@sleeplessmarea

Free-range wife/mom/cat mom. Writer: Post Apocalyptic Media, Nrdfeed, SciFi4Me. Former admin Addicts of the 12 Monkeys, now of 12 Monkeys Geeks. Covid survivor.

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Bless you Pastor Mark Burns.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Pastor Mark Burns: Being here in Ukraine, with the people, I can say that propaganda from Russia is very real — and how it’s used in Christian conservative circles to essentially dislike Ukrainians.

And so when I saw with my own eyes that Ukrainians do love God, are not racists, are not godless society as they were being portrayed, are not corrupt people — they’re normal people just like you and me.

And the fact that Ukraine is bigger than just blue and yellow map that you see on CNN — they’re real people. Real mothers, real daughters, real children.

And when I saw that and atrocities that Russians were doing — not the war, but war crimes they had been committing against Ukrainians — my heart immediately shifted and changed from being just a Republican to being a human being.

And I had to choose then to speak for what is right, and not necessarily what is popular. That’s what changed my heart.

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@Sabiha1278 Four months old is still young. I have socialized feral cats I acquired at that age. It may be possible for you to do so also, but you have to be very patient as it can take a while for them to learn to trust you.

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@travelingflying Yes. How can I help you?

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A woman in russia stands silently holding a sign saying “two words.”

That is all it takes.

She is immediately detained by russian police.

As she is being arrested, another woman asks the person filming whether he also interviews people who support the war.

Before she can say anything else, she is arrested as well.

The irony is striking: even a woman who appears ready to defend pro-war views is detained without hesitation. In a system built on fear, the content of your opinion matters less than the fact that you are speaking independently.

This is what “freedom of speech” looks like in today’s russia.

This video is a powerful reminder that authoritarian regimes do not fear violence nearly as much as they fear words.

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@Jolz_Aust It is enough.

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@straczynski Are you SERIOUS? Checking on the origin of the name is a Google search. I guess awareness of our literary giants no longer arrives in the brain via osmosis. (I give people a pass on the publishing executives tho.)

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My dad, a Ukrainian-American tenor who occasionally sang in public, was known for this song.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Did you know the first song performed in outer space was Ukrainian? 🇺🇦🚀

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@EshaAA33 17 for me, and I'm not ancient!

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@CaolanReports Perfect response. Thank you.

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Voila! Here is the origin for the phrase "Jump the shark"!

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Me

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@Thogar @BaronDestructo Nanoo Nanoo!

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@CarmenMedinaXQ Beings back fond memories!

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@Matt_Pinner It's a rutabega. I think it is also sometimes called a "swede".

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@Matt_Pinner 12 Monkeys. On the SyFy Network. Yes.

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Zelensky just reminded JD Vance that calling Ukrainian territory a "scrap of land" isn't a negotiating position. It's an insult.

With full diplomatic courtesy and zero diplomatic softness, Zelensky explained what Vance apparently doesn't know: the territory in question has 200,000 residents, strong fortifications, and sits exactly where Russia wants to build a bridgehead for its next offensive. Giving it up doesn't end the war. It stages the next one.

Then the closing line: "Every square meter of our land is Ukrainian land and, with all due respect to any of our partners, it is definitely not theirs."

There's no misreading that sentence.

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@timruss2 May her memory be eternal.

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@FamilyExpert15 Happy Easter to you and your family, Jonathan. Christ is Risen...truly He is Risen!

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I imagine this explanation seems logical to you. In the past, native names were routinely changed...by colonizers. Since then our world has become aware of how profoundly disrespectful it is for outsiders to alter a name - or an identity - to suit a taste or an agenda

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

From time to time
I see comments like:

“It’s Kiev, not Kyiv”
“It’s Kievan Rus”

But “Kiev”
is the russian version
of our city’s name.

Kyiv
is how we say it.

How it lives
in our language,
our history.

And every time
we choose Kyiv -
we choose
to keep that alive.

Because it’s not just a name.
It’s who we are.

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@CarmenMedinaXQ Little bear appears to be in a costume - interesting.