russia loots occupied Crimea's ancient sites through six illegal archaeological digs 🖊️ Daniel Thomas russia is conducting six illegal archaeological expeditions across occupied #Crimea The illegal digs target crypts, a necropolis, and ancient settlements. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/r...

Russia loots occupied Crimea’s ancient sites through six illegal archaeological digs - Euromaidan Press

Russia runs six illegal digs in occupied Crimea while Ukraine documents stolen artifacts and struggles to prosecute those responsible.

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

I love our eastern neighbours

Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 2d ago

Sauna also features prominently in many violent phrases! "verilöyly" = bloodbath ("löyly" means the steam in a sauna) "turpasauna" = euphemism for assault and battery "take someone behind a sauna" = kill someone

At least this time when the lazy bastards used AI to do their job they didn’t blow up a girls elementary school.

Day 1598 of my 3 day war. Perhaps I should have mobilised the country while the country was still mobile. I remain a master strategist.

new metaphor just dropped

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When the race for the last space in the car park really heats up.

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: This week, 15 of our regions have been targeted by Russian strikes.There have been almost daily attacks on Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Sumy.The Russians are using various types of weapons to strike people, ordinary residential buildings, and our civilian infrastructure.

Which one is it?

- Are you a hero? - No. - Who is your hero? - My children. Our army. And Ukrainian people Courage is contagious. Read the proof in Defiant Hope: hfu.org/defianthope/

Michelle Obama to Barack: "How absurd it is to even imagine that you might have buckled under the pressure even once. Lashed out in frustration. Lost your temper. How absurd it is to imagine that you might have done anything but make our family and this entire country proud."

I read the ODNI report regarding the so-called Ukrainian biolabs, and it is almost entirely a rehash of publicly available information. The new data, which btw. also contains inaccurate maps of Ukraine, supplements publicly available data. There is not a single bombshell in it. (1/11)

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In den letzten 8 Tagen haben AFD- und BSW-Politiker zahlreiche ranghohe Vertreter des russischen Regimes getroffen. Um zu verdeutlichen, welches neue Ausmaß die Einflussoperation Russlands angenommen hat, hier die Zusammenfassung aller Kontakte. Das alles passierte in den letzten 8(!) Tagen 🧵👇

There are now two plaques next to the central stone.

I should've asked Zelensky for permission to have the saint petersburg economic forum like I had to for the parade.

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

OTD in 2002 Prez said it was Ukraine's decision to join NATO if it wanted. Which is *very* strange thing to say if you got a promise from NATO that Ukraine wasn't going to be allowed to even apply. Or maybe the idea we got one is bullshit.

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

THIS 👇

L - North Korea R - Miami

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Das klingt doch schon mal wie ein guter Vorschlag!

Illia Ponomarenko@ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The pope has a now having a chance to do a hilarious thing and invite Trump to a reconciliation summit in Canossa, Italy.

The reason that there are strikes on Lebanon is that Israel is illegally attacking one of its neighbors but given that this is a more or less permanent state of affairs it’s easy to miss

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The US press is going to hide this from you but the reason there are "strikes on Lebanon" and "confusion over the strait" is that TRUMP RANDOMLY AGREED TO THE CEASEFIRE TO ESCAPE HIS OWN BLUFF WITHOUT WORKING OUT ANY OF THESE DETAILS

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Smarte Analyse im ARD-Morgenmagazin: Trump wusste schon vorgestern vom bevorstehenden Waffenstillstand und hat seine Vernichtungs-Drohung nur deshalb ausgesprochen, dass es später so aussieht, als hätten solche Drohungen Erfolg.

Trump's speech for the White House Easter egg roll: "One year ago -- a little bit more -- our country was dead. We had a dead country. We had an administration that didn't know what the hell they were doing. Today we have the hottest country anywhere in the world."

Particularly alarming that this includes Lebanon & Gaza. I had just shared imagery from March 18 showing the demolition of villages along the southern border of Lebanon by the IDF and now not even that imagery is available: bsky.app/profile/godi... Mass demolitions haven't stopped in Gaza, either.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.