After spending billions of dollars in pursuit of international glory and economic riches, #Tokyo2020 failed to live up to its promise and cast a harsh light on Japan’s political culture. Tokyo ultimately experienced the Games like any other city: on TV. nyti.ms/3Cs8uqW

One of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed was when this strobe light at G1C was malfunctioning and it was terrorizing this guy SPECIFICALLY 🤣🤣

Downtown Portland: Far-right extremists groups and anti-fascists battled on the streets off for over an hour. There were beatings, mace, and improvised firework explosives. No police response.

LIFE SIZE RONALD REAGAN FIGURE FOR SALE

What an ass-backwards way of doing things

This is like The Coca-Cola Company announcing it will stop selling Coke

What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The Taliban leadership is admonishing rank-and-file fighters to stop goofing around taking selfies after their take over of Afghanistan on.wsj.com/2WdZR3h

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky turned down an offer from the US to evacuate from the capital city Kyiv, the Ukraine embassy in Britain said on Twitter. According to the embassy, Zelensky said: "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride" cnn.it/3IusxI3

Watching the economic news out of Russia as sanctions hit, I was reminded of the programmatic statement Putin made 22 years ago on his first day in office. It was called "Russia on the Eve of the Millennium." This is what he promised Russians. A short thread of quotes: 1/7

>Jeffrey Goldberg asked MBS if he was capable of handling criticism. “If I couldn’t, I would not be sitting with you today listening to that question.” “I’d be in the Ritz-Carlton,” Jeff suggested. “Well,” he said, “at least it’s a five-star hotel.” bit.ly/3vAP42d

On the direction of post Soviet Russia you've got to hand it to *checks notes* Richard Nixon

It appears William shares the same propensity for gaffes as his grandfather

$117M is chump change for a country. If Russia defaults on such a tiny sum then they either plan on cutting off foreign money for quite awhile or they are in serious financial crisis mode.

An investigation by Bellingcat, The Insider and #BBCEyeInvestigations has found that in the months before he was shot dead, Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was followed by members of the same FSB squad that tailed Alexey Navalny and other opposition figures bellingcat.com/news/2022/03/2…

Sam Bankman-Fried emails Attorney General of The Bahamas November 10, 2022