Procol Harum’s Denmark performance of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” is regarded as one of the greatest live renditions of the song ever recorded. The band performed with a 72-piece orchestra and a 50- to 70-member choir. Edited for format. Watch the full version on YouTube.

Etsy is a great way to support 🇺🇦and 🇺🇦 businesses like @olgapatluyk.bsky.social You can set a filter on Etsy to “ships from Ukraine” & then buy all kinds of stuff (not only 🇺🇦souvenirs, which are awesome too) Items will arrive very nicely gift packaged (for me in WI it usually takes 1-2 weeks)

I don’t think people need to be “crucified” for thinking Platner changed or whatever but I do think they should engage in serious self-reflection and humility, such as not referring to themselves as being “crucified”

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

this is knicks game 3 all over again isn’t it the trump curse lives!

Another painful dawn in Kyiv after yet another nightmare night. Russia launched dozens of missiles at the Ukrainian capital, killing ten people and injuring more than 50. Rescue efforts are ongoing at the sites. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview

Looks like it was parts of the processing units that were hit in the Omsk attack, which is a much bigger problem (for Russia) than storage tanks getting hit.

We have reached the stage where the President of the USA has to bully the President of FIFA for an hour and a half….to be more corrupt.

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

👇 Exactly! Targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians is an inhumane, stupid (see academic literature & experience of past wars), and failing (all evidence shows it has increased Ukrainian resolve) strategy, but that has been Russia’s strategy since the early days of this full scale invasion.

Russia hasn’t changed its overall goal to destroy 🇺🇦 sovereignty & nationhood, despite massive costs. Also Russia’s strategy of brutally targeting 🇺🇦 civilians to get them to give up, despite that obviously not working, has also not changed. Russia will stop only when it is stopped militarily.

Midweek update released (mostly free with a small section for PS). Starts actually with what could be the most extraordinary act of self-harm in US intelligence history and then talks about the US-Iran War. Otoh the US is so weak it might leave (a good thing). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Open corruption: $2 billion just last year and not even bothering to hide it

A man cries over his niece after Russia bombed Kharkiv . She got her diploma today. There’s a graduation cap near to the body , torn . Monday.

I will call this photo ‘Home , finally, after 4 long years ‘ . Today 160 Ukrainian defenders returned home .after POW exchange between Russia and Ukraine. They were kept prisoners in Russian captivity since 2022

Trump's reversals on Iran are so extreme, the outcomes so ludicrous, that if it were a TV show, no sensible screenwriter would attempt to sell any of this as a coherent story. But it's a lot more dangerous than fiction. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

@uwpolisci.bsky.social is hiring in environmental politics: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Very interesting outcome in the standoff between Ukraine and Belarus. I wonder if there is more to the story

Wonderful story about the real meaning of parenting and family and making a difference in a young person’s life.

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From my newest op-ed: "don’t fear Russian defeat. There are geopolitical forces far worse than fleeting uncertainty."

The bombing of the refinery in Moscow is really important as much for the massive smoke as the underlying damage. It is a highly visible symbol to the people in Moscow, which cannot be hidden by propaganda, that the war is costly to Russia and it’s coming to even to the them.

It’s hard to keep track of all the ways this flimsy bilateral MOU is worse than the multilateral finalized JCPOA, but this article has the highlights:

Moscow oil refinery on fire after ‘large-scale’ Ukrainian drone strike www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

None of this makes any sense, except as desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat. On the most important questions of war and peace, the president of the United States seems to be losing his grip on reality itself. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Meanwhile in Russia: host Andrey Norkin suggested targeting black Americans who visit Russia — except for Candace Owens, since Moscow considers her to be a tool of Russia's soft power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4UH...

Horrible. Russia attacks one of Ukraine's most important religious and cultural sites

Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

Taylor Swift reversed the Knicks jinx

The clock is ticking for russia in Crimea.

The European Union and its new sanction package is banning any person that served in the Russian military from the start of the 🇺🇦 war from entering the European Union. The sanctions include fisheries/90 lenders/crypto/Oil tankers/$44 barrel cap on Russian oil/military tech/metals/import restrictions

Europe's big three set out five terms to end the Russo-Ukrainian war: a ceasefire first, today's front line as the basis for talks, and Russia's money frozen until Moscow pays, per their statement. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/08/b...

Trump has lied about states that count slow. States that count fast. States that have little mail. States that are all mail. He invented reasons why Cruz didn’t beat him in Iowa, made up false claims about people being into New Hampshire—none of which were about a slow count.

This is a preview of the November elections: If Republicans win, then they accept the results. If Democrats win, Republicans, led by Trump, will call it fraud and they will not accept the results. So far there is no evidence that Trump is willing to accept any election losses.

Soviet tactic: Not only, don't report damaging information but also use various tactics to change the numbers, e.g. release people who are near death to hospitals, and then claim they did not die in detention

More egregious US Nat security threats: Rodney Cook, Trump‘s ballroom commissioner, tasked with building the ballroom, and the secure bunker under the new East wing, with obvious national security concerns, is in Russia, leading the US delegation at Putin‘s St Petersburg forum:

The Ukrainian decision to double down on drone warfare, from the battlefield, to mid range and long range strike, and not to draft all of its young men to make infantry, will be seen by historians as one of the most important decisions in 19th-21st century warfare.

How desperately did John Cornyn want to win the favor of Donald Trump? This desperate: Just a few days ago, he introduced a bill to designate a major U.S. highway, “‘Interstate 47’ in “Honor of President Trump” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

“The Pentagon has spent months positioning the troops and weapons needed for the U.S. to launch a military attack on Cuba — all it needs is a final go-ahead from Donald Trump.” www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

The Susan Collins-ization of the GOP: Express weak disagreement “It is very sad and unsettling” and then go right on doing nothing at all to stop Trump from destroying the country and wreaking havoc on the world: (gift link)

100% agree👇

You know Ru's concern is disingenuous and weaponized because the russian state doesn't respect individual rights of any kind and is more than willing to kill russian speakers in Ukraine. It's like the Taliban claiming they are concerned about women's rights in the West…

🇬🇧 An RAF jet carrying UK defence secretary John Healey had its GPS signal jammed for the full three-hour flight home from Estonia, near the Russian border, - The Telegraph Russia is suspected of being behind the electronic interference.

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

Playing tonight www.youtube.com/live/g862hiq...

Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.

Yay for the Watertown band doing the right thing!

💔😭🕯️Former hockey and floorball player Yurii Orlov was killed by Russia in Kyiv today. By preliminary information, his girlfriend was also killed alongside Yurii. Deepest condolences. The death toll from the Russian strike on Kyiv has risen to 8 people.

The search and rescue operation in Kyiv after the russian attack has been completed. Twenty-four people were killed, including three children. Forty-eight people were injured.