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Tim Mak
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Leads 'Iran War Dispatches' & 'The Counteroffensive.' Human interest reporting from Ukraine/the world. Fmr US Army medic. Contact: timkmak.com
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Joined December 2008
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    Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Russia’s war threatens Ukraine's chess tradition — as Russia kills players or makes them flee. But Yurii, a world-class chess champion, is keeping the tradition alive by entering tournaments while serving in the army.
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    Good morning from Ukraine to those waking up on the east coast. Kyiv is still standing. Western intel predictions varied, and even most optimistic said city would fall within 2-3 days. But the out-matched Ukrainian military is putting up a valiant fight to defend the city
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    THREAD - History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: a thread about the **Anti-Mask League** of 1919. I'm not kidding I went HAM researching this So, starting in Sept 2018 San Francisco suffered from Spanish Flu pandemic. Initial mask wearing was good -- around 80 percent
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    доброго ранку — Good morning — from Ukraine to our U.S. readers. Kyiv remains under Ukrainian control. And not only that, a senior US defense official said Russian forces don't appear to have made significant progress, despite committing near 95% of the forces they had staged.
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    Good morning from Ukraine to those waking up in the U.S.: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. And in fact the flow of dramatic information about Russian advances appears to have slowed. Reports are that Russia has turned up its bombardments on civilian areas across the country
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    Good Morning from Ukraine to the US. Kyiv is still in Ukrainian hands. Overnight, Russian/Ukrainian militaries signaled an agreement on a temporary ceasefire and humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the embattled towns of Mariupol and Volnovakha. BUT...
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    Good morning to my friends waking up in the US: Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ukraine warns Russia about to conduct naval landings around Odessa. Power is out in Mariupol. And residential areas are getting bombarded in Kharkiv per UA The fire at the nuclear complex is out.
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    Morning from Ukraine to all those reading. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. However, tensions are high along the Ukraine-Belarus border. On Friday afternoon, Ukrainian officials accused Russia of staging a false flag attack...
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    Morning to everyone who finds this. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. However troubling signs overnight at the Chernobyl nuclear site, which lost power at 11:22 a.m. local time in Ukraine. The decommissioned site is controlled by Russian forces.
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    NEW: A federal judge has dismissed the NRA's bankruptcy case, finding that the NRA was just using the bankruptcy as a vehicle to avoid the New York AG's attempt to dissolve it for alleged corruption
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    Morning to readers, from Ukraine to wherever you are seeing this. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. But deadly news overnight: at least 35 have been killed, 135 injured, at the Yavoriv military base near the Polish border, an upwards estimate from initial reports.
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    The reason you've never heard of Parkrose High School in Portland, Ore -- and why it isn't on this year's list of school shootings -- is because of Coach Keanon Lowe, who disarmed and embraced a student with a gun who was having a mental health crisis
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    Good morning from Ukraine. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands, but is under a multi-day curfew until Wed AM Zelenskyy: since NATO won’t accept Ukraine, we will need to look for other guarantees…
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    The whistleblower who raised concerns about White House security clearances, Tricia Newbold, was suspended w/o pay for 2 weeks. The stated reason? Failure to follow a new policy to scan documents in separate pdf files instead of a single pdf file