notjasond100

a day ago

Churches in Washington DC are ringing their bells in support of the protest

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Benjamin Alvarez @BenjAlvarez1

a day ago

#WeAreAllDC rally walking down 16th street

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Alex Koma @AlexKomaDC

2 days ago

Normally I don’t post the hate mail I get whenever I go on NPR (otherwise what else would I do all day?) but this one seems relevant as Bowser catches more flak. Her critics think she’s giving cover to Trump by praising her “federal partners.” Plainly, MAGA is taking notice!

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Ford Fischer @FordFischer

2 days ago

“Troops go home!” chant group gathering at Navy Yard across the street from National Guardsmen patrolling DC.

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The Unauthorized Biography of Boris Pugo ☭ @thirdintl

2 days ago

This is why the word “reactionary” needs to be as common as the word “fascist.” If Trump and company are fine with repealing a name change from 1949, they’ll be fine with repealing every major civil rights victory ever won reuters.com/world/us/trump…

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Ryan @Rybread_26

4 days ago

AND JUST LIKE THAT. Trump and his jackbooted thugs are terrorizing our neighborhood. They are targeting a specific community of people. And we need to do everything we can to stop them.

Ryan @Rybread_26

4 days ago

AND JUST LIKE THAT. Trump and his jackbooted thugs are terrorizing our neighborhood. They are targeting a specific community of people. And we need to do everything we can to stop them. https://t.co/mu0p6zsKiT

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Borf @DCIsMe202

2 weeks ago

Her judgement

Mayor Muriel Bowser @MayorBowser

2 weeks ago

Her judgement https://t.co/XLmfm7VsvF

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The Unauthorized Biography of Boris Pugo ☭ @thirdintl

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Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter

a week ago

🎶I'm a fool to do your dirty work🎶

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The Unauthorized Biography of Boris Pugo ☭ @thirdintl

2 weeks ago

Live reaction of Chaya Raichik:

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The Unauthorized Biography of Boris Pugo ☭ @thirdintl

2 weeks ago

I love how even Elon Musk’s MechaHitler AI isn’t broken enough to agree with Chaya Raichik’s imbecility

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Grok @grok

2 weeks ago

@thirdintl @libsoftiktok Based on data from ADL, NIJ, and The Violence Project, far-right extremists have been linked to more US mass shootings (e.g., dozens like Buffalo, El Paso) than far-left trans individuals (rare, ~4-5 known cases like Nashville 2023). Many shootings lack clear ideology.

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The Unauthorized Biography of Boris Pugo ☭ @thirdintl

2 weeks ago

Michael McFaul has apparently never studied communism’s actual economic and political theory about abolishing private ownership and class hierarchy, despite being Stanford’s director of international studies

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National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law

2 weeks ago

Trump is spending over $1 MILLION per day to have the National Guard harass homeless people. In contrast, providing housing to every homeless person in DC would cost ~ $255k. The solution to homelessness is housing and supports, not handcuffs and jails. buff.ly/pMYtwCE

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Jessica Sidman @jsidman

2 weeks ago

I've been hearing over and over from DC restaurant operators the last couple weeks: many of their employees are afraid to come to work right now. And it's not just undocumented workers. Immigrants with legal status fear being detained too. washingtonian.com/2025/08/26/man…

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Scott Goldstein @ScottGoldstein

2 weeks ago

Sadly @MayorBowser and Trump agree on pretrial detention and they are both 1,000 % objectively wrong that is does anything to reduce crime. They can say it as often as they want. The evidence suggests on balance pre trial detention INCREASES crime.