Putin claimed to have conquered Kupyansk

🇺🇦 Kupyansk is being cleared, the Russian group has lost the ability to hold its positions, — head of communications department of Joint Forces Group, Trehubov. There are about 50 Russian servicemen in the city. Some of them are surrendering, in particular, foreign mercenaries.

Two Russian officers accused of torturing Ukrainians die in a Moscow explosion united24media.com/latest-news/...

"Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment & threats have changed their lives. More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges & their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live." www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

What our leading public health officials think

The "free speech warriors" continue to push for censorship

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Η σπουδαία @anneapplebaum.bsky.social "γευματίζει" με την @kathimerini.gr: www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/geym...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

"free speech warriors"

The irrationality of the war on science that the Trump Administration has been waging manifests as indiscriminate termination of individual projects and whole lines of inquiry based solely on "bad words" appearing in their descriptions. #WarOnScience @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/u...

A portrait of the kind of science we are losing, and for no reason www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

"A place of leisurely afternoons, exquisite paintings, and long conversations in shabby Baroque rooms...." From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com

this was....predictable

Who chose Steve Witkoff? Putin www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

"A place of leisurely afternoons, exquisite paintings, and long conversations in shabby Baroque rooms...." From my essay on Henry James's Venice in @theatlantic.com

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. No newspaper on the planet would consider “attended the same dinner event 15 years ago” as a “conflict” requiring disclosure. I could not even recall the names of 99% of the people who were at all the conferences & dinners I’ve been to over that timespan.

this is illegal

I also have been assuming that the primary purpose of this conflict is domestic

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

Another gem from my archives: on January 31, 2022, state TV mocked US Defense officials for predicting that Russia will use ballistic missiles against Ukraine. State TV host Olga Skabeeva asked how many minutes it will take for Russia to defeat Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ68...

Meanwhile in Russia: inspired by the Trump administration’s anti-European stance, state TV host Vladimir Solovyov predicted that Russian and American combat troops will jointly storm European cities. youtu.be/3PWkEmc0we0?...

A bribe masquerading as a movie.

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

For a change of pace...I wrote about Henry James's Venice. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Of course

"No similarity between the clear-thinking, self-governing stocks that sired the American people and this stream of irresponsible and broken wreckage that is pouring into the lifeblood of America the social and political diseases of the Old World." Sound familiar? newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Zelensky *cannot* withdraw his troops and cede territory. His army won't do it. The public won't accept it.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Everyone in this admin, from the president on down, rushes to social media to put things out rather than act responsibly and prudently. Always looking to declare victory while seeking praise.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Worse

Zelensky *cannot* withdraw his troops and cede territory. His army won't do it. The public won't accept it.

Very good @nytimes.com investigation of crypto deregulation and who benefits. The next wave of stories will be about the consumers who were ripped off www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

"Tincher [a US citizen] has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours, where she saw about seven other detainees." www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

👀 Akron chemical plant in Veliky Novgorod.

Russia's advance in Ukraine is slower than virtually every major campaign of the past century, reports WSJ. After nearly 4 years of full-scale war, Moscow still hasn't taken Donetsk province—a target since 2014. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/12/w...

‼️👀 The remains of the occupiers in Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region are surrounded: Khartiya has successfully stabilized the situation in this area. Kindrashivka, Radkivka and part of northern Kupyansk have been liberated, cutting off the enemy's supply lines.

They just don't want anyone traveling to the US for any reason at all