Felix Dwinger

February 7 — Traditional Saturday march on the 437th day of continuous protest.

📷 Levan Zazadze

#GeorgiaProtests

Please notice the flag of Sweden, because the regime lashed out at Sweden today. Protesters in Georgia always display flags of partner countries, and especially when they feature prominently in latest events / are targeted by the regime.

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🇬🇪🇪🇺The fight for Georgia’s freedom, democracy and European future goes on!
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@protest24.bsky.social

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism invoked following concerns about implementation of international human rights obligations by the Georgian authorities.

Among those investigations will be using chemical weapon against its own people.
Much appreciated @OSCE

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.

Rights groups warn SIDE arrest powers risk 'persecution and intimidation' - Buenos Aires Herald More than 20 NGOs said that the decree granting broad discretion to intelligence services could become ‘a tool for massive surveillance’

Largely unnoticed outside of Argentina, President Milei is planning a massive expansion of the intelligence service's powers – SIDE.

Among other things, agents would be allowed to arrest citizens.

I spoke with the Buenos Aires Herald about possible consequences and parallels to the country's past.

Trump is not a "mad king" and we shouldn't be calling him that. He didn't come to power because of inheritance or conquest, we as a country elected him. The "mad king" language leaves us off the hook when this is on us all, and we should own it.

Georgians continue to protest despite the snow and freezing cold, and all the repressive laws that now lead to criminal cases and imprisonment for protesting on the pavement.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 417

They don’t sleep so you can.

Ukrainian defenders are freezing on the front line tonight, staying awake and holding positions so cities behind them can keep living.

Our normal life exists only because someone is carrying the night for us. 🇺🇦

And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷

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I asked some protesters about their projects, hoping to find some funding for them, & they responded that it’s hard to think of projects when they have no money for basic food or transportation.

That’s where we’re at, while our partners STILL search for ways to “channel.”

#GeorgiaProtests Day 405

It's wild that the PM of a NATO member feels compelled to put out a statement like this vis-à-vis the US government.

First protest march of 2026 in Tbilisi.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 402

It’s freezing cold, and it’s snowing in Tbilisi. But protesters are still on Rustaveli on January 1st, some of them singing Georgian folk songs.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 4000

An article from December 1996 warns that Bulgaria has no chance of joining Europe and the euro would replace the lev only after the second coming of Christ. Brace yourselves, the euro replaces the lev tonight at midnight! 🤣(and, of course, Bulgaria did join the EU in 2007).

Saturday march has just started✊🏼
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#GeorgiaProtests
Under the huge Flag🇬🇪🫶🏻

Protesters on Rustaveli Avenue today, December 17. Georgian Dream adopted a new law that prohibits “blocking sidewalks.” Police officers are warning protesters to “free the pavement.”

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 385

Georgia continues to protest. Footage from yesterday’s march.

Day 381.

#GeorgiaProtests

A common hostile response to pointing out Ru isn't offering a settlement but demanding Ukr capitulation is to say Ukr should've taken the 2022 Istanbul "deal". Reminder: Ru demanded capitulation then too. "If Ukr had surrendered in 2022, Ru wouldn't be asking for surrender today" is a dumb retort

A new mural now stands at Kyiv’s children’s hospital.

It appeared at the children’s hospital Russia deliberately struck in July 2024.
Not as decoration — but as a reminder of who this war targets, and why protecting the sky matters.👇

Photos from yesterday's protest march.

#GeorgiaProtests
Day 379

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Die selbstbewusste Antwort auf die US-amerikanische "Warnung", dass Europa aufgrund der Migration die "zivilisatorische Auslöschung" drohe, liegt im Betonen zivilisatorischer Errungenschaften der Nachkriegsordnung, darunter der Genfer Konventionen, und des unersetzlichen Beitrag,... 🧵

“Putin is negotiating for what he doesn’t own. And Ukraine is not for sale,” — President Zelensky

Clear. Direct. Impossible to twist.

While the Kremlin tries to bargain with stolen land and stolen lives, Ukraine reminds the world of a simple truth:👇

“The regime is poisoning us!

We request an international investigation [into the use of a chemical weapon against peaceful protesters].”

#GeorgiaProtests Day 374

📷 Shushana Matsaberidze

Reminder: the deadline to apply to the conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective" is tomorrow!

The truly conspicuous part is that he does not end with 'Thank you for your attention to this matter!'