Exactly 3 years ago, Georgians fought back hard against the first tabling of the Russian law (Foreign Agents law). Two nights of intense crackdowns and clashes resulted in the withdrawal of the bill.
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📷 Raymond Red Rodgers
What we experience online is often not a neutral reflection of public opinion.
Across country after country, research suggests something else where a relatively small number of actors can shape what becomes visible, what feels normal, and what institutions end up reacting to.
russia is helping Iran not because it loves Iran, but because it loves oil prices going up, it likes attention shifting away from the war crimes russian troops are committing in Ukraine, and most importantly, it helps Iran because russia hates America 🇺🇸
A UAV was found this morning in the parking lot of a hospital in Nahariya.
Where is the UN condemnation? Where are the fake human rights activists?
Apparently, attacking a hospital is only bad when it treats someone other than Jews.
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Macro photograph of an abalone shell
Space Egg 🥚
#237 taken 7:45 pm
#art #photography #macro #abdtacy
screenshot of a "Tech News World" Facebook post featuring an AI-generated war video, and Page Transparency info indicating that "Tech News World" has ben renamed multiple times
Meet “Tech News World”, a Facebook page that recently pivoted from spamming the platform with AI-generated movie posters to spamming the platform with AI-generated videos of war in the Middle East.
Sadly, “Tech News World” is not the only spammy account exploiting the violence for views and clicks.
screenshots of "Tech News World" posts from different eras, showing a progression from cute dog photos to AI-generated movie posters to AI-generated war videos
The “Tech News World” page has been renamed repeatedly, and content from at least two of the page's prior eras is still visible. Until late 2024, it posted plagiarized dog photos, at which point it pivoted to AI-generated movie posters, which remained the theme until the recent fake war footage.
Sometimes it's helpful when disinformation is allowed to stay on the platform.
This account "elainegoldie" is a goldmine of links to toxic sites to be labeled @pef-moderation.org
Reposting virulent antisemite Matthew Ehret.
Yes, Netanyahu is a bad actor. No, Israel is not trying to occupy Iraq.
A black and white cat wearing a red polka-dot bow tie, sitting upright with a serious expression
Muscle Uni :3
a cute orange and white cat stands atop a cat tree, meowing emphatically
A dangerous beast has appeared, should I be concerned?
This International Women’s Day, reflect on your commitment to women’s rights. The moral narcissism sweeping the political left that convinces women to stand with the oppressors of millions of women is a cancer.
Zen. Zendegi. Azadi.
FREE IRAN.
💬 "The Venice Biennale must not become a space for whitewashing the war crimes Russia commits daily against the Ukrainian people," write Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Deputy Minister of Economy Tetiana Berezhna in a joint statement.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
Eliza Davis was a Jewish woman in London in the 1860s. One day, she did something meaningful: she wrote to Charles Dickens and told him that one of his most famous books was spreading prejudice. Her letter changed the way he saw his work.
#EternalLight
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🤨 Russia has deployed surveillance aerostats near NATO’s border.
According to statements from Estonian officials, the balloons are monitoring strategic energy infrastructure in northeastern Estonia close to the NATO frontier.
🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
russia’s army actively uses drones to strike Ukrainian positions and troops, so every interception means saved lives and another disrupted enemy attack.
Join the effort to protect the sky over Ukraine: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
There is no more “Breaking News” no more “Important Updates” it’s just news and updates.
Ok thanks for listening.
#Iran #Israel #FreeIran #Pahlavi #LionsRoar #UAE #Hormuz #US #EpicFury
Translated: "Organizations like the MEK are present in the media, but due to their violent history, their cult-like structure and their collaboration with Saddam Hussein, they possess virtually no social legitimacy in Iran."
Please have some respect for people whose lives you are talking about.
Don't talk as if you know better than the Iranian people, when you have not done your homework & don't know what it is like to live in Iran.
You have the privilege of online visibility, and of relative freedom if you were
... born in the West & esp if you are white.
Don't speak over Iranians & their demands,
Don't treat them as if they are ignorant or wrong bc *you* don't get it.
You didn't speak up when they were being massacred, you don't get to use their suffering now it suits your politics. .
You don't have to be pro-war,
You don't have to like Trump.
But you can stop trying to frame this from a Western perspective.
You can stop placing your attempts at political 'wins' above the lives of people involved.
Russia returns to the Venice Biennale to export its war propaganda.
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Please read
In Kenya, families protested in Nairobi demanding the government bring home their sons duped into joining Russia's army for the Ukraine war. Many were lured with promises of decent jobs as drivers or guards, but ended up on the front lines. Over 1,000 Kenyans have been recruited
UPDATE: A woman in her 40s was moderately injured in Rishon LeZion after debris struck her head following the destruction caused by an Iranian missile.
Once again, Tehran’s regime is deliberately and exclusively targeting civilians.
A DSA candidate could be caught on video burning a cross on a Black family's lawn, and 100% chance Chris Murphy would still go to MSNBC gushing "he's a great candidate who speaks for the 'working class' who made an excusable mistake."
Just now:
Iranians in Iran start chanting "death to Mojtaba" from their balconies after the announcement that he is the new supreme leader of the IRGC regime.
Such chants are a death sentence. That is how much Iranians under bombardment want this terrorist regime gone and brought to swift justice.
The sunflower represents optimism and direction. Its natural behavior — turning toward the sun — reflects an instinct to seek light even when surrounded by shadows.
Don’t give up hope. Be like a sunflower.🌻
Artist: Vicki McGrath
