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When Russian soldiers spilled into Ukraine in February 2022, reports soon followed of rampant looting in captured towns. Homes, museums, theaters — even schools — were stripped of everything from food and clothing to computers and washing machines. The stories of theft and destruction revealed the brutality of Moscow’s invasion. Today, a growing body of evidence shows that the Russian military has also inflicted some of this cruelty on its own people. On November 5, 2025, after a region-wide manhunt, soldiers in Belgorod captured one of their own, Alexey Kostrikin, who murdered a local homeowner and raped his wife in late October before killing again on November 3.

Kostrikin is one of more than 170,000 violent criminals recruited from prisons and pretrial detention centers to fight in Ukraine. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, he joins the more than 1,130 ex-con veterans who came back from the front in the war’s first two years only to resume a life of crime.

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Many civilians living near the Ukrainian border fear looting by Russian soldiers more than Kyiv’s attacks. Some residents have stayed in their homes despite the shelling and loss of access to food and medicine.

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This is in the native phone app. I'm in the US. Definitely didn't have this feature before. It announces when you start recording.

I know it's been a thing with some other phones and in other countries, but hey it's cool to have it on my Pixel 8.

From the video, it appears that the drone is a very large one.

https://www.nu.nl/321294/video/grote-drone-verstoort-vliegverkeer-bij-luchthaven-zaventem.html

The group "Muslim Interaktiv" called for setting up a caliphate in Germany, abolishing democracy. The German interior ministry has banned the association, which was popular mainly with very young people.

The German Interior Ministry on Wednesday banned the group "Muslim Interaktiv," which calls for a worldwide caliphate and rejects the democratic order enshrined in Germany's constitution, the Basic Law.

A ministry press release described the association "Muslim Interaktiv" as "opposed to the constitutional order and the idea of international understanding," adding: "The association will be dissolved. The assets of Muslim Interaktiv will be confiscated."

The association views the Muslim community in Germany as a minority that is discriminated against and ostracized from society. Founded in 2020, authorities believe the group is affiliated with the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) organization, which was banned in 2003 after promoting violence and the killing of Jewish people.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5484182

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TikTok is under investigation in France for failing to vet material that promotes suicide on the Chinese video-sharing platform.

Paris prosecutors said in a Tuesday statement that they are probing ByteDance Ltd.-owned TikTok’s algorithm and compliance with requirements to oversee the site and report suspected offenses committed through their services.

The crackdown follows a French parliamentary committee report that criticized lax controls on minors’ access, a lack of moderation, and an algorithm driving vulnerable people to suicide by locking them into a content loop. Arthur Delaporte, the lawmaker who headed the inquiry committee, brought the matter to the attention of prosecutors, according to the statement.

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Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said she had tasked a special police unit known as the Brigade de lutte contre la cybercriminalité with leading the inquiries.

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European Union regulators also have TikTok in their cross-hairs. Regulators said last month that the app and Meta Platforms Inc. have both breached rules designed to tackle illegal or harmful online content, according to early findings from the bloc.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/5484182

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TikTok is under investigation in France for failing to vet material that promotes suicide on the Chinese video-sharing platform.

Paris prosecutors said in a Tuesday statement that they are probing ByteDance Ltd.-owned TikTok’s algorithm and compliance with requirements to oversee the site and report suspected offenses committed through their services.

The crackdown follows a French parliamentary committee report that criticized lax controls on minors’ access, a lack of moderation, and an algorithm driving vulnerable people to suicide by locking them into a content loop. Arthur Delaporte, the lawmaker who headed the inquiry committee, brought the matter to the attention of prosecutors, according to the statement.

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Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said she had tasked a special police unit known as the Brigade de lutte contre la cybercriminalité with leading the inquiries.

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European Union regulators also have TikTok in their cross-hairs. Regulators said last month that the app and Meta Platforms Inc. have both breached rules designed to tackle illegal or harmful online content, according to early findings from the bloc.

Archived version

TikTok is under investigation in France for failing to vet material that promotes suicide on the Chinese video-sharing platform.

Paris prosecutors said in a Tuesday statement that they are probing ByteDance Ltd.-owned TikTok’s algorithm and compliance with requirements to oversee the site and report suspected offenses committed through their services.

The crackdown follows a French parliamentary committee report that criticized lax controls on minors’ access, a lack of moderation, and an algorithm driving vulnerable people to suicide by locking them into a content loop. Arthur Delaporte, the lawmaker who headed the inquiry committee, brought the matter to the attention of prosecutors, according to the statement.

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Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said she had tasked a special police unit known as the Brigade de lutte contre la cybercriminalité with leading the inquiries.

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European Union regulators also have TikTok in their cross-hairs. Regulators said last month that the app and Meta Platforms Inc. have both breached rules designed to tackle illegal or harmful online content, according to early findings from the bloc.

FIFA? The notoriously corrupt ~~soccer~~ football people?

it makes for a great Exodia card (“i win” card from anime and manga yugio, 1990s you’ve probably not heard of it) when internet leftists r getting too snippy when we argue abt stuff. simply put, i love too win…

The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Kalmaegi rose to 114 with another 127 people still missing

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56868158

An incredible piece not only confessing to but proudly bragging about the West's historic lies during the Cold War that are still repeated and taught to this day!

Think of the Berlin Airlift as a big-budget movie sold as a true story. Now one of its loudest fans finally admits it was staged.

For decades, the Berlin Airlift has been told as a fairy tale. Stalin blockaded the city: cruel and heartless, while heroic Western pilots fed starving Berliners with flour and chocolate from the sky.

The perfect moral script: light against darkness, liberty against tyranny, good vs evil. Exactly the same moral wiring that still fuels the superhero industry today, cultural programming as moral training.

The same Guardian now admits what Soviet and Eastern historians said all along: there was no full blockade. In Britain’s own National Archives, the Foreign Office wrote in 1948:

“The blockade of Berlin is NOT a siege… movement in and out of Germany is possible all the time.”

Do you want to know what really happened? Washington and London imposed a new currency in their occupation zones, breaking prior agreements with Moscow.

The Soviets responded with limited restrictions on Western transport: not starvation, not tanks, just a border dispute over sovereignty. But the West needed a story and it created one.

A three-billion-dollar media performance named The Berlin Airlift complete with cameras, pathos, and heroic speeches about “freedom.”

As The Guardian now concedes, the entire operation was “a massive and sensational story of air power applied to humanitarian ends.” In other words, propaganda. It even helped re-elect Harry Truman that same year.

By the way, the article doesn’t condemn this psychological manipulation but actually celebrates it. The author writes with longing for the era when the West “lied effectively,” calling for a revival of those tactics. But he got it wrong: the tactics never changed, the Western media keeps lying at the same speed and volume. The only thing that changed is that people recognize the pattern, and the spell weakens.

When liberal newspapers begin revealing their own disinformation with nostalgia, recalling the days when it worked and lamenting that it no longer does, they’re mourning the decay of their own illusion, fully aware of it, and desperate to keep the echo alive.

From: https://xcancel.com/rinalu_/status/1986071152964579730

Someone with more time than me please photoshop a news article webpage for this.

Bonus sidebar stories:

“Xi’s poker face broken, communists fear this may be the end of China”

“Wondering why you’re feeling stressed about living under capitalism? The reason may surprise you” (subtitle: it’s capitalism)

“LIVE: Engles reaction to viral TikTok video” (thumbnail of headstone)

“Someone named Dick died today”

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With the recent victory of Mamdani, I thought about sharing this video by Marxist-Leninist content creator Jones Manoel.

The whole video is in portuguese, but the automatic subtitles from youtube are pretty good here, with a few exceptions like getting a few names wrong and confusing "Hollywood" with "Dutch" for some reason.

Still, comrade Jones take seems pretty solid to me. He's skeptical of Zohran's actual power to enact any meaning change in NY, while also acknowledging the historical significance of his win as a Muslim and Palestine supporter, specially because it happened in the heart of the empire.

He also throws shade and criticism towards China and Vietnam in regards to the Palestinian genocide, which I think are well deserved, and since he is someone that constantly studies Brasil, and talks primarily to a Brasilian audience, he also talks about it in the context of the video.

What do y'all think about his take?