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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3h
🤯 Algerian military transport aircraft are routinely flying through NATO airspace, including over Poland, to deliver equipment to Russia. united24media.com/world/russia...
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Russia’s Algeria Military Air Bridge Runs Straight Through NATO Airspace
Algeria's military air bridge to Russia, utilizing NATO airspace, highlights ongoing defense ties and the transport of equipment despite geopolitical tensions.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 3h
Alberta will not be the weak link that causes a breakup of Canada. Alberta will not give in to separatists and their American enablers. Alberta will come out and vote to stay in Canada and we’ll solve our disagreements without foreign interference. youtu.be/YIN9c-_qfO8
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The campaigns trying to sway the Alberta separation vote
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3h
“Mark has been allowed to continue in the form he was in when he was 20, for his entire adult life, and the movie depicts how sad this is” Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social about Zuckerberg, tech and The Social Reckoning www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...
‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen (pictured in a green dress, in the middle of a black and white patterned floor, staring at the camera with her arms crossed) on Zuckerberg and The Social Reckoning
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Poetry #Art #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Search and rescue operations have been completed at the sites of yesterday’s russian aerial bomb strikes on a sewing workshop and a residential area in Kharkiv. 6 people were killed and 59 others injured, including 3 children‼️ Russian terrorists must be stopped!
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National Organization for Women @nationalnow.bsky.social · 14h
See you on October 8th!
See you on October 8th!
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17h
The grifters keep grifting. Chris LaCivita and James Blair, who run Trump’s midterm ad push, were paid hundreds of thousands by Republika Srpska’s government, a Putin ally that spends heavily to court Trump for election advice. Vote out every single Republican. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 16h
"The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit ... claims that the Ste. Genevieve County Jail and ICE have violated the First Amendment rights of immigrant detainees by preventing Catholic priests from delivering communion, hearing confessions and celebrating Mass." fox2now.com/news/missour...
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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues ICE officials over blocked religious services
The Archdiocese of St. Louis has filed a lawsuit against Ste. Genevieve County officials and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership over alleged restrictions on Catholic religiou…
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 16h
The cities of Kremenchuk and Dnipro were also hit. Zircon missiles flew to Kremenchuk, two explosions heard. Dnipro may have suffered about 6 strikes from ballistics.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/10/2026
We're training 100,000 Americans to defeat Trump's next coup attempt before, during, and after the midterms. Join us:
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**Hands Off Our Vote** is Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, every ballot is counted, and the results are honored. **By signing up you’ll become a part of the biggest election protection program in Indivisible’s history. And even if the elections are secure where you live, you can help protect at-risk voters in targeted areas during rapid-response moments and be a trusted messenger against the flood of disinformation.** We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026. Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, blocking vote-counting, even trying to ban states from encouraging people to vote – it’s going to be no-holds-barred from them this year as they try desperately to block the free and fair elections. But we’re going to be ready for whatever dirty tricks they try. **And we’re going to do it with community power and preparation, not panic.** You'll get updates on threats to our voting rights and learn how to counter them, and be ready to mobilize in defense of the vote, both in your area and nationally. We have tremendous power to protect our elections in 2026. **Sign up here to get started and join the Hands Off Our Vote movement.** **If you're in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, or Texas, sign up [here](https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/916480) as well.**
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From the beginning of the war in Iran, I've warned one reason that Trump wants such a war is to provoke a terrorist attack at home. History is full of leaders - from Putin in Russia to Orban in Hungary - who have used foreign wars and real or manufactured threats to expand their authority.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Anni @anni-a.bsky.social · 15h
Dropped off my mail-in ballot today... Alberta belongs in Canada. ✊🏼🇨🇦
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 22h
And it begins, just as it did with Ukraine.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine staying in your job when you're 1,683 days late in delivering results! Then imagine doing that while also killing 600,000 of your own citizens (or foreign recruits) and permanently injuring a million more. Welcome to the world of Putin. Here's the daily🧵for Day 1686
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 16h
Seems a lot worse than anything that happened in the "Twitter Files" — which was essentially nothing.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 22h
Danielle Smith Says She Knew Nothing of UCP Official's Meeting With U.S. Strategists on Alberta Separation I find that hard to believe. 🤬 Tha f**€k eh??!!🤬 www.culturealberta.com/articles/dan...
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Sylvain GRANDSERRE @sylvaingrandserre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On a des nouvelles de Viktor Orban, le grand ami de Marine Le Pen, resté au pouvoir durant 16 ans où la corruption a régné : contrats surfacturés, emplois fictifs, vie luxueuse, détournement de fonds, etc., tout ça pour un total équivalant à 10% du PIB de la Hongrie ! Euh, qui veut ça à l'Élysée ?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This week, DOJ fired a prosecutor who tried to hold an ICE agent accountable for shooting an unarmed man.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 21h
Citizen Lab director @rondeibert.bsky.social tells @theglobeandmail.com how Canada’s lawful access bill “will make it impossible for a large number of invaluable privacy-preserving tools” to operate in the country.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 21h
Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade censorship, says it will leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes in its current form.
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Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access bill
Psiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country
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Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes) @baltictakes.com · 06/10/2026
August Hanning was head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service under Gerhard Schröder during the period in which Berlin got hooked on Russian energy, with Hanning backing Nord Stream 1. Short 🧵.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 06/10/2026
Two people were killed when a Russian drone struck Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences.   The Kremlin’s propaganda response?   Compare the Academy to Nazi institutions and portray its scientists as extremists.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“47 per cent of Albertans remain on the brink of insolvency, meaning they are $200 or less away from not being able to cover their monthly bills, the highest proportion in the country.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Almost half of Albertans turning to side hustles amid financial, AI job concerns: MNP report | CBC News
A report from consumer insolvency firm MNP Ltd. digs into the financial insecurities of Albertans and finds concerns ranging from the impact of AI on the job market to a lack of savings in case of an ...
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 06/10/2026
At the Valdai conference, Putin warned Europe about the dangers of what he called European ‘escalation’. On the same day, Russian drones struck residential buildings in Kyiv and several major bridges while civilian traffic was moving across them.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 06/10/2026
🔴 Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia have locked down Russian border crossings following a rare bacterial lab leak in Siberia. Authorities established emergency quarantine checkpoints and halted transit to prevent the Irkutsk facility outbreak from spreading.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 06/10/2026
Russia’s information operations don’t always look like propaganda. Sometimes they look like a local journalist, an independent expert, or an ordinary article in a familiar outlet. Except the journalist never existed.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 7 stages of Western "concern" 1 This is concerning 2 This is increasingly concerning 3 We are now deeply concerned 4 We are now gravely concerned 5 There will be consequences 6 We demand answers 7 It is important not to escalate the situation
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 06/10/2026
Discovery of 11 bodies in Johannesburg exposes scale of violence against women
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Discovery of 11 bodies in Johannesburg exposes scale of violence against women
Since July, the bodies of women found either naked or half-naked and brutally beaten have been discovered on the outskirts of the South African capital. Although the theory of a serial predator has faded, the grim reality of widespread daily violence against women in the country has become undeniable.
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 06/10/2026
🚨The government is looking for UK alternatives to Palantir to run the NHS data platform, the FT reports. This follows a week of protests in 40+ places across England and a rally of hundreds at Palantir's London HQ. Help keep the pressue up: nopalantirinthenhs.com
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Police have arrested the former head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency, August Hanning, on suspicion of espionage" www.dw.com/en/germanys-...
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Germany's ex-spy chief arrested for espionage, disclosing state secrets and attempted treason
August Hanning, the man who once led Germany's spy service, is now under investigation for passing on state secrets.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eileen Blair, from South Shields, UK, was believed to have had a large influence on her husband George Orwell's writing. 'Nineteen Eighty-Four's title and idea is thought to be inspired by one of her poems - 'End of the Century, 1984' #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman, head and shoulders, with wavy shortish dark hair and wearing a blouseBook cover, Penguin Edition of Orwell's '1984' in ornage and cream with a penguin publisher's motif
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Russia is waging a shadow war against us," BND President Martin Jäger summarized on Monday. Yet at the same time, he and his colleagues must acknowledge that public awareness of this has not grown to the same extent. Quite the opposite: the pro-Russian AfD is stronger than ever.
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BND-Chef Jäger: Russland führt Schattenkrieg gegen Deutschland
Man dürfe nicht naiv gegenüber Russland sein, sagen die Präsidenten der Nachrichtendienste einhellig. Aber hört die Bevölkerung ihre Botschaft?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Paul Chapman @poulchapman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Private Equity owns 1 out of every 8 apartments in America. Double the amount from just 5 years ago. This neo-feudalism is a massive problem for America. truthout.org/articles/pri...
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Private Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021
Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Christi Belcourt, Métis visual artist who creates paintings inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork #UnlockingWomensart
Painting with a symmetrical design featuring flowering plants with different coloured blossoms against a black background
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👀 In Aug, Fernando Cerimedo—a far right Latin American troll farm operator & ally of Brad Parscale & Roger Stone—was arrested in Bolivia for attempted femicide. But in Sept, the Trump admin accused the *prosecutor* of bribery, triggering his arrest in Bolivia in what some call US interference. 1/
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Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders
Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of ...
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StoriesbySammi🦋 @storiesbysammi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
→ Send a message to your members of Congress, it's still received and on the record even though they're out of session: action.outdooralliance.org/a/gsenm-bear...
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Protect Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments!
Tell lawmakers what you think of the administration stripping protections from 3 million acres of public land.
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Snagz @snagzsong.com · 05/10/2026
👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Absolutely the best writer to save our planet. While everything burns - she calls out the horrible actions P2025 called out - and it's happening NOW - which little or zero coverage. Except that of this hero - Sammi is amazing (give her a follow- with my highest endorsement!)
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At OSCE Human Dimension Conference in Warsaw, Georgian human rights defender Baia Pataraia stood silently behind the Georgian delegation with the "Free all Georgian political prisoners!" banner just as the delegation representative was having a word. 📷 Baia Pataraia Facebook
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We stay in Kyiv.” Embassies in Kyiv are responding to Russia’s latest threat by declaring their intention to remain in the Ukrainian capital
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The New Voice of Ukraine @english.nv.ua · 05/10/2026
🏔 Ukrainian war veterans with prosthetic legs climbed Nepal’s Mera Peak, reaching 6,476 meters. Christopher John Park-Greenwood and Roman “Hava” Havryliak dedicated the ascent to all Ukrainian defenders 📸: Second Wind
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.
Medieval peasants working the fields in front of a walled city. Their overseer rides a horse; his head has been replaced with a robotic camera. From all sides, gory, anatomical eyeballs intrude upon the scene, each one with a different colored iris.
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natchoms.bsky.social @natchoms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Trump wants control of South America. If Bolsonaro Jr wins in Brazil, that could become a reality | Steve Bloomfield
The US president has taken credit for far-right victories across Latin America, but those wins have had more to do with fears of gang crime than his meddling, says journalist Steve Bloomfield
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natchoms.bsky.social @natchoms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The evangelical pastors on Ukraine’s frontlines
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New analysis from @benmshultz.net has found 50 MEPs—46 of them women—are included on deepfake sexual abuse websites. "This translates to roughly one in six women MEPs," the findings say, expanding on the 150 national MPs found on the sites last month Findings: agoradigital.de/wp-content/u...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We create accounts with artificial intelligence that have a certain volume, a certain credibility, to use them afterwards in a defined strategy," Worked for: Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil Javier Milei in Argentina Nasry Asfura in Honduras Rodrigo Paz in Bolivia
Cerimedo told Infobae on 10 May 2023 that his team had created close to 50,000 fake accounts "just for Argentina". "We create accounts with artificial intelligence that have a certain volume, a certain credibility, to use them afterwards in a defined strategy," he said. He said his team had also "intervened with accounts that made comments" during Mauricio Macri's 2019 campaign. Infobae ran the interview under the headline: "We have some 50,000 artificially created accounts to generate content and influence the conversation on social media."
Eduardo Bolsonaro travelled to Buenos Aires in October 2022, between the two rounds of Brazil's presidential election, on a trip organised by Cerimedo's team, and recorded videos there for his father's campaign, Agência Pública reported. Eduardo's re-election campaign paid R$3,900 to Giovanni Larosa, a Cerimedo employee and La Derecha Diario correspondent, for propaganda work. On 4 November 2022, five days after Jair Bolsonaro lost, Cerimedo broadcast a livestream titled "Brazil Was Stolen" to more than 400,000 viewers. The hashtag #BrazilWasStolen went viral the same day, boosted by a cluster of newly created accounts, the Progressive International reported. Members of the plot to stop Lula taking office later cited Cerimedo's claims as evidence the election had been stolen.
Carlos Torres, the La Paz departmental prosecutor, said a search on 20 August 2026 of a property linked to Cerimedo found "a mini bot farm". Juan Santana, a Chilean opposition deputy, has asked Chile's electoral service whether Numen SpA, Cerimedo's Chilean company, appears in any campaign spending report, El Ciudadano reported. Gustavo Petro, Colombia's former president, has alleged that Cerimedo ran about two million fake profiles in Colombia's June 2026 presidential vote.
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Association Pour l'Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre ! @pourlukraine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ces négociations effrénées ne mettront pas fin aux agissements belliqueux de la Russie. Pour un empire prédateur centré sur Moscou, toute concession n'est qu'un encouragement. @nicolastenzer.bsky.social @nathalieloiseau.bsky.social @deskrussie.bsky.social @claudemalhuret.bsky.social
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What are russians killing and dying for in Ukraine?
moscow is losing hundreds of thousands of men for slivers of Ukrainian land. Territory alone cannot explain what the marauding army of russian war criminals is killing and dying for.
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