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Thos Swans @thosswans.bsky.social · Jan 6

I'm glad I was part of this investigation

➡️ Vitalik Buterin co-founds UDAO.

➡️ UDAO becomes scam with ties to far-right.

➡️ Dima Buterin against sanctions for all russians.

➡️ Vitalik Buterin gives money to convicted criminals that helped russians to avoid sanctions.

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UkraineDAO: Innovation, Controversy, and Questions of Accountability

In the aftermath of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a wave of global solidarity gave rise to new fundraising initiatives. Among the notable initiatives was UkraineDAO, a dece...

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 6h

Russian Thermal Power Plant in Smolensk is on fire.

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Gaylien @1gaylien.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Bond 🇺🇦 @alexbondodua.bsky.social · 1d

✎Update 20.10
+$274

Hi everyone 🤗

We have a nice step towards the goal today! Thanks to all who stand with Ukraine and keep pushing us from one goal to another! Since past for years we helped so many units together.

To go: $5 825
Deadline: 31.10
🅿🅿: [email protected]

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HonestReporting @honestreporting.com · 1d

ABC News interviewed an active Hamas operative — and didn’t tell viewers. Mahmoud Bassal, presented as “Gaza’s civil spokesperson,” is part of Hamas’s military wing. When the media hides terrorist affiliations, it stops informing and starts enabling. honestreporting.com/abc-news-fai...

ABC News Fails to Acknowledge Interviewee is Hamas Spokesperson | HonestReporting

ABC News interviewed Mahmoud Bassal, the “Gaza Civil Spokesperson,” without stating his Hamas affiliation.

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Steve Townsend ❌👑 @stevetownsend0.bsky.social · 1d

one note, zero shame

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Schmingy 🇨🇦 @sirschming.bsky.social · 1d

Oil prices are going down due to worldwide oversupply, but my fellow Albertans will blame our Liberal government here in Canada.

The prices are heading so low that it may be unprofitable soon to produce oil here without more efficiencies brought onboard.

Posthaste: The biggest oil glut the world has ever seen is about to come ashore — Financial Post

Crude prices could plunge to $46 a barrel, analysts say

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Schmingy 🇨🇦 @sirschming.bsky.social · 23h

Sudan news.

Civilians in Sudan's al-Fashir cower from drones as siege worsens hunger

Residents of Sudan's besieged city of al-Fashir have been taking refuge in underground bunkers to try to protect themselves from drones and shells after intensifying attacks on displacement shelters, clinics and mosques.

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HonestReporting @honestreporting.com · 17h

▪️ The Gaza health ministry -- run by Hamas.
▪️ Its director general, Dr Munir al-Bursh -- appointed by Hamas.

But that won't stop @theguardian.com from treating him and health ministry officials as credible, untainted sources for anti-Israel stories.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/mutilated-bodies-palestinians-held-notorious-israeli-jail-gaza-officials

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HonestReporting @honestreporting.com · 16h

Hamas breaks the ceasefire and kills two Israeli soldiers. Israel responds by hitting terrorists & their infrastructure.

But for @thetimes, it was simply "two days of Israeli bombardment" that risked the ceasefire.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/gaza-peace-deal-vance-witkoff-kushner-middle-east-r6qqkjmm8

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 1d

Russians repeatedly using Trump so that he coerces Ukraine to surrender the Donetsk region, which they have been desperately trying to get for years, unsuccessfully, despite devoting their entire army and economy for this modest goal,…

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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 1d

Soup of the Week, episode 9: How Viktor Orbán Built the EU’s First Dictatorship
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How Viktor Orbán Built the EU’s First Dictatorship

YouTube video by Vatnik Soup

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 1d

Europe needs its own social media platform

Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 1d

1/10 Underrated but urgent:

Europe needs its own social media platforms and better regulation of existing ones.

This is not just a tech issue. It is strategic and existential.

We cannot talk about strategic autonomy without including social media

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Holy shit. Trump is tearing down part of the White House. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 1d

💥 Viktor Orbán faces a possible ousting in April 2026 — and whether he manages to cling to power or not, his regime and its global allure as a model for autocrats worldwide are crumbling. Read the sharpest analysis available.

The Era of Orbánism as an Exportable Model May Be Ending - VSquare.org

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s once-admired “illiberal model” is faltering — plagued by economic crisis, voter frustration, and collapsing governance. With the 2026 election looming, his future — and the global appeal of his system — is at stake as his government faces its biggest political test.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 1d

Ever wondered why some posts on X explode with millions of views but barely any likes or reposts?

What you’re seeing isn’t organic.

It’s engineered.

Do you want to talk about how elmo’s X creates the illusion of dominance?

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 1d

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump hosted a dinner last week for donors helping fund his ballroom project.

Today, crews are starting construction and literally tearing down parts of the White House.

It's day 20 of the government shutdown and this is what he's prioritizing?

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

He hates American values and principles. He hates democracy. He despises the Constitution and its constraints. He hates most Americans. All he desires is money, power and staying out of jail. Am I missing something?

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that the claims that Ukraine banned the Ru language are pure, unadulterated lies. It never happened. Not even close. The Ukrainian language policy debate has been around whether Ru should have official language status and whether/how Ukrainian can be strengthened domestically.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 1d

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 1d

Adolf, you don't mind if I give weapons to Churchill?"

One Putin call, and the Tomahawks vanished. Looks like Ukraine will have to build its own!

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