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IT professional turned English teacher, from the PNW, moved to Kyiv Ukraine in 2023. Into: Art, TRPGs, rationalism, democracy, ПЕРЕМОГА! 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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and the response to this war crime, just like all the others before it, will be MFing crickets.
⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.
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House Dems Report: “A growing body of evidence demonstrates Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the 1990s. The DOJ & FBI are doing everything they can to keep the 🇺🇸 people in the dark about it.” The report: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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⚡️️ Russian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv university, major bridge, medical centers, — 1 dead, 15 injured. Russia launched two waves of ballistic missiles at the capital overnight, targeting a major bridge, metro stations, and other civilian infrastructure.
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⚡️️️️️️️Update: Russia launches 2nd wave of ballistic missiles at Kyiv. Explosions rocked the city again at around 3:30 a.m., according to reporters on the ground. Earlier in the night, Russian missiles hit a university and city medical centers, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others.
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This wins Halloween this year. [👻 Yu Horbenko / liveface .ua] Original post
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Next to the casualty curve, that flat territory line captures the entire war. Russia went from 7% to 19% early, then spent four years and over a million casualties holding it. Gains per month keep shrinking while the cost per kilometer climbs. That adds up to a bill.
This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.
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⚡️Paramedics caught under fire as Russian ballistic missiles slam Kyiv. A team of paramedics came under fire as Russian ballistic missiles again targeted Kyiv late on Oct. 26, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
still go out and vote. don't be lazy and assume it will be fine. vote!
These numbers are telling. CBS News projects Democrats at 229 House seats to Republicans’ 206. Look at what voters are saying: • 65% say the economy is bad. • 57% say Trump’s policies have hurt them financially. • DON’T MISS THIS: 83% say government corruption is a major factor in their vote.
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60 people have now died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. Our country is set to spend $268 BILLION on mass deportations and detentions through the end of Trump's term. Instead of death and cruelty, imagine what we could have invested that money in instead?
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jesus christ why are we so determined to fuck ourselves and our whole future!?!?
In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.
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In his (rather dubious) defense, Republican voters have shown him again and again that they love bigotry more than the constitution, the country, the troops, their jobs, drinking water, affordable food, their dignity, their own families, and even their own lives.
Trump is smearing Ilhan Omar in speeches all over the country now because he is an Islamophobic bigot and he thinks that’s a winning message for Republicans
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We used to have a federal survey that measured hunger in America, but the Trump administration stopped conducting the survey right after the bill that cut food assistance was passed.
We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.
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#UkrainianView I remember how in one video, St Petersburg woman says "It is not SMO anymore 😢, SMO is localized on specific area, our government must define what it is!" russians seem to be pretty much ok with genocide as long as their wars don't backlash on their daily routine.
Imagine helping an invading army and then being shocked that war isn't a one-way…
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Okay, news like this makes my lifetime worth living. #UkrainianView
🚨 Ukraine has brought home 270 captives from Russian custody in a major prisoner exchange. The returnees include civilians and military personnel from various units—including Azov fighters—most of whom had been held since 2022 after defending Mariupol.
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access to tabletop and board games. when I was a kid I desperately wanted to play DnD, but didn't know anyone. now VTT websites like roll20 exist! I also wanted a huge library of boardgames but couldn't afford one. now there's sites like board gam arena!
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
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all of this has always been about getting back at the uppity women who wouldn’t fuck them
“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”
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this lie is designed specifically for the American people. it's aimed at the ones who think Ukraine is fighting for no reason. anyone here can tell you it's complete bullshit just by looking out the goddamn window.
⚡️️️️️️️Rubio reveals theory on Russia's war against Ukraine ahead of next US peace push. "People keep talking about it's a war in Ukraine. ... It's about one region of the country," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
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⚡️️ Ukrainian media identifies Russian officers responsible for blockade, starvation of occupied Oleshky. Ukrainian media outlet Slidstvo. info established the presence of the 217th Guards Airborne Regiment, together with its commander, Georgy Yanchev.
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i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.
Man, Hegseth's Department of War is even more buffoonish than everything else. Kinda amazed how the US military didn't just have some basic war plans they could activate. Their lack of preparedness is astonishing. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...
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🚨 WILLIAMSON COUNTY: Reports of Tennessee voting machines flipping Democratic/ @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social votes to Republicans/@marshablackburn votes 🤔 (Folks in Memphis have said the same)
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