Peak Germany: the government appoints five academics to advise on economic policy and they end up *suing each other*.

The Letter to the Editor that the Baltimore Sun won't publish:

$100? He should've negotiated. The right-wing influencers including Benny Johnson and Tim Pool were paid $10 million.

This should be a wake-up call to people who think that the Kremlin wants peace and de-escalation.

Pro-Palestinian mob harassing a Ukrainian refugee. Demanding to show his passport.

West EU in 2024: Antisemitic pogrom in Amsterdam proudly broadcast o social media. Jews have been unsafe in many west-EU nations with mass Muslim migration and now it’s organised violence on the streets. Not in Eastern Europe though, by irony of history (and lack of migration)

Same, seeing a lot of "the thing I warned about was right!"

Trump talked about this over and over on the campaign trail; it will happen. edition.cnn.com/2024/11/07/pol…

Looking forward to discussing the Georgian elections this Wednesday w/a great panel. Register here: crm.n-ost.org/civicrm/event/…

Because there weren't State Dept officials on this call, the Kremlin can deny it happened. x.com/RFERL/status/1…

BREAKING: Germany is expected to hold early elections on February 23. The governing SPD and the opposition CDU/CSU parliamentary groups have reportedly agreed on the date. It comes after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition.

Last month, Trump's incoming NSA, Mike Waltz, told Steve Inskeep that the U.S. can "take the handcuffs off" Ukraine's long-range weapons. It would be ironic if Biden let Trump make this much-delayed decision for him. npr.org/2024/11/04/nx-…

When the first thing you say about your CIA pick is what a great job he did going after your political opponents... This is a signal. Get ready.

INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange launches the Victoria Amelina Fellowship for writers from Ukraine and abroad in partnership with PEN Ukraine. The Fellowship will take place in Amelina’s native city of Lviv to honour her memory and carry on the ethos of her work. 🔗index-ukraine.org/news/victoria-…

The scenes coming from #Sednaya are haunting — this wasn’t just a prison & torture center, it was a concentration camp. A true horror. Mountains of bodies. Rooms full of disposed clothes & shoes. Skeletons. Bodies partially destroyed by acid.

And now the air raid sirens are going off in Kyiv.