Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide. 15455112217
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” These are the words of the president of the United States, today. The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment. snyder.substack.com/p/the-presid...snyder.substack.comThe president speaks genocideThe words, the law, the future 12044741686
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 10/01/2026We asked legal experts what ICE agents can and can’t do, and about the rights of anyone who is approached by ICE or who witnesses an encounter.bit.lyWhat ICE agents can and can’t do — and what legal rights the public has during encountersOur FAQ on warrants, masks and what legal observers can document. 1313891
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦castawayfarm.bsky.social @castawayfarm.bsky.social · 10/01/2026It feels like a good time to refresh this one. Know and recognize that not all warrants are the same and many of them do NOT grant legal authority to enter your home no matter what the masked gunman says. bsky.app/profile/cast... 114762
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 11/01/2026oh kill the abundance of hate don’t search for freedom in the states too many soldiers around too many children in the groundyoutu.beThe IconoclastYouTube video by Anna von Hausswolff - Topic 021
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Forcing coal plants across the country to stay open is a direct attack on affordability, on our health, and on the climate. Absolutely disgusting. And I say this as someone who grew up in Kentucky: the coal industry causes far, far more harm than good.nytimes.comTrump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry 010
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 20/12/2025In Washington, we're proud of the Climate Commitment Act. "Not only are these investments helping cut climate pollution, which is obviously very important, as we’re seeing a lot of climate impacts in Washington right now, but a lot of these are also helping lower everyday cost of living for folks.”heraldnet.comEditorial: Climate Commitment Act a two-fer for Washington | HeraldNet.comIts emissions auctions put price on carbon and use that revenue for climate investments. 021
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Lauren said it best: we're getting coal for Christmas. This is just so incredibly stupid. There's not even coal supply or demand. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comDOE orders WA coal plant to continue operating despite state banA state law requires Washington utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity beginning next year. 21610
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Look to the states for continued leadership on the climate crisis. As @autumngales.bsky.social @climatesolutions.org puts it, “States have always been the incubators for important climate policy work,” and Trump's efforts to thwart state action are likely to fail. @grist.orggrist.orgWhy Trump can't stop states from fighting climate changeThe United States has never really cared much about tackling climate change, at least at the federal level. Up until the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA — which handed out billi... 193
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/03/2025You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 788121364405
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/03/2025every person involved in this needs to be in prison 11265948415762
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Disgusting that such an ignorant person has such power. To actually learn about the regime of violence Russia has deployed in occupied Ukraine, watch this documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHld...youtube.comУЗНИКИ. Часть 1: СудьбыYouTube video by Activatica (Активатика) 130
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The Czechoslovak newspaper Vecerni Prah, 6 days after the Soviet invasion in 1968, published 10 commandments: “When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.”wagingnonviolence.orgResistance is alive and well in the United StatesProtests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic. 187
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Brian Heywood right nowmedia.tenor.coma bald man is laying on the floor with his hand on his chin .ALT: a bald man is laying on the floor with his hand on his chin . 040
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Big win for efforts to fight climate change today as Judge Sandra Widlan ruled that Initiative 2066 was unconstitutional, a measure that would have locked us into a dirty methane gas future. While Trump goes backward on climate, Washington State is going www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comWA’s natural gas initiative unconstitutional, King County judge rulesWashington voters in November narrowly approved Initiative 2066 to protect access to natural gas. Here's what to know about a judge's ruling on its constitutionality. 220037
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The King County Superior Court just ruled that Initiative 2066 is unconstitutional! Huge win for clean energy and Washington families.climatesolutions.orgI-2066 ruled unconstitutional: a win for Washington families | Climate SolutionsToday, a King County Superior Court judge ruled that controversial initiative 2066 violates several provisions of the the Washington State constitution. 0101
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 21/03/2025VICTORY!!!! BIAW and Brian Heywood's Initiative 2066, aiming to lock us into a future with methane gas, is being ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL in a verbal ruling in King County Superior Court! #waleg #waelex 312418
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The deeper you dig, the more connections in the web of autocracy, inc you can find.substack.comOn Meeting Putin: Alliances Great and Small19 March 2025 000
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 18/03/2025"If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen." 0227
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 12/03/2025TIL I am religious! I am an adherent of the climate change religion! But alas the feds are driving a dagger in its heart. 020
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Congress approved the funding for Ukraine, just like Congress approved funding for so many other things Musk-Trump-Vance have halted. 161
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Great time for all US-Americans to send donations directly to Ukraine right now: u24.gov.uau24.gov.uaUNITED24 - The initiative of the President of UkraineUNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of... 161
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Let's be clear: the current US admin does not care about real peace. They do not care about Ukrainians. They do not care about people dying. They do not care about people being tortured. They care about looking like "strong" men. They care about buddying up to other authoritarians. 040
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 27/02/2025‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: the #Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...theguardian.com‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essayAs well as intense human suffering, three years of war have had a catastrophic environmental effect, killing wildlife, felling trees and increasing emissions 04122
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Those who decry the U.S.’s role in great power struggles (“NATO expansionism!”) are exhibiting their own imperial mindsets by deferring to the desires of another “great” power (Russia and its supposed “legitimate sphere of influence”) — completely ignoring the agency of smaller countries. 041
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 02/03/2025“Ukraine has long been located at the intersection of empires. And these empires have often collaborated to plunder the country’s resources, offering little or nothing in return. We can see this kind of predatory collaboration of imperial and neo-imperial regimes once again taking shape.”theconversation.comForeign powers have long profited from Ukrainian resources – Trump’s minerals grab is no exceptionWestern capitalists and Russian elites first began developing Ukrainian resources in the mid-19th century. 010
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...snyder.substack.comThe War Trump ChoosesThat wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason 12943221315
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/02/2025It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.kyivindependent.comEditorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t ZelenskyIt’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate... 31387432417
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Thursday was housework day in my house growing up. Traditionally, my dad did the vacuuming. But he had ear problems and the noise started to hurt his ear too bad. So every Thursday, he would get the family together to yell at me for a few hours in front of everyone for something I allegedly did. 1/x 1124
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 28/02/2025WAYS TO SUPPORT UKRAINE: u24.gov.ua www.razomforukraine.org savelife.in.ua/en/ Be mad and do something about it.u24.gov.uaUNITED24 - The initiative of the President of UkraineUNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of... 064
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I keep saying this: if you grew up under an abuser, you know exactly what this is and that no appeasement is possible. 643837773
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America. 283158684257
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression. 432160483768
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/02/2025The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press. 1172105483328
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2025The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”nytimes.comU.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the WorldHere are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails. 26735171968
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 28/02/2025my favorite genre is old ladies yelling at goons who are carrying out the orders of an autocratic state 0143
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 27/02/2025"While the world runs on oil, we cannot fight those who sell it without incurring economic pain." Also, (almost) EVERYONE SUCKS 161
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion. 🚀 Cities bombed 💔 Thousands of lives lost 🏠 Millions displaced Yet, Russian oil, gas, and #LNG still fund this war. We need full energy #sanctions & transparency in the EU #gas market. razomwestand.com/eu-once-agai... 03622
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/02/2025"i know you’re afraid of blood so we’ll write it with water the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just looked at it water that seeps through a shelled-out roof water that can replace tears" WHAT WAR IS Ostap Slyvynsky Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-issnyder.substack.comWHAT WAR ISA poem by Ostap Slyvynsky 221426270
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 21/02/20252 fucking headlines right next to each other 8035001516
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 22/02/2025This article is almost a year old, but my husband was at their presentation, told me about it, and it has been on our minds since. Who wants the war to end the most? Ukrainians. How can it end? By Russia getting TF out. Not by the US raiding it like a new colony, which is disgusting.ishlt.orgKyiv’s Heart Institute Keeps Transplanting Hearts Despite WarAmid persistent threat of missiles and an array of hazardous obstacles, the Heart Institute of the Ministry of Health in Kyiv has continued to provide heart transplants. Director Borys Todurov reporte... 0173
Leah Missik 🇺🇦 @autumngales.bsky.social · 22/02/2025“I don’t think that this ‘peace process’ is for Ukrainians’ sake. It is laughable that they pretend it is.” “I don’t think Trump gives a damn about Ukraine. And his so-called ‘deal’ about natural resources? It feels like we’re the ones expected to pay reparations instead of Russia. It’s insane.”theguardian.com‘Like a cruel auction’: what Ukrainians think of Trump’s peace talks with PutinUkrainians inside the country and abroad express their hopelessness, anger and defiance at negotiations between Washington and Moscow 033
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is. 20982672633
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15/02/2025Nobody wants this war to end more than Ukrainians do. It’s our homes that get attacked with drones every night. It’s our friends who get killed in battle. It’s our youth that’s been stolen by this war. But we understand that any compromise with Russia won’t be the end of the war.kyivindependent.comEditorial: America is folding. Europe, will you step up?The U.S. administration is ready to hand Russia a win in its brutal war against Ukraine. That’s the only conclusion we can make after following the news this week. If anyone held onto hopes that U.S.... 11437131
Reposted by Leah Missik 🇺🇦Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/02/2025Musk sure didn't like it when ProPublica got access to his taxpayer data though. Reminder DOGE isn't a real government entity and there's an actual organization designed to track govt efficiency. It's a data mining operation. 8478149