Joel Wasserman

Today marks 8 years since I arrived in Ukraine.

Glad I came, and glad I've stayed, because with all the madness in the world today, I know that I'm at least in the right place and on the right side.

Getting vital medicines to Ukrainians living in war zone Kateryna Sporysh founded a grassroots volunteer organization in the early days of the war to get vital medications to civilians caught in the middle of the fighting.

On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale invasion this week, Katya spoke to NPR's Here & Now today about her work and why she and her fellow Ukrainians continue their struggle.
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

One can only hope it's not a hiccup.

I've gotta say, it is a real slap in the face to every resident of the DC area that Jeff Bezos and his lackeys thought that *this* was part of the indispensable core of the Washington Post, but the sports section wasn't.

NSS: "We seek... peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change..." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe..." www.ft.com/content/f869...

Russia Has Turned Sports Into a Weapon The Olympic ban is a necessary counter to Moscow’s abuse.

The Putin regime uses Russian sporting glory as propaganda to validate its rule.

Have high draft picks gotten the Wizards anywhere in the last decade?

@united24media.com @ukraineworld.bsky.social @pravda.ua

These grave transgressions mean that Russia has no place at the Milan Olympics, and calls to return them to international sport like that of FIFA President Gianni Infantino are utterly inappropriate.

Russia Has Turned Sports Into a Weapon The Olympic ban is a necessary counter to Moscow’s abuse.

New from me in @foreignpolicy.com

RU’s use of athletes as political tools to promote its war of aggression, along with its destruction and armed robbery of Ukrainian sports, is an intolerable desecration of the fundamental principles of Olympism.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/04/r...

*Bere

Hell, I was surprised how many foreign workers I saw at Caru cu Beer last year.

This isn't a for-profit prison.

Let's go with both.

Where was your fucking mask before 2020, nerd?

It doesn't look like you have the intellectual capacity for one.

Why is that the case?

SPLI'ER

I believe in America

If the government is wondering why thousands of people tail ICE and film them it's because you have a propensity to lie!

Re, the "ICE needs more training" rationales, wrote this a day before the latest shooting:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Certain dumb children have convinced themselves that the US government is trying to talk to them specifically to manipulate or deceive them.

Ouch

Well, iirc, the head of the autoworkers' union all but endorsed Trump, so...

Perhaps there might be some lessons to be drawn about how the rise of our idiocracy will play out.

A (foreign) bar patron once convinced himself that I was CIA bc I knew that Kolomoisky stood up pro-UA militias in 2014. Ms. Tsurkov was held and tortured for years by counterintelligence investigators w this taxi driver level understanding of the world.

It is disgusting that CNN keeps putting Scott Jennings on air.

Appears we just endured a bombing by Russia's vaunted Oreshnik IRBM?

Had no idea until my MIL called me. Sounded to me like a motorcycle backfiring a few times. Just hope nobody was hurt.