Lessa
@libraryofcontext.bsky.social
❤️🇺🇦🇬🇪🇨🇦🐸
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Working on a biography of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I do not support the current White House occupiers.
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Working on a biography of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I do not support the current White House occupiers.
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Lessa
@libraryofcontext.bsky.social
· Sep 24
This is what a real leader looks like.
#Zelenskyy #StandWithUkraine #AmericansSupportUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#Zelenskyy #StandWithUkraine #AmericansSupportUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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James Talarico: Frankly I am tired of the ‘thoughts and prayers’ rhetoric from our leaders.
There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.
The time for thoughts and prayers is over. It's time for us to act.
There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.
The time for thoughts and prayers is over. It's time for us to act.
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
James Talarico: Frankly I am tired of the ‘thoughts and prayers’ rhetoric from our leaders.
There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.
The time for thoughts and prayers is over. It's time for us to act.
There is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.
The time for thoughts and prayers is over. It's time for us to act.
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There are reports Zelensky may say Ukr is dropping NATO aspirations. Given that the US is blocking Ukr for NATO and may abandon NATO, this is realism. But when Ru says "good, but we want XYZ also" it will confirm for the nteenth time that Ru doesn't care about NATO; it wants to subjugate Ukraine.
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There are reports Zelensky may say Ukr is dropping NATO aspirations. Given that the US is blocking Ukr for NATO and may abandon NATO, this is realism. But when Ru says "good, but we want XYZ also" it will confirm for the nteenth time that Ru doesn't care about NATO; it wants to subjugate Ukraine.
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⚡ Austrian authorities uncovered a Kremlin-linked operation that used fake “pro-Ukraine” graffiti and stickers, some featuring neo-Nazi symbols, on Vienna streets to stir backlash against Ukraine.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Austria Exposes Russian FSB Network Posing as “Ukrainian Nazis” to Sway Public Opinion Against Ukraine
Austrian intelligence links Jan Marsalek to a Russian-driven disinformation network leveraging false pro-Ukraine propaganda to create division amid the war.
united24media.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
⚡ Austrian authorities uncovered a Kremlin-linked operation that used fake “pro-Ukraine” graffiti and stickers, some featuring neo-Nazi symbols, on Vienna streets to stir backlash against Ukraine.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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A Minsk-based convent has toured Europe posing as a charity while spreading pro-Russian messaging.
Investigations say funds raised at church events and Christmas markets helped support Russia’s military.
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Investigations say funds raised at church events and Christmas markets helped support Russia’s military.
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December 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A Minsk-based convent has toured Europe posing as a charity while spreading pro-Russian messaging.
Investigations say funds raised at church events and Christmas markets helped support Russia’s military.
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Investigations say funds raised at church events and Christmas markets helped support Russia’s military.
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A new report exposes systematic torture of Ukrainians in Russian captivity as an organized, widespread practice.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A new report exposes systematic torture of Ukrainians in Russian captivity as an organized, widespread practice.
🧵 1/7 ⬇️
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Jesus fucking Christ, America. We are a shithole country with a shithole president and a shithole congress that does nothing to stop this entirely preventable violence. Fuck your guns and fuck you.
so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.
insanity.
insanity.
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Jesus fucking Christ, America. We are a shithole country with a shithole president and a shithole congress that does nothing to stop this entirely preventable violence. Fuck your guns and fuck you.
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Join us again tomorrow Sunday at Lafeyette Park from 3-5pm.
On Monday we will be rallying from 2-5pm at Longworth.
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
On Monday we will be rallying from 2-5pm at Longworth.
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
December 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Join us again tomorrow Sunday at Lafeyette Park from 3-5pm.
On Monday we will be rallying from 2-5pm at Longworth.
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
On Monday we will be rallying from 2-5pm at Longworth.
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Americans overwhelmingly support Ukraine. It's the installed fascist in our government here who is the puppet of the invader. The world sat by for too long, and now Ukraine's neighbors are building their military forces. Lesson: stop insane bullies before they wipe an entire country off the Earth.
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Americans overwhelmingly support Ukraine. It's the installed fascist in our government here who is the puppet of the invader. The world sat by for too long, and now Ukraine's neighbors are building their military forces. Lesson: stop insane bullies before they wipe an entire country off the Earth.
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I have been wondering this as well. There is so much diplomatic activity going on between Europe and the U.S. that one gets the impression it must be close to a breakthrough. However, there is no indication at all that Russia is willing to agree to anything short of complete Ukrainian capitulation.
The White House does know that Russia also has to accept whatever peace thing that they are demanding Ukraine accept. They know that right? Because there are practically no signs that Russia is going to say yes to whatever is pushed on Ukraine.
December 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I have been wondering this as well. There is so much diplomatic activity going on between Europe and the U.S. that one gets the impression it must be close to a breakthrough. However, there is no indication at all that Russia is willing to agree to anything short of complete Ukrainian capitulation.
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So morally bankrupt degenerates online bet on war and got rugged? Zero sympathy from me.
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social didn't consent to their maps being used. And given that the article in the screenshot is by Responsible Statecraft/Quincy Institute, I'd be wary of the narrative they're pushing.
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social didn't consent to their maps being used. And given that the article in the screenshot is by Responsible Statecraft/Quincy Institute, I'd be wary of the narrative they're pushing.
Appears the allegations were true
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
So morally bankrupt degenerates online bet on war and got rugged? Zero sympathy from me.
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social didn't consent to their maps being used. And given that the article in the screenshot is by Responsible Statecraft/Quincy Institute, I'd be wary of the narrative they're pushing.
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social didn't consent to their maps being used. And given that the article in the screenshot is by Responsible Statecraft/Quincy Institute, I'd be wary of the narrative they're pushing.
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Join us at the South side of Lafayette Park until 5pm today Saturday. The park is open currently.
Call your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸
Call your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸
December 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Join us at the South side of Lafayette Park until 5pm today Saturday. The park is open currently.
Call your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸
Call your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸
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The banned pavement protest again spilled over to the roads.
“Protests are dying,” Day 381.
By the way, for these banners, flags, sprays, active groups would highly appreciate some assistance.
Please DM me or PayPal me directly.
Thanks a lot!
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
“Protests are dying,” Day 381.
By the way, for these banners, flags, sprays, active groups would highly appreciate some assistance.
Please DM me or PayPal me directly.
Thanks a lot!
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
December 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The banned pavement protest again spilled over to the roads.
“Protests are dying,” Day 381.
By the way, for these banners, flags, sprays, active groups would highly appreciate some assistance.
Please DM me or PayPal me directly.
Thanks a lot!
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
“Protests are dying,” Day 381.
By the way, for these banners, flags, sprays, active groups would highly appreciate some assistance.
Please DM me or PayPal me directly.
Thanks a lot!
#GeorgiaProtests
📷 MOSE
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We who grew up in the postwar era in the 20th century came to believe that democracy and freedom were inevitable.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We who grew up in the postwar era in the 20th century came to believe that democracy and freedom were inevitable.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
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As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
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speaking of “you should never trust Meta and no one should have ever trusted them but there’s no time like the present to start”
Another first with the Meta sponsor just added to the Turning Point USA mega conference
December 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
speaking of “you should never trust Meta and no one should have ever trusted them but there’s no time like the present to start”
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The regime insists of the "peace" propaganda, as if Georgia would be at war with Russia without them.
(1 of the 2 main pillars of their Kremlin propaganda, the other being "Europe is making us gay").
And they have no problem using chemical weapons against us.
📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social
(1 of the 2 main pillars of their Kremlin propaganda, the other being "Europe is making us gay").
And they have no problem using chemical weapons against us.
📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The regime insists of the "peace" propaganda, as if Georgia would be at war with Russia without them.
(1 of the 2 main pillars of their Kremlin propaganda, the other being "Europe is making us gay").
And they have no problem using chemical weapons against us.
📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social
(1 of the 2 main pillars of their Kremlin propaganda, the other being "Europe is making us gay").
And they have no problem using chemical weapons against us.
📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social
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Russia isn't only stealing territory – it's systematically abducting Ukrainian children.
Read more about the story and fate of an orphan boy who was taken to Russia, stripped of his identity, and given up for adoption in the Urals below ⬇️
texty.org.ua/projects/116...
Read more about the story and fate of an orphan boy who was taken to Russia, stripped of his identity, and given up for adoption in the Urals below ⬇️
texty.org.ua/projects/116...
Один із сотень тисяч. Історія життя і позбавлення ідентичності українського сироти, зниклого в Росії
Хлопчик з Херсонщини залишився сиротою у Росії, яка знищила його дім і вулицю, окупувала його місто, позбавила рідної мови і …
texty.org.ua
December 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Russia isn't only stealing territory – it's systematically abducting Ukrainian children.
Read more about the story and fate of an orphan boy who was taken to Russia, stripped of his identity, and given up for adoption in the Urals below ⬇️
texty.org.ua/projects/116...
Read more about the story and fate of an orphan boy who was taken to Russia, stripped of his identity, and given up for adoption in the Urals below ⬇️
texty.org.ua/projects/116...
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Conclusion:
Hybrid warfare only looks trivial if viewed in isolation. Zoomed out, it is a strategic assault on European security — and one the West can counter effectively, but only if it recognises the pattern and acts with clarity, unity and resolve.
archive.ph/IU72Y
Hybrid warfare only looks trivial if viewed in isolation. Zoomed out, it is a strategic assault on European security — and one the West can counter effectively, but only if it recognises the pattern and acts with clarity, unity and resolve.
archive.ph/IU72Y
archive.ph
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Conclusion:
Hybrid warfare only looks trivial if viewed in isolation. Zoomed out, it is a strategic assault on European security — and one the West can counter effectively, but only if it recognises the pattern and acts with clarity, unity and resolve.
archive.ph/IU72Y
Hybrid warfare only looks trivial if viewed in isolation. Zoomed out, it is a strategic assault on European security — and one the West can counter effectively, but only if it recognises the pattern and acts with clarity, unity and resolve.
archive.ph/IU72Y
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Russia is preparing for a long confrontation.
Moscow is expanding defence production, increasing conscription, and planning for a larger army — while Europe lags behind industrially and politically.
Moscow is expanding defence production, increasing conscription, and planning for a larger army — while Europe lags behind industrially and politically.
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Russia is preparing for a long confrontation.
Moscow is expanding defence production, increasing conscription, and planning for a larger army — while Europe lags behind industrially and politically.
Moscow is expanding defence production, increasing conscription, and planning for a larger army — while Europe lags behind industrially and politically.
This is how it has already worked very effectively in the US - by dividing people so that the authoritarians and oligarchs could take advantage of the chaos and buy their way into power.
Division is the primary target.
Russia seeks to split:
- populations from their governments (by highlighting state “incompetence”);
- European states from one another (hawks vs doves, Baltics vs western Europe);
- and Europe from the US, by probing how much NATO solidarity really exists.
Russia seeks to split:
- populations from their governments (by highlighting state “incompetence”);
- European states from one another (hawks vs doves, Baltics vs western Europe);
- and Europe from the US, by probing how much NATO solidarity really exists.
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is how it has already worked very effectively in the US - by dividing people so that the authoritarians and oligarchs could take advantage of the chaos and buy their way into power.
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In an article for The Telegraph, Peter Pomerantsev argues that Russia is waging a sustained, low-level “hybrid war” against Europe designed to test resolve, fracture unity, and expose NATO’s weaknesses — and that the West is responding too timidly and incoherently.
Thread... 👇
Thread... 👇
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In an article for The Telegraph, Peter Pomerantsev argues that Russia is waging a sustained, low-level “hybrid war” against Europe designed to test resolve, fracture unity, and expose NATO’s weaknesses — and that the West is responding too timidly and incoherently.
Thread... 👇
Thread... 👇
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Poland marks December 13 as a day of remembrance for victims of communist repression after martial law in 1981, but the message resonates across the entire region.
Every country the Red Army once occupied still remembers the terror that came with Soviet rule.
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Every country the Red Army once occupied still remembers the terror that came with Soviet rule.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Poland marks December 13 as a day of remembrance for victims of communist repression after martial law in 1981, but the message resonates across the entire region.
Every country the Red Army once occupied still remembers the terror that came with Soviet rule.
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Every country the Red Army once occupied still remembers the terror that came with Soviet rule.
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🔴 Russia unleashed one of its biggest air strikes on Odesa overnight.
UNITED24 Media journalist Tamara Ilia reports from Odesa.
UNITED24 Media journalist Tamara Ilia reports from Odesa.
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🔴 Russia unleashed one of its biggest air strikes on Odesa overnight.
UNITED24 Media journalist Tamara Ilia reports from Odesa.
UNITED24 Media journalist Tamara Ilia reports from Odesa.
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Researchers have found more than 150 anonymous YouTube channels using AI to spread false stories about Keir Starmer. The channels have almost 1.2bn views in 2025.
In a surprise to nobody, Russian-speaking creators operate some of the channels.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In a surprise to nobody, Russian-speaking creators operate some of the channels.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Researchers have found more than 150 anonymous YouTube channels using AI to spread false stories about Keir Starmer. The channels have almost 1.2bn views in 2025.
In a surprise to nobody, Russian-speaking creators operate some of the channels.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In a surprise to nobody, Russian-speaking creators operate some of the channels.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Every day, I pray this will be the day of that one particular piece of good news. You know, THAT piece of good news, inspiring jubilant celebration. Every close-up of hand makeup heralds hope and possibility. May that joyous day come soon.
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Every day, I pray this will be the day of that one particular piece of good news. You know, THAT piece of good news, inspiring jubilant celebration. Every close-up of hand makeup heralds hope and possibility. May that joyous day come soon.