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NEW: False reports are likely shaping Russian President Vladimir Putin’s understanding of the battlefield situation.
Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 22, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122225
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Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 22, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122225
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December 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
NEW: False reports are likely shaping Russian President Vladimir Putin’s understanding of the battlefield situation.
Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 22, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122225
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Read the full Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 22, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122225
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Well I’ll give Bari Weiss this: she figured out how to get millions of people to watch 60 Minutes on a Monday
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Well I’ll give Bari Weiss this: she figured out how to get millions of people to watch 60 Minutes on a Monday
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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the tea party was really a seminal shift in how the median congressperson behaved in person
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
My theory that as members of congress are increasingly batshit it will increasingly select for even more batshit people who can tolerate the job is doing pretty well
Congressional retirements at a historic pace in both chambers. Per @ballotpedia.org , 50 Members have now announced. ballotpedia.org/List_of_U.S.... I gather it’s a miserable era to be in Congress for many incumbents.
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
the tea party was really a seminal shift in how the median congressperson behaved in person
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
you stopped needing to be a successful schmoozer and started needing to be a totally unreasonable lunatic to win your primaries, and social media has only accelerated this
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The four Republicans in the House are practicing politics, and not especially complicated politics either.
I think one reason why people stick with us is we point out how often basic politics is not practiced. The astonishment when people see it is really something.
I think one reason why people stick with us is we point out how often basic politics is not practiced. The astonishment when people see it is really something.
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The four Republicans in the House are practicing politics, and not especially complicated politics either.
I think one reason why people stick with us is we point out how often basic politics is not practiced. The astonishment when people see it is really something.
I think one reason why people stick with us is we point out how often basic politics is not practiced. The astonishment when people see it is really something.
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Su Lin's nephew Yun Chuan at San Diego Zoo~in chill mode~😎
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Su Lin's nephew Yun Chuan at San Diego Zoo~in chill mode~😎
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Inside the mind of Stephen Miller, one of the smallest, darkest, most bitter human beings ever to darken US public life.
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Inside the mind of Stephen Miller, one of the smallest, darkest, most bitter human beings ever to darken US public life.
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Lots of people know someone who's down on his luck, dope, whatever, and he has to go home. The family takes him in, and they stick with it, even when it tears them up. You should never dance on people's graves but in a situation that's close to the bone it has political consequences.
December 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Lots of people know someone who's down on his luck, dope, whatever, and he has to go home. The family takes him in, and they stick with it, even when it tears them up. You should never dance on people's graves but in a situation that's close to the bone it has political consequences.
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Sam Spade talks with the widow of his late partner Miles Archer in THE MALTESE FALCON (Humphrey Bogart and Gladys George directed by John Huston, 1941)
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sam Spade talks with the widow of his late partner Miles Archer in THE MALTESE FALCON (Humphrey Bogart and Gladys George directed by John Huston, 1941)
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Drug runners are camouflaging their boats so they don’t get blown up.
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Drug runners are camouflaging their boats so they don’t get blown up.
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White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross
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Resplendent Quetzal.
Large, spectacular trogon of humid evergreen and pine-evergreen forest in the mountains of southern Mexico and Central America. It is the national bird (and lends its name to the currency) of Guatemala.
📸: @feather_hunters_cr
Large, spectacular trogon of humid evergreen and pine-evergreen forest in the mountains of southern Mexico and Central America. It is the national bird (and lends its name to the currency) of Guatemala.
📸: @feather_hunters_cr
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Resplendent Quetzal.
Large, spectacular trogon of humid evergreen and pine-evergreen forest in the mountains of southern Mexico and Central America. It is the national bird (and lends its name to the currency) of Guatemala.
📸: @feather_hunters_cr
Large, spectacular trogon of humid evergreen and pine-evergreen forest in the mountains of southern Mexico and Central America. It is the national bird (and lends its name to the currency) of Guatemala.
📸: @feather_hunters_cr
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Sylvia Sidney - Fury - Fritz Lang, 1936
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Sylvia Sidney - Fury - Fritz Lang, 1936
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Leonard’s rule is right for his books. What it really means is clarity of thought. Shakespeare sounds like writing, but the thought is crystal clear. Even when it’s not, the SOUND is clear & that does the job. Writing usually ‘sounds like writing’ when it doesn’t know or care what it’s doing.
Everything I've heard/read from Nuzzi's book violates this classic writing "rule" of Elmore Leonard's. (I, for one, don't always agree with this rule, but it is 100 percent true here.)
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Leonard’s rule is right for his books. What it really means is clarity of thought. Shakespeare sounds like writing, but the thought is crystal clear. Even when it’s not, the SOUND is clear & that does the job. Writing usually ‘sounds like writing’ when it doesn’t know or care what it’s doing.
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