Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦

(莊凱源) Илья/Шынар, 24, She/They 🏳️‍⚧️ ⚧️ ✡️ Well-adjusted young lady, decolonial leftist. Russian, Nenets, Qazaq, Taiwanese.
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[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

Aleksandr Gabyshev and other Indigenous activists and leaders have been harassed, intimidated, and falsely imprisoned by the Russian state for years now, as part of a continued effort to subjugate and oppress us in our own lands.

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Another sad example - Aleksandr Gabyshev, a Yakut shaman and anti-Putin political dissident, arrested and sentenced to involuntary, indefinite confinement in a psychiatric hospital. His case has sparked condemnation of the political abuse of psychiatry in Russia.

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

@ElayneOkaya Reminds me of that time white Brits tried to trademark the word "Pho" and only backed down after intense backlash, the sun may have set on the empire but the spirit of colonial theft lives on in their hearts

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

@Helvelilia @redhead_ophelia I don't know how to tell you this but there are plenty of people who call themselves anarchists and are functionally indistinguishable from self identified Marxist Leninists in their reactionary racist beliefs.

[jacob🇺🇦🇵🇸 @fuckaasbitch]

tough pill to swallow: between Russia and Ukraine only one of these countries has bought Israeli weapons and it's not Ukraine

[Danny Kemp @dannyctkemp]

AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’

[蔣不CHIANG Seeta @Chiangseeta]

When a Chinese filmmaker screens their work in New York while their family back home must bear the weight of fear, such blatant intimidation goes far beyond the realm of cultural censorship — it is a blatant act of transnational repression under long-arm control.

Who is pulling the strings behind all this?
Who is afraid of being seen?
And who, ultimately, is afraid of cinema?

On November 6, 2025, a brief notice suddenly appeared on the ticketing page of IndieChina’s official website （https://t.co/sIWxNTEEtF ）— “The film festival has been canceled.”A few hours later, curator Zhu Rikun released a statement on the festival’s website, writing:“Given the current situation, anyone involved in the festival — whether directors, forum participants, peripheral collaborators, volunteers, or even audiences — may face threats or harassment. The festival involves countless participants and audiences, and their safety is my top priority at this moment.”

So, what exactly is this “current situation”?
According to Zhu’s own account on Facebook the day before, since October 30, his family in China had begun to experience harassment. Soon after, the tenant of his Beijing studio was also summoned by the authorities. Within just two days, directors began sending “voluntary withdrawal” emails one after another — some even demanded that all publicity related to their films be taken down.

Filmmakers long based in the United States, Europe, and Africa, as well as forum guests and post-screening hosts, saw their relatives in China called in for questioning by the police.The redlines of censorship stretch across oceans and borders, reaching precisely those who still had the slightest connection to “China.”

Worse still, the screening venue in Manhattan, New York, received an anonymous letter of complaint.The sender, claiming to be “a group of Chinese students living in New York,” accused the festival of misrepresenting the realities of contemporary China and urged the venue to cancel the screenings.And as for who was truly behind all this — the answer, needless to say, is obvious.

[cabby @cabby]

we all knew they were dumb as rocks and out of touch but mamdani winning convincingly while not once conceding on trans rights is so fucking funny after how many establishment democrats thought that trans people were the reason they lost

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

The original account is unequivocally Zionist. but forgive me if I'm skeptical of people immediately throwing out the assumption that the Jews did it to themselves without evidence, or acting like Mamdani condemning nazi imagery is proof that he's capitulating to the AIPAC lobby.

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

If it is, in fact, a false flag, it is still antisemitism.

[redhead ophelia 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @redhead_ophelia]

This is my favourite genre of Russian fakes. The way the people in these videos always speak Ukrainian as if it’s their first time ever speaking it, and do so with such a thick Russian accent, it makes my ears bleed.

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

@Madame_Ennui Will miss seeing you on the TL, all the very best to you

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

On 27 October 2025, eight masked settlers with clubs attacked the home of Wafa and Mahmoud Daramin in Wadi Ejheish, the South Hebron Hills. The couple and their four children, including a six-month-old baby, fled inside and locked the door.

For about 10 minutes, settlers tried to break in, shouting “Open the door!”, smashing windows, and spraying pepper spray inside. They also smashed the family’s car and damaged a security camera. Others broke into the sheep pen, killed 10 sheep, injured four more and set fire to hay.

The family, and especially the children, struggled to breathe. When Mahmoud’s brothers arrived, the settlers fled. The family was taken to Yatta Governmental Hospital and treated with oxygen masks.

Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime enables daily settler violence as a means to drive Palestinians from their land and advance the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

Yes, it is a fundamentally evil settler colonial entity. No, they are not lizard people pulling the strings of your leaders; your country is supporting them because of its own avaricious violent self-interests.

[Shinar Makarova-Laurila 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @HeresMakarov]

American leftists defaulting to dog whistling instead of accepting their own responsibility for the genocide of Palestinians will never fail to entertain me.

[Маківник @MaksPunished]

Just saw someone say "Free America from Israel" guys its your puppet state take some national responsibility for once in your lives 😭🙏

[你法我笑的Dictator Yang🌻🍉🏳️‍🌈📄🐚 #pray4jade @Y_Wenli]

“When that hearing was cancelled without explanation, Rizwangul’s family believed she would remain in Germany until further legal proceedings were scheduled. Instead, she was deported within days.”

[Anastasia Klimash 🇺🇦 @nastasiaKlimash]

I hate the fact that Ukrainian society has very few safe spaces to discuss our internal problems and criticise our government outside of Ukraine without some fuckheads patronising us or concluding any internal problem is the sign Ukraine deserves to be invaded by Russia. Fuck it,

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

7/ So yes, we still need your support.

Not just weapons — but solidarity.

With our right to live free, and build the kind of country no one thought was possible. 🇺🇦

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

🧵1/ As a Ukrainian, let me explain why people are protesting across Ukraine in the middle of a full-scale war.