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  #BandcampFriday is the perfect day to check in on your favorite bands and buy some new music. My picks today: * #Tradycyja has the debut #Kasary album and a new #Kaliazanki collection, authentic #Belarusian songs by all-men and all-women choirs respectively. * #TodarWajciuszkewicz, seminal bard from #Belarus, released new album Ваячак. * #Litvakus #Kartl (Postcard) is a new EP of traditional Lithuanian Jewish music. * And #BorisGrebenshikov got a whole bunch of new albums and singles out.

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  @randahl@mastodon.social He's not giving away the game, this statement itself is voter suppression. Journalists and influencers amplifying this message are helping him scare people into not voting in November. For the rest of the game, watch what #TulsiGabbard is doing. Gerry-mandering and voter suppression might not be enough this time, they're preparing to seize the ballots and voting machines under bogus national security pretenses and prevent certification of the vote by the states.

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  @humanhorseshoes Indeed. Jews comprised just under 9% of population of Belarus before WW2, and 90% of them perished in Holocaust. For scale, 25% of population of Belarus perished between 1941 and 1945, i.e. Holocaust consitutes less than half of the killings even when not including the mass executions of Belarusians by Soviets in 1939-1941 (when USSR was still Hitler's ally) at sites such as Kurapaty and Brest Fortress. And Russians still insist on atrributing all these deaths to Nazis,...

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  40 years ago today #Chernobyl nuclear disaster started. In a rush to earn a promo from #Communist party, NPP's chief engineer went on with a reckless test that led to one of the reactors blowing up. With its usual genocidal indifference to #Belarusian and #Ukrainian lives, #Russia's leaders denied scale and public health implications of the disaster, proceeded with their May parades, and, when the radioactive clouds turned towards #Moscow, had them seeded to land 70% of the fallo...