❗️The oil port in 🇷🇺Tuapse continues to burn after the attack by 🇺🇦Ukrainian kamikaze drones. Locals report that oil has covered literally everything: roads, homes, pets, and the residents themselves.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

A legend in his own lunchbreak

Rousseau's formulation provides a nice symmetry to Plato's highly legible numerical threshold of inequality in a just state:

"No citizen should be so rich as to be capable of buying another citizen, and none so poor that he is forced to sell himself."

Residents in Tuapse are worried about deteriorating living conditions after repeated drone strikes on oil infrastructure.

"I love to live by the sea with my kid. The sea’s absolutely chock-full of this fuel oil now. These f*cking drones are flying around, blowing everything to smithereens.”

Ukraine confirms Gripen pilot training to start this year Ukraine expects its pilots to begin training on Swedish-made JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets as early as 2026, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, signaling a new step in efforts to rebuild the country’s a...

Ukraine says its pilots could begin training on Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets this year, as Kyiv deepens defense ties with Sweden and prepares for a long-term shift to Western combat aircraft.

defence-blog.com/ukraine-conf...

In a nutshell. 😊

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—

If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

🔥Large landing ships and Russian radar in Crimea - “Prymary” of GUR hit the aggressor’s high-value targets

VDK of project 775 “Yamal” and VDK of project 1171 “Nikolai Filchenkov”.

▪️ “Yamal”. $80 million.

▪️"Nikolai Filchenkov". $70 million.

▪️"Podlyot-K1" radar station. $5 million.

So we get multiple conflicting reports, including from Trump himself, that Vance is or is not leading the US delegation for peace talks on Tuesday, then we get multiple reports from Iran state media that they have no plans to attend peace talks on Tues & didn’t know about it.

⚡️ Adidas Ukraine launches single shoe sales for those who lost limbs.

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Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States.

Ukrainians would much rather have the United States on their side than on Russia’s [...] But Ukrainians do not believe that losing American support will inevitably lead to their defeat. They see how they have sustained the war effort,using their own resources and with the help of European partners.

Think about what we could do with a majority like this.

MANIFEST THIS.🙏

Trump: "The Failing New York Times, FAKE NEWS CNN, and others, just don’t know what to do. They are desperately looking for a reason to criticize President Donald J. Trump on the Iran situation, but just can’t find it. Why don’t they just say, at the right time, JOB WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT, and start to gain back their credibility???"

Trump: "The Failing NYT, FAKE NEWS CNN, & others, just don’t know what to do. They are desperately looking for a reason to criticize President Donald Trump on the Iran situation, but just can’t find it. Why don’t they just say, JOB WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT, & start to gain back their credibility???"

Pope James David Vance the First The vice president has decided he’s a more accomplished theologian than Leo XIV.

Vance has now seized the top seat in the Death of Expertise Hall of Fame: He has lectured the pope—the pope, the leader of a billion and a half Catholics—about being too sloppy with theology.

The queen of all vices: Pride.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I can't help but wonder when Stephen Miller suggested to Donald Trump that they could stymie Iran by doubling down and blockading the Strait themselves, if he had taken into account that China might not just sit idly by while the U.S. cut off their oil supply?🗽

1,400 km from Ukraine, and still not far enough. Drones likely hit a petrochemical plant in Russia’s Sterlitamak.

JD Vance:

Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I'm proudest that we've done as an administration.

It's a very good thing.

1/ Yesterday RU tried to destroy the dam in Pechenihy with KAB bombs. bsky.app/profile/euan...
I drove over it the day before. I had just been visiting some of the units in Vovchansk. This is not the first time they try to do this. The road going over the damn has been destroyed many times by now.

🇷🇺: Have you heard about the Russian woman who saw a sea snake in the place that sea snakes live?

🤦‍♀️

www.gazeta.ru/social/news/...

bsky.app/profile/aw-s...

☠️ In Sumy region, a massive assault attempt - again through a gas pipeline.

29 occupiers attempted to infiltrate the rear of the positions of the 71st Airborne Assault Brigade.

The entire group of occupiers was neutralized…

Cardinal Cupich: "We're dehumanizing the victims of war by turning the suffering of people & killing of children & our own soldiers into entertainment. To splice together movie cuts w/ actual bombings & targeting of people for purposes of entertainment is sickening. This is not who we are."

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

Just flagging that Jared Kushner was reportedly in the situation room for a key meeting in the lead up to the war in Iran.

He has billions in investments from the Saudi government, which was pressuring Trump to go to war. Not normal. Not ok.

He’s not well. He needs to be removed from office.

Reporter: Did you post that picture of yourself depicted as Jesus Christ?

Trump: It wasn't a depiction. I did post it and I thought it was me as a doctor. And had to do with red cross as a red cross worker, which we support and only the fake news could come up with that one.