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BBC: Attack on Kyiv shows ‘Russia doesn’t want peace’, Zelensky says
An intense Russian attack on Kyiv overnight shows Moscow “doesn’t want peace”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday as he prepared for a fresh round of peace talks.
Zelensky made the comments en route to Florida, where he will meet US President Donald Trump on Sunday to discuss a new 20-point peace plan agreed by American and Ukrainian envoys.
The 10-hour missile and drone barrage directed at Ukraine’s capital killed two people and left 32 injured, local authorities said.
Damage to energy infrastructure left 40 percent of residential buildings in Kyiv and nearby districts without heating, according to Ukraine’s minister for development Oleksiy Kuleba.
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Rook T. Winchester: The sidewalk fought back
A flag-draped provocateur came looking for dominance outside ICE headquarters. He found cold concrete, consequences, and a crowd that refused to become the villain.
Minnesota cold doesn’t creep. It occupies. It seeps out of federal concrete like a hostile memo, reminding you that buildings like the Whipple Federal Building were designed less for public service than for emotional frostbite. Everything about the place says: comply quietly, or don’t bother existing here at all.
So naturally, people showed up.
They gathered outside ICE headquarters after Joseph Boman was arrested for the unspeakable crime of observing federal agents. Watching, apparently, now qualifies as suspicious if you’re not armed with a badge, a vehicle, and a bottomless sense of entitlement.The protest was calm. Purposeful. Sharp. Satirical signs. Costumes mocking power. People standing where they were allowed to stand, saying things they were allowed to say. No blocked doors. No charges. No chaos. Just dissent doing what dissent has always done best: irritating authority by refusing to disappear.
Enter the counter-protesters.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – December 27, 2025
Over the Christmas holiday, the Trump administration threw its weight against the U.S. Constitution in favor of Christian nationalist authoritarianism.
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404 Media: Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
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HuffPost: Fear Of Retaliation Grips State Department Lawyers Meant To Advise On International Law
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Thom Hartmann: Chapter 7: From Birtherism to the Big Lie
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: “The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink”
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