Jurga 🇺🇦

Keep looking for things, in places, where there is nothing. (Jonas Mekas)

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[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

This is ​Fatima, a sixth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University.

Russia killed her today.

She came to the city for her university graduation. She was only 23.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Moscow Allocates $2.15 Billion for Disinformation Campaigns Against the West — UNITED24 Media https://t.co/ADwwgqkOKH

[Vitaly Portnikov @portnikov]

Everything must be vast and meaningless — the Tsar Cannon that never fired, the Tsar Bell that never rang, the Tsar-Territory that was never settled or developed.
https://t.co/9P2EI3FdpC

[Konstantin Sonin @k_sonin]

This is a big deal. This announcement flies directly in the face of Putin's theory of "spheres of influence". On the other hand, the fact that Lukashenko run to Beijing for the show of support shows that his regime is in mortal danger. Putin's next target might be Belarus.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Almost 1,000 people who read me are following @Matt_VanDyke .

He and six other Ukrainians have now been in Indian detention for almost two months.

After being arrested on what are most likely baseless charges, possibly linked to a russian request.

We can’t just stay silent.

Their lives and freedom may depend on the world paying attention.

Please read and share the quoted tweet.

If you are in the U.S. — please sign the petition.

Every voice matters.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

russia keeps terrorizing Ukraine.

💔 Dnipro. Five people were killed, 28 were injured, and four remain in critical condition.

A russian ballistic missile hit the city in broad daylight.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

People far savvier and more accomplished than this used to hang about the Hotel Lux in Moscow in the thirties, waiting to be given something useful to do. Instead they were purged. Admirers of Bolshevism don't know much about what they admire. https://t.co/ZlqAaS63ny

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

russian human safari reached Zaporizhzhia, my homecity of almost one million. russians now target public buses with their FPV drones. in today's attack, they killed two passengers and injured over a dozen, including a child. the culture of utter evil

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

And it will all end the way it always does: with Russians once again fighting each other in public squares over American humanitarian aid.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

@BowesChay Maybe there’s a fucking reason for that, Russia Today boy? Like the biggest European war of aggression since WWII unleashed by your employers?

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

It turns out that, in Putin’s imagination, his invincible divisions and armored armies have already almost encircled a 5,000-strong Ukrainian force “near Stary Oskol,” with the deadly cauldron steadily closing.

There’s just one small problem: Stary Oskol is a city in Russia’s Belgorod region, more than 100 kilometers from the front line, where Ukrainian troops have never been anywhere near.

And if he actually meant the Oskil River near Kupiansk in Ukraine, then even the most pro-Kremlin maps don’t show the slightest hint of a 5,000-man Ukrainian force being encircled.

Quite the opposite: over the past months, Russian troops suffered yet another setback around Kupiansk, with some units forced to retreat while others ended up trapped in the area for an extended period.

In other words, Putin is now just randomly mixing up basic geography and inventing grand offensives across a broad front and dramatic encirclements that exist, at best, only on the fabricated maps being handed to him by the Russian General Staff.

[New York Post @nypost]

Most Russian recruits have life expectancy of just 20 minutes on Ukraine front lines, chilling report claims https://t.co/wPmu2s53GE

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Allah is fickle and has a sense of humor, it seems.

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Locked up like an animal in cage...forced to witness rape and slaughter...tortured until they prayed for death: October 7 hostages' most horrifying accounts yet of what they endured at the hands of Hamas https://t.co/MET3v6Hnw8

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

I hope this is a wake up call for the Wiener guy. It's all fun & games indulging vile commie street animals when their chaos benefits your goals, but they never stop there & they'll eat you, too. Socialism is a religion of malcontents; this frothing rage is a feature, not a bug.

[Orli Peter @orlipeter]

The anti-Israel propaganda campaign unleashed after October 7 doesn’t spread because it’s persuasive. It spreads because moral righteousness is intoxicating. It lets ordinary people feel morally extraordinary without doing anything morally extraordinary.

“You lost your queer label the moment you started supporting Israel.”

Yesterday, that was shouted at California State Senator Scott Wiener during San Francisco’s Trans March.

Earlier this year, Scott Wiener publicly accused Israel of committing genocide. To most people, that would put him on the far left of the debate. It still wasn’t enough. He was called a “piece of shit,” stripped of his “queer label,” and denounced because he wasn’t anti-Israel enough.

Most of us carry around regrets. We’ve hurt people. We’ve been selfish. Some of us have been cruel or violent.

Now imagine you’ve become convinced that Israel is committing the greatest evil imaginable. Genocide. Deliberately murdering children. Starving an entire population.

You don’t have to become a better person. You don’t have to repair the people you’ve hurt. You simply condemn someone you’ve been taught is worse. In an instant, you’ve morally catapulted yourself above them.

The more monstrous the accusation, the higher the moral catapult. Every repetition gives you another chance to experience yourself as morally righteous.

Then something remarkable happens. Ordinary people become propaganda superspreaders. They repeat the accusations because every repetition reinforces the story they most want to believe about themselves: that they are standing on the side of absolute good.

The bar keeps rising. Yesterday’s ally becomes today’s traitor. Scott Wiener learned that the hard way.

Hamas propaganda succeeds because it gives ordinary people a shortcut to feeling morally extraordinary.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Well, meanwhile Putin continues to stubbornly ignore reality and publicly fantasize about new and ever newer Wenck armies that are allegedly advancing “on a broad front” all across Ukraine and have already reached within 10 km of Sumy — and that is very, very good.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🇨🇭 In Switzerland, people literally swim home after work

In Bern, after a long day, locals pack their clothes into waterproof bags, jump into the Aare River, and just let the current carry them almost all the way home.

This floating commute has become a beloved local tradition — and those special dry bags are now a summer symbol of Bern.

Be honest… would you commute like this? 😄

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

I can't with these videos of Russians standing in fuel lines whining, "But why are they bombing us? What did we doooooo?"

​You invaded a sovereign state. You destroyed the peaceful lives of 40 million people. You leveled our towns and cities. Your scorched-earth bombings turned a once-blooming land into a wasteland visible from space. Most importantly, you are actively killing us right now, and you dare to ask that question?

​Life is a boomerang, babe. What karma fails to deliver, our armed forces will. Unless you all pack up and go home.