Romeo Kokriatski
@vagrantjourno.bsky.social
Ukrainian news editor, podcaster, and journalist
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'Kash Patel, ICE raids, and State-sanctioned murder' with SK Media
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Your newspapers are lying to you. This week, we discuss the lies, lies, and dirty lies present in a WaPo piece on Kash Patel, among others. Give us a listen
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It's a "bat"leth, get it?
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It's a "bat"leth, get it?
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Amazed at the responses. I'll likely have to do (at least) two separate sessions to accommodate everyone!
You can still register your interest and I'll send you an update with all the details.
You can still register your interest and I'll send you an update with all the details.
Hey y'all, will soon start an online class on Lebanese history and politics.
If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging.
I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon.
Email: ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com
Signal: @ ayoub.02
If you're interested, send me an email or Signal. Please say why you're messaging.
I'll send an email/text (no more) with more details soon.
Email: ayoub@thefirethesetimes.com
Signal: @ ayoub.02
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Amazed at the responses. I'll likely have to do (at least) two separate sessions to accommodate everyone!
You can still register your interest and I'll send you an update with all the details.
You can still register your interest and I'll send you an update with all the details.
Hell yeah
Mirage 2000 in service with the Ukrainian Air Force
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Hell yeah
Героям слава.
Eternal Glory to Pandora, 25-year old combat medic with 71th Air Assault brigade.
She was KIA while saving her brothers-in-arms in early October.
R.I.P. Pandora. You inspire us.
She was KIA while saving her brothers-in-arms in early October.
R.I.P. Pandora. You inspire us.
November 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Героям слава.
An openly Nazi policy. Not exaggerating when I say even suggesting this fascist shit should get you hauled up in front of the ombudsman
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
An openly Nazi policy. Not exaggerating when I say even suggesting this fascist shit should get you hauled up in front of the ombudsman
Yeah honestly what do you even say here? Sure, Dick. Ok, boomer.
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Yeah honestly what do you even say here? Sure, Dick. Ok, boomer.
It makes perfect sense to reopen the border with Belarus, obviously.
Polish PM Tusk confirms an act of sabotage on the Warsaw-Lublin rail line. An explosive device destroyed part of the track. Tusk called it an attack on Poland’s security and civilians, also noting the route’s strategic role in supplying aid to Ukraine. “We will catch the perpetrators,” he said.
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
It makes perfect sense to reopen the border with Belarus, obviously.
It's a big club and you ain't in it, etc etc
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's a big club and you ain't in it, etc etc
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Blackouts push innovation
November 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Blackouts push innovation
I've noticed this too! It's like even Occupy people are embarrassed by it now
Its really interesting that people think I'm laying my thumb on the scale and saying Occupy was good (or bad). I'm saying it's a significant piece of modern history thar directly ties to this moment and yet we don't really talk about it. That's weird.
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I've noticed this too! It's like even Occupy people are embarrassed by it now
Calm me a cynic, but this reads almost identically to 'PiS cuts corrupt deal with dictator Lukashenko, will reopen crossings in exchange for kickbacks, promises to halt migrants'
Poland has reopened long-closed border crossings with Belarus at Kuźnica and Bobrowniki. Kuźnica now allows passenger cars (no buses), while Bobrowniki is open to cars, buses, and freight. Regional officials noted the closures had deeply hurt local businesses.
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Calm me a cynic, but this reads almost identically to 'PiS cuts corrupt deal with dictator Lukashenko, will reopen crossings in exchange for kickbacks, promises to halt migrants'
This is likely about Zap (have heard similar things from guys on the ground), but unfortunately, our generals consistently seem to forget that a smaller Soviet army cannot defeat a larger Soviet army (despite I'm pretty sure that phrase was dubbed by our own military analysts).
Consensus opinion of Ukrainian servicemen and others in the know (reporters, reputable Western experts etc.):
UA Generals' mistakes caused a "strategic crisis" in the ground war; there's real risk of Ukraine losing big chunks of territory in the eastern and southern parts of the frontline.
UA Generals' mistakes caused a "strategic crisis" in the ground war; there's real risk of Ukraine losing big chunks of territory in the eastern and southern parts of the frontline.
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This is likely about Zap (have heard similar things from guys on the ground), but unfortunately, our generals consistently seem to forget that a smaller Soviet army cannot defeat a larger Soviet army (despite I'm pretty sure that phrase was dubbed by our own military analysts).
I was once offered to ghostwrite one of these puff pieces that would run under a well-known byline at the Paper of Record - declined because a) I'm a journalist, and that means something to me, and b) I scared our legal by subtly implying that I would be a in a position to blackmail a lot of people.
Theres a big story waiting to be written on how these powerful PR firms plant and kill stories in major publications and how our information environment is not-so-subtly skewed by which people have access to them and which don't
it‘s doing the nyt thing where they publish a glam profile commissioned by a crisis management pr firm with well-known ties to past and present nyt writers
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I was once offered to ghostwrite one of these puff pieces that would run under a well-known byline at the Paper of Record - declined because a) I'm a journalist, and that means something to me, and b) I scared our legal by subtly implying that I would be a in a position to blackmail a lot of people.
One of the more annoying facets of being Romeo is, I will do any task at any time if it touches on my core competencies - translation, editing, etc - almost regardless of complexity and deadline, but ask me to fulfill my basic administrative obligations - like send an email - and nope, I'm incapable
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
One of the more annoying facets of being Romeo is, I will do any task at any time if it touches on my core competencies - translation, editing, etc - almost regardless of complexity and deadline, but ask me to fulfill my basic administrative obligations - like send an email - and nope, I'm incapable
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Jo Freeman, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness"
capsule: there is no such thing, the only question is whether you formally acknowledge its existence
or, what you said
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
capsule: there is no such thing, the only question is whether you formally acknowledge its existence
or, what you said
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Jo Freeman, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness"
capsule: there is no such thing, the only question is whether you formally acknowledge its existence
or, what you said
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
capsule: there is no such thing, the only question is whether you formally acknowledge its existence
or, what you said
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
This mostly reinforces that Rossia delenda est.
But what about China? We can't until China! Look at China!
[realizes mistake]
Slowly tries to crawl unnoticed back into own shell.
[realizes mistake]
Slowly tries to crawl unnoticed back into own shell.
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This mostly reinforces that Rossia delenda est.
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"The enemy treacherously attacked our planes that were peacefully bombing its cities" - Karel Čapek.
November 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"The enemy treacherously attacked our planes that were peacefully bombing its cities" - Karel Čapek.
This is how I knew as a kid that white people were lying about not being racist - they pretended stuff that happened in relatively recent memory ('colorblindness' had already been a trend in the 90s) had occured so long ago that nothing of that era could remain.
It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is how I knew as a kid that white people were lying about not being racist - they pretended stuff that happened in relatively recent memory ('colorblindness' had already been a trend in the 90s) had occured so long ago that nothing of that era could remain.
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☝️This. My marriage shouldn't be debated as a "gay marriage", it should just be a marriage, same as a straight person's.
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
☝️This. My marriage shouldn't be debated as a "gay marriage", it should just be a marriage, same as a straight person's.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Don't let up. These people will talk this way but always end up siding with Trump or whatever horrendous chud comes after him.
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Don't let up. These people will talk this way but always end up siding with Trump or whatever horrendous chud comes after him.
They don't need to, Kash Patel has been swapping memes with Tracey for years
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
They don't need to, Kash Patel has been swapping memes with Tracey for years
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who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
who gets this kind of shitty romanticizing prose written about them, and who gets dry commentary, depends on being in the club or not. as a journalist I find little more obnoxious than the idea of going to bat for somebody who violated basic professional ethics simply because she's in the club
What's the best action scifi film in living memory and why is it The Fifth Element?
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
What's the best action scifi film in living memory and why is it The Fifth Element?