An excellent podcast with Serhii Plokhy, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University. He explains that the goal of Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity was to “bring Europe inside” — meaning the rule of law, democracy, less corruption, and an open society. 1/5 shorturl.at/pV7zf

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

American businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett, together with Ukraine’s special police unit "White Angel," visited frontline areas of Kupiansk in Kharkiv region, where constant shelling continues and civilians are being evacuated.

The European Commission has carried out one of its biggest logistical operations by relocating a full thermal power plant from Lithuania to Ukraine. The complex operation, carried out over 11 months, involved 149 shipments totalling 2,399 tonnes of equipment.

The State Department’s order rolls back Calibri describing the change as “yet another wasteful D.E.I.A. program”, refering to better font Accessibility. 🤯 Clearly, making life easier for visually impaired people is not one of the Trump's administration goals.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 A letter from US senators about frozen Russian assets.

🚨📡 Sappers of the 33rd Regiment are in urgent need of 3 Starlink car terminals to continue their combat tasks. They recently lost a significant amount of equipment. Please help them if you can. 🙏 💳: donorbox.org/ukraine-defenders 🫙: send.monobank.ua/jar/7WvGYCeMDb It's crucial for their safety.

Cats rule! The Lithuanian Parliament has passed a law granting a cat named Nuodėgulis (English: 'Charred') final say over personnel matters - the Director of National Television can only be dismissed if the feline approves the decision.

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The show makes perfect sense - just replace word 'peace' with 'corruption'.

I will match up to $2.5k for engineering kit for Ukraine below by 30th Nov. Reply here with proof, or put "leo diggers" in Paypal donation comment and I will double your impact. Read Constantine's thread for amazing stories. One digger's emplacements saves dozens of lives and $10 millions of kit.

Technology determines what’s possible; politics determines who benefits. Given the current U.S. politics, this will lead to a greater concentration of wealth and power among the already wealthy, while poorer citizens will become even poorer — viewed not as contributors but as a burden on the state.

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🐝🇺🇦 Video of 100 Shahed drones downed by STING Interceptor, - Wild Hornets

Mercedes, Touareg, Pathfinder — all broken, all needed daily. DAY4: €2,528 collected We keep going 🙏 💳 Donate: PayPal.me/TriinuP [email protected] revolut.me/triinuuqwd wise.com/pay/me/triinup30 send.monobank.ua/jar/3f34aV5nJh

When you finally get home for a family emergency, it’s never just “a few quiet days.” This morning I ended up on Estonian national TV talking about my volunteer work in Ukraine, about our guys, about what they actually need and how much help is still needed

Medvedev wearing a robot-suit. Drunk as usual.

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Again an excellent and comprehensive analysis from Yaroslav. Every minute of it was to the point. If anything, watch this as lazy sunday material. youtu.be/GiKHZXRA5H4?...

At the World Press Cartoon exhibit near Lisbon Frank Hoppmann won for his caricature of Vladimir Putin You can find him on Instagram

Angelina Jolie visited #Kherson, a #Ukrainian city which is constantly shelled by Russian war criminals who hunt people from drones and engage in human safaris. A great person.

Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

⚔️ NATO has developed a 4,400-page plan to counter a Russian attack, - WELT The plan provides for a number of comprehensive measures to protect NATO's eastern flank.

Two vehicles have been delivered to the Azov International fighters, in cooperation with Bergen Helps Ukraine. 🇺🇦🤝🇳🇴 Your support made this possible. But the work continues, we have urgent requests for 3 more vehicles, plus essential equipment from multiple units at the front.

I don’t know how to put it in nice words… we need help. Simple as that. 🚨 OCTOBER COLLECTION ⚡️ DEFCON TRIBE 💥 Goal €10,000 | Day15: €8,496 📩 paypal.me/TriinuP | revolut.me/triinuuqwd | wise.com/pay/me/triinup30 Fuel. Gear. Mobility. Life. 💪

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation (@Heritage). Heritage is best-known for opposing military aid to Ukraine and for their political initiative called Project 2025, a potential blueprint for a Trump presidency. 1/23

A few points that I found insightful or interesting: 1) There is a great possibility that the Soviet system will sooner or later be destroyed from within. There is a self-destructive mechanism built into any socialist, communist, or fascist system, because there is a lack of a feedback mechanism 1/8

👁️ #SavingSight👁️ This week #ToonieTuesday is proud to support @u24.gov.ua in raising funds for 6 sets of cutting-edge ophthalmic equipment to restore sight to Ukrainians injured by war. Donate €£$2📬screenshot in replies & repost link.u24.gov.ua/r/saving-sig... (Use ONLY the Toonie🔗 to give) ⤵️1/2

Former Lithuanian Health Minister Aurimas Pečkauskas spent 2,5 weeks in the combat zone in the Donetsk region,providing aid to Ukrainian Defenders As a volunteer of the Blue/Yellow Medical project,he worked with mobile surgical teams near the front line, later - with the TacMed Ukraine organization

This is an excellent interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB agent who defected to the U.S., discussing Ideological Subversion—the very fruits of which Putin is harvesting today. shorturl.at/DMll0

Trump’s protégé likely gave a few lessons on how to run proper propaganda during their recent call. This is digital propaganda designed to shatter the viewer’s sense of normality. Its goal is to erode belief in objective truth, undermine trust in democracy. shorturl.at/y4frX youtu.be/s0BrZypxoC0?...

Depression will come after the realization that Trump is still doing hanky panky with Putin, and the long-range rockets and US sanctions against Russia are just a distant horizon - you move towards it for two weeks, but it moves away the same distance.

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

In the name of the Ukrainian people The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has the honor to award Triinu Perve with the distinction “For Assistance to the Army” Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes! General Oleksandr Syrskyi Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

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Russia's disinformation campaign is now using deepfaked audio of Holocaust survivors to attack Armenia, in videos published on the 2nd anniversary of the Hamas October 7th attack on Israel.

Disinformation, now in 3D.

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It is characteristic of the Soviet and later Russian military to bomb and terrorize civilians. E.g. during the Soviet–Afghan War, it slaughtered 3 million civilians (shorturl.at/uSWmd). This was a deliberate brutality -their way of war relies on terrorizing populations into submission.

Witnessing a War Crime: Russia’s Human Safari (shorturl.at/EFhqE). Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded. Research by @kelley7622.tochnyi.info and @tochnyi.info Interactive map: maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/

We cannot let the myth of American exceptionalism numb us into imagining we are above devolving into inhumanity. We have every ingredient in place to become something historically monstrous. It will happen here unless we refuse to allow it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/now-that-f...

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Kupiansk is strategically extremely important city to hold, due to fact russia could use the railways there to strengthen their logistics! Help NOW ➡️ donorbox.org/frontline-vehicles #OneTeamOneFight #NAFO

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You got to believe what the autism expert says.

This is an excellent dive into Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology, and I highly recommend watching it. youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI

I mostly resist the temptation to attribute any cleverness to Trump. He is a bumbling doofus whose amorality and ruthlessness have allowed him to accidentally succeed. But the idea of doing so many blatantly wrong things, so out in the open, that nothing is an actionable revelation? Kind of genius.