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@SholaMos1 #BlueInTheWomb Love her!

I absolutely LOOOOVVVEEEE HER! These are the White aunties we need out here educating the masses 👏🏽❤️ I don’t know who she is yet but sending her flowers 🌺 nonetheless! #NoKingsProtest #kings

Andree van der Vyver, the headmistress at Olyfkrans College, leads by example in Swellendam. Not too far away in Malgas, we get to know Sandra Kemp, who’s found healing in horses. Don’t miss the penultimate episode of Overbergbewoners, Tuesday at 21:30 on KykNET. #LoveChange #Overbergbewoners

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting many Americans to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires, and empathy more than cruelty.

There is no “gender war.” Women didn’t take away men’s right to vote. Women didn’t ban men from education or property ownership. Women didn’t write laws controlling men’s bodies. Women didn’t build institutions that stripped men of autonomy. The power imbalance has never run both ways.

You see folks, as far as I can tell, from the outside, this is what it looks like: America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip on reality and drag us all into catastrophe. You want to steal Greenland. You want Cuba to “make a deal before it’s too late”. You talk about bombing or invading Mexico. You kidnap a President and knock off the peoples oil in Venezuela. You joke about annexing Canada like it should be a shopping centre car park you can just claim because you feel like it. Do you have any idea how insane that sounds to the rest of us? This isn’t tough talk. This isn’t strategy. This is a deeply unstable old man threatening sovereign nations like he’s flipping over a Monopoly board because he’s losing. This is not normal behaviour. This is not leadership. This is not strength. This is a walking, talking international crisis. And Americans, this is where it comes back to you. Not just MAGA, not just the people who voted for him, all of you. Because when the President of the United States starts talking about kidnapping leaders, annexing countries, and issuing ultimatums like a mob boss, the rest of the world doesn’t get a vote. We just get the consequences. You don’t get to shrug and say, “Well I didn’t vote for him.” That might fly at a dinner party, but it doesn’t fly when nuclear powers are watching this circus and recalculating their own red lines. This is your system. Your presidency. Your responsibility. From the outside, it looks like America lit the fuse and then wandered off while everyone else stands around the bomb wondering who’s going to cut the wire. And let’s be brutally honest. This man is nearly 80. He’s frail. He’s clearly deteriorating. He is not some long term visionary playing chess. He’s at the end of his lifespan and acting like nothing matters after him. That is the most dangerous type of leader there is. A man with nothing to lose and an ego that demands constant feeding. Why should the rest of the world pay for that? Why should families in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, anywhere, have to worry about war, trade collapse, energy shocks, or global instability because America couldn’t get its own house in order? This is not about left or right anymore. This is about basic sanity. This is about stopping a psychopath before he does something irreversible. Because once a war starts, once a country gets invaded, once alliances fracture beyond repair, you don’t get a reset button. So yes, this falls on Americans. You got the world into this mess, and you damn well better roll your sleeves up and get us out of it. Impeach him. Remove him. Contain him. Do whatever your system allows, but do it fast. Because the rest of us just want to live our lives, raise our families, pay our bills, and not wake up one morning to find out World War Three started because an unhinged old man wanted to feel powerful one last time. This isn’t funny anymore. It isn’t theatrical. It isn’t tolerable. Get this lunatic under wraps before he ruins it for everyone.

Pani Natalia, 70, evacuated her husband on a wheelchair from the killzone. They traveled 13km (!) until they got to the Ukrainian defenders on the outskirts of Kostiantynivka. Impossible to watch this w/o tears. Incredible humans. Video by Vadym Heiko.

Just yesterday, Russia bombed an apartment building in my city—Kharkiv—in the middle of the night, while it was full of sleeping families. Ten people were killed, and we are still searching for more bodies in the rubble. This is what Russia will do with the money from that oil.

"It breaks my heart": UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher says "we're seeing staggering amounts of money, reportedly a billion dollars a day” being spent on the Middle East war, rather than addressing the world’s “huge humanitarian caseload.”

Rescuers pulled the bodies of a 13-year-old girl and a boy from the rubble after Russia’s missile strike. The death toll is now seven. Russia killed these children in their beds.

Little Ukrainian girl is scared as bomb alert is sounding. She says she fears that bomb will kill her mom and herself. Heartbreaking. Kids shouldn't experience such horrors. Never forgive. Never forgive. Close the sky over Ukraine!

Kharkiv 💔 Yesterday night, russians killed 13‑year‑old Lisa Polyanska and her mother by striking a five‑story residential building with a missile. This terrorist attack by Russia also killed nine of their neighbors🕯 Bastards. Terrorists.

“4 years ago Russians, at gunpoint, took me and my family to the basement of a school, where they held 360 people for 27 days. We became a “human shield” for their headquarters. 4 years ago we became hostages in cramped rooms where there was barely any air to breathe. People were starting to lose their minds from suffocation. 4 years ago people were shot right on the streets for having a phone, for wearing military-style pants, or simply for resisting. 4 years ago people in the basement were forced to sleep standing or sitting, because there wasn’t enough space for everyone. 1/6

ruSSia launched 120+ drones at Ukrainian civilians last night. Multiple people were seriously injured. This wasn’t mentioned in Western media. It rarely is anymore. Please don’t forget about Ukraine. Please don’t allow others to forget about what is happening to Ukraine.

BREAKING🚨 A man was choked to death by ICE guards, and DHS hid his body at a military base to block the autopsy. His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. When the county medical examiner finally performed an autopsy, the conclusion was devastatingly clear: his death was ruled a homicide. But here is the detail that should make your blood run cold. When another man recently died at that exact same #ICE facility, the Department of Homeland Security didn't call the local medical examiner. Instead, they moved his body to a nearby U.S. Army base. And that Army base is now flat-out refusing to release the results of the autopsy. This was revealed today by Senator Dick Durbin in a horrifying congressional hearing about the explosion of deaths in ICE custody under the Trump administration. Eight people have already died in ICE custody in just the first two months of this year alone. Many of them died from easily treatable illnesses. 911 logs show ICE facilities are completely overwhelmed, ignoring basic human rights. But moving a body to a military installation to dodge a local homicide investigation? That isn't just negligence. That is a coordinated, state-sponsored cover-up. They are operating mass detention facilities with zero accountability. They are treating human beings like they are disposable. And when their guards cross the line, they use the full weight of the federal military apparatus to hide the evidence. We are watching human rights abuses happen on American soil, funded by our tax dollars. We must demand the autopsy report. Share this. Do not let them sweep these deaths under the rug.

"If they try to take our country away from us, our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. Not attack, defend ourselves. And when you attack us, you will see our faces, not our backs, but our faces." - President Zelenskyy, 2022 #StandWithUkraine

Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago? How many of us didn’t sleep at all. We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds. Here was Blinken saying the invasion was inevitable within the next few hours. Here was Zelensky speaking in the middle of the night in Russian, pleading with all Russians to come to their senses at the last moment and not take a fatal step. Here was the news that the runways of Ukraine’s largest airports had been blocked with overturned vehicles. We sat with Flighradar24 open. Here at 1 a.m., over northern and eastern Ukraine, an American drone was making multiple circles, monitoring the massive Russian grouping on our border from Belarus to Crimea. A plane seemed to have taken off, evacuating Turkish diplomats. They must have been among the last ones... Russia had closed all airspace along its entire border with Ukraine later on. In journalists’ chats, hundreds of colleagues just as sleepless. “Guys, be ready… it seems like today.” But hope, of course, died last. Maybe today it would pass. Maybe it was still a bluff and blackmail, because that would be logical. They couldn’t possibly go through with such madness. It would be a catastrophe of biblical proportions and a bloody slaughter in which it would be impossible to win. They couldn’t fail to understand that. And then -- “live” on Russian TV (in reality, of course, everything had been recorded well in advance as part of a pre-invasion propaganda performance) -- Putin’s face, distorted with sadistic hatred and a smirk of gloating, announcing the “special military operation.” What is there to say, four years have passed since that night. If someone had told me then that four years later independent Ukraine would be at the forefront of the entire free world, fighting alone on equal terms against the full military power of Russia, with the Ukrainian flag over every regional capital that was free from occupation that night, with Ukrainian-made drones and cruise missiles that smash Russian oil refineries, airfields, and giant military factories every single night — I would never, ever have believed it. And yet, through unparalleled heroism and enormous sacrifice, fighting Ukraine has changed the course of history. She disproved all the arrogant skeptics who were burying her alive back then and giving her no chance, already ready to run and “negotiate” with yet another deranged maniac hungry for blood and territorial grabs. Glory to Ukraine!

Considering everything the Trump administration is doing, this is not surprising. but still heartbreaking. A slow return to business as usual with genocidal invaders, even as they continue murdering Ukrainians and destroying our country.

There has been no electricity for six days now. And there won’t be for at least three more. Out of those six days, three were without water. If I hadn’t spent my whole life reading, if I didn’t have that inner foundation, it would probably be much harder. The Japanese have a philosophy called Ikigai — in a broad sense, it means the reason you live. But in harsh moments, ikigai hides in simple things. I love cleanliness. Every morning I heat water and wash the floors. I walk my dogs. I talk to my daughter. I make coffee in a beautiful cup — freshly brewed, with cardamom, a touch of vanilla, and a little sugar. Then the workday begins. Once, an economist said that Ukraine already has an economic miracle. Our economy is alive because people get up and go to work — despite everything. Moreover, this high bar of expectations pushes us to be creative and to keep growing. They say the Russians are planning to strike infrastructure further — targeting water. As if to say: if they survived without electricity and heating, let’s try leaving them without water too. There is only one Monday left until spring. I am Ukrainian. And that is my ikigai.

This weekend, I met a Ukrainian Marine who spent two and a half years as a prisoner of war in Russia. He told me about how they tortured him with electric shocks and by beating him with sticks. He lost more than sixty pounds in captivity. He spent long stretches in solitary confinement. They did all of this to try to get him to sign false confessions. They’ve done this with other prisoners. The Russians try to torture them until they sign a false confession that could be used for propaganda. It goes against every law of war and every basic tenet of our humanity, but that’s exactly who Putin is. This Ukrainian Marine didn’t give in. He told me that every night, when they were done abusing him and he finally had a moment, he would say out loud “one more day closer to home.” He didn’t know when that day would come, but he had faith it would. Finally, he was released in a prisoner exchange. That’s what ordinary Ukrainians are sacrificing for their homeland. Which is why we need to put the screws to Putin economically so that he actually comes to the table to end this war.

The AI Slopacalypse is near.