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Trump’s Whisper from Moscow: Coincidence or Destiny? Why does a president who seems to have no firm convictions and whose opinions are so maddeningly unpredictable nonetheless maintain such a positive stance toward Russia?

A reminder that the U.S. continues to fail Ukraine at this critical time. Why doesn’t the President ever articulate why he supports Putin?

tomorrowsaffairs.com/trumps-whisp...

Oleksandr Tishaiev and Oleksandr Aliksieienko held their frontline positions for 165 consecutive days in direct contact with the enemy. They were awarded honors by President Zelenskyy and the Ministry of Defense.
Thank you for defending Ukraine and fighting off russian invaders!

Georgians will win this.
The only questions are how soon and at what cost.

Thanks to a contribution from the Lithuanian government via UNITED24, 3 radiation shelters have been built in the Nyzy School near Sumy, Bilenke School near Zaporizhzhia, and Zviahel School near Zhytomyr.

Now, nearly 3,000 children will be able to return to studies❤️👇

Two Ukrainian Defenders from the 138th Territorial Defense Battalion held their position in the Zaporizhzhia direction for 165 (!!) days.

Oleksandr Tishaiev&Oleksandr Aliksieienko conducted reconnaissance,strengthened defenses,repelled enemy attacks while under constant drone &artillery strikes

Zelenskyy:

"25 manufacturers are working to enable [the Russians] to produce the Oreshnik - not in large numbers, but still, about 6 per year.Twenty-five manufacturers,Russian companies. And they are not under sanctions.It is very important to sanction these companies.I believe this is crucial."

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Despite such destruction caused by Russian strikes on railway facilities in Sumy and Kharkiv Oblasts, trains kept moving.

📷: Facebook/oleksiikuleba

Once again, if Trump really wanted to sanction Russia, he has an ideal vehicle crying out to be used; the Graham-Blumenthal act. However, he will not even allow Senate Republicans to vote on it. The only conclusion is that he really does not want to hurt Putin

Galina Rymbu, An Open Letter to Zarah Sultana An anarcho-feminist and poet from Ukraine delivers a personal address to the leader of Your Party, inviting reflection on what contemporary anti-fascism and genuine strategies of solidarity might look...

📣 “I … will fight — even without you.”

A powerful and searing open letter from Galina Rymbu in Ukraine to Zarah Sultana, confronting how anti-imperial solidarity must refuse to abandon Ukraine.

Read it here ⬇️
syg.ma/@media-resistance-group/galina-rymbu-an-open-letter-to-zarah-sultana

Breakfast in Kharkiv.

So many Ukrainian children have become so accustomed to explosions during the years of war.

Sound on, if you can.

📹: Yekaterina Vershynina/Facebook

Anne Applebaum: Americans Aren't Angry Enough. Yet. On today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast, I’m joined by historian and journalist Anne Applebaum to discuss Donald Trump’s enshittification of the White House and our political discourse.

Anne Applebaum: Americans Aren't Angry Enough. Yet.
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So Trump and Xi are on the cusp of a trade deal (think US climb down on Trump’s beautiful tariffs)…anyone want to guess what that means for the prospects of secondary tariffs on Chinese companies buying Russian oil?

“They could not have been unaware of where they were striking.”

Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the russian strike on a hospital in Kherson, emphasizing that russia deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and peaceful people. Today — it’s children and medics.

💔 Kostiantynivka is the heart of Ukraine's Donbas, still beating even as drones and missiles explode around.

Here, people have learned to live under shelling, to love among ruins, and to support one another when Russia tries to break them.

📹 liut_npu/Telegram

It’s hilarious how world leaders make so clear that they think Trump is an idiot and easily manipulated and he doesn’t realize it at all.

“Here little boy is the largest cookie in the whole world, made out of rare unicorns and dinosaurs.”

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As opposed to Trump's incredibly weak "sanctions" on Russia, this shows its true priorities. Romania is a front line state, and the US is going to weaken Romanian security now and for the foreseeable future.
This is why European states need to make sure Ukraine wins.

On the morning of October 29, russian forces cynically opened artillery fire on a children’s hospital in Kherson. For russia, nothing human remains — only terror, destruction, and death. Help stop the terrorist state! u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

❗️Content linked to the Russian state appeared in almost one out of every 5 responses by AI to questions about Russia’s war against Ukraine -the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Researchers analyzed responses from 4 popular chatbots - 🔽

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This war took my first friend from me on May 6, 2022. Talented young man, poet, and musician, he volunteered to go to the front in the early days of the full-scale invasion. He died near Avdiivka under heavy artillery fire, and his body could not be returned to his parents until the end of...

⚡️ Die Welt’s @ibranaber.bsky.social was injured in eastern Ukraine about 25-30 km from the front during a shoot with an air-defense unit.

Russian Lancet drone struck the team: the camera operator and producer were also injured. Ukrainian soldier was killed, another wounded.

📷 ibranaber/Instagram

The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model The Trump administration is trying to muddle reality—and create apathy.  

After the Pentagon forced a mass exit of journalists who understood military finance, tactics and technology, their replacements have arrived: cranks, conspiracy theorists and both foreign and domestic propagandists
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Elon Musk’s xAI just launched Grokipedia, an AI-run version of Wikipedia with no human editors. It gives him power not just over how information spreads, but over what information exists in the first place. When one person controls information, who controls the truth? ‼️ ⚠️

“Russia has never been, and is not now interested in peace, and will never, in the future, be interested in peace. The sooner Western leadership understands this and accepts the truth, then we can get on with taking care of Russia,”

⚡️ This is Novohrodivka in Donetsk Oblast, under Russian occupation since late August 2024.

It used to have several mines, steady work, schools and kindergartens working for thousands, and around 15,000 residents. Now it lies in ruins.

📹 Operatyvnyi_Donbas/Telegram

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On the night of October 27, Ukraine's Special Operations Forces destroyed a fuel depot and oil storage facility in the Russian-occupied territory of the Luhansk region.

SOF drones struck the fuel depot in Starobilsk at the moment when the tanks were full, which amplified the effect.

Glory!

Normal Times in Dire Times Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

"This is how fascism thrives. It does not interrupt normal life, it depends on it. The ordinary becomes its camouflage, the daily routine its accomplice. And if it feels normal right now, that should terrify you."--Frederick Joseph

The longer this war goes on, the more we look like ISIS.