Ghost of Kyiv
@samvydav24.bsky.social
Ukrainian-American focused on the War in Ukraine until this terrible conflict's conclusion. Fundraising for Amicus Ukraine NGO.
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Ghost of Kyiv
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· Mar 4
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These people have been put through hell over nothing. At least they're free now. How many less publicized cases are there, that are just as egregious?!
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 4:18 PM
These people have been put through hell over nothing. At least they're free now. How many less publicized cases are there, that are just as egregious?!
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War crimes do not justify war crimes. Especially not if it’s unrelated actions from decades ago, by different people from different regimes, used to justify atrocities today.
Nobody is forcing Russia to commit horrible crimes just because someone else did, does, or might do something bad too.
4/5
Nobody is forcing Russia to commit horrible crimes just because someone else did, does, or might do something bad too.
4/5
February 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
War crimes do not justify war crimes. Especially not if it’s unrelated actions from decades ago, by different people from different regimes, used to justify atrocities today.
Nobody is forcing Russia to commit horrible crimes just because someone else did, does, or might do something bad too.
4/5
Nobody is forcing Russia to commit horrible crimes just because someone else did, does, or might do something bad too.
4/5
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For years, an online meme phrase spread in the Ukrainian segment of internet, saying that a pedophile lobby was working against Ukraine. Seeing how many anti-Ukrainian figures show up in the Epstein files, from US elites to officials in Slovakia, it no longer feels like a joke
February 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM
For years, an online meme phrase spread in the Ukrainian segment of internet, saying that a pedophile lobby was working against Ukraine. Seeing how many anti-Ukrainian figures show up in the Epstein files, from US elites to officials in Slovakia, it no longer feels like a joke
This genuinely reminds me of Kherson when russia first occupied it. Thousands of people came out in peaceful protest of russian occupation, and were violently dispersed with tear gas.
ICE is acting like an occupier in American cities.
ICE is acting like an occupier in American cities.
I was there. They were indiscriminately firing multiple canisters into a huge peaceful crowd. Fucking cowards
February 1, 2026 at 4:06 AM
This genuinely reminds me of Kherson when russia first occupied it. Thousands of people came out in peaceful protest of russian occupation, and were violently dispersed with tear gas.
ICE is acting like an occupier in American cities.
ICE is acting like an occupier in American cities.
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A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
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The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks.
Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.
Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks.
Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.
Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.
This is why I am frustrated when someone like Jamelle Bouie (otherwise an incredibly smart and perceptive observer) under plays Trump's ability to steal the midterms.
It's not binary. You don't have to have ICE shutting down every voting location in a state for the elections to be compromised.
It's not binary. You don't have to have ICE shutting down every voting location in a state for the elections to be compromised.
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Again, you don’t have to believe me. You can just listen to the guy who literally invented the concept:
Again, you don’t have to believe me. You can just listen to the guy who literally invented the concept:
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
This is why I am frustrated when someone like Jamelle Bouie (otherwise an incredibly smart and perceptive observer) under plays Trump's ability to steal the midterms.
It's not binary. You don't have to have ICE shutting down every voting location in a state for the elections to be compromised.
It's not binary. You don't have to have ICE shutting down every voting location in a state for the elections to be compromised.
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I talked with Applebaum before the new year, and even before the current raids on election administration offices in Georgia. Even then, it was clear that 2026 was the year Trump would go after election administration, which makes the midterms incredibly important.
January 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
I talked with Applebaum before the new year, and even before the current raids on election administration offices in Georgia. Even then, it was clear that 2026 was the year Trump would go after election administration, which makes the midterms incredibly important.
If it feels bad, that's because IT IS bad.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 PM
If it feels bad, that's because IT IS bad.
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Next time choose *not* to get played.
January 31, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Next time choose *not* to get played.
I do think Iran would be the one place where Trump's reckless belligerence could actually do some good. Which is why I don't think he'll do it.
My cousin in Iran this morning:
‘Everyone here has laid out the red carpet for the American and Israeli planes to arrive’
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‘Everyone here has laid out the red carpet for the American and Israeli planes to arrive’
❤️
January 31, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I do think Iran would be the one place where Trump's reckless belligerence could actually do some good. Which is why I don't think he'll do it.
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The government arresting journalists and killing civilians who record them is TEXTBOOK FASCISM.
January 31, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The government arresting journalists and killing civilians who record them is TEXTBOOK FASCISM.
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Bezos is still investing in the part of the paper that makes money. Not money for the paper, mind you, but money for Bezos via favorable regulatory treatment
I'm confused. I thought Washington Post was doing mass layoffs?
January 30, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Bezos is still investing in the part of the paper that makes money. Not money for the paper, mind you, but money for Bezos via favorable regulatory treatment
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“In theater.”
In. Theater.
In.
Theater.
They want so desperately to be cool tactical soldier dudes that they’ll wage war on America itself to make that silly, childish fantasy a reality.
In. Theater.
In.
Theater.
They want so desperately to be cool tactical soldier dudes that they’ll wage war on America itself to make that silly, childish fantasy a reality.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 AM
“In theater.”
In. Theater.
In.
Theater.
They want so desperately to be cool tactical soldier dudes that they’ll wage war on America itself to make that silly, childish fantasy a reality.
In. Theater.
In.
Theater.
They want so desperately to be cool tactical soldier dudes that they’ll wage war on America itself to make that silly, childish fantasy a reality.
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Russia seized a major Moscow airport (4th busiest, according to Wiki) and then just auctioned it off.
They tried to get 132bn rub, ended up getting 61bn rub.
I wonder if this will be booked as direct revenue for the state, helping to reduce the budget deficit?
They tried to get 132bn rub, ended up getting 61bn rub.
I wonder if this will be booked as direct revenue for the state, helping to reduce the budget deficit?
A subsidiary of the company that owns Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport,became the new owner of the Domodedovo airport following the auction. The full results will be released tomorrow including the winning bid.
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8380618
www.kommersant.ru/doc/8380618
Шереметьево купило Домодедово на торгах
Подробнее на сайте
www.kommersant.ru
January 29, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Russia seized a major Moscow airport (4th busiest, according to Wiki) and then just auctioned it off.
They tried to get 132bn rub, ended up getting 61bn rub.
I wonder if this will be booked as direct revenue for the state, helping to reduce the budget deficit?
They tried to get 132bn rub, ended up getting 61bn rub.
I wonder if this will be booked as direct revenue for the state, helping to reduce the budget deficit?
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As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 AM
As a veteran who’s deployed, I know exactly what “in theater” means. It’s a military term for operations in foreign countries. Using it to describe Minneapolis isn’t accidental…and I can’t overemphasize how dangerous that language shift is.
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One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
Was he actually approaching Minnesota as a regime change
January 29, 2026 at 11:04 PM
One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
You really had to be there in 2007 and 2008 to fully grok how demoralizing and humiliating Obama's post-presidency has been. Shit sucks man.
January 29, 2026 at 12:14 AM
You really had to be there in 2007 and 2008 to fully grok how demoralizing and humiliating Obama's post-presidency has been. Shit sucks man.
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These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely.
They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.
They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.
January 28, 2026 at 11:43 PM
These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely.
They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.
They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them
i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait
January 28, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The GOP is in fact the party of divorced middle aged men whose blue haired daughters hate them
Powerful stuff. Shades of Maidan.
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
January 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Powerful stuff. Shades of Maidan.
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I just assume most eulogies and wedding speeches are generated by chat gpt now because it’s largely well meaning people who have been sold on the idea that this is a tool to help you do “a good job,” when the actual point of you being up there is to say what you’re feeling even if it’s clumsy.
January 28, 2026 at 1:15 AM
I just assume most eulogies and wedding speeches are generated by chat gpt now because it’s largely well meaning people who have been sold on the idea that this is a tool to help you do “a good job,” when the actual point of you being up there is to say what you’re feeling even if it’s clumsy.
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Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
January 27, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me
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I'm gonna make a database of people who are kind, generous, and good in bed and make sure everyone knows.
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I'm gonna make a database of people who are kind, generous, and good in bed and make sure everyone knows.