I guess I am taking kind of a hard edge on this whole thing because the only way out is through. Consternating and sitting around admiring the crisis is a waste of emotional resources and energy in a time when they should be conserved

it might be a good idea to court this attention from abroad from some angles but strictly speaking from the perspective of managing attention resources, this isn't anyone's priority right now

given all the pressure on the opposition right now, it is not anyone's responsibility to *also* be someone that other countries have to "look to"

About 4,000 residential buildings in Kyiv are still without heat as of today, and around 60 percent of the entire Ukrainian capital remains without electricity, per Zelenskiy. t.me/V_Zelenskiy_...

I think the thing that made me uneasy about davos (besides, like Everything) is that I worry a lot about the political forces being decried in speeches today are not isolated to one country

mandami is actually kind of the perfect avatar for his wing of the party because none of the policymaking he has to do will require compromise or coalition building with radically different electeds and his entire constituency faces very similar living conditions and issues

I am in favor of a strong European response but it do be all hitting a little different reading this as a Ukrainian

in all cases except seizing Russian frozen assets on behalf of the suffering Ukrainians. in that case we are way too afraid the Russians will sue us

⚡️Russia attacks Ukraine with ballistic missiles, targeting Kyiv on freezing night amid energy crisis. At least one person in Kyiv has been injured, local authorities reported. Ukraine's Air Force has warned that Russian ballistic missiles are targeting multiple regions, including the capital.

I can't shake how it looks a little Soviet to me lol. Every time I see lots of little columns in a row I think of the VDNG in Kyiv.

because that’s the biggest problem facing democrats right now. how to talk about the biden years

I feel like it is not great optics for the greenland situation if we can't get some kind of protest together for it here in DC

We are deeply concerned about growing illiberalism in the United States. That’s why we are deepening economic ties with the very free and un-threatening country of China.” - Canada somehow

plot twist their costumer service says it should have been prepaid and that they’d fix it (still a deeply stupid system)

awesome. awesome

Ukrainians man www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

it does feel kind of remarkable how quickly it feels like walz lost the juice and seems unsuited for the moment...is that the feeling in Minnesota is well

there are many countries in the world where this is a typical part of political life unfortunately

cry harder

we have just really failed to make the case for trasatlanticism. it’s always just treated as self evident or intuitive that the current arrangement is good - and that has to be part of why so many people have lost the ability to see that.

sen shaheen on NPR this morning do an unfortunately unconvincing job responding to the greenland situation - empty platitudes about being “stronger with allies” without putting that in concrete terms are useless. and mentioning allied support in the WOT 29 years ago is enough

temporarily re-followed stancil to marvel

European offices at 3:30 PM be like

And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.

a very busy president kindly making time to talk to 2 senators who have delivered precisely 0 aid, legislative support, or even meaningful participation in the "peace negotiation" in the past year

nothing more symbolic of the weakening line held against russia globally than their athletes trickling back in

it has been below 0 for basically weeks in kyiv and there are multiple feet of snow on the ground

⚡️ UPDATE: Russia 'going all in' to destroy Ukraine's energy system as 70% of Kyiv left without power.

Aaaaaaahhh I love Ukraine

actually rushing to order our wedding rings even though our wedding is 6 months away before the threat to Fed independence pushes the price of gold up even higher

Made one of them there starter packs, of people I find fun, interesting, intelligent, etc. on this site. Mostly UK pols, a smattering of geopol stuff, Georgia and Ukraine. If you're not there, it's not because I hate you; I just didn't see your name before my dinner was ready. go.bsky.app/5z2cs4R

the use of the word “pleads” followed by a direct quote that threatens bloodshed is hilarious

predictably this is also being used as a cudgel to somehow beat “western feminism”. I’ve also seen the image juxtaposed with Mpls protestors, presumably to suggest protest is illegitimate unless it’s sexy

people talking about how twitter is still the best for breaking news when the only iran stuff I am seeing on there is a bunch of (probably fake/misattributed) photos of sexy women lighting cigarettes off a burning photo of a cleric

Kari Lake silenced all VOA broadcasts last March and recently brought back a token amount of people & programming in a few of the 48 languages, defying a federal judge’s order for restoration. And replacing balanced reporting with propaganda violates the Charter. (Public Law 94-350) #SaveVOA

this has got a of major features of contemporary ukrainian society - love of instagram, fancy highway rest stops, the ubiquity of religious ritual

only in ukraine: watching an instagram story of a priest blessing a highway rest stop dining area

lmao

imo he continues to impress www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

No this is not from a post apocalyptic movie. This is city of Dnipro in full blackout after Russia bombed all of the power stations in the region. A million people lives here, and , according to forecast, temperatures gonna drop soon to below -11

DHS now confirming in a. statement that an ICE officer did shoot and kill someone at the site of a raid.

I think a lot about the stacks of research reports and well meaning road-maps to recovery I have read over the past 3 years and in the end it is somehow BlackRock who will do this

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

The US has transformed from a (sorta) functioning democracy into a poster regime, a rogue troll state, fueled by internet clout. And the abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is likely just the beginning. www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...

that very specific crypto-republican writing cadence here. I can smell it

Walz is, of course, fully entitled to make this decision. But it feels like it will teach the right-wing conspiracy theory machine that their tactics absolutely work – and so they’ll amp them up and use them even more widely.

so....I guess they are giving him another shot to fundraise off of this by reminding everyone this was still going on? lol

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

for good reason I hope…

the posts from representatives of major dc think tanks “interpreting” the situation on linkedin this weekend were shocking in this respect