Mick Reed
@mickreed.bsky.social
Producer/Director. Media Tech Founder Defending Democracy, Journalism, and 🇺🇦
We started shooting this on the night of July 3 when Russia launched the largest air attack against Kyiv, echoing the lyrics. You can see the smoke from the strikes in the car shots the next morning
nmbr06.bsky.social@nmbr06.bsky.social · last yr.www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgzF...
Georgia’s 🇬🇪 restrictive foreign agents law (FARA) is now in effect. It targets journalists, not transparency. Autocrats fear journalists because we hold them accountable.
I took this photo a year ago May 28, 2024 south of Izium 🇺🇦
Great investigative reporting from @kyivindependent.com kyivindependent.com/investigatio...
Investigation: We tried to buy American chips as a Russian defense manufacturer — and it worked
Despite bans put in place by the U.S. and Europe on the supply of electronic components to Russia, dozens of Russian microelectronics suppliers continue to obtain and resell imported chips to Russian ...
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“We here at Notre Dame stand with the people of Ukraine.” - Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame at today’s opening of the Nanovic Institute’s 2025 Ukrainian Studies Conference. 🇺🇦 💪🏼
It was -10° and windy at the wall of heroes in Ivano-Frankivsk. As in all towns and cities across Ukraine it goes on forever - an incalculable loss 💔 🇺🇦
I shot this love letter to Mother Motherland 🇺🇦 ❤️ last month
Be sure and check out Ukrainian 🇺🇦 photographer and 2024 Ian Parry Photojournalism Grant recipient Iva Sidash’s powerful piece with Artem Cheh in today’s @nytimes.com “This Is Our Country, and We Have No Other” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/o...
Opinion | This Is Our Country, and We Have No Other
How long can Ukraine stand? For as long as Ukrainian soldiers, bent over from the extreme pressure, can hold on.
nytimes.com
“despite these lethal adjustments it makes little economic sense for Kyiv to use the capital’s US Patriot air defences to shoot down the drones at a cost of $4 million per missile. Instead… part-time volunteers armed with antique guns to keep the Shaheds at bay” www.thetimes.com/world/russia...
Drone-hunters defend Kyiv from Kremlin’s kamikaze attacks
Forget Patriot air defences — volunteer brigades equipped with clunky machineguns are taking down swarms of lethal Shaheds
thetimes.com
Paul Melcher breaks down what the Getty-Shutterstock merger means for the stock industry kaptur-co.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/kaptur.c...
The Shutterstock-Getty Images Merger: A Bold Move in a Shifting Landscape - Kaptur
The Getty-Shutterstock merger will undoubtedly reshape the stock photography landscape. But is it a step forward or a last desperate move?
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I took a lot of photos in 2024 that I’m proud of. This is one that keeps popping up. Taken outside Izium at the highest point in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. 🇺🇦
A cherished gift from kids I work with in Ivano-Frankivsk. Let’s hope this year sees victory and peace 🇺🇦🎄
“More than 100 journalists were killed this year – over half of them in Palestine” www.theguardian.com/news/datablo...
More than 100 journalists were killed this year – over half of them in Palestine
Fifty-five journalists were killed in Palestine this year, and nearly all have been forced from their homes, data shows
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One month from prototype to striking Russian positions at the front, with no previous defense experience. A key Ukrainian advantage continues to be its ability to innovate faster. 🇺🇦 💪🏼 “Ukraine Bets a Free Market for Weapons Production Can Out-Innovate Russia” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Ukraine Bets a Free Market for Weapons Production Can Out-Innovate Russia
While Russia is mass-producing machinery at state-owned industries, Ukraine has spawned hundreds of entrepreneur-led defense startups by slashing regulation and cutting taxes.
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Do you remember when they’d coat little balls of sugar in silver and sell them as cookie decorations with an FDA warning saying do not eat? www.huffpost.com/entry/silver...
Here's What'll Happen If You Eat Those Little Silver Balls On Christmas Cookies
Rumors have been flying for a century that they're poisonous.
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Tough, brilliant speech today by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte reminiscent of Churchill’s 1936 speech in the House of Commons. Let’s hope the West heeds Rutte’s call for unity and strength against Russia even at this late hour. Starting at 9:30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPXZ...
NATO Must Dial Up Defenses - Mark Rutte Speech | Amaravati Today Live
YouTube video by Amaravati Today
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Open Studio Night at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. These graduates are giving me hope for the future of journalism, which is under attack on many fronts @jayrosen.bsky.social
a lot of you seem to basically believe that politics is over, history has ended and the absence of legal or electoral consequences for trump means that he is the only person with agency. you all are recapitulating the basic conceit of trump’s alleged invincibility, but from the center left
Republicans already lying that this pardon was about Joe and Ukraine when Hunter’s criminal case had nothing to do with those charges which could never be proven, while legacy media and Never Trumpers are too preoccupied clutching their pearls to set the record straight on that.
I took this shot of Joe Biden and Hunter in front of the White House after Obama’s first inauguration. Beau was there, too. Better days.
That's a wrap on Katya Rybka’s short film, ”Cleared for Takeoff”! Despite the many challenges of filming in Kyiv during wartime, we had a successful shoot thanks to the experience and hard work of our cast and crew and the generosity of our supporters. Thank you all who have helped make it happen🇺🇦🎥💪🏼
not a big shock that a serial plagiarist is impressed by two dumb guys
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2y ago"Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be in charge of DOGE, are both brilliant, and the federal government has clearly become too expansive..."
Remember when Russia targeted and bombed a children’s cancer hospital in Kyiv on July 8? Killing over 40 and wounding 150+ more? Don’t fall for Russia’s misplaced talk of escalation - this evil must be defeated. Russia is a terrorist state. 📸 Anton Shtuka / AP
