Stop "shooting"... why the scare quotes, Ding Dong Don?

Completely surreal: there is a St. Petersburg-based fashion design house called "Vatnique": vatnique.com

Impressive work. Map of confirmed Russian deaths: 200.zona.media

This is an admission of the commission of a war crime.

Wow. Read Zelensky's open letter to huilo in which he proposes a ceasefire (or else you know what's going to happen to you, sooner or later...) www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidk...

Wow, and I thought no one could have been a worse pick for the job than Tulsi Gabbard...

I've heard Trump's got a good dentist. Why doesn't he make him Director of National Intelligence instead?

Keeps getting better and better, doesn't it...

Gdansk Lech Walesa airport. Anti-semitism in full display at the Virgin bookstore.

Where exactly are the high-speed sections, though?

BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene. Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.

Jag med. Ev kan jag gå med på att man kan fråntas medborgarskapet om man fuskat när man sökte den. Om det här går igenom kommer jag aldrig någonsin att rösta på något av partierna som står bakom. Och jag uppmanar alla dubbla medborgare att göra samma sak.

In today’s Russian papers: “nuclear muscle-flexing,” carrots and cabbages, “two scenarios” for Russia’s future and what a Russian singer said after getting an award from Vladimir Putin. #ReadingRussia

Z dnyom vyshyvanky, Ukrayino!

The Swedish athlete should have refused to stand on the podium.

Wow, Todd Blanche really makes Pam Bondi's spectacular corruption seem modest.

The most extreme level of corruption. Does this mean the quackistocrat (TM) is exempt from paying taxes? www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Everyone else should boycott competitions where there are Russian and Belarusian athletes participating.

"I know more about Taiwan right now than I know about almost any country..." Because of course he had to say that. Problem is he knows very little about any country.

Trump is clueless about UK.

If this is what it takes for Canada to join the EU so be it! www.bbc.com/news/article...

While the UN tries to avoid to point at the obvious culprit of the strike against their convoy in Kherson, Ukraine, Russians released FPV footage of that particular strike, making absolutely clear this wasn’t some kind of accident,…

All Putin will need to do is to bring his (or a) dog to the negotiations.

And... Putin's talk about war being very close to an end was nothing but a lie. Which was absolutely obvious, in my opinion. Nevertheless, the Western media reported his words more or less uncritically. With Putin, default position should be "Putin's words, which almost certainly are untruthful..."

The Ku Klux Kourt

The United States are becoming the new Moscow for fleeing agents of autocratization. Does DC have a suitable Rublyovka for them? www.dn.se/varlden/mich...

More unbalanced than I could have imagined. In relative terms, Moscow's really been spared.

In my opinion, Putin's "peace signal" is deception aimed at fooling Trump for the umpteenth time. Every time he needs something from him, he signals willingness to engage in some kind of peace discussions. Trump gives him what he wants, usually by pressuring Ukraine re: Donbas. And time passes.

Moscow’s Victory Day parade is turning into a before/after ad for Ukrainian drone policy. ㅤ 2022: tanks, missiles, choreography. 2026: fewer toys, more nervous airspace. Soon: ... ㅤ The trend is clear. Support link is in our Bio.

In short: yes, they are.

In the end, making Putin threaten, moan and beg to hold his pissy little 45 minute parade, from which he ran away like a frightened schoolboy, revealed more about the real state of the war than anyone could have expected.

I'm afraid there is no way back from this. This is the autobahn towards self-destruction, all speed limits removed. Many think Russia is waiting for Ukraine to implode but the reality is that it's the other way round. When this kind of stuff gets normalized, the end is in sight.

So they can't constantly check their watches revealing their boredom while bunker grampa lectures them about WW2.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

MAGA evangelical leaders gather in Mar-a-Lago to bless a gold statue dedicate to Donald Trump. Im not much of a Bible guy but isn't there something about golden cows and false idols and not being extremely cringe worthy stupid?

About the Katchanovski affair. Katchanovski himself proudly presents a counter-letter supporting his academic freedom. Apparently, very few serious scholars are with him on this side (as opposed to eg retired Swedish nurses and other types). The usual suspects have signed, of course.

Incredible amazing trolling!

Former Italian ambassador to Tashkent (dismissed last December) was arrested in Rome for running a racket that sold European Schengen visas to russians for as much as €16,000 apiece. Prosecutors asked for custody because he allegedly planned to escape to russia. roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...

Om värdet av kampvilja: www.dn.se/debatt/ukrai...

Life in the frontline cities of Donetsk oblast has deteriorated recently. More glide bombs, more drone attacks, including by fiberoptic cable drones. I wrote a paper about what happens as the effect of the hostilities intensifies in such cities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I was in Kramatorsk a couple of weeks ago. The city centre was deserted - because of Russia's increasingly frequent glide bomb attacks. With the Russians systematically targeting the city centre, the main focus of life migrated to the more peripheral parts of the city.

Sloviansk. 20 April 2026. The last picture shows the "monument to the first entrepreneurs of the 1990s."

Det är inte bra med en regering som struntar i grundläggande rättsstatsprinciper. Lagar och regelverk skall aldrig appliceras retroaktivt. Punkt. Jag har alltid varit liberal men kommer att rösta för oppositionen. Att vårda rättsstaten får ske till priset av en (i mitt tycke) onödig vänstersväng.

I've got mixed feelings about this. Do we know for sure that these troops would stand on the European side (rather than just "aside") in the event of a Russian attack? Probably not. In the worst case, they might even help Russia edition.cnn.com/2026/05/01/p....

They wouldn't help defend us anyway, so whatever...

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On a German train going towards Amsterdam. Major delay. The freight train in front of us dropped some cars, which had apparently not been connected properly. Someone's in trouble. Imagine being the driver the moment s/he realized that part of the train had disappeared.

Will you look at that...