Lessa
@libraryofcontext.bsky.social
❤️🇺🇦🇬🇪🇨🇦🐸
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Working on a biography of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I do not support the current White House occupiers.
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Working on a biography of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
I do not support the current White House occupiers.
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Lessa
@libraryofcontext.bsky.social
· Sep 24
This is what a real leader looks like.
#Zelenskyy #StandWithUkraine #AmericansSupportUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#Zelenskyy #StandWithUkraine #AmericansSupportUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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⚡️ Ukrainian forces liberated five villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
Ukraine Liberates Five Villages in Dnipropetrovsk Region After 100-Day Offensive
Ukrainian troops have recaptured five villages in Dnipropetrovsk after an extensive 100-day offensive against Russian forces.
united24media.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
⚡️ Ukrainian forces liberated five villages in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
united24media.com/latest-news/...
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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While the Kremlin tried to silence it, the world embraced it.
Composed in 1914 by Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian “Shchedryk” — known as “Carol of the Bells” — became a timeless classic heard in films and holiday ads worldwide.
Composed in 1914 by Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian “Shchedryk” — known as “Carol of the Bells” — became a timeless classic heard in films and holiday ads worldwide.
December 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
While the Kremlin tried to silence it, the world embraced it.
Composed in 1914 by Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian “Shchedryk” — known as “Carol of the Bells” — became a timeless classic heard in films and holiday ads worldwide.
Composed in 1914 by Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian “Shchedryk” — known as “Carol of the Bells” — became a timeless classic heard in films and holiday ads worldwide.
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War is cruel, ugly and unfair. Especially, towards the most innocent — children.
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have to study in shelters, because russia's war has made their classrooms unsafe.
Let's make their safe spaces nice and cozy this Christmas.
u24.gov.ua/merry-kidsma...
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have to study in shelters, because russia's war has made their classrooms unsafe.
Let's make their safe spaces nice and cozy this Christmas.
u24.gov.ua/merry-kidsma...
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
War is cruel, ugly and unfair. Especially, towards the most innocent — children.
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have to study in shelters, because russia's war has made their classrooms unsafe.
Let's make their safe spaces nice and cozy this Christmas.
u24.gov.ua/merry-kidsma...
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have to study in shelters, because russia's war has made their classrooms unsafe.
Let's make their safe spaces nice and cozy this Christmas.
u24.gov.ua/merry-kidsma...
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Republicans outright REFUSED to stop your health care premiums from skyrocketing in January—and now, millions of Americans are being kicked off their health care coverage altogether.
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Republicans outright REFUSED to stop your health care premiums from skyrocketing in January—and now, millions of Americans are being kicked off their health care coverage altogether.
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PSA: any artists still using Twt…
Now anyone can edit your art with Grok and claim it as theirs.
Merry Christmas and Please Leave that Cesspit.
Now anyone can edit your art with Grok and claim it as theirs.
Merry Christmas and Please Leave that Cesspit.
December 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
PSA: any artists still using Twt…
Now anyone can edit your art with Grok and claim it as theirs.
Merry Christmas and Please Leave that Cesspit.
Now anyone can edit your art with Grok and claim it as theirs.
Merry Christmas and Please Leave that Cesspit.
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⚡️Ukraine has new data on abducted children taken to Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv now has addresses for about 500 Ukrainian kidnapped children, while 1,880 have been returned so far, warning many more remain in Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv now has addresses for about 500 Ukrainian kidnapped children, while 1,880 have been returned so far, warning many more remain in Russia.
December 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
⚡️Ukraine has new data on abducted children taken to Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv now has addresses for about 500 Ukrainian kidnapped children, while 1,880 have been returned so far, warning many more remain in Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv now has addresses for about 500 Ukrainian kidnapped children, while 1,880 have been returned so far, warning many more remain in Russia.
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Join us again tomorrow at Lafeyette Park from 3-5pm.
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Join us again tomorrow at Lafeyette Park from 3-5pm.
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Keep calling your members of Congress and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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🔴 Russian forces deployed 635 drones and 38 missiles against Ukraine overnight, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At least 13 regions were targeted. Residential buildings and critical energy infrastructure were damaged.
At least 13 regions were targeted. Residential buildings and critical energy infrastructure were damaged.
December 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🔴 Russian forces deployed 635 drones and 38 missiles against Ukraine overnight, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At least 13 regions were targeted. Residential buildings and critical energy infrastructure were damaged.
At least 13 regions were targeted. Residential buildings and critical energy infrastructure were damaged.
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Above: front line on January 1st, 2025. Below: front line today. We heard many times of a "total collapse of the front", but in reality, Russian are still stuck in Pokrovsk or Kupyansk for year(s). They captured a ruined building here and some deserted village there, but not a single city in full.
December 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Above: front line on January 1st, 2025. Below: front line today. We heard many times of a "total collapse of the front", but in reality, Russian are still stuck in Pokrovsk or Kupyansk for year(s). They captured a ruined building here and some deserted village there, but not a single city in full.
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Excellent 🧵 on how to transmit the truth under authoritarian rule. Good reason not to turn your back on the rest of the world, America: they have lessons for us.
With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism:
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.
Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excellent 🧵 on how to transmit the truth under authoritarian rule. Good reason not to turn your back on the rest of the world, America: they have lessons for us.
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"The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship . . . "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship . . . "
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
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Just one small part of Russia's massive overnight missile and drone attack on the people of Ukraine - a Russian-Iranian drone targets an apartment building in Kyiv at dawn.
Russians are only intensifying attacks on Ukraine's civilian population.
Russians are only intensifying attacks on Ukraine's civilian population.
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just one small part of Russia's massive overnight missile and drone attack on the people of Ukraine - a Russian-Iranian drone targets an apartment building in Kyiv at dawn.
Russians are only intensifying attacks on Ukraine's civilian population.
Russians are only intensifying attacks on Ukraine's civilian population.
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New Year is coming, and it's time to remember what matters most❤️
Wish your loved ones a happy holidays and help Ukrainian children—send money to Visa cards in Ukraine, and TransferGo will add 0.5% from every transaction to U24's educational projects.
#EveryTransferMatters
u24.gov.ua/every-transf...
Wish your loved ones a happy holidays and help Ukrainian children—send money to Visa cards in Ukraine, and TransferGo will add 0.5% from every transaction to U24's educational projects.
#EveryTransferMatters
u24.gov.ua/every-transf...
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New Year is coming, and it's time to remember what matters most❤️
Wish your loved ones a happy holidays and help Ukrainian children—send money to Visa cards in Ukraine, and TransferGo will add 0.5% from every transaction to U24's educational projects.
#EveryTransferMatters
u24.gov.ua/every-transf...
Wish your loved ones a happy holidays and help Ukrainian children—send money to Visa cards in Ukraine, and TransferGo will add 0.5% from every transaction to U24's educational projects.
#EveryTransferMatters
u24.gov.ua/every-transf...
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Bari Weiss, meet The Streisand Effect.
December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Bari Weiss, meet The Streisand Effect.
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This is what remains of a Ukrainian town after a Russian advance. Homes destroyed, streets reduced to rubble, and civilian life erased.
December 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This is what remains of a Ukrainian town after a Russian advance. Homes destroyed, streets reduced to rubble, and civilian life erased.
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Nearly all the victims are seniors — the oldest, an 89 year old woman.
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
December 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nearly all the victims are seniors — the oldest, an 89 year old woman.
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
A reminder that the kidnapping and forcible deportation of civilians is a violation of the Geneva Convention and a war crime.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
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Below is an incomplete list of scholars and other authors who have discussed Article II.e of the Genocide Convention in connection to Russian child abductions since 2022. andreasumland.substack.com/p/the-discus...
The discussion of Russia's deportation of children as genocide
A bibliography
andreasumland.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Below is an incomplete list of scholars and other authors who have discussed Article II.e of the Genocide Convention in connection to Russian child abductions since 2022. andreasumland.substack.com/p/the-discus...
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Mariinka — before and after the russians came.
There was life here once… now only ruins.
There was life here once… now only ruins.
December 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Mariinka — before and after the russians came.
There was life here once… now only ruins.
There was life here once… now only ruins.
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Last night, San Francisco had a big power outage. And all the Waymo cars stopped in the middle of the street because they don’t know what to do without traffic lights. Don’t you want to be the person who always knows how to drive the car?
Who do you want to be? A person who knows how to fish or the person who asks AI for a fish?
December 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Last night, San Francisco had a big power outage. And all the Waymo cars stopped in the middle of the street because they don’t know what to do without traffic lights. Don’t you want to be the person who always knows how to drive the car?
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This genius man is Mykola Leontovych. He wrote probably the most famous Christmas carol in the world - “Carol of the bells”. He wrote that in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, now a besieged frontline city.
Do you know why he was not able to give the world another similar masterpiece?
Do you know why he was not able to give the world another similar masterpiece?
December 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This genius man is Mykola Leontovych. He wrote probably the most famous Christmas carol in the world - “Carol of the bells”. He wrote that in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, now a besieged frontline city.
Do you know why he was not able to give the world another similar masterpiece?
Do you know why he was not able to give the world another similar masterpiece?
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Live long and be merry.
op: omegaparticlepodcast via IG
op: omegaparticlepodcast via IG
December 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Live long and be merry.
op: omegaparticlepodcast via IG
op: omegaparticlepodcast via IG
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Russia is trying to frame Ukraine and the EU as "warmongers", but why is it always Putin who refuses any concessions and rejects all peace and ceasefire proposals?
In 2025, Russia has been framing the EU and Ukrainian leadership as "warmongers", who don't want to stop the war in Ukraine. This, of course, is an outright lie. In reality, it's the Kremlin who has rejected at least seven peace proposals in 2025 alone.
Don't be deceived.
Don't be deceived.
December 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Russia is trying to frame Ukraine and the EU as "warmongers", but why is it always Putin who refuses any concessions and rejects all peace and ceasefire proposals?
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My takeaway from this nice read: seems you could build a semester-long course about misinformation tactics by just using Peter McCollough and Andrew Wakefield's report on vaccines and autism. Bad scientific claims, misleading graphs/data, many bad citations, bad science advocacy into policy, etc. 🛟😷
New piece from @celinegounder.com about how antivax disinformation tactics are making their way to the CDC via the McCullough foundation.
What the CDC’s Vaccine Language Shift Reveals About Pseudoscience
Researchers see a pattern in how unverified studies gain traction online, shaping perceptions of official science before data can catch up
drcelinegounder.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My takeaway from this nice read: seems you could build a semester-long course about misinformation tactics by just using Peter McCollough and Andrew Wakefield's report on vaccines and autism. Bad scientific claims, misleading graphs/data, many bad citations, bad science advocacy into policy, etc. 🛟😷
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Join us again tomorrow Sunday at Lafeyette Park from 3-5pm.
Keep calling your members of Congress during the Congressional break and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Keep calling your members of Congress during the Congressional break and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
December 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Join us again tomorrow Sunday at Lafeyette Park from 3-5pm.
Keep calling your members of Congress during the Congressional break and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Keep calling your members of Congress during the Congressional break and tell them to support a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. If they wanted to lower your health care costs, they would.
The truth is: Republicans do not care one bit if your health care premiums explode.
The truth is: Republicans do not care one bit if your health care premiums explode.
December 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. If they wanted to lower your health care costs, they would.
The truth is: Republicans do not care one bit if your health care premiums explode.
The truth is: Republicans do not care one bit if your health care premiums explode.