ren

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@isensmith.bsky.social

IT professional turned English teacher, from the PNW, moved to Kyiv Ukraine in 2023. Into: Art, TRPGs, rationalism, democracy, ПЕРЕМОГА! 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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There are hundreds of reports from all across the country that voting machines are self-switching from Democrat to Republican. Don't leave the voting booth until you know your vote is safely registered

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FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

and the response to this war crime, just like all the others before it, will be MFing crickets.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️️️️️️️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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⚡️️ 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.

kyivindependent.comRussian ballistic missiles hit Kyiv university, major bridge, medical centers, — 1 dead, 15 injuredRussia 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.

kyivindependent.comRussian ballistic missiles target Kyiv university and medical centers, killing 1, injuring 10A new wave of Russian ballistic missiles targeted the city again at around 3 a.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground.

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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.

Jake Broe@realjakebroe.bsky.social

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.

still go out and vote. don't be lazy and assume it will be fine. vote!

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

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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So Trump’s closing argument is that high gas prices are good because his donors who run oil companies are making bank, Jon Husted has a nice ass but not quite as good as Nicki Minaj’s ass, after 7 months the Reflecting Pool is almost done, and we get a ballroom, arch and helipad.

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Finally, I've finished my second move in 2 months (tnx to russians). And this is what my first evening walk in ages sounded like (again, tnx to russians). Btw, my friend (whose voice you can hear) was returned in the recent POW exchange. #Ukrainianview

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Inflation eating up worker pay. Household debt and student loan defaults at a record high. 8 million people have lost healthcare. 5 million people have lost food stamps — including 2 million children. Gas prices skyrocketing. Trump says, "Pretend I'm on the ballot." Please do.

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Early voting is underway in nearly every state (more details below). Have you voted yet? I urge you to do whatever you can to get out the vote in your communities and vote as soon as you can.

jesus christ why are we so determined to fuck ourselves and our whole future!?!?

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

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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This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.

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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.

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

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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Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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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.

Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦@oksii33.bsky.social

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

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com

🚨 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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Cafe culture. LGBT rights. Board games. Cycle routes in London. Emotional awareness. Diversity. Sports fabrics. LED lighting. Co-working.

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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⚡️ Latvian MEP Rihards Kols criticized the inaction of nearly three million Russians living in Europe. He pointed out there is zero evidence of systematic mass protests.

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.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

⚡️️️️️️️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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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.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social

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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Do not trust the polls. Do not allow yourself to become complacent. Vote early — and get your friends and family to vote. Do not let Elon, Big Tech, Big Oil, AI, and the billionaire class buy this election. We outnumber them — and we're the only ones that can put an end to this nightmare.