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❤️🇺🇦🇬🇪🇨🇦🐸 libraryofcontext.substack.com libraryofcontext.wordpress.com 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 19

President Zelenskyy's leadership skills are a feature of his personality, not his former career. Being a comedian or TV star should not be the main criteria for getting into politics.
#JimmyKimmel #StephenColbert #JonStewart

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Discussion: A Zelenskyy of Our Own

Searching for a leader

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 11h

Putin has killed more people so far this century than any other human on the planet. Russia must be stopped.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 4h

You work too hard to pay more for healthcare because of Republican games.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 7h

Imagine receiving the kind of phone call no one ever wants: you need to get to a hospital or a funeral in another country ASAP. For most Europeans, a short flight takes hours. For Ukrainians, the same trip can take days, as russia’s relentless war makes urgent travel exhausting👇

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans aren’t doing shit.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Here is Mike Johnson complaining he is tired.

40 million people are about to starve.

Rep. Grijalva was elected five weeks ago and he still hasn’t sworn her in.

AND YOU SAY YOU’RE TIRED?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Grokipedia is the goal of all AI companies—they want to centralize the Internet so we are fully reliant on one source of information.

Then, at the click of a button, they can change our entire shared reality. They’re vying for our attention—if they capture all of it, they enslave us.

Don’t use AI.

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Sen. Maria Cantwell @cantwell.senate.gov · 6h

When the ACA enhanced premium tax credits expire later this year, thousands of Washington families will see their health insurance costs skyrocket.

A thread on premium increases: here's what happens to a self-insured middle-class couple's health premiums in King County.

2025 monthly premium: $425.69
2026 monthly premium: $1,386.48

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 7h

Brazilian TikTok influencers promoted a Russian “internship” that turned out to be a human trafficking scheme for suicide drone factories.

How Brazil’s TikTok Stars Helped Russia Recruit Young Women for Suicide Drone Factories

Controversy arose in Brazil when influencers apologized for endorsing a Russian program tied to the assembly of drones used against Ukraine.

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Clarefella @clarenafo.bsky.social · 8h

The UN Commission of Inquiry finds Russia’s human safari drone campaign along the right bank of the Dnipro is a widespread and systematic effort that amounts to the crimes against humanity of murder and forcible transfer... (continued)

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 9h

⚡️Major AI chatbots are amplifying Kremlin propaganda.

A new Institute for Strategic Dialogue study found ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek citing Russian state-linked sources to spread disinformation about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12h

🤨 Russian units on the Ukrainian front are carrying out summary executions of their own soldiers or forcing them into “suicide” assaults if they refuse orders, investigation finds.

“Shot for Refusing Orders”: Russian Commanders Execute Own Troops For Profit and Control

An investigation reveals Russian commanders allegedly executing soldiers who resist orders, detailing grim practices on the Ukrainian front.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 14h

Russia is the world’s largest terrorist organization, Zelensky said after a Russian strike hit a children’s hospital in Kherson. The attack injured medical staff and young patients, including an eight-year-old boy. “Russia deliberately targets civilians and undermines every effort to end this war.”

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 13h

“They could not have been unaware of where they were striking.”

Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the russian strike on a hospital in Kherson, emphasizing that russia deliberately targets civilian infrastructure and peaceful people. Today — it’s children and medics.

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hromadske @hromadske.bsky.social · 16h

Russian troops shelled a Kherson medical facility this morning, causing civilian casualties, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported.

Four were wounded — three hospital staff and a 9-year-old girl, who suffered a mine-blast injury and shrapnel wound to her leg.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 15h

🤨 Russian and Chinese intelligence services are allegedly deploying female operatives to extract sensitive technology information from specialists in the United States.

How Putin’s Female Agents Use Romance to Infiltrate Silicon Valley and Steal US Tech Secrets

Ex-Russian intelligence trainee reveals that foreign operatives use seduction techniques to gain sensitive information from American technology experts.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 14h

🤨 Security Service of Ukraine detained a former British military instructor accused of spying for Russia.

He allegedly shared Ukrainian troop data and photos with Russia's FSB, receiving $6,000 for one task.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 13h

🤯 A man accused of killing a woman and her 6-year-old child in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region was freed after signing a contract to fight in Ukraine.

Russian Man Who Dismembered Woman and Killed Her 6-Year-Old Son Freed to Fight in Ukraine

A man from Sverdlovsk, accused of killing a mother and her son, was released after signing up for the Russian army to serve in Ukraine.

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hromadske @hromadske.bsky.social · 19h

Russian forces launched a massive overnight assault on Ukraine's Odesa Oblast, damaging energy and transport infrastructure and injuring one civilian, regional governor Oleh Kiper reported.

Russian strikes damage Odesa Oblast energy and transport infrastructure

Russian forces launched a massive overnight assault on Ukraine's Odesa Oblast, damaging energy and transport infrastructure and injuring one civilian, regional governor Oleh Kiper reported .

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hromadske @hromadske.bsky.social · 18h

Drones struck multiple Russian regions overnight into Wednesday, targeting two oil refineries and a petrochemical plant. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed it downed 100 Ukrainian-launched UAVs.

Two oil refineries, petrochemical plant across Russia hit by drones overnight

Drones struck multiple Russian regions overnight into Wednesday, targeting two oil refineries and a petrochemical plant. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed it downed 100 Ukrainian-launched UAVs.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

People aren't as dumb as Republicans think. He's on an ego-tour of Asia, boycotting talks to end the shutdown, and cutting people off SNAP benefits even though there's $5B left in the contingency fund.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

I happen to believe that your elected officials should vote to reopen government AND keep your premiums from more than doubling.

Government should be open and Americans shouldn't go bankrupt to afford health care.

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Paulette MacQuarrie @pawlina.bsky.social · 1d

Today commemorates a dark chapter in Canada's history which the Canadian govt tried to cover up for decades. It was only brought to light through the hard work of a handful of Ukrainian Canadian activists. And it is still largely unknown and even denied.
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National Internment Commemoration Day - SSENC

Understanding our history and how it impacts our future has never been more important. One key event in Canadian history is the interment of enemy aliens during World War One. The Canadian First World...

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 1d

Raise your hand if you #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Georgians are stubborn in keeping the tradition of closing Rustaveli, even just symbolically. But the pavement truly is full.

They all face jail for it - up to 1 year under the Criminal Code if they'd been detained over the "offense" before.

Day 335. #GeorgiaProtests #TerrorinGeorgia

📷 MOSE

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 1d

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