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SanMarcos 🍒🚤⚓ Meme thief @sanmarcos.bsky.social · 4h

Russia continues to shell private homes in the Kherson area. These two houses were hit during the last day.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 4h

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 4h

I prefer the one with the banner, for some reason.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 5h

Report by the UN representative on today's Russian attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 4h

Elect a 🤡...

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 4h

Moody’s: More than 20 US state economies are now in, or near, a recession

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 9h

The Kalibr missile and others like the Kh-59 and Kh-69 cruise missiles, are all capable of carrying a nuke. All of these missiles have been used throughout the war by the criminals in the Kremlin.

Medevedev's arguments ring very hollow given that Russia has promised to respect and protect Ukraine.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently Putin was promised by the military they would take the remainder of Donbas by October or November this year. Now Putin is likely holding the generals feet to the fire. So they throw everything they have at the front.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 9h

To find out why, look in the mirror, Ushakov. You know what a mirror is, don't you?

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 4d

1/ Russian Railways is reported to have faked a Ukrainian attack to cover up its own culpability for a fatal derailment in the Leningrad region in September 2025, caused when a locomotive was ordered to be driven at over twice the permitted line speed. ⬇️

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

I recommend reading Oleksii Anulia's book "Jingle BellZ."

It is a testimony of a former Ukrainian prisoner of war about the modern Russian Gulag. You have probably read about Stalin's terror, but you cannot even imagine how much the system has changed and become even more terrifying since 1930.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 10h

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10h

NATO Secretary General Rutte:
…Now there is hardly any Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean left

There is a lone&broken Russian submarine limping home from patrol.What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October.Today, it seems more like The Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11h

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 16h

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think resignations will be accepted. Rumours have it that Lavrov, Peskov and Nabiullina have tried to resign, but Putin refused.

I think many will try to go underground. It's a big country. There are many isolated cottages. If people are tired of the war, few will turn them in.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 10h

I wonder where the equipment for these reservists would come when they are already short on just about everything as it is. Will they storm the Baltics and Poland equipped with sticks and stones?

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 10h

General Ben can use the same language as Solovyov and the other talking heads on Muscovite television, except in this case it is about attacking military targets, not civilians as Putin is primarily doing.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 10h

Let's take joy in the fact that it is the Muscovite energy sovereignty that is being consumed, degraded and annihilated.

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ALT: a man in a suit and tie sits in a chair with his legs crossed

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 10h

It looked foolish to me. Why would you insist on displaying only a view from your own vantage point when a drone or satellite above was more than likely deployed? Showing the two friendlies like X-ray images behind the hut, was peak silly. Drone-view is way better.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

Intellect has its limits, stupidity does not.

Yet another textbook example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

This "two more weeks" 🤡 and his emissary, Witless Shitkoff, hasn't exactly been able to get anywhere with Putin. Erdogan might, but it means Trump has to follow Recip's advice, even if it means pounding Putin daily with Tomahawks for a week or two.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

a man is standing on top of a tower with the words the eyes in the sky above him

ALT: a man is standing on top of a tower with the words the eyes in the sky above him

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

Putin is between a rock & a hard place, economically & in terms of the war in Ukraine. Which is likely why he furiously doubles down bombing UN trucks in Kherson, hospital in Kharkiv & civilians all over. A terrorist to the core, Putin does the only thing he knows how to do, demand more murders.

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

This one, I think.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 12h

China’s rise, its support for Russia’s war effort in Ukraine & the unreliability of Trump’s US have sharpened the dilemmas in European policy towards China. 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇬🇧

New @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief by @cerianbond.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/EJXAsaz

Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

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Next Muscovite veto, possibly supported by the CCP coming up soon in the pointless UNSC.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12h

🔴 Russian forces attacked a UN humanitarian convoy in Kherson region this morning, local authorities report.

Four UNHCR trucks came under drone and artillery fire — one burned, another was badly damaged, while two managed to escape unharmed.

Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 12h

The Illinois governor should have his film team recording what the DHS film team is up to.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Mats Bengtsson @matslbengtsson.bsky.social · 13h

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There needs to be a hefty tax on algorithms that are spreading disinfo and hate. If an algorithm designed to drive up engagement can figure out what drives engagement, it should be capable of figuring out if it is disinfo and hate too. But they don't because there is no cost. Make them pay.

VSquare.org @vsquare.bsky.social · 14h

⚡️Across Central Europe, politicians used paid social media ads to attack journalists, activists, NGOs. From Hungary to Slovakia, these campaigns spread disinformation and hate, reaching tens of thousands while Meta and Google profit from #SponsoredHate.

Sponsored Hate: How Politicians Paid for Meta Ads to Attack Journalists - VSquare.org

Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.

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