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Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: *dodges*
Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.
Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.
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"Mich berauscht die Freiheit regelrecht. Ich bin betrunken davon!"
Meine Kollegin @simonebrunner.bsky.social hat den belarussischen Friedensnobelpreisträger Ales Bjaljazki interviewt, der nach vier Jahren Haft begnadigt wurde. Ein erstaunlicher Mensch. Geschenklink! www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Meine Kollegin @simonebrunner.bsky.social hat den belarussischen Friedensnobelpreisträger Ales Bjaljazki interviewt, der nach vier Jahren Haft begnadigt wurde. Ein erstaunlicher Mensch. Geschenklink! www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Ales Bjaljazki: "Ein Teil von mir ist noch immer in der Strafkolonie"
Der belarussische Menschenrechtler Ales Bjaljazki ist frei. Im Interview spricht er über seine Haft, Hoffnung – und wie er im Gefängnis vom Friedensnobelpreis erfuhr.
www.zeit.de
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Mich berauscht die Freiheit regelrecht. Ich bin betrunken davon!"
Meine Kollegin @simonebrunner.bsky.social hat den belarussischen Friedensnobelpreisträger Ales Bjaljazki interviewt, der nach vier Jahren Haft begnadigt wurde. Ein erstaunlicher Mensch. Geschenklink! www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
Meine Kollegin @simonebrunner.bsky.social hat den belarussischen Friedensnobelpreisträger Ales Bjaljazki interviewt, der nach vier Jahren Haft begnadigt wurde. Ein erstaunlicher Mensch. Geschenklink! www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...
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Two main causes led to Russia’s full-scale invasion: Western leaders don’t understand who Putin is, and they are indecisive.
In retrospect, the West should have listened to what Boris Nemtsov was warning them about over a decade ago.
In retrospect, the West should have listened to what Boris Nemtsov was warning them about over a decade ago.
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Two main causes led to Russia’s full-scale invasion: Western leaders don’t understand who Putin is, and they are indecisive.
In retrospect, the West should have listened to what Boris Nemtsov was warning them about over a decade ago.
In retrospect, the West should have listened to what Boris Nemtsov was warning them about over a decade ago.
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Remember when the trump administration colluding with the Kremlin was a "democrat hoax"?
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Remember when the trump administration colluding with the Kremlin was a "democrat hoax"?
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
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If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If this is a moment when you feel like helping courageous Ukrainians to stay alive, here is one way to do so.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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Hello everyone. I am fundraising to get engineering equipment to Ukraine. The fundraiser is currently stuck and I need your help with donating and reposting. The donation link will be in the next post and it is tax deductible in the USA. Here are more details on why this is important
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Hello everyone. I am fundraising to get engineering equipment to Ukraine. The fundraiser is currently stuck and I need your help with donating and reposting. The donation link will be in the next post and it is tax deductible in the USA. Here are more details on why this is important
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Friends,
Winter will come to Ukraine very soon. After the Russian attacks,we spend hours without electricity.Sometimes there's no heating and/or water,as well.Several schools&a hospital from Kyiv region have asked me to help them with generators.
Power Up Ukraine are true friends of Ukraine⤵️
Winter will come to Ukraine very soon. After the Russian attacks,we spend hours without electricity.Sometimes there's no heating and/or water,as well.Several schools&a hospital from Kyiv region have asked me to help them with generators.
Power Up Ukraine are true friends of Ukraine⤵️
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Friends,
Winter will come to Ukraine very soon. After the Russian attacks,we spend hours without electricity.Sometimes there's no heating and/or water,as well.Several schools&a hospital from Kyiv region have asked me to help them with generators.
Power Up Ukraine are true friends of Ukraine⤵️
Winter will come to Ukraine very soon. After the Russian attacks,we spend hours without electricity.Sometimes there's no heating and/or water,as well.Several schools&a hospital from Kyiv region have asked me to help them with generators.
Power Up Ukraine are true friends of Ukraine⤵️
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Hello everyone, friends, followers, and supporters of Ukraine
I'm starting a new fundraiser for $120,000 to help Ukraine with engineering equipment, heavy trucks with cranes, and excavators
Please watch the video and read to understand why this matters
donation link www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
I'm starting a new fundraiser for $120,000 to help Ukraine with engineering equipment, heavy trucks with cranes, and excavators
Please watch the video and read to understand why this matters
donation link www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
Engineering Equipment for Ukraine
Help Liberty Ukraine Foundation reach their goal by donating or sharing with your friends.
www.paypal.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hello everyone, friends, followers, and supporters of Ukraine
I'm starting a new fundraiser for $120,000 to help Ukraine with engineering equipment, heavy trucks with cranes, and excavators
Please watch the video and read to understand why this matters
donation link www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
I'm starting a new fundraiser for $120,000 to help Ukraine with engineering equipment, heavy trucks with cranes, and excavators
Please watch the video and read to understand why this matters
donation link www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
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Am Donnerstag, 30. Oktober, darf ich aus meinem Roman "Wir verstehen nicht, was geschieht" lesen. Und zwar in der Akademie Biggesee.
Dass es immer noch Interesse gibt am Leben dieser ungewöhnlichen Menschen, Lew und Swetlana, freut mich sehr.
Das Bild ...
biggesee-akademie.de/wir-verstehe...
Dass es immer noch Interesse gibt am Leben dieser ungewöhnlichen Menschen, Lew und Swetlana, freut mich sehr.
Das Bild ...
biggesee-akademie.de/wir-verstehe...
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Am Donnerstag, 30. Oktober, darf ich aus meinem Roman "Wir verstehen nicht, was geschieht" lesen. Und zwar in der Akademie Biggesee.
Dass es immer noch Interesse gibt am Leben dieser ungewöhnlichen Menschen, Lew und Swetlana, freut mich sehr.
Das Bild ...
biggesee-akademie.de/wir-verstehe...
Dass es immer noch Interesse gibt am Leben dieser ungewöhnlichen Menschen, Lew und Swetlana, freut mich sehr.
Das Bild ...
biggesee-akademie.de/wir-verstehe...
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Saving Sight is a United24 campaign to raise money for medical equipment to treat eye injuries among both civilians and soldiers in Ukraine. You can make a meaningful difference to many people's lives by donating here.
@u24.gov.ua
u24.gov.ua/saving-sight...
@u24.gov.ua
u24.gov.ua/saving-sight...
Saving Sight
Donate towards eye-treatment equipment for Ukrainians.
u24.gov.ua
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Saving Sight is a United24 campaign to raise money for medical equipment to treat eye injuries among both civilians and soldiers in Ukraine. You can make a meaningful difference to many people's lives by donating here.
@u24.gov.ua
u24.gov.ua/saving-sight...
@u24.gov.ua
u24.gov.ua/saving-sight...
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This is Sergey, a 19-year-old Russian conscript. He refuses to fight in Ukraine, and warns that any contract 'signed' by him would be coerced.
🧵 Sergey is far from alone — [1/8]
🧵 Sergey is far from alone — [1/8]
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is Sergey, a 19-year-old Russian conscript. He refuses to fight in Ukraine, and warns that any contract 'signed' by him would be coerced.
🧵 Sergey is far from alone — [1/8]
🧵 Sergey is far from alone — [1/8]
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Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...
www.help99.co
October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
www.help99.co/patches/timo...
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Defense Intelligence of #Ukraine published the names of Russian war criminals involved in missile terror against Ukraine.
These commanders are involved in planning and organizing missile strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Among them are:
These commanders are involved in planning and organizing missile strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Among them are:
September 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Defense Intelligence of #Ukraine published the names of Russian war criminals involved in missile terror against Ukraine.
These commanders are involved in planning and organizing missile strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Among them are:
These commanders are involved in planning and organizing missile strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. Among them are:
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This invasion is giant mistake. I should have let Ukraine join NATO and only then invaded. The alliance would have just had some meetings about it.
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This invasion is giant mistake. I should have let Ukraine join NATO and only then invaded. The alliance would have just had some meetings about it.
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Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson to Viktor Orbán: “Oil may come from the East, but freedom always comes from the West.” In a powerful message, he reminds Hungary of its past, warns against cozying up to Russia, and urges a return to Western democratic values.
September 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson to Viktor Orbán: “Oil may come from the East, but freedom always comes from the West.” In a powerful message, he reminds Hungary of its past, warns against cozying up to Russia, and urges a return to Western democratic values.
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Russian Z-propagandist Maksim Kalashnikov publicly admits that Putin’s so-called "liberation" army has brought nothing but destruction to the residents of Donbas and other occupied territories of Ukraine.
"We came to 'liberate' Russian regions, but we’ve turned them into ruins.
"We came to 'liberate' Russian regions, but we’ve turned them into ruins.
September 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Russian Z-propagandist Maksim Kalashnikov publicly admits that Putin’s so-called "liberation" army has brought nothing but destruction to the residents of Donbas and other occupied territories of Ukraine.
"We came to 'liberate' Russian regions, but we’ve turned them into ruins.
"We came to 'liberate' Russian regions, but we’ve turned them into ruins.
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Let's drop the naivité and accept that this war will end on the battlefield after Ukraine achieves the necessary military strength, not in a conference room after a round of talks and a carafe of wine.
September 17, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Let's drop the naivité and accept that this war will end on the battlefield after Ukraine achieves the necessary military strength, not in a conference room after a round of talks and a carafe of wine.
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Did you notice Iran didn't put any restrictions on Russia using its drones in NATO territory?
September 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Did you notice Iran didn't put any restrictions on Russia using its drones in NATO territory?
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1/ Last month, I launched a fundraiser to provide engineering equipment for Ukraine, but due to low donations, I had to pause and reassess. Today, I’m relaunching the fundraiser and want to share an example of the impact of the machines we provide. Share and donate.
🔗 www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
🔗 www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
September 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1/ Last month, I launched a fundraiser to provide engineering equipment for Ukraine, but due to low donations, I had to pause and reassess. Today, I’m relaunching the fundraiser and want to share an example of the impact of the machines we provide. Share and donate.
🔗 www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
🔗 www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
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"Khokhols [derogatory for Ukrainians], please hit the f*cking Typhoon military plant in Kaluga. We haven't been paid salaries for two months now."
A resident of Russia's Kaluga made a video appeal to the Ukrainian army asking to hit the Typhoon military plant.
A resident of Russia's Kaluga made a video appeal to the Ukrainian army asking to hit the Typhoon military plant.
August 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Khokhols [derogatory for Ukrainians], please hit the f*cking Typhoon military plant in Kaluga. We haven't been paid salaries for two months now."
A resident of Russia's Kaluga made a video appeal to the Ukrainian army asking to hit the Typhoon military plant.
A resident of Russia's Kaluga made a video appeal to the Ukrainian army asking to hit the Typhoon military plant.
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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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Everyone wants the war to end, negotiations to succeed, peace to come.
The reality: it won’t happen soon.
That’s why I’m fundraising for a new batch of engineering equipment—excavators and trucks with cranes.
donation link: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
please read the tread below ⤵️
The reality: it won’t happen soon.
That’s why I’m fundraising for a new batch of engineering equipment—excavators and trucks with cranes.
donation link: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
please read the tread below ⤵️
August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everyone wants the war to end, negotiations to succeed, peace to come.
The reality: it won’t happen soon.
That’s why I’m fundraising for a new batch of engineering equipment—excavators and trucks with cranes.
donation link: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
please read the tread below ⤵️
The reality: it won’t happen soon.
That’s why I’m fundraising for a new batch of engineering equipment—excavators and trucks with cranes.
donation link: www.paypal.com/donate?campa...
please read the tread below ⤵️