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Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
📺 “We reported events one-sidedly for years”: Serbian TV apologizes to viewers after Vučić's party loses the election
Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) opened its news broadcast with footage of celebrations following the Student List's election victory — scenes it had failed to show the previous evening.
“For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.
Following the controversy, RTV's acting editor-in-chief Nenad Čačić resigned.
A similar incident occurred in Hungary, where state television also apologized to viewers after Viktor Orbán's election defeat.
🎉🎉 Serbia celebrates Vučić's defeat all night — now he's warning the country about sanctions against Russia
After 14 years of Aleksandar Vučić's political dominance, his bloc has lost the snap parliamentary elections. The opposition Student List, which emerged from mass anti-government protests, has claimed victory.
According to preliminary figures from Ipsos and CeSID, the students secured around 53% of the vote, while Vučić's coalition received approximately 39%.
The former president acknowledged defeat. He estimated that the winners could secure 135–140 seats in Serbia's 250-member parliament.
But he couldn't resist issuing a warning about Russia. Vučić claimed the new government could impose sanctions on Moscow as early as March or April.
Meanwhile, Belgrade and other Serbian cities celebrated the student movement's victory throughout the night, with car horns, singing, and crowds cheering in the streets.
Final election results are still pending.
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
This is the American Protestor that just told Trump to “shove that ballroom up your fat ass” after yelling “release the Epstein files” at a rally in Mississippi. People are saying the way they started pointing at him looked like it was from the invasion of the body snatchers.
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
oh well now THIS is juicy...
"Kushner (allegedly) gave the green light to MBS to arrest the dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was later murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul."
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Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
He didnt die,
He just surrended his earthly wessle
Godspeed, sir
Walter Koenig Has Died at 90. He Played Chekov on ‘Star Trek.’ nytimes.com/2026/10/26/arts/…
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
Friends,
My account here, just like other Ukrainian accounts recently, is suffering from severe shadowbanning/pessimization. There has been a sharp drop in reach, as the platform's algorithms quietly remove it from search and recommendations.
My Threads account, which has 25,000 followers, currently gets more reach than my account here on X.
I will remain here and I deeply value our community. But just in case, I want to remind you that I have other platforms: Threads, Bluesky, and Telegram.
📷: you can press the bell icon to get notified of my new posts.
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
So boasting about coming First in his class was a lie?
He actually came 2nd last?
And this is your "president"?
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
Why does Donald Trump so desperately want everyone to stop talking about the Files?
Our latest report traces explicit accounts involving 11 women who directly implicate him in Epstein’s crimes and network.
So, yes, stop talking about the Files if you want to protect the President from the truth.
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
Popular Christian opinion:
It's okay to disagree with Jesus.
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
Don't just take our word for it... @VivekGRamaswamy's own 8th grade teacher thinks he's trash, too.
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
普京明明能讲一口流利英语，外事谈判却全程装作听不懂。
英国前首相鲍里斯在一次公开谈话里，提到了他近距离接触普京的细节。
他说普京个子不高，身上带着一种阴森的气场。
有一点特别明显：
普京明明英语极好，但在正式场合见外国元首，偏要装作一句不会。
非要在中间安插一个同传。
这其实是特工常用的观察方式。
在谈判桌上，同传把一句话从头翻译到尾，通常需要十来秒。
普京不需要听翻译。
他是在用这多出来的十几秒时间，观察对方的面部表情、瞳孔和肢体动作。
你在等翻译把话翻给他，他已经在脑子里推演你的下一步。
克格勃的习惯，就是把一切细微动作变成心理判断。
但鲍里斯接着讲了另一件事。
他说现在的普京面对乌克兰，表现得像极了《指环王》里的咕噜。
身上那股执念，已经到了悲剧的地步。
看懂《指环王》的人都知道咕噜。
一个被至尊魔戒彻底套住的角色。
整天守着那个发光的圆环，嘴里念叨着“我的宝贝”，哪怕身体枯槁、理智丧失，也绝不可能放手。
鲍里斯用这个比喻，点出了普京如今最大的困境。
这场仗早就不讲什么实际利弊了。
它变成了一个统治者晚年无法走出的个人执念。
他把吞并邻国，当成了证明自己历史功绩的魔戒。
为了这枚魔戒，几十万年轻士兵死在战场，外贸和金融被全面封锁，整个国家被紧紧绑在战车上。
外人都能看出代价有多大。
但他已经不可能松手了。
这就是封闭权力结构最致命的逻辑：
所有的纠错机制，在一个人的执念面前全部失效。
下面没有人敢递真实的情报，身边的幕僚全在顺着他的偏好说话，整个机器只能跟着他的执念往前狂奔。
当年在谈判桌上靠装不懂英语来观察对手的小动作，终究换不来大局的胜算。
当一个人像咕噜一样把一切都押给眼前的执念，
故事的收尾，从来都只有一种可能。
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
That’s not what the #2 at Trump’s DOJ said last week:
"There may be some names on there who it turns out ultimately are citizens.”
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Judiciary Democrats’ report details mounting evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities and DOJ’s cover-up; specific accounts involving 11 women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes.
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Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
饿到喝尿吃树皮的俄军士兵，投降乌克兰反倒活了下来。
一段从前线流出来的审讯现场，94名俄军战俘排成一排报数。
队伍里走出来一个军官。
胸前挂着伤，自报家门是第3步兵营的少校马纳姆科夫。
他面对镜头开口第一句，直接控诉自己的后方指挥官。
战斗最紧张的时候，长官自己先乘车撤了。
临走前把电台关死，扔下一句“就地组织环形防御，死守”。
电台一掐，后方就把这几十号人当成了耗材。
阵地上断水断粮整整一个半月。
几十个人趴在泥地里舔雨水积成的水坑，水坑干了就喝自己的尿。
身边一个战友严重脱水，活活死在战壕里。
饿极了怎么办？
剥树皮嚼，拔地里的野草，摘路边的荨麻在野战炉子上煮成水充饥。
三个受了重伤的士兵，连一块止血纱布和止痛药都拿不到，在旁边拖到断气。
按俄军内部的战前宣传，投降乌克兰会遭到非人折磨。
结果这帮被逼到绝境的残兵，在乌军第3突击旅阵地前举了白旗。
乌克兰军医进场，立刻给伤员做清创。
少校脑壳里嵌着的弹片、肋侧扎进去的碎铁块，当场取了出来，送去卧床休息。
吃上了热饭，喝上了干净水。
马纳姆科夫在镜头前苦笑了一下：
“整整一个半月，我第一次吃上一顿饱饭，居然是在战俘营里。”
善待战俘除了人道原则，背后有一套极其现实的利益驱动。
镜头后方，乌克兰士兵一句话点透了关键：
这批人是换回自家兄弟最好的筹码。
死战俘换不回自己人，只有活着的、治好伤的俄军军官和士兵，才能在谈判桌上按人头把被俘乌军换回家。
更深层的影响在战场之外。
这94个人亲眼看到长官把他们当炮灰扔在绝境，也亲身体验了对面的战俘营给他们治伤发饭。
这些战俘一旦被交换回国，他们亲口说出的每一个细节，都会在俄军基层私下传开。
保障战俘活下来，不仅是为了人道和换俘，也是在用肉眼可见的事实瓦解对手的抵抗意志。
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
Kudos to whomever made this video.
It's accurately hilarious.
👇😂👇😂👇
Right Reverend Dr. John Bartlein retweeted
This is demonstrably true. Previously, each Vatnik Soup thread received between 300k and 5M impressions. Now, we're lucky if we get 100k.
Our annual views have dropped from 700M to 280M. Posts about Ukraine shared by accounts with millions of followers barely get any traction, whereas our more generic posts about AI, for example, can get millions of views.
Ukraine is still one of the hottest topics on this platform, yet voices supporting the country are being throttled, just like Starlink/Starshield was.
