Ivan Andriollo

Trump: "I'm going to see Putin. I'm going to Russia on Friday."

Trump is going to Alaska on Friday — which has not been part of Russia since 1867.

In other news, President Trump is barreling through his broad-daylight child-sex-crimes coverup with help from Jeff Bezos and @washingtonpost.com

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

Even the most ardent pro-Kremlin vatniks know how stupid it is to repeat the “Kyiv in 3-4 days” rubbish. And Russia’s army DID come by the highways - and got slaughtered. Video shows a Russian armored column being ambushed in Skybyn, east of Kyiv.

Russia’s Slaughter of Indigenous People in Alaska Tells Us Something Important About Ukraine Russia once controlled 20 percent of U.S. territory. That legacy helps explain its aggression against Ukraine.

Good time to re-up my essay from a few years ago on what Russia's slaughter of Indigenous Alaskans can tell us about Moscow's designs on Ukraine (and elsewhere): www.politico.com/news/magazin...

📸💸 Astonishing new drone footage shows Viktor Orbán's family’s lavish €30M Hatvanpuszta dacha (a former Habsburg estate) and zebras roaming nearby. Each week brings new details, making the mansion resemble Viktor Yanukovych's infamous Mezhyhirya Residence. Video by @telexhu.bsky.social

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🇺🇦 "If Russia does not want to stop the war, then it is necessary to stop its economy," — Zelensky reacted to the airstrike in Zaporizhzhia.

🗣️"No deadlines, no expectations from them work - they do not want to stop the killings. The only thing they are looking for is a way to kill Ukraine."

ICE is behaving as if it is an unaccountable secret police. Proving they’re accountable has to be the top priority of Democrats and states everywhere.

Very soon I will place the U.S. government on the same list as Russian propaganda media and neither listen nor comment on anything they communicate.

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Here's Hoffmann's debunking of the Russian claim that it was US/NATO's fault the INF collapsed.

It was - of cource - Russia's fault all along.

#Russia #US #Europe #NATO

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Any decisions against us, any decisions without Ukraine, are simultaneously decisions against peace. They will bring nothing. These are dead decisions; they will never work.

Ceding Donbas to Russia would destroy Ukraine’s strategic defense line, ISW warns. The loss of this barrier would open the way for further Russian advances, and ISW notes Russia would likely violate any truce without strong guarantees and controls for Ukraine
www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

This is what every handshake with Putin endorses.

Putin Tells U.S. He’ll Halt War in Exchange for Eastern Ukraine President Trump said he would meet with Putin next week in Alaska to discuss ending the war.

A couple of points:
1. Eastern Ukraine is not Trump’s to bargain away.
2. This 1-on-1 meeting is already a huge win for Putin. By sidelining Zelenskyy, Putin has reinforced his narrative about the illegitimacy of #Ukraine as a sovereign state.
www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

I don't think any Ukrainian government can agree to giving Russia territory it doesn't control or allow an additional 500,000 Ukrainian civilians who live there to be surrendered to Russia. It's taken RU 18 months to gain 30 KM2 -- this would give them an additional 6,500 KM2.

I am so embarrassed for humanity.

We had this disease eradicated. The process of keeping it that way was SO SIMPLE.

And because of a bunch of idiots, and bunch of grifters making public health into an ideological football, here we are.

Just a faceplant. A completely unforced error.

'This is child trafficking' — Russia launches 'catalogue' of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color "Parents of some of them were killed by occupation authorities, others were simply issued Russian identification documents to legitimize their abduction," said Mykola Kuleba, head of the Save Ukraine ...

⚡️ 'This is child trafficking' — Russia launches 'catalogue' of Ukrainian children for adoption, sorted by eye and hair color.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll cover the autocratic concept of “Good Tsar, Bad Boyars”: the idea that the leader is wise and just, but constantly sabotaged by corrupt advisors. This narrative shields the ruler from blame, and it’s used by both Putin and Trump today.

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Here’s a case where it would make sense to replace the phrase “Artificial Intelligence” with “not-very-well-understood computer programs prone to unpredictable errors.”

Over and over we hear World Athletics claim that they are the ones "following the science." But over and over you see experts — very literally the experts whose science is being invoked — tell them that they're wrong!

And yet somehow those of us pointing this out are cast as delusional ideologues.

I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)

“These drug prices need to be… 1500% cheaper!”

Norway should buy Harvard Academic excellence has never been more affordable.

Haha, bold proposal from a Norwegian Business School professor!

"Norway should seize this historic opportunity by using the Oil Fund to buy Harvard, construct a state-of-the-art facility near Oslo, and relocate much of its faculty and students to Norway."

www.dn.no/innlegg/norw...

A number of European economists pointed out this opportunity in the tariff chaos:

As access to US markets gets more expensive for everyone, the EU market can become more attractive. I would imagine that there will be mutual interest to speed up its currently ongoing trade negotiations

Just learned that one of my faculty colleagues is leaving the US for Europe, due to scientific funding cuts and other changes here. The first I know of but not the last, I suspect.

‘Clinton Plan’ Emails Were Likely Made by Russian Spies, Declassified Report Shows

The sad and fundamental truth is that neither the Obama administration nor the Clinton campaign took Russian electoral interference seriously, meaning that now, a decade on, Russia’s man keeps trying to prove that he’s not.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.