Kevin Rothrock

hyper-professional #Russia guy, managing editor of [@meduza_en](https://masto.ai/@meduza_en ) (all toots here are my views alone), ugly American based in Portland, Oregon (USA). Signal: @KevinRothrock.01

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2026-10-27 23:18:02 UTC

Apple removes the VPN client Incy from Russia’s App Store at Roskomnadzor’s request, its developers say. They received the removal notice overnight on Oct. 27 and are looking for a way to restore the app. It remains available in other countries. https://t.me/moscowtimes_ru/51057

2026-10-25 20:53:27 UTC

"The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, conceded defeat on Sunday in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government." https://apnews.com/article/serbia-election-students-vucic-fdf5def8a20aebc8ae139fd719478775

2026-10-25 20:51:12 UTC

Zero movement in two years: Zelensky again says territorial questions can be discussed only by the presidents, Russia can't dictate Ukraine’s security guarantees, & limits on its army/neutrality are off the table. US has long proposed “land swaps,” he adds, but Kyiv won't exchange territory. https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/56429

2026-10-16 18:50:52 UTC

"Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine," The Telegraph reports. “He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it. The reality is that they were both in it.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-approached-trump-slow-down-starlink-help-ukraine/

2026-10-14 19:35:43 UTC

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2026-10-11 17:55:26 UTC

we all knew this one was coming https://www.ft.com/content/68fd8c4f-6f34-4f6e-a52c-76f635164031?shareType=nongift&syn-25a6b1a6=1
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2026-10-10 16:23:56 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/117392361235791156
❤️ most enjoyable
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2026-10-07 13:21:16 UTC

Latvia's foreign minister moves to expel journalist & pundit Leonid Ragozin based on "information received today from the competent authorities." It appears to be retaliation for Ragozin's political commentary — in other words, a crackdown on free speech. https://www.politico.eu/article/latvia-moves-expel-russian-journalist-leonid-ragozin/

2026-10-06 17:45:51 UTC

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

2026-10-06 05:41:17 UTC

the latest Alastair Reynolds book has a revived Yuri Gagarin as the main character ... as a private eye ... aboard an interstellar generation ship ... it's a murder mystery
😲

2026-09-27 00:43:52 UTC

It seems we're back to the back-and-forth, pipe-dream talk of Kyiv manufacturing its own Patriot interceptors: today, Trump declined to confirm Zelensky’s claim that he agreed to grant the licenses. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/26/politics/trump-ukraine-patriot-missiles

2026-09-18 17:53:34 UTC

Programmer Petr Zhizhin says Moscow’s online voting site checks whether voters use a VPN by making their browsers load a YouTube image. If it loads (YouTube is blocked in Russia), the result is sent to the voting server before login. https://t.me/PlushevChannel/38561

2026-09-13 14:31:04 UTC

Trump tells Zelensky to stop striking Russian diesel facilities: “Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel fuel.” https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-drones-odesa-refinery-border-crossing-17bb6a0401abc3eaa7d4586150a41d7d

2026-09-09 21:36:28 UTC

Norway’s prime minister said on Sept. 9 that a drone nearly hit Zelensky’s plane leaving Moldova for Oslo on Sept. 8. His office later clarified that a drone threat had delayed the flight. How close the drones came remains unclear. https://www.nrk.no/artikkel/zelenskyjs-fly-ble-forsinket-av-dronetrussel-1527509

2026-09-07 02:05:25 UTC

Ukrainian outlet Glavcom, citing anon Russian Telegram chatter, claims that an alleged peace plan linked to the Witkoff-Kushner Moscow trip would require Ukraine to hold elections & a referendum, amend its constitution to renounce retaking ceded territory by force, & adopt nonaligned status. https://glavcom.ua/country/incidents/putin-ne-harantuvatime-bezpeku-vitkoffu-i-kushneru-v-kijevi-isw-1140958.html
The original source for this "leaked plan" seems to be the INSIDER-T, an anonymous Telegram channel that publishes purported, well, insider information. https://t.me/c/1861714876/6668

2026-09-01 06:03:39 UTC

Citing an anonymous source "close to the Kremlin," the outlet Agentstvo reports that Putin cleared his schedule to speak with Ratcliffe last week, but decided against the meeting after learning that its purpose was for the CIA director to lecture him about how Russia is losing and should negotiate. https://www.agents.media/putin-otkazalsya-ot-vstrechi-s-glavoj-tsru-posle-togo-kak-stala-ponyatna-tsel-ego-vizita-istochnik/

2026-08-27 18:08:26 UTC

any day now
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2026-08-27 15:48:49 UTC

"The US military is experiencing a 'beyond critical' shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe," reports AP, citing a US defense official who says NATO would be forced "to take punch after punch in the mouth" if Russia turns its ballistic missiles on the alliance. https://apnews.com/article/patriot-missiles-iran-war-russia-ukraine-trump-09c7d8030a2e11fbd8ee3f7176b3f2d4
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2026-08-23 20:56:14 UTC

The peoples of Belarus and North Korea will soon enjoy the fruits of visa-free travel to one another's freedom-loving lands, says Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov. https://t.me/kommersant/113735

2026-08-20 13:33:36 UTC

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The death toll in Kyiv is up to 15 now with another 39 people injured. https://t.me/dsns_kyiv/3894

2026-08-20 06:20:12 UTC

The death toll from Russia's latest strike on Kyiv has risen to 12, the city's mayor says. A missile reportedly tore open the top floors of a 9-story apartment building. A school and a children's hospital were also damaged. Moscow says it hit a plant making Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile. https://t.me/bbcrussian/98510

2026-08-19 01:13:13 UTC

Wow: "Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, a significant number for a Democrat in red-leaning Florida, while Nixon brought in just over $900,000."
Imagine how much ordinary voters have to hate the Democratic establishment to get these results at the ballot.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/angie-nixon-winner-florida-senate-primary-democrat-alex-vindman-moody-rcna593255

2026-08-14 15:20:40 UTC

Zelensky can't find anyone willing to be Ukraine's ambassador in Washington, with strong candidates refusing the job, four Ukrainian lawmakers told Politico. The post could even stay vacant until after the U.S. midterms, when the "landscape" becomes clearer. 🤡 https://www.politico.eu/article/job-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-envoy-donald-trump-washington-us/

2026-08-04 01:46:02 UTC

Telegram has reportedly disappeared from the App Store in Russia and supposedly also in Turkey and the USA. (It's still visible in the Play Store from here in America for me.) https://t.me/tass_agency/388580

2026-07-13 18:15:55 UTC

Somebody's asleep at the copypasta wheel over at Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-13/russian-refinery-runs-plunge-to-lowest-in-more-than-two-decades
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2026-07-09 20:07:20 UTC

Zelensky vows an investigation and firings after a Russian strike on July 6 detonated a munitions depot near Kyiv, damaging a large residential area in Vyshneve, killing nine people. The depot belonged to an enterprise of state conglomerate Ukroboronprom. https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2026/07/09/8043321/

2026-07-09 09:19:00 UTC

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2026-07-09 07:15:49 UTC

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I kinda doubt that the millions of AI glasses sold in the last few years are going mostly to people so old. This is a growth market.

2026-07-09 07:02:20 UTC

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movie theaters will be extinct by the time these get to market, and a crowded bar where it takes 20 minutes to get in an order is going to scrutinize every customer's glasses? I doubt it.

2026-07-09 06:56:08 UTC

strap the panopticon to my FACE, baby
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2026-07-07 18:16:41 UTC

IOC provisionally lifts Russian Olympic Committee's suspension, clearing Russian athletes to return to competitions, including LA 2028 qualifiers. "We don't want to hold athletes accountable for the actions of their government," IOC President Kirsty Coventry said. https://www.reuters.com/sports/ioc-provisionally-lifts-ban-russian-olympic-committee-athletes-return-2026-07-07/

2026-07-06 01:21:49 UTC

Just one phone call from the White House. If only the war in Ukraine could be fixed as easily as the World Cup.

2026-07-02 19:52:00 UTC

"You were in the top one percent of all Supertramp listeners last week," Spotify tells me. A fine moment for ole Kevino.

2026-07-02 14:41:57 UTC

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Probably more likely to be eaten by their corporate lawyers than prosecuted by EU officials.

2026-07-02 14:35:32 UTC

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I wonder if this even applies to "disinformation experts" who post clips from RT and other Russian state media outlets? Is dissemination allowed if you attach text criticizing the content? European speech laws are so confounding to my American mind.

2026-07-02 13:54:48 UTC

The EU Court of Justice has ruled that it's illegal to disseminate RT footage even if you're financing it through private donations on your own website. "Economic activity, extent, and duration" don't matter. Potentially means that even tweeting a clip is now outlawed in the EU? https://infocuria.curia.europa.eu/tabs/jurisprudence?sort=DOC_DATE-DESC&searchTerm=%22C-67%2F25%22&publishedId=C-67%2F25

2026-07-01 05:32:26 UTC

it's so goddamn funny how he always makes himself about 30% bigger. god, what a loser.
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2026-06-27 15:43:44 UTC

In an interview with The Times, Ukraine's commander-in-chief says it's too soon to claim a turning point in the war. Kyiv's strategy depends on Russia exhausting itself, not on Ukraine breaking through — and he acknowledges current advantages may not last.
Moscow's war aims, Syrskyi says, are unchanged. Advances have slowed, but Russia has recently gained ground inside Kostiantynivka and troops continue to press forward in a thousand-cuts campaign aimed at penetrating Ukrainian defenses as deeply as possible.
Syrskyi says his forces have more FPV kamikaze drones than Russia has troops on its soil (the latter estimated at 721,300) and fly nearly twice as many strike missions per day, but that edge has also paralyzed large offensives for both sides.
"We hope the moment will come when the enemy mobilises all its forces, its resources and actions, after which exhaustion will set in, and a turning point may follow," Syrskyi says. But he also stresses that "Russia has enormous potential, first and foremost in terms of its weapons systems," and says a sudden technological breakthrough could reverse everything.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/russia-ukraine-war/article/ukraine-commander-in-chief-interview-gp5x95lt2

2026-06-24 19:35:45 UTC

I attempted a translation of Semyon Slepakov's new parody song, trying to convey the fart-joke at the end as gracefully as I could. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/kNWjjlL0MpM?si=XLDciivFPxTBPRDa
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2026-06-23 22:05:38 UTC

I'm not watching the games, but this very fine commentary almost makes me want to.
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2026-06-23 20:00:45 UTC

The fuel shortage spreading across Russia over the past two weeks is really something. I don't know what impact it will have on the Kremlin's policymaking and war planning, but the shortage itself is clearly a major development.

2026-06-20 16:08:42 UTC

Zelensky is showing a lot of confidence on the international stage, trolling and teasing Putin repeatedly in open letters and public statements, threatening to attack sites in Belarus if Lukashenko rejects his ultimatum to pull equipment from the border, and now this squabble with Poland:
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2026-06-18 18:59:49 UTC

no translation needed, perhaps
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2026-06-16 21:40:15 UTC

not too shabby
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2026-06-14 17:11:23 UTC

Zelensky keeps trolling Putin, though a strategy apparently built on the expectation that "an agreement will have to be reached with someone else from Russia" seems a bit dicey, to put it mildly.
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2026-06-12 11:36:11 UTC

A Habr analysis claims that RuStore — VK's app store preinstalled on all Android phones sold in Russia — logs the device's location every few minutes via GPS and cell towers, tracks every app users open and for how long, and can silently install new software. Yikes. https://habr.com/ru/articles/1046710/

2026-06-12 00:18:27 UTC

Sources in the Zelensky admin told Ukrainska Pravda that his team's big plan is to prepare for peace talks this fall, which Putin will supposedly accept after the summer's fighting. Ze apparently sent Putin an "addendum" claiming that his own generals are lying to him about Russian advances. https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2026/06/11/8038726/

2026-06-04 18:44:11 UTC

Zelensky publishes an open letter to Putin — another pitch for a face-to-face meeting (not in Moscow or Kyiv). Despite the offer, it's not a particularly diplomatic text. Lots of taunts and threats. I assume this was written mostly for Ukraine's European allies. https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidkritij-list-prezidentu-rosijskoyi-federaciyi-vid-preziden-104769
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2026-06-01 23:14:10 UTC

🎶 one of these things is not like the other 🎶
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2026-05-29 19:13:52 UTC

YUSS. eat shit, Donald! https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-orders-removal-trumps-name-kennedy-center-2026-05-29/
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2026-05-27 22:11:12 UTC

Two small girls, ages 3 and 6, were wounded alongside their mother when Russian forces hit a playground in Kherson with multiple-launch rockets. The girls' father was killed in the attack. Local authorities say a fifth person was also wounded. https://suspilne.media/kherson/1317053-rosijski-vijska-vdarili-z-rszv-po-ditacomu-majdanciku-u-hersoni-zaginuv-colovik-sered-poranenih-diti/

2026-05-26 18:36:45 UTC

Excellent article by Olena Fetisova, who studied the Starobilsk college attack. She corroborates the victims' identity as students (their lives were well documented online), flags major problems with supposed evidence of a "drone unit" at the dorm (nothing even incidental in social media pics, likely fake viral images, dorm address confusion), notes Russian silence about fires at a nearby agro-industrial facility (suggests selective disclosure & unnamed legitimate military targets), and tackles the dehumanization of the victims: "The willingness to deny human dignity to residents of occupied territories is not patriotism." https://realgazeta.com.ua/studienti-buli-shcho-vidbuvaietsia-z-diskusiieiu-pro-udar-po-okupovanomu-starobilsku/

2026-05-21 23:54:29 UTC

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Was this all posted from a single source?

2026-05-17 03:14:50 UTC

Ukrainian drones hit two Moscow suburbs overnight, killing three people — a woman in Khimki and two men in Mytishchi — and leaving one person trapped under rubble, according to the region's governor, Andrey Vorobyov. https://t.me/ostorozhno_moskva/32376

2026-05-17 02:29:42 UTC

just another day
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2026-05-16 19:26:30 UTC

Terrific road-trip article by James Lasdun in LRB. He drove across the USA, dropping in on random court hearings as a public observer, collecting snapshots of America's justice system and people caught up in it. Loved reading this. Makes me want to do the same. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n07/james-lasdun/reality-instruction
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2026-05-13 15:22:47 UTC

If Trump during his China visit can convince OnePlus to maintain its foreign operations, it wouldn't win me over to his administration, but it would still be nice.

2026-05-13 05:07:02 UTC

I'm struggling to understand why dressing up as the foreign leader you kidnapped is cool. Like, even if you think abducting Maduro was great, why would you want to walk around in his clothes? What's the message exactly?
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2026-05-07 17:59:04 UTC

A Russian lawmaker has introduced a bill that would limit prosecutions of old social media posts by tying the statute of limitations to publication dates, not discovery dates. A doomed initiative and apparent campaign posturing by Duma deputy speaker Vladislav Davankov. https://t.me/obrazbuduschego2/24922

2026-05-07 15:07:20 UTC

pretty wild that American farmers are suffering from a fertilizer shortage despite record levels of bullshit from the White House

2026-05-06 18:30:43 UTC

Another Russian Gen Z Great Hope gets the hell out of Dodge: Sofia Chepik, 20, a member of the "Crimson Swan" anti-censorship movement, has fled the country after serving 15 days in jail & being coerced into appearing in an FSB video about an alleged car bomb plot targeting Russia's Internet censor. https://t.me/svobodnieslova/8870

2026-04-28 02:43:50 UTC

now *that* is a moneyshot photo
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2026-04-20 05:33:18 UTC

Pack in the Orban-defeat victory confetti, Western libs: Rumen Radev's party wins an absolute majority in Bulgaria's parliamentary elections, with nearly two-thirds of votes counted, positioning it to form a government without coalition partners. https://t.me/alexander_kynev/20333?single

2026-04-16 23:17:14 UTC

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does the mean he can't be knocked over

2026-04-16 20:23:34 UTC

Europeans wondering if the U.S. will come to their aid if Russia decides to attack should instead be asking if the U.S. will even deliver the weapons Europe already paid for. Sorry, lads, our stocks are running a bit, erm, low. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-officials-tell-european-countries-expect-weapons-delivery-delays-sources-say-2026-04-16/

2026-04-16 16:41:43 UTC

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I assume that Russia's accelerating Internet censorship campaign is just the natural progression of the police state's gradual takeover, but plans to escalate open conflict with NATO members on Russia's periphery would be a good reason to lock down the Web.

2026-04-16 16:38:54 UTC

Russian Security Council Secretary Shoigu says Ukrainian drones are flying through Finnish and Baltic airspace to strike Russian territory and suggested that Moscow has grounds to invoke the UN Charter's self-defense clause. https://www.interfax.ru/russia/1084382

2026-04-16 14:27:41 UTC

Europe has “maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in an Associated Press interview, warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war. https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703

2026-04-16 05:36:30 UTC

I'm not a Catholic, let alone a Christian, so I can't say for certain whether questioning the Pope's authority on theology is a strange thing for a Catholic to do, but it seems strange.
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2026-04-15 19:40:36 UTC

Russia's Defense Ministry posted a list of companies across Europe that are reportedly linked to the production of the drones Ukraine fires at Russia. According to Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Medvedev, these sites are "potential targets." https://t.me/mod_russia/62686
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2026-04-09 05:31:34 UTC

The Avignon Papacy sounds like a forgotten installment in Dan Brown's mysteries

2026-04-07 22:36:35 UTC

the best TACO Tuesday yet
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2026-04-06 19:01:04 UTC

Remember that time all of Mastodon crashed for hours and hours, like Bluesky is crashing today? No? That's weird...

2026-04-06 05:16:34 UTC

Remarkable that the US is bombing a country of tens of millions of people and crashing the world energy market, but the American mainstream media is captivated by a pilot rescue story.

2026-04-03 22:36:41 UTC

This photo of Earth from a window in the Artemis II is simply awesome. I wish the world's leaders could get this humbling glimpse firsthand (just before they were all pushed out the airlock).
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2026-04-01 22:52:02 UTC

nice to watch launch footage of astronauts instead of weapons for a change
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2026-03-22 00:06:01 UTC

he seems to be losing it faster and faster
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2026-03-20 05:44:13 UTC

The Republicans have managed to combine Russia's aggressive, poorly planned war-of-choice model with Ukraine's hopeless pay-us-reparations demands. It truly is a grand old party.
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2026-03-19 06:40:42 UTC

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov makes it official: trilateral peace talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the USA are suspended (apparently indefinitely) thanks to the Iran War. I suspect Moscow and Kyiv are secretly relieved to be done with the charade. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8515368?tg

2026-03-12 04:38:53 UTC

Trump's Iran War costs the U.S. $1.88 billion a day. At that rate, it will take less than 2 months to match the $109 billion sent to Ukraine over three years during the Biden admin. In only six days, the U.S. has already spent 10% of what it disbursed to Kyiv after Russia's Feb 2022 invasion.
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2026-03-10 07:28:13 UTC

A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine & China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris. Intended for Western spies, the tools "wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian govt spooks & Chinese cybercriminals." https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/an-iphone-hacking-toolkit-used-by-russian-spies-likely-came-from-u-s-military-contractor/

2026-03-06 14:32:15 UTC

It seems Moscow is giving Uncle Sam a taste of his own medicine in Iran by maybe, possibly, potentially providing targeting intel for retaliatory strikes on U.S. forces. "Not on a par with America’s but still ranks among the world’s best." Dueling proxy wars! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/06/russia-iran-intelligence-us-targets/

2026-02-27 20:54:11 UTC

just an old lunatic elected by tens of millions of people, folks
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2026-02-20 23:10:56 UTC

On this week's Naked Pravda, Eilish Hart spoke to Janis Kluge about the regional funding dynamics of Russia's surprisingly successful, possibly teetering military recruitment system. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2026/02/21/russia-s-recruitment-machine-runs-on-cash-and-the-regions-bankrolling-it-are-starting-to-run-out-we-asked-researcher-janis-kluge-how-much-longer-putin-can-avoid-another-mobilization

2026-02-20 14:54:32 UTC

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"Hungary and Slovakia have accounted for 68% of Ukraine's imported power this month, according to Kyiv-based consultancy ExPro. Hungary also accounts for about a third of Ukraine's current gas imports, according to the country's gas transit operator."
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-considers-cutting-power-gas-exports-ukraine-russian-oil-row-2026-02-19/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

2026-02-19 18:14:21 UTC

Budapest says it may halt electricity and gas shipments to Ukraine unless Kyiv resumes Russian oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline. Hungary and Slovakia — both now drawing on strategic reserves — have already stopped diesel exports to Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-considers-cutting-power-gas-exports-ukraine-russian-oil-row-2026-02-19/

2026-02-10 01:06:40 UTC

Michael McFaul vs catturd2
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2026-02-07 00:13:42 UTC

Kyiv knew Russia had smuggled Starlink, but it didn't want SpaceX to cut it off — too many Ukrainian units relied on unregistered, non-whitelisted terminals, too. What changed? Russia started using Starlink-equipped drones to strike 50 miles behind Ukrainian lines. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/07/russia-was-never-supposed-to-have-starlink-so-why-did-spacex-wait-so-long-to-cut-it-off

2026-02-06 16:34:56 UTC

looking forward to this fucker getting impeached every week after the midterms
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2026-02-05 00:38:43 UTC

A joke about a man who lost his legs in a mine blast and who was pushing himself through a Moscow subway station on a skateboard has landed Russian comedian Artemy Ostanin in prison for SIX YEARS. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/world/europe/russian-comedian-jokes-about-veterans.html?searchResultPosition=2

2026-02-04 16:39:51 UTC

well, there goes my last reason for reading WaPo even occasionally
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2026-01-19 15:30:36 UTC

just insane
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2026-01-15 00:04:28 UTC

New podcast episode. I spoke to historian William Jay Risch about his new book on the Euromaidan Revolution, which certainly challenges the conventions of American academic work on Ukraine. He writes about how escalating revolutionary violence weakened Ukrainian unity just as Russia intervened. https://meduza.io/en/episodes/2026/01/15/historian-william-jay-risch-looks-back-at-euromaidan-and-ukraine-s-road-from-revolutionary-euphoria-to-the-madness-of-war

2026-01-13 05:04:39 UTC

enemies of america, your children are about to be groked. also, allies of america. americans, you too.
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2026-01-12 03:14:23 UTC

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell. Wow.
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2026-01-11 10:13:32 UTC

When asked what?
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2026-01-11 08:38:17 UTC

We all know Moscow's long-term strategy in Ukraine has been to wait out the West, betting that its commitment will always outlast what America & Europe can muster, but I think even Putin would've called you nuts in 2022 to talk about open warfare between NATO members in 2026.
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2026-01-11 02:12:20 UTC

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings: A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July. https://www.wsj.com/us-news/videos-show-how-ice-vehicle-stops-can-escalate-to-shootings-caf17601?mod=mhp
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2026-01-09 20:02:13 UTC

I watched that horrific POV cell phone video, and I don't see a domestic terrorist out for blood. I did learn something, though.
Renee Good’s last words to ICE Agent Jonathan Ross: “That’s fine, dude. I’m not mad at you.”
Ross, after shooting and killing her, seconds later: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

2026-01-08 23:55:24 UTC

ICE shot some more people today, this time here in Portland, Oregon. "Officers have determined the two people were injured in the shooting involving federal agents." I assume the feds fled the scene again? https://www.portland.gov/police/news/2026/1/8/two-shot-and-injured-federal-agents-hazelwood-neighborhood?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery