Chris Dando 💙💛 🇺🇦🌻

I really thought Mace posting 100+ times a day on Twitter was going to win her that governor’s race. Guess not.

In the final moments of my birthday, I want to thank you for all the wonderful words, support, and congratulations you all wrote to me today! You are the best people I've ever met! Thank you all for supporting Ukraine and my music! I spent this day with my family, inspired, and excited to share that I'll soon be delighting you with my new music! ROCK AND ROLL AIN’T DEAD🤘🥳🎸🇺🇦 In the meantime, listen to my single "RAZOR," which turns exactly one year old today (LINK BELOW 🔽)

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"When I saw my name on Trump’s newest enemies list, the absolute last thing I was going to do was the same thing all of those other cowards did by folding to Trump, getting themselves out of trouble, and not thinking about the effect it was having on everyone else. I have an opportunity here - in my small corner of the internet - to walk the walk, instead of just talking the talk. So if Trump wants to come after me and content creators, go for it. We’ll be even louder than before. If this self-proclaimed free speech champion wants to clamp down on my right to speak out against him, then I’ll do it twice as loud. And if me doing so gives a permission structure for the next person to fight back instead of capitulate, then I’ve done my job." plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trump-just-p…

This. All day this.

Platner: "Susan Collins has voted to send billions of our taxpayer dollars to fund other people's wars. How do you justify closing hospitals in Maine while using our tax dollars to destroy them halfway across the world? If you reflect Maine's values, why are you funding masked agents ... "

The most amazing thing about this thread is all the MAGAs rushing in to "fact check" me. 🤣 Hint: Now go and do the same on all the pro-trump posts. There's plenty of outrageous lies to choose from. Fucking hypocrites.

Anyone noticing we've always been at war with Eurasia even though we've never been at war with Eurasia

@I_amMukhtar The far right are turning the UK into a third world country. Criminals and racists being paid by foreign billionaires are calling for trouble on our streets without facing any consequences. @metpoliceuk this has to stop

@I_amMukhtar @DirkMcQuigley They won’t stop until they’ve killed innocent people, FaRAGE, Lowe, Lennon, are all guilty of encouraging this behaviour like we haven’t seen in Belfast since the 70s - when the fire service used to have to ask permission to extinguish fires in certain areas.

The rioters have set a house on fire in Belfast.

@I_amMukhtar Cunts! Yaxley Bellend should be charged with instigating this when he comes back from Russia.

No, sweetie. Donetsk was a city of a million roses when its own Ukrainian flag flew above it. Back then, it was also the fastest-growing and most rapidly prospering city in Ukraine -- home to what was the finest regional airport in Eastern Europe, one of the world's best football stadiums, a state-of-the-art railway terminal, and one of the cleanest, best-maintained cities in the region. Its elites were running Kyiv, and every time I visited Donetsk as a student, riding the famous trolleybus Route No. 2 through the city, I was amazed by how many new office buildings were appearing, how much money was flowing into the city, and how many international companies were opening their doors there. Fifteen years ago, to us kids from Donbas, Donetsk felt like the center of the universe because it had everything one could possibly dream of. It was a young city of universities and libraries, where the overwhelming majority of boys and girls from across Donbas went to study, including those from my own small hometown an hour away by bus. Names like Liverpool or Detroit Rock City may mean nothing to you, but our Ukrainian Donetsk was a city of great rock clubs and unforgettable concerts. We traveled there to see Western bands perform. We bought rock merchandise at the legendary Right House store near Krytyi Market. Scorpions, Rihanna, and Beyoncé performed at the famous Donbass Arena. Schoolchildren from across Donbas were bused in to watch Shakhtar Donetsk matches. The city even had a famous monument to The Beatles. It was a city where we sang songs on guitars in its beautifully maintained parks and along the Kalmius embankment before heading out to buy the famous "green Donetsk burgers." Our older friends moved there after graduation, formed rock bands, recorded full albums, and held wedding celebrations in the squares around Donbas Arena. We traveled there to visit the legendary Radio Market in search of films, music, and books. And then you arrived. And you turned the wealthiest, most prosperous Ukrainian city into a piece of shit. You deceived many of its people with sweet promises of Russian oil-fueled prosperity broadcast from television screens, but what you brought instead was war. You transformed a thriving city into a criminal wasteland ruled by ethnic gangs from Russia, into a kingdom of Stalinist terror straight out of the 1930s, complete with torture chambers in the infamous Izolyatsia prison camp. You turned the magnificent Donetsk Airport into lifeless gray rubble, while the vast stands of Donbas Arena have spent a second decade slowly being reclaimed by weeds instead of hosting Champions League finals and Metallica concerts. You swept away an entire generation of the city's men through your forced mobilization and threw them against Ukrainian machine guns until there were barely enough people left to keep basic municipal services running. Because of you, prosperous Donetsk became a withered desert without reliable water, because your war destroyed the canal system that carried water from the Siverskyi Donets River into Donbas. For years now, people have lived with chronic water shortages and have been reduced shitting into plastic bags forever. You dragged Donetsk back like seventy years in time. You turned it into a depressed backwater, devoid of hope and future. Even ten years ago, tens of thousands of people, the most active, the most talented, the most entrepreneurial, fled the city and found refuge in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine. Many of them still remember our Donetsk with tears in their eyes, the Donetsk that existed before the arrival of the "Russian World." You transformed it into something that even my pro-Russian acquaintances are shocked to see when they return after years of occupation. It was you who trampled the million roses of our Ukrainian Donetsk into shit beneath the tracks of your tanks and the boots of your death troops, turning them into a foul swamp of death and despair. And that stain will forever remain on the conscience of fascist Russia, which brings nothing but destruction, decay, and death wherever it goes.

Hello. No movement whatsoever. I don’t know what to tell you. I won’t give up, though. I’m still confident we will reach the goal eventually. Here is the math: Raised: 6,230.83 eur Left to raise: 4,769.17 eur If you are still interested in bringing joy to Ukrainian orphans and want to join the mission, all info is available in the quoted tweet. Thank you!

Today in Politics, Bulletin 397. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

@supertanskiii Surely the @NCA_UK need to be looking into this. Elon has been amplifying it. He should be summoned and X shut down.

@supertanskiii Isn't incitement to riot a criminal offence?

Your reminder that this cunt is currently inciting violence on the streets of Britain from… RUSSIA. Where he’s hanging out with Musk’s rapey dad. Couldn’t make it up.