It's really kind of unbelievable how powerful the court system is in the United States. The Supreme Court regularly legislates from the bench and it's taken for granted.

Just says everything about the right wing populist 'solutions' to problems - slap an enormous useless vanity project on top of the issue that has a 10% chance of being possible in the first place and ignore the problem.

People are saying this is unfortunate are kind of missing the point. The fact it took the Russian govt. so long to replace an obviously garbage general just indicates the broader rot in the ranks of the Russian military. I wouldn't expect anything else but another idiot to replace him.

Die Grünen now polling lower than Die Linke is a very alarming indication that the modern reformed environmentalist pro-European centre left may still be lacking the element that makes it not fall into the 2020's centre left pit of despair.

This really makes me think what activists of the modern era are going to be distorted in bad faith in the future. Perhaps people wouldn't claim Hasan was a God fearing conservative, but it's an interesting thought to imagine in 2075 Zohran Mamdani being presented as a liberal consensus candidate.

The distrust in government institutions that comically corrupt and evil right-wing populist movements are going to sow in people on their way out, when it happens, is going to be the most damaging and lasting legacy of their rule.

Roman Abramovich, Petr Aven (richest man in Latvia!), Mikhail Vekselberg and Already Volozh all still are EU citizens more than 3 years into the war. The indecision when it comes to the most obvious and straightforward moves to hurt the Russian regime by the EU has been striking.

You can put on Fox News for 20 minutes and then put on Russia 24 for 20 minutes, you'd hardly find a significant difference. Modern authoritarians play by the same obnoxious and nasty playbook it's almost insulting how much they manage to get away with it.