Today is #NationalPierogiDay in the US. Bart has Polish roots, and what better way to honor his (or your own!) Polish heritage than supporting someone standing up for freedom.

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The 20,000 children "stolen by Putin" - brainwashed, tortured and sexually abused. A fascist war crime in the name of making good young Russians.

Fight fascism.

But also make fun of it, every chance you get.

Firefighters rescue a kitten from the rubble following the Russian attack on the Lviv region 🐈

Russian strike in the Lviv region murdered a 15-year-old girl and her family. All four of them.

Anastasia Hrytsiv was a 10th-grade student at Lapaivka Lyceum.

Ukraine endured a large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone attack. Lviv was hit by repeated strikes, including Kh-101 and potential Kinzhal launches. Explosions continued for hours, causing fires and power outages. Public transport in Lviv remains suspended.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Breaks the law and reeks of dictatorship
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They literally just did a double tap on a train station full of people in broad daylight. But hey since the western man is tired of news about the war, let’s just call it another Saturday in Ukraine

Trump & the GOP are not just saying they don’t want undocumented immigrants to have health care — they’re saying they don’t want millions of Americans to have health care if it means any undocumented immigrant gets cared for in an ER.

Not “pro-life”. #TrumpShutdown

Munich airport closed due to drones for the second time in 24 hours. When will Europe understand that this will continue until you respond!

America 2025:

The ideal man is a ruthless killing machine with a Jesus tattoo and rippling pectorals.

The ideal woman is a teen-coded AI heroine who is canonically a virgin.

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Thank you for writing it!

My favorite reads of 2025, featuring titles by @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social, Patrick Ryan, and @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social! What a year for historical fiction—it was hard to limit to only three.

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They produced them (with slave labor), though I don't think they actually designed them (www.bbc.com/news/world-e...)

A good summation of why the Quantico meeting should scare you.

hegseth's obsession with physical appearance—neat, fit, clean shaven, white—needs to be called out as nazism plain and simple. It's the master-race ideal. All that's missing is the Hugo Boss uniforms. And maybe those aren't far behind.

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

A new book trailer for BEYOND SEVEN FORESTS, out 2/3/26 from @lernerbooks.bsky.social!

In winter 1916, as World War I rages, a blizzard traps 18-year-old Polish countess Renata in her home with two escaped enemy POWs.

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

Jürgen is correct. Any historian of Germany in the 30s recognizes this language and approach instantly: the "enemy within" consisted of Social Democrats, Jews, Poles, Gyspies and Gays. Their eradication was sought and to a horrendous extent accomplished.

Far from home: Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war wrestle for sport in a Russian POW Camp in Khabarovsk in the far east, June 1917. This was more than 7,000 kilometers from where these men were captured!

And now we have a US cover, with thanks to @harpercollins.bsky.social!