“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

Yep, totally agree with this

☠️ The Economist: Russia lost 1% of its pre-war male population in Ukraine. In total, Russian losses in dead and wounded amounted to between 1 million and 1.35 million soldiers. Over the past three years, Russia has been able to occupy an additional 1.45% of Ukrainian territory.

1/ A Russian convict soldier has described the gruelling and deadly experience of serving in a 'Storm V' assault unit, from initial training, to facing swarms of Ukrainian drones, and being the only survivor of a bloody battle against dug-in and determined Ukrainian forces. ⬇️

❗️Footage of the destroyed train station in Fastiv, Kyiv region, is published by RBC-Ukraine.

❗️☢️ Zaporizhzhia NPP temporarily left without power supply, - IAEA Grossi stated that after a half-hour outage, the station was connected to a 330 kV line, but the 750 kV line still remains disconnected.

🤬 Russians mined the bodies of executed Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Kursk region, which made it impossible to evacuate them. This became known during the trial of a Russian soldier accused of shooting two Ukrainian prisoners of war in January of this year.

💔 Russians shoot Ukrainian serviceman dead while he was surrendering

Hey, all my MAGA brothers & sisters, please defend this. I dare ya. And btw, clearly Trump this time around is the “soft on crime” president. And it’s not even close.👇

Pentagon’s Signalgate report finds Pete Hegseth violated military policies

I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me!" she cries. "Why are you doing this to me?" Woman was dragged out of car, tackled to ground & handcuffed.

Trump: “Our economy is so hot” Our economy:

Ukrainian children abducted by Russia are being sent to military camps in North Korea. Legal expert Rashevska told U.S. Senate that a 12-year-old from Donetsk and a 16-year-old from Simferopol were taken to Songdowon camp, 9,000 km from home, exposed to militarized training and propaganda.

🇺🇸❗️The proposal the Americans brought to Moscow contained issues that the Ukrainians did not approve of being discussed. Today's meeting between the Ukrainian delegation, Witkoff, and Kushner in Miami will be a briefing from the Americans, — FT citing Ukrainian officials.

⚡️Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate.

🇺🇳 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding that the Russian Federation immediately return Ukrainian children

Some background! I wrote about Tennessee in 2023, asking whether it's still a democracy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I haven’t seen this label used before but it seems apt. The video contains a good discussion of what “science populism” is and how it’s harmful. youtu.be/sQnOFGWsXNM?...

❗️Moscow received 4 more (!) documents in addition to Trump's original 28-point settlement plan in Ukraine, - Ushakov.

Maybe wake him up before you talk to him #DonYawn

Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

How does Russia get away with this shit but for Ukraine, it's an escalation???

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

BREAKING: Former NATO Commander Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud - Trump Is Beholden To Putin, Not America open.substack.com/pub/demwinsm...

Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time

It’s not a stretch to say that my former political party is now firmly pro-Russia/pro-Putin. Not a stretch at all. It’s traitorous, but it’s true. Look, the leader of my former political party works for Putin. He’s on Putin’s side. Always has been. And the party has followed him.

They aren't working on behalf of Americans, just for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Vladimir Putin calls the leaked Bloomberg tape of Steve Witkoff and Yuri Ushakov conspiring to manipulate Trump "criminal espionage." He didn't want anyone to know that he was doing this - and he's visibly angry about it.

🤔🇺🇸🇪🇺 The US is no longer an ally of Europe, but a potential “opponent” or “threat,” — El País Europe is too dependent on America in the military, technological and economic spheres, and this limits its autonomy. To change the situation, the EU has two ways:

I think this is true but let's not forget that he's also done a great job destroying Russia.

Russia bombs civilians, Ukraine bombs military/industry targets. Is everyone seeing the difference?

⚡️1 killed, 11 injured in Russian drone attack on Kyiv Oblast. One person was killed and 11 people were injured in Vyshhorod, as Russia launched a drone attack on Kyiv Oblast overnight on Nov. 30.

⚡️Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization'. Russia’s Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch an “undesirable organization” on Nov. 28, effectively banning the group from operating in the country.

⚡️Update: 2 killed, 38 injured in Russia's mass attack on Kyiv as rescue operations end. A child was among the victims injured in the capital by Russia's overnight mass missile and drone attack, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported after rescue operations concluded on Nov. 29.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry called the attack a “horrific massacre” and said women and children were among those killed. https://to.pbs.org/4pJcYBH

New blog post - Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions www.hanselman.com/blog/automat...

🤯 "Shahed" hit a high-rise building in Kyiv, one of the apartments caught fire…

❗️ Kyiv, high-rise building on fire. Massive missile and UAV attack on the capital.

“Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This makes me so angry and I'm not even Ukrainian They have to feel betrayed

What total BS

❗️SBU reported in absentia about suspicion four Russian servicemen who commanded the Grad strikes on the center of Sumy in June this year. Colonel Shchypitsyn, commander of the 30th motorized rifle regiment of 72nd division of the Leningrad District, was involved in organizing the attack.

This is the war he wants for oil, and to cancel the midterms…. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

⚡️ Explosion, possible drone strike reported in Grozny, Chechnya. Grozny is the capital of Russia's predominantly Muslim republic in the North Caucasus ruled by Vladimir Putin's ally, dictator Ramzan Kadyrov.

Putin's word or Putin's word in writing is garbage. Their promises are 100% worthless

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...