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Goodbye, Roediger
October 29, 2011-April 9, 2024
You looked like a little raccoon with big black circles around your eyes when you first came into my life on a cold December night only a month after the untimely loss of a puppy. I questioned whether this was the right decision.
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Do Ukrainian officials and pundits not know of reverse image searches to keep posting such fakes?
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Meanwhile in Russia…
Anger as Police Scotland rebrands paedophiles as 'Minor-Attracted People'
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On May 2, 2014, dozens of people were murdered or burned alive in the Odessa Trades Unions Building at the hands of the so-called Ukrainian nationalists months after the regime change. The perpetrators walk free.
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Poland: The S-300 strike seems to have come from the Ukrainian side.
US: Because of the trajectory, it’s unlikely to be a Russian strike.
British media, naturally:
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Russia has written off debts to African countries in the amount exceeding $20 billion.
Russia and China write off debt and help with economic development, while certain Western countries simply like to lecture Africa and give ultimatums.
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Children of war hiding in a cellar in Donbass, 2014, is the quintessential image of the region’s suffering that the western establishment would rather ignore. A conflict longer than WWII.
📷 Photojournalist Andy Rochelli who died under Ukrainian Army’s fire with his interpreter
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Japan’s Kishida talking about the danger of Russia repeating a nuclear weapons catastrophe while standing in the US Congress, the only country to use nukes—ON JAPAN—has got to be the highest level of gaslighting, self-deceit, and lackeyism all at once.
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China to NATO: “[W]e will never forget who had bombed our embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. We need no lecture on justice from the abuser of international law…”
Wow.
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The “international community” keeps banning the Russian flag to humiliate them, but Russian students continue winning gold and silver medals at global math and science competitions. About a week ago, they got five golds for physics in Tokyo; here—three golds and a silver in
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This prophetic early 1990s video about the conflict in Ukraine is worth resharing.
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A protest in Cologne, Germany against sanctions and to resume energy ties with Russia.
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"Ukraine is like a worm who thinks it's going fishing with the fishermen" is the best analogy I saw on Twitter this weekend.
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Having a Russian (banned as a group by xenophobes), Elena Rybakina, and a Serb, Novak Djokovic (persecuted for defending bodily autonomy), BOTH WIN WIMBLEDON is beautiful on so many levels.
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In light of the “Hollywood production” Zelensky greenscreen video circulating everywhere today, my question isn’t, “Where is he actually located,” but rather, “Does Zelensky even exist?”
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NATO got smacked with Community Notes. Made my day! 🤣
Let’s get our facts straight:
#NATO
is a defensive Alliance, aiming to safeguard its member nations.
Check out
@NATO
website for facts on NATO - Russia relations:
#WeAreNATO
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These parents are proud that their son finally passed the drug test.
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Replace “Russian” with another ethnocultural background, read it out loud, and see how it sounds. 🤷🏻♀️
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A summary of selective public outrage. Who made this?
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Seeing this video featuring Zelensky on Russian TV from 2013 is a good reminder that he was an actor then, and he is an actor now.
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Russian opera diva Anna Netrebko triumphantly returned to Berlin where she performed Verdi. The performance was sold out, and the audience thanked Anna with an extended ovation. This was her first performance in Germany since getting "canceled" in 2022. A small sign of
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Welcome to Moscow. 😂 Zero sympathy for giant virtue-signaling corporations who pulled out of Russia and then have the gall to whine about this sort of thing.
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NBC journalist is surprised that the Crimean bridge has been repaired, that Crimeans support Russia, and that water is wet.
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Not Ukraine. Belgrade, Novi Sad, et al under NATO’s 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. The bombing included civilians and civilian infrastructure.
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New Zealand named Russia (along with China and Iran) one of its top foreign threats. So I drew a helpful diagram:
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To be fair, I wouldn’t want to catch any of the NATO cooties either 😉
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-Dad, why is it so cold?
-Because Russia invaded Ukraine.
-What does this have to do with us?
-We introduced sanctions.
-Why?
-To make Russians suffer.
-Does this mean we’re Russian?
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It began on March 24, 1999. 78 days, 11 weeks. 2,300 airstrikes. Cluster bombs. Cancer-linked depleted uranium. Up to 5,700 civilian deaths. This was NATO’s assault on Yugoslavia. We remember.
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As of July 16, Ukraine is to start fining those not using Ukrainian language with fines up to $300-400. This law targets officials, managers, + employees of institutions + businesses. The extreme measure is meant to eradicate the Russian language. European values, right, Ursula?
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Ukraine's previous President, Poroshenko, and his policy on Donbass: "We will have jobs—they will not. We will have pensions—they will not. [....] Our children will go to schools and kindergartens—theirs will hide in the basements (cellars)."
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Lugansk was one of the first areas to experience major escalation by Kiev in 2014 incl. air strikes. At that time, even western media documented it. So it’s unsurprising that these medical students formed the word “Russia” and said “Forever with Russia.”
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Sweden will not allow Russia to participate in an investigation of the industrial sabotage of its Nord Stream 1 and 2 projects.
You know what they say, Sweden? When you’re investigating a crime, it’s important not to discover that you’re the one who’s the culprit. 😉
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This s HUGE. According to TASS, Serbia’s leader Aleksandar Vucic said that warnings earlier this month from the US and British embassies directed at their citizens not to visit public places in Moscow indicate that their intelligence services may have had information about
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After 12 years of war in his country, Assad continues to look and dress like a leader, in contrast to a certain B-movie-styled khaki cr
@ckhead
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Why is visiting Tokyo considered real Japan, Berlin — real Germany, but Moscow is not “real Russia”?
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RT is banned on Youtube, but Azov isn't. All you need to know.
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Impressive oratory skills at the EU parliament yet again.
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“Cultural break” is the cool new euphemism for “ethnic cleansing.”
Ukraine to restrict Russian books, music in latest cultural break from Moscow
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I don’t follow tennis closely. But today I’m experiencing intense Schadenfreude because of the US Open 2023 final: 🇷🇺 Russia’s Medvedev—who isn’t allowed to represent his country—vs. 🇷🇸 Serbia’s “anti-v
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” Djokovic. This is an excellent cosmic F-YOU to all the flipping muppets
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This is so enjoyable: the BBC got slapped with a community note about Libya. As you can see, their coverage mentions Libya's former prosperity and the current devastation but conveniently leaves out the cause of this status change: the ̶u̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶t̶r̶u̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ 2011
Libya was once one of Africa's most prosperous countries, but years of lawlessness have left it a fragile, divided state - ill-prepared to cope with the forces unleashed by a natural disaster.
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“You mean you don’t understand Russian? It’s high time to learn it.” 🤣
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Navalny's wife appears to have been partying and enjoying life for much of her husband's incarceration. But now that he's gone, she is being activated in the role of a "grieving widow" despite all the evidence to the contrary. It's even more pathetic than the
Мне наплевать, как мои слова комментирует пресс-секретарь убийцы. Отдайте тело Алексея и дайте его достойно похоронить, не мешайте людям с ним попрощаться.
И я очень прошу всех журналистов, которые еще могут задавать вопросы: не спрашивайте про меня, спрашивайте про Алексея.
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What "takes the f*cking cake" (sic) is 8 years of terrorizing the civilian population of Donbass.
Stick to writing books for 13-year-olds. Geopolitical analysis has never been your forte.
After nine months of killing and in many cases torturing civilians; after razing whole towns; the Russians call blowing up a bridge "terrorism." That takes the fucking cake.
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@CarlZha
“Relatively civilized” and “relatively European” puts Slavs lower in the hierarchy than the self-proclaimed “civilized” west, but higher than e.g. the MENA region—one of the reasons the prolonged war in one of the poorest countries, Yemen, makes few headlines.
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A year after Kiev cut off water for Donetsk, the Russians built the first segment of a new pipeline from a different source. These have been typical Kiev tactics since 2014 when e.g. they cut off the water supply to Crimea.
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Moscow is well known for its convenient subway and its architecture, especially of its older, stunning, marble Soviet stations. However, the city adds stations regularly and maintains its existent infrastructure. Here is the newest one, Airport Vnukovo. It now takes about 45
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A monument in Athens commemorating USSR in WWII with ever-so-classy Azov graffiti. This is not the flex their fans think it is.
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One of Ukraine's main media sources, Hromadske, discussing Donbass as a region that has a "huge number of absolutely useless people." Of the 4M in Donetsk area at the time, 1.5M are "superfluous," and "simply must be killed." Donbass is just a "source of resources."
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This is what “serious media” decided to go with. They belong in a circus.
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The same photo series of families escaping from the Ukrainian Army’s shelling in Donbass by Andy Rochelli (2014).
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Armenians addressing Ukrainian refugees, “Armenia welcomed you […] But we are against you raising the symbols of an enemy, Nazi state […] If you continue raising these symbols, we’ll consider it a personal insult to every Armenian.”
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There are many graphic images of the 2014 Odessa massacre. This, however, is the most haunting one.
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No matter how the western media (here—the Economist) spins these incidents, the pictures speak for themselves.
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The Russian Aerospace Forces tested a new missile for an air defense system at the Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan. Holy bleeping bleep, this thing is huge and terrifying!
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By the end of 2015, several dozen Orthodox churches were damaged or completely leveled in Donetsk and Lugansk areas, *each*, in what appears to have been deliberate shelling by Ukraine's military.
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Britain certainly has quite the history of starving people in the Indian sub-continent.
Imran Khan shamelessly offers to import two million tons of wheat AND buy gas from Russia
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Whenever you’re feeling down or alone, let these timeless words be your guiding light in the sea of darkness.
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According to the NYT, multiple countries have actually increased imports from Russia since February 2022, including some in Europe.
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A child celebrating his birthday in Donbass. Three candles stuck in a slice of bread. This one really gets me. 💔
Source unknown.
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On "Holodomor":
First, the 1932/3 famine in the Soviet Union affected multiple regions, not just Ukraine. Second, western Ukraine was not part of the Soviet Union. Third, there were other factors like weather conditions and a poor harvest in 1931/2.👇
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Alex from the 138th separate motorized rifle brigade is chill enough to throw away grenades. You, armchair military expert, are not. Be like Alex.
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McDonald’s logo is removed in Belgorod, Russia while playing a song called Goodbye, America. 😂
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The Taliban designed a new sports car. Take that, Elon Musk!
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Odessa massacre, Trade Union Building, May 2014, in which dozens died in the flames at the hands of Ukraine’s radicals. The perpetrators have been walking around free for almost eight years.
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These are the people who laugh at North Korea. 👀
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This 22-year-old, Tatiana Andriets, faces up up to 17 years in prison in Latvia for “establishing a criminal organization.”
Was she in the mafia? Dealing illicit drugs?
Nope. She is accused of creating a telegram channel called Baltic Anti-Fascists which has <8K subs. 🤦🏻♀️
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Random and obviously unarmed Rostov resident scolding Wagner soldiers armed to the teeth:
“Shame on you! Are you defenders of the Fatherland or not? Why are you creating chaos?”
Unfuckwithable senior citizens!
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In one of his latest frontline propaganda videos, Ukraine’s former President Poroshenko (the one who led a full-scale war against Donbass civilians) casually sported a black sun patch.
Поїздка на фронт для мене — це завжди найголовніша подія тижня. Хедлайнер в розкладі.
Після парламентської діяльності, перемовин з міжнародними партнерами щодо підтримки України, акумулювання та розподілу благодійної допомоги та іншої тихої роботи в тилу, ця подія — великий
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Moscow Metro, which has free WiFi. Monday rush hour. Purple line.
H/T
@1NikolaMirkovic
📷: Oksana Koroleva.
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Lithuania completed building a fence along its border with Belarus. But not everyone supported this decision:
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In October 1942, 19-year-old Matvei Putilov is believed to have died during the Battle of Stalingrad connecting the phone wires with his teeth—to restore communication—because his shoulder and hand were injured. The current passed through his body and communication was restored.
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Belarus responds to Ukraine, “If you do not want war, there won't be one. But do not provoke us, do not try to intimidate us, do not escalate and things will be as you want. We do not want war and threaten no one. However, we will respond to any challenges and provocations.”
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Shelling Donbass by Ukraine’s troops — a reality for its residents since 2014.
📷 Dan Levy, 2015.
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Looks like those dishwasher and refrigerator chips were the perfect fit.
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Renowned Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) considers Hollywood films an extension of US foreign policy:
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Russia is ready to supply African countries, including Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, the Central African Republic, and Eritrea with about 25-50 thousand tons of grain FOR FREE. This news comes in the wake of the grain deal's collapse.
Despite the official Western
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You are observing the way in which Poland manages to piss off its big neighbors, the Russians and the Germans, simultaneously and in real-time. 😅
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Berlusconi: If I were Italy’s leader, I would not have met with Zelensky. All he had to do was stop attacking Donbass, and none of this would’ve happened.
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