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Ghost of Kyiv

@samvydav24.bsky.social
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Ukrainian-American focused on the War in Ukraine until this terrible conflict's conclusion. Fundraising for Amicus Ukraine NGO.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
it's actually quite striking to me how much the illiberals are starting to argue, quite directly, "we want a fragmented chaos on our frontier, so we can dominate it more easily" feels like decadent roman empire frontier management tbh here's one about canada:
defenseanalyses.org
The Centrifugal Strategy
Fragmentatation as strategy in the northern Monroe Doctrine.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
10/7 didn't do the trick and create a Palestinian paradise so maybe a little bit MORE terrorism is going to get it done? Violent insurrection is one of the least effective tools for social change in history. Especially in the modern world.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/09/2026
Feel like we don't talk enough about the 50,000 North Koreans fighting in Ukraine.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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Matt Dragon @mattdragon.com · 30/09/2026
🧵AI is already killing people by coaching children how to die by suicide, or how to best hide their suicidal ideations and self harm from their parents or other adults in their lives who could help them.
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AI won't kill us — At least not like that
Gen AI companies are laying the groundwork for escaping accountability. Don't let them.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My family emigrated from the Soviet Union as refugees from state sanctioned anti-Semitism. Sickle and hammer is a hate symbol, pass it on.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just imagine the amount of squealing, hands thrown up to the heavens, and shirts torn open in righteous indignation if Ukraine, even once (!) responded to Russia’s mass killings and barbaric bombardment of historical heritage by striking the Bolshoi Theatre or the Hermitage…
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ukrainian blood is on Irish hands for not stopping these war profiteers in their mix. Fucking shameful!
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m Ukrainian and I honestly not sure I have words for this hell anymore
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was obvious back in 2014 if people bothered to pay attention.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily, horrific reality in Ukraine.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two people have been killed in another attack on Kyiv, but there may be more deaths. Russia has hit the Central (or Stolichny) market. Many more are injured in this latest monstrous strike on civilians.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ask yourself again whether Trump has ever done anything contrary to russia's geopolitical interests.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Many such cases.
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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Never forget that Ukrainians are real people with real lives and not colors on a map or pawns in a game of geopolitical chess.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Printer goes brrrrr
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Whatever happens in November, very bad people are having a bad time right now, and that's not nothing.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's always the ones you most expect.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 20/09/2026
I honestly can’t think of a better metaphor than the Department of War inviting a guy who padded his boxing records with scrubs right until he got hospitalized by someone who could actually fight
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@DeptofWar
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Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2026
I have seen the future and it tells me that we’re gonna get about six hours to lib out on election night and then everyone will return to getting mad at the democrats
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Idiocracy was a documentary. Or at least some Nostradamus shit.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The creation of dense, mixed-income, multiracial neighborhoods should be a significant policy priority for the Left because that is the breeding ground of our social base.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 20/09/2026
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-Teddy Roosevelt
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
instead of talking to tankies, just block them mao apologia and straight moscow propaganda is not something we debate in civilised company
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is an interesting and sensible idea, but I have a hard time seeing nation states give up THAT much sovereignty. However desperate times call for aggressive measures. Glad this conversation is happening.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin. (1/2)
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a great watch and goes into some really interesting and unexpected directions. youtu.be/SrWvxPMJBb4?...
youtu.be
Timothy Snyder: Hitler and Stalin Today: Class 5: What is Ukraine?
YouTube video by Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Israel is going down an extremely dark path, and this is just the latest example of that.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Same thing as 2020 and then they got bored I guess and wanted some more bullshit? People have memories of a goldfish apparently.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Now see when people talk like this I’m led to believe that their issue isn’t so much the committing of genocide (of which both Israel and China are guilty) and rather the presence of Jews. Also, a poor historical understanding of modern China.
In WHAT FUCKING WORLD are you equating Xi's China with fucking Israel? Absolute baby brained bullshit 1/2
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It is very telling that this is the argument for Israel only. I want Putin and Xi gone and for Russia and China to be democracies. But you don't hear people saying those countries, which are engaged in imperialism and oppression, should be erased from the map.
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China is not doing imperialism and you are mouth-drooling moron if you think otherwise.
Comparing the state of Israel, an apartheid project that's less than 100 years old to the Chinese State which has existed since BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN, this is rabidly racist bullshit
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Life is good. People are lovely. Around 20% everywhere are appalling human beings. Don’t be weak - they’re trying to wreck it for everyone.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This motherfucker is gonna destroy the east wing of the White House to get a fucking ballroom and the Kennedy Center because they wouldn't put his fucking name on it. An all time narcissist and egomaniac. Just a pure vindictive, pathetic, piece of shit.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The universe is what we (and all it's other inhabitanta) make of it.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Things are going great, thanks for asking!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs
Instagram post from Malala decked out in Eagles dear with text "Go birds!"
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If he is thwarted in his inevitable efforts to cheat in 2028 we need to be prepared for the very serious likelihood that he will attempt to steal, auction off, or destroy out of pure spite every public asset he can.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of those little tells in life that gives a window into a person's character/intelligence. If you say "the math is not mathing" I'm gonna assume you're an idiot.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don Jr having his wedding tab picked up by another Putiny oligarch is a timely reminder of the centrality of this story. It’s all as true today as it was a decade ago. Check out this video.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Give me something to believe in All these hands have got a hold of me Give me something to believe in As alive as you need me to be
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The dude's name is Kremlev. Fucking Kremlev!! The writers aren't even trying anymore.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Even it it's like 5% probability of being true (I think it's much higher), this seems like something we should be taking extremely fucking seriously. Leftist obsession with capital exploitation (while often legitimate) also creates massive blind spots.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So Jared and Witkoff go to Moscow and the next week Trump is blaming Ukraine for diesel prices? While Jared is blaming Ukraine for the continuation of the war? What a shocking development, but I am starting to sense a bit of a pattern here....
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pretty wild thing to say as armed gangs of white working class men, deputized by the federal government, hunt for minorities and immigrants in various American cities and often shoot anyone who stands in their way.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is your daily reminder that when Russia says they ‘want to solve ‘Ukrainian conflict’ faster’ they actually mean to faster subjugate Ukraine and make it Russia or - if Ukraine resists too much - to kill Ukrainians and erase Ukrainian cities, like they’ve done with Mariupol and Bakhmut.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The horrific reality of daily life in Ukraine.
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 11/09/2026
Sharing our stories instead of burying them is how a country heals. We are still healing.
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Ghost of Kyiv @samvydav24.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Not great Bob!
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