Day 1567 of my 3 day war. Petrol queues in Crimea will soon be so long you need a tank fuel to drive from the start of the line to where you can fill up. I remain a master strategist.

Laughed hearing Lightning fans in Tampa chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" during last night's 4-3 OT loss to Canadiens. The Lightning roster last night had 10 Canadians on it and three Americans. Their head coach is also Canadian and their goalie and best player are both Russian. #Habs

Ukraine: destroys Russian airfields, oil depots, military manufacturing, missile launch sites, radars. Russia: crushes residential buildings full of residents inside, destroys power and heating facilities, churches, UNESCO sites. That's the war we're having.

Homan to MN, Trump speaks with Walz, Leavitt distances Trump a bit from Noem—all show Trump’s feeling heat. But these gestures mean as much as Putin suggesting he’s changed and wants peace with Ukraine. Don’t fall for it. Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.

🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces continue advancing on the Zaporizhzhia axis. Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have reached the northern approaches to Mala Tokmachka and captured positions previously held by occupying forces. Enemy attempts to advance in the Orikhiv and Huliaipole areas have failed; the positions remain under Ukrainian control. See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231

Today is a big win for Illinois and American democracy. I am glad the Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump did not have the authority to deploy the federalized guard in Illinois.

Military analysts in 2025--The Russian military has adapted and pressed forward inexorably and will soon take Pokrovsk. Historians in 2055--The Russian military campaign of 2025 was one of the most self-destructive in modern military history.

This is the energy Dems need to bring to Washington in 2029.

🇷🇺🪖 URGENT : « Je ne suis pas président, alors je le dis : la guerre ne s’arrêtera pas tant que nous n’aurons pas écrasé l’Europe. » — Karaganov, conseilleur géopolitique de Poutine. On ne peut faire plus clair. Ignorer ces menaces est criminel. Oui, la Russie est une menace.

THIS IS WHY MAGA LOVES HIM. EVERY DAY, DURING EVERY MEETING... DONALD FIGHTS WOKENESS.

Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden) Think Science (and especially Medicine) has somehow failed you? Think again #ScienceMatters

MORE: Putin's claim that Russian forces will inevitably seize all of Donetsk Oblast if the war continues is false. Russia could only rapidly seize all of Donetsk Oblast if Ukraine concedes to Putin's demand and withdraws from the remainder of the oblast. 🧵(1/3) The Russian campaign to seize all of Donetsk Oblast has been ongoing since Russia's first invasion in 2014 and remains incomplete. Russian forces have been bogged down in campaigns to seize multiple towns and cities in Donetsk Oblast since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, and Russian forces are still struggling to achieve the objectives of several of these campaigns today. Seizing the remainder of Donetsk Oblast will very likely take Russian forces multiple years to complete after several difficult campaigns. Russian forces have historically thrown themselves into costly campaigns to seize fortified or urban areas in eastern Ukraine, a reality far from Putin's claims of rapid advances. Russian forces undertook four notable campaigns in eastern Ukraine in 2024 into 2025 that illustrate how difficult it will likely be for Russian forces to seize the remainder of Donetsk Oblast through force. - Russian forces first began efforts to retake Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast in October 2023 and have conducted multiple separate campaigns aimed at seizing the town in the nearly two years since. Russian forces are currently struggling to complete the encirclement or envelopment of Kupyansk from the northwest and have not yet seized the settlement despite 22 months of offensive operations. - Russian forces began a dedicated effort to seize Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast in mid-June 2024. Russian forces started this effort not far from the positions that Russian forces held prior to the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. Russian forces seized Toretsk by August 1, 2025, taking 14 months to advance about 6.4 miles from the southeastern outskirts of Toretsk to the northwestern outskirts of Toretsk. - The Russian campaign for Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast began in May 2023 after Russian forces seized Bakhmut (east of Chasiv Yar), and Russian forces intensified efforts to seize Chasiv Yar in April 2024. It has taken Russian forces 26 months to advance about 6.8 miles (roughly 11 kilometers) from western Bakhmut to the western edge of Chasiv Yar. - Russian forces began efforts to seize Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast in February 2024 after the seizure of Avdiivka and have dedicated multiple efforts to seizing Pokrovsk through frontal assaults, envelopment, or encirclement – all of which have thus far been unsuccessful after more than 18 months.

Finger Lakes wineries are already losing contracts to sell in Canada. Example: Lakewood Vineyards on Seneca Lake, which consummated a deal just three weeks ago. Lakewood's Chad Hendrickson: "It’s a real big deal. I’m not really sure how we’re going to recover from this."

Testing, testing…

Most people: The New York Times is the worst. WaPo: Hold my beer.

New statement from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: "We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page, but this decision 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Post's own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process."

Taylor Swift just endorsed Kamala Harris. Here's why that's bad news for Kamala Harris.

The Russian incursion in northern Kharkiv is now one month ongoing and it is time to summarize the intermediate results. When the Russian offensive started, the Russian advance was initially - at least when compared to the creeping in the east - relatively fast. Vovchans'k was obviously their primary target in that sector. Russians were superior in numbers, shells and had absolute freedom to strike Ukrainians from Russian territory, since Western weapons were restricted from being used there. But the Russian incursion was eventually bogged down. On May 18, Ukrainian missiles hammered several Russian positions in the northern quarters of Vovchans'k. This was also the day when the last Russian advance was recorded in that sector. The development at the western Kharkiv advance was quite similar. From a tactical point of view, Russians didn't make any noteworthy gains. Vovchans'k continues to be primarily under Ukrainian control, and in fact Ukrainians have already regained some previously lost parts. The Russian dream to come any closer to Kharkiv City itself in order to position tubed artillery in range of Ukraine's second largest city, is but only a fever dream. So, even this tactical objective of the Russian army is nowhere near to materialize. Much more important, however, is the strategic situation. Again, Russians couldn't break the Ukrainian lines and are now even compelled to defend this area. Far worse are the political implications of that adventure. The biggest Russian miscalculation has been that the West authorized the usage of Western weapons against Russian targets in Russia, not only exposing countless Russian targets but also Russian bluffs when it comes to red lines. I have mentioned this several times, before. It showed the Russian emperor's new clothes in such an obvious fashion. There was also the assumption that the Kharkiv incursion was a diversion for operations in the east and, indeed, Russians tried multiple times to advance near Chasiv Yar. But the results there were even smaller than before Kharkiv incursion. The attempted Russian crossing of the Siversky-Donets Canal failed multiple times and the Russian armored spearheads along their manpower were swiftly eliminated. Russians haven't spent all their cannon fodder there yet, but if Kharkiv was a diversion then this intention failed as well. All in all, the last 4 weeks, but even more the last 8 months have shown us that even under best fighting conditions Russians perform abysmally low. They have the numbers, the shells, the air planes, their industry completely set for war and, most of all, the Ukrainian shell drought. Yet, despite this huge advantage, the results regarding territorial gains are extremely meager, at best. When nothing changes and when comparing those meager results with the huge resources Russians have allocated and eventually squandered, then we can easily call this a strategic Russian defeat. Seriously, Russians cannot even take Vovchans'k, a city merely 3 miles behind their own border. Just keep this in mind and try not to laugh. Ukrainians severely degraded Russian manpower and resources. They performed exceptionally well, despite the harsh conditions and in the process exposed Russia's weakness over and over, again. It is latest episode for the fact that Russia can be defeated.

Bravo, @brunomarchand!

An essay I dropped today about sex in Alice Munro’s short stories. She’s dirtier than you think 😘🖤 thestar.com/entertainment/bo…