Eileen 🇺🇸

Privileged to support Ukraine and all who fight for democracy and freedom. Fortunate in my family and friends. Historian, genealogist and rare book dealer.

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

@OckersM Looks like burnt chicken for dinner.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Read the whole thread.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

very important

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I’ve made some good calls and bad calls in my career, but boy was I right about JD Vance.

[Subi-doo 🐸 @suzamaroo]

I’m actually speechless…

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

https://t.co/owqycMeium

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

@FrancisDearnley such a great interview with the Resistance leader. Thanks to @DomNicholls for his skill and dedication.

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

@OckersM @PrimusPilus2022 I too am exactly where I need to be. A bit poorer, but that’s okay.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Turkmenistan had a military show to impress the son of the dictator and it was as awesome as you'd expect.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The tragic irony of the last few years is that, had the USG given Ukraine only a fraction of the weapons that they have expended against Iran in a few weeks (Patriots, Tomahawks, etc), Ukraine would have won, oil prices would not be skyrocketing and the US would be more secure.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Here's the retired Brigadier General running to unseat the Russian asset Paulina Luna that organized the guided tour for Russian Duma members to Washington last week.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We're so screwed as a society.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Scenes from Hungary tonight as crowds rally against the Russian-backed Orban regime.

[Habibullah Khan @Huk06]

This is one of the best analysts on the current Iran war. You’d be mad to not follow her

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

“It’s hard for Americans to understand the Russian mentality, when they’re lying and when they’re telling the truth. I once told Jared and Steve that, honestly, it’s easier to assume they are lying all the time,” - Zelensky.

Precise assessment.

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

Trump resurrects his John Barron persona. The man is certifiable.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: I can confirm this call actually did take place at 3:19 PM on Friday on CSPAN. This video is NOT AI generated:

Caller: "Hello this is John Barron. This is the worst decision you can never have in your life, practically. Jack will agree with me. This is a terrible decision. You have Hakeem Jeffries, he is a dope. You have chuck Schumer, he can't cook a cheeseburger. True Americans will not be happy. She is a disgrace."

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

An amazing conversation. Thank you @FrancisDearnley and guests.

Putin ‘has started World War III’, says Zelensky | Ukraine: The Latest V... https://t.co/SjU7ahf51x via @YouTube

[Eileen 🇺🇸 @eileencorbeil]

@OckersM But surely - surely - the $$ collected in tariffs was put in a savings account in case this occurred. Right?