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The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that the Chernobyl sarcophagus, built to prevent radioactive release from the melted reactor and damaged in a drone strike this February, has "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability." www.iaea.org/newscenter/p...

My god, it really does just get worse and worse, which is really saying something given that it started as a war crime and murder

So gratuitously and pointlessly spiteful and petty.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

had a very nice time guest teaching on Chinese organizational culture and how it affects foreign policy tonight. a couple more slides since people enjoyed the last one.

The 🇻🇪 men murded as they floated holding onto their capsized boat after the Sept 2 secondary strike did not appear to have radio or other communications. Double tap by US troops took 40 minutes! 🧵 1/ edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

Putin in 2014: “Don’t believe those who claim that other regions will follow after Crimea. We don’t want Ukraine to be divided; we don’t need that.”

And so it begins.

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats

Just like that. After a week of frantic diplomacy and U.S. threats against Ukraine, Putin rejects ANY agreement. The only path forward is pressure on Russia to change this stance—sanctions and resumed US military assistance to Ukraine. Otherwise, the last 10 months were a waste.

This is Adriana, she was only 12-year-old. She died in hospital today. The girl was wounded on November 19, when Russia struck residential buildings in Ternopil with missiles. That same attack killed her mother🕯 This brings death tall in russian attack on Ternopil to 35.

Yes, russia is indeed rapidly rebuilding its missile arsenal. The problem is that the "solution" being offered — pausing the war & restoring economic ties with russia, giving it back most of frozen assets, lifting sanctions, rewarding for war crimes — will only accelerate that buildup.

Boo. 🤬

"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere." -- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing. Gift link (for 7 days) ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

what the fuck

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

Who do I call if I want to call the United States?

“We will work calmly with the United States and with all our partners. We count on our European friends. We remember: Europe stood with us. We believe: Europe will stand with us.” President Zelenskyy emphasized we all count on our partners to #StandWithUkraine. We all count on you💙 💛

Trump: “We had a meeting today that actually surprised me. He wants to see no crime. He wants to see housing being built. He wants to see rents coming down…I expect to be helping him, not hurting him…I think this mayor can do some things that are going to be really great.”

I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

A new investigation reveals that crypto giants like Binance and OKX processed hundreds of millions for drug cartels and North Korean hackers—even while under government monitoring. Read more 👇

The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism. The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

EU member states are set to drop the most controversial part of the draft CSA law: the encryption-breaking “chat-control” measures. It opens a real chance to tackle child abuse online while upholding privacy, writes EDRi’s Ella Jakubowska.

What a sad/incredibly important piece of journalism. If there is one thing we do as reporters--it's to document terrible moments in history that must be remembered, written down in detail & shared. Thank you Tyler Hicks and your team for this vital work. (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

that delicious embarrassment of being the last person to discover something great 😅🤩

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing. However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

AfD-Russlandreise zu Medwedew: "Voraus gingen @t-online.de-Recherchen zufolge monatelange Kontaktanbahnungen, in die auch das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht verstrickt ist. Russland will demnach auf die Abgeordneten einwirken, damit sie zentrale Projekte von Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz untergraben."

FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, said it will begin bestowing an annual peace prize. The inaugural award will be presented to an as-yet-unnamed honoree at the draw next month for the 2026 men’s World Cup.

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

8 km of retreat in just 2 months...! 😱 The fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history, at Hektoria Glacier (Antarctic peninsula) 📈🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Via Etienne Berthier

NEW: Jury selection begins in the trial of sandwich guy today. The prosecutors are accusing him of "throwing a meat sandwich" at "point-blank range." POINT-BLANK RANGE 💀 www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

This writer was just fired from Teen Vogue

For those asking for background - I was in Sudan twice this year and wrote about it www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Six months ago I wrote this post about “the next terrorist attack.” I republish it now (lightly updated) because my fear of this scenario has recently grown much greater. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...