🔴 BREAKING: Russian forces targeted a kindergarten in the central area of Sumy with drones in violation of the May 6 truce. Information on the victims and the extent of the damage is currently being assessed, according to the State Regional Administration.

The magpie. Is eating. The cake. Yum! Painted by my namesake Rubens Peale, who was born OTD in 1784.

In UNO that means you are losing.

Zelensky said Ukraine and Finland had signed a 'Drone Deal' agreement, and that his country was prepared to share its drone tech expertise with longtime supporters.

"Lawsuits against journalists and a court ruling undermining their legal protection have created a climate of uncertainty in the profession," the report noted.

"Suomen sijoitusta pudottivat viime vuonna eniten oikeudelliset puitteet. Myös tutkivan journalismin toimintaedellytykset ovat heikentyneet muun muassa tiedonsaannin hankaloitumisen vuoksi." www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/hu...

“Go hide in a damp, rat-filled basement yourself, Mr. Putin.” Russian women’s furious message to the Kremlin: you started this war, then left us with nowhere to shelter when it — predictably — came back home.

Päivän uutiset huomioiden jälleen kerran muistutukseksi aiempi ketjuni. En tiedä miksi ja miten, mutta melkoinen osa länsimaailmasta on halunnut uskoa Israelin olevan luotettava kumppani Putinia vastaan. Ei ole auttanut, vaikka asiasta on sanottu.

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Helene Schjerfbeck: The Convalescent

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

And now, a dog that plays a flute: yle.fi/a/74-20220707

Deadlock over. The EU just cleared way for the €90-billion-loan for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package. Russia’s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost. We will provide Ukraine what it needs to hold its ground, until Putin understands his war leads nowhere.

"Julkinen terveydenhoito kalliimmaksi, tukea siivoojien palkkaamiseen" kuulostaa melkein parodialta. yle.fi/a/74-20222011

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

“Israeli officials are effectively green-lighting the use of sexual violence, when they decide not to prosecute the most high-profile case, which is extremely well documented. There is a culture of accepting sexualised assault against Palestinians.“ This is how terror becomes systemic.

Israelin ja Venäjän asevoimien menettelytapojen yhtäläisyydet alkavat käydä entistä ilmeisemmiksi.

Kulturkampf I: Bismarck's chess-game against Leo XIII. Kulturkampf II: Trump's pigeon-chess game against Leo XIV.

what's more, being considered irreplaceable is **in itself** a bad trait in a politician and causes a risk of dysfunction in the system.

There's been talk of doing away with the current gender differences in compulsory military training. (currently ≈ men have to, women can) This could become a first step towards that.

Ilmastonmuutos vahingoittaa meitä nyt jo. yle.fi/a/74-20220543

Onneks Canossaan menee kävelytie. yle.fi/a/74-20220736

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

That’s bad, but, to be perfectly fair to Elon Musk and his team of recent high school graduates, their work probably did result in millions of preventable deaths around the world.

It sounds like Magyar isn't planning to do much for Ukraine but also not try to sabotage EU's support. Which is at least better than Orbán, so we have reason to be content. www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art...

'Rat directional indicator' (RDI) is an amazing coinage.

”Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.” #RestoreNature for #Defence 🫎 www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

"HV, enkä nyt tarkoita 'hyvä veli'..."

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

can he also visit Trump

Orbán haza

Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.

Zyklon B canisters. A pesticide produced by the Degesch company, initially designated exclusively for eradicating insects. From the end of the summer of 1941, it was also used at Auschwitz to murder people in gas chambers. --- Video: https://www.instagram.com/antonella.mollia/

So much for the Easter truce:

Here's hoping that the United States will, indeed, leave NATO. Also, they can keep Mark Rutte.

We won’t let them stabilize. We shall win this marathon! Only free and fair parliamentary elections can resolve the ever-deepening crisis. Day 500 (!) of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social

Memorial does important work, from documenting Stalin’s crimes to recording contemporary human rights abuses. But #Putin is afraid of a truthful telling of history & an honest accounting of his own regime’s behavior. And so Memorial must be silenced. www.dw.com/en/russia-cr...

”Finland enjoyed Europe's third-cheapest electricity prices in 2025, with negligible production from traditional fossil fuel sources. Approximately 28 percent of domestic electricity production came from wind power.” #ClimateAction is smart for many reasons, including energy security.

It's almost nine o'clock and still fairly light outside. Always amazing when that flip from dark to light happens!

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Part of the challenge is that we're so far away from our wars in the United States, that the sense is that a 'lawful' war is our experience of it: functionally zero civilian casualties. And that's not how even a 'lawful' war is experienced where it happens.

I think it is both important and really difficult for folks to distinguish between 'rampant war crimes' of the sort that Russia, for instance, does in Ukraine as opposed to reduced but still very horrible amount of civilian suffering that a war waged according to law and custom entails.

“Make good use of the power given to you, and remember that whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small and vulnerable, you do unto me.” cruxnow.com/vatican/2026...

There's no known Planet B. Therefore we need Plan Bee. For all the bees, not just domestic honey-bees. Less pesticides, more diverse agricultural landscapes, improved conditions for organic farming etc.

A Russian Shahed drone lands near a school and kindergarten outside Kyiv. Russians are attacking in large waves. Lots of drones and missiles are still flying inside Ukrainian territory. #Ukraine

Hyvää päästäistä myös oikeinkirjoitusrajoitteisille.

William Hawkins (American Artist, born 1962)

7/ Maybe commanders should try to avoid getting their men killed, suggests Maxim Kalashnikov: "This indicates that there aren't enough regular recruits. Have you tried protecting soldiers at the front and not sending them into frontal attacks, under drone fire?" /end

1/ With losses escalating in Ukraine, a Russian region has ordered businesses to send their employees to fight. Varying recruitment quotas have been set depending on the size of the business. The 'voluntary-compulsory' scheme appears to be a de facto form of mobilisation. ⬇️