🚨 BREAKING: Russia hammered Kyiv with a massive five-hour barrage of drones and missiles, striking residential buildings in several districts of the city.

There’s a swarm of cruise missiles approaching Kyiv and the surrounding area from every direction. The ballistic threat keeps resurfacing too. Every single coin paid to a russian artist, game dev, or business becomes part of these terror attacks.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney published a photo wearing a Ukrainian vyshyvanka, traditional embroidered shirt "Ukraine’s fight is our fight, their cause is our cause, and their independence will be our victory," he said 📷 MarkJCarney

Very informative article about how South Korea has gone from a cautious approach which was based largely around echoing American sentiment on Israel-Palestine to the president calling Netanyahu a war criminal and comparing Israeli treatment of Palestinians to the Japanese treatment of Koreans.

Russia's Alabuga drone factory is expanding with new facilities, dormitories and anti-drone nets protecting Shahed production, Oboronka investigation reveals. The heavily defended complex recruits students with high salaries while imposing surveillance and Stalin propaganda, the report shows.

I think a lot of otherwise well-meaning and progressive Americans do not have a particularly deep understanding of either US or world history, nor personal experience with war or dictatorship, which contributes to a lack of imagination about how much worse things can get.

Tulsi Gabbard was a dark horse for which Trump cabinet member ultimately causes the most damage—we’ll probably learn what secrets she leaked to Russia, how she got involved in stealing future US elections, etc—she’s still awful, and her replacement will be in new ways, but that could’ve been worse.

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.

“The President has shifted to blaming and punishing Europeans who did not offer the help he insisted he did not need.” www.liberalcurrents.com/nato-should-...

FoxNews reports Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as Director of National Intelligence www.foxnews.com/politics/exc...

So US military protection is now dependent on voting in far-right, Trump-approved politicians? Certainly a reassuring message to US allies...

Has the UK considered electing a competent prime minister...?

BREAKING: Alberta voter data has appeared on the website of a US company named repeatedly by separatist David Parker. After @rorywh.bsky.social discovered the breach, the website was taken down amid questions from Elections Alberta.

I'll have something coming out about this eventually but to say this killer was motivated by just "nihilism" is wrong: The killers glorified neo-Nazis They promoted Siege and ideas like "accelerationism" Their influences were ripped out of a "Terrorgram" documentary. www.cbsnews.com/news/san-die...

At some point the US trying to decapitate other countries' leadership is not going to go well tactically

The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor

The success of capturing Maduro is going to result in more quagmires. Cuba is not Venezuela in many ways how Iran is not Venezuela. If all they want is Castro, they may get that. But the regime will not simply fold and suddenly enter into a corrupt relationship with Trump like Venezuela

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

Ukraine struck ten major Russian oil facilities in the first 20 days of May, said Commander Robert "Madiar" Brovdi Among them are facilities in Moscow, Ryazan, Perm, and Kirishi in Leningrad Oblast. Six of them have been forced to halt operations euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/20/s...

Anyone suggesting Westminster-based parliamentary systems are somehow less democratic than whatever the hell has happened in America should quit the commentary business.

The failure of Trump’s 2020 election subversion plot turned in part on the willingness of a small group of Republican officials to defy him — almost all of whom have since been purged from power.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Canada leads a group of nine countries formally objecting to the merger of UN Women and UNFPA, because of the risk of diluting mandates on gender equality and women’s health

Europe should not be running after Putin. It should be maximising the military & economic pressure on him. Every initiative to “reopen formal channels” will be seen by Putin as a sign of European weakness, & will encourage him to keep fighting.

“What would Putin like us to do?” doesn’t seem the best guideline for US policy. But this announcement will make it harder for Europe to keep living in a state of denial: as long as Trump is in power (and probably beyond) it can’t rely on the US to help in a crisis.

At a conference this morning I and others mentioned this as one of the significant threats to Europe: the risk of Russia trying to undermine collective security commitments by salami-slicing them via "accidental" incursions - or "responses" to false claims about NATO actions.

>the plan was to just bomb Ahmadinejad’s house and then he magically becomes the leader of Iran

🚨 The UK — yes, the UK — has quietly issued sanctions waiver for Russia. One permits imports of diesel and jet fuel made from Russian oil in third counties, is indefinite and me revoked at any time. The other covers the maritime transport of Russian LNG and lasts until January 2027.

As analysts grow worried that Ru might be preparing a pretext to attack the Baltics, I see many countering, even mocking such warnings w claims that russia is too weak/overstretched to attack anyone else beside Ukraine. This complacency missunderstands the logic/goal of such an attack— it’s not to…

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

We do not need a Marjorie Taylor Greene but left.

the world where the president can order multiple departments to ignore the law when it comes to himself and his extended family and partners is one where the next president can declare all of those people threats to national security and subject to extrajudicial action

The next administration needs to show no mercy and so thoroughly crush Trump and his family into the dust with every legal means available that no oligarch will dare subvert the state for a generation or two.

What's to stop Trump from suing the national Park Service, and then taking Yellowstone for himself from the "settlement"?

The fact that the Harris campaign made their direct pitch of "these fuckers want to destroy our democracy, don't let them," Trump barely denied it, and it still flat out did not work has done a lot of hidden damage to the Democratic party and, more broadly, the American psyche

Canada has been making significant progress on defence over the last year, so this is clearly a bullshit excuse for further alienating what was the US' closest ally. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine. The Economist's tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023. A massive humiliation for Putin. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...

As Moscow burns, remember those who fretted about nuclear escalation because Ukr struck an antiradar system. Remember also the Biden admin in 2022 fell for the manipulation that Ru will existentially defend the Ukr territories it included in its constitution. Ukr’s allies should‘ve listened to Ukr.

Generals and admirals are largely political creatures, and expecting them to all give up their sinecures in protest and denounce the president on CNN was a pipe dream. Even so, it took the purging or career derailment of a bunch of high-ranking officers to get here because the president is just nuts

According to Finnish paper Iltalehti NATO sources confirm that Russia has started to aim drones into the territory of NATO states adjacent to greater St Petersburg area. Which supports my suspicion below. I did not independently find proof. www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a...

Good morning! ☕ Today is the Trump administration's all-day prayer festival on the National Mall -- paid for in part by you, and supposedly open to people of all faiths -- featuring religious speakers with known records of smearing Catholics and Muslims. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

There needs to be finally be a tangible set of consequences for the type of abject lying that is done about Tlaib, Mamdani, Omar, etcetera by the right most members of the Democratic caucus. There is a reason that the party has a problem with Muslims and it's because this stuff is tolerated.

Glad we didn't spend the last few years torching international aid...!

Development Assistance for Health dropped 21% in 2025. It collapsed from $80 billion in 2021, to $50 billion in 2024, and is forecast to drop to $36 billion in 2030. The US cut 67% of health aid. UK: 39%, France: 33%, Germany: 12%, Finland: 11%, Canada: 15%

These people are terrified. They know they’ve pushed too far too fast and are going to face a huge backlash from voters. So they’re trying to stop people from voting.

A thing thats kind of grating on me is that: a) these people probably agree with me that the US is a threat b) probably agree with me that we should stop sending weapons to israel c) oppose literally anything that would solve a) + b)

#Taiwan says it is a ‘sovereign’ nation with US ‘security commitment’ after Trump’s warning www.france24.com/en/asia-paci... #Trump #China