Satellite imagery has emerged showing that Russian occupiers in the village of Manhush, near Mariupol, have destroyed a mass grave of people they killed during the siege of the city in 2022.

CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries Chinese group also slashes charging time in race against BYD for electric vehicle battery supremacy

1500km means you don’t need to charge very often so the charger wouldn’t even need to be at your house. In fact would probably be a waste to pay for one if charge it less than monthly

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“Minutes after voting for $300 MILLION for private school vouchers, Senate Republicans voted to cut $43 MILLION for diapers for needy families.”😳

Welcome to @GovBillLee & the @TNGOP supermajority’s Tennessee, folks. A budget is a moral document.

"Guys, this was an empty field in the autumn. Look at what is here now." -Leningrad region, RF. There is no end in sight to the "good Russians." I suppose this is exactly what Putin intended, everything is going according to plan.

Print in sepia featuring a large tree in silhouette in a rural landscape

'Boab tree near Wyndham' engraving by contemporary Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #womensart

The Atlantic could just show this in court and get it over with

Victims and witnesses often don’t come forward because they lack protection and actual support. As proven by many people on BlueSky who use any opportunity to attack women for their accents, perceived wealth, or for not speaking out at the “right time.”

We've finally reached the coverage area.
Here's a photo of me taken on the way to our new direction. We have a lot of work ahead of us 🫡🇺🇦
Dear Friends, I believe you are with us in spirit...❤️‍🔥

Russia destroys mass graves near Mariupol, satellite images suggest The site was used to bury residents who died during the Russian siege of the city in 2022, according to Ukraine’s Center for the Study of Occupation.

⚡ Russia destroys mass graves near Mariupol, satellite images suggest.

The site was used to bury residents who died during the Russian siege of the city in 2022, according to Ukraine’s Center for the Study of Occupation.

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ZELENSKYY: First, we shouldn’t make big deal out of Kushner and Witkoff’s visit to Ukraine, because we are in constant contact with them.

Second, I believe it’s not us who need their visit — it’s them. Why? Because it’s simply disrespectful to go to Moscow and not come to Kyiv.

1/ Russian companies are blocking foreign IP addresses en masse in a bid to block VPNs, stranding thousands of Russians abroad without access to money, flight details, or taxes. Major Russian apps are also being repurposed to scan users' phones for VPNs and secretly obtain user data. ⬇️

In case anyone's interested in the historical track record of these "meat wave" attacks, I have a recent paper on that topic (with Yuri Zhukov)

Spoiler alert: forcing your soldiers to fight isn't a war-winning move

Wouldn't it be great if council removed all the fucking parking meters and replaced them with car chargers. They could raise revenue by charging for the electricity instead. And that was just from my "bath tub think tank". Imagine what we could come up with of we talked to town fucking planners!

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

In a nutshell. 😊

Investigative image: migrant workers coerced into Russian military service

🚨 INVESTIGATION: Russia is systematically coercing Central Asian migrants into frontline assault units.

Life expectancy at the front: 4 months.

This is not recruitment. This is state-organized human trafficking.

#Russia #Ukraine #HumanRights #WarCrimes

Right. All the actual murdering war crimes the IDF do day in day out year in year out are absolutely fine but they WILL investigate this 🙄

In Bulgaria, a coalition led by Rumen Radev – who is closely aligned with the russian terrorist state – in on course to win parliamentary elections.

This is good news for the Putin-Kremlin crime syndicate – bad news for Europe.

47 Truths, One Threat: Inside Trump's Absolutely INSANE Sunday Morning Truth Social Meltdown Over Iran He's back to threatening to wipe Iran off the map while cosplaying as God in yet another psychotic late-night Truth Social meltdown you need to see to believe.

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47 Truths, One Threat: Inside Trump's Absolutely INSANE Sunday Morning Truth Social Meltdown Over Iran He's back to threatening to wipe Iran off the map while cosplaying as God in yet another psychotic late-night Truth Social meltdown you need to see to believe.

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Zelenskyy’s team obviously know how to negotiate. All those pundits who publicly blamed Ukraine for the USA’s shit attitude towards them need to wake TF up.

No Cards, huh?

Alt text: Screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (@Abdulkhaleq_UAE), with a verified badge. The post reads: “This is what I told Reuters today: The UAE no longer needs America to defend it, as it has proven during the Iranian aggression that it is capable of defending itself with distinction. What the UAE needs is to acquire only the best and latest weapons that America has. Therefore, it is time to think about closing the American bases, as they are a burden and not a strategic asset.” The post is labeled “Translated from Arabic by Grok” and shows a timestamp of 10:21 AM · 4/19/26 with 139K views.

NEW: UAE scholar Abdulkhaleq Abdulla says the UAE no longer needs U.S. protection, calling American bases a “burden, not a strategic asset” and suggesting they should be closed. The United States’ standing in the region has been obliterated.

Amid US easing sanctions on Russian oil, Zelensky says multibillion profits from its sale directly turn into Russian strikes on Ukraine. He says Russia launched over 2360 drones, more than 1320 aerial bombs and nearly 60 missiles this week.

Photo shows a heap of older style phones with the text “Planned obsolescence is now outlawed in France. It is a crime to intentionally reduce the lifespan of a product to force customers to replace it.”

Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310

i am going to repeat this again. It is not antisemitic to oppose Netanyahu and his war in the middle east. In fact a majority of Jews in America oppose Netanyahu and his war.

You gotta love the absolute IRONY of an Eastern Orthodox Christian raking Vance over the coals on a matter of Catholic theology and getting it correct.

(And thank you, @radiofreetom.bsky.social for the gift article.)

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Weekend Update #181; Germany Raises The Pot For Ukraine The USA Boasts, Bluffs And Then Folds; More On Ukraine Fighting Humans With Machines

Just sent out my free weekend update. This week the big story was that Germany bet on Ukraine, not as a supplicant but as a defense partner. The USA, otoh, bluffed and then, as it always does, protected Putin. Shame on you who fell for it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...