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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥

@templeofhate.com

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Neocon apostate, neorealism convert, unapologetic liberal democrat. Volunteer for Ukraine. Posts in 🇬🇧 or 🇩🇪. https://blueskyroast.com/roast/templeofhate.com #PolSci, #GeoPolitics, #Ukraine

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · Sep 7

What sunrise sounds like when your neighbouring country is a genocidal, imperialist, fascist regime. Every Russian is guilty.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #РусниПизда

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 8h

Someone really should upgrade their 3rd-world LLMs. It's getting a bit boring.

#NAFOArticle5 - #NAFO, do your thing. Repost, report, never engage.

How do you know a russian lies?

They move their lips.

RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 8h

#NAFOArticle5 - and no, we still did not pronounce this nonsense, @ivan2027.bsky.social

Maybe your slaveholder masters will give you another potato if you keep posting? Who knows? Do you, #NAFO?

The great and powerful and TOTALLY NOT GHEY leader of the small duchy of Muscovia. Русні пизда and all that.

RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 8h

Otherwise, subscribe to bsky.app/profile/pef-... and act accordingly. Let's keep this place free from Nazis, russian or otherwise. Repost, refollow, etc. Pretend it's Twitter in August 2023, #NAFO

The only good russian is a dead russian.

RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 9h

If you're in Germany, or any other civilised country, check out whether these posts constitute a criminal offence, and act accordingly.

For the Germans: bsky.app/profile/mode... <- Subscribe, and report www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__130.h...

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 9h

#NAFOArticle5 For those of you new to this place: Likes do nothing, reposts/quote posts do. Do your thing, #NAFO.

Der Führer des Drittweltdrohnenterrorstaats namens ruzzia. Manly man. Totally not ghey as fuck.

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 9h

#NAFOArticle5 - Fellas, do your thing, please.

@ivan2027.bsky.social needs some TLC.

Слава Україні!

russia is a third-world kleptocracy. Treat it accordingly.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h

Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I will be there on October 18th, and I hope you will be too.
#NoKings
snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...

No Kings — Freedom (video)

Why protest is patriotic

snyder.substack.com

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 14h

Or listen (again). 😏

Either way, a sensational book by @timothysnyder.bsky.social.

RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 15h

Not enough people have read this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodla... And it shows, especially in Germany where the slow drip of Russian propaganda has poisoned people's perception and furthered the rise of Russia aligned parties like BSW, Linke, and, most prominently, the AfD. Read it.

#NAFO

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 16h

Gerne doch: www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

Ihr Link verweist auf die FAZ-App im Android Play Store - ist auch super!

Religiöse Rechte in den USA: Christentum im Kampfmodus

In den Vereinigten Staaten fällt die Kluft zwischen den Parteien immer stärker mit einer religiösen Kluft ineinander. Darin steckt eine Lehre für Europa.

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 18h

Thank you for sharing. The unpaywalled copy is here: archive.is/EouLH

"According to a UN report last month, [...] 92% gave accounts of abuse. The methods included beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, ritual humiliation and rape. For soldiers the percentage is even higher."

VOLODYMYR MYKOLAYENKO is 65, but looks ten years older. A former mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kherson, he was detained by Russian forces during their eight-month occupation in 2022. Freed at the end of August, he is now giving interviews from a hospital in Kyiv. And that is refocusing attention on what the UN’s human-rights mission in the capital calls Russia’s “systematic and widespread” torture and ill-treatment of its prisoners.
Civilian and military detainees are treated equally badly. According to a UN report last month, of 216 released civilians it interviewed 92% gave accounts of abuse. The methods included beatings, electric shocks, stress positions, ritual humiliation and rape. For soldiers the percentage is even higher. Mr Mykolayenko describes being beaten several times a day, and particularly severe “welcome beatings” each time he was transferred to a new facility. Food was so poor that he and his fellow prisoners lost drastic amounts of weight, and sanitary conditions so bad that many caught scabies. The only dental treatment he saw, once in the three years, was a tooth-pulling without anaesthetic. One guard, he says, made a practice of beating prisoners’ hands with a mallet. “Once I asked him ‘Why are you doing this?’ For a reply, I got a beating on the head.”
Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war
Singled out for particularly brutal treatment are members of one of Ukraine’s most prestigious military units, the Azov Corps. A 26-year-old junior lieutenant in the corps, Yan Danylko, was released earlier this year. Halfway through a masters degree in law when Russia launched its invasion, he signed up and took part in the battle for Mariupol, surrendering when the city fell after a three-month siege. During his three years in Russian captivity he lost a third of his weight. Standard abuses were beatings and being made to stand for 12 hours at a stretch; more elaborate positions included “the motorcycle” and “the starfish”, both unendurable …

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 1d

»“Whereas I think Americans are the opposite — they think everything is as good as it can possibly be, even when it’s shit.”«

🎁 link (no paywall)

Bill Bryson: Things are bad in Britain. But America is worse

The American author and honorary Brit on the state of the world, updating his bestseller A Short History of Nearly Everything, and why it’s his last interview

www.thetimes.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 1d

Good luck, America. »It won’t be long before crucial agency missions begin to fail. This won’t matter to those for whom the goal is vengeance and demolition.«

Trump’s Costly Cuts to the Civil Service

The administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding error’s worth in savings.

www.theatlantic.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 1d

Actually, no. The similarities with modern Russia (or late stage socialist East Germany) are, though.

RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 1d

Congratulations to every morally outraged lefty "supporting Gaza".

»Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal.«

🎁 link (no paywall)

U.S. files reveal Israeli-Arab military cooperation, even as Gaza war raged

Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 1d

I remember sitting in a room listening to Scholz advisor Wolfgang Schmidt blather that Germany couldn’t possibly send Ukraine tanks because there’d be German iron crosses painted on them and then Russia would say Germany was at war with Russia.
We’ve come a long way.
We can and must go further. 🇺🇦🇩🇪💪

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 1d

More like "what WeChat would be if it were made by 3rd-world career criminals cosplaying as developers best known for terrorist attacks on liberal democracy". Otherwise, accurate.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #РусниПизда

Russia’s Answer to WeChat

The Kremlin is pushing a new “super app” for Russian citizens. What could possibly go wrong?

www.theatlantic.com

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 1d

A confrontation is building between the Supreme Court and the lower courts.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 9d

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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RobinK 👊🇪🇺🔥 @templeofhate.com · 1d

I just stumbled across www.wired.com/story/mark-b... - my condolences, professor. Safe travels. ¡No pasarán!

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 1d

Triple terror.

In the Chernihiv region, a russian drone targeted a service car of engineers who came to repair an energy facility after russia's previous attack — killing two workers and injuring three.

When rescuers arrived, russians shelled them too.

Unspeakable horror. Don't look away.

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