Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social

Mindfulness practitioner.

Concerned about the Russian genocidal war against Ukraine.

Increasingly concerned about the fascist ravings of Twitter's owner.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Russia is organizing "Children's conference" in temporarily occupied Crimea.

What an absolute joke and disgrace.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The Russians don’t need Alaska when they have Washington!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, the Ukrainian army is effectively the main army in Europe that can deter and resist large-scale aggression over a long period of time. And after this war, this must remain the case.

The existence of such an army should help prevent any future aggressive moves by Putin. That is why we need to start thinking now about how to provide the funding the Ukrainian army will need in the years ahead.

If we want Europe to have the strongest army, one that can truly respond to any threat, this is only possible with long-term cooperation with Ukraine and long-term support for the Ukrainian army. This is a realistic new security architecture for Europe.

From a speech at the 35th UDCG meeting. (3/3)

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

@jacksonhinkle It reminds me that you're a fascist liar and it reminds of that Russia does precisely what you've accused Ukraine of doing.

When this is all over how will you ever wash off all the Ukrainian blood you decided to cover yourself in?

[Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 @VolodyaTretyak]

Did you notice how Russians didn't run to the shelter?

They are just standing by the windows filming a video.

Nobody is destroying their homes while they sleep, nobody is destroying millennia-old temples, museums, theaters, and schools…

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

If you’re in russia, tell your government to leave Ukraine. All this will end instantly.

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

Has Aiden stolen the hair piece off of a Lego man? #loveislanduk

[🇺🇦 Unmanned Systems Forces @usf_army]

Oh, you have no idea how many potentially spectacular operations were called off because of concerns over international law or risks to civilians.

That's a line we simply cannot cross — both because of our obligations to our partners and because, morally, attacks on civilians are russia's method, not ours.

[Ben Harris @btharris93]

Regardless of your feelings towards our current government (and I have an extremely low opinion of it), there is no doubt that Tommy Robinson is a traitor and an enemy of the British people.

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

What’s happening on social media isn’t just inorganic but foreign interference.

People are sold a fake, violent and racist idea of patriotism then conned into voting for millionaire shill traitors like Farage and Lowe by… Russian, Nigerian and Sri Lankan bot farms.

Ironic.

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

@micallef_dr @truered786 Big Mac, that's probably the worst come back I've seen on Twitter in a year.

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

@micallef_dr All groups of people have criminals in them, but the majority of those groups are good people.

It's just like you're not the same as an axe wielding white manic because you're white.

You do sound like a nazi though, mainly because you probably are one.
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[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

HISTORY LESSON

The Nazi Party branded itself the 'National Socialist German Workers' Party' to appeal to working-class men. After staging massive 'pro-worker' May Day rallies on May 1, 1933, the very next day Hitler banned independent trade unions, seized their assets, and arrested their leaders.

On May 2, 1933, the SA (Storm Troopers), SS, and police occupied trade union offices nationwide in a coordinated action. They seized assets, records, and funds while arresting union leaders and officials. Contemporary U.S. State Department reports and other sources noted around 50 prominent arrests in the initial wave, including key figures like Theodor Leipart (chairman of the General German Trade Union Federation, ADGB), Peter Grassmann, and former Labor Minister Rudolf Wissell.

Many more local and regional leaders faced arrests in the following days and weeks. Large numbers endured beatings, imprisonment, or transfer to early concentration camps such as Dachau (opened in March 1933 primarily for political opponents).

Some officials were maltreated immediately, and the action extended to union banks and press offices.

This crackdown dismantled independent German trade unions (with millions of members, many aligned with Social Democrats or leftists) and replaced them with the Nazi-controlled German Labour Front (DAF). It formed part of the broader Gleichschaltung (coordination) process to eliminate independent organizations.

Over the period 1933–1945, thousands of German trade unionists, including leaders, activists, and officials, were arrested and held in prisons or concentration camps. Many suffered torture, extended detention, or surveillance after release. While outright executions of union leaders were relatively fewer in the early phase compared to other groups, many died later from camp maltreatment, disease, execution, or involvement in resistance.

The overall scale of persecution against labour organisers aligns with the regime's aim to crush independent working-class organising rather than immediately exterminate every individual.

This fits the documented pattern of political repression: by the end of July 1933, nearly 27,000 people (mostly political prisoners including communists, socialists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and left-wing activists and intellectuals) were held in early camps and detention sites.

The Nazis moved swiftly after seizing power to neutralise potential opposition from organised labor through mass arrests, violence, and forced integration into a state-controlled structure.

#JustSayin

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Absolutely wild how right-wing commentators and politicians are just completely ignoring the attempted pogrom in Belfast.

Families with kids rescued from homes set on fire.

And these same people who smear peaceful protests against genocide as hate marches say NOTHING

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Elon musk, an immigrant from Africa, is demonising immigrants from Africa.

This is because he is white and they are black.

Musk is a white suprematist.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

No, sweetie.

Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it.

Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region.

Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there.

Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus.

Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform.

We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles.

It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books.

And then you arrived.

And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit.

You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war.

You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts.

You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever.

You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World."

You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation.

It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair.

And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s.

It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

@Keir_Starmer surely it's about time that you dealt with the far right who are inciting this violence? Or are you going to allow them to start lynching innocent people before the authorities deal with these fascists? Maybe get off Twitter which is run by a far right billionaire?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The scenes in Belfast last night were shocking and completely unacceptable.

There is no justification for the violence and disorder that we saw threatening our communities, nor for those who encouraged it, online or elsewhere.

It is clear that people were targeted last night because of their background and I will not tolerate it. Those responsible will feel the full force of the law.

I’ve spoken to the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland to convey my thanks to them and the frontline emergency services for their bravery in keeping people safe. I’ve also spoken to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to discuss the ongoing situation.

Appealing for calm must be the priority, and that is what I urge now. We must let the police get on with their work.

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

@Keir_Starmer Surely it's about time that you dealt with the far right who are inciting this violence? Or are you going to allow them to start lynching innocent people before the authorities deal with these fascists?

[Steve 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 stefek.bsky.social @SMccoull]

@RusGarbageHuman @Keir_Starmer This person only represents himself. If you believe that one person represents a whole ethnic group then all us white Brits are guilty of trying to cut someone's head off with an axe. That makes as much sense as the division you're trying to cause.

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