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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
RUNNERS-UP #5-12
Patch + sticker of the 114th TD Brigade, Irpin Volunteer Defence Unit
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Merch and named drones count for raffle tickets!
👉Shop merch at our Wild Hornets online store, including items from 5 hero units: bonfire.com/store/wildhornet…
👉 Donate $500 to name a STING interceptor and get a guaranteed video of it downing a ruzzian drone. Details: teapawt.org/ArmedMaidan/status/208…
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To get raffle tickets, please reply to this post with a screenshot of your donation or store receipt—or DM @fellaraktar or our raffle support team: @wendehopes, @kanarifella or @kerri970
Please like, reply, share (ideally with a quote tweet), bookmark and turn on notifications to boost the fundraiser
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
putler traded a $100,000 Orlan recon drone for a STING named by a donor for $500
While tRump buys diesel from the child-murdering dictator, Ukraine gets a better deal
Here's another—10% off our merch with code THANKS10: bonfire.com/store/wildhornet…
$500 = named STING + strike video guaranteed
Here's how:
1. Donate $500 to the Wild Hornets or directly to our partner military units: linktr.ee/wildhornets
2. Email a screenshot of your donation to [email protected], along with the name to put on the drone screen (up to 15 characters including spaces)
3. We'll send you a video of the STING with your name on the screen downing a ruzzian drone
Donations for named STINGs fund critical equipment for three of Ukraine's top anti-Shahed interceptor units:
👉 @BULAVA_FPV Interceptor Division, 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade
👉1020th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment
👉105th Border Guards Detachment (Chernihiv)
Massive thanks to the 105th Border Guards for life-saving work in the video and to the donor of the named STING
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When Putin seized Crimea, both Europe and America were quite openly making calls, holding meetings, and sending signals to the Ukrainians who were in power at the time that there should be no escalation – let's just keep things friendly and leave things as they are for now. And we lost Crimea. After that, we lost part of Donbas. But the shooting in the east continued. There was no peace.
People think we were always helped. That is not true. Help started coming after the full-scale invasion, but that was after eight years of Russia occupying our territory. That is a long time to figure things out and understand that Putin has no intention of giving anything back to us.
At one point, some Europeans asked me: “Why do you think that if you withdraw from Donbas, he will go further?” And I answered: “Because at the beginning of the war, he wasn't seizing Donbas. He came to the capital. He seized parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, Kherson itself, and Kharkiv region.” We have retaken a lot of territory, but he had seized different parts of our country. And now they want us to give them something because they are unable to seize it. We may have a smaller territory, less money, and fewer weapons, but we still have more dignity than many others. We will do everything we can to end this war, but it must end in a way that preserves our dignity.
From an interview with ZDF. (2/3)
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Sad? Feeling displaced by the majority of the country rejecting your MAGA values? We’re sorry! Red State Movers can help move you back to where you came from.💪🏻🇺🇸💅🏻🤷🏼♀️
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BREAKING: Szabolcs Panyi (@panyiszabolcs) wins the 2026 Magnitsky Award for Outstanding Journalist.
He exposed the Orbán government's ties to Moscow, was targeted with Pegasus spyware and faced espionage allegations for his reporting.
#MagnitskyAwards
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BREAKING: HOLY SMOKES! Democrats now control enough states to effectively abolish the Electoral College through the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Republicans did NOT have this on their bingo cards...
Under the Constitution, states control their electoral votes and are allowed to decide how they are allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.
In practice, the current system means that a candidate can win the national popular vote, but lose the election because small states like Wyoming exert undue influence on the outcome. That state has 3 electoral votes with a population of just 577,000 people. California has 54 electoral votes and a population of 39.5 million people. So a vote in Wyoming is essentially 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.
Since 1992, Democrats have won the popular vote seven out of nine times.
Under the NPV, states that join agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. So a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they still get that state's votes. And vice versa of course.
The crucial mechanism is that the compact doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined power of at least 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House. So far, 18 states plus D.C. have joined, totaling 222 electoral votes. We only need 48 more.
Now is the chance to pass this measure in every state possible. Democrats won both houses of the legislature in Wisconsin for the first time in 18 years (10 electoral votes). We won the Pennsylvania state Senate for the first time since 1993 (19 votes). We now have a trifecta in Michigan (15 votes). And we won the governor’s race in Nevada (6 votes).
10 + 19 + 15 + 6 = 50.
222 + 50 = 272.
And if we hold our lead in the Arizona Senate, that number could climb as high as 283, more than enough to trigger the compact.
In addition to removing an imbalance in our system that favors Republicans, this novel approach would fundamentally change how candidates run their presidential campaigns. Currently, they are incentivized to ignore most of the country. If you live in a “safe” state, red or blue, your vote for President is basically decided before you cast it. Campaigns spend their time and money in a handful of swing states while the rest of us watch from the sidelines. If the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is adopted, they'll have reason to hit every state because they're aiming to win the largest swath of the country as a whole, not just certain states.
States have until July 20, 2028 to join the compact in time for the next presidential election.
We can fix our democracy. The time is now.
Please ❤️ and share if you support this idea!
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Mentre tutti i propagandisti insistono su torture e prigioni segrete (che tra l'altro esistono in Russia), emergono altri dettagli sui protagonisti della vicenda di Petropavlivska Borshchahivka. E il quadro diventa sempre più interessante. 🧵
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🇺🇦🇫🇷 J’étais présent, aussi, hier soir lors de la confrontation entre la police et des « manifestants » dans la région de Kyiv.
Je suis entré dans la maison où se trouvaient les hommes mobilisés.
Voici ce que j’ai vu, et ce que je peux établir. 1/🧵
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I was one of the only foreign journalists present at this evening's clash at the National Guard facility in a suburb outside Kyiv. Here's what you need to understand. Long and difficult thread.
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Уже достеменно відомо, що вчорашні події на Петропавлівській Борщагівці відбулися не без впливу. Конкретні особи та ініціатори цих подій обов’язково будуть встановлені й покарані, так само як будуть зроблені висновки всередині силових структур. Генеральна прокуратура та відповідні органи вже розпочали об’єктивне розслідування.
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Trump eases sanctions on Russia and begins buying Russian diesel. Days later, Musk restricts Starlink service in Ukraine, disrupting its military operations and its ability to defend itself.
And now we’re learning directly from Putin that Russia has been in contact with Musk.
How on earth did we get to this point? How is it possible that Musk can disrupt an American ally’s military operations whenever he chooses, maintain a clear line to the Kremlin, and face zero accountability to the American people or the U.S. government?
I want to know what Musk has been discussing with Russian officials, whether those conversations had anything to do with the Starlink disruptions, and what the Trump Administration knew.
Yesterday, Putin revealed that Russian authorities are "in close touch" with Elon Musk about the technology Ukraine needs to defend itself.
Our new report @TheAtlantic investigates how @elonmusk went from supporting Ukraine to coordinating with Moscow.
theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, we examine the ties of Donald Trump and his family to Russian intelligence operatives and the Kremlin. His current dealings with Putin may shock some people, but the pattern of collusion has been clear for more than a decade.
1/25
Exactly 87 years ago V. Molotov, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, made a speech celebrating joint Nazi and Soviet occupation of Poland and accusing Britain and France of "senseless and criminal war" against Hitler.
teapawt.org/semanthos/status/20922…
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🔴 Thousands of Ukrainian civilians face torture and indefinite detention inside Russia's modern gulag system.
🧵 1/10 ⬇️
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I was born in Donbas, and I lived in Donetsk until 2014, when the Russian occupation began.
The Russians destroyed my home in Lyman.
And now someone wants to discuss handing over my land to Russia in exchange for peace???
ARE YOU SERIOUS???
Donbas is NOT Trump’s real estate.
NOT a gift to Putin.
And NOT an item up for sale at an international political auction.
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"Within days, Russian soldiers poisoned their dog, an Alabai, along with all the other large dogs in Oleshky. They killed Liudmila’s nextdoor neighbor and raped his wife. A local butcher disappeared; no one knew whether he was also killed. Some neighbors were detained and beaten. Armed, masked soldiers searched Liudmila’s home three times, confiscating the couple’s Ukrainian passports and leaving them with no documents. And yet, Liudmila and Andriy stayed. They got a new puppy, also an Alabai. Russian troops started to move into civilian houses, parking tanks in what once were gardens."
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My latest → In the past days, Ukraine's military demonstrated through successful Storm Shadow strikes against Russia's arms industry that a delivery of Taurus KEPD-350 cruise missiles would still be necessary.
deaidua.org/news/2026/10/27/…
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Having the United States sink to the bottom of the ocean on Trump's watch seems to be overdoing the symbolism, somehow
BREAKING: 'Florida's Okaloosa County has announced that the SS United States will be transformed to become the "World's Largest Artificial Reef" on Thursday, November 12, 2026.'
The sinking will be livestreamed on thessus.com
#ssunitedstates
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Tankies: Russia was provoked by NATO!
Russians: We just waging genocidal war and ethnic cleansing in Ukraine...
BIG GENOCIDAL THREAD
"Deprive Ukraine of language, flag and anthem..."
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Ukraine just repatriated 270 POWs from Russian captivity.
He has “Jew” carved into his back.
These are the people are president says are “fine“ on Ukraine. That Witkoff calls “humanitarian.”
