🇷🇺🇨🇳 A candid assessment of the China–Russia relationship and a history lesson from Russian Journalist Dmitry Borisenko.
Andrew
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Yehor Terekhin, a 22 yo. Kyiv patrol officer, was killed on Aug. 1 during Russia’s ballistic attack on the capital. After the first strike, he and his partner were helping civilians at the impact site. Russia then struck the same location again.
“Three weeks ago your father killed my brother.” A Ukrainian journalist confronted Vladimir Putin’s alleged daughter, Yelizaveta Krivonogikh, in Paris.
I cribbed this from @jmkorhonen.fi: viewing tolerance as a contract with expectation of reciprocity is how to deal with these people who wrap their bigotry in diversity.
It's weird, when you look back on the coverage of Jackie Robinson integrating Major League Baseball, there weren't a lot of these sympathetic pieces about the fans practicing their rights of freedom of speech by screaming the N-word at him. Progress!
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
It is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
“is the federal government assisting iran in their attacks on dem run states” is a legitimate question that needs to be asked
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoQ: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.
A Russian FPV drone hit a civilian car in Kherson. A man in his early 20s was killed, another was wounded. They were delivering food. Russian human safari kills.
💔Heartbreaking. Ukrainian soldier Danylo Voronov stands in the ruins of his home after a Russian strike on Radushne claimed his parents, siblings, and his 18-month-old son, Artem.
The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of Iran war casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
Number of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iran War Appears Lower on Pentagon Website (Gift Article)
Three military officials and a Pentagon spokesman gave conflicting explanations for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed.
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⚡️Civilian grain ship sinks in Black Sea following Russian strike. A civilian cargo ship sank on July 26 in the Black Sea near Odesa after being struck by Russian missiles days earlier on July 19 while it was transporting grain, authorities reported.
Civilian grain ship sinks in Black Sea following Russian strike
A civilian cargo ship sank on July 26 in the Black Sea near Odesa after being struck by Russian missiles days earlier on July 19 while it was transporting grain, authorities reported.
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Occupied Crimea: Instead of dispensing cash Sberbank ATMs now offer sage advice to the Russian occupiers that could safe their life. For free. This message pops up: GLORY TO UKRAINE! FLEE CRIMEA!
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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This may be the first documented time Russia’s standard “air defenses shot down the drone, but the debris fell on the facility and destroyed it” explanation is actually accurate.
‼️ Russian Media: “Hungarian prosecutors seized servers from Orban's party office.” 🍿 www.kommersant.ru/doc/8831398
1/ The Russian-appointed governor of the occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region has told Vladimir Putin in person that the R-280 highway to Crimea is under total Russian control. Russian warbloggers dispute this and suggest that he's lying. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/mili...
🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦@militarynewsua.bsky.social · 2w ago❗️On one of the supply routes in occupied Crimea. Burned-out trucks line the roadside as a new Russian-guarded convoy races forward — until Ukrainian drones attack.
Another victim injured in the Russian strike on the Nova Poshta terminal near Kharkiv died in the hospital. Doctors fought until the very end to save the 25-year-old man's life. The death toll has risen to 4‼️
A puppy became trapped in a deep anti-tank trench and couldn't get out on its own. A teenager stepped in to help. While adults secured him with a safety belt, the boy climbed down and safely brought the puppy back to the surface. Sometimes, one act of kindness can change a life forever. 🐶💙💛
🕯️ Footage impossible to forget. Hearses carrying the first MH17 victims back to Dutch soil after Russian forces shot down the plane.
💔 "She taught others to save lives": Red Cross instructor killed in Russian strike on Odesa
"She taught others to save lives": Red Cross instructor killed in Russian strike on Odesa
Ukrainian Red Cross first aid instructor Olena Arkhipova has been killed in a nighttime Russian attack on Odesa. She was outside with her children at the time.
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❗️First seconds after strike in Odesa: people are being evacuated right in the middle of the road, — local media.
Russia has just hit Kyiv with at least six ballistic missiles. I’m so tired of waking up in the middle of the night, jumping out of bed, and running to the hallway. You have no idea.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Ro Khanna: "I have been to Israel 3 times. People said, why don't you go see the real Palestine? On the Palestinian side in Hebron, above the shop owners are cages, and the settlers throw rotten vegetables, metal parts, they urinate or throw acid down."
Shocking moment of today's Russian strike on Sumy, which killed 5 people‼️ Please do not look away! No mother should be forced to cover her children's bodies with her own like this. No child should have to live through such horrors!
‼️ 🇷🇺 NWF Update As of July 2026: The liquid portion of the Russian National Welfare Fund holds: 👉 189.7938 Billion Yuan (+4.2469 billion) 👉 141.0828 tons of gold (-4.0973 tons) 👉 0 Billion Rubles (-1.53401 billion) (Totals for June) 👀 You’re going to want to read this thread…
Prune60@prune602.bsky.social · 2mo ago‼️ 🇷🇺 NWF Update As of June 2026: The liquid portion of the Russian National Welfare Fund holds: 👉 185.5469 Billion Yuan (+0.3363 billion) 👉 145.1801 tons of gold (0 tons) 👉 1.53401 Billion Rubles (+0.21321 billion) *or maybe 0.9789 billion rubles less than this (Totals for May)
If I were crushed beneath those concrete slabs, I'd want everyone to see it. Every last detail. My neck twisted, my organs spilling out. You've all grown far too used to this war. It's time to remind you just how cruel it really is.
Republicans love to point fingers — but when it came to Trump, Roy Moore, and Matt Gaetz, they defended the indefensible. Don’t pretend your side is somehow above it. Spare me the whataboutism. Call it what it is. The GOP protected their abusers.