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My grandparents saw trains sitting at the stations, full of rotting grain, confiscated from starving Ukrainians.
My father used to say that Ukraine is so fertile that the only hunger ever possible in Ukraine is men-made. There was no widespread hunger in the history of Ukraine recorded before or after soviets.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomo

Germany declares Ukraine's Holodomor famine a genocide.

Every horrific crime against humanity should be recorded and acknowledged. Think about this:
- Holodomor. Deaths: Around 3.9 million Ukrainians.

My grandparents were Holodomor survivors. We have family stories about it. It affected even me (third gen). We remember. ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ

dw.com/en/germany-declares-sta

From :

"While the bill would not set a national requirement that all states must legalize same-sex marriage, it would require individual states to recognize another stateโ€™s legal marriage.

"So, in the event the Supreme Court might overturn its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage, a state could still pass a law to ban same-sex marriage, but that state would be required to recognize a same-sex marriage from another state."

cnn.com/2022/11/29/politics/sa

Ukrainian warrior removes damaged body armor. Bakhmut. November 2022

Wow... look at the damage.

There are currently $330 billion in frozen Russian assets being held in the west.

Russia started the war.

Russia is losing the war.

Russia will almost certainly lose the war.

Russia can foot the bill.

Oh, wow, China's protests are covered by BBC now. They are probably huge. I am surprised.

FBI has put a $250,000 bounty for any information leading to the arrest of PMC Wagner's leader, Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and & support

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If you feel like reading, but don't have the energy to look at a screen or a book, consider Internet Archive's vast library of audiobooks! I'm struggling with a migraine myself tonight so I think I'll hunker down for the evening with some short stories by Mark Twain.

archive.org/details/bequest_jg

Ahhh, here comes the turture: I just finished "can't hurt me" and can't decide what to read next.
Every time like this I ask myself if I want something light, dark, heavy, or maybe a surprise (some new author, a bit of a gamble)
Ahh, the struggle is real... :umm_wut:

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