If you don't recognise these tactics, then you haven't been paying attention. From Kharkiv's frontline, #Ukraine dc and Feras. With thanks to our local team. BBC News (UK) BBC News (World) Graphic content warning.

newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/s…. This is a brilliant interview with one of the sharpest observers of Russia.

The challenge seems to be that striving not to escalate can embolden Putin, while escalation takes a step closer to ww iii or nuclear war. nytimes.com/2022/03/15/opi…

Warsaw and other cities and towns throughout Poland are covered in signs, posters and flags showing support for Ukraine and offering various free services for refugees. Imagine completing a harrowing multi-day journey from a war-zone and arriving to this. “We are with you.”

Ukraine needs weapons to win, not words of support and a partition stalemate. Ukraine deserves to know we are doing everything we can, not everything that Putin allows. Ukraine deserves to be whole, to be free, and to achieve victory. Glory to Ukraine. 13/13

Incredible testimony on BFMTV from this mayor of Melitopol who was kidnapped for several days by the Russians. He says they had no idea what’s going on. They told him we’re here to get the Nazis - he said I’ve been in this town 30 years and I’ve never met one…. then they said

1. When I took logic in high school, my favorite logical fallacy (yes, I had one - don't judge) was "argument of the beard". I actually think it informs some of the current arguments about masks, airplanes/buses/trains, and other aspects of pandemic response. 🧵

HERE WE GO!! 1 of the call centers that we featured (been operation for a DECADE) is shut down. 15 senior officials arrested. This is just the first battle. We’ve had some encouraging discussions with the Kolkata Police. This is their moment though. The world is watching.

I worry a little for Mark Rober taking on international organized crime, but have applaud the initiative. youtu.be/xsLJZyih3Ac

This is exactly why for our first electric car we got an audi e-tron instead of a tesla.

In a different time zone, so I woke up to the Uvalde news. As usual, the people making such things possible are demanding that we refrain from politicizing the horror. Hell no. Unrestricted access to deadly weapons is a political choice, and we should say it 1/

I do not want to read a single profile of the shooter. Enough. Nothing will allow us to predict which of the many, many troubled young man will turn to a mass shooter. Zero public interest in the individual details. It’s the access to the deadly gun that’s the key. That’s it.

'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3LL7T7p

We need to think of each other as sisters and brothers, and to be concerned with each other’s welfare. We must seek to lessen the suffering of others. Rather than working to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, directed toward the welfare of humanity as a whole.

20 significant mental errors (you don’t know you’re making):

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My column: Putin Is Onto Us nyti.ms/3ssLep8

“Work done for a reward is much lower than work done in the Yoga of wisdom. Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for the reward; but never cease to do thy work.” — The Bhagavad Gita