The Q people have developed a fantasy that children are being sex trafficked by the hundreds of thousands, and they must find ways to save them. This fits tactically with Republican goals of fear and disruption. I’ll leave most of the psychological side to others,...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Jeff Zucker suddenly resigned as president of CNN today, citing a secret pandemic relationship with one of his employees. So it is fitting that we look back at Ben Smith's.
We continue not to know what Vladimir Putin intends nor wants with his massive military buildup around Ukraine, accompanied by diplomatic demands, primarily on the United States, that will not.
The January 6 Committee sent a letter to Ivanka Trump asking her to testify. It’s eight pages, with snippets from documents and testimony they have. But there’s more than that to it. There are any number of juicy quotes, although most of them have shown...
Swedish fighter jet and a Russian landing craft in the Baltic Sea. Swedish Defense Forces via Helsingin Sanomat. As Russia threatens Ukraine and intervenes in Kazakhstan, its other neighbors are.
Nobody knows. End of blogpost. Or I could go on. I follow a great many Russia experts on Twitter, and they don’t know. Some tilt one way or the other,.
I made a sorta New Year’s resolution to post about stuff other than covid, but covid takes up a lot of everyone’s mental space, and I am particularly angry about this latest surge. Maybe the next post will be about Russia. This morning, one of...
Kevin Drum offers some suggestions as a conversation starter on “living with covid.” Far too many people using that phrase actually mean “Shut up and sit down because I’m tired.
Demonstrations in western Kazakhstan, the oil-producing region, against a sharp increase in the price of automotive fuel, have spread across the country to the former capital, Almaty, and the current.
Here’s some good news to start the year! The P5 – the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, all of which have nuclear weapons – have released a statement against nuclear war. France, the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the United...
Over the last few days, I have thought of at least six posts I might write on the pandemic and started three of them, now trashed by events. I am.
If you, like me, are puzzled by the wide variety of mask manufacturers you’ve never heard of and have also heard that not all masks being sold as N95s actually.