I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and…

Interesting read on Salvini. Putin put his money on the wrong horse. Salvini’s own party members are defecting bc he has gone too far right and his hand-picked candidate for EU elections (hand-picked by Salvini or Putin?) loves Russia and Mussolini

Day 799 of my 3 day war. In 2024 my army has captured 400kmsq of 🇺🇦. That’s 0.07% of 🇺🇦 & an increase of 0.33% of what we occupied in Dec

I lost 95,000 casualties for this. 238/sq km. I will need 371 yrs & 105 million casualties to capture all of 🇺🇦

I remain a master strategist

New in PN: 'What’s most striking in the Time Magazine interview is that Trump, even after four years as president, has virtually no grasp on any policy issue beyond empty talking points, most of which are lies.' publicnotice.co/p/trump-time-m…

Imagine if your coworkers were saying these things about you.

“Americans simply cannot imagine how badly Trump’s first term might have turned out, and how ghastly his second term is likely to be,” Tom Nichols writes in The Atlantic Daily. We just don’t know how to conceptualize “the end of democracy in America.” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

One quality I wouldn't personally want in a lawyer is *shaken and unable to focus after witnessing the state deploy force*

This image is very dear to me. My grandfather was killed by Russian forces in Sukhumi - his body was never recovered. The Heroes' Square, and the Memorial to the Fallen Heroes for me closest to his grave as it can be: and now young generation of Georgians keeps the fight on.

The takeover of a Columbia University building was a turning point after two weeks of tumult at the school.

Here's how protesters seized it — and what we know about the more than 100 people who were arrested when the NYPD moved in to reclaim it. nyti.ms/4dlffgR

Locks, Chains, Diversions: How Columbia Students Seized Hamilton Hall

Some of those arrested during the pro-Palestinian protest were outsiders, not students or others who appeared to be affiliated with the school.

gift article from The New York Times.
nytimes.com/2024/05/02/nyr…

Da svidanya orcs!
Russia's Eurasian empire shrinking since 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Tajikistan and Armenia considering closing Russian militrary bases jamestown.org/program/moscow…

Tune in tomorrow!

darkreading.com/cloud-security…

At a congressional hearing, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said the cyber theft includes personally identifiable information on “maybe a third” of all Americans. govtech.com/security/ceo-c…

Can’t stop thinking about this Francis Fukuyama paragraph from The End of History.

I owe Fukuyama an apology for not including more of what he said in my book. He was right. (So were Nietzsche and Hoffer.) I didn't want to wade into the 'End of History' argument in my book, but his point about bored people turning on their own societies is crucial.

Courtroom revelations from Michael Cohen’s secretly recorded conversations with Donald Trump appear to have just blown his former boss’s legal defense out of the water.
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We’ve gone from being sure Europe will freeze without our gas to Gasprom making its first loss in 25 years.

I remain a master strategist.

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