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‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months

Every October 6th I will be remembering the courage of this woman, Вікторія Володимирівна Рощина, who gave her life to support human rights in Ukraine. She would have been 29 this year.

#roshchyna #russia #ukraine #humanrights #women #democracy

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured.

She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory 🗃️ #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2
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Looking forward to reports of truckers being asked about English literature.

Was the handbrake on?!

‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final months

Every October 6th I will be remembering the courage of this woman, Вікторія Володимирівна Рощина, who gave her life to support human rights in Ukraine. She would have been 29 this year.

#roshchyna #russia #ukraine #humanrights #women #democracy

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Zelenskyy asking Trump, "Why can't you wear a black suit? Do you own a black suit?"

The corruption is astonishing. The opportunities for graft are endless.

@warren.senate.gov and I are demanding answers.

Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldview

I can make myself a sandwich, thanks. Especially if Candace Owens, who believes the Moon landings were faked, is offering to make it.
#womanosphere #feminism #democracy
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

This article about the far right ideologies swirling around the Trump White House is interesting.
However, it doesn't consider the future roles of China and Russia in a dystopian new world (dis)order. Who benefits from USA collapse?
#tariffs #ai #musk #greta #usa
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I didn't choose the bug life - the bug life chose me 😏🦗❤️ ...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

—Louis Brandeis

JUST A REMINDER…👇

Are you paying ATTENTION, yet?!

To be honest, given our current economic situation, I have no problem with self-indulgent rich women paying millions, while ordinary Americans struggle to feed their families, pretending to go into "space." I do question, however, the value of their return.

Irony so ironic it's iconic.

This UK paper's date, 1st June 2024 seems so long ago now.

#trump #fascism #tariffs #democracy #resistance

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

How many days until DOGE announces it is laying off three Supreme Court justices?

The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds

You're right! Just had a look through some of my other shots and that's much more of a hover fly's face. My apologies!

Enjoyed seeing this Bee Fly in the woods this morning, extracting nectar with its impressive proboscis. And always a delight to see them hover in patches of sunlight.

#photography #naturephotography #Sunday

Krasnov Day

So, amidst the chaos, one thing worth living for is when the truth eventually comes out about whether Trump is kompromised by Putin (at least).
It will make for a hell of a story, film, streaming series, and set of new euphemisms concerning duplicity and treasonous conduct.
#tariffs

A common idea then!

Surprise, surprise.
readsludge.com/2025/04/07/m...

Dump The Trump Slump sounds like a slogan to me.
#tariffs #tradewar

What are the odds only the women who vote for the Dems end up being disenfranchised?
#HandsOffHerVote #save

That New York Mafia background coming up trumps again.

There's also tanking the market, buy low, reset tariffs, sell high. Manipulating the market through insider trading used to be a crime, but now, who knows?

#tariffs #economy

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

End-Time Believers See Prophecies Fulfilled in Iraq Some say aspects of a possible U.S. war against that country were foretold in the Bible. Others contend such claims distort Scripture.

Many US evangelicals supported Bush 2's Iraq War, seeing it as related to Revelations, End Times, JC's Return, The Rapture and so on (see LA T).
Would there be the same drive for a war against Iran? Mike Johnson unlikely to object!
Useful diversion for Trump too...

www.latimes.com/archives/la-...