Russians were so desperate regarding their May 9 parade. It has been canceled in almost all major cities across the country and scaled down in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Numerous air defense systems all over the country had to be relocated around Moscow, exposing most of the country.

The russian budget deficit is higher through 4 months this year than all of last year....and every non-pandemic year before that. Higher oil prices have not saved them.

Ukrainian children grow up learning the names of the things trying to kill them. It's some dystopian world we live in, thanks to genocidal russia. It's a good thing Ukrainians also learned a thing or two about saving lives. You can help with that: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...

This fucking country.

The replies to this are a fucking cesspool. You want to criticize Israel, by all means, I do it all the time. But it shouldn't be controversial to condemn antisemitism without the inevitable torrent of "but what about Israel" which frankly, proves the governor's point.

And I implore everyone on BlueSky and beyond to understand the FBI’s refusal to investigate—at all—Renee Good’s death should be understood as racialized mechanism to police white allies of Black and Brown people. You have to see a name a Redeemer Project.

One of the most crazy-making things I've witnessed in my life is Mitch McConnell using procedural fuckery to transform the filibuster into a routine thing, such that 60 Senate votes are needed to pass any legislation. It bascially rendered normal legislating impossible!

The regime is persecuting the journalist who investigated Kash Patel and the State Senator who led Virginia redistricting campaign because they’re trying to steal the 2026 election. Trump wants to intimidate the opposition into obedience. We can’t let him.

There was no greater and more effective advocate in the VA redistricting fight. It's 1000% clear what Trump is doing here.

Pure authoritarian playbook. newrepublic.com/post/210025/...

Great job Trump, fucking nailed it!

600k a year, over 4 or 5 years, that’s getting up into the mass murder big leagues. Trying to unseat the big H.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

I see this view a lot, but we need to be mindful of the asymmetries. It would be a disaster for European countries to go to war with Iran, and it would require totally unrealistic amounts of aid to Ukraine to compensate for that. It's better for Europe to just focus on Ukraine themselves.

Since the war began, Iran has been under a near-total internet blackout. We collected voice memos from inside the country. Even though it was dangerous and difficult, people wanted to be heard. link.podtrac.com/7km9v53p

These loathsome creatures are starting to squeal louder lately.

We've been in a cold civil war for a while, regardless of whether or not Democrats have wanted to admit it. But there comes a point where the fact of that war is so stark that people have to wake up to it. To become, as it were, wide awakes

Time traveler from the 1980s arrives in 2026- "Wow, electric cars and TV in your phone, the future is so cool!" Me- "How can I put this: we elected Biff Tannen who is rapidly getting us into Mad Max territory, while the richest companies in the world are busy trying to make Skynet a reality."

This is actually pretty good news. For frame of reference, the russian budget deficit at the end of March was 4.5 trillion. This will....not plug that hole.

Enjoying the ride everyone? No? Well buckle up, it's about to get A LOT worse.

Not that reality has any bearing on anything in these spaces, but Hungary?!?! Really?! Don't get me wrong, their food slaps and Budapest by all accounts is lovely....but come on man. I get fetishizing Italy or even Franco's Spain, maybe. But Hungary is truly a nothing burger in the grand scheme.

🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Kushner are in no hurry to visit Kyiv because they no longer believe in negotiations. In addition, Witkoff finds it difficult to travel by train, — Kyiv Independent

Remember that Trump disbanded the office that assembles and tracks this data. There is literally ZERO reason to believe any of it.

I wonder who the Polish Foreign Minister is talking about.

I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

There has been an appalling attack on two Jewish Londoners in Golders Green. The police have made an arrest and I’d like to thank all the emergency services and heroic volunteers from Hatzola and Shomrim in the area for their swift response to this horrific incident.

It has been an ongoing travesty that so many of the men running Israeli intelligence & defense, whose careers are about keeping Israel safe, have repeatedly sounded the alarm on all aspects of Likud policy, to the apparent deaf ears of the Israeli public, to say nothing of Israel's supporters sbroad

Israel at every opportunity- "Hey guys look at how much we suck! Just total fucking assholes. For no reason too, we just can't fucking help it. Gaza and Lebanon not enough for you? How about we take a nice steaming piss on a Jewish head of a nation in an existential fight for survival? Nice.."

Another US ambassador in Ukraine is reportedly quitting, embarrassed by the lack of support they're giving to Kyiv. Julie Davis (L) resigns almost exactly a year after Bridget Brink (R) also said it was impossible to continue to serve in Ukraine due to Trump's policies.

The process of dying hasn’t given Sasse any profound insights. Still an odious dickhead sure that he knows whats best for people he knows nothing about.

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

Will be interesting to see how much the oil prices impact this. So far, still looking quite rough!

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

On Apr 26, 1986, the Chornobyl disaster became a symbol of Soviet negligence, endangering millions. In 2022, russian forces occupied the exclusion zone, looting equipment and ignoring safety. Nuclear recklessness threatens the world. Remember the victims and responders🕯️

I'm rewatching the Chernobyl series on HBO, and the opening voiceover from Legasov resonates: "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

Iran has Trump by the balls and they know. Trump may or may not know it, but it doesn't matter. He can't do shit about it anyway. There's not going to be a full scale invasion, he blinked on his genocidal threat because he knows the price will be too high. So what's he gonna do?

Israel is like a guy who's an old friend but he won't stop trying to fight everyone at the bar and eventually you have to put him in a sleeper hold just to save him from himself

This approach reminds me of Zelensky's regular dispatches. While I doubt that Mondani's team was studying Zelensky's social media strategy, I do think this is the next frontier in political communication, especially for generations raised on Instagram and TikTok. This stuff comes naturally.

Feeling a bit like a second class citizen these days.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Need more of this attitude from the Dems and all people who uphold liberal, pluralistic democracy!

Turns out that being an unreliable, inconsistent, and often simply incoherent shithead to everyone you deal with has its downsides.

This would bring a great shame to our nation.

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

On some level, I believe this is exactly what Netanyahu wants.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Stop praising Orbán for not attempting a coup. He only stepped down because Magyar's win was too massive to steal. He rigged the constitution, captured the institutions, and used state media to his advantage. He did everything he could to destroy democracy, and he failed

It's a war of the oligarchs against the professional administrative class, the only class capable and willing to resist them.