So let me paint you a picture of the coming weeks: -Trump will call Putin, tell media a peace deal is very close -terms of peace deal turn out to be unacceptable for Ukraine -everybody panics, meanwhile Trump moves military forces to the Caribbean, nobody notices. -Zelensky rushes to European allies for crisis meeting -Americans push through on deal, Vance will make backhand comment about Ukraine for being "non-cooperative" or "ungrateful" -Television studios will broadcast back-to-back coverage of potential peace deal, round table discussions, live White House correspondents. -American troop build-up in Caribbean remains unnoticed, media prefers to cover comments from the Oval Office over massive troop movements. Until at last sometime by the end of summer: -Trump bombs Cuba, everyone surprised -Talking heads on TV: 'nobody saw this coming' -peace deal with Russia never mentioned again -repeat again sometime in the fall.

I think hydration breaks might just be commercials

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the United States

Barcelona, you win. Sagrada Família. Just incredible. Watch the whole thing with the sound on

Russia lost in Moldova 🇲🇩 Russia lost in Hungary 🇭🇺 Russia lost in Armenia 🇦🇲 It wont’t be too long before Russia loses in Georgia 🇬🇪 Congratulations to European Armenia! 🇪🇺 🇦🇲 EU and U.S. increased presence in the South Caucasus is vital for the entire region. It is crucial for Georgia’s democratic and European future.

While I love the Biden's, and think Hunter Biden's posts are hilarious, the whole crypto booster thing turns me off. I'm so sick of the tech bro deluge that started with NFTs, moved to Crypto, and now is AI. Please just be cool without pushing shit.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can hate your government and love your country at the same time.

CA Dems need to repeal this top two system if it doesn't come with RCV It's entirely dependent on fractured fields

The Pope is a great example of the idea that cruelty is actually dumb and that kindness and openness come from intelligence. A great juxtaposition to the (techno)fascists of our time. It takes a mind to create a better world, it takes zero to destroy it.

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

Congrats to the GOP for forcing the entire country talk about @JamesTalarico’s girlfriend, who it turns out is super hot 👍

Let us learn to be rich in a different way: more attentive to relationships, more intent on valuing the common good, more attached to the local area, more grateful in welcoming and integrating those who come to live with us.

I was the first person born in Alaska to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives!

I haven't gone through the whole DNC autopsy with a fine-tooth comb--and I'm not sure that I will--but I can already tell you that @Rob_Flaherty's unofficial autopsy is far superior. thebulwark.com/p/heres-what-…

"The FBI caught @trayonwhite on tape in 2024 pocketing $35,000 in cash." He's charged with taking another $156,000 in kickbacks. Last week, @Janeese4DC called him a "mentor."

Three weeks ago I wrote about how the Trump administration never clarified the political object of the war instead immediately sought to publicly claim success through target counts, degradation metrics, etc. Not only can't it substitute for strategy, but it's the exact thing that risks leading to defeat. But I wouldn't expect John to understand that, or at least admit to understanding that in public. Link in next tweet

I feel like I am one of the 50 people who actually used em dashes pre-AI, and now I'm constantly paranoid people will assume I'm not writing my own posts and/or texts...

Green Party of the United States: oil=BAD Russian oil=GOOD

I keep reading again and again – even from my own followers – that the presence or absence of antisemitic outbreaks supposedly depends on Israel’s actions. The war started by Russia costs the EU far more than the war in Iran. Much more. And it affects it far more directly. Yet for some reason, Russians aren’t systematically targeted – no one is going around burning Russian Orthodox churches or dousing Russian schools with kerosene. So spare me that argument. Acts of antisemitism need a pretext, not a real cause. Muslims are not targeted directly as often – because people are afraid. And, as usual, women bear the brunt, since they’re easy to identify by their headscarves. Otherwise, people just quietly make their lives more difficult whenever possible: they won’t rent them an apartment, they won’t hire them, etc So drop this narrative. If Jews were truly all-powerful rulers of the world, then Israel and Jews would be treated normally regardless of any wars. But no, that’s not how it works.

Wild that huge swathes of the American left have a huge problem with Pete Buttigieg's stint as a management consultant with McKinsey but not Graham Platner's work as a Blackwater mercenary.