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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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Always comes down to the misogynoir, doesn't it?

"Imane Khelif must be a man, because a real brown girl would've shut up and known her place."
February 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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😢🕯A rescuer of the State Emergency Service died in Kyiv region while eliminating the consequences of the Russian strike

Chief Master Sergeant of the Civil Defense Service Mykhailo Protsenko died while working at a facility destroyed by the Russian strike.
February 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Any americans that takes part in this deal are our enemys and all messures that can be used on enemys should be allowed. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-war...
Zelensky warns of 'risk' US, Russia could strike bilateral deals on Ukraine without Kyiv
"We clearly state that Ukraine will not support even potential agreements about us without us," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
kyivindependent.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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🔎🇷🇺 NEW INVESTIGATION: The Russian sect known as the Anastasians promotes an anti-democratic, antisemitic, and patriarchal ideology with the blessing of Vladimir Putin. Their colonies have been quietly spreading across Central Europe, including Poland. @vsquare.bsky.social
A Russian Esoteric Sect Goes West—with a Putinist Running Its Hub in Poland - VSquare.org
The Russian sect known as the Anastasians promotes an anti-democratic, patriarchal ideology. For several years, its colonies have been quietly emerging across Poland.
vsquare.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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THeRE will Be no INerTia For tHIs CANada And GreEnlaND StufF StOP bEing hysteRicAL
And the trend goes both ways, by the way.

The US government is telling Americans to hate Europeans and Canadians. And many have dutifully changed their opinions.
February 6, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Big news from Russia.
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Ben is learning about the meaning of he poem First they
February 6, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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🇪🇺🇺🇸 The EU proposed to Trump to jointly end Putin's shadow fleet, - Euronews

The EU is discussing replacing the price cap on Russian oil with a ban on providing shipping services, from insurance to port services, to tankers in the shadow fleet.
February 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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🇺🇦🐶 Patron the Dog met with NATO Secretary General Rutte.
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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My latest for This Is Not A Drill on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Kyiv due to Russia's winter bombardment of Ukraine's energy sector.

Available at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Winter War — How Ukraine is facing Russia’s cruelty
Podcast Episode · This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler · 05/02/2026 · 18m
podcasts.apple.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Kremlin ideologists want to revitalize Siberia to fulfill a civilizational break from Europe, according to a Jamestown Foundation report.

Yet the obstacles are stacking up: Siberia's population is down 31% since 1989 and the war-driven deficit has hit $72.3 bn
Russia dreams of a Siberian capital while its war on Ukraine empties Siberia out
If Peter the Great were alive, he would build a new capital in Siberia. So says Sergei Karaganov, the Kremlin-linked foreign policy ideologist best known for proposing nuclear strikes on Europe.…
euromaidanpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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⚡️ BREAKING: Russian General Vladimir Alekseev shot multiple times in Moscow, Russian media reports.

He has been rushed to hospital and the gunman fled the scene, according to reports.
BREAKING: Russian General Vladimir Alekseev shot multiple times in Moscow, Russian media reports
He has been rushed to hospital and the gunman fled the scene, according to reports.
kyivindependent.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Justja, glömde: veckans avsnitt av Godmorgon Ukraina är ute. Alex är på plats i Kiev, Putin bombar och Trump är nöjd. Allt är som vanligt alltså.

@alexvoronov.bsky.social

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/varlden/putin-bombar-kiev-igen-trump-ar-nojd/
PODD: Putin bombar Kiev igen – Trump är nöjd
Alex Voronov ser förödelsen efter de ryska terrorbombningarna.
www.sydsvenskan.se
February 5, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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oh god this is so much worse
ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ
cool. glad we protected her identity at least www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
February 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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This apparently started with her pissing off Asian people & now she doesn’t know grilling vs barbecue?
I just can’t with this…
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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This dweeb isn't even part of ICE/DHS/CBP but he looks exactly like one of their goons which should be kind of instructive about a lot of things
This man baby decided to destroy the sculpture.

So lacking in impulse control, so thin-skinned and juveline, he has to kick (poorly, like a stumbling idiot) anything that offends his delicate sensibilities.

How can we have robust debate with such as these? Can democracy survive these children?
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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as a proud graduate of Princeton Law, I am so glad that our law review is publishing this provocative yet indispensable scholarship
February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM