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[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Nobel peace prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina) on Russian war crimes against civilians. Worth reading.

“I watched the video where a Russian drone attacked a man, a woman, and their dog in the Kharkiv region. The Russians saw that they were civilians. The people were walking along the road with a white flag. Unfortunately, all of them died. The dog was still convulsing for a few seconds.

It’s worth repeating once again. The main target of the Russians in this war is civilians. War crimes are a deliberate policy of the Russians. This is how they fight. In Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Mali, Libya, Ukraine. Pain is their tool of subjugation. The Russians deliberately inflict pain on the civilian population to break people’s resistance and occupy the country.

In 2014, we asked survivors from captivity what had caused their arrest. Yes, there were targeted groups they hunted deliberately. But many people who ended up in the basements couldn’t name a single reason. I’ll say more: you can be an ardent supporter of Russia, but if you’re a civilian on territory captured by Russia, your life means nothing.

Our mobile teams that arrived in the Kyiv region right after liberation heard people speak about the Russians with horror. They said they simply couldn’t believe the Russians were capazes of such things. And this was after the brutal torture-murders of Volodymyr Rybak in Horlivka and Reshat Ametov in Simferopol. After the cynical shooting of the green corridor near Ilovaisk.

It’s time to believe your own eyes. Sadly, there are still people who for some reason think that if they’re “apolitical,” nothing will happen to them. The Russians don’t care. When they shelled residential buildings in Mariupol with tanks, they weren’t particularly interested in the political views of the people who lived there.
Yes, you can deny reality for a while. But in war, the price of such denial can be very high.”

[Artur Rehi @ArturRehi]

Russian publicist and blogger Yulia Latynina, who was placed under personal sanctions by Ukraine for participating in anti-Ukrainian propaganda, is receiving hundreds of thousands of euros for her Estonian structures, writes Postimees. This activity raises questions
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[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴🇩🇪🇺🇲🇳🇱🇪🇺@🇺🇦 @DucuGavril]

No, Russia didn’t hack voting machines in 2016.

It hacked something bigger—your perception.

This thread answers real questions, using only the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s 2019 report.

Recognize this building? No?

You should. It got us Trump.

Let’s clear this up:

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I gathered all heads of Ukraine’s law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies, along with the Prosecutor General. It was a much-needed meeting — a frank and constructive conversation that truly helps. We all share a common enemy: the Russian occupiers. And defending the Ukrainian state requires a strong enough law enforcement and anti-corruption system — one that ensures a real sense of justice.

Criminal proceedings must not drag on for years without lawful verdicts. And those who work against Ukraine must not feel comfortable or immune to the inevitability of punishment.

I am grateful to all participants of today’s meeting: the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the State Bureau of Investigation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Prosecutor General. Thank you for your willingness to work as a team — as Team Ukraine — and in the interests of Ukraine. We agreed that everyone would work solely in a constructive manner.

We all hear what society is saying. We see what people expect from state institutions — ensured justice and the effective functioning of each institution. We discussed the necessary administrative and legislative decisions that would strengthen the work of each institution, resolve existing contradictions, and eliminate threats. Everyone will work together. At the political level, we will provide support.

We agreed that next week, there will be an in-depth working meeting on the joint action plan. And in two weeks, a joint plan must be ready — outlining the steps that are needed and will be implemented to strengthen Ukraine, resolve existing issues, deliver greater justice, and truly protect the interests of Ukrainian society.

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

We knew very little about how LLMs actually work...until now.

@AnthropicAI just dropped the most insane research paper, detailing some of the ways AI "thinks."

And it's completely different than we thought.

Here are their wild findings: 🧵

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Amplifying this translation of a powerful open letter to Trump from a Ukrainian doctor, on several Ukrainian FB pages. I believe it was first posted in late February.

Ukrainian doctor's appeal to Trump

You want to talk about "peace agreements," Mr. Trump? Then listen to me, a doctor who puts the torn bodies of children on the operating table every day! Who cuts off fragments from their brains with a scalpel, who wipes blood from the eyes of mothers who have lost everything! Are you talking about "giving up territories"? I will show you the territories: these are pieces of muscle on the asphalt near Mariupol. These are baby strollers crushed by tanks in Bucha. These are burned-out school classrooms in Chernihiv, where children managed to write "HELP" in chalk on the blackboards before they were killed.
Do you dare to accuse us?
Are we to blame for the fact that Russian executioners rape women in basements? For killing prisoners by shooting them in the back of the head? For spreading cluster bombs along civilian evacuation corridors? Your logic is the logic of a rapist: "It's your own fault that you didn't submit." Do you want us to "not lose land"? So why don't you say this to Putin, who slaughtered entire villages in the Kherson region? Why don't you threaten him, and not us - those who defend themselves with old machine guns against his army?
Your "negotiations" are a spit in the face of thousands of my colleagues who died under shelling of hospitals. Do you know what it's like to work in a basement without light, without antibiotics, without morphine, when a child dies in your arms from pain? Have you ever heard a person scream when their leg is amputated without anesthesia? Is this your "small loss of land"? Is this what you are kicking us out of the negotiating table for?!
You call Putin a "genius"? Then genius is the ability to burn people in their homes. This is a scorched earth tactic, when only corpses and mines remain after the occupiers.
Do you admire his "smartness"? He is smart as a plague rat: he knows how to escape responsibility, hide behind civilians, shoot with nuclear threats. And you, like a child playing with fire, want to make him a world leader.
Your plan is not peace. It is euthanasia for Ukraine. You propose to lift sanctions? That is, give Russia money for new tanks. Western technology for their kamikaze drones. Do you want to return them to the G7? As if they don't bomb gas stations so that we freeze in winter. They don't steal Ukrainian children. They don't destroy our museums, churches, theaters - everything that makes us a people.
You ask why we don't make concessions? Because every one of your "deals" stinks of corpses. Do you want us to give up even more territories? So that millions of Ukrainians live under Russian machine guns? So that my fellow doctors hide in bomb shelters again when Putin breaks this "deal" too?
You say: "The war could have been stopped without casualties." Lie. It didn't start in 2022. It started when Russia seized Crimea, when the world was silent. When the first bodies with tied hands disappeared in Donbas. Do you think that if we surrender now, it will end? No. Putin will come later. And then you will justify him again: "Oh, he's just restoring the empire, he's a genius!".
And what will you say to the families of the 15-year-old girl who was shot by the Russians on her bicycle? That her death is a "small loss of land"? Will you tell her mother that she "doesn't deserve a seat at the table"? That her daughter died because Ukraine "didn't agree"?
We are not asking you to fight for us. We asked for weapons - you gave them too late. We asked for sanctions - you relaxed them. But now you want to become an accomplice in genocide. Because when you lift sanctions, when you recognize the occupation - you give Russia a license to kill. Every dollar that Putin receives will become a bullet in the body of my patient. Every compromise you make is a new corpse.
I am a doctor. I swear to save lives. And you, Mr. Trump, swear to take them away. Don't you want to hear our voice? Then listen to our sirens. Our cries. Our curses. Do you want to be friends with Russia? Then be friends. But know this: history will not forgive you for this. Every child killed by Russian weapons, every raped woman, every burned doctor is your joint responsibility with Putin.
We will not be your "victims of politics". We are a nation that survives despite your cynical indifference. And when you celebrate your deal with the dictator, remember: we are already building new hospitals in the destroyed territories. And in each of them there will be a poster: Death to fascism. Shame on the traitors.

[Hugo Alto @Hugoaltissimo]

@NOELreports

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

When we think of terrorism, we think of bombs in backpacks, suicide attacks and explosives in cars.

But what happens when the terrorist is a leader of a country?

Given Putin’s family history, it is almost shocking he would stoop to such lows 🧵 1/17

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

US Senator and war hero John McCain passed away five years ago on this day. He was one of the few who predicted exactly how Putin was planning to "rebuild the Soviet empire".

The video below is from an 2014 interview:

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll be talking about the Russian style of online propaganda and disinformation, "Firehose of Falsehood". It's a commonly used Kremlin strategy for Russian information operations, which often prioritizes quantity over quality.

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[faltering_ego @jansemand]

@BlizzardCSEU_EN Same here. Wow is still unplayable as we tweet. Is it due to D4 betatesting?

[Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211]

Since Russia decided my article on the Russian Orthodox Church being an arm of intelligence and Kirill a KGB agent should be buried on Google and shadow banned on Twitter I am posting it again. Apparently they are triggered https://t.co/xvVrHOduLx

[Neil Abrams @neil_abrams]

According to tankies, the 2014 Euromaidan revolution, in which Ukrainians rose up and ousted kleptocratic dictator Viktor Yanukovych, was a “coup” by the U.S. acting in cahoots with Ukrainian Nazis. Was it?

Short answer: No

Long answer: Also, no.

Let’s dig in.

[Tomi T Ahonen Moved to Post, Spoutible & Mastodon @tomiahonen]

My Dearest Vladimir

How's your war going in Ukraine? Did I misunderstand? Wasn't it supposed to last 3 days. It's been over 6 months

I'm miserable. Karl Rove says I'm guilty of espionage. Ingraham abandons me. Chris Christie says I was wrong. Ronna has stopped paying my lawyers

[No Belium @n0belium]

@LatestAnonPress Russian government has blocked majority of international media, a true source of information, form their own people, to effectively hide the invasion.

How to bypass. Go to Google Maps and leave a Reviews & Pictures on popular places in Russia.

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

You can check this yourself by downloading the two videos on Telegram from here:
https://t.co/NmlRKRWxqj
https://t.co/YXKt3dp4wh
Then uploading them to a metadata viewing site, like https://t.co/1Py94ugIQy, then you'll get lots of metadata, including when the files were created

[3 Libras Magdelena @30ACTruth]

@ChristopherJM It's not Russia, it's #Putin #PutinsWar has been with against us since he gained first power in 1999 by committing the original 9/11 against his own people. https://t.co/X5kKKtcXD9