Marija N.

Graduate in environ sciences and sustainability with interest in policy. Loves tech, animals &.science. Wannabe fiction writer.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Kyiv today: 13 killed, 90+ injured — most of them in ordinary residential buildings.

Russia struck 28 sites across the city overnight with 70+ missiles and nearly 500 drones. This is Russia's daily war on civilians.

"Air defense supplies for Ukraine are an absolute and critical priority."
@ZelenskyyUa

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Russia just targeted and heavily damaged one of the most religiously significant sites in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Remember that the next time some pro-Russian simpleton blathers on about "Putin protecting Ukrainian Christians".

[Faysal @faysal7899]

A corner of Syria is now effectively a narco-state, run by former Assad officers and organized crime figures, and shielded by Israel. For @newlinesmag, @Charles_Lister explains how it got this way and why outside powers are running out of options. https://t.co/mxDZWV7njA

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Ukraine flew drones 1000km across Russia and blew up a $150m Russian warship and set fire to an oil terminal on the opening day of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Utter humiliation for the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

European Union, generally speaking, is pretty much the best humanity has done in its entire civilized history.

And it's exactly for the reason the far-right hates it: Built on the foundations of the 1945 anti-Nazi victory, fruits of the best of liberalism and socialism

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

"the rule of law breaking down" = elites no longer allowed to commit crimes with impunity

[Tabitha H. Sanders @thistabithahope]

Worth a read today: @airwars completed its project documenting civilian harm from Russian airstrikes in Syria. As many as 25,256 are reported to have been killed.

https://t.co/OV7KpMgq03

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"It is a famine we could have prevented"

UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher says people should read the IPC report "in sorrow and in anger".

https://t.co/be5yhQF4lI

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

All across #Damascus tonight, mosques are calling out prayers to mark the 12yr anniversary of the killing of 1,400 people in a Sarin nerve agent attack on Eastern Ghouta.

This is the 1st anniversary without #Assad — but accountability is still to come.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ July saw highest civilian casualties in Ukraine since 2022, UN says ahead of Trump-Putin summit.

https://t.co/FNzPE0xjBC

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

This language is so common that we forget how Orwellian it is. Self-determination is determination of the self, not others. When you deny millions of people citizenship in the land of their birth because they're the wrong religion, that's not self-determination. It's apartheid.

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

As things stand, Ukraine and Europe are on the verge of being confronted with exactly the kind of Faustian deal they feared would emerge back in February. The fact that Europe hasn’t moved to block such a deal in the past six months is a failure of leadership and diplomacy.

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[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

💥While Viktor Orbán rants against migrants and boasts of sealed borders, his gov't quietly brings in foreign workers from Asia to fill severe labor shortages—migrant labor that’s now propping up Hungary’s struggling economy.

Asians in Hungary grew from 25K to 100K under Orbán.

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

[ICRC in Israel & OT @ICRC_ilot]

Since May 27, the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah has treated over 4,500 weapon-wounded patients, most of whom said they were reaching food distribution sites when injured.

It is unacceptable that people are being injured and killed while trying to feed their families.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

the Elizabeth Warren CNBC hit that triggered Trump: "Trump ran for office saying he'd lower costs on day 1. Cost of groceries are up, cost of housing is up, cost of healthcare is up. And where is Donald Trump? He's passing a signature bill to throw people off their healthcare so he can do tax cuts for billionaires."

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

*Sigh*
As Edward Said said decades ago Palestinians don’t have permission to narrate their own destruction. It can only be told by someone with supposed “authority” and through a Western gaze. Now dead Palestinians clamoring “yes it’s genocide” 20 months ago weren’t “huge” enough

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

This was in October and November 2023. Now it is July 2025.

[Jason Overstreet @JasonOverstreet]

Israel is starving them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more repulsive than so many of you Democrats coming out at this late date opposing the horror Biden facilitated for two years, as you all watched or co-signed. The moral bankruptcy is historic and breathtaking. Sin.