We are making space. Also centering. And amplifying. But also listening. While at the same time elevating.

Pres. Zelensky on X: 'Ballistic missile interceptors could have saved the lives of those killed today. It is very important that our partners understand that delays in supplying them, or an unwillingness to provide anti-ballistic systems, lead directly to such horrific casualties and destruction.'

A magical view from the rocks above Shark Reef, Lopez Island.

Man, if Putin had told Trump exactly what he wanted the US to do to help Iran and Russia and hurt Ukraine, it would have been exactly what Trump did in his war. This is a Russian strategic dream we are watching.

The EU may examine the efforts of Russian actors all it wants - I don't expect it to do anything that will address the problem - but ignoring the obvious, blatant, and direct information threat from the US techno-oligarchy is something much graver than simple ignorance on the EU's part. 4/4

Now, I'm telling you this as a person who has studied Russian information warfare for more than ten years: none of the Russian disinformation campaigns linked to the Ceuta crisis can possibly reach the impact of one techno-oligarch spreading right-wing disinformation on the platform he owns. 3/4

What a story from @fabricedeprez.bsky.social. Not only are they being reburied far from where they fell, they are being reburied where their evacuated families now live, often far from their Russian- occupied or soon to be occupied hometowns. www.ft.com/content/1d75...

Even Ukraine’s dead must flee the Russian advance

Fallen Ukrainian fighters are being reburied hundreds of miles from where they died

ft.com

Premium trolling. ~"If NATO wants to join an alliance with Ukraine, it must first carry out reforms"

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · yesterday

NATO's reliance on the "doctrines of World War II" and its slow adaptation to new forms of warfare make it unlikely Ukraine will ever join the alliance, said Kyiv's Ambassador to the U.K. and former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

The linearity of time remains an imperialist construct.

Olena Halushka@halushka.bsky.social · yesterday

Ukraine's vile and brutal attacks on Wildberries in 2026 forced russia to start its defensive invasion in 2014.

Hi journalist friends! I wrote a one-pager cheat sheet for covering polling for @aapor.bsky.social! Head it here:

A Journalist’s Guide to Understanding Polls & Surveys - AAPOR

aapor.org

Tigers!

The Times of Central Asia@timesca.com · 2d ago

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, marking a major step toward restoring the species in the Ili River delta https://ow.ly/3ETK50ZvKjS #WildlifeConservation #TigerRestoration #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #Tigers

Back in Nice and the fascists are in the house

You can't just run an unlicensed nuclear reactor in Manhattan.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 5d ago

Name a villain who was actually right.

The good news is: autocracies fall apart bc of their inherent contradictions. The bad news is: it takes a lot of time to rebuild afterwards.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

Hoo boy. This is getting ugly. And somehow even more embarrassing. Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is now publicly feuding with Trump’s own Justice Department to keep alive the lies that an innocent former Olympian vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Why I still take notes while watching focus groups.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

This is an excellent thread

Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 5d ago

The Soviet Union did not merely fail to live up to communist ideals. It used those ideals to conceal conquest, excuse domination and rewrite occupation as liberation and in the process destroyed the value of those very ideals. And now, you know.

France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Two of my least favorite things—dictators and golf courses—ruining one of the most beautiful places on earth: Lake Issyk Kul

FOGOLF, FOLLOW GOLF@fogolf.bsky.social · 6d ago

Presidents of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan Attend Inauguration of Cholpon-Ata Golf Club https://www.fogolf.com/1339933/presidents-of-azerbaijan-kyrgyzstan-uzbekistan-tajikistan-attend-inauguration-of-cholpon-ata-golf-club/ Presidents of Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, …

Just keep appealing to the Czar for justice, Russians. It’s worked so well for you through history.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wildberries sellers are asking Putin for help and explanations about what happened to their goods. Well, it burned.

Russia's missile attack completely leveled the antique market in Kyiv. Rising from the destruction, one piece remains: a Romanian porcelain dancer figurine. Even amidst destruction, spirit and beauty cannot be entirely destroyed. Source: Cherrybombfields

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Our relationship to visual evidence is being profoundly disrupted by GenAI tools, which will impact how we know, what we can know, and what we think can be known about the world. A massive epistemological shift is upon us.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

Ukraine has sent a combined rescue team to France to assist local authorities in fighting large-scale wildfires, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi reported.

This from @karlbode.com is illuminating. karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-...

AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired

The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.

karlbode.com

Zelenodolsk in Tatarstan, currently Russia: Looks like the first attempt to hit a logistics center of Ozon, Wildberries‘ strongest competitor.

NEW - EXCLUSIVE: Zelensky’s plan for Ukraine to survive winter involves Starlink access in Russia so drones can hit key targets there Elon Musk hasn’t agreed. This week, Zelensky asked Trump to intervene Trump was noncommittal. And the plan is in doubt www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor From Elon Musk

Ukraine wants to start using Musk’s Starlink to target ballistic-missile launchers inside Russia.

theatlantic.com

Historically, Trump's numbers are closer to those of presidents who aren't invited to the next nominating convention than to presidents who get to hand pick the next nominee. Act accordingly.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.