Director of Protect a Volunteer, which supports foreign volunteers in Ukraine by directly matching them with donors. Radical centrist. Views my own.
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I have very exciting news that we have been working on for a long time and it’s now official. Protect a Volunteer now has a Memorandum of Cooperation and Interaction with the Foreign Recruitment Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For OPSEC purposes I am not sharing the exact details of the agreement. However we are looking forward to working on the shared goals of helping more foreigners come to assist Ukraine’s fight and provide them with appropriate support once they arrive.
Ukraine’s defense of its own territory is remarkable; so are the contribution of foreign volunteers who fight with them. Integrating thousands of volunteers coming from all around the world has not been easy. It understandably took time for Ukraine to formalize a system to be able to expand their recruitment of foreigners as well as the opportunities they have in Ukraine. Now that it is formalized under a central command we are looking forward to working together.
We will have a lot of updates soon regarding this partnership.
Word of warning for anyone in Ukraine:
Twitter just tried to turn on my location settings without me trying to change them. I had to manually opt out after it had already turned on.
Use a VPN.
Damn it’s Tuesday I forgot to do my regularly scheduled crash out time to yell about how PAV ruined your life but for the first time ever people were normal for a week and didn’t do that.
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Meet "McLovin," who left California to join 3rd @SOF_UKR Regiment. From day one, he dove straight into learning Ukrainian - because in combat, mutual understanding is a matter of survival.
Happy Ukrainian Language & Literacy Day to all who speak, protect, & live it!
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The best way to build political power in this country is to kneecap the more progressive candidates right before the election. Genius move here.
The DSA National Political Committee has voted to unendorse and expel Nithya Raman
She has until October 31 to express clear direct support for BDS to retain endorsement, and until January 1 to condemn weapon shipments for Israel out of LAX to remain a member of DSA
Both resolutions are linked below
Is any other state getting political ads this weird or are we special?
I don’t understand the audience for this because it’s old ladies talking smack but using language that would offend an older audience.
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On Oct. 19, a Russian strike on a Kharkiv park killed five people, including a 1-year-old girl. @CBSNews obtained photos showing air-defense radars offline that day due to SpaceX’s Starlink restrictions. Alina Spichak walked me through the last steps of her sister Yulia, who died there.
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This is horrific. Residents of occupied Oleshky who wish to escape to free Ukraine will not be allowed to cross the Dnipro River – which is less than 4 km away. They will be taken to occupied Crimea or to the Russian Federation, where they will be subjected to coercive measures.
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Anyone on earth can pay the Trump family for custom foreign policy.
Imagine the billions Russians have funneled to Kushner in exactly the same manner.
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China's secret police have detained you.
You are hooded or blindfolded, handcuffed, abducted to a secret location, locked in a padded cell, and threatened with severe punishment for "harming China".
My cover story in @thewirechina: thewirechina.com/2026/10/25/… 1/7
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A ceasefire is currently in effect in the area of the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky in Ukraine’s Kherson region.
Praying that Ukrainian people make it out safely.
It’s amazing that in 2008 we were all able to figure out that no candidate can agree with you on everything but if you pick the one that is closest you get closer to getting what you want.
Now in 2026 it’s people saying they won’t vote if they don’t have perfection.
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"The world doesn’t work with emotions… we have relations with Israel because Israel exists.”
The Shah of Iran, 1973
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Crucial, must-read piece.
Sudanese lives are worth no less than any others. The appointment of UN Secretary General must reflect that. Being an elite diplomat—even being a first on multiple levels (first woman, Muslim, ethnic Palestinian)—can never erase the war crimes in Sudan.
‘The appointment of Nusseibeh, who has been the face of the UAE’s Sudan strategy, would be a slap in the face to the millions of people suffering the horrors of war, and a dereliction of duty towards those thousands who have already been killed.’
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Our favorite spicy Ukrainian is using her backup account 👇 for now so be sure to give her a follow 🇺🇦
Fellas who follow my mommy @Oksii33, come here🫶
Mommy’s going to be in Twitter jail for a long time, but we can’t let our fundraisers get stuck because of that.
Don’t leave a tiny fluffball fighting for Ukraine all alone🥺
During the first Gulf war my neighbor was in the Navy and deployed. My family sent him a care package and my contribution was sending him my miniature basketball hoop and ball that I won because I read the most books for the Pizza Hut reading challenge. I got that and a pizza.
Then I wrote a note that said I gave it to him because he was on a boat and boats are boring so here is a basketball.
It turns out boats ARE really boring and to this day he still remembers that.
By the time I got to the war, the infrastructure was such that while we loved the candy, razors etc. in the care packages, the real treats were these absolutely unhinged kids greeting cards. We used to sit around in the DFAC giving dramatic readings of them, totally out of love. They were so innocent and unintentionally hilarious, which was much needed.
I volunteer to take this guy to a construction site and see if he can build something. That would also require him to come to this district he is trying to represent.
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Honestly, I think this is the article I am most proud of. Eva died in a double-tap strike while trying to rescue people a few minutes from her home. I attended Eva's funeral and met some of those closest to her.
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Ветерани мають бути серед тих, хто формує майбутнє України.
Сьогодні Верховна Рада ухвалила законопроєкт № 13478-1, який передбачає відновлення відкритих конкурсів на посади державної служби та в органи місцевого самоврядування. Важливо, що документ закріплює пріоритетне право ветеранів на посади державної служби за рівних професійних компетентностей.
Це важливий крок до ширшого залучення наших захисників і захисниць до державного управління.
Українські ветерани мають унікальний досвід лідерства, відповідальності, управління та ухвалення рішень у найскладніших умовах. Цей досвід повинен працювати на розвиток держави.
Наше завдання – створити умови, за яких вони зможуть реалізувати свій потенціал у державних інституціях, місцевому самоврядуванні, економіці та загалом керівництві країною.
Ветеранська політика має поєднувати належний захист і підтримку з реальними можливостями для професійного розвитку та участі в житті держави.
Саме так формується сильна держава – через досвід, професіоналізм і відповідальність її громадян. Сильна держава – це сильні люди на правильних місцях.
Рухаємося далі.
Слава Україні!
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В моєму підрозділі була 19річна дівчинка, яка пережила окупацію. Трохи попаяна, ПТСР. Бо хлопчики в трусіках з літерою Z ходили якийсь час і її гвалтувати, іноді забирали до себе. Одному вона сподобалася і він став приходити один регулярно. В якийсь момент вона його вбила і скинула в колодязь. Вона невеликого зросту, навіть не знаю звідки з'явитися сили в тендітної дівчини завалити дорослого мужика і самостійно кинути у колодязь. А дівчина вчилася у медичному університеті. Мала звичайне життя. Тепер її життя розділене на до і після.