Spindle
@silverwheel.bsky.social
Spindle of Spindle & Shears
Arian Rana (The Rana)
she/her or they/them
Helper
Nerd, Geek, and Dork
Public Educator
Mouthy Hamster
Land Spirit in Training
Animist
Relationship Anarchist
LGBTQ+ Activist
Force of Nature (as are you)
Arian Rana (The Rana)
she/her or they/them
Helper
Nerd, Geek, and Dork
Public Educator
Mouthy Hamster
Land Spirit in Training
Animist
Relationship Anarchist
LGBTQ+ Activist
Force of Nature (as are you)
What a vindictive, cruel, anti-human regime!
Trump administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation reut.rs/3F3B1cv
Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
reut.rs
March 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What a vindictive, cruel, anti-human regime!
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🇮🇪 Ireland prepares additional aid package for Ukraine
Ireland prepares additional aid package for Ukraine
The Irish government has approved an additional aid package for Ukraine worth €100 million, which will be used to purchase non-lethal military equipment.
www.pravda.com.ua
March 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🇮🇪 Ireland prepares additional aid package for Ukraine
How DARE they treat the freely elected leader of an allied nation that way?! The world needs to witness this and object strongly and swiftly!
‼️ ‼️ Zelenskyy left the White House early — Reuters
February 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How DARE they treat the freely elected leader of an allied nation that way?! The world needs to witness this and object strongly and swiftly!
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‼️ ‼️ Russia has violated ceasefire 25 times since war started in 2014, Zelenskyy says
Russia has violated ceasefire 25 times since war started in 2014, Zelenskyy says
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy believes that mere “silence at the front” is not enough for real and lasting peace, as Russia, an aggressor country, has violated the ceasefire regime – introduced multip...
www.pravda.com.ua
February 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
‼️ ‼️ Russia has violated ceasefire 25 times since war started in 2014, Zelenskyy says
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Special forces showing it was possible to win in key battles at Hostomel airport & elsewhere at the all-out war's start
Ukraine remains the spearpoint in the fight against tyranny spreading world-wide
It fights smart⤵ and stands as a beacon for liberty seemingly against all three superpowers🔥 /1
Ukraine remains the spearpoint in the fight against tyranny spreading world-wide
It fights smart⤵ and stands as a beacon for liberty seemingly against all three superpowers🔥 /1
February 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Special forces showing it was possible to win in key battles at Hostomel airport & elsewhere at the all-out war's start
Ukraine remains the spearpoint in the fight against tyranny spreading world-wide
It fights smart⤵ and stands as a beacon for liberty seemingly against all three superpowers🔥 /1
Ukraine remains the spearpoint in the fight against tyranny spreading world-wide
It fights smart⤵ and stands as a beacon for liberty seemingly against all three superpowers🔥 /1
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Multiple US agencies told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward reut.rs/3XewdXW
Some US agencies tell workers not to reply to Musk's 'What did you do last week' email
Officials at the FBI and State Department sent their staff emails telling them not to respond outside their chains of command, in a possible sign of tension between the president's allies and Elon Musk.
reut.rs
February 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Multiple US agencies told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward reut.rs/3XewdXW
This travesty is being done in the name of all Americans. He's making himself a dictator who is really just a mouthpiece for the world's richest oligarch, and entire nations will be made to suffer at their whims. If we don't stand for Ukraine, we don't stand for anything worthwhile.
🤡 🤡 Trump on Ukraine's absence from talks in Saudi Arabia: they had 3 years
Trump on Ukraine’s absence from talks in Saudi Arabia: they had 3 years
US President Donald Trump, commenting on Ukraine’s possible disappointment over its absence from the talks between the US and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia, has said that he himself was “disappo...
www.pravda.com.ua
February 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This travesty is being done in the name of all Americans. He's making himself a dictator who is really just a mouthpiece for the world's richest oligarch, and entire nations will be made to suffer at their whims. If we don't stand for Ukraine, we don't stand for anything worthwhile.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he blocked a Donald Trump-led deal that would give the US access to vast amounts of Ukrainian natural resources as it lacked "security guarantees" for Kyiv and "does not protect us"
Zelensky rejects Trump-led deal with US on minerals
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he blocked a Donald Trump-led deal that would give the US access to vast amounts of Ukrainian natural resources as it lacked "security guarantees" for K...
www.rte.ie
February 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he blocked a Donald Trump-led deal that would give the US access to vast amounts of Ukrainian natural resources as it lacked "security guarantees" for Kyiv and "does not protect us"
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what it means to be an artist
January 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
what it means to be an artist
Speaks to his character. As if we didn't already know. 🙄
Ukraine war briefing: Putin refuses direct talks with Zelenskyy
Ukraine war briefing: Putin refuses direct talks with Zelenskyy
Russian president calls Ukrainian counterpart ‘illegitimate’; Zelenskyy says government will try to replace suspended US aid. What we know on 1,071 Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Speaks to his character. As if we didn't already know. 🙄
Governor Evers is being more than reasonable in what he's requesting here.
NEW: I am asking the Trump Administration to immediately reconsider actions aimed at unilaterally forcing all federal agencies to stop nearly all federal assistance and grant and loan funding that support kids, families, and communities in Wisconsin and across our country.
January 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Governor Evers is being more than reasonable in what he's requesting here.
Confusion works in their favor, as do outdated and inaccurate reports. It's hard to keep up-to-date, but we need to do regular (perhaps daily but rarely hourly) check-ins on the big picture and careful inquiries before making decisions. Fuckery is moving apace.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
Trump orders pause to all federal grants and loans
It's a sweeping decision that could disrupt education and health care programs, housing assistance, disaster relief and a host of other initiatives that depend on billions of federal dollars.
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Confusion works in their favor, as do outdated and inaccurate reports. It's hard to keep up-to-date, but we need to do regular (perhaps daily but rarely hourly) check-ins on the big picture and careful inquiries before making decisions. Fuckery is moving apace.
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...
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All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.
Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
All departments were affected, including the Office of HIV and AIDs, the Office of Infectious Disease and the Child Health and Immunization Division.
www.npr.org
January 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
All departments were affected, including offices that address HIV and AIDS, infectious disease and child health.
They are moving much more swiftly and boldly this time.
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.
apnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They are moving much more swiftly and boldly this time.
Hard as it is, we have to keep paying attention to authoritarians who are actively doing harm. We must honor our commitments to allies. Our good faith must not stop at our own borders.
Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.
Afghans who helped the U.S. are in dangerous limbo after Trump's order on refugees
Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.
www.npr.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hard as it is, we have to keep paying attention to authoritarians who are actively doing harm. We must honor our commitments to allies. Our good faith must not stop at our own borders.
When you see someone treating others with disrespect, expect them to turn on you eventually, too.
The Trump administration's Interior Department said it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley reut.rs/40yJ4VA
Trump administration says 'Gulf of America' name change now official
The Trump administration's Interior Department said on Friday it had officially changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, and the Alaskan peak Denali to Mount McKinley.
reut.rs
January 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
When you see someone treating others with disrespect, expect them to turn on you eventually, too.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces have plans in place to prevent the encirclement of the village of Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk Oblast by Russian troops, Viktor Trehubov, Khortytsia operational-strategic grouping spokesperson, said.
english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...
english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...
english.nv.ua
January 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have plans in place to prevent the encirclement of the village of Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk Oblast by Russian troops, Viktor Trehubov, Khortytsia operational-strategic grouping spokesperson, said.
english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...
english.nv.ua/nation/ukrai...
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💀 Russia loses 1,500 soldiers over past day
Russia loses 1,500 soldiers over past day
Russia’s losses in the war against Ukraine have surpassed 826,820 troops
www.pravda.com.ua
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
💀 Russia loses 1,500 soldiers over past day
Chicago area folks, please consider this workshop led by a gifted and dedicated Ukrainian artist I met in Kenosha last year.
ukrainiannationalmuseum.org/motanka-work...
ukrainiannationalmuseum.org/motanka-work...
Motanka workshop led by Olha Verbytska on February 22nd at 11 am - Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago
ukrainiannationalmuseum.org
January 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Chicago area folks, please consider this workshop led by a gifted and dedicated Ukrainian artist I met in Kenosha last year.
ukrainiannationalmuseum.org/motanka-work...
ukrainiannationalmuseum.org/motanka-work...
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Big hearts to Costco
Diversity has been proven to yield better results.
Diversity has been proven to yield better results.
January 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Big hearts to Costco
Diversity has been proven to yield better results.
Diversity has been proven to yield better results.
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The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent executive branch agency, to resign by end of day on Thursday or face termination, a source said reut.rs/3WqnVvK
White House asks Democratic members of federal privacy oversight board to quit
The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent executive branch agency, to resign by end of day on Thursday or face termination, a source close to PCLOB said on Wednesday.
reut.rs
January 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The Trump administration has asked the three Democratic members of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent executive branch agency, to resign by end of day on Thursday or face termination, a source said reut.rs/3WqnVvK
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US President Donald Trump pardoned two police officers in Washington who were convicted in the 2020 murder of a 20-year-old Black man named Karon Hylton-Brown, the White House said reut.rs/3PKvFEO
Trump pardons two police officers convicted in murder of Black man in Washington
Republican U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned two police officers in Washington who were convicted in the 2020 murder of a 20-year-old Black man named Karon Hylton-Brown, the White House said.
reut.rs
January 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
US President Donald Trump pardoned two police officers in Washington who were convicted in the 2020 murder of a 20-year-old Black man named Karon Hylton-Brown, the White House said reut.rs/3PKvFEO
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The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs reut.rs/40IZlbJ
Trump campaign against diversity urges government employees to turn informer
The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs.
reut.rs
January 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs reut.rs/40IZlbJ
