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Again, daily beatings, torture with electricity, torture by starvation, psychological pressure, being forced to speak only Russian and more violence if you even spoke with a Ukrainian accent, let alone used actual Ukrainian words. Again, a difficult recovery after captivity — this time, thank God, he was lucky to slowly return to a healthy state. Many people, even after returning from captivity, later simply die from the damage to their health.

Yesterday there was a video where a soldier’s wife told how from captivity they returned only her husband’s body. Again torture.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission reported that 96% of Ukrainian soldiers experienced violence and torture in Russian captivity.

Russia last year withdrew from the convention against torture.

I often think about how something could be changed for the better, for example that for foreigners to know more about Ukraine we need to talk more about its culture and do translations into international languages. In my free time I work on a cultural project on other but similar issues.

But what to do with all of this I don’t know.

And this is not a phrase said in drama and emotions like how unfair the world is, everyone are traitors and so on.

No, this is a simple question in unemotionality that there is something that I simply cannot imagine what solution it could have, even within my own head that every day runs through different versions of different events.

Talk more about this topic? Everyone already knows about it, it has already been stated for several years.

Act? In Ukraine, all I can do is stand with a poster alongside the prisoners’ families who protest again and again.

I hate when a problem is so unimaginable that it is impossible to find any way to ease it even a little.

Ukrainian embroidery from Gulag (1948):

"Oh Mary Mother of God, who's full of tenderness, take my family under Your great intercession"

Ukrainian prisoners, hiding from the guards’ eyes, embroidered with needles made from fish bones and threads pulled from their own clothes.

In a memo to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem regarding tribal members recently detained by ICE, Frank Star Comes Out, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said:

“This is a treaty violation. Treaties are not optional. Sovereignty is not conditional. Our citizens are not negotiable.”

He added:

“The irony is not lost on us.”

Here's a list of real things that have happened in the past 2 days:

He's being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

JD Vance personally escorted his body back to Arizona in Air Force Two

All American flags both in the US and abroad are to be flown at half-mast for the rest of the week

Republican senators are calling for a statue of him to be built in the Capitol (quote: "we have one of MLK don't we?")

News anchors are sobbing live on television

The governor of Utah has pledged to give the shooter the death penalty

Vigils are being held nationwide

Evangelicals have been equating him with Jesus

In the House of Representatives a request for a prayer devolved into screaming that the Democrats killed him

The New York Yankees held a moment of silence before the game and proceeded to lose 12-2

People across the country are losing their jobs en masse for criticising him online

MSNBC's political analyst was asked what created the environment for the shooting, said it could be his divisive rhetoric, and was fired on the spot

A UK student wrote "he got shot lol" in a private group chat and it made the news

The State Department announced that they will revoke the visas of foreign nationals who "praise, rationalise, or make light" of his death on social media

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

"naked" he was in underwear and boots. "assaulted" but most papers say he "charged at" the cops, while others claim he punched a cop, yet nothing conclusive out. Some papers speculate mental health concerns but nothing is beyond speculation. "drug use" accusations are being taken at face value EXCEPT by TeenVogue quoting Reuters:

Reuters reports that police said they suspected the artist was using drugs when he was arrested, and a judge mandated he attend an outpatient drug rehabilitation program as a condition of his release from jail. Lil Nas X's lawyer, Christy O'Connor, told the judge that there was no evidence of drug use, per Reuters, calling the incident an aberration “in an otherwise productive life.”

From the linked Reuters article:

He was accused of assaulting the officers who were trying to take him into custody, injuring three of them.

Damn, didn't know he was a skinny ass John Wick. It's almost like the most sensationalized lies about a situation being told by COPS are being reprinted as truth despite apparently zero evidence, testing, or accounts besides from the cops who assaulted him, and EVERYONE is treating this like some moral failing from Lil Nas X or a joke, and not a traumatic brutalization on a person that presented no danger to anyone.