OTD in 2014 I said I could conquer Kiev in 2 weeks. I can’t conquer Donbass in 4 years or Kursk in over a year. But I never actually said which 2 weeks. I remain a master strategist.
It has taken a long time... Don't follow me as my interests are so varied I'll just confuse you and even the bots will get bored.
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OTD in 2014 I said I could conquer Kiev in 2 weeks. I can’t conquer Donbass in 4 years or Kursk in over a year. But I never actually said which 2 weeks. I remain a master strategist.
I am betting on E.
When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Day two of Jillian Segal - the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia - being silent on the actions of a political cult that executed the Holocaust, protesting in the streets of Australia and attacking First Nations people. Apparently first they came for mob, but I was very busy.
Add rabies to Andrew Wakefield’s catastrophic legacy
Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan discussed Trump's health and America's diminishing global standing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezOy...
Clyde looks like he is plotting revenge in that first photo.
Nothing to see here... ...just more mindless American gun violence killing another child. Nothing for Americans to fret about. 🤬
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
One of my favourite birds. ❤️
Alrite, Fizgig, jeeeeez, i wil getbak to werk! Liten up!
The only thing approaching a major terrorist attack on America that he was alive for was January 6th.
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Washington will not go un-mulched on Trump's watch.
Fair
Deeply.
Seems like as good a time as any to reshare my story on the Coffee County voting system breach, which details the key role Giuliani played in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Trying to explain to a conservative why RFK Jr is bad: "Imagine an educated black woman saying that Americans should exercise and eat vegetables."
I have seen all the George Glass jokes but I didn't realize how much they were based in reality. Poor Midge.
I have heard versions of this being read multiple times but I am always impressed anew with how masterful a takedown Jordan created with his letter. youtu.be/evi_i7R0SFQ?...
Are they just enjoying the view or do they have an actual inkling of what is coming? 🤔
Great Heron launching into Monday #heron #birds
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.
This is the second best kind of timeline cleanse (the best being animals or birds). Humans being decent to one another is sadly an underappreciated quality right now.
Those ears are ready for takeoff.
Nate is too scared to have someone poll "Is Nate Silver is an idiot?" because he could not possibly skew the results enough.
Really charming photo, Jocelyn.
A male Indigo Bunting watching what's going on down below. He could be looking at me, but I like to think he's watching one of his young ones behind me. As I was walking along the trail, there was a young Indigo Bunting chirping and perched right next to a web with a large spider in the middle.
Whistleblowers only dogs can hear in this media landscape.
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
Billy is thinking "they make bunting specifically to complement my fur, I must be special". (He is!). 💛
Well done! That's what vacations are for. (I always give myself a long list of things to do around the place on my breaks. If I do even one of the tasks I am inordinately proud of myself).
Absolutely adorable.
Good work, Delly. You are training Da Boss very well.
Dealing with the DOJ and ICE lawyers now sounds like dealing with a petulant teenager.
Shame on the courts for going along with the pernicious fiction that American national security required stripping employees of union protections
Half a year of Trumpian diplomacy on display. Where will we be after 4 years? edition.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Trump's Ego is a National Security Risk: India Was the Economic Alternative to China. Trump Ended That. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
Telling it like it is 🔥 "Once again, we are seeing the federal government retaliate against our civil servants for whistleblowing—which is both illegal and a deep betrayal of the most dedicated among us." www.newsweek.com/fema-staff-l...
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
Excellent!
⚡️ Update: EU confirms von der Leyen’s plane hit by GPS jamming, Russian involvement suspected. "We can confirm there was GPS jamming," European Commission spokesperson Arianna Podesta told the media, adding that Bulgaria suspects Russia to be behind the “blatant interference.”
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
You find signs like this all over our former colonies commemorating people who were taken by anonymous soviet secret policemen. In their 100s of thousands.
I was working overseas in the 1990s so I missed most of the series “Mad About You”. Stumbled over it this weekend and howled with laughter tonight at an episode where the main female character Jamie joked with her husband about Trump bouncing a check at The Gap. Even then, he was a punch line.
Big, brave and bold, Herbert.
1 September 1881 | Czech Jewish woman, Laura Kussiová, was born in Kolin. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She did not survive.
From pillar to post. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
Facing down the wind!
You go, Herbert! You have no fears.
Is Binx telling Midge that you got stuck in the cat door, Susie? We know that it is not true of course.
Yay, Rocky! You got to go for a swim. 💛
It was bound to come once he hired Stephen Cheung as his spokesperson.
Who else read that with John Boy Walton's voice in their head?
Perfect, no notes
On this day one year ago I was getting my best ever sunset shot. Lake Quinault, Olympic National Park, Washington state.
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
I knew one of the SOE agents that organized resistance in occupied France in 1943-44 and I would like say I'm not surprised, but I'm not. Simply because he explained it was personal experience of the occupation that led to resistance. People will wake up. Will it be in time to effectively resist?? 🤷
You and your pesky facts, George. 😉
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
The little tool chest looks good with the tung oil so I can understand the preference.
It is Giuliani so...
Snap! Odd at an absolute minimum.
The article suggested that it was after leaving the DV person in the safe hands of police that he drove on and then was hit from behind. It sounds odd at a minimum.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
Will you just oil, or stain, the chair?
Id heard that Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm formerly run by Commerce Secy Lutnick and now run by his sons is one of the big buyers of these refund rights. Turns out it’s already public back in July when they were buying them at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. www.wired.com/story/cantor...
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
No maybe about it. He has always been extremely limited in his knowledge and as his cognitive decline has accelerated that knowledge is being compressed to what fits with his obsessions.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
Not when you are "America's mayor" and a hero in your own mind it probably isn't. I would not trust him to confirm whether the sun is shining so all of it is suspect until confirmed by independent parties.
I am going to park it in the "I will await some sort of confirmation from police on the scene". In other words I think that is highly likely.
The inane comment from his associate that he survived 9/11. WTAF? He was not in the buildings when they were struck so... 🤷
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
Is NSW the state that has had a bunch of tower blocks turn into disasters for the owners/tenants due to defects...?
And, it shouldn't go unnoted that Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who has done her job at all hours today over a holiday weekend, was one of the final Biden appointees confirmed to the bench. Each one of those lame-duck confirmations very much matter.
Sounds just fine to me!
Like a moonscape... 😧🤬
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
DC area folks — this non-partisan rally in solidarity with survivors exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is happening Wed morning if you want to support.
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Panther mode unleashed... ❤️
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Every authoritarian regime that embraced this aesthetic inflicted violence and chaos on its society
