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Russia is a tumor on this planet

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

👇👇🇬🇪✊

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

💔🇺🇦 3 years ago, Russia destroyed a drama theater in Mariupol, killing approximately 600 people who took refuge there. ❗️Today, Russians are "rebuilding" the city, trying to erase the evidence.

submitted 23 days ago • 18 comments

Let's debunk this whole "space is hard" mantra. Looking at all NASA-led missions launched since 2000, only 4 out of ~60 missions experienced total failures. Two of these were due to issues with the commercial launch vehicle, & two were spacecraft issues. That is a *93% success rate.* (1/n)

submitted 32 days ago • 100 comments

Russia invaded Ukraine to kill, occupy, and destroy. Left unpunished, this evil will return. (1/6)

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Prediction: the Nаzi salute will become common within 2 years. RWers will half-аss it for plausible deniability, memeify the backlash, then start fully doing it "as a joke" "to troll the libs" "for being hysterical enough to think we were doing it in the first place"

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

As the day marking three years of Russia’s full-scale invasion nears, let the world remember what we faced. February 24, 2022, northern Kyiv, locals watched as wave after wave of Russian helicopters bombed, deployed troops, attempting to make us part of the Russian world.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

"nobody even knows where the [national debt] money went and you’re not allowed to ask." Huh? Its all public record at OMB, CBO, & Treasury websites, which I've also used to publish 600 reports, articles, & chart books specifying where all the money went. You can log off Twitter and go look it up!

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

What is considered “conservative” these days is pretty elastic, which is exactly the opposite of how conservatism has always been defined. Conservatism in the Trump era is not based on a set of principles, ideas or policies. It is a dead movement replaced by right-wing populism.

submitted 52 days ago • 255 comments

Reminder 👇

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

The uncomfortable truth is the "Trump campaigned on egg prices" thing is something Dems tell themselves to rationalize what happened in November. Trump actually campaigned on hate and abusing power -- and won! The sorry state of the American electorate is a difficult thing to come to terms with.

submitted 55 days ago • 357 comments

"When scientists develop arguments, they don’t say, 'Because I said so.' They say, 'The evidence shows ... ' Authoritarians don’t do that. They come up with lots of different strategies to prevent you from asking questions. They don’t give responses that answer them."

submitted 60 days ago • 208 comments

I understand that trying to convince someone who has spent their entire life constructing insane conspiracy theories—built on a foundation of staggering ignorance mixed with an astronomical level of self-importance—is pointless.

submitted 62 days ago • 85 comments

I think that Twitter with a mask is a simulation of life in Russia after 2022: maybe tomorrow we'll all be fucked here, it's constantly getting a little worse, the loudest are the most crazy idiots who are approved by the bosses, the most principled ones have left and the majority are still idle

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

When Lithuania was defending her independence from Moscow, we were asked by Western powers to "pause" our struggle, to protect russia from collapse. If we had listened, our country might not exist today. Sometimes fighting is the only way to win.

submitted 95 days ago • 38 comments

#Tbilisi: Election observers are marching on Rustaveli avenue: “Observers against the regime. You can't fool us, we saw everything with our own eyes.” “We demand new elections,” their banner says.

submitted 114 days ago • 5 comments

Rule #1 of informational war club: Don’t whine about propaganda. Dig into its roots—because the best propaganda always exploits real, justified emotions. There are five myths that turn Americans against Ukraine.

submitted 118 days ago • 6 comments

For what it's worth, let me give the people of Georgia some tips and tricks, based on experience from the other side of the shield wall, so to speak. I'm confident Georgians will find effective ways to break free from oppression, but I hope my advice may contribute to the process. 1/

submitted 125 days ago • 4 comments

Georgia In My Mind The leader of one of Georgia's opposition parties, Nika Gvaramia, has been detained by police after being beaten unconscious in the capital, Tbilisi, his party said on Wednesday. www.dw.com/en/georgia-p...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 149 days ago • 170 comments

Good fiction's job is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed

submitted 284 days ago • 0 comments