JT Feix 🇺🇦

ND grad, hubby & father, engi-nerd, wanna be ski-bum.

[JT Feix 🇺🇦 @NattyJ2012]

Yes, it is! #GoIrish

[Ian Book @Ian_Book12]

This video is amazing! Love thee☘️☘️

[Sublime @sublime]

They’re saying it’s a Sublime Summer… #sublime30
📷: Josh Dunne, 1996

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan has a message for MAGA as Trump escalates the trade war with Canada:

“We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag.”

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JUST IN: The Senate overwhelmingly passed the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s bipartisan Russian sanctions bill in an 86 to 11 vote.

The legislation would punish countries that keep buying Russian oil, gas, and other exports, cutting off a major source of funding for Putin’s war in Ukraine.

Lindsey Graham’s sister, Sen. Darline Graham, presided over the vote and announced its final passage.

[This Account Makes You Happy @FeelYouHappy]

The Netherlands hides massive trash containers underground so their streets stay spotless👏

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Without question, the biggest strategic blunder of the 21st century was Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine.

The consequences have been staggering:

- Over 1 million Russian casualties.
- NATO is larger, more united, and more relevant than at any point in its history.
- Russia has more than doubled its border with NATO.
- Russia exposed the weaknesses of its military, failing to seize Ukraine in 2022, repeatedly revising its war aims, and becoming dependent on Iran and North Korea for weapons, ammunition, and even troops.
- Putin didn't destroy Ukrainian identity. He reinforced it, forged it under fire, and revealed it to the world. He helped create a durable Ukrainian national identity that will endure for generations.
- Russia transformed from an energy superpower with diversified, premium European markets into a supplier increasingly dependent on discounted sales to China.

Few strategic decisions in modern history have produced so many outcomes directly contrary to the aggressor's objectives.

[Viasat @viasat]

Viasat thanks the @FCC for granting us access to serve the United States market with ViaSat-3 F2.

We will provide our regular satellite roadmap update during our Q1 FY27 earnings call next week on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. PT | 5:30 p.m. ET.

#ViaSat3 #VS3F2 $VSAT

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Rosja od lat próbuje skłócić Polaków i Ukraińców. Nie dajmy się podzielić.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

“Their names were scratched off or taken off a list in the Pentagon. To me, it is abhorrent, it’s criminal.”

Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling fights back tears as he describes the military’s last roll call, and what it means to erase four fallen soldiers from the Pentagon’s casualty list.

[Viasat @viasat]

ViaSat-3 F3’s reflector and boom have successfully deployed – captured in space, 35,786 km above Earth!

Our ultra-high-capacity satellite has entered In Orbit Testing phase ahead of expected service entry over the Asia-Pacific region. https://t.co/HKpv5MfkHC

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

These brave Americans gave their lives in service to our country, and we’ll never forget their sacrifice. I’m praying for the other servicemembers who are missing or injured, and for the safety of all of our troops.

[POLSKA SIATKÓWKA @PolskaSiatkowka]

Jesteśmy mistrzami Europy❗️ Reprezentacja Polski do lat 18 pokonała w finale Francję 3:1 (22:25, 25:23, 28:26, 25:21) i sięgnęła po zloty medal 🥇🏆 👏💪

🔎 https://t.co/U4VTbqbX35
📸 @CEVolleyball

#reprezentacjapolski #polskasiatkówka #MEU18M #orlen #plus #tworzymypolskisport

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @TheAtlantic cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link:

https://t.co/HhTQ8EoHkg

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

Throughout WW2, Polish troops fought alongside the British under the authority of Poland’s legal government-in-exile in London.

Yet on 6 July 1945, the United Kingdom withdrew its recognition of that government and recognized the Soviet-backed Provisional Government of National Unity in Warsaw.

For Poles, it was a bitter end to a wartime alliance. After 1945 Poland was left under communist rule in the Soviet sphere of influence.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Alexander Browder, a 17-year-old London teenager, has become Russia's youngest ever sanctions target. He has built a database exposing the crypto networks helping Russia and other rogue states dodge Western sanctions.

In March, @Alexbrowder_ published a report for the Henry Jackson Society think tank, describing money-laundering mechanisms involving cryptocurrencies and estimating the scale of such operations by Russia, Iran, and North Korea at around $350 billion.

▪️ Cryptocurrency as a sanctions-evasion tool

A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a stable asset. This may be a currency, such as the ruble. This avoids the sharp price fluctuations typical of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, making the token convenient for payments and transfers.

According to Alexander Browder, this stability made the A7A5 stablecoin a useful instrument for sanctions evasion. The ruble-pegged token allowed payments to be conducted outside the banking system, which has been blocked for Russia by Western sanctions.

Alexander described A7A5 as one of the West's biggest challenges in the fight against money laundering. According to the British Foreign Office, more than $90 billion passed through the stablecoin network linked to the token in the past year alone.

That figure is comparable to roughly half of Russia's annual military spending. In late May, London imposed sanctions on 18 platforms in several countries, accusing them of creating shadow financial systems to circumvent restrictions.

▪️ Russia's response

On June 2, the Russian foreign ministry added Browder and four other British citizens to its sanctions list. They were accused of "slander and spreading false information." The teenager was banned from entering Russia.

Browder himself took the move calmly. According to him, the sanctions have become a badge of honor and proof that his investigation has "touched a nerve."

By the way, Alexander is the son of financier and human rights advocate William Browder @Billbrowder, CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital. His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian prison in 2009 after exposing a major tax fraud scheme. Browder Sr. is an outspoken critic of Putin and the initiator of the Magnitsky Act.

According to Alexander, it was his father's story that inspired him to pursue investigations. He believes that today's schemes for financing war through cryptocurrencies require a new, younger generation of analysts.

📹: DW

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

In 2018, after the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, I learned Russia wanted to interrogate me (and others) in exchange for US investigators questioning 12 Russian intelligence officers over electoral interference in 2016.

The White House took nearly a day to reject the proposal.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The wonderful Anne Applebaum explains the whole reason for Russian's invasion of Ukraine

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Putin miał zdobyć Ukrainę w trzy dni. Pięć lat później Rosja nadal tkwi w Donbasie.
📍 @GLOBSEC Praga 🇨🇿

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

Trump's 2nd term differs greatly from his first in a crucial way -- It is relentlessly MONETIZING the presidency. https://t.co/3XDJJ7nz0d

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

Trump never has money for healthcare or VA staff or anything to actually make Americans’ lives better — but somehow found $1.8 billion to reward his allies with your tax dollars. That's corruption, plain and simple.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Literal definition of Orwellian