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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Jul 31

There are currently about 10 people reported missing in #Kyiv.

📹United24

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · Jul 26

🙏🇺🇦 Zelensky: At night, the Russians launched a combined strike. They struck Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro regions. There are wounded and dead.

Russian military enterprises, Russian logistics, Russian airports must feel that the Russian war has real consequences for them.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Jul 24

Two people have been killed and 14 wounded in a Russian attack on Kostiantynivka - reported by Filashkin, the head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Jul 20

Robert "Madiar" Brovdi: NATO members' security doctrines require urgent revision.

"I don't know which NATO member state is capable of defending even one of its cities while enduring 200-300 Shahed drones every single day, seven days a week, without pause⤵️

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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is how millions of Ukrainians have coped with 41 months of near nightly Russian aerial bombardment: sheltering in subway stations. This is Kyiv's subway overnight. Powerful photos by
Serhii Nuzhnenko.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Jul 19

This used to be Serebrianskyi forest. It is the frontline now.

Scorched earth instead of a vibrant living ecosystem.

It is very painful to see our beautiful #Ukraine destroyed by Russia.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Jul 16

Russian aviation struck an "Aurora" store in Dobropillia, Donetsk region, with a guided aerial bomb‼️

Initial reports indicate a significant number of people were killed and wounded. The exact casualty figures are still being determined.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is an excellent article on the depressing similarities between EU and U.S. (anti-)immigration policies and practices.

I gave some comments for it.

In Europe just as in Trump's America, the creeping criminalisation of migration and solidarity

An obsession with security is increasingly putting both migrants and human-rights defenders on the wrong side of the law. The trend is the same in both the USA and Europe.

voxeurop.eu

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · Jul 7

These are Ukrainian farmers from Kherson region. They're harvesting watermelons, which is vital for their livelihood. They brought the child with them because their city is constantly under Russian drone attacks, and it's unclear where it's safer to stay.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Jul 4

"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States."
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...

Concentration Camp Labor

Cannot Become Normal

snyder.substack.com

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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · May 9

My new paper doi.org/10.1093/esr/... explains that personal networks expose us to different degrees to economic distress, which shapes public opinion (here, institutional trust). Yet institutional trust research has largely overlooked networks. #sociology #netsky

The role of social networks in institutional trust during economic downturns

Abstract. Citizens’ trust in institutions is crucial for the proper functioning of societies. While national economic performance is a key predictor of ins

doi.org

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Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social · Jun 23

Italy’s 2023 Piantedosi Decree is reshaping rescue in the Central Mediterranean - criminalising humanitarian crews, delaying disembarkation and risking lives.

@eleanorbpaynter.net explores in FMR75: www.fmreview.org/dangerous-journeys/paynter/

#SAR #Migration #Migrants @sos-humanity.bsky.social

Rescue amid shifting politics in the Central Mediterranean - Forced Migration Review

In the Central Mediterranean, humanitarian rescue crews working to save lives do so under policies that make rescue a costly and potentially criminal act.

www.fmreview.org

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Jun 21

Today, russia attacked a house in the Chernihiv region with a drone for no military reason whatsoever, murdering a person.

Why? What did it achieve them?

There is a dozen of such news every day with no coverage in media.

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Jun 21

Kramatorsk…

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jun 17

The Israeli army massacred starving Palestinians who were trying to get food, shelling and shooting civilians indiscriminately

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Witnesses describe ‘horror’ after Israeli forces fire at Palestinians waiting for aid trucks

At least 51 people killed and hundreds wounded in Khan Younis as they sought food supplies, says Gaza health ministry

www.theguardian.com

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Jun 17

A couple in Kyiv stands before the ruins of a building, clinging to each other, tears falling as their son remains beneath the rubble.

Russia will claim it struck NATO generals and whatnot. But they are just murdering sleeping civilians, tearing families apart, and turning homes into dust.

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · Jun 12

Done.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Jun 12

SHUT. IT. DOWN.

A senator was dragged out of a press conference for standing up for his constituents and against fascism.

Watch how your representatives and senators respond to their own colleague being treated like this. That'll show you how they'll react when it's *you* on the ground.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.

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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · Jun 12

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Jun 12

When will the Washington press corps finally acknowledge this?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Jun 12

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill"

On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill

Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

figure 2. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer, percent change. -4% for bottom 10%. +2.5% roughly for top 10%.

dollar change. shows poor get poorer and rich get richer.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jun 12

Oh everybody is Black now.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 12

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie

Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

www.motherjones.com

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Jun 12

🇵🇱🇺🇦 Poland earned 8 times more from Ukrainians than it provided them with aid, — UN

😮 It is noted that Ukrainians in Poland formed $88.7 billion of GDP in 2022-2025, while the amount of Polish aid to refugees and Ukraine amounted to $10.9 billion.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 11

Florida child welfare officers found a 17-year-old living in a shed with no food or water. They sent him to a foster home... and then reported him to ICE, whereupon he was handcuffed and shackled and marched to detention.

Not only is that victimizing him again, it violates Florida's own rules.

The decision to alert immigration authorities to Henry’s status as an undocumented migrant is at odds with decades of child welfare practice in Florida – and it appears to violate a 30-year-old state Department of Children and Families rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status. Fran Allegra, a children’s attorney who ran Miami-Dade’s private foster care agency from 2004 until 2014, said if DCF’s action in Henry’s case represents a formal change in policy, it “puts Florida children at risk, and introduces a new chilling effect on reports to the [state’s] child abuse hotline. Reports about undocumented families are already low. This shift makes the chance for reporting, and, therefore, rescuing kids, less likely.”

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Justyna Olko @justynaolko.bsky.social · Jun 11

Just published! Our collaborative paper "Awaiting the worst...." examines the relationship between the memories of historical trauma related to the operation Vistula of 1947, presently experienced ethnic discrimination, and the level of social trust among the Lemkos in Poland bit.ly/AwaitingWorst

Awaiting the worst: Historical trauma and the inter-ethnic relationship between the Lemko minority and the Polish majority - Magdalena Skrodzka, Anna Maślana, Justyna Olko, Helena Duć-Fajfer, 2025

This study examines the enduring impact of historical trauma on the Lemko ethnic minority in Poland, focusing on the interrelation between collective memory, pe...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Jun 10

🇺🇦🗣️ Zelensky: We are fighting a situation that could very well look like a transition to World War III. In Istanbul, Russians told our delegation, "We know our memorandum is an ultimatum, and you won't accept it."

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