It is an amazing and lovely thing to know that #BetterOffDead is trending today. A critical and commercial disappointment on its release in 1984, this delightful film found its audience over decades and still speaks to people. I'm proud to have been part of it.

Russia is no longer a state sponsor of terror, but a fully terrorist state. The only way to end the terror is to give Ukraine everything they need to defend and win the war as quickly as possible. Any further delay means being Putin's accomplice in murder. 3/4

2/ At the very top of his priorities was air and missile defence systems to ‘close the skies’ to use his exact words. The past 24 hours has again shown why President Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський was so strident about this requirement.

I have a confession to make. I used a teleprompter in this interview last night. The truth is I am not able to do my show without a teleprompter. (That's true of every TV news host who is discussing the way John Fetterman does interviews.)

At October 2, 1552 Kazan fall to Ivan the Terrible. The city was destroyed, its population massacred. Although guerrilla lasted for decades, systematic devastation of the country eventually broke the armed resistance. I believe the story of Kazan fall to be quite instructive

As you process the latest revelations in today's January 6th Committee hearing, never forget that every Republican opposed any investigation of that day's events whatsoever.

Due to the Russian shelling of the energy plants, there are rolling blackouts in #Ukraine. Ukrainians found a way to keep the trams circulating according to a schedule without electricity.

How Soviet Union industrialised? Bolsheviks were fascinated by the American industrial power. They commissioned American companies with building plants in USSR. This was paid for by intensive agricultural export. Stalin did the Holodomor to pay the Caterpillar Inc. invoices

Just learned this man memes. Eg Vitaly Kim, Governor of Mikolaiv Oblast

To put it in a simple way: the smarter a technology, the dumber the humans. You can get highly precise product with dumb machines. For that you need *really* smart humans (there's always few of them). But once you switch to smart machines, there's no way back. Old expertise lost

What Mehmet Oz means when he says abortion should be between "a woman, her doctor, and local political leaders." #PASenateDebate Thx Amy Schumer

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