Massive updates listed today and I am unsure

Ooooh this explains the situation perfectly, including why I am unable to reproduce this. It is not your tor mirror. What you see happens because you told apt to do two things:

  1. keep systemd at version 257.7-1
  2. upgrade everything

With those constraints, the only way apt found to satisfy both was to uninstall a lot of stuff because the stuff it otherwise would upgrade was incompatible with keeping systemd at version 257.7-1.

After removing the constraint of keeping systemd at version 257.7-1 you can see that one of the things that apt wants to do is upgrade it. Without upgrading it, you cannot upgrade other packages.

So no, this is not a bug in apt but a result of what you tell apt with the contents of your /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs.

Maybe investigate whether the bugs for which you installed the pinnings are still relevant and if not, remove the pinning and then you can upgrade while only removing reform-firedecor.

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