Arī Džordžijas pavalstī Kamalai iet ievērojami labāk (+10pp) kā Baidenam pirms četriem gadiem. Maz baksu vēl saskaitītas, bet nu tendences gana skaidra.

Tā gribējās man saules lēkta, bet dziļi dienā pamodos. Tā gribējās man saules lēkta, bet kas tad muļķim tādu dos... - Māris Melgalvs

German MPs have been briefed by the Federal Civil Protection Agency that if Ukraine crumbles within the next 6 months, millions of Ukrainians will head West. The official estimate: 10 million, 2 of them to Germany. Unofficial: up to 18 million, 3-4 million to Germany 1/

Reizēm, kā saka latvieši, aci te vēl iemetīšu un uzreiz neizrakstīšos, bet pats pamatā pārcelšos no X platformas uz Bluesky.

"Pār visu Spāniju ir zilas debesis.”

Svētku pusdienu saldēdienā vērojot LTV ekrānā blekhaukus un činukus virs Daugavas, bija tāda laba sajūta. Realitātē atgrieza šis raksts tinyl.io/BkY4, kura autors Olivier Schmitt btw drīz runās Rīgā tinyl.io/BkY7 Par drošību būs jāmaksā daudz daudz vairāk.

Linus van Pelt, the young philosopher, to his big sister Lucy, the amateur psychiatrist: “People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.” Linus is channeling Ralph Waldo Emerson

I might have been kicked out of Syria but I'm back in DC.

'It seems likely that Trump will eventually betray Taiwan just as surely as he has betrayed Ukraine,' says Gideon Rachman. 'DC is already buzzing with talk that the US will threaten tariffs on Taiwan unless it agrees to sell a chunk of TSMC to a US buyer ft.com/content/452d7f…

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Bracing stuff this from former Chief of Secret Intelligence, John Sawers on BBC Radio 4 Today . Europe is waking up from its slumber, but hoping we haven't left it too late: "If I was a small European country in the centre of the continent, I would have a big question mark in my mind

Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political and economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire without security guarantees.

The CIA-HUR relationship is one of the biggest successes of America's alliance with Ukraine after 2014. And it was a two-way street. HUR recruited GRU assets who, for instance, helped expose Russia's election interference in the U.S. in 2016. It elevated Budanov to his current

I would guess intel & aid flow will at least partly resume in coming days. But plausible some restrictions on long-range strikes will remain. And damage is done. Imagine how this could play out for NATO forces who need to strike deep in battle to reverse Ru advances in Baltics.

French senator perfectly describes the Trump situation.

Trump team now making direct contact with Zelensky opponents in Ukraine; Trump warning ordinary Gazans they will be wiped out (or ethnically cleansed); on top of tariffs on countries historically considered allies, claims on friendly territories like 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 and #vileVance whacking

Here’s a clip of Sacha Baron Cohen's ‘The Dictator’ (2012), an eerily spot-on portrayal of Trump’s America.

Among experienced psychologists and psychiatrists, there is a remarkable level of empirical agreement about the qualities that define healthy psychological functioning*

When a clown moves into a palace he doesn't become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus. - Turkish proverb

Ronald Reagan vs. #tariffs : 1987 speech finds new relevance in 2025