Before I leave Ireland, I want to place on record that in the last 24 hours I have received constant stalking and death threats for my reporting. However I will not be intimidated. What I have uncovered is deeply troubling, and the effort to silence it only makes that clearer.

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’ I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine. I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

журналістка софія сміт ґалер, яка пише про мови, випустила відео про лінгвоцид української - дивитись усім!!! а ще вона написала книжку про лінгвоцид і найпершим має зʼявитися її переклад українською

This is categorically false. Not merely a stretch, but a straight-up lie. Congress (not Biden alone) appropriated roughly $188 billion total for Ukraine-related support from 2022–2024. NOT $350 billion. Of that, the bulk (~$110–130B in security/military categories) stayed right here in the U.S., paying American defense contractors & replenishing our own stockpiles. Actual direct financial ("cash") support to Ukraine was roughly $31–38B. Those funds were tracked by the World Bank and were audited by firms like KPMG & Deloitte. We were not writing blank checks. It's extremely frustrating to watch this President demonize an ally while downplaying Putin as the aggressor. This administration has ended new U.S. financial/military support for Ukraine (they can buy via the EU if needed). Combined with eased sanctions on Russia and the President's moral ambiguity on the war, it is just a complete betrayal that I will never, ever understand. Polls show that the vast majority of Americans are very much clear eyed about this — we support Ukraine and we sympathize with Ukraine. Our President does not reflect that majority view.

If Ghislaine Maxwell walks free on a presidential pardon, you will have officially witnessed the biggest cover up in US history.

This is what “Russian World” means: towns in Ukraine before the Russian invasion and after. Watch this video.

I was, of course, joking when I said that AfD members aren’t so much fascinated by Weidel herself as by her SS-grandfather. But it seems I’ve never been so spot-on with a joke. Noah Krieger — aka Murad Dadaev — a member of the pro-Kremlin AfD party, traveled to Chechnya and gifted Kadyrov's officials a dagger bearing a swastika. He listened to Kadyrov's speech and stood while listening to the Russian national anthem. Nazi memorabilia as a gift to officials of a terrorist republic within an aggressor state. From a member of a party that garners 20% of the vote in Germany.

BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

Blooper footage of a Russian propagandist lying about "the Ukrainian army shelling the Russian-speaking Ukrainians with artillery" in Russia-occupied Donetsk, Ukraine. 2015. This Russian fascist couldn't keep her composure and burst out laughing.

Genuinely the most evil video i've seen in my life i'm stun locked by it

RT @hissgoescobra: What happens when an Ohio distributor of Ubiquiti products that tried to illegally sell $79,000 of comms gear to Russian…

I really don't think @Olympics understand the visceral feeling anyone in Ukraine has when they see that blood soaked flag being waved. Every time it's shown anywhere it brings huge anger, disgust and discomfort. That flag means death, rape and burnt kids bodies, it's not ok.

Another Ukrainian refugee was killed in North Carolina, but MAGA is silent this time. Why? This time, the alleged killer isn’t Black. It’s a white man named Caleb. Read my column on why whiteness is elusive for Ukrainians in MAGA world. Link: terrellstarr.substack.com/p/…

Judge Reyes also concludes that Noem's decision was entirely pretextual, because she is just terminating every single TPS designation the moment it comes up for review, rather than doing any individualized review.

As Ukraine Burns, Trump Hangs a Photo of Himself With Putin in the White House Inside a public passage of the White House, President Donald Trump has chosen to honor himself alongside Vladimir Putin while a war is still killing Ukrainians. As of January 31, 2026, Russian missiles and drones struck Ukraine again this morning. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded. Mass graves have been uncovered. Ukrainians have been raped and tortured. Thousands of children have been forcibly taken into Russia—crimes for which Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. Millions are refugees. This is the blood-soaked reality in which Trump hung that photograph. It is not neutral or symbolic. It is obscene. The photograph sits above a family photo of Trump with his granddaughter, an arrangement that signals prominence rather than nostalgia. theintellectualistofficial.s…

ABC news said it was “20,000 people” lol

Steve Witkoff ran away when I confronted him about his financial ties to Russia. His real estate company has been bankrolled directly by a former advisor to Vladimir Putin's sovereign wealth fund. He’s been making pro russia statements for months.

Wait so Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS is just a straight up Nazi slogan now? "One of ours, all of yours" was a Nazi policy made when an SS officer was killed in a Czech Village and then the Nazis killed every single resident of that village in response…..but don’t you dare call them Nazis!

This was so on the nose that I burst into laughter