Here’s Zelenskyy, freely walking in Kupyansk that Russia claimed to have occupied. So when we talk about “occupied territories in exchange for peace”, what exactly are we talking about.

Putin sits in Moscow claiming that his armies have taken a town that the Ukrainian president is personally visiting. There are cowardly tyrants and there are courageous elected leaders and it is good to know the difference.

This is what you see when you die

Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats: in 2001: 32 in 2003: 34 in 2005: 40 in 2007: 44 in 2009: 39 in 2011: 32 in 2013: 33 in 2015: 34 in 2017: 49 in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999) in 2021: 48 in 2023: 51 2025, i.e. this week: 64

"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This is just a delight. I could watch it 100 times.

Europe may not hold the cards. But Europe holds the eggs

I discovered Reddit-

the view from london:

This will make trump angry too, I love it so much

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

I got rich because when I was broke I had nothing to lose. So I took risks and built companies. I became a billionaire because I was fortunate enough to start another tech company when the internet boom hit. I stayed one because I realized that stocks don’t go up forever and hedged my holdings

A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. By @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

100 years ago Saturday the NYT ran a story that did not hold up well at all. www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/a...

Progressives have repeatedly harassed the shit out of me for taking my husband’s last name because of their bizarre obsession with race. Do you want to know the real reason I took my husband’s last name? My adopted family disowned me when I came out. Just threw me away like a piece of trash.

After Asma al Assad appeared on the cover of Vogue, the great Clive James wrote this poem. Thanks to ⁦‪⁦‪@mattfrei‬⁩ for reminding me.

"Hiring him to run health policy for this country is like hiring an arsonist to head the fire department." A column on RFK Jr. by @monacharen.bsky.social. A public service, this column. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-one...

A Cuban political prisoner has been tortured to death. This has been going on for 65 years. How much longer will it continue? The latest victim is Manuel de Jesús Guillén. Brave soul. english.elpais.com/internationa...

Putin's humiliation continues, as Russian and Assadist forces are now in full retreat mode, with rebels taking control of the second largest city in the country with ease, Aleppo. Rebels are expected to consolidate forces for a press on to Damascus and Russia's military base.

If we extrapolate the current war against Ukraine to World War II (as we often do), at this point, Hitler has invaded Poland but suffered defeats near Warsaw and Krakow, lost Poznan and has been locked in grueling battles for almost three years over completely devastated border districts.

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