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Russia requires a security guarantee that Ukraine will not defend itself the next time we attack it.

This is what Russia's Proton plant in Oryol looked like from the inside before today's strike. Russian media proudly showcased the plant and its production. The governor calls it a "civilian facility," despite Proton being part of Russia's military-industrial complex. #Russia

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Paris Protests Erupt Over High Fuel Costs & Trump Cuts Diesel Deal with Russia www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjI3...

President Trump: Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven't been doing much. Comment from me: see quoted post.

9/ What Musk has demonstrated is that the Starlink kill switch is real, that he personally controls it, and that he's willing to use it for purely personal reasons, against the interests of his own company and country. This is utterly disastrous for SpaceX's credibility.

New satellite imagery reveals the full extent of tree felling on a Washington DC golf course long eyed for development by President Trump. 430 trees were reportedly cut with little notice over the weekend, undermining attempts to protect the site. www.bellingcat.com/news/us-cana...

Brilliant work from Morten Mørland.

Who can blame him? It's infuriating.

There are so many great and true statements coming from European leaders. I wish we'd see more action instead.

If you care about international politics or espionage or Germany, give the new podcast episode a listen. It's about the arrest of Germany's ex-spy chief and the story is genuinely unbelievable. It just keeps getting worse

This whole Yandex incident has been a nice and tidy case study in a bunch of people posting what they feel and hope to be true (and seemingly winging it on the definition of the word "bot") vs relatively quick and sound pushback from actual experts

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❗️MEP Tomáš Zdechovský noticed an interesting pattern: after strikes on Russian data centers, online activity around the “Alternative for Germany” party sharply decreased. “So much talk about German patriotism… and then the connection with Russia disappears,” he wrote.

Maga in a nutshell

15 thousand dollars raised over the past 4 hours, I would like to thank everyone who donated, shared, commented. I also want to thank everyone who still supports Ukraine, understanding that the war will continue until Russia has the capacity to wage one. givebutter.com/liberty-engi...

When you consider that Russia has killed a bunch of children while Donald has been helping Russia get money to fund Russia doing it more, you can understand why Donald is so upset he didnt get the Nobel Peace Prize.

It's because the phrase is used to identify those loyal to the in-group, and identify those members of the out-group who need to be targeted and attacked.

how is this real life

President Zelenskyy’s comment on US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks that the war in Ukraine is at a "strategic stalemate" and that there are now "no prospects for a negotiated settlement": "You cannot negotiate future economic projects with Russians on the one hand and, on the other,

Hundreds of Russians are not in hospital with the plague. It is a "special medical operation". I remain a master strategist.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we’ll introduce the “Safeguard Swiss neutrality” ballot initiative, which goes to a nationwide vote in Switzerland on 27 September. Superficially, its promise can sound appealing: peace, sovereignty, and permanent armed neutrality. But most of that is a distraction:

Ukraine is developing Russia into a cloud based economy.

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I want to explain not only the importance of engineering equipment in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but also the importance of maintaining and repairing it, and how you can help us by donating, sharing, and following me. Donation link: givebutter.com/engineering-...

Shortage of Patriot missiles from allies and intensified Russia’s attacks made July the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since April 2022 The UN confirmed 1,396 civilians killed in the first half of 2026, 114% more than two years earlier euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/06/s...

Are we sure this isn’t Alec Baldwin on SNL? I am ☠️😂🤣

A civilian was deliberately hunted down and murdered by Russian terrorists in Kherson today. At a food market in the city’s Tavriiskyi district, a Russian FPV drone operator targeted a civilian vendor standing beside his car, loaded with the vegetables he sold to make a living.

If you don't get angry when you see this, there is something wrong with all of us.

Russian farmers: Every fifth farmer is on the brink of bankruptcy. Due to record low prices, it's more profitable to throw away part of the harvest than to harvest it. Grain is just poured on the ground. If the situation doesn't change, tens of thousands of farms could disappear.

A good way of thinking about Ceuta and Melilla is that they're Spain's dangling nuts which Morocco likes to squeeze every so often

Ukraine now strikes Russia's grid, ports, ships and warehouses—the same categories Russia hits in Ukraine. Both call them military targets. Analyst Hans Petter Midttun says the justifications are identical. The legal verdict isn't. euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/29/r...

Congo might be the biggest country that nobody cares about. Massive in size, population of maybe 125 million and outside of this or that deadly disease, nobody cares. Even then, it barely makes the news. Genuine tragedy.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

Never in the history of the American Republic has a sitting president put his name & face on government buildings, property, military weapons & instruments. It’s what kings & autocrats do - no US president ever has until now, enabled by Republican toadies, sycophants & cultists.

Fred Trump had dementia. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The world’s richest man is also a massive racist who loves to push disinformation online

Putin’s Mouthpieces Taunt Trump Over Graham’s Death ‘WE LOVE RAW FLESH’ After previously calling for the senator’s assassination, one of the Kremlin’s propagandists mockingly wonders who “will be next in line” to die. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/putins-mouth...

Trump Industries has an exciting new way to separate MAGA from their money!

"I know they’ll say again that Ukraine isn’t grateful enough, but I’m sorry—you can’t expect constant gratitude when you’re living through this, under attacks like these, all the time," Zelensky said in Kyiv today, later adding, "Because the applause for what we’re achieving in Crimea isn’t enough."

Bashkortostan, one of the most oil-rich regions in Russia, home of four major refineries, and yet long fuel lines are even there. You cannot overstate how successful the Ukrainian drone campaign has become. Putin fumbled the ball on an epic scale and everyone is seeing it.

We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_... A short video about what your donations will fund www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vzb...

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

on eve of july 4 SCOTUS coup rolls on, gutting constitutional separation of powers to establish monarchic presidency

ruling by ruling since Trump v USA, SCOTUS rules against USA and in defiance of the constitution to create boundless and unaccountable presidential power

BREAKING (Good) NEWS: SCOTUS rules that states may accept & count mail-in ballots if they are postmarked on or before Election Day & can be counted if they arrive after Election Day. This is a big win for voting rights. The 4 dissents are Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch & Kavanaugh. Should surprise no one.

Excellent. A blow to Trump’s assault on Fed independence. www.axios.com/2026/06/29/t...