Elisabeth Rybak

The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence.

"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology."
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...

No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout. Building a professional women’s soccer venue was seen as brash. Now the Kansas City Current’s is a blueprint for others.

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games.
www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

🚨PLEASE SHARE🚨 #Missing 14 year old from #Sheshatshiu #NewfoundLand #Canada

Alaina is described as:
EYES: Brown HAIR: Dark
HEIGHT: 5'4" | WEIGHT: 130 lbs

#MMIW #MMIWG #EveryChildMatters #NoMoreStolenSisters #RedDressAlert #AboriginalAlert

www.aboriginalalert.ca/missingperso...

We are going to live in a world where the the marginal cost of electricity is very close to zero

About 4m U.S. households with a working adult and kids rely on SNAP. Why are U.S.taxpayers being asked to subsidize poverty wages. As economic pressure builds, latest election results suggest the pendulum is beginning to swing back toward confronting the country’s huge income and wealth gap.

Trump was definitely on the ballot and the results were an indictment of his administration’s actions.

Cursed by inequality A summary of the discussion from our recent event with Dr Luke Kemp, author of 'Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse'

What can we learn from previous societies where rampant inequality undermined social cohesion, in many cases to the point of collapse? We've just published the write-up of our event with Dr Luke Kemp, author of 'Goliath's Curse', with @dhnnjyn.bsky.social and @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

No question - the midterms are going to be seriously chaotic. Then what will you do my dear American friends? 🇨🇦❤️

Canadians care about the world and we care about each other. So we’re going to fight climate change and build a stronger, more competitive economy – together.

How do you deal with someone like that? Negotiated trade agreements with Trump aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

Canada will not allow unfair U.S. access to markets if trade talks fail, says Carney

Canada will not allow unfair U.S. access to its markets if talks on various trade deals with Washington ultimately fail, Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Thursday.

Canada will not allow unfair U.S. access to markets share.google/NOXqliIAZvqX...

That’s pretty cool. 😎

MAID availability is comforting for those facing an indescribable alternative. Its availability should not be confused with inappropriate care, support or comments. Disabled (I am one) in Canada need better access to healthcare and to financial aid but that really doesn’t mean MAID is unnecessary.

Welcome! ❤️🇨🇦

NEW: Kelly O. Hayes - one of the prosecutors that signed the Bolton indictment - told Todd Blanche the case against Schiff is not strong enough to charge.

Let's see whether Trump can find someone in Maryland willing to indict Schiff. This is from Carol Leonnig at MSNBC.

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

"Am I going to die?" the child asks quietly.
"No, no, everything will be fine," the police officer reassures him.

A Russian drone directly hit a daycare in Kharkiv yesterday. The kids were in the shelter, thankfully, and evacuated quickly. Many had acute stress reactions.

Pam Bondi’s former lobbying firm raked in $25M last quarter as clients tried buying access to Trump.

Trump fundraiser Jeff Miller’s firm came away with $14M — nearly 5x what it made last year.

Trump’s cronies know everything is for sale in his White House.

"Drain the swamp."

Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

President Trump pardoned the founder of Binance, who was convicted for enabling money laundering. This comes after the company held business talks with the Trump family and boosted their crypto company.

Astonishingly corrupt.

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Between the rain showers…

Treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco The problem with TikTok and Facebook isn't their size

Really provocative, interesting argument from @wertwhile.bsky.social on what it would look like to really regulate the platforms.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/treat-big-...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

An American President and his administration who are actively committing extortion. There are state laws against this.

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right.

The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter.

Everyone must choose which side they’re on.