Aesop: I TOLD YOU

🧵 I often talk about VDA, Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, as the core functions that make democracy possible. But to understand what’s gone wrong, we need to look at how those functions have changed.

Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief

Before the month ends Russia will probably hit 1m casualties in the war. We explain why that figure is much higher than the number of Ukrainian deaths https://econ.trib.al/9xhUyVz

Operational Art and the Salvation of Ukraine Guerrilla drone strikes, the spiritual resources to achieve victory, and the survival of the free world

“Ukraine is confident in its ability to wage this war, even if it would still prefer that outside support make the costs for them less human…it listens to its own counsel more & more as it finds itself beyond the edge of most Western military thinking.”
Brilliant.
www.greatpower.us/p/operationa...

Scooby Doo and the gang in their van that says The Mystery Machine on the side

it’s a van. how do they not know this

‘Tremors’ Creators Win Back Script Rights; Kevin Bacon Could Return for a New Installment! Stampede Entertainment, the team behind Tremors and its first three sequels, have won back the rights to the original script for the 1990 classic. This allows director Ron Underwood, writers Brent Mad...

TREMORS creators Stampede Entertainment have won back the rights to the original script.

They are "discussing a return-to-Perfection sequel" and "considering ideas that feature the return of Kevin Bacon as Val."

Let's speak bluntly: these talks are, as expected, a total failure.
Trump is ultimately ready to give Putin everything he was dreaming of.
Europe must arm Ukraine to the teeth and never accept an infamous sham peace that would equal a surrender, a license to kill and an expanded war.
Full-stop.

Waking up Monday morning and Swedish radio is having a well informed debate on whether Sweden should obtain a nuclear weapon.

Satire is dead.

#UPDATE The German conservatives of Friedrich Merz and the centre-left SPD said Saturday they have reached an in-principle agreement to form a government that plans to invest massively to revive and rearm Europe's largest economy.

EU agrees on massive defense spending package. Macron invites European partners to discuss nuclear deterrence.

He said we’d be tired from all the winning. Well, to be honest, the only one who is tired from all the winning is Vladimir Putin, who frankly, should be exhausted.

It’s timely to revisit Zelensky's September 2022 address to Russia, delivered on behalf of the Ukrainian people.

US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

“I’ll see you and raise you one.”

💙💛

ANALYSIS | Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine | CBC News Donad Trump's threats and claims about Canada may be unprecedented in the history of U.S.-Canada relations. But they have a strong precedent elsewhere in recent history: They closely resemble remarks ...

Trump:Canada=Putin:Ukraine. Rhetorically. One more expression of Trump’s admiration for Putin.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

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True, but it does look good

Imagine, in another realm, an evil empire accidentally damages a civilian airplane full of passengers. By the mercy of the magical forces ruling that realm, the pilots survive, and the plane remains mostly intact. They only need to let it land to save the passengers— their own people. 👇

A lot of you need to be listening to more Lana Del Rey. You’re all acting off.

I still hear (well-meaning) people saying (like propagandists): now it's time to make peace.
The end of war isn't peace.
Any negotiation will only strengthen Moscow.
Leaving Russia undefeated means accepting a more terrible, dangerous & widespread war tomorrow.
Defeating Russia now is the only way.

Outnumbered and outgunned, Ukraine struggles to halt Russian advance near Pokrovsk Russian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk from the east and south. After the capture of Shevchenko village just south of the city, Russian forces are less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from this key l...

Pokrovsk is the last stronghold in the southwestern part of Donetsk Oblast, holding back Russian forces from advancing further toward Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the regional capital of Dnipro.

Imagine for one second how Alberta right wing politicians would react if François Legault wrote such a letter.

The fortune in the fortune cookie I just cracked open was an ad for a real estate concern looking to buy houses, fuck it, this is what had finally radicalized me, let's burn it all to the fucking ground

The new so-called president of #Georgia, Mikheil Kavelashvili, isn't the legitimate president.
This far-right russia puppet was “elected” by the Parliament, itself fraudulently elected.
The US & the EU shouldn't recognize him.
Salome Zourabichvili is the only president until new elections are held.

I like this tendency of the Ukrainian special forces just travelling around the world, fighting russian military operatives and making friends