barticus

pro-science, pro-humanity, pro-justice, pro-Ukraine. engineer, energy, geopolitics. You name I will have a bad take on it.

[barticus @BartCalvert]

@Immy_220 one. everyone else jumped out the window

[barticus @BartCalvert]

@JR1726100247720 @VALMICHEL7 every president post WWII and before will be rolling over in their graves (except the living ones of course).

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

The 647th consecutive day of protests in Georgia. 🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦

[barticus @BartCalvert]

@KatyKray73 @grok is this true?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

The heartbreaking story of two young sisters who protested in Iran and were reportedly sexually assaulted in detention.

Twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were just 20 years old. One dreamed of opening her own equestrian club. The other worked in a shoe shop.

Today, one is facing execution. The other has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The sisters, from Isfahan, were arrested in the middle of the night. Security forces broke into their home, tied their hands and feet, put bags over their heads, and took them away.

For four months, no one knew where they were.

Their mother spent night after night searching outside courthouses, prisons, and hospitals, desperate to find her daughters. When she finally saw them in Dowlatabad Prison, both had bruised and swollen faces. Parts of their hair had fallen out or had reportedly been ripped out.

Taraneh said that while held in solitary confinement, she could hear her sister screaming and crying as she was tortured. Interrogators repeatedly struck Taraneh’s previously operated knee and threatened to sexually assault her sister if she refused to sign forced confessions.

According to Taraneh, a prison medical official told her: “You’re going to die anyway. What difference does it make whether you die with a broken leg or a healthy one?”

A complaint alleging sexual assault during detention was formally filed. Yet the court did not hold even a single hearing to investigate the allegation. Instead, the two sisters and other defendants in the case were handed death sentences and decades-long prison terms.

Confessions extracted under torture. Lawyers given just ten minutes to review an 8,000-page case file. A judge who insulted the defendants more than 20 times during the proceedings.

Two young irani women had dreams and that is why they joined the January uprising to demand Freedom. Now one faces the gallows and the other could spend the best years of her life behind bars.

Be their voice.

#TaranehRahimi #RominaRahimi

[barticus @BartCalvert]

@Zara_588 is it the african american woman sitting in a whites only cafe?

[barticus @BartCalvert]

@wealthmoose Snake oil salesman

[Karel Burger Dirven @KBurgerDirven]

Tot ziens Kyiv🇺🇦! Terug naar het veilige NL. Al 55 uur onafgebroken jet Shaheds. Het luchtalarm is 21x afgegaan. Ik ben de tel kwijt. Gewekt door inslagen, explosies en luchtafweer.
Boycot alles wat russisch is, wat met rusland verbonden is en alles of iedereen die er zaken doet.

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

Our stubborn #GeorgiaProtests

📷 MOSE

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

The 639th consecutive day of protests in Georgia.

This is Shio. He and his family became pen pals with a political prisoner, Davit Koldar—orphaned as a child, with no family of his own and nowhere to go. When Davit finished his two-year sentence and was released, Shio's family took him in. Shio and Davit are now inseparable.

📷 Mo Se

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

Yesterday a damaged Russian Gerbera drone was circling helplessly over Odesa after being hit by an interceptor. The Yak-52 crew from the 11th Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” had it locked but refused to open fire over a populated city.

They tracked it patiently until the wind dragged it clear, then ground teams finished the job. We need more of these aircraft in the fight.

Right now we’re raising funds for a new engine to bring another Yak-52 into the anti-drone hunt with these brave crews. https://t.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have canceled their planned trip to Kyiv because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.”

Witkoff and Kushner have traveled to Moscow eight times for meetings with Putin.

But when it comes to visiting Kyiv, russian air strikes suddenly make the trip too dangerous.

Meanwhile, presidents and prime ministers from a dozen European countries have visited Kyiv over the past several days — despite those very same russian attacks.

This tells you something important about American diplomacy under Trump.

For months, we have been told that Witkoff and Kushner are trying to broker peace between russia and Ukraine. Yet the people supposedly acting as intermediaries repeatedly travel to Moscow, meet with Putin, listen to russia’s demands - and cannot even bring themselves to travel to the capital of the country russia is invading.

You cannot understand this war by visiting Moscow eight times and Kyiv zero times.

And you certainly cannot be an honest broker if you are willing to sit comfortably across the table from the aggressor but are too afraid to visit the victim because the aggressor might bomb you.

European leaders are showing what solidarity looks like.

Washington is showing what cowardliness and complacency look like.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

FUKUYAMA: I want to make a comment about US credibility. Trump canceled a major exercise with South Korea.

He did this because he thinks he has great relationship with Kim Jong Un, whom he feels is a reasonable leader.

North Korea has done nothing to earn this kind of approval.

North Korea is actively supplying tens of thousands of troops to help Russians defeat Ukraine.

North Korea has continued to build its ballistic and nuclear capabilities throughout entire period that Trump has been in power.

North Korea is part of this alliance of dictatorships that has really shown no interest in actual negotiated peaceful outcomes.

What this does for South Korea is pretty terrible.

Because it demonstrates that the fact that South Korea is major economic power and major regional military power makes no difference to this administration.

Which is simply going to act in the most short-term way possible.

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

Day 634 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia.

The regulars—and William, the crazy neighborhood dog who defends them against all evil, from passing cars to undercover officers unconvincingly pretending to be pedestrians.

[Rusudan Djakeli 🇬🇪🇺🇦 @rusudanjakeli]

Slava Ukraini!

Now in the streets of Tbilisi.

The 635th consecutive day of protests in Georgia.

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

It’s very nice to see the Heroes Square overpass filled with people again! 🔥

Day 428 of #GeorgiaProtests

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

This is the couple savagely killed by Russia in a recent video, one that unfortunately didn’t go viral the way Russian bullshit does.

The Klochkov couple tried to escape from the occupied village of Hrabovske in the Sumy region. Valerii was pulling his wife Valentyna on a sled. They covered 7 kilometers like that.
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[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

With all the mess going on in the world.

Don’t forget there are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian service members in the cold tonight, in trenches, in dugouts in sub zero temperatures protecting Europe.

There are millions of Ukrainian civilians paying the price of protecting Europe along with themselves, men, women, the elderly and children paying the price for our freedom.

I cannot speak for them, but I believe at the very least, they would ask us to not forget them, and to not stop telling the world about what’s happening in Ukraine. Keep them in your mind and your heart.

Russia is a terrorist state and Ukraine will be free, but do not stop supporting them.

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

Today marks exactly a year since the #GeorgiaProtests would have totally and absolutely been over, according to the Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.

Day 420. Until the end!

📷 @rusudanjakeli

[Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @Mikiashvili_M]

Day 417 of daily #GeorgiaProtests

Amid the whirlwind of global disasters, my people persist against the Russian-backed regime that finds its role as the connecting puzzle-piece to Iran and China.

Despite having corrupted the financial elites and parts of the society, Georgians refuse to give in to Russia and the Autocracy, Inc., with endurance and maintenance of political and civil society fabric amid the crackdown as the main weapon and a bridging tool to when the society is consolidated against the regime.

What helps is international isolation, targeted sanctions, and aid to civil society and independent media.

📷 MOSE