Timothy Snyder takes the temperature of US democracy

 #PressFreedom #VoteAnyway #NGOs  #SiliconValley #UStaxDollars

"We don't want sirens!" and "Down with the tsar" at a protest

 #Russia #Ukraine #OilAndGasProduction #Iran #StraitOfHormuz

Beyond "Russia always lies," check other sources about the Irkutsk plague issues

really pointed commentary about the war on Iran, diesel prices, and how President #StableGenius wa is allowing Russia to make way more money on the oil market. 

As for Siberia and authoritarian states and ...

Adventures of RantWoman: It's Tuesday. More lab leak news: a second death, hazmat suits, closed borders...

and the fruits of a whole evening binge watching

Adventures of RantWoman: Lab Leak? Weaponization? ANTI-plague institute working on many pathogens

a few notes that seem important scribbled near some of the links.

Definitely in CONCERNED but try not to panic mode.

Michael Fanone dissects two teens' videos in TX ICE stop

 #ICE #TX #USCitizens

Readers who don't like the way police officers think, just DON'T WATCH THE VIDEO unless you care about endless ICE / DHS efforts to spin, spin, spin rather than provide and interact with facts.

"In my years on the job, cameras were not the enemies."

No lights No radio: a captain's account of transiting the Strait under US escort

 #StraitOfHormuz #USEscort #LowPowerRadar #Phillippines #COVID

LOTS of info about how the US navy appears to conduct escort operations. Lots of tips about what to believe or not believe from different monitoring streams

The amount of oil moving is SLOWLY approaching the pre-war movement levels.

Merchant mariners caught in the crossfire

"I'm very proud. I enjoy my job."

Plague, nuclear super terror, and more of the war on Ukraine

 #Plague #NuclearTerror #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #BioWeapons

If President #StableGenius can threaten nuclear war on Iran, why would we not be hearing rumors of Russian super weapons.

What the Ship--this week

#StraitOfHormuz #WarRiskCosts #ShadowFleet #Sanctions

Who WANTS to need useful information like this?

Escalation and Pickaxe Mountain

 #Iran #NuclearWeapons

High quality rant from Ana Kasparian

President #StableGenius "We're all going to die anyway."