Anton LOBODA

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Barsky, ex-KGB agent (2025): Sexual espionage was real [in KGB], but Red Sparrow got it wrong.

Russian women were easier to recruit because contact with Westerners gave them access to things they otherwise could not get. They were volunteers, not women forced into the work. 1/

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Ukraine congratulates United States of America with Independence day 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Mother Ukraine monument wears USA colors right now.

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@thule Urban Glide - what’s the earliest age for operator?

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

0 calories avocado oil. For when you’re feeling extra dumb #aldi you can do better

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

Is there a law against idling engines in the city? >10 giant trucks, all idling engines on John McCormack road @MayorBowser

[OOFOS @oofos]

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[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@TheEconomist something is terribly broken in your implementation of podcasts into Spotify. Lots of episode duplicates 2-3 times. Been happening for months now. No such problems with Apple Podcasts. Paid subscriber.

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@KamalaHarris watch party at Howard’s University

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@hillarytaylorvi @HowardU Dear Taylor Hillary, would you be interested in being interviewed during the watch party at Howard for the Italian public broadcaster on site? In English. Thank you

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@L_AFrank @HowardU Dear Leslie-Anne Frank, would you be interested in being interviewed during the watch party at Howard for the Italian public broadcaster on site? In English. Thank you

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@JikuJeager

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@stats_feed Australian-Hungarian Empire

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

Was installing new contact pedals, and very nice guy working with @PepcoConnect, originally from Trinidad, have helped me by holding a bike in place, as those DC bike stations are very rudimentary. #grateful

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@MCDOTNow @BikeToWorkDay Where one does buy the correct/certified ones?

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@MCDOTNow

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

@wmata raining super, I stopped cycling and was waiting for a bus to pick me up at 20:40-ish, waiting at the designated stop. The driver stopped to look at me and a bicycle, didn’t open the doors, There were other people in the bus. And left.

[Ashley Westerman @_aswesterman]

Incredibly proud of my husband @antonlobodacom's work with Kristina Samulewski of @nytopinion in helping tell the stories of Ukrainian refugees relocated to Berlin, Germany. Working with an interpreter is key to doing these stories justice: https://t.co/UeNFrFuymc

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12333, which included a provision stating that agencies had a duty to warn potential victims of threats when such warnings would not compromise ongoing investigations or sources. 13/

[Anton LOBODA @antonlobodacom]

The postman said that the only people who don’t receive this newspaper filled with ads on our street, which nobody has or would subscribe voluntarily in their right mind, are the people who are subscribed to @washingtonpost Is that true? That’s shady.