There's something about the Pentagon's framing here that just seems... unsporting. Like, we're at war with them. Politics aside, it feels like complaining that the other sports team is trying to score touchdowns. If you didn't want that to happen, you should not have played the game.

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This from Jan Gerson's piece on Alberta separatism captures the distinction between democratic conservative frustration and far right radicalisation www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...

Just use the F slur already this is taking all day.

Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was abused, starved, tortured, and humiliated in Russian captivity. Then they fractured her skull and stabbed her to death.

I don’t think it’s a great use of time or energy to pretend you can reform the president‘s personal militia

(getting convicted of a crime i committed) The government is being weaponized against me

For years, the Kremlin has seen Europe as easily manipulated and defeated because it's terrified by the prospect of any risk or hardship. The UK govt's shameful decision on Russian energy will confirm that view. For that reason, it's dangerous not just for Ukraine but for the UK.

This is pretty embarrassing (for Wired).

Honestly this is also all completely made up. The average Russian citizen knows little to nothing about the Time of Troubles and regards it as distant ancient history, not unlike if you asked an English person how the Tudors affect him today.

OMG. To claim that russians are uniquely/deeply fearful of invasion due to their history is to whitewash russian aggression. When will people realize this? Every old European city has been torched/invaded multiple times. Europe managed to build peace. Ru is attacking its neighbour AS WE SPEAK!

As @sashaetkind.bsky.social says, the idea that everyone thought Russia's failure in Ukraine was "unthinkable" is ludicrous. Eight days after the start of the full-scale invasion, for example, I wrote this thread on Twitter:

“That once seemed unthinkable.” Talk for yourself guys, and apologize —you the so called Russia experts deemed it unthinkable. Many others, including me (here and elsewhere), predicted that since 2022

Ghouls

Sir, this is a Wendy's, even though we can't call it that because they withdrew from the Russian market in 2014.

CASE DISMISSED

About 20 times a day, this philosopher (?) tweets out the thoughts of a ninth-grade pseudo-intellectual stoner.

Guided by vibes

As far as I can tell, a map-drawer can now say, "I am going to split this community of black voters into separate districts, not because I intend to dilute the votes of black Americans, but rather because black Americans vote Dem and I want to dilute the power of Dem voters," and it's just fine

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Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

After Trump returned to WH, Ukraine held out hope of winning him over. But Trump revealed his affection for Putin again and again, halted American aid to Kyiv, insulted Ukrainian leaders, pressured Ukraine to cede territory. Now, Kyiv appears to have given up on US - The Atlantic

Holy shit. The grandpa I never met lasted just months after diagnosis, what I would’ve done to have met him. Science is amazing.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

This is a former Fidesz party member

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

just in time for pride month, happy to announce I designed the Hot Dog flag

A lot of people are going to miss or not realize how important this story is. The fact that Iran says they laid mines in the Straits makes going back to normal a process, not a decision.

CBS’s excuse for why it killed the investigation into CECOT was that it wasn’t original and news-distinctive enough.

Doing my part this Easter

UCLA WINS ITS FIRST NCAA NATIONAL TITLE IN PROGRAM HISTORY WITH A DOMINANT 79-51 WIN OVER SOUTH CAROLINA! #MarchMadness

Lot of recalled products down there.

The lesson is not anything to do with records keeping compliance or whatever, the lesson is that the actual story the news media wanted to run was "[NEGATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON]" and they tested out a bunch of stuff to fit into that hole before they settled on EMAILS

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Fun fact, most catholics get yelled at by the pope exactly zero times in their whole lives but Censures Georg here has managed it like five times in six years

some extremely basic follow-up questions the press are failing to ask: - what actions did the admin take to prepare other countries to take on these responsibilities? - what discussions have the admin held with these countries to secure the strait? - who is responsible for coordinating efforts?

speak loudly and ask if you can borrow somebody else’s stick

hungary is certainly a model for the american right in the sense that it is a prime example of people who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven

russian troops invaded Bucha on February 27, 2022. The city remained under occupation for 4 weeks. In those 4 weeks, over 500 innocent people were executed by the invaders. 4 years ago, Ukraine’s defenders liberated Bucha. Remember those who didn’t live to see the day🕯️

Robert “Madyar” Brovdi’s drone unit has an ecosystem of 15 interlocking functions, from jamming to surveillance, mine-laying and explosive production. It is a concept NATO generals have yet to grasp, says the Ukrainian commander

This is so brazenly corrupt.

Insane

we joke around a lot on here but if we commit airborne troops some of them are going to die and that's fucking awful

my guess is that twitter engineers stumble into a simple hotfix that threatens to destroy the entire MAGA grifter economy requiring the boss to swoop in and save them maybe once a month on average

I guess we declare and then ignore energy ceasefires just like the Russians do

maybe im doing it wrong but i feel like the various crises of 2026 have revealed the limitations of this platform for me. twitter was always invaluable to me in chaotic times bc you had a lot of subj matter expert weirdos coming out of the woodwork. just dont feel like there's a much of that here rn

Ukraine's MFA spokesperson Tykhy says Iran threatening Kyiv while supplying Russia with drones for years and citing UN Article 51 is like a serial killer justifying murder by quoting the penal code.