Putin does not need an "off-ramp." He needs to lose. And only when he loses - only when he is humiliated - will Russia's wars of imperial conquest finally come to an end
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I'm starting a new series: How NOT to write: The traps we all fall into and how to avoid them.
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Moscow is equipping its fighter jets, submarines and soldiers with the help of Chinese companies, customs data shows wsj.com/articles/china via
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This is big: Leaked emails provide new evidence detailing an influence operation involving EU politicians who pushed pro-Russia policies in exchange for cash & perks. The whole thing was run by a Kremlin-linked organization.
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More than 100 thousand Israelis are demonstrating tonight in Tel Aviv and other cities around the country against Netanyahu's plan to weaken the supreme court and other Democratic institutions. This is the 6th week in a row demonstrations are taking place
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The new standard of toughness in the GOP: posing with a gun and boasting about how you personally would shoot down a balloon.
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Has someone written the definitive explanation of why China, which has high tech satellites, internet spyware and access to reams of stolen data, would even need a spy balloon?
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My investigation into Russian influencing that refused to publish in 2020 and 2022 is online now bylinetimes.com/2023/02/04/rus @seth_hettana
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I remain convinced that an authentically color-blind society—one that recognizes histories of difference but refuses to fetishize or reproduce them—is the destination we must aim for. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi
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I remain convinced that an authentically color-blind society—one that recognizes histories of difference but refuses to fetishize or reproduce them—is the destination we must aim for.
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Another Putin enemy meets a Soviet-era fate
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"If the man who still symbolizes Georgia’s old aspirations to join the liberal democratic world succumbs to a Soviet-style prison death, then those aspirations will die along with him," writes:
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"Lenin, Stalin, and their successors wanted to subjugate the entire world to their Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat. They failed—but they did a lot of damage while trying. Putin will also fail, but he too can do a lot of damage while trying. And not only in Ukraine."
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A year has passed since I wrote this, and it's all still true: Why Putin invaded Ukraine
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(for those who don't know, is run by far-right fans of the Polish Law and Justice party)
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Here is what actually happened:
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Amazing, manages to lie and tell the truth at the same time (Kaczynski did pay the money, which may or may not have been his, but only in order to get out of paying even more money as a penalty for losing a libel case)
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The head of the Polish ruling party, Jarosław Kaczyński, has donated USD 12 000 to the Ukrainian Army.
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I understand the logic (and no need to explain it to me) but it still seems strange that when employment surges and more people have jobs, the stock market goes *down*
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*Important: Call for Global Solidarity with Iran*
It was an honor to help make this happen --
Powerful statement + powerful convergence of world's lead democrats in solidarity with Iranian freedom fighters. I hope you'll sign and share.
#IranSolidarity
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The Iranian Struggle for Freedom: A Call for Global Solidarity.
Sign the petition here:
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. & Jeff Gerth devoted 24,000 words to a piece criticizing media coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal &...totally missed the point of the scandal. Worse, they bolstered Trump's bogus, self-serving narrative. Please read (and RT) my critique of theirs.
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Here’s what’s up with the debt limit 🧵
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Thanks to torture, poor medical treatment and possibly poison in the prison where he is being held, Mikhail Saakashvili's health is declining rapidly. And as he declines, so do the prospects of a sovereign, democratic Georgia.
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Mikhail Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, still symbolizes his country's aspirations to join the liberal democratic world. If he succumbs to a slow, Soviet-style prison death, then those aspirations will die along with him.
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How Rod Dreher Caused an International Scandal in Eastern Europe - The Bulwark
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🧵1/ Musk is making Twitter much less transparent, much less accountable, & thus more vulnerable to manipulation. Many of the often poorly resourced activists & academics using the API to tackle foreign influence ops will no longer be able to. Governments should worry #TwitterAPI
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Please help us get 1 million signatures from around the world in support of Iranians' struggle for a secular democracy. #IranSolidarity
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The modern battle that most resembled Stalingrad took place in Mariupol, where extraordinarily brave Ukrainians fought to the bitter end to defend themselves against a brutal invasion by Russia, an autocratic power that seeks to eradicate their culture and their nation
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Putin appears in Volgograd, former Stalingrad, to mark 80th anniversary of defeat of Nazi invaders. (State TV dateline is "Stalingrad," not Volgograd.)
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Today, 🇪🇺 President & members of the #vdLCommission meet the Ukrainian Government in #Kyiv.
The visit is a strong symbol of our support for 🇺🇦#Ukraine & we will continue to #StandWithUkraine for as long as it takes.
More info ➡️europa.eu/!XpgJXc
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"Students arrived in some Florida public school classrooms this month to find their teachers’ bookshelves wrapped in paper — or entirely barren of books — after district officials launched a review of the texts’ appropriateness under a new state law"
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1. Today I’m launching the After Babel Substack. It’s about how recent changes in technology made so many things go to to hell in the 2010s, especially teen mental health and liberal democracies
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PiS znowu znowu manipuluje, czyli kłamie. Oto akapit z mojego expose z 2014.
pokazuje tylko trzecie i czwarte zdanie aby kreować fałszywe wrażenie.
Jakoś nie słyszę chóru oburzenia.
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Late to this excellent and thoughtful piece by @StevenErlanger that provoked much debate inside @EurasiaGroup. But I don't buy the idea that there's a structural shift underway in the EU - with power and influence moving east. Longish thread 1/
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The vaccine rollout was designed while 🇪🇺 rules still applied, and could have been done identically while in the 🇪🇺. But the point is giving psychological reassurance to those who still believe that Brexit was a great idea. The price for that is that lying has now become normal. twitter.com/BorisJohnson/s
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Przyjmuję przeprosiny Jarosława Kaczyńskiego za nazwanie mnie 'zdrajcą dyplomatycznym' w formie wpłaty na walczące w obronie całej Europy siły zbrojne Ukrainy.
Cieszę się, że znaleźliśmy patriotyczne rozwiązanie.
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Our latest story demonstrates why corporate transparency is so important — showing what can be revealed with the proper reforms, in this case in the UK.
Read here, or check out the thread below for a summary.
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All of this is preparation for what will be the ugliest, and least democratic, elections to take place in Poland since 1989 - if they are even democratic at all. Rules are already being changed, money moved around in order to fix the results.
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“Washington Not Alarmed As Hitler Rises to Power”—ninety years ago today:
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Just as in 1990s Russia, the Polish ruling party is now transferring massive amounts of state wealth into "private" foundations run by their supporters. Naturally that money will be used to keep the Party in power (and maintain the lifestyle of its members) in return
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Była zmiana prawa, powstał fundusz ministra edukacji Przemysława Czarnka, a dziś w ramach dotacji organizacje bliskie obozu władzy otrzymują wielomilionowe dotacje na zakup nowych siedzib czy ich budowę.
POLECAMY tekst @jsuchecka i @piotrszostak_ 
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