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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Most of the cruel, racist stereotypes now being propagated about Muslims and immigrants were originally crafted as antisemitic attacks on Jews. The language and sources are in some cases exactly the same. Prejudice against any minority endangers all minorities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot

Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

It's not voters fault. It's the fault of a media which deliberately spreads misinformation.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Ukraine must be saved,helped to defend itself" Mikhail Kasyanov,who served as Russian prime minister from 2000 to 2004,said that Ukraine is not guilty of the war Russia started,so it shouldn't make concessions.He also added that Putin is considered a war criminal in Europe&by European leaders 📹DW

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Incredible operation: The Ukrainian Security Service (SSU) attacked a Russian Kilo-class submarine in the Novorossiysk seaport using an underwater drone known as “Sub Sea Baby.” According to the official SSU statement, the submarine sustained critical damage.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

This.

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Steffen Lüdke @stluedke.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Soon, there will be twice as many rejoin than stay out voters in the UK. If Trump continues like this it might be very soon.

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Dietmar Pichler @dietmarpichler.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I had the pleasure to talk to journalist @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social about "Human Safari" in Kherson and her new awareness project regarding these acts of russian terror against civilians Follow my channel🔽 youtu.be/3BMiL4mTDws?...

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Dietmar Pichler speaks to Zarina Zabrisky, "Human Safari" in Kherson and her new awareness Project

YouTube video by Disinfo Resilience Network

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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. In the towns near Ukraine's frontline, Russian FPV drones hunt civilians, a new tactic called a "human safari". Yana, who lives in Kherson, regularly sees these drones and the damage they cause.

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Russia’s disturbing human ‘safaris’

Violating the laws of war, Russians have created a sick game of hunting civilians with FPV drones near the frontline. We take you behind the scenes, to the people most affected.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Another war crime by terrorist Russia. It deliberately killed two unarmed civilians and their dog with a drone strike while they were walking along a road carrying a white flag in the Kharkiv region. There were no military targets or positions anywhere nearby. Why? Just why?

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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 24/10/2025

And by the way, Melitopol IS Ukraine. We believe that Yana and other Mariupol citizens will be liberated eventually. For those who chose to live their lives as criminal slaves can’t suppress free people.

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Simon Crofts @simoncrofts.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The centre of Kherson being hit today with unguided & inaccurate multiple launch rockets designed to saturate an area. In this case the centre of a city full of civilians.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Horrific footage from this morning’s Russian attack on Kherson. Artillery shells exploding in a residential neighborhood.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Douglas Barrowman to the media: there was a mountain of evidence Douglas Barrowman to the court: he didn’t give evidence.

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🕯️Kherson farmer Oleksandr Hordiienko was killed by a russian drone. After the liberation of the right bank of the Kherson Oblast, he cleared hundreds of hectares of mines to revive the land. He shielded workers and harvested under EW, saying he had to “fight for every grain.”

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Simon Crofts @simoncrofts.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Interesting Channel 4 documentary on whether Trump is a Russian asset. The short answer is: Yes. But good to see a major channel bringing together the evidence. youtu.be/Zb6XxnULWlg?...

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What Are Trump’s Real Links To Russia? | Dispatches: Moscows’s Man in The White House? | C4 Docs

YouTube video by Channel 4 Documentaries

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

prescient (from 3 months ago)

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

2/ Consequently Ukrainians die, and we will only have to face an emboldened Putin and Xi down the track at much, much greater cost. Shame on us.

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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This is happening because we - Australia, America, Europe and others, politicians and citizens - do not want to do what needs to be done to stop it. We are unwilling risk our lives or too much treasure to help #Ukraine resist Putin now. 1/2

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 11/05/2025

Former Kherson mayor Volodymyr Mykolaienko, abducted by Russian forces in April 2022, is still held in harsh conditions in Russia. He once gave up his spot in a prisoner swap to save his sick cellmate. His family has had no contact or updates since.

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Olexander Scherba @olexscherba.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Her name was Olena. A Russian missile killed her today in 🇺🇦 Sumy. One of 34 dead (so far). #StandWithUkraine

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Iain Ogilvie @theaeronut.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nail. Head. Hit. Arrange in any order...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2025

Spoiler: It is absolutely market manipulation

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🤬 Right now, Russia is attacking Kherson: one person has died, there are injured, — OVA 🙏 The city is partially without electricity, trolleybus traffic has been stopped.

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Putin issued a new decree today threatening to deport Ukrainians from their own homes in occupied Ukraine if they refuse to accept Russian citizenship. This is part of a Kremlin campaign to erase Ukrainian identity entirely throughout Russian-occupied regions www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

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Putin is ruthlessly erasing Ukrainian identity in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin is pursuing policies in Russian-occupied Ukraine that almost certainly meet the definition of ethnic cleansing and may qualify as genocide, writes Peter Dickinson.

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Liska C @liskac.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

my friend Galina and her medic evac crew had their ambulance attacked, they're currently not able to evacuate wounded please help, that's their jar: send.monobank.ua/jar/3eQDSY45By and in case it doesn't work, paypal: derkachgalina460@gmail.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia

Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

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Simon Crofts @simoncrofts.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A not-so-heavily-veiled threat from Musk?

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Policymakers are reluctant to say it - and no doubt also reluctant to believe it - but Europe and other democratic allies no longer have a trustworthy security partner in the US. The post-WW2 alliance with the US is gone and what remains of the West needs to move very quickly to secure itself.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/03/2025

Keir Starmer has stepped up and it's been impressive. But what now? He insists that the US under Trump remains a reliable ally. The problem is no-one really believes it any more. And that makes any deal all the harder to achieve, let alone enforce. New from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

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Starmer says Trump is a reliable ally. The problem is, no-one believes it.

And a large part of that is because of JD Vance

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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Reminder for those Americans hating on Ukraine: Ukraine gave up their nuclear warheads in 1994 after signing a deal with America that guaranteed their security. America has fucked Ukraine over twice.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am. This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

And also out today (!) episode 9 of Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring. Another podcast series, this time on a shoestring with a crowdfunded budget (just another v talented producer) but so of the moment, it's quite unreal. This is a story that's going to run & run podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

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Sergei Cristo versus the Security Service

Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP9 · 30m

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

And then there's this, out today: ep 4 of Stalked. The top series in the UK. This week we name who we think is Hannah's stalker. The BBC has been pretty incredible. I'm not sure any other UK news org would do this in the face of the pushback we've had podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/4...

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4. Identity Leakage

Podcast Episode · Stalked · EP5 · 46m

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract. 🤷‍♀️ So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it. 1/

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Keep doing what you do @bylinetimes.bsky.social. You’ve got them worried

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy. Why *did* Boris Johnson block the publication of the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election? Finally some answers.. Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote. "Money changed hands" 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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Follow the Money

Podcast Episode · Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring · EP8 · 44m

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Pilot Captain Ivan Bolotov of Ukraine’s Air Force 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade… gone into the sky forever. He was 24.

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Zarina Zabrisky @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The overview of "human safari" in Kherson, Sumy, Kharkiv region, and Nikopol with @TVPWorld_com and @DonArleth Ran out of time so more is forthcoming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAq2... ⬇️

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Another form of Russian crimes in Ukraine - "human safari" | Zarina Zabrisky

YouTube video by TALKING WITH TVP WORLD

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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Painful lack of imagination from Times. Before Feb 24th -22 analysts competed guessing days until Russia would win but they were all wrong. Now the same race among the unimaginative is about what kind of lousy "peace" Ukraine will have. None of them can imagine a solid Ukrainian victory.

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