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Yet more evidence of Russian war crimes.

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

This is a crime against humanity. Since October, russians have conducted 256 attacks on Ukraine's energy grid and heating system. The terrorists targeted 11 hydro power plants, 45 largest combined heating and power stations, 49 thermal power plants, and 151 substations.

Russia has deliberately and systematically targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure leaving most Ukrainians without electricity or heat during one of the coldest winters in years. That's a war crime.

Tonight's immediately impeachable latest crime

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

As an American, that it makes me so incredibly mad to see my government doing this.

The purpose of these books is to make non-Ukrainian readers familiar with how some prominent Ukrainians approach, research and assess their country’s development and position in the world. cup.columbia.edu/series/ukrai... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Kyiv. Today in Shevchenko Park, a group of Kazakhs cooked free plov (a traditional rice dish) for Ukrainians 💪

Words and threats have real life consequences for real life people.

This.

The FBI searched the home of a Washington Post reporter seeking classified state documents. Nothing she wrote about could be considered classified. They simply want to suppress dissent via intimidation. Don't let them. Here is what she wrote. Please share. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I know too little about Iran to know if US intervention would help the protesters put an end to Khomeini's murderous regime. 2 questions on my mind: 1) Could it be done without causing disproportionate additional harm? 2) Would the result be a more peaceful & just Iran? /1

Somebody should remind this President who so desires to be loved and respected just how unpopular the idea of taking over Greenland is. /1

Greetings from Kyiv and warcoffee. It’s -11 °C outside. No electricity at home (hard to predict when it’ll be back – there are no schedules now). But I had a few hours of power last night to do everything. Life goes on.

The Trump administration has tough words for #Greenland (a NATO ally), but nothing to say about #Russia's destruction of #Ukraine's electric & heating infrastructure, which has plunged the country into darkness & cold, with overnight lows in the single digits (Fahrenheit). /1

Emergency power outages continue in Kyiv. In some districts, electricity has been out for 10 hours or more, so residents of one residential complex gathered for an improvised "picnic" outside their building during yet another blackout.

Also... whether or not Greenland is militarily important to the US is irrelevant to the question of whether or not invading an ally who has done nothing to threaten the US is moral or legal. (Short answer: it would be neither moral nor legal.)

⚡️Russian drone strikes leave 45,000 subscribers without power in Kryvyi Rih. Russian Shahed drones carried out the overnight attack on Jan. 14, leaving 700 buildings without heat across the city, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council, said.

When you aren't supposed to talk about gender in class but want to explain how the US and Russia went from probe and drogue space docking to a 50/50 system where the first word in its name is literally "Androgynous", because neither country was willing to be the, er, receiver

Kyiv. No electricity for 15 hours. Maybe it’ll be back tomorrow morning (usually for no more than four hours). I’ll save my phone battery. Will write only if something critical happens (or when power returns).

This is how #Kyiv residents survive without electricity and heating after Russian attacks. Invincibility points are places where people can warm up, rest, charge mobile phones and other devices, use the internet, get hot drinks, and receive basic assistance. 📷: Volodymyr Opryshko / Facebook

He's not. Stop coddling the childishness.

It's specious to think Admirals accepted cocaine and hookers from Fat Leonard because they needed more training on ethics rules, but this is worse. ICE / CPB violence is not only a deep cultural issue, it's * policy *. It's not a technocratic problem, it's a knowing political and moral choice

NATO is a voluntary, mutually beneficial alliance, not a protection racket or extortion scheme. If it’s forfeit land as tribute or no NATO, that effectively means no NATO. The threat itself, even if not acted upon, undermines the trust and credibility that makes the alliance function.

Russia deliberate targets electricity and heating systems in #Ukraine during the winter for maximum civilian harm. You can help by donating to @novaukraine.org or Energize Ukraine or other reputable aid organizations that are helping Ukrainians build energy resilience.

I’ve often read how people described hearing their drone, their missile (the one that hit their home). Tonight, I thought I heard my drone. Only one window opened slightly from the blast wave. The others are fine. Victory (still a cat) reacted perfectly, she ran and hid so fast. Everything’s fine.

No this is not from a post apocalyptic movie. This is city of Dnipro in full blackout after Russia bombed all of the power stations in the region. A million people lives here, and , according to forecast, temperatures gonna drop soon to below -11

A country that blows up foreign fishing boats for no reason is one that will shoot its own citizens for no reason.

Some of these withdrawals look like gifts to Russia.

I know many Venezuelans are happy that Maduro is gone. (So am I). That said, do I agree with my country kidnapping him, bypassing US congressional approval and any regard to international law or human rights? No. I explain why 👇🏾

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

@seva.bsky.social on how Trump’s vision for this hemisphere lines up with Putin hopes for Russia in Europe. All part of Trump’s goal to make the US more like Russia at home and abroad. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

What I read this year... (my pace increased a lot when my sabbatical started :)) #2025Reads #2025Books

Fixed it for you.

Lavrov declared today that in the event of an escalation around Taiwan, Russia will support China. Beijing and Moscow are also jointly threatening Japan, which has declared its involvement in the island's defense.

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

If the #Kremlin is praising you for fighting #censorship, you’re doing it wrong.

On the 34th anniversary of the end of the USSR, I’m reposting my article from earlier this year, which argued that we should have understood the moment as liberation rather than only as collapse: www.eurozine.com/liberation-n...

Greetings from Kyiv! No power at home this Christmas morning, but the cafés are open and generators are singing. My warcoffee went home with me. Merry Christmas!

Sounds about right.

Merry Christmas, dear followers! I think that even two years ago, and all the more so three or four, it would have been hard to imagine that we would find ourselves in our current situation. It's been four long years, and we all grew older and changed in that time...

What if this year, everyone who claimed to be a Christian tried their best to truly love their neighbors as they love themselves? Imagine: the hungry would be fed, the poor supported, the sick given medical care, the lonely befriended, the homeless housed, & refugees welcomed.

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

They told you they only objected to illegal immigration. They lied.

Went to Independence Square in #Vilnius again tonight to stand for #FreedomofthePress. Protests have a special language of their own, a kind of culture. /1 #SalinRankas www.euronews.com/video/2025/1...

Several things can be true at once: 1) Maduro is a dictator. Under his rule, Venezuela has become impoverished and authoritarian. 2) It would be better if someone else governed Venezuela. 3) The US should not replace Maduro by force. /1