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Historian πΈπͺ, but mostly amplifying what news stories I think need amplification
How many Pentagon flunkies and arrogant think tank people kept telling us that Ukraine couldnβt learn or use F-16s, ATACMS, Patriots etc.?
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A line chart showing the change from 1961 to 2023 in global cereal production, yield, land use, and population. All figures are indexed to 1961, which is given a value of zero. In this time, the world population has more than doubled. And the world can now produce more than three times as much cereal from a given area of land as it did in 1961 (i.e., an increase in yield of 214%). In the same period, land used for cereal has only increased by 14%. The data sources are the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (2025); HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); and the UN WPP (2024). The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
Over the last 60 years, the world population has more than doubled.
This has inevitably reduced the land available per person to live and grow food.
How have we managed to feed a rapidly growing population with ever-shrinking land resources?
she exposed russian brutality in life and with her death
rest in peace hero
π―οΈπ―οΈRussia murdered this beautiful couple in Kyiv,June 23,2025 - Anna Pavlik and Volodymyr Moseychuk. They had their whole life ahead of them. Rest in peace. We will never forget and we will never forgive russians.
10.10.2025 16:56 β π 132 π 45 π¬ 6 π 3I was dreading seeing a picture of this little boy
the world decided his life wasn't worth saving
yes I am very hard on the west
no I will not stop
πΊπ¦β€οΈ Three more teenagers returned from occupation to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Among them is an 18-year-old girl who was forced to study under Russian propaganda, another survived constant shelling and developed heart problems. A 19-year-old boy lost his parents and friends.
Contrary to Stephen Miller, the president is not "commander-in-chief" of law enforcement within the United States. The invocation of the title "commander-in-chief" to justify anything Trump wants to do anywhere is a sign of how far down the road the administration is to Caesarism.
06.10.2025 13:29 β π 1087 π 245 π¬ 27 π 9
She was 15 β Anastasiia Hrytsiv. A Russian missile killed her in Lviv overnight, together with her entire family. They died together, in their own home, in seconds.
When missiles hit homes, families vanish. This is Putinβs war: it steals childhood, empties chairs, and leaves streets in mourning.π
π³π΄πΊπΈ Norway fears Trump's "revenge" over aggressive pursuit of Nobel Peace Prize β Bloomberg
Trump has been pressuring the independent committee through an aggressive public and private lobbying campaign that has intensified in recent days ahead of the winner's announcement.
βAnd this idea that our military has failed (um, when?) because we couldnβt be badass enough is entirely fictional. Ask the Russians how that whole βWe donβt give a fuck, kill with impunityβ thing is going for them right now.β
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Swedish intelligence from internal Kremlin documents states that real russian inflation is 20% writes Sweden's minister of finance Elisabeth Svantesson.
04.10.2025 07:20 β π 99 π 21 π¬ 4 π 0
Hi all, just sent out this free post to explain what matters (and what does not) in the Ukrainian campaign against Russian oil refineries. It discusses why the campaign now seems more successful, but also what else needs to happen to have a greater strategic effect. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
03.10.2025 09:23 β π 340 π 98 π¬ 12 π 10
My god.
βWatson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothersβ¦βIt was heartbreaking to watchβ¦seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.ββ
Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment and US citizens were among those detained for hours. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
02.10.2025 10:59 β π 51 π 45 π¬ 3 π 12
β‘οΈ Greenpeace says Russia deliberately cut off power to Ukraineβs Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, raising fears of a disaster.
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That grinding sound you are hearing is the Ukrainians relentlessly dissecting arguably the most important part of the Russian economy. And they are doing this with almost no help from their partners--indeed the US has tried to stop them from attacking into Russia. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...
01.10.2025 15:32 β π 859 π 240 π¬ 27 π 22
12yo Oleksandra Polischuk died in the Russian night strike on Kyiv on 28 Sept.
A student at School No.159, she had recently returned from Canada. Neighbors recall her as cheerful and active, playing sports and studying English.
Her classmates continue to bring flowers and toys to her home.
RIP
"Hell, I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
- JD Vance
π€¬ After the liberation of Kherson, the Russian Armed Forces used FPV drones to conduct a "safari" on civilians in the city, β Oko Gora and Tochnyi
βοΈ2024-25:
π΄Injured - 2,242;
π£Killed - 368;
π΅Injured: 267 members of the State Emergency Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs, volunteers, medics, etc.
It's odd that Republicans can do the mental gymnastics to link Tylenol to autism, but not link gun deaths to guns.
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Classmates are bringing flowers and toys to the site where a russian attack claimed the life of their 12yo girl friend in Kyiv last night.
No child should ever be killed by terrorussia. No child should ever have to experience this kind of pain.
Photo: hromadske.
π Russian attack on Kyiv Oblast injures 28 people, including 3 children
28.09.2025 10:34 β π 115 π 47 π¬ 6 π 2
π A girl who died in Kyiv was crushed by a slab, and a nurse and a patient were killed in the attack at the Institute of Cardiology.
βͺοΈFour people were killed in Kyiv, including a 12-year-old girl.
βͺοΈAnother person was found dead at the site of the attack on civilian infrastructure;
Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russia are regularly and on a widespread scale subjected to violations of IHL and IHRL. This is shown in a new international expert report by, among others, Mark Klamberg, professor of international law at Stockholm University. Read more below
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Thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly deported by Russia.
Behind every story is a family torn apart.
This cannot be tolerated.
Today, the EU joined the International Coalition for the Return of Abducted Children.
We will not rest until these children are back home.
5: In 2022 AP published a report after analyzing satellite imagery from March through December and estimated at least 10 300 new graves in and around Mariupol, most in the Staryi Krym cemetery.
With the new images we can now all see that mass graves are still growing rapidly.
π§΅1: Google updated their satellite images of Mariupol. The sight is horrifying.
For over 3 years russian occupiers have closed off the city. war crimes are being covered up, evidence erased.
In the outskirts; terrifying amounts of rapidly growing unmarked mass graves!
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
"One notable study from Denmark looked at more than 650,000 children born between 1999 and 2010 to see if the measlesβmumpsβrubella (MMR) shot could be linked to autism." ... It wasn't.
www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/h...
We cannot become inured to these murders by the Trump administration.
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