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I just wanna write about astronomy and talk about Star Trek and make high-level puns and post fun photos but instead we have secret police and federally sponsored kidnappings and horrifically repressive legislation jammed through and oh yeah also a massively illegal war in the Middle East. Dammit.

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I wish the US was also this decisive when it comes to repelling Russian aggression

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

Are you sure about that, Mr. President? Farmers are witnessing firsthand that between 25% and 45% of workers have stopped showing up since your raids began this month. Don’t think your logic is adding up.

submitted 2 days ago • 620 comments

Russia's going unpunished has led to: ◾️ escalation of conflicts around the world; ◾️ a broken system of international law; ◾️ economic wars; ◾️ shifts of markets; ◾️ law of the strongest in action; ◾️ new wars/refugees; ◾️ the redistribution of spheres of influence; ◾️ a change in world leaders;

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

'Starmer’s role in bringing together European countries against Russia prompted some Russian officials to describe the UK as the ‘locomotive that pulls the rest of the [countries] with it’' writes Emily Ferris in the latest RUSI Commentary.

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On today’s Prof G Pod learning that Sam Harris’s mother, Susan Harris, created ‘The Golden Girls’. Mind… blown... 🤯🙌🏻 Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/2VFB...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Daniel Ek, co-founder and chief executive of Spotify, has invested €600 million in the German defense startup Helsing — a company that supplies strike drones to #Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I wrote this week on how China has become the single most important enabler of Russian defence industry & by extension the war in Ukraine. It is still avoiding large-scale lethal aid, but there are signs it has walked up to the line, or stepped across. www.economist.com/china/2025/0...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

A US man became a hero when he saved dozens of workers from an ICE ethnic cleansing raid. Risking his own freedom he went above and beyond to do the right thing. This is resistance in action. #3E

submitted 4 days ago • 142 comments

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

submitted 4 days ago • 812 comments

What Eisenhower said over 70 years ago is even more true today.

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And they (rightly) fear that Bluesky isn't an obscure silo but a snapshot of the pervasive mood for a great many in the country, and it will cost them votes and support.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

He asks his mother to cover her ears. So she won’t hear the explosions. So she won’t be afraid. This happened in Kremenchuk during Russia’s night attack on June 15. But it could’ve been anywhere in Ukraine.👇

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

G7: it's afraid! 😆 #Resist #Fight 🇺🇦

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

purposefully cruel.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Russian propagandist Solovyov has once again delved into philosophy, pondering why the Russians still haven’t been able to completely destroy these so-called “Ukrainian Nazis” after four years.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

Google’s VEO3 refused to let me use the likeness of @mrjamesob.bsky.social or @clivebull.bsky.social - so here’s what $100bn of server farm thinks LBC’s state of the art studios look like with a Penguin hosting.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Yeah. Thats because they’re the FSB of the USA. MUCH worse than the Brownshirts.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

ruzzian war crimes

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wypipo see outspoken Black radicals like me and think my message comes from being oppressed. but what they're missing is that this survival-level analysis forced me to peek into the machinery of empire and i saw how deeply it indoctrinates all of us, white people especially.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is like watching gangrene work its way up a limb and consume a cancerous tumor.

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: We coordinated with Keir Starmer our positions to achieve a lasting peace. We discussed that in order to force Russia to end this war, sanctions coordinated with all G7 countries. In addition, our priority is to strengthen air defense - air defense systems and missiles for them.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I will literally put a STEAK BAKE in the film if they agree! 😂

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

A good piece on how the business community lies to support Musk, pump Tesla stock and prop up his failing company. “…the usual Tesla stock pumpers on X widely shared Bloomberg’s misleading report positively, and even CEO Elon Musk shared the misleading data” Join a protest at Teslatakedown.com!

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The body of a young man was recovered from the rubble of a building in Kyiv. His parents had been hoping he would be rescued. The parents stayed by the ruins the entire time, waiting for news. Russia is a terrorist state.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Last night was so difficult. During the night and in the morning, we message family, friends. We ask them: How are you? They reply: we're alive. We go to work. Kyiv stands tall. Tomorrow is a day of mourning for all the victims of last night.

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

The moment when the Russian drone directly hit a residential building in Kyiv appeared online. Russians continue to fight against civilians.

submitted 6 days ago • 132 comments

Ukraine out of the news cycle which means we remain the only voice it has yet again

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

The number of injured in Kyiv continues to rise — currently at 55, with over 40 hospitalized, Mayor Klitschko reports. Information on fatalities is still being clarified.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

MSNBC just had a protester say: "The greatness of America is having the right to demonstrate for rights." Well that sounds great. I guess Canada, Australia, New Zealand+a whole host of other countries are "Great" too. Except they didn't elect an Autocrat....twice. #uspol #cdnpoli #auspol #ukpol

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Below is a message from my dear friend Tasneem in Gaza today. For the many innocent civilians trapped in Gaza, we're their only voice and their only means of survival. Please consider donating to Tasneem at the link, and share. And find and help others here. 🙏♥️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-tasne...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

watching my emotional support foreign policy movie

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In the @financialtimes.com today... on.ft.com/3G1JvBB

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

leave it up to liberals who are victims of their own whitewashing of history to erase the most radical elements of past movements and reduce them down to “big protests” and when they don't get the same results, be confused.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Instead of a million words. Azovstal Defender before and after Russian captivity. #Ukraine 📷: olddog100ua

submitted 7 days ago • 85 comments

The full set is up so now everyone can learn about my time on Michael Flynn's unvaccinated blood-and-semen marketplace: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylpi...

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

🇱🇻 Latvian MP Roslikov, who spoke out in defense of the Russian language, was detained. ‼️ During the consideration of the declaration "on Russification in Latvia and the elimination of its linguistic consequences," he declared in Russian: "Russian language is our language."

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

I promise y’all: marching in step is quite easy. Nothing difficult about it. That bad marching was intentional. I guarantee it.

submitted 8 days ago • 512 comments

I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬

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