Spent 20 years in the US Navy & I love to travel. I like talking to people from other countries & learning about science. Be nice to others. #NAFO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪
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Kelli Baker retweeted
I’ve gotta be honest with you.
At current rate.
We won’t hit this target.
These STINGs won’t be funded.
They won’t shoot down any Shaheds.
Donations have never been so slow.
People barely even share the posts these days.
If you see this. Please share it.
Please consider donating.
Wild Hornets Raffle for the 114th Kyiv TD Brigade
Help fund 10 STINGs and a Hornet Vision station—in partnership with @fellaraktar
Win Grit's knife!
Donate $10/entry: linktr.ee/WildHornets
-Merch = raffle tix
-$500 = named STING + strike video
-First $1K matched—tix doubled
Buy 1 ticket, get 1 more for free—thanks to our generous matching donors
GOAL: $19,250 for 10 STING interceptors and a Hornet Vision drone control station to protect the Kyiv region from ruzzian drone strikes
GRAND PRIZE
Handcrafted 11.5-inch knife made by Grit @croissantintel and donated to us by @xJonNYC, who won it in an earlier Wild Hornets raffle
RUNNERS-UP #1-2
Flag of the 114th Kyiv Territorial Defence Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit. The unit is based in the Kyiv suburb Irpin, the site of ruzzian atrocities in spring 2022
RUNNER-UP #3
"I don’t want to play goalie anymore"—limited edition serigraph by acclaimed Ukrainian-Canadian artist Peter Shostak, who is renowned for depicting early Ukrainian pioneer life in Canada. Donated by William Szuch, founder of the @UkeTube YouTube channel
RUNNER-UP #4
Challenge coin of the 114th TD Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit
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Patch + sticker of the 114th TD Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit
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It's free for you, but gold for us!
Thank you to the 114th Brigade, raffle partner Rak, matching donors, and prize donors Grit @croissantintel, @xJonNYC and William Szuch
A loving father and a hero I cheered for. I’m so sorry for your loss and what the world lost. Fuck ruZZia
#NAFO
Kelli Baker retweeted
A strong decision by the U.S. State Department – authorizing Ukraine’s purchase of Patriot interceptors to counter Russian ballistic missiles. Five hundred PAC-3 interceptors is a substantial number, and very soon – this winter – they COULD make for a highly effective defense package. However, it has been stipulated that deliveries may begin ONLY IN A FEW YEARS. We are asking our American partners to find a solution for the time when there is a real danger and a real need to use PAC-3 interceptors.
Right now, the Russians are attacking our energy infrastructure every single day. In just these past two weeks of October, there have already been more than 30 Russian strikes on critical parts of our power grid. It is right now, even before the beginning of winter, that Putin has started carrying out his operation to attack the systems that sustain life in our cities and communities. The targets are electricity, heating, water supplies, bridges, and life in our cities in general.
We did ask our American partners to provide Ukraine with a winter support package – at a rate of 100 Patriot interceptors per month. Five hundred missiles would be enough to protect our skies over the coming months – precisely when it is so important for Ukraine to be in a strong position in negotiations and for Russia NOT to succeed in breaking life in Ukrainian cities and communities.
The United States, our European partners, and other partners around the world have sufficient stocks of PAC-3 interceptors in their warehouses. Providing them to Ukraine right now – in the winter of 2026–2027 – and replenishing our partners’ arsenals LATER, in THE FOLLOWING YEARS, through this production already contracted and paid for by Ukraine and our partners would be the right approach. And it is entirely feasible.
We are grateful to President Trump. Importantly, we recently discussed PAC-3 interceptors with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Ukraine is grateful to the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Administration overall for granting this authorization. But we are asking for decisions that can guarantee the protection of lives not the day after tomorrow or sometime later, but at the very moment the threat is there – when Russia is killing and destroying. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine!
state.gov/releases/bureau-of…
Kelli Baker retweeted
SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)
Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.
We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.
America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.
His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.
Ian McKellen 29 October 2026
Photo: University of Huddersfield
Damn it. Loved this man since 8th grade
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Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart, famous for roles in Star Trek and X-Men, dies aged 86 bbc.in/4igot2s
Kelli Baker retweeted
I want to take a moment to acknowledge my own mistake in all of this.
Until a few hours ago, I genuinely believed the animated map in my video had been created from scratch by my editing team. I had no idea it came from The Kyiv Independent, or that their logo had been removed. I only discovered this when I looked into the copyright complaint.
I should have checked where the material came from before publishing it, and I take full responsibility for not doing so.
Working independently without the resources or oversight of a major newsroom comes with challenges, but that’s not an excuse. Ultimately, everything published on my channel is my responsibility, and I need to make sure the standards I expect from others are reflected in my own work.
I care deeply about the stories I tell, the people who trust me to tell them, and the journalists whose work helps inform them. The Kyiv Independent’s team deserved proper credit, and I’m genuinely sorry that didn’t happen.
I still believe their decision to issue a copyright strike and remove a video with 1.3 million views was disproportionate. I reached out privately by email to try to resolve the matter, and I wish we’d been able to deal with it through a conversation rather than having it escalate publicly.
But I don’t want that disagreement to distract from my own responsibility here.
My focus now is making sure this doesn’t happen again. I’ll be reviewing how my editing team sources and credits material, putting better checks in place before publication, and making sure we show other journalists the same respect we expect for our own reporting.
I’m proud of the work we’ve produced, but I know there’s always room to improve. I want my journalism to be as accurate, responsible and professional as possible, particularly when telling stories as important as those coming out of Ukraine.
I will learn from this and get back to telling the stories that matter.
Kelli Baker retweeted
His parents stayed behind to fight for their country.
He was no more than 6 years old and had to cross the border all by himself.
A plastic bag containing toys, a few clothes, and a chocolate bar.
His uncle was waiting for him on the other side.
I am writing this using my head, because if I were to write it from my heart, this post would be filled with insults and profanities directed at the three of you:
Musk, Trump, and Witkoff.
I hope for universal and divine justice for you because of this.
Kelli Baker retweeted
‼️2 years went into creating this song, and now, on the 418th anniversary of the legendary arrival of Captain Smith & Ivan Bohdan in the New World, I’m incredibly happy to finally share it with you & the world! #IvanBohdan (The Legend of the First Ukrainian 🇺🇦 in America 🇺🇸)…🔽
Fuck ruZZia
#RussiaTerrorist
Some states like Florida identify the current number of votes cast by party registration. That doesn’t mean every Democratic voter must have voted Democratic or Republicans only for Republicans in the General Election. Closed primaries make us pick a team.@RealJakeBroe
Kelli Baker retweeted
Four centuries ago, a legendary traveler from Kolomyia made history. According to Ukrainian lore, Ivan Bohdan was the first from our lands to reach American shores. Now, we are bringing his epic saga to life in the track “Ivan Bohdan (The Legend of the First Ukrainian 🇺🇦 in America 🇺🇸),” blending a powerhouse punk-rock soundscape with five authentic folk instruments.