The left has one job right now: stop treating authoritarianism like a debate club topic. It is here. It is funded. It is organized. It is wearing a flag pin and thumping a bible.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 ZELENSKYY SAYS CRIMEA’S WAR INFRASTRUCTURE IS NOW THE TARGET
"We are targeting the logistics, fuel and infrastructure that help Russia militarize Crimea.
Russia must feel the cost of this war. Victory comes when Russian society recognizes that war is a tragedy for themselves, and we are getting closer to that moment." - Volodymyr Zelenskyy 🇺🇦
Crimea is not just a symbol for Moscow. It is a military platform, a logistics hub, and a launchpad for occupation.
Ukraine is making that platform harder to use, harder to supply, and harder to pretend is untouchable. The war Russia exported to Ukraine is slowly finding its way back into Russia’s own calculations.
Charlamagne tha God: “Donald Trump wasn’t responsible for the loss of the game, but he was responsible for the loss of joy the Knicks fans had been feeling. Donald Trump came here yesterday and sucked the joy out of the city”
In Gaza, Israel burned both people and land with white phosphorus while much of the world looked away.
Today, the same scenes are unfolding in Lebanon before the eyes of the world, yet meaningful action remains absent.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 55 times that he defeated Iran.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 35 times that Iran is destroyed.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 38 times that a deal is imminent.
🇺🇸Trump has stated 25 times that the Strait of Hormuz is open.
Elect a clown, expect a circus.
Europe Wins Again. Obviously.
Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.
They chose Europe.
This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.
Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.
Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.
Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.
Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.
So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.
The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.
Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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Journalist Katie Phang's lawsuit against Todd Blanche and the Justice department over the withholding of Epstein files, may force Todd to comply in releasing the remaining files. Watch her do it. She is fearless.
„I don’t believe the Russians would have stopped at the border. We are only safe today thanks to Ukraine.“
- Maia Sandu
President of Moldova
Ukraine needs support every day...
Don't stop supporting Ukraine 🫡🇺🇦❤️
She lost her leg to a russian strike. She didn’t lose her dream.
Ukrainian gymnast Oleksandra Pascal won gold at the “Carla’s Rhythmic Cup” in Romania — competing with a bionic prosthetic leg.
In 2022, she survived a russian strike on Zatoka, spent weeks in intensive care, and underwent amputation.
Today, she stands on the podium.
Stronger than war. Stronger than what tried to break her.
Trump left the White House around noon on Friday; he is just now returning, we have been paying for a geriatric drug addict to abuse reporters, attend basketball games and hang out at his shitty NJ golf club for four days in the middle of a war he has no idea how to finish.
Wait, so we were told to take shorter showers, turn off the tap while brushing our teeth, and conserve water at every opportunity… but data centers can show up and use millions of gallons like it’s nothing?
VON DER LEYEN: We propose, for the first time, to ban from entry into the European Union anyone who has served in Russian armed forces since the beginning of the war.
Europe stays off-limits for anyone who has participated in the invasion of Ukraine. As simple as that.
BREAKING:
Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.
A village that has stood for thousands of years.
A place where Jesus once walked.
Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.
And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
Dan Rather's right. Every story run by CBS and Bari Weiss next fall should have an asterisk superimposed: "This story was approved by Donald Trump." When a fascist authoritarian regime's in charge of what the American people should know, the country has gone full banana republic.
BREAKING:
Trump didn’t just bomb Iran.
He bombed water reservoirs in Sirik.
These are not battlefield targets.
They are critical civilian infrastructure.
As a result, water supplies to communities in Iran’s Bemani District have been cut off.
This is an act of genocide.
Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.
The White House needs to explain why Donald Trump keeps going to the hospital and taking cognitive tests.
Belgian representative exposes European hypocrisy!
"You consider expelling the Iranian ambassador — but for two whole years of genocide, none of you demanded to expel the Israeli ambassador. This is shameful!" 🇧🇪🔥🇪🇺🎯🇮🇱🇮🇷