‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright Since Alina Sarnatska’s first play premiered a year ago, she has documented wartime Ukraine with unflinching frankness

‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Bit of a process’ but India will give up Russian oil, Trump claims US president says Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, has given him an assurance; EU to work on G7 leaders about Russian assets. What we know on day 1,331

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Bit of a process’ but India will give up Russian oil, Trump claims

I don't think we give Putin enough credit for his absolute genius at destabilising the west.

Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics. • Minnesota Reformer Cervical cancer prevention falls at the intersection of three cultural issues facing strong political opposition — broad access to low-cost or free reproductive health care, access to vaccines for chi...

‘Cervical cancer could be eradicated, experts say. But not with Medicaid cuts and anti-vax politics.’

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UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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Great……😑🤬 #Pinks

🇺🇦⚓️ Odesa’s mayor Trukhanov can no longer hold his position after his citizenship was annulled.

The move has divided public opinion: while many Ukrainians welcomed it as long overdue, others questioned its legal basis.

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Pentagon beat reporters have been handing in their press passes all day long today. It is one of the most striking examples of news media solidarity we've seen this year.

Gavin Newsom calls for congressional investigation into GOP chat messages The California governor’s formal request to the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to open an investigation comes a day after POLITICO's bombshell report revealed explicit messages f...

Gavin Newsom calls for a congressional investigation into GOP groups after leaked messages exposed antisemitic and racist comments in a Young Republicans group chat.

Sad!

The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.

www.thedailypoliticususa.com Cleveland Throws a Dance Party on a Bridge In Support Of Portland

Cleveland Throws a Dance Party on a Bridge In Support Of Portland

Yeh I mean it doesn't seem like they are embarrassed by this stuff.

A wall showing a collage of 56 assigned Pentagon reporters. They are now handing given up their accreditation as they have refused to sign up to the Pentagon’s new press policy which restricts a free press and attacks the First Amendment.

Decades of experience. And every single one now handing their press pass in.

Another step towards the authoritarian state.

(📸 Mike Brest)

Replaying the Second World War Oleksa Drachewych argues that Russia's instrumentalization of its memory of WWII has played a significant role in leading Russian forces to commit similar atrocities in its war against Ukraine. This c...

My forthcoming book, Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, has a Google books page. Hope to have a link to order and more soon: books.google.ca/books/about/...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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❗️80% of components for 🇷🇺Russian drones are manufactured in 🇨🇳China – senior NATO official

"New geopolitical realities have exposed Europe’s effort to build a rules-based world in its own image as contingent on American hard power. If the ideals of democracy and freedom are to endure, Europeans must now focus on protecting their continent". neweasterneurope.eu/2025/10/13/f...

A masked armed agent points a pepper gun at protestors. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A fed Pokice officer wearing a gas masks is surrounded by smoke and it’ll about to throw a tear gas cannister. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

Around 20 masked armed agents are seen with guns drawn, surrounded by smoke, about to advance on local residents. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A local resident is seen being knelt on and cuffed in the background as two armed Police with automatic weapons are seen standing in the foreground. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one.

Fascism.

📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Graphic showing infection rates in Kyiv city for 2025's 41st week

A positive COVID test

🦠 The Kyiv Center for Disease Control & Prevention warns that flu & COVID infections are on a 6,6% rise compared to last week, with 10102 infections recorded. It advises people to avoid crowds, follow hygiene rules & get vaccinated if possible.

On the left, the figures. On the right, yours truly 🫡🤒

Syria’s Stolen Children Under the Assad regime, hundreds of Syrian children were hidden in orphanages to extort their parents. Families still have few answers from the new government or the international charity that kept it...

When Assad’s security state collapsed, locked doors opened, spilling decades of secrets.

Among them: 100s of stolen children, hidden in orphanages & used to blackmail parents. We’ve done the deepest dive yet into this cruel system. Here’s what we found 🧵

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The Kremlin’s New Contractors Inside Russia’s Market for Political Warfare

The Social Design Agency (SDA) is the Kremlin's new social engineering contractor, replacing Prigozhin's IRA. SDA is deeply tied to the Presidential Administration and runs ops like "Doppelganger" news counterfeiting. By @shekhovtsov.substack.com
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🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 Sikorski: Europe should be prepared for strikes by the occupying country Russia deep into the region. Refusing to create defense systems such as the "drone wall" is an irresponsible step. Europeans should prepare to support Ukraine for at least another three years.

Day 1330 of Russia's war. Remember Putin's aims were to take Kyiv, install a puppet "president", take all Ukraine's ports, energy fields, and leave a rump 'state' next to Poland.

How well and bravely Ukraine has fought. We MUST see this through to a just peace.
Here's today's🧵

🤬 Kharkiv under attack by KABs. Severe fires in the city and partial power outage

Susan Griffin, a Leading Voice of Ecofeminism, Is Dead at 82

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

"Godsend" or "concentration camp"? A lucrative ICE deal divides a Colorado town. Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

Brutal cruelty against Crimean Tatar mother and her family in Russia’s witch hunt for ‘Ukrainian spies’ Niyara Ersmambetova is one of an ever-increasing number of women on occupied territory whom Russia has abducted and accused of secret ‘treason’ charges

Brutal cruelty against Crimean Tatar mother and her family in Russia’s witch hunt for ‘Ukrainian spies’
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