… Tetyana. A mural in Paris, by Nikita Kravtsov.
A vote for Gov Gregory Abbott
Endangers your vibrator rabbit
Your misery will grow
Vote Beto! and keep to your habit
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Really – the race is as tight as a Kegel exercise. Now’s the time to give Beto money.
… hope.
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And:
Never have I been so ashamed of my country as on February 24 this year…. Those who conceived this war want only one thing — to remain in power forever, to live in pompous tasteless palaces, sail on yachts comparable in tonnage and cost to the entire Russian navy, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity.
Russia’s ex-representative to the UN in Geneva writes a Dear Vlad letter.
[Marat] Grachev was fined 100,000 rubles, more than $1,200, [for displaying an anti-war sign in his computer repair store]. A Moscow politician wrote about the case on social media, including Mr. Grachev’s bank details for anyone who wanted to help. Enough money to cover the fine arrived within two hours, Mr. Grachev said.
He received 250,000 rubles in total, he said, from about 250 separate donations, and he plans to donate the surplus to OVD-Info, which provided him with legal aid.
I walk along the Moscow streets you used to walk along with me
And every step I take reminds me of just how we used to be
Well, how can I forget, Vlad?
When there is always someone there to remind me
Always someone there to remind me
As Kherson falls I pass the refugees around me in the night
And I can’t help recalling how it felt to kiss and hold you tight
Well, how can I forget, Vlad?
When there is always someone there to remind me
Some Polish asshole there to remind me
I was born to love you and I will never be free
You’ll always be a part of me
If you should find you miss the sweet and tender love we used to share
Just come back to the places where we used to go like our beloved Red Square
Well, how can I forget, Vlad?
When there is always someone there to remind me
Always someone there to remind me
“It was like a moment of humanity because you’re there and you just were holding your heart to them, and they would come up to you. It was a human moment.”
This is exactly what Richard Rorty would have written if he were still alive. Read Achieving Our Country, Rorty’s urgent, late in life, defense of liberalism. As people have noted, he saw Trump coming way before the rest of us did. He warned us about Trump/Putin.
“Have you captured a Russian tank or armoured personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the motherland!” Ukraine’s National Agency for the Protection against Corruption (NAPC) said, according to the Ukraine arm of the Interfax news service.
The agency went on to explain there was “no need to declare the captured Russian tanks and other equipment, because the cost of this … does not exceed 100 living wages (UAH248,100) ($8,298).”
In stark contrast to the response Zelensky received from EU lawmakers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was met with a cold shoulder at the United Nations.
Scores of diplomats walked out of two meetings at the UN in Geneva in which Lavrov was beamed in for a video statement.
Lavrov spoke by video to the Conference on Disarmament and the Human Rights Council, which he had planned to attend before the closure of airspace to Russian planes by several European countries prevented his travel to the Swiss city.
