Kharkiv tonight

💔 The number of wounded in Kharkiv has increased to 43, — OVA

The funny thing, of course, is that not reading/badly misreading a paper, dragging it, continuing to double down when people point out your mistakes, then saying how mad you're not getting is classic philosopher behavior

I want to remind everyone that Russia is abducting Ukrainian children and some experts believe this amounts to genocide. My short summary of Russia’s actions over the past 11 years.

Best sign of the day

One thing donald Trump does do is expose people for being absolutely disgusting opportunistic snakes with no allegiance to ideology or America. First Rudy, now Marco...it's enlightening.

Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 Thousands of Ukrainian children remain abducted by Russia, torn away from their families, homes, and homeland. Today, we launch the international Easter campaign #ChildrenAreNonNegotiable to remind the world about at least 20,000 Ukrainian kids forcibly transferred by Russia.

Sumy wasn’t a mistake. It was murder, it was a war crime. And unless Europe steps up, it will go unpunished.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

Witkoff said that "putin wants peace", that’s why there is dozens of drones flying all around the city hitting residential buildings right now. Strange interpretation of peace #UkrainianView

Day 110. The largest protest in weeks, triggered by added anger as the dictatorship seized funds aiding protesters, regime prisoners, & their families. “You cannot silence SOLIDARITY!” Without new, free and fair Parliamentary elections, there’s no resolution. #GeorgiaProtests

One second from every scene in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.

The ability to control mass party opinion this directly is unlike anything I’ve really seen in my time covering politics.

One way to commemorate the end of the third year of Russia’s senseless, criminal war against Ukraine is to read the work of Ukrainians about it. Vika did not live to see the publication of this book, since she was killed by a Russian missile. But we can see her in her words.

Musk and Trump despise Zelensky because they know they'll never earn the level of respect he has—and deep down, they realize he is a hundred times the leader they’ll ever be

Hey foreign friends, there will be rallies in support of Ukraine this weekend all over the world. If you are able, please attend one of them. There's a link where you can find a rally closest to you. #UkrainianView uaworldmap.ukrainianworldcongress.org/en

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. Not necessarily in line with our own interest. This plan must be prepared now. There’s no time to lose.

If European leaders fail to do anything significantly, tangibly useful to advance Ukrainian victory in response to the Trump Administration, then they have zero right to complain. An existential war for the future of Europe is underway. Play hardball to win or get off the pitch.

"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

Once seized from Finland, Karelia now is Russia's most miserable region. Meanwhile, Finland itself continues to rank among the happiest countries in the world. This is the Russian way: invade a country, sacrifice 150,000 lives, seize a piece of land, and turn it into a decaying wasteland.

🧵1/6 Europe won't survive sleeping through another wake-up call. We should jump out of bed and throw on a shirt. We should do what we can, with what we’ve got. And we’ve got a lot. Here's how to step things up as the US steps down:

The official US position is now that Russia deserves to get something for its aggression, and Ukraine should concede its negotiating position in advance rather than start high—a "high" that's simply in line with international law, BTW—and be willing to negotiate down in exchange for concessions.

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

A petition in support of the School of English, Communication, and Philosophy at Cardiff, who are being threatened with job cuts that would be devastating for staff, students, and the university

It’s all theatrics and performative. Trump creates the problem or challenge. Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge. Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages. Rinse and repeat. Theatrics. That’s it.

#ClassConsciousness 101

Weapons change, cities change, but the outcome never does — death, destruction, pain. Today, it was a russian air bomb. Today, it was Kherson.

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

The 19-year-old Polish volunteer soldier Filip Antosiak has been killed in battle against the russian Army near Pokrovsk. Filip left his college studies in Cambridge in the UK to go and join the fight against the russian war criminals.

Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts are already going too far and have caused Native Americans to be questioned and detained.

The worst people in the country have won for the next four ears, from the oligarchs offering their submission like feudal lords to the drunken gambling addicted morons who engage in casual harassment of anyone different from them.

Looking forward to the right-wing media spending the next 24 hours explaining how an obvious Nazi salute really wasn't a Nazi salute, you stupid libs.

1/6 Self-Serving Cowards: For those with significant business ties to china, Ukraine and Taiwan are nothing more than a nuisance. This perspective sheds light on why the tech bros in power in the US support russia

1/12 Masters of Double Standards: South African oligarchs in power in the US often criticize the US and its allies while praising china and russia. Where does this hypocrisy come from?

In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce an American podcaster, Darryl Cooper (@martyrmade). He’s best-known for “Martyr Made”, a history podcast that provides a strongly revisionist and biased analysis on historical events such as the Revolution of Dignity and World War II. 1/22

The Mump Oligarchy – A Glossary 1/10. Mump regime. Musk plus Trump. Mu...mp. The real centibillionaire and the fake rich person in the proper order.

According to propagandist Solovyov, Finland, Warsaw, the Baltics, Moldova, and even Alaska should be "returned to the Russian Empire." They won't stop at Ukraine. The Russian imperialists are insatiable.

Russian paramilitaries continue to commit human rights atrocities in the Central African Republic and no one is holding them accountable.

This is someone who has a better grasp of who Elon is👇🏼

Over 2+ years of working on a biography of Elon Musk, I've learned that his ambitions are significantly grander than anyone realizes. He wants to be the first trillionaire ever. He wants to be the most famous human who ever lived. He wants to rule the world. He wants to live forever. All literally.

Reports that Bashar al-Assad on plane to do Joe Rogan’s podcast in desperate attempt to save his regime