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Eric Arthur Blair
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Although I passed away on January 21, 1950, my work remains a touchstone for discussions about freedom, power, and the consequences of unchecked political ideologies.
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🇪🇺‼️ Over the past 100 years, Russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some of them even three or four times, — Kallas

None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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392,000 followers on X.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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You've probably seen Marjorie Taylor Greene on the airwaves denouncing the "toxic politics" in the United States. So, let's revisit the evidence of who helped make these politics so toxic.

WATCH:
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Terrific
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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President Stubb:

In World War II, Stalin was in Berlin in four years. We're almost four years into the war and Russia is nowhere near Kyiv and they're not going to get there.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Sloppy Steve doing damage control with the cult today trying to talk them off the ledge.
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Russian propaganda state TV:

"The Kyiv dam must be destroyed. Kyiv must be flooded, Kharkiv annihilated. Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Odesa, and Sumy wiped from the face of the earth."

People ask Ukrainians why don't we "make peace" meaning surrender. This is why.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I can't stop laughing 😆

This is a presentation of Russia’s first AI robot. I think it learned to walk from alcoholics.
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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"To keep (Russia's) military machine running like this, a lot more money is needed — and there simply is not any," Milov, who was an economic advisor for the Russian government in the early 2000s, told the Kyiv Independent.
The cost of war: Is Russia running out of money to continue the fight?
In early October, the Russian government released the full draft of its 2026–2028 federal budget, outlining President Vladimir Putin's key policy priorities for the coming years. In his report for th...
kyivindependent.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky told POLITICO why Russia will take decades to get over the “imperialist-military narrative” that Moscow pushes.

“We should expect a kind of Cold War to last at least ten years,” he predicted. 

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/russ... 
November 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.

12 days of work in 107 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Scorched fields, destroyed forests, polluted air and water, mined lands…

By November 2025, over 10,000 cases of environmental damage caused by Russia have been documented, estimated losses reaching approximately $142 million since the start of full-scale invasion.

📹MFA_Ukraine
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A fantastic piece of data journalism. #JournalismMatters💪

"How Elon Musk is Boosting the British Right. For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas:

Last week in Kyiv,we announced €10 million to launch the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression.

Today, 25 member states have committed to becoming parties to this tribunal

Putin’s regime started this war & must face the consequences
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Climate change is happening measurably faster than even recent models predicted, and the response of an increasing number of powerful people is to call it a hoax.

We are dying of stupidity and greed.
Mysterious 'warm blob' breaks records in the North Pacific Ocean
Temperatures have surged across a large area of the north Pacific - and scientists don't know exactly why.
www.bbc.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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🇨🇳⚠️ A senior NATO official said about 80% of the critical parts in Russia’s drones and modern weapons are made in China, - United24

❗️Since 2023, Beijing has supplied over $20 billion in components, tools, and materials.
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
October 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I am proud of MIT for standing up.
October 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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An EU law aiming to fight child sexual abuse online with "Chat Control."

Privacy activists and tech firms are up in arms.
Why Europe is freaking out about ‘Chat Control’
A European Union law aiming to fight child sexual abuse online has privacy activists and tech firms up in arms.
www.politico.eu
October 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia
October 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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The EU will urge its G7 allies to use Russian frozen assets to issue their own reparation loans to Ukraine when the group’s finance ministers gather in Washington next week, according to the bloc's economy chief Valdis Dombrovskis.
EU pressures G7 countries to loan frozen Russian assets to Ukraine
Brussels wants other countries to follow the EU’s lead in issuing reparation loans to help war-torn country.
www.politico.eu
October 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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💯🇺🇦 Zelensky: Putin is personally afraid of a ceasefire, because it is difficult for him to go from a ceasefire to a war again.

Going from a full-scale war to a ceasefire and then starting a full-scale war again is not easy for them. It is not easy economically, it is not easy with society, world.
October 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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⚡️Russian stock market plummets to 3-year low after Kremlin statement on 'collapsing' US-Moscow relations.

The 4.05% drop brings the MOEX Russia Index, the primary benchmark of the Russian stock market, to its lowest levels since September 2022.
Russian stock market plummets to 3-year low after Kremlin statement on 'collapsing' US-Moscow relations
The 4.05% drop brings the MOEX Russia Index, the primary benchmark of the Russian stock market, to its lowest levels since September 2022.
kyivindependent.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The US might end up begging Ukraine to use Tomahawks. 😁

Ukrainian blogger and political consultant Taras Zahorodniy provides a great explanation of why.
October 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM