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Someone generously shared this template of a handout they were inspired to create for their local community with me. Here's a canva link if you'd like to adapt it for your communities: www.canva.com/design/DAGgN...

Reup: Trump's negotiations w/Russia simply continue, in plain sight, the very same efforts that were halted when FBI caught Mike Flynn undermining sanctions 8 years ago. www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/02/r...

Sunday 2 March 2025. Day 1103 of this needless, illegal, damn war. The innocent party continues to get bullied, even by a former ally. Innocent civilians and family men and women who never wanted to be soldiers are still being killed by a psychopathic state. Here's my daily🧵

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 (Photo @justinng.bsky.social - 2022)

⚡️Don't 'give Russia what they want' — Kallas decries taking NATO membership off the table for Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas decried ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine in an interview with AFP published on Feb. 27.

Russia is attacking and losing #Ukraine

Prague, February 23, 2025. 📹: Alena Roreitnerová

🇮🇪 Ireland is open to helping Ukraine in various capacities, including potentially sending peacekeepers, says Taoiseach Micheál Martin.

Europe cannot be vassal of US, Macron says amid Trump's foreign policy shifts #Ukraine

⚡️ Starmer invites Zelensky, other leaders to summit on Ukraine, security on March 2. Among those invited to the summit are leaders from all over Europe, including France, Germany, Denmark, and Italy, as well as Turkey, NATO, and the European Union.

Ipsos shows a steeper decline for the #CPC than EKOS, but the #Liberal numbers are breathtaking. If this continues, we could be looking at a Liberal majority. #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadianLiberal www.ipsos.com/en-ca/libera...

Making Canada Great Again 🇨🇦. The latest polling by Ipsos Canada has the Liberal Party ahead by two points. Six weeks ago it was 26 points behind! www.ipsos.com/en-ca/libera...

Ein pointierter Wochenrückblick von Stefan Korshak, der sich primär um die dilettantische Undiplomatie von 🍊-Diktator dreht. Absolut lesenswert, besonders weil Deutschland eine prominente und positive Rolle bekommt.

Call your members of Congress! Tomorrow, February 24th, join us at Independence Ave and New Jersey across from Longworth House office building from 12pm-7pm. We have extra flags and posters. Let's advocate for Ukraine! 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

🧵 This UN resolution vote on Ukraine is worth paying attention to. A brief thread on the Trump administration's bullying under way in the background. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Significant reinforcement of Russian Baltic Fleet.

Measles, one of the world’s most contagious infectious diseases, can cause serious complications – such as blindness, pneumonia or encephalitis, swelling of the brain – and even turn deadly, especially in children younger than 5. 20% of patients are hospitalized. www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/h...

Measles complications. All this can be prevented with vaccinations. If you want to learn more, check out my Infectious Disease M-Z page at: www.bettycjung.net/Infectiousdz...

Started on Feb 24, 2022, OSINTukraine archives war crimes and combats disinformation. A marathon, not a sprint. Discover the project:

Excellent piece by @pociumban.bsky.social and Andras Racz @dgap.org. Already during the Minsk process, Russia used elections to manipulate conflict resolution. The same sequencing mistakes shouldn't be repeated this time.

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Canada is sending the battleship ‘Margaret Trudeau’ to Ukraine The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has informed the citziens of Canada that he will will sending Canada's battleship, The Margaret Trudeau, to aid the Ukraininan government in it's battle to defeat the Russian forces of…

I teach leadership and management. This is NOT leadership. It IS bad management. It's intentional intimidation - dehumanizing and destructive. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

Some useful & well written pointers about US Congress to share and remind Representatives and Senators, and local legislators about too:👇🏼

Something I've now heard from federal worker constituents at several agencies: Musk and Trump's mass firings are clearing out all personnel from FOIA offices and leaving them completely empty, it sounds obviously intentional.

🧵 I went to work in Congress with a Member who was raised in South Africa and part of the anti-apartheid movement. She taught me how to optimize the power of the opposition in the House. Like the trimtab on the rudder, members can steer the ship. Here are the six R's of minority power.

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

Starlink in Ukraine operates based on paid contracts. If it’s being used as an extortion tool, then other countries should consider it a potential security risk - just like Russian gas used for blackmailing. If Ukraine is cut off, it would be wise for Europe to reconsider its use

We’re hunting for war crimes evidence and archiving critical data from Russian and Ukrainian sources. Explore the OSINTukraine archive:

#BBCNews - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I always hesitate to bring my political beliefs into this space. I don’t think my listeners would expect that from me and some of you will find it disappointing: not what you were looking for... " [1 of 2]

🚨 Wow. I’m going to clip some of this argument. Judge McConnell is highly, highly skeptical of the government’s arguments that they’re in compliance with the Constitution, APA, and other statutes relating to impoundment. 🤯 The government hasn’t submitted any evidence supporting its claims.

On the 85th day of continuous protests, despite the heavy police presence, Rustaveli Avenue was blocked again. #GeorgiaProtests

Putin wants the restoration of a divided Europe www.ft.com/content/ac1d...

‼️ The 🇷🇺 Russian Central Bank “reported on the proposal of security forces to restrict Russians from withdrawing cash from accounts” There’s a reason this keeps coming up! www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/02/20/t...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

As a humanitarian aid worker, 28-year-old Edward Scott has made multiple trips to the front-line areas to evacuate civilian Ukrainians. But the mission on Jan. 30 to the embattled city of Pokrovsk in southern Donetsk Oblast was different.

⚡Canada wants to participate in talks on Ukraine's security guarantees, official says. Canada is interested in partaking in conversations about security guarantees for Ukraine, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Feb. 18.

This is @murray.senate.gov's effort to track what Trump has cut. I'd love to crowdsource a way to make this a point of exchange, to collect info from contractors who've gotten cut off, and match it to what she's learning as Appropriations Ranking. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

Hackers expose Russia’s critical raw material shortages defence-blog.com/hackers-expo...

NEW: A blockbuster ruling in Wisconsin hands vote suppressors a big loss. A victory for voting rights! Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXur...

Translation: I try to be optimistic and remember that it has been resolved before and this does not mean war yet. But now for the first time I got a real grip on the bottom of my stomach. Those "broader security issues" have meant both the Balts - and us, in the Kremlin's black language.

NEW non-clarifying clarifications about Elon Musk's employee status filed just now in a NM-led lawsuit: —Musk, as a presidential senior adviser, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself." He is also not DOGE's administrator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

‼️ Russian Media: “"Simply impossible": the possibility of post-Soviet states joining anti-Russian sanctions assessed” I want to bring this article to your attention for a few different reasons. It’s a good example of how Russian Propaganda can operate. www.mk.ru/politics/202...