Ukraine hands over Russian POW to Lithuania for war crimes prosecution in 'historic precedent'

Ukraine hands over Russian POW to Lithuania for war crimes prosecution in 'historic precedent' #Ukraine

Russian mass surrender at the encirclement of Kucheriv Yar.

What started as a stunt to impress Trump before the Anchorage meeting with Putin is ending in a military defeat for the Russian aggression.

I initially misread "two moms for liberty" as the group name, and I was very confused why a group of lesbian mothers would be against pride books.

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

In Tbilisi, protesters stormed the grounds of the Orbeliani Presidential Palace, tearing down fences as special forces responded with pepper spray and water cannons. The unrest is part of a year-long movement demanding new elections and a return to the EU path after Georgia’s govt stalled accession

Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five” Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.

It’s time for a public inquiry. 🔥

🇨🇿✈️ The Czech Republic call for shooting down Russian military aircraft that invade the airspace of third countries.

🗣️Petr Pavel: "Russia will very quickly realize that it crossed the permissible limits. This is balancing on the verge of conflict, but in the face of evil, one cannot retreat."

putin : "We withdrew troops from Kyiv because the Europeans asked us to."

"Europeans asked us to":

Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"

Do we notice a pattern here?

Well done, Alaska.

So hang on…. Trump is going to offer to open up FUKKIN ALASKA TO THE RUSSIANS??

Wow. Let’s see republicans defend this

Robert Reich Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich

The SEC once considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation.

But under President Reagan, stock buybacks were made legal. 

Now, instead of investing profits into people, corporations use stock buybacks (at record levels) to line the pockets of wealthy shareholders.

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Saboteurs managed to breach a Russian military facility, placing explosives on a Mi-28 attack helicopter. The 344th Army Aviation Training Center in Torzhok, Tver region of Russia.

HOLY HELL! 💥🔥

Epic explosion in russian Samara, Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery.

@safety.bsky.app probably a mistake do to russian farm bot mass reporting her.

She's commenting what's going on in her city Kyiv and crimes committed daily by russian.

Her account must be restored as this is russian propaganda trying to suppress Ukrainian voices both online and offline

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

“The West doesn’t understand the extremism of Putinism…that (its) goals involve the destruction of the transatlantic alliance & maybe of the EU…The path to peace is through convincing Putin that he won’t win the war, that it’s hopeless.”

(ht: @berlinbridge.bsky.social)

❗️🇺🇦Zelenskyy met with 🇮🇱Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar

During the conversation, they discussed economic and defense cooperation between Ukraine and Israel, strengthening Ukrainian air defense, and opportunities for joint weapons production.

That's so sweet.

Robert "Madiar" Brovdi: NATO members' security doctrines require urgent revision.

"I don't know which NATO member state is capable of defending even one of its cities while enduring 200-300 Shahed drones every single day, seven days a week, without pause⤵️

Celebrated on russia social media: American Filth

Tucker Carlson said that Putin has done a grand job and elevated Russia.

The US propaganda journalist noted in an interview that Germany and European countries are going down, while Russia is only rising.

This American. Filth.

An Angry Judge in the Abrego Garcia Case Has the federal judiciary reached critical mass?

Where does the line between enforcing U.S. law & utter inhumanity lie? We don’t need to carefully parse its precise placement in order to understand that what this administration is doing has crossed it, is utterly reprehensible, and will be condemned by history open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...