Remember, pepper spray is oil based. If you get sprayed DO NOT rub your eyes. Immediately blink as much as you can to wash out some of the oil with your own tears. Then, wash your eyes with baby shampoo or dilute dishwashing soap and rinse copiously. Water alone won't do much.

Western observers look for and exaggerate opposition in Moscow but oversee true struggles for democracy and freedom among Moscow‘s former colonized. It’s time to change the perspective

New: Bellingcat and Scripps News followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

Dictators never learn. Brutal repression of mass protest often leads to backlash and even more people join. GD will need to resort to Putin/Lukashenko-style to disperse crowds. Even then, Georgians are likely to fight like it’s Euromaidan 2.0

It surely seems like one. Hopefully without all the bloodshed.

We have successfully documented the entire Russian missiles industry, mapping 28 of its key enterprises. Read our first OSINT sample focusing on the Votkinsk Plant, a major producer of intercontinental ballistic missiles. How does it make weaponry?

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Hard to imagine how GD can get away with this. It’s another revolution in the making, no turning back

A Ukraine-born congresswoman voted no on aid. Her hometown feels betrayed.

Spartz’s history “is inseparable from Ukraine’s and she has used it repeatedly to her advantage” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Georgia is a bellwether for all striving to break ties with autocratic Kremlin

❗Tajikistan's MFA recommends its citizens temporarily refrain from traveling to Russia. mfa.tj/ru/main/view/1…

As a professor I’m appalled by how some in the public paint student protests as anti-semitic and how authorities respond with force. Student activism is a sign of academic freedoms and critical thinking, antitheses to hatred.

Condemning Hamas savagery is not Islamophobia or anti-Arabism. Condemning IDF massacres is not antisemitism. Supporting restrictions on aid to Israel is not betrayal of an ally. Denouncing the hypocrisies of Arab leaders is not neo-colonialism.

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ATACMS missiles might be sent to Ukraine by end of next week. Watch us when get them 🔥

The U.S. State Department’s human rights report includes a 103-page account of human rights violations in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories — including reference to reduced human rights standards within the Israeli prison system since Oct. 7. wapo.st/4dkzThg

Clear Russian interference into Qazaqstan’s watershed moment in dealing with domestic violence. I’m puzzled why the authorities allow Sobchak anywhere close to the courtroom.