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My friend Olena and her three children had to flee their beloved Kyiv after the Russian full-scale invasion. They thought they had found safety in the US. Now, the new US administration is halting all support to Ukraine and is planning to deport 240,000 Ukrainian refugees there. Read Olena's post

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French satellite company Eutelsat is in talks with the EU to replace Elon Musk’s Starlink system in Ukraine. CEO Eva Berneke confirmed that the company can deploy 40,000 terminals, equivalent to the number of Starlink terminals currently used by Ukraine. European resilience in action.

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‼️ “The head of the Latvian Interior Ministry, Rihards Kozlovskis, called on EU countries to stop issuing Schengen visas to Russians.” 🇱🇻: 😈 Ban them www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/03/06/v...

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1. If there’s any geopolitical logic in the Trump tariffs, this is it: To sustain the fleeting unipolar order and keep “America first,” the US doesn’t need to confront adversaries. It needs to coerce allies. Trump is testing how economic coercion can make allies obey.

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🚫🗣️Viktor Orbán’s Sovereignty Protection Office has already been harassing 🇭🇺 investigative journalists and civil society, but now Orbán has vowed to eliminate the “Soros network” and the “empire” by Easter. What does this mean? Read Political Capital Institute’s analysis on @vsquare.bsky.social.👇

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Gen. Keith Kellogg talking about the intel shutdown: “Very candidly, they brought it on themselves, the Ukrainians,” “the best way I can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a 2x4 across the nose, you got their attention.” There is a special place in Hell reserved for this admin.

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Romanian authorities detained 6 individuals connected with Russia on treason charges, Romanian media report. The Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism says the criminal group, established in 2023, had plans to undermine Romania's sovereignty and stage a coup d'etat. 📸HotNews

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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

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❗️Norway more than doubled the aid planned for #Ukraine in 2025 Thank you, Norway! 🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway will spend 85 billion Norwegian kroner (over €7.2bn) on supporting Ukraine this year, up from 35 billion (€3bn). Jonas Gahr Støre said: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it”

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Before any false reports start circulating here, I would like to discuss a new SPIEGEL article with the headline “Pistorius announces German Ukraine aid package totalling €3 billion”. Just a quick word in advance: he did not do this! 1/5

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Elon's government email is: [email protected] Please don't send anything to it, that would not be good at all! theintercept.com/2025/03/06/e...

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The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it" Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.

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House just voted 224-198 to censure Rep. Al Green for interrupting Trump's speech, with the following 10 Democrats voting for his censure: Ami Bera Ed Case Jim Costa Laura Gillen Jim Himes Chrissy Houlahan Marcy Kaptur Jared Moskowitz Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Tom Suozzi

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❗️🇧🇪 Belgium delays F-16 deliveries to Ukraine by a year – Prime Minister De Wever confirmed. "I don't rule out that F-16s will go to Ukraine this year, but only for spare parts," he said. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/li...

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Meme in real life

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Ukraine's Opposition Leaders Reject Holding Wartime Elections www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-op...

submitted 9 hours ago • 16 comments

This is bad news - Dempsey has a long history of involvement in the nastiest kind of Red-Brown 'anti-imperialist' politics, and has flirted with both antisemitism and sympathy for the far-right

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Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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In our latest investigation, we identify the former Wagner fighter and admin of a racist Telegram group behind a Russian fashion brand that sells clothing items glorifying far-right ideology and the Russian mercenary group Wagner. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...

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"...these individuals had been told to get rid of the old covering and, when they came upon the fresco dating back to the 16th – 18th century, they ‘got rid’ of that as well." #Putin 's 🇷🇺 hordes active in #Crimea, ready to strike anywhere else (again) if opportunity arises. #КримцеУкраїна 🇺🇦

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This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work already done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

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Elon terminates all govt funding for Fulbright Scholarship programs. #fulbright #doge #musk #trump

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An important post from a friend of mine currently on a Fulbright in Estonia. Consider: the human impact on the individual grantees, the impact on the people they serve, and the hit that the image of the US takes when these folks leave. Fulbright has always been bipartisan. This is a disgrace.

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Od srpna 2023 @radiozurnal.bsky.social žádal celkem 6krát o vyúčtování státní dotace 37 milionů Kč, kterou Národní sportovní agentura poslala veslařskému svazu na pořádání mistrovství světa v předchozím roce. Sportovní agentura reagovala až na příkaz nadřízeného úřadu. irozhl.as/up2

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⚡️ Lithuania exits Convention on Cluster Munitions. Lithuania, which lies at NATO's eastern flank and borders Russia's ally Belarus and the heavily armed exclave of Kaliningrad, argued that it requires all possible means to deter potential aggression.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

Nejnovější průzkum Medianu pro sněmovní volby. Pouhých 32 % pro 5K strany. A kvůli Pirátům jen 28 % nad 5% hranicí. Navíc silné ANO, Motoristé i SPD + Stačilo těsně nad 5 %. Celkem by SPOLU a STAN získaly jen 68 mandátů. Tohle je asi nejhorší průzkum pro 5K od 2021. 🥶

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Four senior members of President Trump’s entourage have secretly met with Ukrainian opposition leaders on potentially holding early elections to unseat Ukrainian President Zelensky, per Politico.

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Getting rid of the American workers who take care of American veterans is wrong. Veterans will not take this sitting down - we can make this the newest example of Trump being forced to back down from a bad move.

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Good morning

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Trump: "To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!" 🚨 No to war crimes logic. Hamas, an authoritarian regime classified by 🇺🇸 as a terrorist group, holds hostages. "The people of Gaza," many of whom dislike or even despise Hamas, do not.

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During a new interview with white nationalist Stew Peters, former UK Parliament MP Andrew Bridgen was asked who controls the "globalist-controlled leaders." Bridgen said, "The committee of 300, ... ultimately the banking families who've been ruling the world." Responded Peters, "So Jews."

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I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it. While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.

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Trying to choke off every channel of potential accountability for Trump. www.wral.com/story/nc-sen...

submitted 20 hours ago • 48 comments

The Italian government is having growing doubts about closing a $1.6 billion deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink in light of the US pullback from commitments to European security

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The hard thing about riding the tiger of anti-establishment anger is that eventually you win and become the establishment. And, meanwhile, the tiger's still a tiger.

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There is genuine evil in this world and it is entirely banal as a TikTok trend.

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The girls fought back and now the regime police tells them to revoke their report because "the violence happened from both sides," indicating that they will be the ones jailed. #terrorinGeorgia

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🇺🇸🇪🇺🌎The transatlantic alliance faces an uncomfortable truth: the instability in U.S. politics isn't just about Trump. It’s about the deeper flaws in American democracy itself—flaws that make the U.S. an unreliable pillar of Western security. 🧵A security thread. 1/10

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The timing is impeccable. 538 is shutting down the day they started showing a negative approval rating for Trump. www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/five...

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Britský král Jiří VI. ve svém projevu na začátku druhé světové války zmínil: “primitivní doktrína, že silnější má pravdu“ Dříve se podle této doktríny choval Hitler, dnes se podle ní chovají Putin a Trump.

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Some thoughts from Brussels. Europe is awoken and believes America is all but gone. As such huge efforts on defense funding from EU, Germany, and others. This is real. BUT... Europe is still not reckoning yet with its major structural security problem: No one does European defense. 1/

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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