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[Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky]

This video will make you cry. These are 44 children who were killed by the Islamic Republic’s suppression forces in #Iran. #MahsaAmini

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

Honestly I still can't get over how russia is basically allowed to commit genocide on our land, run torture camps, bomb our hospitals, target our energy so we freeze and starve, but its escalation if we want to stop their bombers & missile launchers that are literally killing us

[@eliothiggins.bsky.social @EliotHiggins]

This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services. @christogrozev did some digging and made some interesting discoveries about their neighbours in Moscow.

[Sergej Sumlenny, LL.M @sumlenny]

So now we have a officially recognized terrorist state with its permanent seat in the UN Security Council, and with its nukes. It was damned clever to transfer onto Russia all the privilege of the USSR back than in 1991, “to avoid chaos”, hm? #RussiaIsATerroristState

[Tech Burrito @TechBurritoUno]

This charity developed a shoe that can grow up to five sizes, helping to stop children in developing countries walking barefoot.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

One thing that keeps me up at night right now is the possibility that Twitter’s potential death spiral will coincide with a major regional/national/global crisis. For better or worse, Twitter is a crucial disaster comms tool, and we don’t have a replacement for it. 1/

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

darth vader statue replacing lenin in odesa, ukraine

[Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211]

Czech Republic adopted a resolution recognizing the Russian regime as a "terrorist regime"
If only countries outside of Eastern Europe would do the same. Eastern Europeans have been sounding the alarm since 2008

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

Remarkable video: A young, unveiled female protester in Ardabil (NW Iran) is physically accosted by more than a dozen male and female security forces. She escapes their clutches and continues to protest.

[World Climate Service @WorldClimateSvc]

October was the warmest in at least 60 years for large parts of western/southwestern Europe and both western and eastern Canada, according to @CopernicusECMWF ERA5 data. In contrast, cool areas did not generally break into the coldest 10 for the 60-year history. Remarkable warmth