In a deliberate act of ecocide, 3yrs ago today russia destroyed the Kakhovka dam, murdering people, causing a minimum of $14 billion in damage, flooding villages and towns, devastating ecosystems, and killing animals. We must not allow russia to whitewash itself.

The wound that won't heal.

Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For more on Poland's reaction to President Zelensky's decision to name a military unit after the UPA, see our report from yesterday

This is the timeline. Russia acted in bad faith. As usual.

Yesterday the Russians deliberately attacked Ukrainian civilians, hitting apartment buildings and killing more than 20. The Ukrainians responded by killing Russian oil production and sparing Russian civilians. And the Trump administration is doing what it can to help Putin.

If you're in the DC metro area this weekend, come see me at the Gaithersburg Book Festival! I'll be talking about BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS (and signing copies).

At Russia’s Alabuga program, African women are promised housing & competitive salaries, only to be trapped in forced labor assembling Iranian-designed Shahed drones for Russia’s war in Ukraine, enduring long hours & conditions widely described as human trafficking youtu.be/3CfhPUqWHX8?...

The Truth About russia’s “Alabuga” Factory and South Africa’s Forgotten History with Ukraine

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Today russians kіІIеd 24 people and injured more than 100.

"..as an ‘Eastern European’ researcher and academic means being endemically underestimated, heavily stereotyped, commonly inferiorized, automatically assumed to be majorly unknowing and—almost by default—out of touch with the world, chronically patronized and, as a woman, massively over-sexualized."

Tereza Hendl@terezahendl.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👏 @ladanrahbari.bsky.social & Olga Burlyuk- another crucial volume, so many perspectives! Glad to have been invited to share what it’s been like as an ‘East European scholar’ in various corners of Western academia, esp in an increasingly far-right Germany www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Author @mccrina.bsky.social joins Deborah Kalb for this in-depth interview on her new YA novel BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS. Get the inside look: deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/q-wi...

Q&A with Amanda McCrina

Amanda McCrina is the author of the new young adult novel Beyond Seven Forests . Her other books include The Silent...

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Q&A with Amanda McCrina about her new YA novel, BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS. deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/q-wi... @mccrina.bsky.social

The latest issue of my newsletter CHOPINIC ATTACK! is out—book updates, life updates, cat pictures. Read here: buttondown.com/mccrina/arch...

Chopinic Attack! Issue 3

Welcome to another issue of CHOPINIC ATTACK! Read on for some book updates, some life updates, and—the reason you're all here—some pictures of Mo. Book...

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There's something really evil about ChatGPT running a TV ad celebrating farmers given how utterly devastating AI is for the land and environment.

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium has newly assembled an informative free online course on the history of the Holodomor in Ukraine within a global context of famine and genocide. coursera.org/learn/holodo...

Thankful to @understandingrome.bsky.social for reminding me today that the Colosseum has a cat door. 🐾

This headline epitomizes the entirety of this administration. No real engagement with learning or scripture, no checking of sources—only what is received through media to justify violence. amp.9news.com.au/article/1ffd...

🇺🇦 Russia killed at least 16 people & injured a further 100 in overnight attacks across Ukraine. For millions of people, it meant running for shelter in the middle of the night when hearing the alert, if heard at all, before bombs hit. My take @france24.com 👇 www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

More than a dozen killed in Russian attacks on Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities

More than a dozen people, including at least one child, have been killed in Russian missile and drone attacks on infrastructure and residential buildings in Kyiv and in other Ukrainian cities like Ode...

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You can't simultaneously lament the fall of the USSR and be a minimally credible anti-imperialist. You just can't. The USSR was an empire and it was brought down by anti-imperialist, local liberation movements and mobilization. In addition,...

Holodomor genocide denial is rampant and despicable. Please, if you see accounts spreading denial, recommend this free online course as push back: holodomor.ca/new-online-c...

Maria Popova@popovaprof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dunno who needs to hear it but the Holodomor was very much a genocide perpetrated by Stalin on behalf of the Soviet version of the Russian Empire against the Ukrainian nation. Half the replies seem to think it didn't happen.

Don't be like JD Vance. Donate to support Ukraine today! @mishasangels.bsky.social is a good place to start.

I think we have to face up to the fact that no healthy country re-elects a man like Trump And that problem goes beyond the people who cast a vote for him bsky.app/profile/asel...

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When I say this, what I’m trying to get at is that breakdown in democratic society is about a lot more than voting. I don’t think any of us can escape some responsibility for a country where 50% say they feel isolated and 74% say they barely know their neighbors.

We can’t unring the bell of an American president threatening to do genocide

The absolute hypocrisy of the Trump administration: They start a chaotic war in Iran, panic over oil prices, and then issue waivers for Russian oil. Washington is bailing out Rosneft while they actively run child deportation camps in Ukraine

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Male supremacists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd want women to “shut up.” I wrote about this and the abuser politics on the right. www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...

Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...

Syracuse Drops 84 Programs Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian

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Ukraine endcap at my local Barnes & Noble

Four years ago in Bucha, Russia killed over 500 innocent civilians. Among them were 43 children. The youngest was just 1.7 years old. After that, Russia kept screaming that everything was staged, that it wasn’t true, that it was Ukrainian propaganda.

This might look like a mundane bar photo but look closer and you’ll see text on a shelf saying ‘for victory day’ (in Ukrainian). These are the drinks regulars of this Kyiv bar got and asked this bar to put there so they could drink it, well, on a victory day. Yes you may cry now.

Reminder that you can win a signed and personalized hardcover of BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS, my novel about the Eastern Front of WWI, via the #KidLit4Ceasefire fundraiser. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Signed Copy of Beyond Seven Forests

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In #Lviv, a #UNESCO heritage building caught fire, and 32 people were reported injured. Writers, publishers, and translators became witnesses to the russian attack and shared how Lviv’s literary community experienced the day: many events were cancelled or postponed ↘️

Lviv today‼️ Russia bastards attacking the city in broad daylight ‼️