Azby Brown

“The closure of the Washington Post’s Ukraine bureau is a major blow to coverage of Europe’s largest war since WWII.”

Business Ukraine editor Peter Dickinson joined Kyiv’s Телеканал Київ24 as the Washington Post dramatically reduces its international correspondent network

New START ended in a very Trump way:

1. Expiry deadline passed with nothing from the White House, everyone assumed it was over.

2. Anonymous sources claiming that Kushner and Witkoff were cooking up a stopgap "handshake" deal in Abu Dhabi.

3. Trump Truth Social post confirming(?) it's over.

Every American needs to watch this:

The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....

I heavily pushed @vermontgmg.bsky.social's testimony on CBP's long-term criminality. Here, he lists 6 ways to fix DHS:

1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards
2) Use of Force
3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions
4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions
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Amazing

(From @atrupar.com )

It is surprisingly inexpensive and relatively easy to rewild cities and to restore soft, permeable surfaces. Facilitating “sponge city” strategies is a key approach to mitigating the urban heat island effect and adapting to climate change. Japan's shrinking cities would be an ideal testing ground.

19-TS of 020326 hearing - Segundo APG v. Bondi, 26-CV-603

The transcript of the MN hearing where an AUSA said “This job sucks” is remarkable for more reasons than that. It’s a searing portrait of a crisis perpetrated by depraved & oblivious high-level officials. Read it all. ...
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www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto

Don't agree with Cato Inst on much. But:

Very glad they have quantified what has been obvious for years.

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

They’re going to come after Pro Publica and its journalists now

The Judge:

"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," the judge wrote.

“And the rule of law be damned.”

Fabulous! Steadily reaching our goals…

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Thank you! It's taken a lot of time and patience, and our partners in Ukraine -- especially @pavlentij.bsky.social at SaveDnipro, have done the hardest work.

Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding:
www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...

This is really big news and is the result of years of careful, steady work. We will soon have over 80 Radnote solar powered cellular wireless radiation sensors in place in Ukraine, forming the largest independent monitoring network of its kind. Huge thanks to all of our supporters worldwide!

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov

Some people are questioning whether this is AI. One way to be certain is to geolocate the video, as AI still struggles to accurately recreate really world locations with enough fidelity to be successfully geolocated. The first question is what's the best information about where this was filmed?

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

We need more veterans to stand up like him.

Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.

Exactly right, and therefore important not to give credit for an investigation of an obvious atrocity. Appropriate responses are apologies, resignations, firings, impeachments. The individuals who killed people should be tried before a judge and jury.

Glad to hear it.

There's so much good in people.

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

social media is awful but dr. starbird always has a great and rigorous explanation as to how it works and how disinformation takes root

I saw this during the hk protests too, it is reflexive and weird