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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 23h

A hard night in Ukraine, and damages all over.
And yet they live on, resisting the invaders.

Our fundie didn't move, but injured need to be taken to doctors, and the mud season is upon us.

Please help. Spread the word. Lets do this.

#NAFO #FNDRUA #StandWithUkraine #DonateToUkraine #Ukraine

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Friends, please help 93rd brigade Alcatraz!
How? Buggies!
On the frontline in Donetsk Oblast, the Alcatraz Battalion of the 93rd Brigade faces daily bombardment and relentless combat.
Their ability to survive, and to save their brothers-in-arms, depends on speed and mobility.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 7h

⚡️Zelensky 'not satisfied' with defense of Kyiv's energy facilities.

"We cannot use Patriot missiles against drones," Zelensky said. "What questions might I have for the mayor? I could tell you now what I think about all this, but I won't."

Zelensky 'not satisfied' with defense of Kyiv's energy facilities

"We cannot use Patriot missiles against drones," Zelensky said. "What questions might I have for the mayor? I could tell you now what I think about all this, but I won't."

kyivindependent.com

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Tatarigami @tatarigami.bsky.social · 7h

I’m writing to let you know that today (Oct 11th) our team will release a major report. It covers nearly a decade of tank production across various variants. This document-based report will uncover Russian plans to expand and modernize its tank fleet. I hope you’ll have a chance to read and share it

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 13h

❗️The 🇳🇱Netherlands has allocated 310 million euros for anti-drone systems for 🇺🇦Ukraine and joint production of drones

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 8h

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 11h

This is fascism. This is a police state. Masked men with guns in unmarked cars are driving through residential neighborhoods during the daytime looking to kidnap women and children.

Resist this. Never normalize this or else these fascists thugs will some day be used against you and your family.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 11h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 10h

medical, voter and bank data as well.
Digital ID adds name, birthday, residency status, nationality, biometric photo and *places of ID use*.

US companies by a white supremacist who brought us Trump store & analyze all this.
It seems unhealthy for any country to hand him this huge data monopoly.

Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 10h

for things like racial profiling, surveillance tasks and more. The US is already using his data projects and the results are scary.

The data is stored on US servers.
That's one of the reasons Germany rejected them.
A digital ID can be fed right into that, as can CCTV, and as we can see in the US,
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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 10h

Palantir and Anduril.
One stores data about the people, the other about military development.
Both store, interconnect and analyze.
Both are owned by Peter Thiel, of Trump supporting "fame".
They (and others of his like Mithril banking) are purpose-built to store data, then cross analyze it
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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 10h

@mrjamesob.bsky.social today asked how a popular digital ID system could flip to unpopular as rapidly as it has.
I'd like to give my 2 cents, if you would.
The UK under Starmer has embraced and contracted two of the many data storage and analysis programs during the time this shift took place.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is a conman, sociopath and fraud. JFK Jr is dead. RFK Jr.'s off in the head. Halligan's a hack. Oz is a quack. Bondi's a traitor. Miller's a hater. Vance is fake. Lutnick's a flake. Gabbard's a spy, Putin's her guy. Hegseth's a punk who's also a drunk. Johnson's a weasel - on Oct 18, we march!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14h

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
www.kremlin.ru/events/presi...

Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

www.kremlin.ru

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12h

An employee of the Chernihiv regional energy company was killed and several colleagues were injured by a Russian drone strike today.

These civilian workers were targeted while in their vehicles, risking their lives to provide essential services.

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EEBC @eebc.bsky.social · 12h

Protests continued with the 317th day in a row in Tbilisi. Doctors held a protest in support for the 72 years old doctor Giorgi Chakhunashvili, who got arrested in his home yesterday. The arrests are continues and already more than 40 person got arrested in connection with the October 4 events.

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D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @dradka.bsky.social · 16h

It's #FiverFriday

Donate 5$ to heroes from front line🫂🙏
348$ is missing to reach 1000$ point,can we do it fellas😍

🚨31st Brigade's reconnaissance company need two SUVs to carry out combat missions in Zaporizhzhia Oblast🇺🇦

🎯: 8000$ (first car)
✅️; 652$

🅿️aypal: [email protected]

Thank you❤️🫂

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h

Yesterday they were shooting priests in the head with rubber bullets. Today they're arresting journalists. If you have anyone in your life who doesn't regularly follow the news and doesn't understand how bad things are and how bad they're about to get, you need to tell them right now. Time is short.

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Oleg Veretskiy @veretskiy.bsky.social · 13h

MATCH UPDATE:
On second day after announcing the $500 MATCH offer, another $35 came in. So at this point,situation looks like this:

$136 / $500
$364 left to unlock doubling.

Dear Friends,
Please join in with reposts and donations ❤️‍🩹🙏

🅿️🅿️:
[email protected]

Oleg Veretskiy @veretskiy.bsky.social · 1d

MATCH UPD:
1st day = $101
I'm sincerely grateful for every donation and every share of our collection.
Please don't stop, time is running out, 🇺🇦 guys on frontlines really need our help:

$101 / $500

Please, b00st, rep0st and d0nate if you can 🙏

🅿️🅿️:
[email protected]

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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 13h

Oder Kinderteller.
Oder Wiener Schnitzel.
Alkoholfreies "Bier".

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

When Trump came along—a fellow oligarch, looking to use the power of the American presidency to enrich himself and his cronies as much as possible—these figures jumped at the chance to share in the spoils. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13h

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Rima 🇺🇦 The Red Queen of Donbas @rimafellaria.bsky.social · 14h

5 Starlinks, 1 Laptop, 150 Training Tourniquets ✅ , 20 Compasses ✅ , 2 Webasto Heaters ✅ , 4 Whiteboards ✅ , 2 Printers + adapter ✅

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Chris Winters 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @cwinters.bsky.social · 14h

Absolute legend, this man.

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 14h

Chief Rabbi Of #Ukraine Moshe Azman

I am currently standing next to a residential building in #Kyiv that was hit by an #Iranian - #Russian drone. To pray for peace in #Ukraine. Next,I will go to areas of Kyiv where there is no electricity to help people with the assistance of our mobile aid centers

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 14h

A new study by ICCT and GLOBSEC reveals that crime is central to Moscow’s foreign policy.

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