Lol beat me to it!
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Lol beat me to it!
His what now?
We're gonna have state media at CNN, CBS, Fox, Washington Post and NYTimes(ish). What's left?
Couple weeks, drink!
This is what Mariupol looked like in March of 2022, only one month into a 3 month siege where civilians had little opportunity or hope to escape. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDJV...
Unfriendly reminder that Mariupol, a city of over 400,000 mostly russian speaking Ukrianian was surrounded by the russian military for months and bombarded mercilessly. We might never know how many civilians died from hunger and russian bombs, but there are many mass graves visible from space.
russian oil and gas revenues continue to struggle. So will the budget. Oh well.
The function of verification, which I argue is one of democracy’s three core functions, alongside deliberation and accountability, has shifted. Once carried out by institutions, it is now pushed onto the public to navigate vast unfiltered information flows, as recipients of information & amplifiers.
Even Yanukovich didn't send the military against his own people.
See South Korea as a prime example.
Next few days, drink!
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US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%
Trump the dove, amirite?!
"Advice" being given to russian women, what the hell did i just read.
Seems bad!
I think the bet that Israel is making us that there won't be a "next" administration.
LMAO
Old? He's basically a toddler by Dem Senate standards.
Dude's got some juice. Cautiously optimistic, hopefully he's not a wackadoodle on other issues.
russia is rapidly reaching the find out phase where price controls and export duties are making businesses unprofitable, so they just shut down instead of contributing to the economy.
Subsidies with what money?
If that's what they're putting out now, it'll probably get to 10 trillion, especially with Ukraine popping alone or two refineries per day and gas export restrictions through end of October at least.
Where in Philly are you seeing this out of curiosity?
Can't wait to see H2 figures :)
Meanwhile Ukrainians are hitting russian energy infrastructure on a nightly basis now. This sort of sustained campaign is a new development. Hard hitting cruise missiles are coming online which will do far more damage than the lighter drones used so far. This is the time to hit russia, hard!
If you're a pro-Ukraine advocate, the argument is simple. Russia is losing. It hopes to grind down Ukraine, but so far all it's done is smash its head against the wall, while losing people, material and crippling its own economy which is on the verge of record deficits.
Russia of course is aware of this. They can't defeat Ukraine in the field of battle which is why it is increasingly resorting to terror tactics. Massive drone/missile attacks against Ukrainian civilian population with the hope that it will force Kyiv into concessions it can't get otherwise.
Taking a step back, a picture emerges- russia's massive military spending increase indicates that Soviet reserves have run out and recruitment is getting more expensive. Meanwhile still no breakthroughs and Ukraine continues to extract massive costs for every square kilometer gained.
For all the talk of russia's big summer offensive, there has been conspicuously little analysis of what it has accomplished. Which is a whole lot of nothing. Ukraine's position remains difficult, but the mistakes of the past- overestimating russia while underestimating Ukraine's resilience continue.
1/7 The Trump admin’s plan to lure russia away from china by gifting Ukraine to russia is not just failing—it’s backfiring spectacularly. Instead of isolating china, it’s fueling a deeper russia-china-india axis. This thread breaks down the strategic disaster 👇
Damn, Iranians are just the handsomest people on the planet, it's ridiculous. #freeiran
Farm to table MAGA.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Václav Havel first coined the term "post-totalitarian" to describe life under communism after the 1960s. The all controlling state and the ideological zeal was evaporating. So the communists created a distortion of reality that perpetuated an illusion of a continued totalitarianism in people's minds
Well said.
'democrats are obliged to govern but republicans get a pass' is bizarrely the mentality of both establishment institutions and a lot of leftist posting.
7/7 The better analogy? A modernizing, determined democracy fighting off a decaying empire. Ukraine isn’t russia’s little brother. It’s russia’s worst nightmare: a post-Soviet state that chose freedom—and learned to fight for it
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Passage of time is a motherfucker.
Zucky is just giving his money away huh?
JFC, that's absolutely insane.
Oh didn't realize we're at the "blame Ukrainians and Jews for school shootings" part of the program now.
Guess we're not making the 7 trillion rubles threshold this month, booo!!!
While Russian missiles rain death on Kyiv, Hungary bans a brave ethnic Hungarian who dares to fight for Ukraine's freedom. Commander Magyar: if you need some R&R and Hungary won't let you in, please be our guest in Poland.
This better be legit, because the timing of this investigation could not have been worse.
24-year-old Nadiya and her 2-year-old daughter Angelina were killed in their Kyiv home by russia. Angelina was born in October 2022, during another russian shelling. Yesterday, the terrorist state took her life. russia is relentless in killing Ukrainian children.
Dude, I hate VEEP so much! But then again, I hate all these shows that are basically- "look at these fucking assholes, aren't they terrible to each other". But something about VEEP made it so much worse. Just nasty, I dunno.
How confident are we that Hungary and Slovakia will hold free and fair elections?
Nearly impossible, thanks for doing what you did!
The sad part is that these terrible events no longer even give hope of a silver lining. If the Nova Kakhovka dam and the children's hospital bombing didn't snap Ukraine's "partners" to attention, not to mention all the other terrible russian crimes, nothing will.
I read his grubby apartment as his fall from favor as a result for speaking truth to power, but even if they got that part wrong I ain't mad.
The way that Chernobyl depicted mid-1980s Soviet life, down to the most basic details (fashion, uniforms, furniture, vehicles, facial expressions, etc) and got the vibe so right was stunning! Source- grew up in the mid-1980s Soviet Union.
Great book.
Season 4 got urban schools so right it was painful. Season 5 is whatever.
Yep. He wanted Ukraine to surrender. Still does. Doesn’t matter that for us, it means silent death in occupation. The only thing that matters is that he can stop hearing about Ukraine.
Blinken was better on Ukraine, but definitely not great on Israel.
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦🇪🇺US official to the Atlantic: Trump has directed some frustration at Zelensky and Europe, believing that they are being unrealistic in their demands and need to accept that Ukraine has to lose some territory to end the conflict. Trump just wants the war in Ukraine to end. It doesn’t matter how.
Is there a more contemptible character from the Biden administration than Jake Sullivan?
Only a degenerate would try to justify or find equivalence in russia's murder of Ukrainian civilians. Deeply pathetic stuff.
Right now, Russian soldiers are better paid than British soldiers. 2000 euros per month, a 20 000 euro signing bonus, and 1000 euro pension. That's why recruits keep joining. All of it is paid for with oil and gas money. And why it's so important to target and blow up the Russian oil refineries.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Look at how traumatized this poor woman is. Eternal shame to all who allow this criminal invasion to continue unpunished.
Russian major mining and steel producing company Mechel reported a net loss of 40,5 billion rubles for H1 2025 with Q2 2025 seeing the loss grow 110%. Revenue dropped 26% to 152,3 billion rubles. www.kommersant.ru/doc/7991767
Ah that. Well I will say that a mobility proponent and bike rider, I don't love getting buzzed by loaded up throttle ebikes at 25 mph on the sidewalk. While acknowledging the class aspect of it, etc.
It's just another iteration of truck bros hating everything that isn't.
Did something happen?
US getting a taste of good ol russkiy mir.
What's the difference in practice?
RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE ! I’m so tired of this 🤬
Covers his office in gold while taking away people's healthcare.
The former Mayor of Kherson, before and after being taken hostage by Russia.
How many times does he have to say it?
Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
"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."
I'm going to guess that once we see the Russians seriously pursue a ceasefire, it will actually be an indication that the war is taking a significantly worse turn for them. Until then, we'll just keep getting this stalling.
No way!!
Yaroslav left Brooklyn to fight for Ukraine—for love, heritage, and freedom. He says this war will be long, and no one fighting believes Trump’s peace push will work. Putin only respects strength. This is my most watched interview—watch it at Terrell J Starr Official on YouTube.
One of the stupidest assumptions I see from often-smart people is that expansions of executive authority can be exploited by Democrats for positive uses when they take back power My dude, mon chum...if this expansion executive authority keeps going, you'll never get the chance to find out
I don't understand how some people can support both Ukraine and Trump at the same time. Since russia launched its invasion, Trump has been one of the worst things to happen to Ukraine
Mobilized to do what exactly?
More like russia by the day. (russia loves to nationalize businesses, especially those not deemed sufficiently loyal)
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
yeah i read civ-mil scholarship
Actually a pretty succinct summation. Israel went into the war insisting -Hamas could not continue to rule Gaza because 10/7 -No institution with any legitimacy could rule Gaza because no Palestinian state can be allowed to So they’ve just been killing people more or less aimlessly for 22 months
An excellent & extremely relevant piece in @theatlantic.com by former CIA Director and State Department Foreign Service Officer William Burns. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
No worries mate
I think that's the one. Pure scapegoating, I pointed out this is no different than how Jews were blamed for everything in 1930s Germany and she conceded the point though I doubt that make any real difference.
Hard to think of a clearer declaration of dictatorship than "the Crooked game of politics is over"
I mean this happened pre-trump and still represents a quarter of what China is generating (and they're not slowing down).
And US is sitting on its hands, actively sabotaging itself from participating.
To state the obvious, a guarantee from russia is worth less than the paper it's written on. Ukraine needs security guarantees to protect it AGAINST russia, you know the aggressor who invaded them 3 times in the last decade. In case it wasn't already abundantly clear.
My mom (a Trumper unfortunately) mentioned something about an immigrant truck driver causing an accident that killed a family just yesterday. Today this. Right wing fever swamp to federal policy direct pipeline.
What did he blab about now?
Two weeks, drink!
We are all thinking this.