Today marks 15 years since a gunman tried to assassinate me. He shot 19 people and killed six. I almost died, and think of those who did every day.

Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace

E mentre i criminali di guerra russi attaccano edifici residenziali a Kyiv e la nostra pacifeccia intona l'articolo 11 (altro marcatore inconfondibile), ci tocca anche leggere le abituali cazzullate sul bon ton, che tradiscono problemi di comprensione del testo. www.corriere.it/lodicoalcorr...

OTD in 1944 Red Army completed operation to 'liberate' #Estonia, #Lithuania & #Latvia from Nazis. Who had 'liberated' them from us. Who had 'liberated' them from themselves.

Per capire cosa vuole davvero la Russia – e quali condizioni consentirebbero una pace stabile e duratura – al di là delle chiacchiere tutte italiane sulla “russofobia” e la “russofilia”, bisogna guardare la rete di deportazione e rieducazione dei bambini ucraini rapiti nei territori occupati.

Colpire deliberatamente i civili è sempre stata la specialità della casa (russa).

Still looking for those Trump sanctions on bad Russia…but can’t find them anywhere. I’m sure they must be here, Trump has threatened them so many times. Has anyone seen them?

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @laloalcaraz)

May 1945 did not mean the end of the war for Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The USSR occupied us, used armed force to crush the efforts to restore the statehood, and attempted to distort history, hiding crimes. Such "liberators" are called occupiers. #WordsMatter #HistoryMatters

Try to figure this out. 🥴

Another heartbreaking crime by the russian invaders; they are pure evil. Russia is a rotten fascist country.

In recent days Moscow and Pyongyang finally confirmed that North Korea had sent troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine (in Russia’s Kursk region). Time to recall what Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko told me last October when I raised the issue.

The Art of the Subdeal

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

Qui Krugman segna un rigore a porta vuota: un Segretario al Tesoro USA a un evento a porte chiuse, fornisce indicazioni market sensitive. È stato pure pagato per confessare che sono arrivati davanti a un muro? Fare insider trading è la loro missione? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cronyism-c...

We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

In a week your leaders will have forgotten about Palm Sunday. Just like they forgot about the hospitals, kindergartens, shopping centers, theatres & playgrounds we bombed.

La sindrome cinese. 🤭 (Aldo Torchiaro su Il Riformista)

Goldberg: The Secretary of Defense seems like a person who is unserious and is trying to deflect from the fact that he participated in a conversation on an unclassified messaging app that he probably shouldn’t have participated in

Collins: Secretary Hegseth says no one was texting war plans Goldberg: “That is a lie”

In any other administration of the past 80 years, the defense secretary and the national security advisor would, following an equivalent scandal, now resign.

First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired. Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.

Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️

Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.

It’s clear from this that the only difference between Steve Witkoff’s and Vladmir Putin’s views on the war in Ukraine is that Putin actually knows the names of all the five Ukrainian regions he wants to keep.

Trump's ceasefire means Ukraine stops hitting refineries so my army gets more fuel, in exchange for me bombing more of Ukraine's hospitals.

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

L'intelligenza artificiale ha il suo perché: nella trascrizione del podcast, Elly Schlein diventa Hellish Line 😈

In America today, a Black woman with a Harvard degree is a DEI hire, but a white man who dropped out of community college to get a talk show on Fox News is qualified to run a federal agency.

When Rand Paul is the voice of reason in your party, you’re in a bad place.

7 months ago today I bombed that kids hospital in Kiev. But as Trump says, "it's what anyone would do".

Yes, my economic plan will cause short term pain. But after that you won't feel the pain anymore because you'll be dead

OTD in 1944 the Red Air Force carpet bombed Narva, then Red Army used artillery to finish the job. As a deliberate act, hundreds of civilians died & thousands were made refugees. We then repopulated it with Russians. Imagine something like this happening in the 21st century.

Trump hasn’t made a single aggressive move against putin so far. Zero.

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

It’s becoming very clear that the Trump Admin never had any interest in serving as an honest broker to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The plan was always to join Russia and others in plundering the Ukrainian economy like a 17th century colonizer.

True words.

"A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard" ~ Mala Naidoo #Artwork by Yamada Kao Gram

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

I may need this on my bumper.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk believe their power is unchecked and unaccountable to Congress and the courts. The scary thing is at this point I’m not sure they’re wrong.

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.” Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity. The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

What Trump could have said. “We don’t know enough about what happened. The first responders are doing a great job. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. We will get to the bottom of this.” It’s not that hard.

Deleted after 20 minutes but this is the mindset. It’s what is said in private among themselves. This is how they think about the rest of the world. No one is considered an ally. There will be no discussion.

Servicemen of the Nazi Federation have once again executed Ukrainian prisoners of war. However, in many ways, they have outdone their mid-20th-century inspirations: executing them slowly, one by one, while recording everything on camera, including themselves.

They stand only for whatever Trump says.

He wasn’t a fan. Until someone explained to him how he could make many billions from it by doing nothing and producing nothing of value for humanity. Now he’s a big fan.