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‼️🇺🇦Armed Forces of Ukraine repel Russian attacks near 10 settlements in Donbas (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3637542-armed-forces-of-ukraine-repel-russian-attacks-near-10-settlements-in-donbas.html #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

⚠️🇷🇺Media: Shoigu's "visit" to Russian forward positions was actually 80 kilometers from front line (more) https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/media-shoigus-visit-to-russian-forward-positions-was-80-kilometers-from-front-line #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

When Elon Musk is losing, he rewrites the poll and tries to ban non-Twitter Blue subscribers from voting

When Republicans lose, they rewrite the voting laws and try to ban non-Whites from voting

It’s the same fascist playbook

Seeing some folks joining here now who are absolutely not going to be able to get away with the awful crap they got away with on Twitter for like one day…

Mastodon has cracked the top ten social networking apps in the App Store. For context, Signal is at 15.

This is the first time in history that a congressional committee has recommended that the Justice Dept. launch a criminal investigation into a former U.S. president.

January 6 committee referring four House members to the Ethics Committee for failing to comply with Congressional subpoenas:

1. Kevin McCarthy
2. Jim Jordan
3. Scott Perry
4. Rep Andy Biggs

BREAKING: The January 6 select committee is urging the Justice Department to prosecute Donald Trump on at least four separate CRIMINAL charges — including the rare and very serious charge of assisting or aiding an insurrection. This has never happened before in U.S. history.

Four criminal referrals by the Jan. 6 committee—including inciting insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an act of Congress and one more federal crime—for the criminal occupant of our White House who ended the nation’s sacred democratic tradition of the peaceful transfer of power. Now it’s up to Merrick Garland, Jack Smith and the DOJ to do their job and indict and prosecute this man who continues to undermine our democracy.

There were three men came out of the West
Three kings both great and high
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon must die.

They took a tank and ran him down
With bullets in his head
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon was dead

But when the Spring came kindly on
And showers began to fall
John Mastodon got up again
And did surprise them all...

⚡️🇺🇦Gen. Zaluzhnyi urges President Zelensky to sign law increasing consequences for desertion (more) https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/zaluzhnyi-urges-zelensky-to-sign-law-increasing-consequences-for-desertion #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

Happy Saint Nicholas Day.

Gifts for Ukrainian children this season should be light, warmth, love – and a home free from Russian invaders.

Due to significant casualties among their troops, the Russian fascist invaders have taken over three hospitals in the temporarily-occupied city of Luhansk. Local people are turned away.

Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operational information as of 18:00 on 19 December 2022 regarding the Russian invasion

The House January 6 committee approves its historic final report on the Capitol riot and criminal referrals for former President Trump and others https://cnn.it/3FA4dUW

Heedless of their own casualties, the Russian fascist invaders throw "meat waves" at the defences of Bakhmut.

In recent days the Armed Forces of Ukraine reversed most of the small gains the rashists had made around Yakovlivka, the east part of Bakhmut, Optyne and Kurdyumivka.

Ukrainians call mobilized Russian soldiers "mobiks" or "chmobiks" or "meat." In English, we say "cannon fodder."

Russian infantry are sent at Ukrainian positions repeatedly in poorly-supported assaults: "meat waves."

BREAKING: The January 6 Committee has officially made four CRIMINAL referrals to the Dept of Justice against Donald J. Trump. They are:

1—Obstruction of an official proceeding
2—Conspiracy to defraud the United States of America
3—Conspiracy to make a false statement (fake electors)
4—Incite, assist, or aid an Insurrection

Justice delayed is justice denied. DOJ—You’re up! Don’t let America down!

My fervent hope - perhaps a little naive, but fervent nonetheless - is that the special prosecutor has been waiting for the J6 committee’s hearings to conclude to keep the indictments as apolitical as possible.

#January6

https://t.me/United24media/1941 ⚠️🇺🇦Russians first seized Ukrainian passports, forcing citizens to exchange them for Russian passports…now the Russian Federation wants to automatically deprive holders of Russian passports of Ukrainian citizenship.
The bill was registered in the State Duma. The proposed mechanism provides for the termination of Ukrainian citizenship from the moment an application is submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

https://t.me/United24media/1942 ⚠️🇺🇦The invaders are preparing to leave Melitopol, as they left Kherson, – press secretary of Southern Operational Command Nataliya Gumenyuk. According to her, the invaders first gather around the settlement, then build fortifications, prepare for street fighting and say that not all is lost. Now the invaders are trying to build a line of defense at positions in the depths of (more) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia