Harry Larsen

Forget the rapture, we need the purge. Views mine.

[Carmel Nunan @CarmelNunan]

“From Palestine to Lebanon, and now Syria, Israel is destroying the Arab olive harvest.”

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[Quentin Dempster @QuentinDempster]

US citizen Lachlan Murdoch’s @australian sools its reporters on to a vilification/targeting of Treasurer @JEChalmers. Cost of living is a confronting issue to be sure but NewsC’s partisan preferences @PaulineHansonOz @TimWilsonMP @AngusTaylorMP have yet to secure public support via plausible, costed counter-inflationary policies.

[𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚𝒏𝒆 𝑳 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @TKouilou]

Je vous laisse tout simplement regarder ...

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[Harry Larsen @berkeleyboy]

@Dazzaat The silly season is here.
#insiders

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

In June of 1941, Hitler's Army began a rampage through Ukraine, razing towns, unleashing death squads, and massacring Jews by the hundreds of thousands. In one village, four Jewish brothers enlisted in the military, said goodbye to their parents, and walked off to fight the Nazis.

By the war's end in 1945, only one of the brothers, named Semyon, was still alive. He returned to find that the Nazis had torched his entire village, burning his parents to death. Semyon's family was dead, and his beloved Ukraine was in ruins. The Nazis had murdered between 1.2 and 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews.

Semyon married a fellow Ukrainian Jew who had survived the war by fleeing her city, in which the Nazis had killed 5,000 Jews. Two years later, in that same city, they had a son, Oleksandr, keeping alive the family line that the Nazis had brought a razor's width from extinction. Thirty-one years after that, Oleksandr had his own little boy.

That boy was Volodymyr Zelensky, who grew up to become the President of independent, democratic Ukraine. Today, he leads his outmanned, outgunned, ferociously defiant nation against the onslaught of Russia. As Russia dashes itself against the will of his people, Zelensky, the survivor of survivors, summons the resilience of his ancestors. He does not bend. #Zalensky #Ukraine

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Putin has lost nearly half his army in Donbas

Nearly 40% of all Russian military deaths have occurred in battles for Avdiivka, Pokrovsk and Bakhmut.

According to the Financial Times, more than 120,000 Russian troops were killed near Avdiivka and Pokrovsk, with another 48,000 killed near Bakhmut.

Combined, these figures account for approximately 37% of all Russian military deaths in the war, which the FT estimates at between 450,000 and 464,000 at a minimum.

The publication estimates that, including unreported deaths, the total number of Russian troops killed could have reached 550,000 by August 2026.

If the current rate continues, the figure could rise to 650,000 by the end of the year.

The figure of 1.2 million Russian casualties published by the US-based CSIS in January 2026 includes not only those killed but also wounded and missing personnel.

These figures are approximate estimates. The actual death toll could be higher.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

For anyone confused about what’s happening with flights in America right now...

Basically every airport in the United States is frozen tonight, because at 3:54 p.m. Eastern on Friday the FAA’s command center put out an advisory titled “National Ground Stop,” ordering that departing flights stay on the ground until further notice “for reasons of safety,” and to understand how we got here you have to go back about 45 minutes earlier, when Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway suddenly got ground stops for what the FAA called an “equipment outage,” and air traffic control audio out of Chicago reportedly had controllers saying they were close to “ATC zero,” which is the term for when controllers literally cannot talk to or manage the planes, and Delta dispatch was apparently warning crews about frequency outages across the country, and then it spread, until Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted that the problem was hitting ALL of the Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which are the 22 big regional facilities that handle planes once they’re up above 18,000 feet cruising between cities, so the part of the system that talks to planes mid-flight basically went quiet, and the FAA’s official explanation right now is a “temporary telecommunications outage,” and they say every flight in the air has been accounted for, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says there’s no sign yet of anything “nefarious” but that they aren’t ruling anything out, and CNN reports law enforcement officials preliminarily say it wasn’t a cyberattack, but here’s the part that should bother everyone, this is only the THIRD nationwide ground stop in American history, the first was 9/11, and the second was January 2023, when one corrupted file took down the pilot alert system and it turned out the backup had the EXACT SAME bad file, and three years later we’re back here again with an aging system that Washington let rot through administration after administration while spending money on just about everything else, and yes, some people are already rushing to blame the FAA’s new AI congestion tool, but nobody has shown any connection, so maybe we wait for actual facts this time, and meanwhile the stop has reportedly been pushed out to 11:30 p.m. Eastern, FlightAware is showing thousands of delays, and travelers are stuck at gates on a Friday night with no idea when they’re leaving, so basically you have a Chicago glitch, 22 centers losing comms, a nationwide ground stop with no clear end, and a system everyone has been warning about for decades, which is roughly where American air travel is tonight.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Fox News attacks the Trump administration for a mismanged Airtraffic Control System after the FAA issues nationwide ground stop for all U.S. flight departures “due to extraordinary circumstances and for reasons of safety” after widespread air traffic control communication/frequency outages.

"Currently it's still mismanaged... But the point is, if it's a technical glitch of any kind, it's inexcusable because the FAA has been working on it. No one's reported on it on how the FAA has screwed it up, but they have...The same clowns that did that are still in power."

Aircraft already airborne can land; international arrivals handled case-by-case. No timeline yet for resumption.

[Rick @colonelhogans]

Iconic Australian political journalist @PaulBongiorno writes in @SatPaper that News Corp “journalists” have been instructed to find two stories a week about the treasurer Jim Chalmers.

I feel nauseated and disgusted describing Murdoch employees as “journalists”.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

Viktor Suvorov:

“For Russia, this is the last war. This is the end. The current war will be Russia’s final war. The country’s disintegration has already begun, and it is a continuation of the same historical process that buried the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union.

Russia has brought its own end closer. With its oil, gas, diamonds, and gold, it could have continued rotting for another hundred years. Instead, it decided to invade Ukraine, even though it is incapable of holding on to Siberia and the Far East. And without Siberia, Russia produces virtually nothing.

Figures from Russia’s own Finance Ministry do not yet show the country falling apart, but they reveal the growing cost of the war. At the end of September, the ministry raised its estimate of the 2026 budget deficit to 7.3 trillion rubles — twice the original target and the largest deficit since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, despite another round of tax increases this year.

The next wars will take place inside Russia itself. Its fragmented principalities will begin fighting over resources, and the country will face its own 1918 and 1919, its own Admiral Kolchak.

That is why Russia has already lost, regardless of what happens next, while Ukraine has already won, whatever the outcome.

And I must admit, I am overwhelmed with pride for my native Ukraine. They planned to conquer it in three days, yet it has been holding its ground for five years.”

P.S. I am moving from Twitter/X to Substack.

https://t.co/kEbSUaYQZ9

[The Saturday Paper @SatPaper]

News Corp reporters instructed to get Chalmers https://t.co/ErZ6ioTwPE

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kellogg: Russia tried to take Ukraine by force and failed. Putin hasn't got the combat power to go much further than he's gone.

In 5 years Russia gained about 1% in fighting, with 1.2 to 1.4 million casualties on the Russian side. 1/

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Russian warship hit by Ukrainian drone in Gulf of Finland https://t.co/NiHCVGkYax

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory – in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine. The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour – that’s 100 miles per hour.

This directly affects our ability to intercept Russian jet-powered “shahed” drones. These drones come from those areas, and because of the speed restrictions, we simply cannot catch up with them in time.

Near the frontline, we cannot use our aircraft. Only drone interceptors can operate there. And without the speed we need, shooting down these “shaheds” becomes much harder.

This means more Russian strikes get through, and more of our people are killed by Russia. We are trying to get the details from the American side, but so far, we know very little.

If someone in America is making decisions that basically treat Ukrainian territory as if it is not Ukrainian, then this tells us where things are going. We need to be clear and never recognize Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory in any way.

From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (3/3)

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Former US Army intelligence officer Josephine Guilbeau, who served for 17 years, stood in uniform and told Congressional Republicans: "For one year, l have watched Israel burn children alive. You don't care about veterans. You don't care about American values. You are destroying this country — shame on all of you."

She also criticized the BILLIONS of dollars in US assistance to Israel — arguing that American veterans are facing homelessness, suicide, and budget cuts while Congress continues funding Israel.

Guilbeau was escorted from the hearing after her intervention. She later called on fellow veterans to speak out against US policy towards Gaza and urged them to support Palestinian rights.

Congress still hasn’t grown a backbone since. They’re still funding terrorists.

[Stephen Parnis @SParnis]

I grieve the death of one of Gaza's few remaining general surgeons today. Dr Rizq Abu Shaeera was respected by many who worked alongside him, providing surgical care in unspeakably harsh conditions at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the target of today's lethal airstrikes.

[Vasyl Myroshnychenko @AmbVasyl]

Russia’s War is Russia’s Choice by @ChakhoyanAndrew https://t.co/fUgaUSau39

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Stop wasting time with these charades and focus on the only thing that will end the war: kicking Russia out of Ukraine.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk:

“What is happening now is a simulation of a peace process.

Trump promised to end the war in 24 hours. Now he has decided to finance it. These are already the longest 24 hours in human history.

Witkoff called putin a humanist.

I have interviewed hundreds of people released from russian captivity. They were tortured, raped, mutilated and subjected to electric shocks. One woman told me her eye had been gouged out with a spoon.

In Kyiv, I met a five-year-old girl whose mother had been abducted, tortured and repeatedly raped by russians. The girl hugged me, cried and begged: ‘Please, bring my mother back.’

My friend and colleague, journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna, was abducted, tortured and died in russian captivity. Her body was returned with several organs missing. We still do not know how she died.

My friend and mentor, Professor Ihor Kozlovskyi, spent 700 days in captivity. He was tortured so brutally that he had to learn to walk again after his release. In his isolation cell, he gave philosophy lectures to rats just to hear a human voice.

He told me: ‘The foundation of our existence is dignity. And dignity is action.’

𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡!

We have acted throughout these so-called ‘24 hours’. We acted before them, and we will keep acting for as long as it takes to bring peace.

Thank you to everyone who continues to stand with us.”

[CNN @CNN]

Russia's ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died at 66, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. https://t.co/AMP1BqUb44