'Matviichuk said a peace agreement should also protect the…estimated 6 million Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories, including 1.5 million children. “Russian occupation means torture, rape, filtration camps and mass graves, yet there are zero words about these people,”…she said.' /2

Jesus of Nazareth did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The world ― the U.S. most of all ― is about to pay a huge price for the woeful lack of curiosity and courage among the demographic of Americans now in control of their nation's might and wealth. Those who could have checked them have sold out or waited too long for someone else to act. Tragic. /5

Hundreds of thousands have already died after USAID suddenly abandoned them, and this will go on. Now hundreds of thousands more will be torn out of the refuge they'd hoped they'd found and forced to go...where?...by an army of DOGE-like children who know nothing of the world they hate and fear. /4

I spent years out there, and fell in love with those people and that world, though I saw both with clear and often sad and disappointed eyes.

The world is good. The people in it are overwhelmingly good, whatever their colour, languages or faith. Mostly they just long for a chance at a life. /3

Not a military deployment or three-week group mission trip with their church or quick sample-pack trip around European sites, but a real ramble on their own without a purpose other than...going...

I doubt they've ever met the world they're so afraid of, or the ordinary people they so despise. /2

The old "record club" scheme...

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Or in this case, "Never lean into the shot when your subject is showing the world his true character and state of decline."

By setting ego aside, they let Trump show himself to be that abusive teacher or boss we all hated. So people know.

It's different from stepping up to protect someone on the street, or to stick up for a co-worker or teammate. As long as the abuse is directed at us, reporters worthy of the job should be able to handle it so the public gets to see the man's reality as fully and clearly as possible. It's overdue. /3

"But if he's not called out, he'll just keep doing it," we may think ― but that's the point.

A journalist's role here is to let the powerful person show us exactly who they are, and share that with us so we know. Jump in to object and we'll never know what he would have said or done next... /2

Impressionist.

Skin 'em, cube 'em, boil 'em, mash 'em, add salt, pepper, a big glop of marg or butter, a glug-glug of maple syrup, and a big finger-grab of parm. Mix. Serve. Eat. Great.