The Business of Despair - INPACT has received lists of African nationals enrolled in the Russian army as well as African KIA on the battlefield. Today we release a report investigating these lists but also deep diving into recruitment networks.

Le Business du Désespoir - INPACT a reçu des listes de ressortissants africains enrôlés dans l'armée russe, ainsi que des listes de soldats africains tués au combat.Nous publions aujourd'hui un rapport analysant ces listes et menant une enquête approfondie sur les réseaux de recrutement.

Someone who is NOT ME is doing this in Columbia Road in Washington DC and I love it very much.

🧵Nouvelle enquête: la face cachée des Maisons Russes franchisées en Afrique Retrouvez notre rapport: alleyesonwagner.org/2025/12/12/d...

The Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. It’s a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USA…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

CIR's Eyes on Russia project now has content available in Ukrainian. Just head over to our articles page and switch the language in the top right corner to access the newly available translation of our article on the impact of drone warfare in Kherson. More translations to follow.

Очі на Росію (Eyes on Russia), проєкт Центру інформаційної стійкості (Centre for Information Resilience), тепер має контент українською мовою.

Legal Flaws in the Trump Administration’s Notice to Congress on “Armed Conflict” with Drug Cartels By @martylederman.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/121844/trump...

In just the past day, we learned that Bulgaria will cut off Russian pipeline gas to Hungary; Hungary will purchase liquified natural gas from France and pipeline natural gas from Turkmenistan Pressure works! 👀 👀

I thought I had found indications of a targeted GNSS jamming attack against president von der Leyen's aircraft this Sunday. Then I disproved my own hypothesis. Here's how! This is common in my work, I usually don't show it because it takes a lot of effort to explain also 0-results

‼️ “The Kremlin is lying again—the hole in the budget is twice as big, and there’s nothing left to fill it.” 🍿 youtu.be/fggfBgyxa1g

A bipartisan coalition has joined forces to push aggressive new sanctions on Russia and believe the souring relationship between President Trump and Vladimir Putin has created a new opening.

“The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law,” Aziz Huq argues—a dramatic change in the way that Supreme Court dissents work.

🇪🇺 EU approves one of its "strongest" sanctions packages against Russia

Just spent two days discussing how/whether the Euro-Atlantic security community continues to hold together and in what form. Despite all the thoughtful analysis, you have to come back to the problem that its most powerful state is headed by someone who writes stuff like this.

This is just magnificent. Absolutely perfect. @thedailyshow.com

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

Things could get very ugly very quickly. And folks like Senator Cassidy, who allowed this to happen, have a unique responsibility to try and stop it—if that’s even possible at this juncture.

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video. Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

Americans take to the streets to defend their democracy & & rule of law — & try to take back American identity The ideology of “thin blue line” is nearing culmination But it was originally meant as a warning against oppression by state violence. Read to the end: www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...

Ukrainian refugees boosted Poland’s GDP by 2.7% last year while not increasing unemployment or pushing down wages, finds a report by the UN refugee agency and Deloitte. "Whoever thinks refugees are a burden on the economy should think again," says @unhcr.org.

🚨 💥 2025 is the first time EVER that the liquid assets in Russia’s savings account, the National Wealth Fund, has fallen below the budget deficit. 🎉 🎊 The difference in rubles is even more pronounced as the currency strengthens.

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

Al Gore destroyed the orange cheeto. #USDemocracy

NEW: Russia's refusal to give Ukraine its memorandum with its terms for a peace settlement before Ukrainian and Russian delegations met in Istanbul on June 2 ensured that the meeting was largely unproductive and further protracted the negotiation process. More ⬇️(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar060225

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

The sharp-eyed reader will notice that well-documented Russian gunrunning freighter LADY MARIIA enters NATO territorial waters repeatedly without signs of fear. I count 7 times along European coasts as she returns from delivering weapons to Congo. Not counting in English Channel or Öresund.

If even a fraction of this is true, it’s a remarkable achievement & a mark of how far Ukr deep strike has come. ‘An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit ‘more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases “in the rear of the Russian Federation”…’ kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

Reposting this in honor of the Republican Senators who have allowed Trump to usurp Congress's right to determine tariffs www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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After more than three years in Russian-occupied territory, a 15-year-old boy has been reunited with his father in Ukraine. His return is not only a family’s reunion but a step toward justice for children robbed of safety, freedom, and home. #BringUkrainianKidsBack

I wonder who did Kaliningrad exported potatoes to

GOOD FOR SCOTT PELLEY OF CBS NEWS. “Our sacred rule of law is under attack,” Pelley began his message. “Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses and into our private thoughts.”

If the sudden arrests and deportations of law-abiding immigrants checking in as ordered at government offices seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

NEW: Russian forces conducted one of their largest drone & missile strikes of the war against Ukraine on May 25 after three nights of record strikes. Russian strikes against Ukraine continue to disproportionately impact civilians & civilian infrastructure. Latest: isw.pub/UkrWar052625 More 🔽🧵1/6

NEW: Judge Murphy, sounding MAD, rejects the Trump admin's request to reverse his order to give due process to deportees on their way to South Sudan, saying that they are "manufacturing the very chaos they decry." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Someone please tell Trump that Memorial Day is not just another holiday to attack your political opponents, play golf, and laugh at veterans for being "losers and suckers." The meaning behind the Memorial Day federal holiday. 😳👇 tinyurl.com/37vazxx4

British security officials are investigating whether Russia may be involved in three arson attacks on properties connected to Sir Keir Starmer, according to senior Whitehall figures. www.ft.com/content/0fb7...

Russia has recently intensified its provocative actions at sea and in the air, according to Finnish officials.

"Into this age of American decline comes the first American pope."

[trapped inside a volcano] Me: Toddler: Me: Toddler: Be Careful... Me: *sigh* Toddler: The floor is lava...

This morning, at 11am, Judge Brian Murphy will resume a hearing on whether the Trump Adm violated his preliminary injunction by sending aliens to South Sudan (not their homes) without notice & opp to challenge. Here’s the backdrop: ... 1/12

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.