Defeat for Putin and victory for pro-European forces in Georgia
UPDATE: Thursday, Mar 9, 2023 · 9:19:30 PM +00:00·kalmothAll the detained protesters have been freed.The “foreign agents” law that mimicked a similar Russian law has been pulled “unconditionally” by...
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Parts of Crimea are already without fresh water
UPDATE: Tuesday, Jun 6, 2023 · 9:12:06 AM +00:00·kalmothThe Nova Kakhovka zoo is destroyed by the floodAbout 300 animals, which our residents of Novokakhovka knew and loved, died.Monkeys Anfisa and...
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Coup in Russia?
Take this with a bucket of salt, but the notorious troll, ex-convict and mercenary leader Yevgeni Prigozhin just announced the following:1. On June 23, his mercenaries (The Wagner group) were attacked...
View ArticlePrigozhin - what happened?
After a successful march to Moscow, the Wagner columns are turning around (supposedly to go to their deployment locations somewhere in occupied Ukraine), charges against Prigozhin are dropped, and...
View ArticleWho's next after Prigozhin?
About twelve days ago, a Russian anti-war blogger Michael Nackie (@MackNack) ran a podcast discussing who Putin will whack next (after his rogue chef / mercenary warlord Prigozhin). His money was on...
View ArticleAntisemitism in our community
UPDATE: Sunday, Oct 8, 2023 · 4:04:10 PM +00:00·kalmothMany thanks to the commenters who contributed substantive points.It’s here, it’s real. It may be more or less artfully concealed with “legitimate...
View ArticleThere are no "both sides" to this
The video of HAMAS militants screaming “God is great” while parading a mostly-naked body of a young woman, horribly injured, unconscious or dead, in the back of a pickup truck, has become viral. I will...
View ArticleHamas killed my father's friend and his wife
Sergei Gredeskul was a Ukrainian physicist who authored several seminal works on physics of disordered matter — same area my father worked in, so they knew each other pretty well back in the 1970s and...
View ArticleElections in Poland are kind of a big deal...
The ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party failed to secure parliamentary majority.www.bbc.com/…What does this mean? Most likely, the new coalition government will be led by the pro-EU Civic...
View ArticlePlease do not believe the rumors about Putin's most recent death
A supposed Kremlin insider posted the following https://t.me/generalsvr/1845Внимание! ВданныймоментпроисходитпопыткагосударственногопереворотавРоссии!...
View ArticlePrivilege, American exceptionalism, cognitive bias, and the current global mess
I wrote my first diary on exceptionalism warping the perceptions of Americans, including the members of our community, in 2014. I can even quote from it regarding the two common misconceptions that...
View ArticlePrivilege vs. experience poll
I know that at least some of the members of our community have really interesting life stories and have confronted and overcome considerable adversity, so in their diaries and comments they write from...
View Articleyesterday's "privilege poll" results
There exists a perception (stereotype?) of our online community as somewhat shielded from the problems of the real world. Yesterday I posted a list of questions along the lines of “have you ever been...
View ArticleNavalny disappeared?
This is a short entry to highlight a somewhat sinister situation. Alexei Navalny, the leading Russian opposition politician, has reportedly disappeared from the penal colony where Putin’s regime had...
View ArticleCrocus City Hall terror attack: what I really know now
UPDATE: Sunday, Mar 24, 2024 · 7:28:53 PM +00:00·kalmothNow that ISIS has released first person videos from the attack it is extremely unlikely that this was anything but an ISIS terror attack. On...
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