#Russia's Black Sea Fleet shrinks presence in key #Crimean bay, Ukrainian partisans say
#Striletska Bay near #Sevastopol, once a key base for #Russian #warships in occupied #Crimea, is now nearly empty and used primarily for mooring tugboats and small patrol craft, the #Atesh #partisan group reported on July 8
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Seeing war through the lens of Putin’s narcissism — ‘Torture was not just cruel, it was inhuman’ — Ukrainian soldier dies weeks after release from Russian captivity — Ukraine sanctions 5 Chinese firms for supplying components used in Russian drones — Russia’s Black Sea Fleet shrinks presence in key Crimean bay — Russia’s crude exports fall to lowest level since February … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/wednesday-july-9-2025/
Friday, June 6, 2025
Russian weapons plant hit by drones in Tambov Oblast, media reports attacks across country — Ukraine strikes Russian missile base in Bryansk Oblast, damages Iskander launchers — Russia’s Engels oil refinery ablaze after reported drone attack in Saratov Oblast — [vlog/video] Without justice, war will come back, veteran reporter says … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-6-2025/
Pro-Ukraine partisans #sabotage railway
#Ukraine's Atesh #partisan group set fire to relay cabinet at Russian railway track used by the #Russian #military
Operation was carried out in Russia’s #Smolensk Oblast, bordering #Belarus, to disrupt arms, equipment shipments to Russian forces
“Thanks for the courageous steps by our partisans, Russia faced serious disruption in timely deliveries of front-line supplies,” #Atesh said
https://kyivindependent.com/pro-ukraine-partisans-sabotage-railway-track-in-russias-smolensk-oblast/
The #Trump admin has handpicked which #news #media outlets can participate in the presidential #PressPool, & on Tues it eliminated a slot reserved for reporters from independent newswires.
In the briefing room, ofcls have made room for a new cohort of more #partisan attendees, like #RightWing podcasters, who ask less-adversarial questions than traditional #journalists.…
#FourthEstate #journalism #democracy #FreePress #propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/15/us/trump-white-house-briefing-room-new-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.4daW.lnrzNSfj8uO4&smid=url-share
The cases before #SCOTUS involve Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relation Board #NLRB, which oversees laws protecting #workers’ rights, & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, which protects federal govt workers from #partisan practices — as well as a 90-year-old court #precedent the #Trump admin is seeking to overturn.
Atesh partisans sabotage railway line in Russia’s Smolensk Oblast
#Atesh #partisan group #sabotaged #railway line in #Russia's #Smolensk Oblast, disrupting the transport of #military #cargo toward #Bryansk & #Kursk Oblast
A transformer cabinet on the railway was destroyed , causing logistical delays for front line Russian forces
“We will keep striking targets in Russia and passing intelligence to the Ukrainian Defense Forces”
“It would be ironic, to say the least, & inimical to the ends furthered by the #statute if the #SpecialCounsel himself could be chilled in his work by fear of arbitrary or #partisan removal,” the judge added.
Dellinger said in an emailed statement that he was grateful to see the court “confirm the importance & legality of the job protections #Congress afforded my position.”
On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.
Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.
We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender.
Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.
The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.
Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.
Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.
“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.
But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.
Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.
In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.
Faye Schulman survived the war. She married another Jewish partisan, Morris Schulman. For 3 years following liberation they lived in the Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. She and her husband immigrated to Canada in 1948. She lived in Toronto. She had 2 children and 6 grandchildren. She died on April 24, 2021 at the age of 101. (3/3)
During a partisan raid on Lenin, she fled to the forests & joined the Molotava Brigade, a partisan group made mostly of escaped Soviet Red Army POWs. When she took part in a subsequent raid on Lenin, Faye succeeded in recovering her old photographic equipment. During the next two years, she took over a hundred photographs. She was a partisan fighter, nurse & movement photographer. (2/3)
Nov 28, 1919: On this date Faye Schulman was born in Lenin, Poland. She was a photographer. On Aug 14, 1942, the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto, including Faye's parents, sisters & younger brother. They spared only 26 people that day, among them Faye for her photographic abilities. The Germans ordered Faye to develop their photographs of the massacre. Secretly she also made copies for herself. (1/3)
#LGBTQ #activists #canvassed in a #redstate. The #conversations surprised them.
The #group spread out across #Missouri in the final days before the #election. #Residents had #viewpoints that did not fit in neat #partisan boxes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/30/lgbtq-election-trans-republican-democrat/
The #US govt has regularly dispatched hundreds of monitors to voting locations…, aiming to protect ballot access, discourage improper #partisan #influence & act as a moderating force on political campaigns.
While the #DOJ has the #legal right to request access to polling sites, inflamed partisanship & ideological #extremism has contributed to greater resistance to such activities in some #GOP-controlled states….
#law #ElectionLaw #Election2024 #Republican #illiberalism #Vote #HarrisWalz2024
"In 13 states of the 33 states with supreme court #elections, the contests are #partisan, meaning the justices on the ballot are affiliated with the #Republican or #Democratic parties. In the 20 other states, the contests are #nonpartisan — the judges have no official party affiliation (although judges who are technically nonpartisan are sometimes strongly associated with one side or the other)."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/22/state-supreme-court-elections/
"In the aftermath of #Hurricane #Helene, #Trump has blasted the #Biden administration for its handling of the disaster...
But a review of Trump’s record... show that the former president was flagrantly #partisan at times in response to #disasters and on at least 3 occasions hesitated to give disaster aid to areas he considered #politically hostile or ordered special treatment for pro-Trump states"
https://www.eenews.net/articles/helene-isnt-the-first-time-trump-inserted-politics-into-a-natural-disaster/
#LizCheney said a “broad coalition” is forming to support #KamalaHarris. Appealing to people who might not see themselves as Democratic voters or even supporters of #Harris, #Cheney implores the crowd to “set aside #partisan battles to do what’s right for this country” & “reject the #depraved #cruelty of Donald #Trump.”
#Jan6 #insurrection #extremism #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Tyranny #Project2025
#ProsecutorVFelon
#law #WeAreNotGoingBack
#freedom #democracy #HarrisWalz2024
‘#FightLikeHell’ #Trailer: New #Documentary Offers #Unprecedented #View Of #January6th #Insurrection And What Precipitated It
“Without #partisan #narration or #commentary, the #film immerses the #viewer into the #Trump's #StoptheSteal #movement from its very beginning, before the 2020 #election had even concluded,”
The #Documentary #film premiers on #Youtube on September 24th.
https://deadline.com/video/fight-like-hell-trailer-january-6th-insurrection-documentary/#
I don't support Trump or Harris but the entire media is totally behind Harris. It's like fox news for the democrats. That isn't being liberal it is being partisan. It is saying one half the population is just wrong and they can judge them. They kept Jill Stein out of the press and promoted RFK when they thought he was stealing votes from Trump. This is all at the bidding of corporate money. #election #press #media #news #MSM #networks #partisan #Democrats #corporations https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/kamala-harris-tim-walz-cnntv/index.html
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