Gregory Feifer
@gregoryfeifer.bsky.social
Journalist, author of Russians and other books, executive director of the Institute of Current World Affairs, member of the resistance
The other shoes are starting to drop House Dems say they're investigating, & you could see inspector general investigations @ BOTH Interior & Justice Sens Whitehouse & Heinrich already asked Interior's IG to open a case I walked through what's coming on @ms.now👇 -TN
Tennessee lawmakers split up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district. The response? Democratic primary turnout in majority-Black Shelby County more than doubled from 2024, reaching its highest level in a decade. You can redraw the map. You can’t erase the voters.
Voter turnout surges in Tennessee after Black-majority district is erased
High Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, which includes Memphis, is the latest sign that redistrict
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The US-Army should name a Catering Cart after him: G.I.Cart, Catering, Mod.26 "General Bonespurs" .
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w agoThe catering cart memes are doing me in ☠️😭 Please add any I missed in the replies. We need this laugh.
Sad news. Milinkevich's brave run for Belarus president in 2006, however quixotic, gave direction to the Lukashenka regime's opposition and hope to the young "Denim Revolution" protesters enduring freezing nights in Minsk.
Veteran Belarusian Opposition Figure Alyaksandr Milinkevich Dies Aged 79
Opposition Belarusian politician Alyaksandr Milinkevich, who ran for president in 2006, has died following an illness aged 79, according to a social media post by his stepson.
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Wouldn't it be easier & far less time consuming to just report when he actually tells the truth?
The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...
DRL NOFO Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in Europe - United States Department of State
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO)Developing Civilizational Bonds, Democratic Resilience, and Rule of Law in EuropeBureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor, Department of StateOpportunity number: ...
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Cuba is grappling with the worst energy crisis in its history, exacerbated by a US oil blockade and tightening economic sanctions. As record numbers are leaving, Anna Heikkinen speaks to those who have decided to stay: compass.icwa.org/p/living-in-...
Living in Cuba
As the economy approaches a breaking point under US sanctions, historic numbers of people are leaving. But some are deciding to stay.
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Poetic justice may be the only kind Putin hasn't yet squashed. The name of the former liberal lawmaker--whose quixotic campaign for Russian president two years ago lifted many spirits--means "hope."
Police Arrest Boris Nadezhdin North of Moscow - The Moscow Times
Anti-war politician Boris Nadezhdin said Monday afternoon that he was arrested north of Moscow, just days after Russia’s Justice Ministry designated him a “foreign agent.” In a brief message on his Te...
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Keir Starmer's fatal flaw was not being the kind of wit Boris Johnson was. That after more than a decade of Conservative disaster for Britain, it still prizes spectacle over the sobriety that brought back Labour from the brink, principles to governing and European goodwill.
'Many recent movements that have successfully mobilized and brought impressive numbers of people into the streets also fail to achieve meaningful objectives. Unless your actions are aimed at specific strategic institutional targets, you’re just making noise.'
The last thing we need is more marches
Here’s what to do instead.
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In Russia, the streets are clean and "the metro is efficient," while in the US, "everything is trash." The Kremlin is enlisting Western expat bloggers to boost its propaganda, Andrei Prudnikow writes for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/youve-hear...
You’ve heard this story before
In Russia, Western expat bloggers are boosting the Kremlin’s propaganda.
compass.icwa.org
It seems overnight the White House has been replaced by a Monster Energy Drink branded UFC cage
Trump and his apparatchiks are working to weaponize the entire federal government on behalf of election subversion. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive
State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.
yahoo.com
“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”
We are delighted to announce the Blakemore-ICWA Fellowship, a new partnership between ICWA & the Blakemore Foundation. Julia Walton, the first Blakemore-ICWA Fellow, will spend a year examining youth civic participation in Japan amid demographic change. For more info: www.icwa.org/blakemore-ic...
Hasn’t whined about needing a ballroom to feel safe
Marvin Kalb lays out for Compass the case for why and how Moscow tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.
The secret plan to murder a pope
Forty-five years after the attempt on John Paul II’s life, the Kremlin has yet to be officially blamed.
open.substack.com
Unbelievable! Orban concedes.... there still can be good news in the world.
Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar WINS the election for prime minister of Hungary, defeating Putin and Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán. 🇭🇺
The novelist Dmitry Bykov on the forgotten Soviet writer Vladimir Zazubrin: The 1917 Russian Revolution’s sadomasochistic horrors are far more relevant than we might believe them to be.
Revolution redux
The early Soviet writer Vladimir Zazubrin’s depictions of cruelty and violence have largely been forgotten. It’s time to change that.
compass.icwa.org
There's no clear evidence but something I've long suspected is that users of VPNs and Tor (.onion) have less anonymity than they might imagine and potentially face greater scrutiny by NSA and Russia/PRC/Israel who have snooping tools we don't know exist. www.wired.com/story/using-...
Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying
US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.
wired.com
Let's remember what the autocrats really want.
When chaos is the endgame
On motives for war
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Remembering Aretha Franklin on her birthday. 💜 🙏🏼 🎵 🎹🎤
Exiled Russians in Lisbon have found "new avenues of social life,” Andrei Prudnikow writes for Compass. "Brief forms of togetherness in which people met for a moment, avoided certain questions and promised nothing beyond the evening." compass.icwa.org/p/near-but-n...
Near but not together
Life in exile
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Amid all the utter insanity and illegality of the US-Israeli-launched war of choice in the Middle East, Gaza-ifying Lebanon--encouraging a failed state on your northern border--is self-defeating on top of unconscionable.
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 5mo ago“There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the country, and it doesn’t appear that these strikes will stop anytime soon.”
The Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was killed by a lethal tree frog toxin, European labs discovered. But the real story is about Russian scientists perfecting poisons for Putin's secret assassination program, Ilya Kolmanovsky writes for Compass: compass.icwa.org/p/the-poison...
The poison behind the killing of Alexei Navalny
The “tree frog toxin” has less to do with amphibians than the Kremlin’s secret assassination program.
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One thing we are really missing in the coverage of Iran is the voices of the people of the region that have been dragged into this war: the grieving mothers of the 170+ mostly children killed in the US strike on the girls school and... (1/2)
