Eric Ferguson

Former DFL chair, former candidate, occasional blogger, frequent volunteer, regular news junkie, freelance web designer.

[𝓜𝓲𝓼𝓼 𝓤𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓸𝓭 @INFJLOVE]

Why did they physically shut down the voice of this college student who describes what he saw and heard from third row as witness to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination? He describes in detail what he saw and what he heard. Listen carefully…

[Derek Cressman @DerekCressman]

@elonmusk Maybe we should tax billionaires.

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@rickyrubio9 It would be great to have you back in Minnesota.

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@NickKruse_ @hellodonavon 2) So we chose to not post it. The admin who deleted it wasn't the admin who's a state officer. We discussed it and agreed to not post. Why anyone would harass someone else over a vote is beyond me, but there we are.

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@NickKruse_ @hellodonavon 1) I explained this to Nick directly, but to answer your question Donavon, a DNC member is being harassed about the vote for chair. Votes aren't private and we have the right to post it, but we don't want to risk adding to the harassment this person received.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, following reports from our government officials, we agreed on actions regarding Syria—primarily humanitarian and security efforts aimed at stabilization. For Ukraine, this is important: the calmer the situation in such regions, the more actively the world can help us achieve peace.

It is precisely for this reason that Moscow tries so hard to ignite more conflicts and wars in various parts of the world, fueling instability and adding to global challenges.

We are ready to assist Syria in preventing a food crisis, particularly through the humanitarian program “Grain from Ukraine.” I have instructed the government to establish food supply mechanisms in cooperation with international organizations and partners who can help.

We call on everyone worldwide to join stabilization efforts to ensure that the war—ignited over a decade ago in Syria with the involvement of Iran and Russia—can finally come to an end.

[Lauren Cone @LConeCNN]

"You're okay, you're okay."

A remarkable moment as CNN's @clarissaward and her team find a Syrian prisoner left behind in a secret prison, alone and unaware the Assad regime was no more.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

63yo Sofia Bila has passed away after battling a severe illness. This brave woman hid three Ukrainian soldiers in the basement of her house for a month while her village in the Kherson region was under russian occupation. She later evacuated them, successfully passing six enemy checkpoints. The immense stress caused her to suffer a stroke, and her health rapidly declined.
Her courage and sacrifice should be remembered forever. Rest in eternal glory, pani Sofia.
Via @zminaUkraine and Hromadske.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The “brave” Assad ran away to Putin. Where will Putin run away?

This year's Human Rights Day is marked by heartbreaking images of Syrian prisons and torture chambers, which were opened after Assad ran away. People have been humiliated there for many years. Men and women. They were beaten, tortured, raped. Thousands upon thousands of people have passed through this violence factory.

For decades, the Assad regime has relied solely on violence. And this is what all Putin-backed regimes look like. We have seen these types of prisons, torture chambers, unspeakable violence, humiliation, beating, torture, rape, and other crimes on our territory in every location occupied by Russian invaders.

Russia is a prison state and it can only keep hold of someone else’s stolen land by putting its prisons and torture chambers there.

Since the beginning of the Russian occupation, tanks have been followed by repression and torture. We first saw it on our land in Crimea in 2014, when Russian occupation resulted in repression of the indigenous people, Ukraine's largest Muslim community, the Crimean Tatars, as well as journalists and political figures. Then Russia continued its horrific human rights violations in the occupied Donbas, including the notorious Izolyatsia prison.

Since February 2022, Russia has expanded these practices to the rest of the occupied territories. Atrocities have increased in scope and brutality.

This is why we, as Ukrainians, feel so moved when we see Syrians walking out of Assad's prisons and torture chambers.

Assad and Putin are more than just vassal and lord. They are accomplices in violence. Dictators like Assad cannot survive without dictators like Putin. And Putin will try to get a revenge for Assad’s fall.

This is why we need unity and strength to confront regimes that only sow humiliation and leave nothing but suffering, pain, and ruins in their wake. By assisting Ukraine in its fight against Putin's dictatorship, the international community is assisting many other regions in restoring security and protection from violence.

There must be justice for the horrific atrocities and human rights violations. In fact, Putin and Assad are the ones who deserve to be imprisoned, not the innocent people they have been imprisoning for years.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

For two years now, a dog has been waiting every day near a gas station for his owner, Oleksii Savranskyi, who died in a battle in Donetsk region in April 2023.

Employees of the gas station said that Oleksii worked there. "Lioshka", "Liokha" – this is the name the dog reacts to. Oleksii often took the dog with him to work.

Oleksii's family and friends care for the dog. Despite this, even after the death of his owner, the dog comes to the place where they have always been together and waits for a miracle...

📹: Ruslan Senichkin

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

Let at this, and remember Trump wants to put an Assad apologist in charge of US intelligence agencies.

[Hiba karm @Hibakarm]

It just discovered a huge pile of bones in #SednayaPrison . It seems that the criminal regime officers were liquidating the prisoners before the events of the regime's downfall accelerated.

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

This is Tetiana Syrovatko and her mom.

Russia killed them with an airbomb strike on a civilian district i Zaporizhzhia.

They burned alive in a car. Tetiana was a 9th grader in the 93d Gymnasium. She was active in all school activities.

Another schoolgirl burned alive with her family too.

In total, Russia killed 10 Ukrainians in that strike on 6 December. Russia attacks civilians in this city every single day.

https://t.co/2ymoQwVywU

[ბათუმელები • Batumelebi.ge @Batumelebi_ge]

"Our country is occupied by Russia and our pro🇷🇺 govt stopped having conversations with🇪🇺; they want us to be under 🇷🇺influence. We need the world's support, especially Europe's - please don't give up on us," Tako, #GeorgiaProtests: Why People in Georgia Are Taking to the Streets

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@flabbergastone @kenmartin73 Who do you think pays the wages of a party chair?

[Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 @Lyla_lilas]

Today, in Kryvyi Rih, a farewell ceremony is being held for mother Olena Kulyk and her three children: ten-year-old Kyrylo, two-year-old Demyd, and two-month-old Ulyana.

They were killed by a Russian missile on November 11.

🕯Rest in peace. 💔

Source: Live Ukraine

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Just to clarify: this isn’t just the first time since WW2 that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share.

It’s the first time since this data was first recorded in 1905. Essentially the first time in the history of democracy (universal suffrage began in 1894).

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@solverHenry @Gerashchenko_en He fell for all his tricks before and felt comfortable in Putin's pocket. What changed, other than Putin helped Trump get in a second time thanks to Trump being a dumb egomaniac and millions of Americans being endlessly gullible.

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@Gerashchenko_en I can't help asking: what is "Overseas Pindostan"?

[Eric Ferguson @ericmferguson]

@RobertR20763925 @keithedwards That shows how much respect she gets from Republicans for being willing to go on Fox News.

[🌻Justice⚖Now 🌟🇺🇸 @ChrisJustice01]

@Gerashchenko_en More should be done about this. And let Ukraine strike back. It’s not just US keeping it from happening, but allies who have been against it. #ArmUkraineToWin #RussiaIsATerroristState