Christy Quirk

Oh mon dieu. Lviv Croissants has opened a branch in the Libération neighborhood of Nice. I mean, hooray of course, but is this a coal to Newcastle approach to expansion?

It’s morning in America.

💥SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for Orbán, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-krem...

Does he look like he doesn't have cards?

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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

This is a really great article.

1. The way insiders carve up policy between centrist and liberal so we can argue about it isn't actually very important for voters.

2. We should be asking a lot more poll questions in a lot more creative ways.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Kind of curious if the US is operating on a memo by some young neocon confidently stating that if the Iranian leadership is decapitated, the freedom-yearning masses will overthrow the government, and women tossing chadors in the air everywhere is how freedom comes to Iran. Because if yes, lol.

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

I hesitate to challenge Trump on his knowledge of escorts.

2030: Ukraine has liberated all of it's territory and pushing into Russia, the army controls a 200km deep buffer zone across the border, Moscow is regularly bombed by Ukrainian aircraft, half the regions have seceded or were annexed by China
Western journalists: this is why Ukraine is losing.

Remember the "Russia is winning, Russia's victory is inevitable, so Kyiv should surrender" narrative that the Kremlin started to push heavily last year?

It was amplified by the Trump administration and parroted by certain Western media that should have known better...

The Onion

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Oh thank goodness, I was afraid he didn't have a plan.

Wait. A senator can do this?

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying.

When I started out as a pollster when god was a child, I said in the interview “but I don’t know anything about statistics!” my soon to be boss, a well-known CA pollster responded “I don’t want someone who knows statistics! I want someone who knows politics.” Different approach to the job.

Not kidding this is my new hype song

From the French equivalent of The Onion

Seeking revenge, Dubai parachutes 3000 influencers on Tehran.

sort of a summary of the national government character, n'est-ce pas?

Nine Parties Unite in ‘Opposition Alliance’, Sign Strategic Coordination Document - Civil Georgia Nine Georgian political parties announced uniting in an "opposition alliance," signing a coordinatio

Well it’s a start? civil.ge/archives/723...

Hillary Clinton has more than her share of flaws, but when it comes to "showing congressional Republicans the proper level of contempt" she is flawless.

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

We count on other countries' consumer councils to explain things to us now. This is amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

you know, this is why you should not elect people who have never once learned anything about anything

Looking at my to-do list for the week (there are things to do on it, thanks for asking) and "be annoyed" is at the top. Promising!

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

I guess that’s what it always comes down to.

Will there be anything more stupid than Donald Trump wanting credit for stopping wars he started?

The good news is that by the time this is done I won't be considered the only strategic moron on the global stage