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Winston Slava Ukraini! Smith

@winstonsmith6079.bsky.social
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Teacher. MA in History. Genocide and mass violence. Veteran. He/ him #BlackLivesMatter Слава Україні! Путін — хуйло! Donate u24.gov.ua

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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Russia is about to stage a countrywide Potemkin village farce and call it an election All facade. No substance 🤢🤮 My latest for the New York Post. nypost.com/2026/09/13/o...
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Putin’s Kremlin gremlins are setting up a poll-temkin village across Russia in this week’s elections
Knock down this poll-temkin village.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
❌ In 15 regions of Russia, Victory parades on May 9 have been canceled. In Moscow, for the first time since 2007, there will be no military equipment on Red Square. In St. Petersburg, the Victory Parade will also be held without armored vehicles.
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Oxana Shevel @oxanashevel.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The past hangs over the present, and today's dictator coz-plays dictators of yesterday, selectively remembering, forgetting, & twisting facts to justify his imperialism & authoritarianism as a greater good rather than disaster that it is.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
In Feb 2022, those who took Western intelligence reports seriously wondered who the Ru-installed puppet would be. @oxanashevel.bsky.social and I predicted Ukrainians would fight hard and a puppet couldn't rule, Ru would have to try to achieve full occupation: www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukr...
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Putin Cannot Erase Ukraine
No Russian invasion can undo Ukrainian nationhood.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
If you kick over a hornet’s nest, it the hornets who get to decide when the conflict is over.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Really delighted today to have the second meeting of a new AI-resisters faculty group at my institution. Grateful for the English prof who’s organizing it. A good number of us humanities folks were present, but it was es cool to have an Economist, and Biology and Math prof present…
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
But it wouldn't distract from those things, it would add one more thing to the growing list of Trump’s actions that are peeling away his supporters. Trying to divide and distract his opposition is uniting and growing his opposition.
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Winston Slava Ukraini! Smith @winstonsmith6079.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Where corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception..." Classic propaganda "accusation in a mirror..."
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 25/02/2026
"Holy shit, did WE ever make the right decision" - The US Women's Hockey Team
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Walked out of the State of the Union because I couldn’t sit through hours of Trump’s lies. Americans know the truth: he’s spiking prices and wrecking our economy. We’re a better country than this.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Damn this seems exactly correct.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
TO be quite blunt, I think we'd even be better off with "the purpose of a university education is to acquire upper-middle-class signifiers" rather than the current "it is entirely about a premium in expected lifetime earnings" even though both are inferior to, y'know, learning as a telos.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power. That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21/02/2026
Rome’s Palazzo Braschi, 1934.
The Palazzo’s façade covered with a giant banner reading SI (yes) over and over again with a giant glowering face of Mussolini in the center
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/02/2026
"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...
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Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I can’t stop thinking ab how few ppl want confront how sick & overworked we all truly are. Esp how our institutional overlords under academic capitalism, incl the push to individualize classes for students, are sucking everything out of us. We must slow down producing, I stg
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
There is an American tradition of egalitarian pluralism that puts the Right’s vicious, exclusionary domination fantasies to shame. We should invoke it as a reminder to the Trumpists that their claim to be the sole representatives of “authentic” Americanism has no historical basis.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
What is “Un-American”? We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition of egalitarian democracy. Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally. My new piece (free to read):
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What is “Un-American”?
We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition. Make MAGA un-American, finally.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
MSP airport. Clergy risking risking arrest and a huge gathering of protesters. The song is, “Down to the River to Pray.”
As I went down in the river to pray
Studying about that good old way
And who shall wear the starry crown
Good Lord, show me the way!

O sisters let's go down
Let's go down, come on down
O sisters let's go down
Down in the river to pray
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 09/01/2026
⚡️Russia will take over Greenland if US doesn't get there first, Trump claims. "We are going to do something with Greenland, whether they like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor."
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Russia will take over Greenland if US doesn't get there first, Trump claims
"We are going to do something with Greenland, whether they like it or not," Trump told reporters. "Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russ...
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Balu Puppy @balupuppy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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The Insurrection Act, Explained
The vague and rarely used law gives the president broad power to deploy the military domestically — but it’s not a blank check.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 05/12/2025
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/12/2025
European reaction to the new American national strategy document
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/12/2025
A vote for children to get sick www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/12/2025
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/12/2025
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
If anyone in Europe was still clinging to the idea that the Trump administration isn't immovably pro-Russian and hostile to Western institutions and values, they need to read the 2025 National Security Strategy and think again.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Considerable understatement from the Telegraph here: "an administration that has at times leaned toward Moscow’s view on the origins of the war in Ukraine" - Trump has repeatedly blamed Ukraine starting the war. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg ‘quits’ after plan for US peace leaked
The exit of the retired general and key Ukraine advocate will be unwelcome news as Kyiv comes under pressure to cede territory to Russia
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Winston Slava Ukraini! Smith @winstonsmith6079.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Timothy Snyder lecture on the centrality of Ukraine in world history. Absolutely fascinating and delightful, highly recommended. youtu.be/DQAHJSteETM?...
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“The World Does Not Start Anew Every Day” — Snyder Challenges Western Myths About Ukraine | APT
YouTube video by APT
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Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Sheffield Hallam's treatment of Laura Murphy's courageous research into the Chinese genocide of the Uyghurs, including slave labor is a worthwhile, if very depressing, read: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tressie cooked here: "Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them."
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Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
“By keeping the House on indefinite hiatus — as well as sidelining its oversight authority— Republicans have…made our national legislature a nullity. They have, for all intents & purposes, dissolved Congress. It is impossible to overstate the magnitude of this transformation of the American system.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is as good and urgent as others have been saying. I don't think it's possible to sustain anything resembling mass democracy in a post-literate society. musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...
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A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society
Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"We are in the midst of one of the darkest forms of software in history, described by many as an unwanted guest invading their products, their social media feeds, their bosses’ empty minds, and resting in the hands of monsters."
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
On this day 10 years ago, Russia entered the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad regime, devastating infrastructure, displacing millions and murdering thousands of Syrian civilians. Despite all of these widespread crimes, Moscow and Assad would go on to lose.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If administrators can dictate what professors teach in the classroom, based on their idea of what politicians want, there is *already* no "academic freedom." The violation of that boundary ended it. There is only whatever politicians haven't yet thought to denounce, and only until they denounce it.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Before I turn on @npr.org again or read another @nytimes.com editorial, because I know exactly how it'll be: This isn't "a threat" to academic freedom. It's not igniting "a debate" about it. The "future" of academic freedom isn't at stake. This is what the end of academic freedom has made possible.
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Texas Tech chancellor directs faculty to recognize only two sexes in classroom instruction
The memo comes after Texas A&M fired a professor over a lesson related to gender identity after a student objected to it.
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Winston Slava Ukraini! Smith @winstonsmith6079.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We know you don’t care for international law and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbours. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that will not cease until you realise that the age of empires is over and that your empire will not be rebuilt. youtu.be/rpwHKpyQ8go?...
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Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski's full speech at the emergency UN Security Council meeting
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