"Russia did not become an enemy. It never stopped being one." open.substack.com/pub/sergeist...

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

Szijjarto, Hungarian foreign minister, made regular phone calls during breaks at E.U. meetings to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with “live reports on what’s been discussed” -The Washington Post Vote. Them. Out!

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.

LIVE NOW on-the-ground in Minneapolis after another person was killed by federal agents.

The majority of Americans think Good was murdered in cold blood and that ICE and the GOP and Trump not only excuse it but applaud it. The lesson that ICE fails to understand is that moral and decent and law abiding human beings think that is wrong and has to stop. We don't trust them anymore.

If Ukraine can’t rely on Mr. Trump even to provide assistance while it is the object of outright invasion and aggression, it’s hard to see him doing so, let alone confronting Russia militarily, in some lesser contingency just because of a nominal commitment. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...

BREAKING: Mar-a-Lago “Peace Talks” — What’s Really About to Happen open.substack.com/pub/levremem...

The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it

When small nations forget that they need the upkeep of the international order more than anyone else: Belgium’s refusal to release funds for Ukraine is short-sighted and forgetful of history.

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

get a load of the "journalist" asking questions at the Pentagon press briefing

The Defense Department’s Law of War Manual specifies: “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.” These are actions that you would expect from the Islamic State or the Russian army — not from the armed forces of a democracy. wapo.st/49LrEvh

Italian Senator left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and a propagandist. It happened on Prime Time Italian television. Priceless 🤩 [ENG SUB] (The 2nd part in the next tweet)

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I am British in Ukraine. If it is true that Elbridge Colby decided to suspend weapons shipments to Ukraine on his own, blindsiding the President and Cabinet - then I have a suggestion for President Trump. Please relocate Colby to the US Embassy in Kyiv, so he understands the need for air defences.

To end what has become a forever war, “Russia will need to be convinced that its objectives in Ukraine are unrealistic,” writes Lawrence Freedman.

To the Trump admin, everyone’s an evil liar trying to take advantage of the United Stares except for one person—Vladimir Putin.

I'm old enough to remember when Drudge was a RW tabloid...

I do not think people realize how comprehensive the Trump Administration is being in its attempts to help Putin kill Ukrainians. I have it on an excellent source that Ukrainian UAV operations are 15% less effective because of the US intel cut off.

Great London, great.