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My photos from Kyiv are published in this month’s Marie Claire Australia, illustrating Frances Mao’s excellent and moving report on relationships during the war.
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This piece is good on how the people running the US are pure posters. They're obsessed with posting on Twitter, finding something new to post on there, and running the FBI is just a great source of new #content. Cool vision of the 'everyone is just a content creator' future we're almost already at.
January 23, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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reads like the list of countries attending Russia's May 9 parades
Trump's "Board of Peace": Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, Pakistan, Paraguay, Albania, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Qatar, Indonesia.

The US’s new sphere of influence.
January 22, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Torching your relationship with your closest allies for the square root of nothing all takes some doing.
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
hegemon.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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"We have seen empires fall and civilizations crumble. But we’ve almost never seen a people renounce their leadership of the world—all at once, in full public view. That is what has happened in the 365 days since January 20, 2025."
This Is the End
Putinism abroad always morphs into Putinism at home. And we chose this path. Why? Because something-something the price of eggs.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Is Washington’s friendship in the room with us right now?
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 1d
"US President Donald Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland have forced Europe to confront an uncomfortable question: How much do they need Washington’s money, military might and ultimately its friendship?" writes Joseph Ataman and Clare Sebastian. | Analysis
Trump is crossing red lines. Why doesn’t Europe push him back? | CNN
US President Donald Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland have forced Europe to confront an uncomfortable question: How much do they need Washington’s money, military might and ultimate...
www.cnn.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:02 AM
This scumbag. Article 5 has been triggered once, by America. Soldiers from allies from the UK to Denmark died because the US requested their help. And this fucking president says he’s not sure allies would come to the US’s defence.
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 PM
What is the charge?
January 21, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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Wow. That's very insightful. It *is* a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of something—a wife. If you'd like, I could help you draft a "Wife Marriage Acquisition Plan" or a "Good Fortune Business Plan."
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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The Catholic archbishop of the U.S. military services said it “would be morally acceptable to disobey” orders if troops considered them against their conscience.
‘Morally acceptable’ for U.S. troops to disobey orders, archbishop says
Timothy P. Broglio, a Vatican senior cleric, expressed concern at President Donald Trump’s U.S. military policy as he pursues Greenland.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Pathetic. If you’re going to threaten an invasion at least have the dignity to recognise why your victims might be scared.
January 20, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I am not sure Americans grasp the degree of damage that’s been done. Trump could leave office tomorrow and it would take a generation to fix relations with the countries that used to be the US’s closest friends.
An Arctic Mujahedeen, eh? What a time to be alive.

Canada's Global & Mail: Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
January 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Enough appeasement. Europe didn’t ask for this and doesn’t want this but if the Americans want to behave like this it’s time to stand up for ourselves.
January 17, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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I just don't see much of a point in pretending that it's 1993 and newsrooms with reporters who check sources and consult libel lawyers determine what people see. People are seeing a lot of propaganda instead. It is what it is.
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Search increasingly unusable. Would say over half of links I click are AI slop, if not more.
January 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Opened X The Everything App for the first time in 6 months and this was the first thing on the homepage.
January 9, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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It is time for EU leaders to establish a clear (if confidential) strategy and red lines for a Trump takeover of Greenland against the will of Greenland and Denmark. /1 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
Danish ambassador posts ‘friendly reminder’ about defence ties after provocative Maga post over territory
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Oi Clean Shirt!
January 1, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
[subs pls check]
According to a POLITICO poll, more respondents in France and Germany want their governments to scale back financial aid to Kyiv than to increase it or keep it the same.

In the U.S., Canada and the U.K., meanwhile, respondents tilt the other way 👇 

politi.co/4pFG4SF
December 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM