Kevin Rothrock

hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of [@meduza_en](https://masto.ai/@meduza_en ), ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01

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2026-05-13 15:22:47 UTC

If Trump during his China visit can convince OnePlus to maintain its foreign operations, it wouldn't win me over to his administration, but it would still be nice.

2026-04-15 19:40:36 UTC

Russia's Defense Ministry posted a list of companies across Europe that are reportedly linked to the production of the drones Ukraine fires at Russia. According to Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Medvedev, these sites are "potential targets." https://t.me/mod_russia/62686
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2026-04-09 05:31:34 UTC

The Avignon Papacy sounds like a forgotten installment in Dan Brown's mysteries

2026-04-07 22:36:35 UTC

the best TACO Tuesday yet
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2026-04-06 19:01:04 UTC

Remember that time all of Mastodon crashed for hours and hours, like Bluesky is crashing today? No? That's weird...

2026-04-06 05:16:34 UTC

Remarkable that the US is bombing a country of tens of millions of people and crashing the world energy market, but the American mainstream media is captivated by a pilot rescue story.

2026-04-03 22:36:41 UTC

This photo of Earth from a window in the Artemis II is simply awesome. I wish the world's leaders could get this humbling glimpse firsthand (just before they were all pushed out the airlock).
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2026-04-01 22:52:02 UTC

nice to watch launch footage of astronauts instead of weapons for a change
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2026-03-22 00:06:01 UTC

he seems to be losing it faster and faster
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2026-03-20 05:44:13 UTC

The Republicans have managed to combine Russia's aggressive, poorly planned war-of-choice model with Ukraine's hopeless pay-us-reparations demands. It truly is a grand old party.
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2026-03-19 06:40:42 UTC

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov makes it official: trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the USA are suspended (apparently indefinitely) thanks to the Iran War. I suspect Moscow and Kyiv are secretly relieved to be done with the charade. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8515368?tg

2026-03-12 04:38:53 UTC

Trump's Iran War costs the U.S. $1.88 billion a day. At that rate, it will take less than 2 months to match the $109 billion sent to Ukraine over three years during the Biden admin. In only six days, the U.S. has already spent 10% of what it disbursed to Kyiv after Russia's Feb 2022 invasion.
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2026-03-10 07:28:13 UTC

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine & China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris. Intended for Western spies, the tools "wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian govt spooks & Chinese cybercriminals." https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/an-iphone-hacking-toolkit-used-by-russian-spies-likely-came-from-u-s-military-contractor/

2026-03-06 14:32:15 UTC

It seems Moscow is giving Uncle Sam a taste of his own medicine in Iran by maybe, possibly, potentially providing targeting intel for retaliatory strikes on U.S. forces. "Not on a par with America’s but still ranks among the world’s best." Dueling proxy wars! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/06/russia-iran-intelligence-us-targets/

2026-02-27 20:54:11 UTC

just an old lunatic elected by tens of millions of people, folks
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2026-02-20 23:10:56 UTC

On this week's Naked Pravda, Eilish Hart spoke to Janis Kluge about the regional funding dynamics of Russia's surprisingly successful, possibly teetering military recruitment system. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2026/02/21/russia-s-recruitment-machine-runs-on-cash-and-the-regions-bankrolling-it-are-starting-to-run-out-we-asked-researcher-janis-kluge-how-much-longer-putin-can-avoid-another-mobilization

2026-02-20 14:54:32 UTC

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"Hungary and Slovakia have accounted for 68% of Ukraine's imported power this month, according to Kyiv-based consultancy ExPro. Hungary also accounts for about a third of Ukraine's current gas imports, according to the country's gas transit operator."
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-considers-cutting-power-gas-exports-ukraine-russian-oil-row-2026-02-19/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2026-02-19 18:14:21 UTC

Budapest says it may halt electricity and gas shipments to Ukraine unless Kyiv resumes Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline. Hungary and Slovakia — both now drawing on strategic reserves — have already stopped diesel exports to Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-considers-cutting-power-gas-exports-ukraine-russian-oil-row-2026-02-19/

2026-02-10 01:06:40 UTC

Michael McFaul vs catturd2
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2026-02-07 00:13:42 UTC

Kyiv knew Russia had smuggled Starlink, but it didn't want SpaceX to cut it off — too many Ukrainian units relied on unregistered, non-whitelisted terminals, too. What changed? Russia started using Starlink-equipped drones to strike 50 miles behind Ukrainian lines. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/07/russia-was-never-supposed-to-have-starlink-so-why-did-spacex-wait-so-long-to-cut-it-off

2026-02-06 16:34:56 UTC

looking forward to this fucker getting impeached every week after the midterms
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2026-02-05 00:38:43 UTC

A joke about a man who lost his legs in a mine blast and who was pushing himself through a Moscow subway station on a skateboard has landed Russian comedian Artemy Ostanin in prison for SIX YEARS. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/europe/russian-comedian-jokes-about-veterans.html?searchResultPosition=2

2026-02-04 16:39:51 UTC

well, there goes my last reason for reading WaPo even occasionally
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2026-01-19 15:30:36 UTC

just insane
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2026-01-15 00:04:28 UTC

New podcast episode. I spoke to historian William Jay Risch about his new book on the Euromaidan Revolution, which certainly challenges the conventions of American academic work on Ukraine. He writes about how escalating revolutionary violence weakened Ukrainian unity just as Russia intervened. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2026/01/15/historian-william-jay-risch-looks-back-at-euromaidan-and-ukraine-s-road-from-revolutionary-euphoria-to-the-madness-of-war

2026-01-13 05:04:39 UTC

enemies of america, your children are about to be groked. also, allies of america. americans, you too.
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2026-01-12 03:14:23 UTC

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. Wow.
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2026-01-11 10:13:32 UTC

When asked what?
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2026-01-11 08:38:17 UTC

We all know Moscow's long-term strategy in Ukraine has been to wait out the West, betting that its commitment will always outlast what America & Europe can muster, but I think even Putin would've called you nuts in 2022 to talk about open warfare between NATO members in 2026.
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2026-01-11 02:12:20 UTC

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings: A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-how-ice-vehicle-stops-can-escalate-to-shootings-caf17601?mod=mhp
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2026-01-09 20:02:13 UTC

I watched that horrific POV cell phone video, and I don't see a domestic terrorist out for blood. I did learn something, though.
Renee Good’s last words to ICE Agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
Ross, after shooting and killing her, seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

2026-01-08 23:55:24 UTC

ICE shot some more people today, this time here in Portland, Oregon. "Officers have determined the two people were injured in the shooting involving federal agents." I assume the feds fled the scene again? https://www.portland.gov/police/news/2026/1/8/two-shot-and-injured-federal-agents-hazelwood-neighborhood?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

2026-01-06 16:27:45 UTC

Shelled out for a month of Claude to see if Claude for Chrome can hold a candle to ChatGPT Atlas. Apparently Claude is marvelous for coding, but I don't do any of that, and Atlas remains far more useful, IMO.

2026-01-03 18:00:41 UTC

Zelensky made his position on foreign troops in Venezuela clear in August 2024.
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2026-01-03 08:37:25 UTC

Looks like Russia's "Special Military Operation" might be getting a little cousin.
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2025-12-29 22:57:27 UTC

New Bloomberg investigation into the covert “shadow fleet” of LNG tankers China and Russia use to circumvent sanctions. Shell companies, older vessels, deceptive practices, and at least $500M in discounted gas for China and crucial revenue for Moscow. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-china-russia-lng-shadow-fleet/?embedded-checkout=true

2025-12-29 16:47:57 UTC

Trading in my OnePlus Open for a OnePlus 15. May I never run out of battery ever again.

2025-12-26 19:00:49 UTC

US media inching closer to admitting that the country is running concentration camps.
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2025-12-20 20:30:20 UTC

Watching The Blue Brothers with the kids (my millionth viewing, their dozenth), and I'm struck as always by the insane quality of the stunt work and car chases. And then the movie went and featured some of the best musical performances in cinema history.

2025-12-18 06:41:47 UTC

Interesting: a Ukrainian delegation headed by Umerov is also expected to arrive in Miami later this week for talks with Witkoff and Kushner, but no trilateral meeting is currently planned. Puts some pressure on the weekend meeting with the Russians. Do your thing, Florida sunshine! https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/trump-russia-ukraine-war-peace-talks-putin-envoy-miami

2025-12-10 08:19:03 UTC

Surely the most suitable font for this administration is Wingdings. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/rubio-state-department-font.html
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2025-12-09 07:37:52 UTC

there it is. the guy with zero decision-making authority, who's wanted to nuke Europe for years, says Russia is at war with Europe, can you believe it
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2025-12-07 19:07:14 UTC

Russia has welcomed US President Donald Trump's new National Security Strategy, calling it "largely consistent" with Moscow's vision.
🤡
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd01g2kwwo?utm_source=perplexity

2025-12-06 17:06:44 UTC

just one of those Saturdays
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2025-12-06 08:17:33 UTC

The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that the Chernobyl sarcophagus, built to prevent radioactive release from the melted reactor and damaged in a drone strike this February, has "lost its primary safety functions, including the confinement capability." https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/update-331-iaea-director-general-statement-on-situation-in-ukraine

2025-12-02 04:24:33 UTC

the main obstacles I’m running into with my fledgling attempts at making YouTube videos are (1) they look bad and (2) they are bad, but beyond that, I think the sky’s the limit

2025-10-28 04:12:17 UTC

"A dark fleet of tankers carried tens of billions of dollars of Iranian and Russian oil to Asia, evading Western sanctions. Reuters found the ships were connected by one thing: a small insurance company in New Zealand, run by a British family." https://www.reuters.com/investigations/iran-russia-new-zealand-insurer-that-kept-their-sanctioned-oil-flowing-2025-10-28/

2025-10-27 23:49:38 UTC

I'm sure this will turn out fine: data from 11 of Russia's 89 federal subjects shows that local govts are drawing down emergency reserve funds to pay military recruiters. Total spending on these boys now nearly rivals the regional budgets for education, healthcare, and other welfare.
https://istories.media/stories/2025/10/27/rossiiskie-regioni-zaplatili-verbovshchikam-na-voinu-ne-menee-2-mlrd-rublei/

2025-10-24 19:29:44 UTC

i know Putin threatened a massive retaliation for US aid to Ukraine, but reaching all the way to Washington, DC, like this is incredible
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2025-10-22 19:36:07 UTC

my kids are gonna kill me, but these annual $30 price hikes are out of control
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2025-10-20 17:42:36 UTC

Imagine sharing this text exchange and feeling yourself vindicated.
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2025-10-19 22:56:01 UTC

Firing howitzers over the freeway sounded like the most American thing imaginable, but it turns out that fucking up firing howitzers over the freeway is even more so.
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2025-10-18 03:50:51 UTC

I've seen One Battle After Another twice now, and I can't remember the last time a film reinvigorated my love of the movies so intensely. I can't get to the theater as easily as before, as I have numerous small children, and that's eroded my cinematic meditations. I'm rekindled by PT Anderson!

2025-10-17 17:08:32 UTC

Has anyone found a web browser with agentic navigation that rivals Comet? I've used Comet to automate news-scraping tasks, and it's amazing. But I've started running into quota limits even with a Pro account.

2025-10-12 16:03:02 UTC

nothing from George Orwell or Terry Gilliam rivals the horror that is today's LinkedIn copy
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2025-10-09 17:01:05 UTC

Reuters: Some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war economy slows, domestic demand stalls, and exports dry up. Overdue salary arrears are up, and there's even talk of a moratorium on bankruptcies in the metals industry.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-industrial-titans-furlough-workers-its-war-economy-stalls-2025-10-09/

2025-10-08 17:36:43 UTC

The hacker group "Black Mirror" releases more Rostec files, revealing alleged collaboration with China on electronic warfare tech, including field tests in Ukraine and requests for detecting drones on 4G and countering Starlink signals. Rostec also engaged in a little industrial espionage, it seems. https://t.me/b8m_info/341

2025-10-07 03:45:25 UTC

Vyacheslav Leontyev, the former long-time director of the Pravda publishing house, died over the weekend after falling from his sixth-story apartment. Officials say it was suicide following a nervous breakdown and/or heart attack. His wife had been recently hospitalized. https://rtvi.com/news/umiral-pod-oknami-svoej-kvartiry-kak-pogib-eks-glava-izdatelstva-pravda-leontev/

2025-10-06 05:02:53 UTC

U.S. District Judge Immergut has just barred Trump's attempt to sidestep her restraining order by sneaking in federalized National Guard troops from CA and TX. Very welcome news, but it's terrifying that we're at this point.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/10/judge-issues-new-broader-order-barring-any-national-guard-from-being-relocating-to-oregon.html
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2025-10-05 16:50:09 UTC

Cool Oregonian report from outside the ICE center here in Portland. Besides the brutality of ICE security, note how the arrival of "high-energy streamers" and "bloggers and high-profile journalists" apparently acts as a catalyst for violence and escalation.
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/10/24-hours-outside-portlands-ice-facility-is-this-what-lawless-mayhem-looks-like.html
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2025-10-03 05:49:12 UTC

Psyched for America's plans to load Kyiv up with long-range Tomahawk missiles? Well, set phasers to disappointment because it turns out that the current inventories are already committed to the U.S. Navy, and America only manufactures 50–90 of these bad boys a year. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-tomahawk-missile-shipments-ukraine-unlikely-sources-say-2025-10-02/

2025-10-01 04:23:50 UTC

Oh welp: "Russia remained the top supplier of nuclear reactor fuel to the U.S. last year, even after a ban on Russian enriched uranium imports became law in May, data from the Energy Dept. show." This, as Trump lectures Europe and others to curb reliance on Russian oil and natural gas. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/russia-still-top-supplier-of-us-nuclear-fuel-despite-import-ban

2025-09-30 22:30:28 UTC

So, Durov claims (for the 1st time publicly, apparently, though ole Lex seems to have been in the know) that he was poisoned some 7 years ago, amid Russia's Winter of Discontent. "Blood vessels were broken all over my body" — is he sure he wasn't released out of an airlock? https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/10/01/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-says-he-thinks-he-was-poisoned-in-2018

2025-09-27 15:33:01 UTC

what an asshole
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2025-09-25 17:26:40 UTC

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watched it in a political science seminar after Black Sunday

2025-09-23 23:04:40 UTC

Russia has applied “torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, including sexual violence” in a “systematic and widespread manner” against Ukrainian civilians in 100+ detention centers, the U.N. Human Rights Office reported today. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/treatment-civilians-deprived-their-liberty-context-armed-attack-russian

2025-09-17 21:57:00 UTC

RFE/RL’s deep dive on Rubicon, Russia’s secretive, elite drone unit. Different detachments have specialized focuses, but the unit increasingly targets other UAVs, systematically hitting targets far inside Ukrainian defensive lines. “Let’s hope they don’t expand,” says a Ukrainian drone commander. https://www.svoboda.org/a/tayna-rubikona-bpla-spetsnaz-v-parke-patriot-/33531165.html

2025-09-12 17:21:55 UTC

A question: I’m seeing this in a BBC report. Do the British use miles when speaking like this, or is it some localization thing where it only shows this if you’re reading from America?
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2025-09-10 19:41:21 UTC

YouTube's new default autodubbing "feature" is a giant fucking nightmare for anyone who speaks more than one language.

2025-09-07 06:54:58 UTC

Russia's largest overnight air attack of the whole war, so far, sets the main building of the Ukrainian govt in Kyiv ablaze (a first) and leaves three people dead, including an infant. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-largest-air-attack-ukraine-sets-fire-main-government-building-2025-09-07/

2025-09-06 15:01:40 UTC

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Here's some of that footage, btw. CCTV, you can address your takedown order to Kevin Rothrock c/o Barbara Streisand.
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2025-09-06 14:51:14 UTC

LOL, China's state television network, China Central Television (CCTV — nice), has forced Reuters to take down its video of Xi and Putin talking about living to 150, or maybe forever, on biotech breakthroughs. Beijing is revoking legal permission to use the footage. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-2025-09-06/

2025-09-02 22:24:03 UTC

Want to risk 10 years in prison for little pay, no training, & being discarded like trash after completing your spying/sabotage mission? German officials report that all this could be yours if you, too, enlist with Moscow’s social media recruiters as a “disposable agent.” https://apnews.com/article/germany-russia-spying-social-media-campaign-4ffac951b38a2092e159993998df77b4

2025-08-22 16:21:00 UTC

“Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts: The move will have a chilling effect inside American spy agencies. […] The removal of the CIA officer, who oversaw hundreds of analysts and other personnel, prompted alarm among many current and serving intelligence officials.” https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/08/21/donald-trump-has-purged-one-of-the-cias-most-senior-russia-analysts

2025-08-20 05:33:29 UTC

Earlier this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wrote the foreword for a monograph questioning the existence of the Lithuanian language & Lithuania’s very statehood. Now, a journal that Lavrov oversees has an article warning that the Baltic Sea could become a “military operations theater.” https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/20/northern-exposure

2025-08-19 04:33:04 UTC

A short & sweet overview from Faridaily on Monday’s summit. There’s a disconnect between today’s (informal) readouts. Trump, Zelensky, et al seem to think Putin has agreed to meetings directly w/ Ze. That doesn’t track with Ushakov’s statement or Kremlin rhetoric.
https://t.me/faridaily24/1725

2025-08-18 20:26:52 UTC

I’m very interested to know the details here.
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2025-08-18 16:45:58 UTC

man, soldiers sure have to stand around doing fuck-all for long periods of time

2025-08-15 23:57:13 UTC

So, to sum things up, no one-on-one Putin–Trump sit-down, the whole thing lasted half as long as the Kremlin said it would, there was no working lunch or expanded summit meeting, and journalists were permitted ZERO questions at the press conference. High five?

2025-08-15 20:39:49 UTC

“Find 7 differences”
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2025-08-13 20:01:58 UTC

gonna be a quick summit
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2025-08-13 06:55:42 UTC

With the State Dept's Bureau of Intel & Research newly gutted, Washington's Russian experts won't likely be in the room when Trump meets Putin in Alaska. "It’s safe to say that Trump does not have a single policymaking person who knows Russia & Ukraine advising him,” says ex career diplomat Eric Rubin.
https://www.ft.com/content/89f39aea-30dd-4481-93c8-842576dff3fc

2025-08-09 20:45:42 UTC

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Superman will enter the public domain on January 1, 2034!

2025-08-09 20:25:38 UTC

lol whut
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2025-08-08 20:31:39 UTC

This WSJ report makes no sense: “Putin told Witkoff he would agree to a complete cease-fire if Ukraine agreed to withdraw forces from all of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.” And abandon claims on Zaporizhia & Kherson? Nothing about Ukraine’s security posture? Huh? https://www.wsj.com/world/putin-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-proposal-0021453b?mod=e2tw

2025-08-08 15:41:09 UTC

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what's the horse?

2025-08-08 14:14:48 UTC

New Yorker story on the results of Republicans' evisceration of public broadcasting: "The ironic part of the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is that the hyperlocal content is going to go away, & the cheap NPR content is going to take its place." https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-happens-to-public-media-now

2025-08-08 05:20:36 UTC

I have many favorite bad movies, but the deep-fried comfort food I come back to more than anything has got to be the 2003 science fiction disaster film "The Core." Every line delivery from Stanley Tucci and Delroy Lindo is delicious gold.

2025-08-07 19:50:22 UTC

Taylor Adam Lee, 22, of El Paso, Texas, was arrested yesterday for trying to transmit sensitive national defense information to Russia regarding the operation of the M1A2 Abrams, America’s main battle tank, in exchange for Russian citizenship. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/active-duty-soldier-arrested-and-charged-espionage-and-export-violations

2025-07-23 20:03:58 UTC

Komsomolskaya Pravda — supposedly Putin's favorite newspaper — published an article yesterday laying out three scenarios for EU/NATO armed aggression "against Russia" (Kaliningrad, Moldova, and "the North"). Alongside European fears that Moscow will test NATO solidarity, this rhetoric is scary.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27727/5117453/
I wrote a summary of the KP article here: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/23/putin-s-favorite-newspaper-warns-that-europe-could-attack-russia-by-2027

2025-07-23 18:48:14 UTC

Quite the crowd in Kyiv this evening outside the Ivan Franko Drama Theater, which is the closest protesters can get to Zelensky's office. There's certainly no shortage of civic spirit in Ukraine. https://t.me/stranaua/204289
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2025-07-22 21:09:11 UTC

Unclear how many of Zelensky’s admirers in the West actually read about political developments in Kyiv, but the Ukrainian president’s personality cult might take a hit today among those who follow the news.
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2025-07-18 20:14:13 UTC

Russians losing WhatsApp is especially hard to fathom because “What’s app,” in my head, always sounded like someone with a Russian accent trying to ask what’s up.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/18/there-s-a-99-percent-chance-it-will-happen

2025-07-15 23:16:38 UTC

With Trump’s waffling act still rolling, it’s still (always) a good time to consider what constraints the White House faces when it comes to arming Ukraine, even if the Donald makes the unlikely decision to go all in.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/15/what-it-would-take-to-save-ukraine

2025-07-15 04:38:32 UTC

𝕏 has become a Nazi cesspool, but nothing saps my will to live like three minutes on LinkedIn.

2025-07-10 22:30:40 UTC

For the first time since returning to office, Trump will send weapons to Kyiv under a presidential power that Biden frequently used. Trump’s team will identify arms (possibly worth around $300 million) from U.S. stockpiles under the Presidential Drawdown Authority. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-use-presidential-authority-send-weapons-ukraine-sources-say-2025-07-10/

2025-07-08 21:12:13 UTC

Grok is now openly advocating for Adolf Hitler.
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2025-06-24 13:12:14 UTC

President Trump on Israel and Iran: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing." 🫢
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2025-06-21 06:52:41 UTC

👀
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2025-06-19 04:22:17 UTC

A growing military presence near the border with Finland presents strong evidence that Russia is, in fact, capable of waging a full-scale war in Ukraine while simultaneously bolstering its troops and armaments against NATO’s second-newest member. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/19/sky-high-evidence