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Joakim Scherp

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Historian 🇸🇪, but mostly amplifying what news stories I think need amplification

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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 23h
Meanwhile in Russia: Alexei Naumov, expert for the Russian Council on International Affairs, argued that might is right and nothing else matters in global politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ETJ...
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Alexei Naumov argues that might is right
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 22h
At the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns, a CNN investigation has found. youtube.com/watch?v=qJcw...
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Kushner’s company has big stake in firm with ties to Israeli military
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 22h
Russia plans to send about 120,000 conscripts into compulsory military service between October and December, while again promising they will not be sent to fight in Ukraine — despite Moscow having made similar assurances before and later admitting conscripts had in fact been deployed.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"No one was hurt": over 100 children sheltered as a Russian drone hit their Kyiv school The 1 October strike damaged the facade and sparked a fire, police said. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Russia hit a Kyiv school while its children were hiding in a shelter. A Russian drone struck the building and started a fire. Russia is the aggressor. A school is a civilian object. Children should be worrying about lessons, not Russian drones.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
58 deaths. Outrageous. Should never happen in America.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interestingly this mass surrender of russians includes officers, drone operators and artillery guys. Meaning Ukraine pushed through to russian rare areas. One time cauldron calls were actually correct.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Photos of the aftermath of a horrible Russian attack on a specialized children’s home in Sumy, where two people died: a 16-year-old girl and an elderly woman.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 27/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: Ukraine delivered about 4 tons of food to temporarily occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region using drones. The aid was delivered to 100 locations for residents, despite Russian forces reportedly shooting down aid drones and confiscating food.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ukraine’s ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets says Ukraine offered a brief ceasefire to evacuate Oleshky, Russia refused. He calls it “total ineffectiveness” of international bodies and says Oleshky was raised at UNGA in New York.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Immediately following the “election,” Putin started applying harsher policies. He no longer hides the fact that he does not care about the Russian people, while Russians are increasingly expressing quiet dissatisfaction - although this still has not turned into protests⤵️
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 26/09/2026
🚨 Russia has denied the UN and other humanitarian groups safe access to occupied Oleshky and Hola Prystan, where civilians face food and medicine shortages, UN officials said. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 26/09/2026
💔 Russian forces hit house in Zaporizhzhia, killing mother and grandmother of three-year-old child
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Russian forces hit house in Zaporizhzhia, killing mother and grandmother of three-year-old child – photo
Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia on the morning of 26 September, destroying a house and killing two women identified as a three-year-old child's mother and grandmother.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework.
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Power Up Ukraine @powerupukraine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DELA om du stöttar Ukraina! Efter 50 resor och 5 vintrar har vi nu förberett oss mer än någonsin inför kommande vinter. Här kommer senaste reseskildringen och tacket för all er support! Trots detta så ökar vi nu takten igen! Swisha för ännu mer Power Up Ukraine! 123 169 24 17
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 25/09/2026
💔 A drone has hit a high-rise residential building in the Pecherskyi district of the city of Kyiv. A 14-year-old boy was killed and at least seven residents injured in the attack. 📷: National Police of Ukraine
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤬 Russia attacked Zaporizhzhia: a medical center and ambulances were damaged A garage cooperative, transport and non-residential buildings were damaged in the city, and windows were broken in a residential building.
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Jane Lytvynenko @janelytv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Oleshky, a town on Russian-occupied territory, residents are starving. There are no shops. A husband and wife returning with bags of food from another town were killed by a drone. Children are malnourished. The Russians are imposing a "full blocade," Ukraine says. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Residents eating garden weeds in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israel's Election Committee disqualified all Arab parties today from running in the Knesset elections. I expect the decision to be over ruled by the Supreme Court. Still, shameful vote. "only democracy in the middle east"
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‼️ A Russian ballistic missile struck near a maternity hospital in Kyiv’s Podil district. Windows were blown out and part of the maternity hospital’s facade was damaged. A nearby clinical diagnostic center was also damaged. One person was killed in the parking area near the medical facility.
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A maternity hospital. While the world discusses negotiations and peace, Russia continues sending ballistic missiles into the Ukrainian capital.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 23/09/2026
At least 2 killed and 25 injured. russia deliberately struck the capital during rush hour — when parents were taking children to school, Ukrainians were commuting to work, and the roads were packed with cars. This is a brutal tactic targeting civilians. You can help: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For God's sake, this is craven. The Russians have been trying to obliterate US companies in Ukraine repeatedly and with some success. The US government says nothing at all.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
The Oligarch who funded Don Jr.'s wedding is deeply linked to Russia's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Trump is doing deals with one of Putin’s closest allies just days after signing the Republican Russia sanctions bill into law, which created fake sanctions while simultaneously allowing Trump to do more unilateral tariffs and cut ties with our biggest trading partners.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A 45-year-old woman was killed instantly, emergency workers later retrieved her body from the rubble. Her 13-year-old son was rushed to the hospital in critical condition with severe burns.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In Kharkiv Region a woman was killed, and her 13-year-old son critically injured in another russian attack on Lozova community‼️ ​A Russian drone struck a private home in the village of Katerynivka, completely destroying the residence while people were inside and triggering a fire.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 21/09/2026
Western European countries such as Belgium are just as threatened by Russia as the Baltic states, says @keirgiles.bsky.social: 'It is more logical for Putin to go after soft targets behind the front-line states'.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
💔🇺🇦 Another child who was seriously injured yesterday during an enemy attack in the Kyiv region died in the hospital.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As the security situation grows more tense in Europe, transferring Russia’s frozen assets to Ukraine would be the best move to increase our security
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#OTD in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant all adult women the right to vote in national parliamentary elections. The first election held after this milestone was in November 1893--an incredible 82% of registered female voters voted. #WomensSuffrage
This image shows a bronze bas-relief detail from the Kate Sheppard National Memorial located on Oxford Terrace in Christchurch, New Zealand. A tribute to New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, depicting prominent campaigners. From left to right, the main figures featured in the sculpture are Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia, Amey Daldy, Kate Sheppard (center next to a wheelbarrow of suffrage petitions), Ada Wells, Harriet Morison, and Helen Nicol. The monument honors the landmark 1893 Electoral Act, signed on 19 September 1893, which made New Zealand the first self-governing country in the world where women won the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026
Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In Kharkiv Region 2 people were killed in russian drone attack. ​Late on the evening of September 18, russians targeted the town of Balakliia with attack drones. One of the strikes destroyed a private residential home, trapping an elderly couple: a 74-year-old man and a 71-year-old
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The UN has accused a UN permanent security member of committed widespread sexual violence in its war the UN decalred illegal. You'd think the US Party of "family values" would be on the side of the victims.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🤬🤬A russian drone just hit the Amstor shopping center in Zaporizhzhia, — local media
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember the Russian ship that fired flares at a Danish helicopter, nearly hitting it? The commander was awarded a medal "For Combat Merit" yesterday. With firm NATO responses lacking and Russians receiving medals for provocations, expect a lot more provocations to happen.
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your early Tuesday morning when you’re a Ukrainian kid : sheltering in bathtub because Russian drones are attacking your city. Stillshot from video by : irina_anatolevna4667/threads
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🇺🇦😎 The Third Corps launched the offensive operation "Vivaldi" in the north of Donetsk region. The corps units, in the information silence mode, eliminated the enemy's infiltration centers and cleared 75 km², and deoccupied another 10 km².
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
More political gameplay over tragic deaths by RFKJr as the CDC abruptly change how death information is counted and continue to avoid fully acknowledging the 3 recent fatalities of people infected with measles as being due to having the infection. Measles is preventable - please do get a vaccine
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Trump administration changes how it counts measles deaths amid Pennsylvania outbreak
CDC announces changes to how it reports measles deaths as Pennsylvania continues to confirm more cases
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 13/09/2026
🚨 Russian troops released FPV drone footage proudly hunting a civilian passenger bus in Kherson.
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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 13/09/2026
Ukraine war briefing: Nine killed and dozens wounded in Russian strikes as Kyiv braces for harsh winter #Ukraine
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Ukraine war briefing: Nine killed and dozens wounded in Russian strikes as Kyiv braces for harsh winter
Zelenskyy says ‘Russia wants to kill the Ukrainian economy’ as Moscow steps up attacks on infrastructure.
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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A missile just crashed into the building I was sleeping in. Built up residential complex intentionally attacked in Odesa. The building is still on fire. Barbaric terrorism.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The women's revolution in Myanmar goes largely unremarked upon in the legacy media, but these young women struck a decisive blow against the junta yesterday. They have built a world in the mountains where they could be free in a way the state there would never have allowed them to be.
Two young women in woodland fatigues, one wears a set of PV goggles and the other is sitting next to her watching a screen.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 11/09/2026
🇪🇺 EU ambassadors fail to extend sanctions against Russia due to opposition from Slovakia and France
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EU ambassadors fail to extend sanctions against Russia due to opposition from Slovakia and France
EU ambassadors have failed to extend sanctions against Russia as Slovakia and France seek to delist oligarchs Usmanov and Fridman, RFE/RL reports.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The failure to understand the limits of Russian military power before the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine was until that time the greatest failure in modern strategic analysis. The failure to understand the limits of US military power since February 2026 might be worse.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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