Matt Ball
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Work in progress. Always hungry.
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US Envoy Steve Witkoff advised the Kremlin to sabotage Zelenskyy’s October White House meeting with Trump by having Putin call the day before - and even suggested what to say to win Trump’s favor
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
US Envoy Steve Witkoff advised the Kremlin to sabotage Zelenskyy’s October White House meeting with Trump by having Putin call the day before - and even suggested what to say to win Trump’s favor
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I like this pope.
In a world where Trump punches down, be like Pope Leo and lift people up.
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I like this pope.
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‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Please share widely
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
‼️ Why did you, @jay.bsky.team @support.bsky.team suspend the account of one of the most outspoken, independent and important critics of the Trump regime - my friend and colleague @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ? By cutting her off, you also endanger her. Reinstall her account NOW!
Please share widely
Please share widely
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If you want to help Ukraine directly please like and repost!
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you want to help Ukraine directly please like and repost!
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Did you know Stoltenberg titled his book On My Watch: Leading NATO in the Time of War?
Let’s hope it clearly spells out who NATO was supposedly at war with, why the world’s largest military alliance, built to counter Russia, chose not just to avoid confronting
Let’s hope it clearly spells out who NATO was supposedly at war with, why the world’s largest military alliance, built to counter Russia, chose not just to avoid confronting
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Did you know Stoltenberg titled his book On My Watch: Leading NATO in the Time of War?
Let’s hope it clearly spells out who NATO was supposedly at war with, why the world’s largest military alliance, built to counter Russia, chose not just to avoid confronting
Let’s hope it clearly spells out who NATO was supposedly at war with, why the world’s largest military alliance, built to counter Russia, chose not just to avoid confronting
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The russians hit a private kindergarten in Kharkiv with drones, injuring children. One person is murdered. fcking monsters.
October 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
The russians hit a private kindergarten in Kharkiv with drones, injuring children. One person is murdered. fcking monsters.
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Putin will be killed in Budapest by the British, because of this his entourage is urging him not to go to Hungary on October 24, – Daily Express.
Please be true🤞
Please be true🤞
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Putin will be killed in Budapest by the British, because of this his entourage is urging him not to go to Hungary on October 24, – Daily Express.
Please be true🤞
Please be true🤞
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Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ the city is under russian glide bomb attack right now!
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ the city is under russian glide bomb attack right now!
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On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social
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Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social
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Zviad Ratiani, Georgia’s greatest living poet, says he’s being denied a notebook and pen in his prison cell. He was arrested after slapping a police officer in solidarity with detained journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.
And really, what worse punishment could there be for a poet?
And really, what worse punishment could there be for a poet?
October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Zviad Ratiani, Georgia’s greatest living poet, says he’s being denied a notebook and pen in his prison cell. He was arrested after slapping a police officer in solidarity with detained journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.
And really, what worse punishment could there be for a poet?
And really, what worse punishment could there be for a poet?
I think it's true the US's time as a superpower is over - for now. It's a tragedy, as the democratic, free world needs a strong friend. Sadly the Republican US is worse than useless.
Let us hope the remaining democratic countries can step up to fill the void.
Let us hope the remaining democratic countries can step up to fill the void.
One week of intense conversations in Kyiv convinced me that Ukraine has no need for Trump any longer.
Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver.
Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.
Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver.
Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.
September 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I think it's true the US's time as a superpower is over - for now. It's a tragedy, as the democratic, free world needs a strong friend. Sadly the Republican US is worse than useless.
Let us hope the remaining democratic countries can step up to fill the void.
Let us hope the remaining democratic countries can step up to fill the void.
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One week of intense conversations in Kyiv convinced me that Ukraine has no need for Trump any longer.
Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver.
Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.
Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver.
Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
One week of intense conversations in Kyiv convinced me that Ukraine has no need for Trump any longer.
Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver.
Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.
Ukraine can produce all the arms it needs, but it needs financing, which Europe can and must deliver.
Trump has swiftly ended the time of US superpower.
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A Ukrainian FPV interceptor fails to catch up with a Russian "Molniya" UAV, which strikes a civilian car and kills people.
September 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A Ukrainian FPV interceptor fails to catch up with a Russian "Molniya" UAV, which strikes a civilian car and kills people.
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Good take. NB: “IOW, what the Indian government has done… was not to come crawling and dance to America’s tunes, but to recalibrate away from the USA. That means better relations with (and more money going to) Russia and China from India.” Yup.
Hi All, just sent out an update on the strategic disaster that is Trump’s policies towards India. Far from reducing Indian purchases of Russian oil, it has led to them growing, helping Putin. It’s only the US getting weakened. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The US Alienation of India is Backfiring Badly
Hello All,
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Good take. NB: “IOW, what the Indian government has done… was not to come crawling and dance to America’s tunes, but to recalibrate away from the USA. That means better relations with (and more money going to) Russia and China from India.” Yup.
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Day 1301 of Ukraine fighting for its survival. The right to be free, speak their own language, worship in their own churches, to learn their own history.
A history of long suppression by Russia.
As war crimes grow daily, the words "never again" don't seem to apply.
Here's the🧵
A history of long suppression by Russia.
As war crimes grow daily, the words "never again" don't seem to apply.
Here's the🧵
September 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Day 1301 of Ukraine fighting for its survival. The right to be free, speak their own language, worship in their own churches, to learn their own history.
A history of long suppression by Russia.
As war crimes grow daily, the words "never again" don't seem to apply.
Here's the🧵
A history of long suppression by Russia.
As war crimes grow daily, the words "never again" don't seem to apply.
Here's the🧵
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3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.
They had kids, too.
They had kids, too.
September 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.
They had kids, too.
They had kids, too.
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Violence only begets violence. Enduring change comes from building solutions, transforming minds, and cultivating what is good, in the human heart and in the world.
September 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Violence only begets violence. Enduring change comes from building solutions, transforming minds, and cultivating what is good, in the human heart and in the world.
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Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
September 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Hi
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday
Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere
If you have any national platform at all
Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
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…and the US unilaterally ending some sanctions that hurt Putin, while putting impossible conditions on starting new sanctions on Russia.
September 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
…and the US unilaterally ending some sanctions that hurt Putin, while putting impossible conditions on starting new sanctions on Russia.
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Just released my free weekend update. Big stories of the week include the continuation and sophistication of the Ukrainian ranged attacks, the utter failure of NATO, which ended the week escorting Russian drones so they could attack Ukraine… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #150: Range, Range, Range
Also: Russia Attacks Poland; The USA Unilaterally Ends Some Sanctions
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Just released my free weekend update. Big stories of the week include the continuation and sophistication of the Ukrainian ranged attacks, the utter failure of NATO, which ended the week escorting Russian drones so they could attack Ukraine… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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This week’s events in Poland show the chances uou could meet a Shahed drone is much higher than any of us think - so here is what you can do when you meet one:
margogontar.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
margogontar.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
What to do if you hear a Shahed drone?
12 step guide from a Ukrainian
margogontar.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This week’s events in Poland show the chances uou could meet a Shahed drone is much higher than any of us think - so here is what you can do when you meet one:
margogontar.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
margogontar.substack.com/p/what-to-do...
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Anyone got any more questions about whether Donald Trump would do anything if the worst happens and Russia turns against NATO allies in Europe?
Ukraine is Europe’s greatest ally now, and we need each other as dearly as never before.
Ukraine is Europe’s greatest ally now, and we need each other as dearly as never before.
September 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Trump continues to give Russia break after break and benefit of the doubt. This will encourage Russia to further escalate, knowing the US won’t step up and respond. “I’m not happy about anything having to do with that whole situation. But hopefully it’s going to come to an end.”
REPORTER: What's your reaction to Russia's drone incursion into Poland?
TRUMP: It could've been a mistake
TRUMP: It could've been a mistake
September 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Trump continues to give Russia break after break and benefit of the doubt. This will encourage Russia to further escalate, knowing the US won’t step up and respond. “I’m not happy about anything having to do with that whole situation. But hopefully it’s going to come to an end.”
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Soviet mosaic in peaceful city in Ukraine.
Kudos to those who can geolocate this :)
Kudos to those who can geolocate this :)
September 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Soviet mosaic in peaceful city in Ukraine.
Kudos to those who can geolocate this :)
Kudos to those who can geolocate this :)