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Ukrainian Defender Mykola has injuries to his face and limbs, an amputation of his right hand, and a fracture of the bones in his left shin. He has undergone major surgeries.

At home, a wife and two children are waiting for Mykola.

📹: Serhii Ryzhenko
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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This boy is only 2 years old — and already knows how to survive.

Child in #Ukraine gets ready to spend the night in the corridor — the safest spot in an apartment during Russian attacks under the “two-walls” rule. This has become a daily reality for millions.

📹🖊️Ukrainian World Congress
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Get up, Stand up
Bob Marley
✊🏾✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏻
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Can we at least stop this?
Torture is making a big comeback in the Trump era.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
No essential supplies in truce: Gaza’s healthcare system broken by Israel
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I really love this book we made. Hard to believe that it was actually released this year. It feels like it's been out for longer. You can also engage resources related to the book here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... - a friend sent me a short clip of him reading with his son ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Alligator Alcatraz 'Meets the Definition of Torture Under International Law', Amnesty International Claims
Source: Latin Times
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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🤣🤣🤣
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Himes: "The end result was two individuals without any weaponry, without any tools of any kind, clinging to a wrecked boat ... the decision was taken to kill them and that is in fact what happened. And that was pretty hard to watch."
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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@govpritzker.illinois.gov - we can do this.
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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It's being done in our name.
With our money.
Tom Nichols: “This ongoing game show of ‘strike a boat every day’ […] is making us into worse people — every one of us, whether we’re in uniform or just ordinary citizens. It is spiritually and morally corrosive on every level.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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“This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”
“Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes...
www.democracynow.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Investigators discovered he had been sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl he met online. According to the federal indictment, the abuse occurred repeatedly over a period of time, with prosecutors alleging dozens of incidents.
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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We all know that Kenya is in the “hay hat” club with some of our most stylish elephants, particularly Maia and Guille. This week’s Sunday Smile shows us one of Kenya’s fashionable looks, as she’s placed a flake of alfalfa hay atop her head. She’s dusting a little haphazardly, even tossing
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
A little bit of heaven
Mr.& Mrs. Common Green Magpie.

The common green magpie (Cissa chinensis) is a member of the crow family, roughly the size of the Eurasian jay or slightly smaller.

A neon-colored, noisy, highly social bird.

📸: Arijit Mahata.
December 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Get some happy this week.🎼🎵
December 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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“No human being is garbage, Mr. President, and shame on you for saying so,” said the Lutheran pastor.“In the name of Jesus, I rebuke those hateful words.The Somali community in Minnesota are our neighbors, brothers and sisters, children of God, fellow Americans.”

www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
Twin Cities religious leaders unite to support Somali community and condemn Trump attacks
Religious leaders from churches, Jewish temples and mosques from across the state opposed remarks from President Donald Trump that included calling Somalis “garbage.”
www.startribune.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'

She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Woman forcefully detained in Keys was driving ‘illegal’ boyfriend’s car, feds say
The woman in medical scrubs, who was a U.S. citizen, was yanked from her car and wrestled to the ground by federal immigration agents in a Key Largo traffic stop Wednesday before she was released.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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San Diego agrees to pay $30 million to family of teenager mistakenly shot in the back by cop. "[Konoa] Wilson ran away from the gunfire and, as he fled, passed by officer Daniel Gold near the station corridor." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
San Diego agrees to pay $30m to family of boy, 16, shot dead by police
Settlement one of US’s largest and comes after officer killed Konoa Wilson, who was running from teen shooting at him
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Sunday Taquitos #5: Out of Business

Art by Ivan Ehlers.
December 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM