@michaeljohnpayne.bsky.social
I hope so much that someone in Australia is looking to what America is doing to Ukraine and paying attention. Clearly if we need the alliance they will do the full Munich agreement with us, get us to sign over as many minerals as possible and then be very upset if we are insufficiently grateful.
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I hope so much that someone in Australia is looking to what America is doing to Ukraine and paying attention. Clearly if we need the alliance they will do the full Munich agreement with us, get us to sign over as many minerals as possible and then be very upset if we are insufficiently grateful.
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Bananas came by just now and did a little pruning for me at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Bananas came by just now and did a little pruning for me at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
#tapirs #tapiroftheday #bairdstapir
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
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"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
Gaza and Protest
Why freedom of speech matters
snyder.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Freedom of speech has a point. It is there so people can speak truth to power. Often that truth is spoken first by young people."
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
snyder.substack.com/p/gaza-and-p...
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"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later"
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war"
www.ft.com/content/9731...
The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
www.ft.com
August 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
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Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
It is the country's first formal
www.bbc.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Buried deep down the #BBC news website under ‘Also in the news’… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Capitalism is like a dead fish in the moonlight. It glitters - but it stinks.
July 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Capitalism is like a dead fish in the moonlight. It glitters - but it stinks.
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This brings us to one of the most famous slogans from the HK pro-democracy protests: 是你教我們和平遊行是沒用 - 'It was you who taught us that peaceful protests are useless.'
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
June 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
This brings us to one of the most famous slogans from the HK pro-democracy protests: 是你教我們和平遊行是沒用 - 'It was you who taught us that peaceful protests are useless.'
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
bsky.app/profile/niao...
Source: Telegram (Jul 2019)
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"Freedom for the People.
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
June 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Freedom for the People.
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
Death to Imperialism"
Sticker seen in Warsaw, Poland
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1/A Serbian rights activist, Natasa Kandic, called for paying respects to civilian victims found in mass graves in Serbia, a remnant of the Kosovo War. Then the apolitical, pro-democracy students called for Natasa Kandic to be prosecuted for "subverting the Constitution". Fuck you, Tymothy Snyder.
The Student and Civic Protest in Serbia
A New Hope for Democratization
snyder.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
1/A Serbian rights activist, Natasa Kandic, called for paying respects to civilian victims found in mass graves in Serbia, a remnant of the Kosovo War. Then the apolitical, pro-democracy students called for Natasa Kandic to be prosecuted for "subverting the Constitution". Fuck you, Tymothy Snyder.
North Korea has nuclear weapons and is safe. Iraq did not - and was illegally invaded. Ukraine had them and gave them up on the promise we would protect its borders. It was invaded. Iran does not have them and is now subject to massive attack. Why do I think that nuclear non-proliferation is dead
June 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
North Korea has nuclear weapons and is safe. Iraq did not - and was illegally invaded. Ukraine had them and gave them up on the promise we would protect its borders. It was invaded. Iran does not have them and is now subject to massive attack. Why do I think that nuclear non-proliferation is dead
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Graffiti and posters from various locations, promoting the 'International Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners' on June 11th.
june11.noblogs.org
june11.noblogs.org
June 12, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Graffiti and posters from various locations, promoting the 'International Day of Solidarity with Anarchist Prisoners' on June 11th.
june11.noblogs.org
june11.noblogs.org
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China considers Tibet a full integral part of itself! It can't be more Chinese on its own terms! If Tibetan culture is not "Chinese" enough, then nothing that isn't Han can be
June 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
China considers Tibet a full integral part of itself! It can't be more Chinese on its own terms! If Tibetan culture is not "Chinese" enough, then nothing that isn't Han can be
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Hong Kong's annual vigils for the Tiananmen victims used to attract 100,000+. Now the government has banned all remembrance activities & arrested anyone trying to commemorate June 4. Even a lamppost labelled 8964 had to be relabelled. Utterly Orwellian. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
China: Address Tiananmen Massacre 36 Years On
36 years after the killing of countless peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
www.hrw.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Hong Kong's annual vigils for the Tiananmen victims used to attract 100,000+. Now the government has banned all remembrance activities & arrested anyone trying to commemorate June 4. Even a lamppost labelled 8964 had to be relabelled. Utterly Orwellian. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...
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36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre.
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
June 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre.
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6
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“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Ecology without class struggle is gardening”
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Russian Iskander missile strikes Chernihiv last night. A peaceful city full of sleeping civilians.
May 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Russian Iskander missile strikes Chernihiv last night. A peaceful city full of sleeping civilians.
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"We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic... Dying senselessly is no act of freedom. And too many people in the USA do die senselessly because we have the wrong idea of freedom."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Health and freedom
We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most
basic.
www.thelancet.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic... Dying senselessly is no act of freedom. And too many people in the USA do die senselessly because we have the wrong idea of freedom."
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An interesting article:- novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
Generational oppression. A Crimean Tatar activist continues to defend minority rights on the peninsula despite being branded a ‘foreign agent’ — Novaya Gazeta Europe
On 16 May, Russia’s Justice Ministry announced additions to the list of “foreign agents”, which now stretches to over 900 names. One of those added to the list is Lutfiye Zudieva, a Crimean Tatar acti...
novayagazeta.eu
May 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
An interesting article:- novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...
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Politicians know about the effects of Climate Change & like us are living through continual record floods, droughts, fires, storms, heat.
How can they accept any new fossil fuel projects let alone a 50 year lease extension on gas?
Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
How can they accept any new fossil fuel projects let alone a 50 year lease extension on gas?
Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
SIGN NOW: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
Sign the petition: REJECT AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST FOSSIL FUEL PROJECT!
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
May 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Politicians know about the effects of Climate Change & like us are living through continual record floods, droughts, fires, storms, heat.
How can they accept any new fossil fuel projects let alone a 50 year lease extension on gas?
Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
How can they accept any new fossil fuel projects let alone a 50 year lease extension on gas?
Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...
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The fascist spectacle is the point.
at his rally in Michigan, Trump plays a propaganda video of prisoners having their heads shaved at the Gulag in El Salvador to big cheers from the crowd and "U-S-A!" chants
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The fascist spectacle is the point.
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