Gdyby ukraiński technik laboratoryjny zmarł na dżumę i 200 osób zostało poddanych kwarantannie w dużym ukraińskim mieście, media społecznościowe eksplodowałyby najdzikszymi twierdzeniami, sianiem strachu i paniki ze strony prawicowców i rosyjskich kurew. Ale ponieważ to wydarzyło się w Rosji... wszyscy milczą.

29-year-old Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi will face 74 lashes after an appeals court upheld her sentence for performing and publishing an online concert without wearing the mandatory hijab. Ahmadi was also sentenced to a two-year ban on artistic activities and a two-year ban on leaving Iran. Ahmadi performed without a hijab and sang solo alongside male musicians before an empty venue. Iranian authorities subsequently detained Ahmadi and members of her team and prosecuted them for “offending public decency” through the production and publication of content authorities described as “vulgar and immoral.”

Putin's war is not fundamentally about security, NATO, or even territory. It's about imperial restoration. Dmitry Medvedev recently made the Kremlin's thinking unusually clear: Russia must be a great power or cease to matter. That worldview explains why Moscow continues absorbing staggering losses for relatively small territorial gains. Understanding that objective is essential to understanding the war.

These days, many populists in the US and Europe say that the war in Ukraine does not concern them. But I remember the American and European officials who came to Ukraine for years demanding that we give up our nuclear weapons, dismantle missile systems, reduce our military, and destroy thousands of tanks and APCs. Back then, a strong Ukraine was apparently needed by no one. Even today, support is often provided only in quantities enough to stop Russia’s next offensive, while we are now facing the possibility of having even that support taken away. This is why Ukrainians trust no one anymore. Because we remember everything.

I’ve just become aware of the “Russia is not my enemy” psyop going on online orchestrated by Russia. As European, let me make this clear: Russia is 100% my enemy. That’s what they chose to be. That’s what they choose every day by killing Europeans, sabotaging infrastructure, and manipulating our elections. Russia is an enemy of every European, even those who think they’re not. Because if they could they’d kill them just the same.

Якщо ми українці програємо війну Росії, то найактивніших і патріотичних просто знищать по тюрмам, підвалам і таборам. Ще велику частину розселять по Росії, під придуманими причинами. В українські окуповані міста приїде купа росіян - щоб змішати українське населення і русифікувати. Українські чоловіки поповнять російську армію. В окуповані міста приїдуть російські чиновники, які будуть по своєму ділити все що бачать. І всіх кого бачать. Ми це вже зараз бачимо на прикладі окупованих Росією міст на Донбасі. А якщо Україна програє - росіяни лише посилять описані вище сценарії, бо зосередяться не лише на війні, а вже на окупації. Нинішня війна з Росією - це війна за виживання українського народу і як спільноти і як окремого індивіду.

À cette gauche qui répète depuis bientôt 5 ans les mêmes formules sur l’Ukraine: je vous réponds parce que vous êtes ma douleur et ma plus grande déception. À l’extrême droite dont les liens financiers avec la Russie sont documentés, je n’ai pas de questions. Mais vous, allez au bout de vos phrases. « Nous voulons arrêter la guerre. » Nous aussi. Vous pensez vraiment que quelqu’un veut la paix davantage que ceux qui se réveillent avec des drones audessus de leur lit, qui enterrent leurs enfants, qui vivent amputés, sans maison, ou sous occupation russe ? La question n’est pas de savoir qui veut la paix. La question est de savoir comment on arrête celui qui fait la guerre. Et là, soudain, vos phrases deviennent beaucoup moins précises. « Cessez-le-feu immédiat. » D’accord. Merci. La Russie refuse. Ou elle accepte, se réarme et recommence. Ce n’est pas une hypothèse pour nous. On a déjà vécu cette histoire. Un cessez-le-feu ne protège personne tout seul. Il faut quelqu’un pour le garantir, et quelque chose derrière cette garantie. « Il faut négocier. » Évidemment. Mais avec quoi dans les mains ? On parle beaucoup de la table des négociations comme si, une fois assis autour, le rapport de force disparaissait par politesse. Il ne disparaît pas. Si vous désarmez l’un pendant que l’autre garde ses missiles, son armée et son industrie militaire, vous avez déjà changé la négociation avant même qu’elle commence. « Stop à l’escalade. » So cute. La Russie frappe Kyiv, c’est la guerre. L’Ukraine frappe ce qui sert à frapper Kyiv, c’est escalade! Donc la Russie peut conserver les moyens d’attaquer et l’Ukraine devrait renoncer aux moyens de répondre. Curieuse conception de la désescalade. « Arrêtons les armes, elles alimentent la guerre. » Alors répondez simplement: si l’aide militaire s’arrête demain, qu’est-ce qui arrête les missiles russes ? Rien. Vous pouvez diminuer la capacité ukrainienne de se défendre. Cela ne fait pas disparaître la capacité russe d’attaquer. Et c’est là que ce discours devient un populisme dangereux. Vous faites croire qu’on pourrait éteindre la résistance ukrainienne depuis Paris ou Washington comme on éteint un interrupteur. Je vous le dis: les Ukrainiens ne vont pas arrêter de se défendre. Même si l’OTAN le leur ordonne. Même si les Américains coupent toute l’aide. Même si Paris les invite à venir négocier autour d’une belle table à l’Élysée. Même si Zelensky leur dit lui-même d’arrêter. Ils ne vont pas arrêter. Parce que pour eux ce n’est pas une théorie géopolitique. Ce n’est pas l’OTAN. Ce n’est pas le Pentagone. Ce n’est même pas Zelensky. C’est leur maison. Leurs enfants. Leur corps. Leur vie. Ils savent ce qu’il y a derrière la ligne d’occupation. Tortures. Exécutions. Détentions. Violences sexuelles. Enfants transférés. Répression de tout ce qui est ukrainien. Vous parlez de « paix » comme si cette réalité cessait d’exister dès qu’on cesse de la regarder. Et venant d’une gauche qui se dit anti-impérialiste, c’est peut-être ce qui me révolte le plus. Une occupation ne change pas de nature parce que l’occupant est russe. Un peuple ne perd pas son droit de résister parce qu’il est européen, regarde vers Bruxelles ou demande des armes aux États-Unis. Si votre anti-impérialisme ne reconnaît l’empire que lorsqu’il est occidental, alors ce n’est plus un principe. C’est juste votre géopolitique. Alors allez au bout de ce que vous proposez. Quels territoires ? Combien de gens laissés sous occupation ? Quelles garanties ? Qui les fera respecter ? Et si la Russie recommence, on fait quoi ? Vous pouvez décider de ne plus aider les Ukrainiens. Mais vous ne pouvez pas décider à leur place qu’ils arrêteront de résister. Et surtout, vous ne pouvez pas décider à la place de la Russie qu’elle arrêtera de faire la guerre. “je ne veux pas la guerre” n’est pas une stratégie. Et dans toutes vos formules, vous oubliez toujours la même réalité : l’agresseur, lui aussi, a une volonté.

RT @davetroy: 🇷🇺 Top 25 Russia proxy voices (US): 1. Ron Paul 2. Max Blumenthal 3. Thomas Massie 4. Chris Hedges 5. Ray McGovern 6. Robert…

Fantastic. More of this. Bring this war home to them and force them to the table

Dogs are being tortured on Los Angeles’s Skid Row, the nation’s most dystopian homeless encampment. A chihuahua’s eyes were glued shut; a deaf pit bull was burned all over her body; a dead dog was hung from a shopping cart with its entrails spilling out, reports the Los Angeles Times. A Labrador’s legs were broken, probably with a sledgehammer or other blunt object; his paws were mangled and bloody. His injuries were so severe that he had to be euthanized. Skid Row dogs are starved, denied water, covered with open sores, missing their fur, and beaten—all courtesy of our homeless “neighbors,” as Los Angeles City Councilman and DSA member Hugo Soto-Martinez calls the housing-resistant, drug-addicted vagrants who come from around the U.S. to enjoy the local drug bacchanal. With any other human population, the national animal rights groups would be out in force demanding that dogs be removed from an environment of such sadistic threat. But the traditional humane organizations seem to take their cue from homeless advocates and from the city in placing the alleged rights of vagrants—in this case, to their “support animals”--above those of wholly innocent creatures. Thus is another component of civilized society sacrificed to the lethal ideology of progressive politics. latimes.com/california/story…

“And there is one final asymmetry, the one that ought to settle the matter once and for all. There is no flight from Europe by anyone—no community, no religious minority, no ethnic group, no political tendency—as a consequence of European far-right violence. No Muslims, no Jews, no atheists, no ex-Muslims, no gay men and women are packing suitcases in Frankfurt or Manchester or Marseille and applying for asylum in Cairo or Islamabad or Algiers because European far-right militants have made their lives untenable at home. The traffic runs, on a massive scale, in the opposite direction, and it has run in the opposite direction for two generations. Muslims, Christians, Yezidis, Baha’is, Ahmadiyyas, ex-Muslims, secularists, feminists, gay men and women, and religious minorities of every description are leaving the Muslim-majority world in millions, and they are coming to Europe and the rest of the West. They come because Europe, whatever else it is, is not governed by the doctrinal architecture they are fleeing. The presence of a European far right that occasionally shouts at them, or, at the violent extreme, produces a Breivik or a Tarrant, has not slowed the movement at all. If the two extremisms were symmetrical, the flow would also be symmetrical. It is not even close. The direction of migration by itself—that is, the votes of feet cast in their tens of millions by the very people who know both worlds—is a stronger empirical statement about the relative danger of the two phenomena than any Home Office report, academic study, or half-baked media essay will ever be.” thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-ali-…

Left: 9/11, 2001, New York Right: 9/11, 2026, Odesa Please explain to me why we killed the terrorist responsible for the image on the left, while rolling out the red carpet for the terrorist responsible for the image on the right.

On the ground in Kyiv, the news from the front lines in Ukraine is mixed. Ukrainian forces have fought Russia to a standstill, and Russia is paying a much higher price in losses on the battlefield. Since Putin can't win that fight, he's turned to terrorism instead, bombing grocery stores, shopping malls and gas stations to break Ukraine's economy and terrorize its people. For every four ballistic missiles Russia is making, we're producing one Patriot. This is the new fight, and America needs to stand up and lead the free world.

I met with leaders of physician-owned medical clinics across Oregon last week. They told me the CAT tax is crushing their clinics. They even pay it on expensive chemo drugs for cancer patients. That makes no sense. The Drazan Plan will reform the CAT and lower costs for Oregonians. thedrazanplan.com

Spent last night in Ukraine’s capital getting bombed by Russia. Every half hour or so all night long. And let me just say… You don’t hate Russia enough.

I don't think people fully understand what's happening in America. We have two parties: one that traditionally advocates for larger government, and one that traditionally advocates for limited government. But within the party of limited government, a growing faction of power-hungry politicians has decided that wielding government power is acceptable when it serves their own ambitions. Republicans need to fight back against the toxic ideology that is consuming our party. America cannot remain free if conservatives roll over & allow this to happen.

Putin says there will be "no negotiations with terrorists" and is referring to Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because HE chose to invade another country. PUTIN IS THE TERRORIST

❗️Jeden Hansel, der mir mit „Wer hat damit angefangen?“ oder „Die Ukraine hat zuerst zivile Objekte attackiert“ kommt, blockiere ich umgehend. 🚨Russland verwüstet seit fast fünf Jahren systematisch zivile Objekte in der Ukraine und macht ganze Städte dem Erdboden gleich. Mariinka⤵️. Drei Jahre vor dem ersten ukrainischen Deep Strike. Lasst euch ein Hirn wachsen, ihr Leuchten.🤦‍♂️

Warning: the following may be triggering for some readers. The Russian military, and the Soviet military before it, has a long record of tolerating rape and abuse of women in territories under its control, in detention, and within its own ranks. Commanders have turned a blind eye to that violence and, in some cases, participated in it themselves. During the Red Army's advance through Europe in 1944–45, rape occurred on an enormous scale. Estimates for Germany alone reach roughly two million women; one scholarly estimate suggests that as many as one-third of Berlin's approximately 1.5 million women were raped. Soviet troops also committed widespread sexual violence in Romania, Hungary and Austria. During the Soviet war in Afghanistan, Soviet troops were also accused of raping and abducting Afghan women, including during house-to-house searches in Kandahar and Kabul. The reported victims included women from the families of Afghan government officials. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not end the pattern. During the Second Chechen War, Human Rights Watch documented rape and gang rape by Russian troops in occupied villages. In Alkhan-Yurt, witnesses described soldiers searching houses and cellars for young women. In Novye Aldi, Human Rights Watch received reports of six rapes during a single Russian sweep. In one notorious case, eighteen-year-old Kheda Kungaeva was abducted from her home in March 2000 by soldiers under Colonel Yuri Budanov, sexually assaulted and killed. Forensic evidence indicated that she had been raped shortly before her death, but Russian prosecutors dropped the rape charge. Budanov was convicted of kidnapping, murder and abuse of office, but no one was prosecuted for Kungaeva's rape. After his release five years later, Budanov was hailed as a hero by sections of the Russian nationalist movement. When he was killed in 2011, he was buried with full military honours. Ukraine has produced the same pattern with considerably more documentation. By May 2025, the UN had documented 132 women and girls subjected to conflict-related sexual violence attributable to Russian authorities. The abuses included rape, gang rape, sexual assault, forced nudity, sexual torture and threats of sexual violence. These are documented cases, and the true scale is almost certainly considerably higher. The ages are particularly horrifying. UN investigators have documented sexual violence against women over eighty and children as young as four. In some cases, family members were forced to watch. These crimes were being reported within weeks of the full-scale invasion. Bucha was under Russian occupation for most of March 2022, and Russian units operating there were subsequently implicated in killings, torture and sexual violence. Among them was the 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade under Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov. Putin subsequently awarded the brigade the honorary title of "Guards", and Omurbekov was promoted. Despite years of documented rape and sexual violence by Russian personnel in Ukraine, there is no evidence of a serious Russian effort to prosecute its personnel for these crimes. That absence of accountability is consistent with the pattern seen in Chechnya. For many survivors, the violence does not end when the assault ends. They may relive the trauma for years, suffer nightmares, struggle with ordinary tasks, and feel isolated from people who cannot understand what they experienced. In wartime, access to medical care, psychological support, and even basic safety may be severely limited. The soldiers who did this to them have inflicted damage that may follow them for the rest of their lives. For this and for many other reasons, the Russian army is a vile institution. For decades, women have been raped, tortured and humiliated by Russian soldiers, while commanders have ignored the abuse, protected perpetrators, rewarded implicated units, or committed the violence themselves. There is no honour in serving in the Russian military, and those who voluntarily wore or still wear its uniform should feel nothing but shame. If Russia refuses to hold the commanders and personnel responsible for these crimes accountable, other states and international courts should. And we should stop treating the Russian military as a normal armed force entitled to the ordinary presumption of professional honour.

'Galleries are expanding. Festivals continue. Ukrainian writers are reaching new audiences. Ukrainian designers, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers are introducing the country to the world on their own terms.' @DavisOliverR on @Ukraine's wartime cultural renaissance for @ACForesight