100-year-old former Nazi camp guard goes on trial in Germany trib.al/SmQHzhA

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Foreshadowing a new reality...

Taking time off Twitter. A self-care thing

Listened to 1 hour of "new" shamisen (NHK on PBS). Much deep respect for the ancient Japanese art form and all elite practioners but my sore ears REALLY craving some Baroque now ... 😁 Andrei Gavrilov

OG Soviets + Neo-Soviets like Putin hv been engaged in warfare via The Arts for 5 decades. Fueled by everything the Nazis did, it's also a clear part of Kremlin doctrine. Our pretending it doesn't exist/ doesn't matter just digs the grave of Western thought + culture faster.

As a family-run bakery with an 80-year history, “we’re very humbled and grateful that we could help,” said [bakery owner] Paterakis, adding that his parents opened their first bakery in 1943 in Baltimore. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022…

Steve Lichtman @john_sipher Stephanie "LB" 🟧 Lenin, rope, Reagan, capitalists.

"Christ, I miss the Cold War." 😂😂😅 Spycraft Entertainment

Elephant: Room. Why exactly the sovereign nation Ukraine isn't already and "never will be" a Member of NATO and/or EU. Discuss. Mehdi Hasan @john_sipher Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 President Donald J. Trump

2024: Mike Pence's slick '22 pseudo mea culpa grabs reins of GOP and moderate Dems. Wins POTUS w VP Javanka, installs Zuck as Tech Czar. Putin grins/wins. (IMO the Forever Plan) NB *again*: Mike Pence never investigated in connection w Russia Sarah Kendzior @john_sipher Michael McFaul

Вы знаете, вот сказать что я с нашего правительства и центробанка в аху… шоке, это ничего не сказать. Они только ДВА МЕСЯЦА НАЗАД подписали бюджет с прогнозом инфляции на ТРИ года вперед по 4% в год. Им все говорили: вы идиоты что ли, посмотрите в окно 1/

imo the next book should be called "From Cold War to Hot Peace to Hybrid Mexican Standoff" but that's just me lol Michael McFaul @john_sipher Sarah Kendzior

Bad Faith ✝️🐴🇺🇲🌻🇺🇦 It's the modern version of human beings being counted as a percentage of human/voters and it is disgusting.

re "Biden better start preparing Americans" a more cynical person than I might observe that Build Back Better could easily be morphed into "war footing" but hey

What does "war" mean anymore anyway? War on Drugs, War on Terror, "Civil War" (a football matchup betw Oregon college teams ffs) Cold War, turf war, guerilla war, cyber war, hybrid war, Vietnam -reporters-and 70's-teens-weren't-allowed-to-call-it-war it- was-"a police action"...

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OK guys and gals, it's been fun. But I have been there/done all that (and so has my family). I literally called it all several decades ago, so now...I'm out. Be well, stay strong and kind. ---Andrea Michael McFaul @john_sipher Sarah Kendzior ((Platinum Cat))֍🇺🇸🇵🇱 m. gessen Arnold Schwarzenegger