ISW: ruzzia is “setting conditions for potential future Russian aggression against both Moldova and NATO members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland…. this fits into Russia’s ongoing ‘Phase Zero’ strategy… to revive its pre-invasion rhetoric” euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/04/r...

“worse than simply incompetent.... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself. As the recent ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine demonstrated.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“The servile supporters of his wishes will be placed in all offices, and tools constantly employed to aid his views and sound his praise….granting pardons….to....prevent a discovery of his own guilt.... power and time sufficient to ruin his country.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

“I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.” www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

This tracks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Tackiness and Tyranny" “Trump's love of gold fits neatly within the logic of....dictators....men who fear being forgotten, it promises permanence; for those with fragile egos, it signals power; and for those who dream of being kings, it gleams like a divine right.” www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

A Dress in Cadmium Green (the distinct hue of the Saudi flag) and the Signification of Allegiance (made by Lebanese designer, Elie Saab, “who a year ago had held one of the largest fashion shows ever in the Middle East, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.”) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/s...

This is odd. I’ve never known anyone to get whooping cough, neither as a child nor as an adult. I wonder why. And now why Texas? 🤔 Maybe MAHA can help. www.thedailybeast.com/texas-whoopi...

“The beatings following Noem’s visit were inflicted after the prisoners shouted demands to be freed....they were not criminals or terrorists....prisoners were....sexually abused...forced to perform oral sex on a guard....sexual assaults were widespread” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“‘never seen a law enforcement or intelligence organization like the bureau be directed to go after people purely on political, vindictive reasons….In a Western democracy, that’s unheard of. It’s every day in Russia and China.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

U.S. as beacon of hope to the world? "they were trampled, kicked and forced to kneel for hours....One man said officers thrust his head into a tank of water to simulate drowning. Another said he was forced to perform oral sex on guards wearing hoods." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

“Expect more of this. The Trump administration has made it very clear....that they’d better keep their mouths shut to keep their passports….Miller’s threat….was a warning to everyone in America: criticize Maga and there will be consequences.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“By remodeling the White House, the president is declaring, both literally and symbolically, that what was once the people’s house now belongs to him and his MAGA movement. And it’s becoming increasingly clear that he has no intention of ever leaving it.” www.salon.com/2025/10/28/t...

A Dress Rehearsal for Fascism 👁️👁️ “the president could declare a state of emergency and say that elections are rigged and use allegations of voter fraud to seize the ballots of secure voting centers” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump begins demolition of the East Wing I thought this was AI, nope. (He's not leaving.) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🔥 Orenburg gas processing plant: The compressor-gas fractionation unit was hit. This is the unit where the gas undergoes compression, cooling, and separation into fractions — propane, butane, and stable condensate.

“U.S. refugee system….slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration” “expanded DNA tests for children to ensure they are related to the adults they are….with.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

autocrat victimhood www.milwaukeeindependent.com/explainers/c...

“Think of this as the double helix of his authoritarian DNA. He has a set of rules for those who praise him and another set for those who must be purged. And he’s reshaping U.S. policy to make sure that those actions are systematized and repeatable.” www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

👁️👁️ “Most administrations don’t get a four-year pause or have the chance to think about ‘Why isn’t this working?’ Now he gets to come back and steamroll everyone.” www.propublica.org/article/russ...

“Trump’s naked greed for wealth and power, his cruelty, his obscenity, his stupidity, his childishness, his arrogance—all these have galvanized the opposition as never before in recent U.S. history. That’s what “No Kings” was about.” www.thebulwark.com/p/long-live-...

Putin is at war with the civilized world. www.gbnews.com/news/world/r...

“Rubio’s central role in brokering the deal highlights his evolution from a onetime....critic to a dogged implementer of the president’s agenda, exploiting his Spanish fluency and rapport with Latin American leaders to supercharge….hard-edged policies.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Ukraine doesn’t “believe” that Donetsk is “a major bulwark against a speedy ruzzian advance….toward the capital,” it simply is. And it’s not a “stalemate.” ruzzia is failing and hemorrhaging orcs and hardware while Ukraine is winning their freedom. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This is but a piece of the ongoing treachery and destruction of the U.S. security apparatus by Trump’s quislings. Idiots and toadies betraying hard-sought-for informants for the spectacle of deportation and cruelty is where we are as a nation. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

👁️👁️ "MAGA has developed into a truly global political movement, as ready to be franchised across national lines as a fast-food chain…. Those movements appreciate that they have a lot in common. They are learning to cooperate against their common adversaries." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Murkier and murkier bsky.app/profile/happ...

1/ A wounded Russian soldier appeals for help, saying that he is being marked for death after exposing other soldiers in his unit for carrying out murders and extortions. He says that if he is sent back to the front line he will be used as a sacrificial 'suicide bomber'. ⬇️

“The cruelty and swagger....from nativism to racial science, to casual neo-Nazism and textbook misogyny….this deluge of far-right content has been….designed for social media….harsh. They’re anti-democratic....embodied in the....second Trump administration.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

"It’s an emergency whenever Trump says so." slate.com/news-and-pol...

This is fun.

Jeffrey Epstein victim’s diary ‘contradicts’ FBI blackmail claims Virginia Giuffre: “I used to be watched by Epstein's hidden cameras, which I have seen myself. The FBI have the archive footage showing me being abused by other men, used as blackmail” www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Sergio Gor “work overseeing appointments of thousands of officials for the Trump administration….was born Sergio Gorokhovsky on November 30, 1986, in….part of the Soviet Union….declined to reveal his country of birth….saying only that it was not in Russia.” www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

Belarus Is a Warning "the pro-Russia Mr. Lukashenko came to power in 1994 promising to drain the swamp. He never left." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

“Under Trump, State Department Questions Europe’s Commitment to Democracy.” While the U.S. leads the world in democratic backsliding the Trump admin uses the classic, fascist tactic of Mirror Propaganda: falsely attributing one’s motives to one’s adversaries. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In 2019, Trump’s comical idea of building a moat stocked with alligators and snakes was ridiculed, but not today. Alligator Alcatraz: “if people get out there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons, nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...