This undermines U.S. national security. Appeasing dictators never achieves long-term peace. It didn’t work in 1938. And it won't work now. We need to turn up the pressure on Russia. History will not be forgiving to those who enable Putin’s war crimes. Nor should it be. 3/3

(CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris. hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...

The US is literally the only NATO country that's ever used Article 5. Everyone else showed up. Like... what are you even taking about???

Very good piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social, the author of Surviving Autocracy, who left Russia in 2013 as the authoritarian hammer really started coming down, and moved to the United States. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

We seem to have normalised the Premier League's inability to conclude the Manchester City case. The years this thing has taken is pathetic. The longer it has taken the more people have forgotten the magnitude of the alleged offences. Time passing has had a kind of watering down affect on allegations

Senegal win the Africa Cup of Nations. Pape Gueye's stunning extra-time strike proved the difference. Does that tell the full story? Not even slightly. A questionable penalty decision in Morocco's favour, Senegal's walk-off and fury, Brahim Diaz's failed panenka. That just scratches the surface.

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

I don't think "oil" is a sufficient explanation for what's going on. Rubio being a neocon when it comes to Latin America feels more important.

Why the suburbs of Paris are the world's biggest hotbed of football talent. Beautiful short film by Copa 90, with brief appearance by me www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4wM...

Seit 10 Jahren reagiert Europa auf jede neue Trump-Absurdität gleich: Empörung, Schockstarre. Statt weiter auf den US-Autounfall zu starren, müssen wir endlich lenken. Wir wissen längst: Trump denkt nur an sich. Zeit, dass Europa selbst handelt.👇 (Clip auf DE mit EN Untertiteln)

"Vague assurances are not security; they are illusions, and illusions in great power politics are fatal." lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins. My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains

Great overview of a good idea. People often forget how critical terrain is in war amongst all the hype around tech and drones. Good luck trying to push a mechanised ground force through a large area of bogland.

I'm very pleased to announce that my debut feature documentary, The Battle For Kyiv, will be released on Apple TV, Amazon Prime & Google Play on June 6th 2025 in association with BylineTV. Available in all territories and countries these platforms operate in except for Russia.

Don’t they realize that they sound like Holocaust deniers? When you go to this extent of denialism, you’ve totally gone off the deep end. There is no hope in your case.

Slightly diminish a band Jane's Craving

Good time to re-up my essay from a few years ago on what Russia's slaughter of Indigenous Alaskans can tell us about Moscow's designs on Ukraine (and elsewhere): www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I have signed this petition alongside more than 200 of my colleagues demanding Israel allow the foreign press into Gaza immediately with no restrictions. I urge my colleagues to join me in signing it below: freedomtoreport.org

Gaza: ‘We have 6,000 trucks of aid we can’t bring in’ says UNRWA www.channel4.com/news/gaza-we...

This is so surprisingly pleasing to see. Hope it is as longlasting as it seems.

A message from @philippeauclair.bsky.social The reality we at Josimar face is stark. Should we fail to raise 50 000 euro by 1 July, the world’s only investigative media dedicated solely to football will cease to exist. josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...

Josimar is a small sports focused journalism organisations that Bellingcat has partnered with on previous projects, like our 1xBet investigation. We'd like to do more, but Josimar needs your support, details of why and how to do that are here: josimarfootball.com/2025/06/03/a...

If I’m a foreign government right now—the one lesson that I’ve learned at this point is that there is no durable agreement to be made with this administration. Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.

America’s policies towards russia is a multi-decade failure; but what’s happening now is a disaster of epic proportions: projection of fealty & weakness — a betrayal of national honor! How long will 🇺🇸 be so publicly disrespected by a wanted war criminal? thehill.com/opinion/inte...

It’s never been clearer that US aid for the Israeli military is morally indefensible, and there’s never going to be a better time than right now to stop defending it.

New pope breaks with Francis to support Kyiv and ceasefire push https://www.ft.com/content/c933d769-9791-43e4-abae-9f9b495ccde1

Papal naming trends 600s- Boniface popular 1700s- Clement is the name to adopt Early 1900s- Pius is trending 2025- Popey McPopeface I #conclave

EU microchip strategy ‘deeply disconnected from reality’ say official auditors

Jeg har svart Asle Toje i Aftenposten. Han forveksler antiamerikanisme med antitrumpisme. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Books 2025. 1. Odd Arne Westad-The Cold War

"When you asked me to identify five books, you said that I couldn’t put my own on the list. That makes things a little bit difficult"

‘All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

You know? I still find it remarkably easy to remain patriotic throughout this administration. Trump and the MAGA crowd are a repudiation of every single civic ideal that the United States is meant to represent—and I see no reason to stop believing in those ideals because of them.

Erdoğa just threw down the gauntlet—Turkey backs Ukraine’s FULL territorial integrity. Turkey ain’t just some side player in this. They control the Black Sea. They control NATO’s southern flank. And now, Erdoğan is making it clear: Russia’s land grab is not up for negotiati

One of the greatest tricks that Donald Trump and Elon Musk ever pulled is to convince millions of people that DOGE is about government efficiency. It's about narcissistic, resentful destruction: The Death of Government Expertise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Europe needs to stop hyperventilating and start actually taking concrete action to weaken Russia and strengthen Ukraine before negotiations start.

They could call it the Make America Great Leap Forward.

A deadly serious bureaucratic-legal question. What formal position does Musk currently hold & what authority does he have (“the president told me” doesn’t count) to shut down federal agencies & raid their secure material? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Advocates of a “multipolar international order” see the world as a giant school playground with one bully in it. Their solution to this problem is: “what if there were three bullies instead?”

Between the tariffs, the idiotic threats to Canadian and Danish sovereignty, the destruction of USAID, and the undermining of NATO, it's hard to see what the Trump administration would have done differently in their first 2 weeks if their aim were to destroy US power and global influence.

Firing independent watchdogs is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Removes another obstacle to corruption and abuse of power www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...