Ukrainian Mother:

“My daughter is 4. I gave her a money box with the sign ‘Travel’ & an image of a plane.
The kid: Isn’t it a missile?
Me: No, darling, it’s a plane.
The kid: Ah, right, the one that drops missiles.”

Children under five in Ukraine have never seen a passenger plane in the sky.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Here’s what was NOT released today:

- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ

- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed

- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison

- the Epstein files

TACO
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

timothysnyder.org/resources/?u...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

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The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality. Those who seek to rule the world blur human experience and smudge memory, making cooperation and friendship laughable and unthinkable.
Ukraine resists an unreality war.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-realit...

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

The outcome isn’t inevitable but it’s not at all assured.

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

This bullshit trade war with Canada is a smokescreen for some nefarious fucking shit folks.