As the Kremlin loses hope of conquering Ukraine, they signal they might accept a chunk to sell this domestically as victory. This tells you what the war was always about and what russian society thinks of it-- both the regime and russian society seek imperial conquest, not security.

Meanwhile in Russia… “A Russian man died after falling from an oak tree branch during sex.” Gravity strikes again! www.gazeta.ru/social/news/...

Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.

Evil and unlawful on countless levels, but also just embarrassing that he’s so cheap. Consider for a moment that Trump is bribable for what is meaningless pocket change in the Kremlin.

Spot on as usual. And as usual, the White House can be expected to amplify Russian propaganda.

Climate change is real and it's happening and it's only going to get worse until everyone wakes the fuck up. By far the biggest threat to us all. We don't have another planet we can go to.

Another day of the paper of record mixing up its role with that of a stenographer.

Finally, direct acknowledgment that Trump’s efforts failed. I’m often critical of New York Times coverage, so I want to recognize when they’re accurate. Now, if they could show this to the part of the news division that rushes to make “Peace Deal Achieved, Trump Says” the top headline repeatedly.

The whole world apart from some US MAGA fanatics see Trump as a total disaster: 1. The most corrupt president ever. 2. Promoting crime & corruption with pardons & checking the DOJ & FBI, undermining all rule of law. 3. Started a madhat war against Iran that he lost & cannot get out of. /1

All democratic states that thought they were good friends with the USA, beware. If Trump can treat a free and democratic Taiwan as a “bargaining chip”, he can do the same to you.

In the end, making Putin threaten, moan and beg to hold his pissy little 45 minute parade, from which he ran away like a frightened schoolboy, revealed more about the real state of the war than anyone could have expected.

The USA went to war with Iran for no reason beyond the fact that "Bomb Iran!" has always been a right wing talking point, and Trump has used it to make his friends and families extremely wealthy while distracting the news media from the Epstein files.

‼️👀 Zelensky: We have signed three major security documents – Drone Deal with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. “Shahed” can cost from 80 to 130 thousand dollars. It will be destroyed not with a missile costing 3-4 million dollars, but with an interceptor costing 10 thousand dollars.

The folks at Fox News are struggling to sell the war in Iran. Monday - Bombs could drop in 48 hours Tuesday - Trump is unlikely to extended the ceasefire Wednesday - We have a new ceasefire but not really

Not a President……a terrorist!

This scumbag enabler of Russian genocide of Ukrainians would have been proud to help the Nazis, too.

It speaks volumes about our president. It looks like an SNL skit.

There is nothing noble about Orbán accepting defeat. He did not attempt a coup because Magyar's margin was too big to rig. He manipulated the constitution, controlled every institution, and flooded the country with disinformation. He is a failed enemy of democracy

Some differences b/n Poland/Hungary which may matter for the democratic restoration process: Fidesz lost in a landslide and Tisza has a constitutional majority; PiS lost closely and retained the presidency. Poland's high ideological polarization is central to politics; Hu's main issue is corruption.

Excellent thread by @bogatatimar.bsky.social about how Hungarians feel about the elections and Magyar, warts and all. Highly recommend read "It seem that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in #Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point!" 🧵 1/

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

Given the huge early turnout in Hungary odds seem very high that Magyar wil defeat Orbán very decisively; the question in that case would be whether Orbán goes with the Ukrainian electoral interference lie he has been preparing and whether foreign actors support him.

It is deeply ironic that Europe's most blatant traitors dare to name their faction "Patriots for Europe." Taking orders from Russia while claiming to defend European sovereignty is a sick joke. They are fooling way too many

He means it this time.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

Morgan J Freeman shared this.

“The West was slow to grasp the national security threat of weaponized corruption...and organized crime until it was too late...Russia was treated as an emerging market, emerging democracy, and a country in transition. It wasn't transitioning into anything. It was what it always had been.”

🔥 Russian oil exports have plunged to their lowest level in more than a year after a series of drone strikes on key Baltic ports. Revenue losses are estimated at more than $1 billion a week, despite rising global oil prices, Bloomberg reports.

Europe, learn, that’s what you supposed to do in 2014…

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

.... ja kurvalt kõik koos: Kui karistus on vaid rahatrahv, on see lihtsalt the cost of doing the thing

A reminder that anyone who talks about a 2022 deal/ceasefire/offramp Ukraine could've taken that would've been better than whatever Ukraine's negotiation position is now is either a victim of Ru disinformation or a purveyor of it. In 2022, Ru demanded Ukrainian capitulation and demilitarization.

We (and various pseudo academics*) genuinely pretend there's no way to explain why NATO is so obviously popular with so many of our former colonies. Total, unexplainable mystery. Especially seeing as we don't whitewash these crimes at all and aren't repeating them right now.

OTD in 1949 Operation Priboi started. USSR forcibly deported *90,000* Baltic people to 'inhospitable parts' of Russia. 70% of those deported were women & children under 16. Imagine mass deporting children today....

“There are no secret talks ongoing between Tehran and Washington” - Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi

The stock market has become the new DEFCON indicator🤦🏽‍♀️

It’s high time for the media to stop reporting every statement by Trump on the war as factual or true. It’s very doubtful there were any talks with Iran, let alone “productive” talks. His statement was all about markets, not about ending the war.

China is also watching how heavily bombed country with no allies, and no airpower closed a strait. They have 3 to worry about

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

Trump openly lies about the bombed girls school. As Americans we make mistakes in war but they are unintentional and we own them. Trump blaming Iran is no different than what Putin does when he blames Ukraine for attacks Russia clearly does. We’ve become accepting of pure lies