NEW: The Nordic and Baltic states are driving a more robust European engagement on Ukraine amid apprehension over Trump’s dance with Putin, writes @michaeldweiss.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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NEW: The Nordic and Baltic states are driving a more robust European engagement on Ukraine amid apprehension over Trump’s dance with Putin, writes @michaeldweiss.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/argument/the...
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2). ... what they think the administration’s view is if they think they’re going to get fired over it?«” Aug. 27, 2025 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ( @washingtonpost.com) archive.ph/vkeGl
1). „The CIA officer’s dismissal sent shock waves through the workforce, a second former official said. »If it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone. ... What analyst in their right mind is going to write something that in any way challenges
Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Some of the names have changed since I wrote this last November, but the central reality is, sadly, upon us. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
2). ... what they think the administration’s view is if they think they’re going to get fired over it?«” Aug. 27, 2025 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ( @washingtonpost.com) archive.ph/vkeGl
1). „The CIA officer’s dismissal sent shock waves through the workforce, a second former official said. »If it can happen to her, it can happen to anyone. ... What analyst in their right mind is going to write something that in any way challenges
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6). [2] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ( @washingtonpost.com) archive.ph/6IaP0 [3] @rollingstone.com archive.ph/yBfVz Source – article by Prof. @TimothyDSnyder: snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
5). such as that Russia supports Donald Trump when he runs for office. Russian trolls have been, understandably, very excited in their support of Patel.” Dec. 1, 2024 Endnotes: [1] @apnews.com www.ap.org/news-highlig...
4). Patel said both that he would shut down the FBI and that he would use it to prosecute journalists [2] and people who deny the untrue conspiracy theories in which he believes, and to prosecute people who say true things [3],
3). Patel has since become a pitchman for a clothing line as well as pills [1] that, he claims, will detox your body from the harmful effects of vaccinations.
2). Patel got Trump’s attention for his efforts to denounce the entirely correct proposition that Trump was supported by Russian in 2016. Kash Patel was then one of the most active and outspoken participants in Trump’s coup attempt of 2020–2021.
1). „Kash Patel is a narcissitic zealot with zero qualification for such a post, as even hard-right Donald Trump insiders such as Bill Barr have said (»over my dead body« were his words when Trump proposed Patel for a lesser position of authority in 2020).
6). [2] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ( @washingtonpost.com) archive.ph/6IaP0 [3] @rollingstone.com archive.ph/yBfVz Source – article by Prof. @TimothyDSnyder: snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...
5). such as that Russia supports Donald Trump when he runs for office. Russian trolls have been, understandably, very excited in their support of Patel.” Dec. 1, 2024 Endnotes: [1] @apnews.com www.ap.org/news-highlig...
4). Patel said both that he would shut down the FBI and that he would use it to prosecute journalists [2] and people who deny the untrue conspiracy theories in which he believes, and to prosecute people who say true things [3],
3). Patel has since become a pitchman for a clothing line as well as pills [1] that, he claims, will detox your body from the harmful effects of vaccinations.
2). Patel got Trump’s attention for his efforts to denounce the entirely correct proposition that Trump was supported by Russian in 2016. Kash Patel was then one of the most active and outspoken participants in Trump’s coup attempt of 2020–2021.
1). „Kash Patel is a narcissitic zealot with zero qualification for such a post, as even hard-right Donald Trump insiders such as Bill Barr have said (»over my dead body« were his words when Trump proposed Patel for a lesser position of authority in 2020).
„Ms. Gabbard, on orders from president Donald Trump, fired the scientist, who was a leading government expert on artificial intelligence, cryptology and advanced mathematics.” Aug. 20, 2025 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 ( @nytimes.com) archive.ph/mSOiX x.com/BrajanKot/st...
„Ms. Gabbard, on orders from president Donald Trump, fired the scientist, who was a leading government expert on artificial intelligence, cryptology and advanced mathematics.” Aug. 20, 2025 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 ( @nytimes.com) archive.ph/mSOiX x.com/BrajanKot/st...
Trump is firing the competent people in the national security apparatus because they are competent. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Read more ⬇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/bluesky-tmg/gaza-famine-tropes/
✍️ 'The chorus of denial around serious food insecurity in the Strip is more than falsehood – it is active disinformation' | writes Jeremy Konyndyk
2025 Trump Putin Alaska negoszjeszyns Theatrum Illuminatum www.youtube.com/watch?v=knuB...
Over an hour of questions today. None about this.
Trump signs an executive order: "If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail."
Our constitutional republic does not have any provision which allows a president to enact a criminal statute by executive order that would put people in prison. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Everyone who was wrong about Trump — please say so openly to those who trust you and follow you. You have influence and thus bear responsibility.
"If it were true that Ukraine belongs to Russia in the 2020s because a Russian dictator knows a legend about a Viking in the 860s... millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity: no choice but to accept the executions, the torture, the kidnapping of children."
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war" www.ft.com/content/9731...
4). deny that it was doing so using sophisticated social media tactics in the present, and actually achieve a good deal of success.” Excerpt from an excellent article by Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social Aug. 23, 2025 @financialtimes.com archive.ph/2Rk5u
3). Pootin aide Vladislav Surkov was largely responsible for the post-truth turn in Russian politics, and in foreign policy: towards a model in which one country could invade another on the basis of a fable about the past,
2). shrouding Russia’s invasion of Crimea and other parts of southern and south-eastern Ukraine, then supporting Brexit, then supportin Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
1). „The medieval metaphysics merges with post-truth propaganda. When Poptin’s war started, back in 2014, the claim of ancient rights coincided with a surge in social media work:
4). deny that it was doing so using sophisticated social media tactics in the present, and actually achieve a good deal of success.” Excerpt from an excellent article by Prof. @timothysnyder.bsky.social Aug. 23, 2025 @financialtimes.com archive.ph/2Rk5u
3). Pootin aide Vladislav Surkov was largely responsible for the post-truth turn in Russian politics, and in foreign policy: towards a model in which one country could invade another on the basis of a fable about the past,
2). shrouding Russia’s invasion of Crimea and other parts of southern and south-eastern Ukraine, then supporting Brexit, then supportin Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
1). „The medieval metaphysics merges with post-truth propaganda. When Poptin’s war started, back in 2014, the claim of ancient rights coincided with a surge in social media work:
The anniversary of Prigozhin's not-actually-that-mysterious death seemed a good opportunity to hype my and Anna Arutunyan's @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social DOWNFALL, charting the man's rise and, um, fall, and what it all says about Putin's #Russia www.penguin.co.uk/books/460781...
...The books being: Colin Freeman's The Mad and the Brave. The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion Tom Mutch, The Dogs Of Mariupol Medea Benjamin & Nicholas Davies, War In Ukraine 2 good, one...not so much
In Moscow's Shadows 213: Foreign Agents in Russia, Foreigners in Ukraine... The frozen peace process, what the case of Sergei Markov says about 'late Putinism', and what 3 recent books tell us about how we discuss and think about the war in Ukraine... www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
The battle of the trolls. As Lavrov becomes more and more intransigent and belligerent in his statements (and that's saying something), one can't help but wonder if his new role is as the 'thinking man's Medvedev.'
Are We Any Closer To Peace In Ukraine? First and undigested thoughts on yesterday's White House conclave with Trump, Zelensky and European leaders. tldr: I'm not outright optimistic about the prospects... but closer to being optimistic than before youtu.be/DIHxxreHecc
6:30pm, Thursday 4 September, I'll be talking about my latest book, HOMO CRIMINALIS, at the inimitable @waterstones.bsky.social Gower Street, London. Mafiosi as state-builders, how Marconi was hacked, what gangsters can do with drones, and lots more criminality. Do come along!
Why Putin wants Donetsk We still don't know the real terms of any proposed deal, but it's clear he wants Kyiv to surrender the rest of the Donetsk region. My thoughts for the @thespectator1828.bsky.social blog www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
4). A refusal to deal now just means more death and misery all round before the inevitable.” Excerpt from an article by Prof. @markgaleotti.bsky.social Aug. 18, 2025 @thespectator1828.bsky.social archive.ph/1x0r1
3). Besides, Pootin’s line is presumably that ultimately this territory is lost to Kyiv anyway – whether it takes a month, a year, or longer, someday his forces will grind their bloody way through the fortress belt.
2) Perhaps some day, whether through military or political means, they may be regained, but there is no credible theory of victory that sees Kyiv regaining them in the foreseeable future that does not rest on some unlikely deus ex machina like a Russian economic collapse or Pootin’s imminent demise.
1). „[...] Pootin does seem to have reshaped the debate. By making it about whether or not this surrender is acceptable, he has in effect made the West acknowledge that the existing occupied territories are lost.
4). A refusal to deal now just means more death and misery all round before the inevitable.” Excerpt from an article by Prof. @markgaleotti.bsky.social Aug. 18, 2025 @thespectator1828.bsky.social archive.ph/1x0r1
3). Besides, Pootin’s line is presumably that ultimately this territory is lost to Kyiv anyway – whether it takes a month, a year, or longer, someday his forces will grind their bloody way through the fortress belt.
2) Perhaps some day, whether through military or political means, they may be regained, but there is no credible theory of victory that sees Kyiv regaining them in the foreseeable future that does not rest on some unlikely deus ex machina like a Russian economic collapse or Pootin’s imminent demise.
1). „[...] Pootin does seem to have reshaped the debate. By making it about whether or not this surrender is acceptable, he has in effect made the West acknowledge that the existing occupied territories are lost.
This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 193. Everything you need to know about what happened this weekend in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
He’s complaining about having to wear a yellow polyester jumpsuit and says the conditions violate the 5th Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. (It’s 8th Amendment)
But you can still use a flag to beat tf out of a cop tho amirite
Of course this is unconstitutional, but I am very interested to see if they define “flag” in this order, and if so how they define it.
Hegseth’s security detail looks bigger than most police departments.
It isn’t just that JD Vance lies constantly. It’s that when he lies he does it with smugness, arrogance and condescension.
This is what autocrats say and do. Some threats he intends to carry out, others are just meant to intimidate to produce a change in behavior caused by fear. Every day we move closer to autocracy. Who will be fearless & fight, who will ignore it and hide, & who will bend the knee?
No, most wars in human history were not resolved by the aggressor nation with an autocratic ruler still firmly in power voluntarily agreeing to stop after negotiations. But I suppose when you’re Vance and you’re all-in on being a Putin apologist, you will say anything.
Dragging that right leg again yesterday.
Fact check: True.
Lavrov’s response 3 times is to insist that Russia has “never, ever targeted civilian sites.” So the apartment buildings and hospitals we see in flames every day and bodies of civilians is all made up apparently. This is who they are - liars and barbarians.
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My first reaction seeing Lavrov on US TV is why are they platforming his propaganda? But actually it turned out to be pretty useful because Americans get to hear their real position - all the despicably & intransigence - while Trump & Vance are claiming they are being reasonable.
Russia has also said that they want veto power over those security guarantees. Why does Vance keep lying about Russia’s position in every point? I listen to him and I listen to the Russians and they are saying opposite things.
4). @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/americ... @newsweek.com www.newsweek.com/trump-admini... 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ( @washingtonpost.com) archive.ph/xyg0c
3). Abrego, 30, was released from criminal custody in Tenn. on Friday and returned to a family home in Md. after more than five months of detention, including time in a mega-prison in his native El Salvador known for its harsh conditions.” Aug. 25, 2025
2). his lawyer said, while facing the possibility of being deported again, this time to Uganda.
1). „Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. Pres. Donald Trumpʼs aggressive immigration policies, was again detained by U.S. immigration officials in Baltimore on Mond.,
Trump’s America is a cruel, ugly, ignorant, fearful, chickenshit America.
4). @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/americ... @newsweek.com www.newsweek.com/trump-admini... 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 ( @washingtonpost.com) archive.ph/xyg0c
3). Abrego, 30, was released from criminal custody in Tenn. on Friday and returned to a family home in Md. after more than five months of detention, including time in a mega-prison in his native El Salvador known for its harsh conditions.” Aug. 25, 2025
2). his lawyer said, while facing the possibility of being deported again, this time to Uganda.
1). „Kilmar Abrego, the migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of U.S. Pres. Donald Trumpʼs aggressive immigration policies, was again detained by U.S. immigration officials in Baltimore on Mond.,
Yes, another fraud of course 5x draft dodger convicted felon Trump
Donald Trump lies as he breathes. So…yes.👇
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6). – »Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know«.” Aug. 24, 2025 [1] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 ( @nytimes.com) archive.ph/vga6i [2] bsky.app/profile/bria... Source: @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...
5). – »President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland« – he wrote after Trump’s posts.
4). – and told him to include the award on his application »after confirming with two other senior-level officers that they had also signed off on the commendation« [1]. Wes Moore responded to Donald Trumpʼs posts, calling him »President Bone Spurs [2]«.
3). After the report, Moore said he made an »honest mistake«, but that his deputy brigade commander had recommended him for the Bronze Star
2). In Dec., Moore received a Bronze Star for his military service in Afghanistan nearly two decades after he was deployed overseas following a NYT [1] report that Moore, in 2006, had written on an application that he received a Bronze Star for his service when, in fact, he never received it.
1). „[...] Donald Trump [...] asked whether Wes Moore, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, lied about receiving a Bronze Star. – »Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?« – he wrote in another post.
Since Trump spent all day questioning Wes Moore’s military service, I assume we can now expect several very specific well researched questions for him about his Vietnam draft deferment from the WH press this week.
6). – »Hey Donald, we can get you a golf cart if that makes things easier. Just let my team know«.” Aug. 24, 2025 [1] 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 ( @nytimes.com) archive.ph/vga6i [2] bsky.app/profile/bria... Source: @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/adm...
5). – »President Bone Spurs will do anything to get out of walking — even if that means spouting off more lies about the progress we’re making on public safety in Maryland« – he wrote after Trump’s posts.
4). – and told him to include the award on his application »after confirming with two other senior-level officers that they had also signed off on the commendation« [1]. Wes Moore responded to Donald Trumpʼs posts, calling him »President Bone Spurs [2]«.
3). After the report, Moore said he made an »honest mistake«, but that his deputy brigade commander had recommended him for the Bronze Star
2). In Dec., Moore received a Bronze Star for his military service in Afghanistan nearly two decades after he was deployed overseas following a NYT [1] report that Moore, in 2006, had written on an application that he received a Bronze Star for his service when, in fact, he never received it.
1). „[...] Donald Trump [...] asked whether Wes Moore, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, lied about receiving a Bronze Star. – »Did Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland, lie about getting a Bronze Star?« – he wrote in another post.
2). @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/08/24/u... abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory... @nbcnews.com www.nbcsandiego.com/news/nationa... www.fox32chicago.com/news/usc-act... sc.edu/about/office...
1). „There is no evidence of a shooter at the University of South Carolina’s campus library, a school spokesperson said Sunday, after a schoolwide alert about a shooter who had been reported to be on the Columbia campus.” Aug. 24, 2025
If you thought Nancy Mace was going to apologize after spending her day falsely accusing a kid with an umbrella of being a school shooter, you thought wrong.
2). @cnn.com edition.cnn.com/2025/08/24/u... abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory... @nbcnews.com www.nbcsandiego.com/news/nationa... www.fox32chicago.com/news/usc-act... sc.edu/about/office...