The Moscow, once proud flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, went and fucked itself. (I’m basing this report on early information. The fog of war is thick. So approach everything with appropriate hesitation and skepticism.) The day’s big war news is big it’s big. Ukraine has sunk the flagship of the Russian Black Sea…
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Authorities say James set off smoke grenades aboard a subway at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighborhood and opened fire with a handgun, reeling off 33 rounds before exiting the train with other passengers while wearing a gas mask. Ten people were shot, five of them suffering critical injuries, none of them…
A US Army M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, Hohenfels, Germany, Jan. 26, 2015. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden released a statement on his latest conversation with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy. In the call, Biden not only revealed that he was sending an additional $ 800 million in “weapons, ammunition, and other security assistance ”to Ukraine, he…
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A woman in Zalissya explaining what she thinks of Russians who blasted a hole through her house, April 12, 2022. On Wednesday, Russian officials reported that over 1,000 Ukrainian marines belonging to the 36th Brigade had surrendered in the besieged city of Mariupol. Reuters reports that these Ukrainian forces had been in the Azovstal industrial…
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Nearly 40 years ago, the NRA began its crusade to get every state to issue concealed-carry permits to anyone who could legally own a firearm. When they started, nearly no state did so. Now, all but eight states do so. To get a permit, many states have required applicants to have a specific need for…
Statement from Barrett-Jackson’s Director of Public Relations, Rodney Scearce: Over the weekend, Barrett-Jackson held its annual Palm Beach collector car auction – one of the company’s four annual auctions across the country. The auction proved to be Barrett-Jackson’s most successful Palm Beach auction to date with over $ 60 million in sales, but the single…
As both parties count down the weeks and strategize ahead of November, Moulitsas is predicting: What Donald Trump has done is, he’s made it 2020 all over again. It’s a campaign that is going to be, in large part, a rehashing of the 2020 election, and that sort of mixes things up. Does it mean…
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YANA PLOTNITSKA: Under other conditions, I would have mobilized a long time ago. [I] would have been in the capital and helped either informationally, or at least to the best of my ability. But I have a baby. He is 1 year and 9 months old. We gave him a beautiful Ukrainian name: Ostap. Otherwise,…
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Ukrainian artillery waits in the woods near Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast. April 12, 2022. We seem to be having Russian History Month. There has been the head of the Russian orthodox church reaching back 900 years to claim that neither Ukraine nor the Ukrainian church is “real.” Vladimir Putin has insisted that Ukraine is not…
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FT: An exiled Russian journalist’s diary: ‘How can I help, here and now?’ The Kremlin has cracked down on independent media – but far from Moscow, their work continues What can I do? How can I help personally? These questions have been on my mind since Putin announced on the fourth day of the war…
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