It's a valid point to insert into the debate, and highlights its complexity and paradoxes, but would this have been true had Palantir existed in Nazi Germany to help track, find, and organise the rounding up of, distribution to death camps of, and extermination of Jews. Eichmann?

When a government starts acting against its own supposed democratic principles, not mentioning even the constitutional infringements and plain day to day illegality of methods, this argument disintegrates. We need to clear up this confusion of "democratically elected" and moral.

"Very poor white people” are being convinced that “very poor, hard-working brown or Black people” are responsible for the “problems caused by billionaire white men”, Allison Morris, Crime Correspondent at the Belfast Telegraph, says in the wake of the riots that spread through the capital of Northern Ireland overnight.

The bullshit biolabs conspiracy is back at the exact same time Candice Owen’s and Andrew Tate arrive in Moscow. This is a coordinated disinformation damaging against Ukraine by the Kremlin. Don’t fall for it

They have no idea

It is impossible to view Tulsi Gabbard as anything other than a Russian asset after her persistent lies regarding ’biological labs’ in Ukraine. By spreading debunked Kremlin conspiracy theories, she has once again directly compromised Western security to boost Moscow's information war. Gabbard knows the exact nature of the research taking place in Ukraine, making her public statements deeply deceptive. The facilities she targeted are standard BSL-3 diagnostic laboratories, which are common worldwide for managing routine but serious illnesses. Work in a BSL-3 lab is strictly regulated, but it remains a foundational part of global civilian health infrastructure aimed at treating known diseases. She intentionally blurred the lines to confuse the public about BSL-4 labs, which are the only facilities equipped to handle entirely untreatable, lethal bio-agents. A BSL-4 lab requires maximum engineering controls, including a dedicated, non-recirculating air supply, extensive structural reinforcement, and personnel in positive-pressure suits. By singling out Ukraine and pretending its basic BSL-3 public health centers are part of a dangerous biological warfare program, Gabbard gave a veneer of credibility to Russia's wildest fabrications. She willfully chose to ignore the facts in order to validate a hostile nation's propaganda campaign during a genocide. Her actions represent a fundamental betrayal of national trust, and she deserves to be legally prosecuted for treason

So Tulsi managed to draw a map where half the "American biolabs" are supposedly based in territories occupied by russia for 14 years… and pro-russians are out here sharing it like some giant own?! It’s honestly impressive to miss your own point that hard.

The first Trump administration funded and supported these same labs in Ukraine. Gabbard released documents today claiming the Biden administration covered them up - on her last day as DNI, before handing over to Bill Pulte. The documents don't say what the press release claims. Read them.

One last piece of Russian propaganda before she departs. Nothing about Russia’s Nazi-style filtration camps in occupied eastern Ukraine, the torture network, forced deportations, or the thousands of civilians and POWs subjected to abuse. Shocker…………not!

This video was published in January 2020. And that timing matters, because it shows Russian “Ukrainian biolab” propaganda did not magically appear after the 2022 invasion. Moscow had been dragging this corpse of a conspiracy around for years, especially against Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and other post-Soviet countries that dared to cooperate with the West. The video explains the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program as exactly what the name says: a threat-reduction program. Its purpose was to help partner countries secure dangerous Soviet-era pathogens, improve disease detection, strengthen public-health laboratories, and stop natural outbreaks from becoming regional security disasters. In Ukraine, the official priority was to consolidate and secure pathogens and help detect and report disease outbreaks before they became wider threats. The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency also states that the work was peaceful, subject to export-control and vetting processes, and did not sponsor gain-of-function research or human experimentation. The video also makes clear why Russia hated these labs: not because they were secret weapons sites, but because they represented Western cooperation with countries Moscow still treats like stolen property. Georgia’s Lugar Center is the perfect example. Russia smeared it as a U.S. proxy bioweapons facility, while Georgia opened it to international review. In 2018, 22 experts and observers from 17 countries inspected the Lugar Center under the Biological Weapons Convention framework and found transparency around its activities. Russian experts were invited, then refused to participate, because obviously the propaganda works better when you never look at the evidence. So the Russian narrative is not “skepticism.” It is geopolitical sewage with a lab coat thrown over it. The same machine that calls invasions “liberation” and civilian massacres “staged” also tried to turn public-health laboratories into cartoon villain bioweapon factories. The goal was not truth. The goal was fear, confusion, and poisoning public trust in countries moving closer to the West. The whole point of the video is transparency: these projects were not classified, scientists were encouraged to publish, international experts were invited in, and the work was described as peaceful public-health cooperation. Russia’s claim was the opposite: secret U.S. bioweapons plots on Russia’s borders. One side offered inspections, publications, and open cooperation. The other side offered paranoia, state media hysteria, and the usual Kremlin swamp gas. This is basically pre-2022 evidence that the “Ukrainian biolab” panic was never a serious argument. It was an old Russian disinformation weapon, reheated when useful, then thrown into the invasion narrative to make Russia look like the victim while it was the aggressor.

As the Canadian official in charge of the bio labs file in 2007-8, I call BS. All of our activities, coordinated with the US, were above-board, and designed to PREVENT bioweapons proliferation, eg by replicating secure facilities like 🇨🇦 own Winnipeg lab in the post-Soviet space.

I’d like to remind everyone that four years ago, the online morons obsessed with “biolabs in Ukraine” were dead serious when they claimed that Russia was “forced” to invade Ukraine because scientists there were developing “viruses” capable of selectively killing only ethnic Russians. Yes, it’s all that imbecilic.

👀 Lithuanian and Latvian football fans send united message to Putin.

Russia is. And is many things. One of them is "led by KGB crooks who kill the voice of real culture and even break their own constitution". Also "led by KGB grifters who stir up war and murder millions for the sake of their own mere power".

RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research. Alzheimers. One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today. He's not interested. He's a nasty piece of work.

Russian Z-bloggers post footage of Ukrainian drones freely flying over Russian-occupied Crimea, attacking fuel trucks and military targets. They predict that soon this will lead to "panic and total collapse of all main roads."

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children. History's first trillionaire.

Irish politicians are still denying the russian refinery is fuelling the Kremlins war. Well it is. Here’s how 👇

As far as I can tell, Tulsi’s big “secret biolab” bombshell is recycled Kremlin propaganda. These labs were never secret. The U.S. spent decades funding biosafety and disease-surveillance work abroad under Nunn-Lugar, with the facility lists posted publicly by the State Department and our own embassy in Kyiv. Russia invented the “secret bioweapons” spin in 2022 to help justify invading Ukraine. Our own intelligence flagged it as disinformation. Now Tulsi is laundering that exact line, while conveniently forgetting the first Trump administration funded this same research. Nothing was hidden and the only thing being manufactured here is the coverup. Tulsi, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Good stuff from @cjcmichel. Armenia's election flew under the radar here, but it was no small thing given what Moscow put into making it go the other way. "Other countries in Russia’s “near abroad” are charting their own paths. In Moldova, the Russian-occupied region of Transnistria is suffering economic collapse and growing more supportive of reintegration with the rest of the country. In Armenia, the national government is moving along a pro-Western path, recently hosting its first bilateral summit with the European Union. Even after Mr. Putin threatened Yerevan with a 'Ukrainian scenario,' the government there didn’t waver—a far cry from the behavior of a Russian vassal." wsj.com/opinion/russia-has-l…