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@goldie1968.bsky.social
Travel. Music. Gardening. Observing Politics and Society. I'm blocking everyone posting selfies. Waste of time and energy 😠
"Loaves or drones - whatever you want!" Russian propagandists showed off drone production at the Tambov Bread Plant - what they call a "dual-purpose bakery."
New article (free): European populists who backed Putin and Trump have no right to complain about energy prices joniaskola.substack.com/p/european-p...
European populists who backed Putin and Trump have no right to complain about energy prices
In an era defined by post-truth political discourse, European far-right movements have mastered the art of selective outrage.
joniaskola.substack.com
Sports bodies build a lane for whoever killed her. Yana Pieshkova was 15. The flag those gymnasts compete under also appears on the missile. Neutral status is a fiction when the athlete is a state project.
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 2d agoInternational sports officials claim "sports are beyond politics" while welcoming pro-war Russian athletes back to the world stage. Meanwhile, a Russian missile strike in Chernihiv just ensured 15-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Yana Pieshkova will never compete again.
Take that Trump - here your diesel goes 😂
H I Sutton@covertshores.bsky.social · 3d agoSanctions relief
Instead of a thousand words. Ukraine. Europe. XXI century.
Remember this when you will see the propaganda clip by Melania's PR team about humanitarian action in Oleshky.
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d agoThe horrific screams of "Tato! Tato!" (meaning "Dad! Dad!") will haunt my dreams forever. Russian terrorism must be stopped. It must be! To strike a busy railway station full of civilians just to punish us is completely inhuman, next-level barbarism. I struggle to convey my disgust, my rage...
The Democrats are likely to win the mid-terms but eventually they're not going to be seated and we will see a brutal escalation of violence abroad and within the US.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d agoChris Murphy posted this on X about Trump's post election war plans for Iran, which sound like war-crimes o'clock. Probably related to the news about oil firms cancelling a planned trip to the UAE bsky.app/profile/fint...
Expect a Riefenstahl propaganda clip about Russians helping Oleshky -the US coordinator Mark Beckman is Melania Trump's private adviser and a producer of the Amazon-sponsored documentary about her. He founded DMA United, an advertising agency whose clients span fashion, entertainment and sport.
Medoyid_ua@rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 4d agoThe planned evacuation from Russian-occupied Oleshky ranks among the most demanding humanitarian operations of the full-scale war. Now look at who has been put in charge of the American-side plan.
Erfolgreiche Anpassung an 3°C (Symbolbild)
Florian Aigner@florianaigner.at · 5d agoEU-Klimakomissar Hoekstra sagt jetzt, wir müssen uns anpassen und auf eine Erwärmung von 3°C vorbereiten. Geht's noch? Es gibt keine Anpassung auf 3°C. 3°C ist wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Zusammenbruch. Sehr geehrte Passagiere der Titanic, bitte jetzt rasch anpassen an ein Leben unter Wasser!
As Israel votes, and one week from our election, a cautionary note told to me a long time ago by a top Israeli pollster: Israeli voters tell the truth to pollsters— and lie when they vote
Protest works. Organization is decisive. Draw your own conclusions. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election
Vučić’s 12-year reign looks to have been ended by record turnout of voters in election provoked by student-led protests
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My reporting on the student movement in Serbia last summer. They kept at it, amazingly, for two years. And they won. snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...
Youth Protest in Serbia
And some thoughts for America
snyder.substack.com
“The border with Russia should look like this: a moat, acid, barbed wire, a fence, a minefield, and absolutely no border crossings.” — Ukrainian journalist and serviceman Kyrylo Sazonov Sazonov praised Finland for taking the right approach to its border with Russia. 📹 youtube.com/@Donetskiecom
⚡️ President Zelenskyy proposed three alternatives to US partners to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries: an energy truce, Starlink access over Russian ballistic launch sites, or additional Patriot missiles. The US rejected all three, prompting a sharp reaction from Kyiv.
SPACEWAR www.defensenews.com/space/2026/1...
‘The West can’t stop me’: Space wars heat up as Russia tails a Ukraine-linked US satellite
Washington blamed Moscow for deliberately moving a Russian military satellite with an undisclosed mission close last week to a U.S.-registered satellite.
defensenews.com
I really admire this guy! Слава Україні!
Meanwhile in Ukraine@meanwhileua.bsky.social · last wk.Still human after all of this. “I am a perfectly ordinary person. I am simply a human being. Perhaps not as great a humanist as Putin, but in any case, I try to do everything in my power,” Zelenskyy said. After everything Ukraine has endured, that simple desire to remain human says enough.
So they openly admit that Melania is in close contact with her Russian handlers?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Exclusive Senior Adviser to First Lady Melania Trump Marc Beckman claims Melania has "a direct line" to Russian leadership
It's called democracy. But apparently he can only identify a 🐍, a 🐻, a 🐆 or a 🦒.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump on the Iowa Senate race: "I don't even understand why they are having the election, to be honest with you"
This has to be one of the wildest stories I have read in awhile. Kushner’s phone was hacked by GRU, the Dutch recruited one of the agents & ended up stumbling into screenshots from Kushner’s phone. Then the Dutch hacked into his phone & were able to see everything, including secret bank accounts Wow
The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in Transfers
An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...
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This is hilarious. And the Brezhnev eyebrows! 🤣🤣🤣
ChrisO_wiki@chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 2w agoAn important announcement from Washington Oblast. Thank you for your attention in this matter!
🎙️"The solution for European security lies through Ukraine." General Sir Richard Barrons on why Europe's response in the coming months will shape its own future. 👉 Listen to the full episode of @chathamhouse.org latest podcast here: www.chathamhouse.org/2026/10/how-...
1/ The Russian military is announcing the 'capture' of settlements far ahead of where even its own maps place the front line. A Russian warblogger suggests that this is an attempt to create 'facts' to influence peace talks with the United States, as has happened before. ⬇️
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 This seems to be the application for a shared Nobel Peace Prize!
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”
WHY UKRAINES ATTACKS ON RUSSIAN DATA CENTRES ARE SO EFECTIVE YANDEX is referred to as Russias google, but it’s far more than that. It’s effectively a state approved monopoly designed to turn Russias internet into an intranet, disconnected or at the very least filtering out unapproved foreign