🚨Russian filtration camps are simply torture centers.

"They used electricity. I almost died. I fell & choked on my dental fillings, which had come out from my teeth"

"A plastic bag was put on her head…her hands were tied. Her mother was on her knees, begging for her daughter"
"They separate families. People are being disappeared. It's pure terror"—#Mariupol🇺🇦 survivor on #Russia's "filtration" camps

"I'll put you in the basement until you rot!"—soldier said to 60yo Viktoria, gun to her head & kicking her for having a Ukrainian flag in her FB profile.
'The Russians said beatings were my re-education'

We've known about torture cellars in #Russia-occupied regions since Putin's 2014 invasion of #Ukraine.

8 years of #warcrimes later, Russian re-education camps—in Europe!—torture people for being Ukrainian bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

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Jun 16
🔥🔥Reading Luttig's statement & I'm so grateful he doesn't tiptoe around the crisis. The conservative judge says #Jan6 was a battle in Trump & GOP's ongoing war on democracy & America. He uses "war" 21x on just p1 ! He says they lied knowingly, to cling to power. #Jan6thHearings Image
Luttig: A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, & our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.

America was at war on that fateful day, but not against a foreign power. She was at war against herself. We Americans were at war with each other…
Luttig: "January 6 was…a war for America’s democracy, a war irresponsibly instigated and prosecuted by the former president, his political party allies, and his supporters…
only the party that instigated this war over our democracy can bring an end to that war."
#Jan6thHearings Image
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Jun 3
💥Federal Grand Jury INDICTS Peter NAVARRO, Former Trump Adviser, on Criminal Contempt Charges
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May 27
Watching President @ZelenskyyUa address @FSIStanford right now. He's talking about a special room in Kyiv used to greet visiting heads of state, now used to honor the heroes who have given their lives to defend #Ukraine's freedom & independence on day 93 of Russia's (8 year) war. Image
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May 24
‼️OMG 14 elementary school students—children— and 1 teacher are dead after a mass shooting by an 19yo gunman in Texas.

Damn you @GovAbbott and every Republican who with the gun lobby have perverted our laws & society into this daily hellscape of massacres, trauma and grief.
@GovAbbott The 18yo (or 19yo) gunman is dead. He drove to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 14 children & 1 teacher with 2 guns. Kids were 2nd, 3rd, 4th graders.

It's an 80% Hispanic school district, with large immigrant community. So could be a Buffalo style hate crime. Image
@GovAbbott Senator @ChrisMurphyCT: WHAT ARE WE DOING?? Why are you here? I'm begging my Republican colleagues, DO SOMETHING. It will not solve everything. But by doing something, we at least stop sending the quiet message of endorsement of gun massacres.

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May 23
🔥There you have it—from an insider. Putin's war in Ukraine isn't about restoring Soviet or Russian glory. That's all instrumental to KLEPTOCRACY.

I don't know who's more grandiose—Putin w/ his propaganda or the West so eager to believe ideology drives Russia's murderous regime.
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"Those who conceived this war want only one thing—to remain in power forever, live in…palaces, sail on yachts…, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity."
Talking about Putin's war as an ideological mission for Soviet or Russian glory makes for a good story. But it's not true. Worse, it feeds Putin's propaganda myths.

Let's stop using Russia's self-serving framing. Putin's war on Ukraine is genocide w/ ONE aim—kleptocratic power.
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