Why does Russia want Donbas? 6 things to know about the region Ukraine is being pressured to give up: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/20/why-does-russia-want-donbas.html

Scoop: Trump plan asks Ukraine to cede additional territory for security guarantee (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/trump-ukraine-peace-plan-russia-donbas
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p101#a251119p101

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‘The worst is when the rubbish explodes’: the children living in Patagonia’s vast dumps https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/12/rubbish-children-living-patagonia-argentina-vast-dumps

There is a non-zero chance these dumbasses will accidentally kill themselves, triggering all sorts of assassination disinformation.
“Artillery shrapnel hits vehicles on California highway during Marines celebration”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c051p3981m4o
This wa…

In a tense meeting at the White House on Friday,
Trump tossed aside maps of the front line,
and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners
after the bruising meeting with Trump,
in which he was told to make concessions to end the war or risk facing destruction at the hands of Russia.


After tense Trump meeting, Zelensky seeks European support
In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s latest deal or face destruction at Russian hands, according to those familiar with events.

bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). https://www.instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/

What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393

'I quit': GOP fundraiser publicly dumps 'increasingly corrupt' party (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-corrupt/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p53#a251020p53

At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-r…

Republicans Say Trump’s Greenland Plan Is “Dumbest Thing” Ever
At least a handful of Republicans in Congress are pushing back against President Trump’s quest to take over Greenland.