Yoshiko Herrera

I'm wondering how many missiles and drones Iran has left?

Iran Watch had an article on Iran's missile stocks as of January 2026, but yesterday's NYT gave different figures, meanwhile, PBS said 1000 missiles and drones had been launched just on Sunday: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Trump Has Given America a Constitutional Dilemma Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.

Good read on the War Powers Act by @radiofreetom.bsky.social

🇺🇦⚡️“We are ready to share our experience. Ukraine’s knowledge in air defense is unique: even Gulf countries, which have more advanced systems than us, are still conducting operations and failing to intercept Iranian drones,” — Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Sounds like they're taking advice from Putin:

Govt officials & pundits blustering about it can call it a war, people questioning govt actions should not call it a war.

Also, when you attack a country just try saying the other country started it first, some people will go along with it!

Amateur hour. No clear theory of victory, of how tactics and operations scale up to generate favorable outcomes. No clear benchmarks for success. Derisive towards reporters asking basic questions. No sense of how contingency and chance might wreck plans (if there are any). We could be in trouble.

misogynist too

Zelenskiy Offers Help to Stop Iranian Drones In Return for Truce Volodymyr Zelenskiy offered to send his best experts in shooting down Iranian drones to the Middle East if leaders there convince Vladimir Putin to agree to a month-long truce in Russia’s war on Ukrai...

Global South countries' "what's it to me?" attitude towards the Russo-Ukrainian war might start to shift. It was always a mistake to think Russia destroying the intl order through aggressive territorial conquest wouldn't destabilize the world and affect everyone.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Russia struck an apartment building in Kharkiv with a Molniya drone.

A 12-year-old boy suffered a concussion, and a 10-year-old girl and a woman were treated for acute stress reaction.

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Ukrainians live under thousands of Russian strikes with various types of weapons. In the last week of winter alone, Russia used more than 1,720 attack drones, nearly 1,300 guided aerial bombs, and over 100 missiles of various types against Ukraine.

They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

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It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

The new abnormal After four years on high-level alert, defence against invasion becomes a gruelling routine. But could the normalization of war in Ukraine be positive for long-term planning, the public good and the so...

This must-read will make you re-think the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Esp those who identify as "anti-war" should read it. For most Ukrainians, what matters more is not when the war ends but how, many have adapted to the realization that the end is not in sight www.eurozine.com/the-new-abno...

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

Throughout the Trump admin, American taxpayers are paying the salaries and federal benefits of right-wing social media trolls who spend all day attacking Democrats online on our dime. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

As Peace Talks Stall, Russia and Ukraine Share One Aim: Keep Trump Happy U.S. officials warn that he could lose interest as the midterm elections approach.

Very good overview of the state of peace talks. Key point: Team Trump fails to accept Putin means what he says.

"Russia wants all of Donbas, but also a rewiring of Ukraine’s government, military, media, religion and identity, amounting to the restoration of Russian sway over the country."

This. Today's ruling is primarily a multidimensional failure of the judicial branch, not really its robustness in the face of authoritarianism. This should never have been a SCOTUS case in the first place, & it shouldn't have taken over a year to get here.

According to TPM, it's not a problem for Lutnick: "Lutnick Family Angling To Make Astronomical Sums Off Court Nixing Tariffs" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutni...

My grandparents were there. Santa Anita Assembly Center, was a race track with stalls for horses. At it's peak it housed 18,719 Japanese Americans

Wow, I guess there's not enough illegal hate speech, terrorist propaganda or harmful disinformation out there, so we need to break other countries' laws to disseminate more of it on a US govt site

Wow.

🎁 link: wapo.st/46aspLO

Also see this great essay by @owasow.bsky.social from the day after 1/6/21. I assign it in class. And it’s always a good day to read anything by Rogers Smith.

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021...

There is not a single power plant in Ukraine that has not been damaged by Russian strikes, Zelensky said.

The president also demonstrated in Munich how Russia is massively striking Ukraine.

"The air defense missiles that were delivered to us on Sunday were already used on Thursday," he explained.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Hegseth has radicalized Richard Leon, the most conservative partisanly Republican judge not appointed by Trump I've ever met.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Same faces. Different lives.

Ukrainian defenders are sharing “before and after” photos—who they were before russia’s invasion, and who they had to become to protect home. Behind every uniform is a job left behind, a family, a normal life put on pause.

This is what resilience looks like.