Some say that the will of the people now is all that matters. Ukrainians want to be free. True!

Also true and they matter:

* The way for russia's genocide of Ukrainians is prepared by denying Ukrainian language and history documented back as far as 1187 exist.

https://twitter.com/shipshinaUA/status/2062028785063481477

russia pushes the notion that Ukrainian language is a fiction. That language, spoken by tens of millions, differs from russian much as Spanish differs from Italian.

In 1654, Muscovy needed interpreters to negotiate a treaty with Ukrainians.

https://x.com/abstractedaway/status/1914473376652911081

New GL narrative - trolls glad GL lied about being under HUR for years. Wow.

Budanov was running HUR when its official announcement KO'ed the LARP. They going to start the "Every name I'm salty about is FSB" game with Mr. Lists or what?? 🍿

Receipts time - again? Again.👇 Narrator's voice: They totally claimed to be under HUR for years. In fact, they kept it up when their "commander" had no contract at all to fight in Ukraine after April '23.

Reminder: in Feb '25 HUR intervened because the LARP was starting an incident with Slovakia.

It's time many of us realize how woven into our history and story Ukraine's been. Timothy Snyder knocked this out of the park about how stories from Ukraine lead to key elements in LOTR.

But wait, there's more. He talks about "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow. Those of you who've been with me in Spaces know I love that book! It's great material about cultures that chose liberty and persuasion, instead of coercion, and thrived.

America's First Nations and Ukraine show up in that same book for damn good reasons.

https://x.com/abstractedaway/status/1553839068596797443

Why the "alpha males" choose sulky misogynist idols, I don't understand.

Today is Chuck Yeager's birthday - the first pilot to fly faster than sound - and he made sure the world knew the credit he gave to Glennis, his wife.

Real legends lift people up.

https://x.com/abstractedaway/status/2022140987737555303

This guy hauled ass to serve his country in WW2, even after he got shot down and returned from occupied territory - and the rules said no combat duty for him.

He got the brass to make an exception - to put him back in WW2's skies.
nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/c…

2024 was a Data-to-Disenfranchisement KKKoup.

True the Vote's lists, handed to "voter vigilantes", got 4.8 million votes wrongfully purged, 3.6M of which were 🟦. Kamala won by 1.2M popular votes, 286 EC.

2024 violated the #14A - it's illegitimate.

https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2014092683870871557

2026's violations are only the latest round of the Trump-Epstein power grab.

Trump pushing to "nationalize elections", DOGE stealing data, Noem trying to extort Minnesota's voter rolls with ICE violence is all a part of it.

So were russian bomb threats to swing state polling.

"With this latest document drop, it's clear that the terminally online outsider eco-system was not invisible to elite eyes. The wall between the system and the counter-system is far more porous than the mythology allows."
- Cy Cantarel
Cy's commentary is must-hear. If we're not actively making sure our evidence is clear and we're helping the right people, we're passive before an actively co-opting system.

@RpsAgainstTrump You need only look at archives that have been around for decades to see that Canada's transcript of Reagan was absolutely legit.

Imaging giving up literacy and dignity to eat up a such an easily proven lie. 👇 It's right there in the text, of course. This is how shameless Trump and the bot farms defending him are. Those Epstein files must be foul.

Source: reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speec…

Americans, watch and share: 🚨

ICE kidnappings aren't just randomly terrorizing people. There's a plan behind the farm raids - an ugly one. And you shouldn't feel sorry for the pro-Trump farmers.

"If that's not slavery, I don't know what is." @SarahTaber_bww is laying out what the ideology and the methods pointed to. The surface talking points are full of smoke: they don't want "illegal" farm labor gone. They want state force and labor "agencies" to lock them down.

Those confederate flags were at J6 for a reason.

That "spy dossier" supposedly from Ukraine that Mriya Aid used to attack a journalist, David Pugliese, who called them out early? It never existed.

MA faked "evidence" he was a russian agent, and went after other critics with threats of SA+violence.

Sound familiar?!? 🇺🇦🧵👇 Disclaimer: years of sifting through this, and you'll find selfish actors, suspicious ones, and genuine supporters of Ukraine caught in the middle.

I admire Canada, and volunteers who've proven true allies of Ukraine despite this chaos. Let those who caused this own it.

What do you call it when someone, to this day, actively spreads lies A, B, and C, and each of those lies would call BS on the other ones if true?

https://twitter.com/not_kavun/status/1953558324571779194

I must admit, I have a lot of incredulous moments of "How can you actually think that?", and, "Why did you think that was proof?"

It's funny being accused of being an AI for almost four years now, by the same crew that has GrantGPT writing for them.

But wait, there's more.

About Georgian Legion's calling Mamuka a unit commander, and changing stories about the chain of command:

👉 Did HUR stutter? When GL was claiming to be under HUR's command, HUR denied they exist and said Mamuka hadn't been contracted since April 2023.

But there's more! 🇺🇦🧵👇


Take note what defenders had to say about Mamuka's behavior before his contract ended in April 2023.

I'll translate this step-by-step as well. You're going to see a lot of bitter sarcasm. Verify it yourself if you need to. Thread's tail is at:

https://x.com/PersephoneInner/status/1837926466929283323

Tearing down the "divine right of kings" - a team effort!

While French thinkers were 🤯 over free 🌎 indigenous societies, they also talked with Cossacks who had elected leaders - in 1648. Ukraine's Orlyk devised a constitution with separation of powers in 1710. Fascinating 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/JPLindsley/status/1939804608823517477

This means that the US Constitution came from a rebellion against "divine right" and monarchic power, and Ukraine's Orlyk was absolutely part of this conversation.

Through Montesquieu, Ukraine was no further than one degree of separation from the US's founding inspirations.

I've seen some stupid lies before, but damn.

You can never keep too many receipts with GL. They change their stories completely, and their cult doesn't notice or doesn't care.

Reality on the ground for the locals?
(video link below)

https://twitter.com/not_kavun/status/1936857518174503107

The video in question. You can clearly see there's a huge logo visible from the street. See, I found this video memorable because GL was falsely claiming authority to arrest its critics in Ukraine.

https://x.com/potuzhnishyy/status/1859631859858116822

Again? Again.

Same cluster, same behavior. They attack legit orgs and volunteers to keep their LARP $ going.

They threaten critics with death/SA, then impersonate them (the three yyy account was fake) to sow chaos.

There's no bottom.
x.com/NormandeBrigad… x.com/LvivNightingal…


I've seen their behavior since 2022, when they attacked @UK4UA's efforts which saved a defender's leg. "NurseAnna" lied about her involvement, patient consent, deleted/rebooted her threads with moved goalposts.

BBC/Suspilne sank that ship. Grudges much?

https://x.com/alastgleaming/status/1606051643161825280

New initiative from @BackAndAlive just dropped!

"If you still don't know how 'Let's ground the enemy' works - it's okay! The dog's down to explain it to you.

This project is a shield for those who hold the sky. It's air defense, for air defense. The dog can confirm."

https://twitter.com/BackAndAlive/status/1924117790333489159

@BackAndAlive @BackAndAlive is cool like this. Their thinking is big-picture and end to end, because they were founded by Ukraine's veterans and have been at this for 11 years.

Just look at the success they've had with "Dronefall"...

Americans, read this and absorb its points. Trump's embrace of russia is a pact with death, with already recognizable symptoms: ☠️

"russian state policies, particularly domestic ones, have totally lost even their tentative compliance with the law."
krytyka.com/en/articles/ho… With its attempts to normalize russia's war crimes and fascist occupation of its peaceful neighbor, Trump's administration gives russia's national death cult its blessing, and proscribes the same for America.

American discourse does not show recognition of how deadly this is.

Though I suggest we be wary that Grok will be increasingly poisoned as a source, just this moment, I tip my hat.

It's done a great job of putting words to how the principles of how to support Ukraine connect to what I learned from standing with other marginalized people. I endorse this message.

I prompted Grok to look at three threads: Jim Crow-style voter suppression, black rights to armed self-defense, and Edmund Ruffin, and asked Grok how this would influence my support of Ukraine.

The interconnects were too good not to share.

This explainer has some solid points, @Greg_Palast, and helps to explain many of russia's excuses for war. I deeply value your work on US progressive issues. There are really solid points on how russia is aggressively attacking Ukraine's historic identity and autonomy.

Most simply and urgently: "Kyiv" not "Kiev", for the same reason we take down Confederate flags and monuments. Those spellings are a russian way of asserting imperialist ownership and historic revisionism.

I heartily recommend this thread by a respected Ukrainian author in Britain: x.com/komarnyckyj/st…

I can condense other things I've learned among Ukrainians thus:

Values are the biggest reason for russia's determination to destroy Ukraine, but Putin lied a bit there. It's not russian values versus western so much as russian versus Ukraine's. He lied because the war is founded on a genocidal premise that Ukraine doesn't exist.

It's russia's traditional values vs Ukraine's are, not so much the west's. It is the vertical power of russia's tsars and their nihilistic servile death cult, versus Ukraine's horizontal hromada, a democratic and even somewhat anarchistic co-operative view which values individuals and their choices. @Greg_Palast In Ukraine, they elected their hetmans beginning in 1648. russia is still cast in the mold of Ivan the Terrible.

This is not a worshipful, subjugated russian eye on this tsar Ivan. This painter, Ilya Repin, was Ukrainian. russia erased that to cook the books for its tsars.

Elections don't have consequences unless crimes do.

Elections have consequences. We didn't really have one if 4.7 million votes got wrongly purged.

The consequences we're actually facing are for cowardice and apathy in the face of a fascist KKKoup.

https://x.com/Greg_Palast/status/1860300474781454425

This is handing russia the reins of our country. Ukraine and Civil Rights are far more intersectional than is obvious. It's not just that they are matters of decency.

It's that the way people are poisoned against them are through grievance and collective narcissism overthrowing the moral compass.

This gets tricky because we are dealing with ways Americans are manipulated towards groups that seem removed from each other.

russia gets a hold of Americans through hatred, conspiracism, and disaffection. Trump got his political start in birtherism.

The Kremlin's trolls saw and took their chance.

When people become absorbed by their sense hate and grievance, and would rather tear down a democracy at home than let Those People be part of it, they're not going to champion democracy for other countries either, are they?

They'll be that way abroad: "Muh taxpayer duhlers" ahead of conscience.

If they hate others so much they don't want to share democracy, the strongman demagogues will play them.

Might makes right is the core of authoritarianism.
Once they adopt that value system, pro-democracy arguments don't work, because having no shared values makes a better argument meaningless.

With an authoritarian cult to tell them what America is, that they're the only real Americans, they're detached from the Enlightenment, from the historic value of Civil Rights, and ultimately choose power-over instead of principle.

Minorities, women, foreign allies don't matter, only submission.

Ukrainians have had a nasty shock finding out how much of America has lost its way. Many of us saw it happening when our family members ceased to be like the people we once knew, listening to FOX News and Alex Jones for decades.

Supporting actual nazis is a death threat, period.

It is looking at a death machine that systematically killed 12 million civilians, including 6 million Jews (hence 6MWE) just for their identity or beliefs, and millions more in wars of choice, and say, "Let's try that again." At least 1 out of every 33 people then on Earth died in WW2.

That's on the nazis and Stalinists who began it jointly in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, when they attacked Poland.

That's on the aggressors and those who could have stopped them but didn't.
worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankin…

OH WAIT - GL deleted their video of their "arresting" a critic at gunpoint under martial law in Ukraine?? What happened, guys??

https://twitter.com/abstractedaway/status/1856040933613027478

Screenshot of the deleted post. Did something happen??