Fireworks burst beyond my window, their festive clamor scraping old wounds. In Ukraine, carols are drowned by explosions. This photo from Kryvyi Rih shows a Christmas tree under ruins. The world wraps itself in tinsel and cheer. I sit in its shadow, waiting for a miracle.

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“It’s not ideology or idealism, but hard-headed, practical common sense to say our place is in Europe – and to say so now”

#Rejoin

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Keep your focus on Ukraine.

This hasn't been an almost 3-year war.

Ukrainians have been fighting to cut the Russian cancer out of their lands since 2014.

Kharkiv is a city that forces you to make a pact with fate: you will live as though death isn’t watching. And when you leave, you carry its sirens, its defiance, and its haunting beauty inside you forever.

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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.

I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/