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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Ukrainian🇺🇦-🇺🇸American who resided and worked in Ukraine🇺🇦 for 24 years. Слава Україні 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini ! ✨TRUTH Matters ✨ ⁉️ How do we go about tipping the scales in THE GLOBAL INFORMATION WAR ❔ HOW DID WE GET HERE❔

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 15h

could be the explanation..

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 16h

Swear her in! Swear her in!

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 23h

“After I heard the news about Oleskander Gordienko being murdered last month, I decided to head to the farmlands he lived in to make a film about his legacy. He was a local legend and the Russians killed him to make a point. To try and silence powerful voices like his in Ukraine. “

- Caolan

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Valid point made.

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jlTn...

The Farmers of Kherson - Documentary

YouTube video by Caolan Robertson

m.youtube.com

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

"The rules announced last week require overseas companies to obtain Chinese government approval before exporting products containing even trace amounts of certain rare earths that originated in China."

- Yahoo Finance

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

I dont think this story is getting enough attention. China has put rigid controls on the supply of rare earth metals to the USA, but after a little tantrum, Trump has been left pretending its no big deal. He has already weakened the US so much, he has few options. finance.yahoo.com/news/china-f...

China Flexes Superpower Status Using Rare Earths in Global Supply Chain Grab

The rules announced last week require overseas companies to obtain Chinese government approval before exporting products containing even trace amounts of certain rare earths that originated in China. ...

finance.yahoo.com

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Will China 🇨🇳 take action?

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Thank-you @schiff.senate.gov for fighting to prevent the health care crises in America.

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

“The book “Ecocide in Ukraine’ explores how deliberate ecological devastation has not only caused immediate harm to landscapes, communities, and ecosystems, but also threatens to sever Ukrainians’ deep-rooted cultural connections to the land.”

- The Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

In her monumental work, Darya Tsymbalyuk insists the world must reckon with the full cost of the destruction in Ukraine — not just in hectares lost or tons of grain burned, but in the severed roots that once tied generations to the land they called home.

New book exposes Russia’s ecocide as a war against Ukraine’s land – and memory

When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian ...

kyivindependent.com

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

🥷🥷🥷🥷

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

The ultra rich fear democracy and seek to destroy it.

Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 1d

Until the problem of wealth inequality is solved, there can NEVER be a solution to the problem of fascism. The ultra rich fear democracy and seek to destroy it.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Will the Republican majority in 🇺🇸Congress take constructive action to reverse the collapse of rural hospitals in the United States ❔

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Should not Speaker Johnson be more cautious before he promotes Trump for the Nobel Prize in 2026?

Only Phase One of the Hamas-Israel peace agreement has been implemented so far…

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

The Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act would assist with the rehabilitation and reintegration of children who are returned, and provide justice and accountability for perpetrators of these abductions.

🇺🇸Senator Klobuchar press release
October 10, 2025

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

The Abducted Ukrainian Children Recovery and Accountability Act would increase support for Ukraine’s efforts to investigate and track the more than 19,000 Ukrainian children who have been abducted during Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

🇺🇸Senator Klobuchar news release
October 10, 2025

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Bring Back the more than 20,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the cruelty.

Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

It's the cruelty.

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

We are deeply grateful to Senators Amy Klobuchar & ChuckGrassley and to members of the U.S. Senate, for their leadership and support in the fight to bring every Ukrainian child home.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

that’s what is being said…

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Schedule in 🇺🇦 UKRAINE

22.00 - Sleep
00.30 - Shahed drones
3.30 - Missiles
5.30 - Explosions
7.00 - Roll Call

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Amid occasional arrests and pepper ball fire from police, demonstrators mocked the President’s claims, highlighting the largely peaceful nature of the protests. Oregon’s Democratic governor accused Trump of exaggerating events to justify National Guard deployments in Democratic-led cities.

- APT

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Dozens of Portland protesters donned inflatable costumes, from Pikachu to bananas, outside the city’s ICE facility on Saturday, turning President Donald Trump’s “war zone” warning into a colorful spectacle.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/eCfoVI0TYp4

Portland’s Mascot March: Protesters Turn ICE ‘War Zone’ Into Spectacle | APT

YouTube video by APT

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Week three of the government shutdown — and still no end in sight.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d

Week three of the government shutdown — and still no end in sight.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov outlines the damage caused by Congressional Republicans’ inaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJPJtJPz_k&t=482s

Rep. Ayanna Pressley BLASTS Trump & GOP Over HEALTHCARE CUTS and SHUTDOWN [MUST WATCH]

The Contrarian

www.youtube.com

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

When Erica Chenoweth identifies 3.5% sustained participation as the threshold for toppling authoritarian regimes, that means 3.5% engaged in varied non-violent tactics over three years.

12 million Americans = 3.5%

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