On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”

A Russian ballistic missile destroyed a 29,000 m² warehouse of “Optima-Pharm” in Kyiv, one of Ukraine’s largest pharmaceutical distributors. Damage is estimated at over $100 million.

Our European leaders are talking vaguely about a need for independence but they don't have the courage to say publicly *from whom* the independence is needed.

🇨🇦 #Canada's PM @mark-carney.bsky.social has the courage. Why don't we have any leader like this here?

Why have our leaders been cowards?

The U.S. isn’t just chasing drug cartels. With carrier groups, bombers, and tanker planes massing in the Caribbean, this looks far bigger... more like prep for a major regional operation than a narcotics mission, or even just to oust Venezuela’s president.

How Maga is interfering in the UK and why Britain is much less well equipped to deal with this kind of ‘foreign interference’ than other countries in Europe.
My latest analysis for
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(#German, but there always is Deepl)

🤯 Russian intelligence services may have used the wreck of the MS Estonia ferry in the Baltic Sea as a covert site for underwater surveillance operations targeting NATO naval activity, new investigation finds.

A British judge sentences five men for their roles in an arson attack in London that authorities say was masterminded by Russian intelligence as part of a wider campaign of sabotage and disruption.

Two people have been confirmed dead and 12 injured in Kyiv following last night’s Russian attack. Fires broke out across the city, and aviation units were deployed to assist with firefighting efforts.

A Chinese LNG tanker owned by Pacific Gas was spotted receiving fuel from a sanctioned Russian vessel off Malaysia, the first documented case of a Chinese ship assisting blacklisted Russian LNG transport, Bloomberg reported.
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built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

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Russia attacked Kyiv overnight, killing one person and wounding 10. Helicopters were deployed to fight fires as heavy smoke filled the city.

A surveillance camera captured the moment a Russian strike hit a Kyiv resident’s apartment on Oct. 22. The strike killed two and injured 29 in the city, and several fires broke out.

Video: Tetyana Kotelenets

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

Last night, Russia hit my district in #Kyiv —Podil —3 times. Too close to home.
My heart aches for everyone whose homes were damaged, for the injured, and for those who lost loved ones.
It’s horrifying that this is still happening nearly 4 years into the full-scale invasion.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.

“The likelihood that Trump will weaponise the US cloud services may not be huge, but the costs if he does are potentially catastrophic. If the EU wants to Trump-proof its economy and become a strategic power, it needs to act more like one.”

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First moments after the Russian attack on a daycare in Kharkiv.

Kids crying for their moms, rescuers and civilians rushing to get them out of the building...
Heartbreaking.

Just look at this

China's grip over rare-earths mining keeps growing
• US was world’s top producer until 1980s, but it fell away after China began to scale up its efforts
• Chinese firms mined 270,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2024, about twice more than five years earlier

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

🕯️Antonina
🕯️Adelina, 6 months
🕯️Anastasiia, 12 years

Killed by russia this morning.

“Chinese shipments of fiber-optic cables to Russia grew almost tenfold between July& August, after hitting record highs in May and then again in June, according to the data from China’s customs office. Exports of lithium-ion batteries, probably used to power the drones, also shot up over the summer”

Anthropic launched Claude for Life Sciences to support the entire life sciences process from early discovery through translation and commercialization

⚠️More than 30,000 households were left with no electricity this morning after Russia attacked energy system in Chernihiv region, Ukraine

Since early morning energy workers have been working to restore power.