Kyiv is covered in smoke after Russia's attack on Ukrainian civilians 💔 Three people killed & seven people injured, several residential buildings badly damaged.

Russia is stalled in the battlefield and so it targets Ukrainian civilians while they sleep.

Kyiv endured another horrific night. At least 8 people have been killed and 34 others injured in Russia’s latest attack. Authorities have confirmed damage at no fewer than 28 locations across the city, with the vast majority affecting residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.

In which Boko Haram and ISWAP discover they are actually Communists…

Russia claims it strikes decision-making centers and key facilities in Ukraine. Yes. Our centers of strength are thousand-year-old monasteries and churches, art museums, film studios with a proud history, and philharmonic halls. This is our culture and our history⤵️

Russia hosts Kyiv's Lavra, a monastery older than Notre Dame, older than Moscow, and the center of Orthodoxy in Ukraine. Not front page news for @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, @cnn.com, @theguardian.com.

This.

Peace requires justice— and accountability for unjustifiable crimes like this one. The Lavra is older than Moscow.

The bells 💔 Kyiv lavra monastery on fire after Russian attack . Video : Kyiv Holovne/tg

NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

My last stop for today. Chornobyl Museum. By destroying museums and galleries, russians try to destroy our culture and memory. We will rebuild.

Writing, from the blank page to the final draft, is essential to thinking. You cannot reconcile the belief that higher education's purpose is to teach students to think for themselves with the promotion of LLMs as tools that students should use in their writing.

Universities aren’t legitimate targets of war.

Museums aren’t targets of war. They are repositories of our shared human history and experience.

Another building badly damaged in Kyiv is the National Chornobyl Museum. It really is a wonderful place, near Kontraktova Ploshcha, which I've been to three times. Russia trying to erase uncomfortable historical truths?

Smoke after russian attack on Kyiv tonight.

⚡️Update: Damage reported in every district of Kyiv amid massive Russian missile, drone attack. Officials reported that over 40 locations in Kyiv have sustained damage in the large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone attack on the capital.

Countrywide alert due to launches Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles. Three missiles launched, passing Kyiv, over Zhytomyr heading to Starokostiantyniv. One possibly shot down in Kyiv Oblast. 20+ Shahed drones in 🇺🇦 airspace. Possible Oreshnik IRBM launch detected.

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

The transgression is the point. Like toddlers and middle schoolers.

US Treasury extends sanctions waiver for Russian oil by 30 days. Of course they do. Nobody cares that Russia leveled a residential building onto sleeping families using that oil money just days ago. Unfuckingbelievable.

Yet another decision by the Defense Department aimed at achieving maximum pettiness at the cost of national security.

just had had meltdown . just suddenly started crying in the middle of the kitchen. am not okay, non of us are. then, just as suddenly, i stopped crying and continued . there’s still work that needs to be done

Russian Z-propaganda channels are calling the strike on a residential building in Kyiv, which killed civilians, a fake. The Russians said the exact same thing about Bucha, where they murdered and tortured civilians.

Hey international studies folks, Severine Autesserre of Barnard and I are looking to put together a panel on peacemaking and violence prevention for the ISA conference in Atlanta next March. DM me if you have an idea for a paper for the panel or can suggest someone working in this area.

Right now russia is attacking Ukraine. 3 persons were killed in Rivne region, 4 were injured. This is how our sky looks like since the morning. #Ukrainianview

Wait, you mean Trump and Rubio’s dismantling of US diplomacy is making the Iran War harder? Who could possibly have foreseen… goodauthority.org/news/trump-a... via @shipwreck75.bsky.social

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Meanwhile, 30 embassies have no US ambassador at all. The deliberate destruction of American soft power continues.

Had a good read this afternoon...

The thing imperialist russians and their fans hate the most is evidence that russia is weak and slowly losing. It drives them nuts. Telling them russia is a hated aggressor that commits war crimes doesn't bother them because they know it to be true and perceive it as a desirable sign of strength.

For funsies I look at FlightRadar24 now and then. It's a strange hobby, I know. I'm not sure what to make of this flight tonight: apparently an Iran Air flight, from Mashhad, heading somewhere... currently over Saudi Arabia.

Congress legislated a prohibition on withdrawing any troops from Europe or Asia without an extensive study of costs/consequences and an assurance by the Secretary that it’s in U.S. national interests — neither condition has been met. It’d be great if Congress would exercise its authority.

Come ON

Seriously?

On the same day as he chats with Putin -- a conversation lasting more than 1.5 hours -- President Trump declares an interest in potential reducing the number of troops in Germany.

In case anyone remains unclear about just how cozy Tehran and the Kremlin are... /1

The U.S. Has Killed Almost 190 People in Boat Strikes. Five more people have been murdered since Friday. We’re tracking them all, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Agreed.

Was it illegal under the UN Charter & international law? Yes. But was it also illegal under US domestic law? Also yes. But was it also a total strategic failure because they have no idea what they're doing & pretended other countries have no agency or domestic politics? Alas, sadly, also yes.

One can’t make peace without talking.

We murdered two more people in a boat today.

A section of an apartment building has collapsed in Dnipro after russian missile hit it. In the middle of the night, when people are at home. It's horrible, guys.

#OnObedience #OrgCulture #Profession

I wrote a thing... I tried here to lay out the basic principles of just war thinking and leave space for readers to decide for themselves how they apply to #Iran. /1 theconversation.com/just-war-has...

Seriously, @moderation.bsky.app? The cover art for a piece from First Things is too risqué to show? You're kidding, right? (Also, my apologies for misspelling... It's Edward Feser, not Fraser...)

Putting together a thread of really helpful pieces on how the just war tradition can help us think about the war in Iran... Edward Freser firstthings.com/does-just-wa... /1

God bless the overconfident novice. That is the starting point for my primer on Just War Theory in @wpr.bsky.social...and my critique of J.D. Vance's attempt to apply the theory. www.worldpoliticsreview.com/just-war-the...