Today’s News: We will win this war or we will get another
Here is Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band BoomBox singing in Kyiv. And here are other beautiful versions too: Around 300 Lithuanians came together to sing with Ukrainian refugee Eliza…
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Today’s News: Just a smile and a cup of coffee
What a great smile! Olena is an officer in Ukraine’s 128th Mountain Assault Brigade – the Transcarpathian Legion. Photo is from this tweet. There’s a tweeter in Kyiv, Yaroslava Antipina,…
Today’s News: Doing the tell of history back
Artwork found here. Our daughter asked me today for a short re-cap of why Russia started this terrible war in the first place – did they really think their nation…
Today’s News: Yes, there is still art in Ukraine. Even now. Especially now.
Picasso said “What do you think an artist is? …he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping…
Zinger tweets: "Candidate for Prime Minister of Canada"
Well, the other day Pierre Poilievre changed his twitter bio to call himself “candidate for Prime Minister of Canada” — dumb, of course, because Canadians do not elect their Prime…
Today’s News: The Battle of Donbas is beginning
I don’t know where it was taken or when, but this is one of the Ukraine photos Zelenskyy shared in a recent Ukrinform post. The news of the day is…
Today’s News: Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst
My theme tonight is from a Maya Angelou quote: ““Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.” First, the Ukraine refugee crisis had topped…
On the lighter side
So many of my posts are about wars and politics. Here’s some tweets I have assembled from the “lighter side” that everyone will enjoy, I hope: I love watching the…
Today’s News: A mind is a terrible thing to lose
Does anyone remember the time Vice President Dan Quayle mangled the United Negro College Fund line “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” when he said ” What a…
Today’s News: Catching up
DeAdder does such great cartoons, doesn’t he. And yes, I also believe that the only reason Elon Musk is interested in Twitter is because Trump desperately wants to tweet again.…
Today’s News: Spring is here
(Image from Daily Kos) A few weeks ago, in response to someone’s tweet about Russia vehicle movements in Ukraine, I replied “Spring is coming”. It seemed to confuse people –…
Today’s News: Putting on the pressure
Russian warship, go fuck yourself! In the last two days, we’re had news that Ukraine hit an important north-eastern railway line over a bridge outside of Belgorod, Russia. Earlier, we…
Today’s news: More American support
I love this photo, from this tweet. Carefully and cautiously, the United States appears to be taking a larger and more direct role in the Russia Ukraine War. I’m not…
Today’s news: Just a few items tonight
Photo from this tweet. I wasn’t feeling very well today — I did my first rapid test, luckily negative (though then I read this, so we’ll see) — but for…
Today’s News: Doing whatever we can to help Ukraine
A Paris painting by street artist Seth (photo by Chesnot). It struck me today just how many people around the world are doing whatever we can to help Ukraine. For…
Today’s News: "An opportunity to forgive"
I just saw this great photo from Brandi Morin’s great piece last week in the Toronto Star, showing Dr. Wilton Littlechild celebrating in Rome after Pope Francis apologized for the…
Today’s News: Odds and ends
Tonight’s photo: the children’s play area at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art. The Museum has transformed itself to aid Ukrainian refugees Tonight I don’t have much that is “new” in…
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A fascinating “history” of the Russia Ukraine War: A day by day timelapse of the approximate situation of the war in Ukraine so far. The situation at 00:00 UTC each…
Today’s News: Maybe a gamechanger
The Switchblade drones now on their way to the Ukraine Army will likely be gamechangers for the Ukrainian defense. And offense. U.S. Drones for #Ukraine Will Include Latest Tank Killers.…
Today’s News: Preparing for the next battle
In some photos from Vice, I was particularly struck by this one, where a religious icon has been set up next to a Molotov cocktail, at a checkpoint near Kyiv.…