Michael D. Kennedy

Our intelligence services reported receiving data, including from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are verifying this information. We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry. The specified intermediate-range weapons could be used in such a strike. It is important to act responsibly on air-raid alerts, starting this evening. Russian madness truly knows no bounds, so please protect your lives – use shelters. Second, we are drawing the attention of our partners in the United States and in Europe to the fact that the use of such weapons and the prolongation of this war also sets a global precedent for other potential aggressors. If Russia is allowed to destroy lives on such a scale, then no agreement will restrain other similar hatred-based regimes from aggression and strikes. We count on a response from the world – and on a response that is not post factum, but preventive. Pressure must be put on Moscow so that it does not expand the war. Third, we are preparing our air defense as much as possible, and we will respond fully justly to every Russian strike. We have given permission for a parade, but Russia has no permission for madness. This war must be ended – we need peace, not some missiles satisfying the sick ambitions of one individual. I thank everyone helping to protect lives. Once again, please take care of yourselves and use shelters tonight.

Russia Is a Terrorist State. I wish my government would do more to protect Ukrainians from these attacks. Embarrassed that the US is just walking away right now. Hope that will change.

Russia’s brutal overnight attack on Kyiv is another horrifying reminder of the human cost of this war. Civilians should never wake up to missiles, drones, explosions, and fear for their lives. Homes destroyed, families shattered, innocent people killed and injured - this is unacceptable. We strongly condemn the attack and stand by the victims and the people of Ukraine.

@ezraklein @menjivar_ceci @AmbPressman @ruthbenghiat @michelleinbklyn @JacobHeilbrunn @Megankstack @fstockman @NickKristof @DouthatNYT @defpriorities @FrankBruni Waltz ruined Trump’s perfect gender score nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2….

@ezraklein @menjivar_ceci @AmbPressman @ruthbenghiat @michelleinbklyn @JacobHeilbrunn @Megankstack @fstockman @NickKristof @DouthatNYT @defpriorities @FrankBruni “Gabbard will be the 4th cabinet member of Trump’s 2nd term to step down following Bondi, Noem, & Chavez-DeRemer.” Notice any patterns? nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2… Best wishes to her husband.

Over the coming year, I prepare a #KnowledgeCulturalSociology #KCSo paper on (emergent) autocracies in practice focusing on the notion of "strongmen". My 2015 point of reference was #Brexit, Trump & Putin progressivepost.eu/eu-referendum-… and other expressions of #UbermenschEscapism.

@Pontifex @danielleofri @steveahlquist @AGNeronha @KarenTumlin @petrogustavo @EPach @BklynDefender @Megankstack @UCSD @ChrisVanHollen @IanDon @SenJackReed @peterbakernyt @NILC @mashagessen @Columbia The #RuleOfLaw moves slowly through the courts nytimes.com/2026/05/22/nyr… & with particular logics, a combination that often works to abet, not mitigate, the #deportationcrisis, while #seekingjustice for Mahmoud Khalil.

@Pontifex @danielleofri @steveahlquist @AGNeronha @KarenTumlin @petrogustavo @EPach @BklynDefender @Megankstack @UCSD @ChrisVanHollen @IanDon @SenJackReed @ThePublicsRadio @peterbakernyt @NILC @mashagessen "Friends & supporters of Khalil held a “people’s graduation” acknowledging that if he were free, he would have walked in a @Columbia commencement... His wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, was there w the couple’s infant son, Deen" nytimes.com/2025/05/20/nyr… Empathy?

I hope I am wrong again. In Nov '19 w @DYStateofMind and again in May '20 I feared that polarization could lead to more widespread violent confrontations. But Trump's incitements toward violence in DC on 1/6/21 is the worst yet. forbes.com/sites/jonathan…

@jbouie @JenaGriswold @AliVelshi @edsall @FrankBruni @DanYorkeShow @nytimes @jennyschuessler @DouthatNYT @michelleinbklyn @freddieoconnell @GavinNewsom @seiucalifornia @DarrenLinvill @AttorneyNora @AMartinezLA @NPR @MorningEdition @GregGrandin @trumpadmin @adamliptak @DukeU @sophiehurwitz @MotherJones @nkalamb @GreenhouseLinda @MayorOfLA @mcottle @Stanford @TheFIREorg @sanchezcastejon @GovPritzker @emanabdelhadi @Pontifex @SenatorShaheen @BardCollege @DavidsonCollege @babson @MayorFrey @JohnTGrosso Good to see #JudicialPower in defense of the #RuleOfLaw nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/… esp here around the Abrego Garcia case, one manifestation of the #DeportationCrisis.

@jbouie @JenaGriswold @AliVelshi @edsall @FrankBruni @DanYorkeShow @nytimes @jennyschuessler @DouthatNYT @michelleinbklyn @freddieoconnell @GavinNewsom @seiucalifornia @DarrenLinvill @AttorneyNora @AMartinezLA @NPR @MorningEdition @GregGrandin @trumpadmin @adamliptak @DukeU @sophiehurwitz @MotherJones @nkalamb @lehmannchris @GreenhouseLinda @MayorOfLA @mcottle @Stanford @TheFIREorg @sanchezcastejon @GovPritzker @emanabdelhadi @Pontifex @SenatorShaheen @BardCollege @DavidsonCollege @babson @MayorFrey @JohnTGrosso Antisemitism & anti-immigrant hate can go hand in hand, as Bovino illustrates nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/… #iceout

Following @asociologist precedent, we discussed @tressiemcphd's Thick thenewpress.com/books/thick in #IntroSoc. Course now has a different vibe, w students thinking Sociology is engaged, aware of diversity's value, & revealing to those behind a veil, & those who never knew it existed

@michelleinbklyn @DouthatNYT @DavidAFrench @patrickhealynyt @KamalaHarris @lisamurkowski @CoryBooker @hillhulse @RepNancyMace @SpencerDeery @SenAlexander @SenBillCassidy @SenatorCollins @RandPaul @RepBrianFitz The #MAGACrisis grows now in leaps and bounds. nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/… The Ballroom? Gone. The Cop Beater Slush fund? Gone. For now. Let’s watch to see if GOP returns to their bootlicking modality or approaches a #ResponsibleRepublican spirit.

@michelleinbklyn @DouthatNYT @DavidAFrench @patrickhealynyt @KamalaHarris @lisamurkowski @CoryBooker @hillhulse @RepNancyMace @SpencerDeery @SenAlexander @SenBillCassidy @SenatorCollins @RandPaul Will Trump’s demand of #MAGA loyalty yield a more subservient GOP, but one that is also out of institutional power? nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/… Will @RepBrianFitz find the same fate as other manifestations of the #ResponsibleRepublican?

@CIJ_ICJ @RealVanJackson @bartov_omer @MairavZ @CrisisGroup @tomfriedman @ezraklein @deborahlipstadt @ibramxk @PeterBeinart @DouthatNYT @DavidAFrench Distinctions btwn antisemitism & anti-Zionism are debated, but the insinuations & codewords make intellectual engagements even more complicated nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/… as the connotations proliferate.

@CIJ_ICJ @RealVanJackson @bartov_omer @MairavZ @CrisisGroup @tomfriedman @ezraklein @deborahlipstadt @ibramxk @PeterBeinart @DouthatNYT This contest over Fuentes, Carlson et al is metastasizing nytimes.com/2025/11/09/opi… but @DavidAFrench worries that a moral conservative movement won’t survive. It’s already dying…

@CIJ_ICJ @RealVanJackson @bartov_omer @MairavZ @CrisisGroup @tomfriedman @ezraklein @deborahlipstadt @ibramxk @PeterBeinart "Antisemitism is serving as a beard for an assault on the ideals & institutions that have made US into a place where Jews can flourish.. if opposition to Israel is antisemitic, then Jews will become mascots for a politics that would have made the Jewish diaspora unthinkable" 6/

@Dr_HariniA @Claudiashein @michelleinbklyn @ZelenskyyUa @ChingteLai @georgesoros @kajakallas @LulaOficial @imamoglu_int @Statsmin @SenJohnKennedy @ChrisCoons @lisamurkowski @SenThomTillis @takaichi_sanae @Pontifex @ClaudeMalhuret @MarkJCarney @springsteen @SpeakerPelosi @jacindaardern @catherinegalway @delcyrodriguezv @CyrilRamaphosa @Keir_Starmer @GiorgiaMeloni @sanchezcastejon @MichealMartinTD @RNicholasBurns While #TrumpGreenland has dropped off the front pages beyond the region, given other emergent global crises, the creeping imperialism Trump pursues with abandon abides nytimes.com/2026/05/21/wor… and Greenlanders protest.

@Dr_HariniA @Claudiashein @michelleinbklyn @ZelenskyyUa @ChingteLai @georgesoros @kajakallas @LulaOficial @imamoglu_int @Statsmin @SenJohnKennedy @ChrisCoons @lisamurkowski @SenThomTillis @takaichi_sanae @Pontifex @ClaudeMalhuret @MarkJCarney @springsteen @SpeakerPelosi @jacindaardern @catherinegalway @delcyrodriguezv @CyrilRamaphosa @Keir_Starmer @GiorgiaMeloni @sanchezcastejon @MichealMartinTD @RNicholasBurns I frankly don’t know what to make of this promised call to the president of Taiwan nytimes.com/2026/05/21/wor… around the delivery of #WarTechnologies Let’s see before we read too much into it…

@donaldtusk @Adbodnar @AK_Wisniewska @ZuzannaRB @michelleinbklyn @barbaraanowacka @ATHigginsNYT @trzaskowski_ @StevenErlanger @notesfrompoland @danieltilles1 @MagdaBiejat @szymon_holownia @ZandbergRAZEM @WojciechKosc @RobertBiedron @kuiszjaroslaw @KarolinaWigura Poland deserves a better ally than one who withdraws troops in one moment but, thankfully, restores them in the next. nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/… Still, how to rely on such chaotic foreign policy? Przykro mi, nam…

@donaldtusk @Adbodnar @AK_Wisniewska @ZuzannaRB @michelleinbklyn @barbaraanowacka @ATHigginsNYT @trzaskowski_ @StevenErlanger @notesfrompoland @danieltilles1 @MagdaBiejat @szymon_holownia @ZandbergRAZEM @WojciechKosc @RobertBiedron @kuiszjaroslaw @KarolinaWigura From its example in solidarity in 1980-81 through its awareness of Russia’s threat to the whole of Europe, & the frailty of #TrumpAmerica’s commitment to democracy & freedom, Poland, again, exemplifies what is necessary to making the world better. nytimes.com/2026/05/04/bus… Brawo.

@donaldtusk Gratuluje @DonaldTusk et al on forming this new govt. W this transfer of power we might wonder whether we were too harsh about PiS, surrendering as they have their power. But I rather focus now on how democracy can be secured. nytimes.com/2023/12/11/wor… Wszystkiego najlepszego!

@lpolgreen @AJentleson @KamalaHarris @ezraklein @FrankBruni @zinoman @MrNishKumar @rachelzegler @RaulPerezSoc @VVFriedman @UMSociology @ruthbenghiat @anatosaurus @LindsayGrahamSC @spoggioli1 @JaremaPiekutows @DouthatNYT @DavidAFrench @publicroad @SykesCharlie @ddhitchens @elizabethjdias @matthewwalther @jbouie @ntabebe @Pontifex @RepMoulton @oonahathaway @sethmoulton @SenJackReed “decision to shelve war powers resolution came after GOP lost control of floor during an earlier unrelated vote... As House chamber descended into chaos, leaders wary of risking another public defeat ..abruptly scrapped Iran war measure” nytimes.com/2026/05/21/us/… #MAGACrisis brews

@lpolgreen @AJentleson @KamalaHarris @ezraklein @FrankBruni @zinoman @MrNishKumar @rachelzegler @RaulPerezSoc @VVFriedman @UMSociology @ruthbenghiat @anatosaurus @LindsayGrahamSC @spoggioli1 @JaremaPiekutows @DouthatNYT @DavidAFrench @publicroad @SykesCharlie @ddhitchens @elizabethjdias @matthewwalther @jbouie @ntabebe @Pontifex @RepMoulton @oonahathaway @sethmoulton @SenJackReed Trump & Netanyahu “went into the war not only misjudging how quickly they could achieve their objectives but also gambling to some degree on a risky plan for leadership change” nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/… Such an understatement…

@NickKristof @TVPWorld_com @M_Bonikowska @CIR_CSM @KamalaHarris On #January6th, moderator asks whether Trump had any regrets. Those who rioted are patriots; and turns back to migrants asking when they are going to be prosecuted. He refused to express any regrets. No shocker there. He blames Nancy Pelosi instead. 15/

Stephen Colbert is a devout Catholic. He says it himself, often. The faith story he keeps returning to begins on a winter morning in Chicago. Walking down the street, a Gideon volunteer handed him a pocket New Testament. Colbert opened it to the index — under “Anxiety,” it pointed him to Matthew 5, the Sermon on the Mount. The verse that struck him was Jesus asking who among the worried can add a single hour to his life by worrying — the same passage where Jesus tells anxious people to consider the lilies of the field. Something cracked open. He has called it a mystical return, an unbidden recognition that the words had been waiting for him longer than he had been gone. He walked into the next chapter of his life as a practicing Catholic again, and he never left. The faith he came back to is built around a crucifix. Colbert has spoken often about why he prefers the bloodied figure to the polished empty beam, and he is unapologetic about it. A crucifix keeps Christ’s body on the wood — the version Colbert needs. It is a reminder that the cross comes before the resurrection. He looks to it for what he calls solidarity: the assurance that a God who hung on a cross is not embarrassed by the wreckage in our lives. The crucifix taught him to read human pain as the exact place where God chooses to be most present. thelettersfromleo.com/p/stephen-colb…

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

The Department of Justice is now an active participant in multiple conspiracy theories, and doing profound damage to the government's credibility. From @qjurecic @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

@joshuarothman @NewYorker @dwarkesh_sp @ceciliakang @csis_ai @tressiemcphd @paulkrugman @zeynep @JuliaAngwin @DouthatNYT @anubradford @lpolgreen @MarkJCarney @GinaRaimondo @RepRoKhanna @anneapplebaum @JeffDColgan The geopolitical contest in #AITechnology continues to astonish with its many twists & turns nytimes.com/2026/05/21/bus… most recently around Nvidia’s rejection in Beijing despite Trump’s willingness to see it land there, risking, some say, US security. #GeopoliticalIntellectuality?

@joshuarothman @NewYorker @dwarkesh_sp @ceciliakang @csis_ai @tressiemcphd @paulkrugman @zeynep @JuliaAngwin @DouthatNYT @anubradford @lpolgreen @MarkJCarney @GinaRaimondo @RepRoKhanna @anneapplebaum @JeffDColgan Yes, #RareEarths have been a critical element in China’s geopolitical maneuvers nytimes.com/2026/05/13/bus… & it’s not surprising that Trump simply ignored it when figuring his own blustering #TrumpTariffs & wars.

Greenland has been on the map for centuries. And… it is our ally. Stop treating our friends like dirt.

Thank you, @sikorskiradek, for the warm welcome! Looking forward to our future discussions in order to strengthen Hungarian–Polish cooperation based on mutual respect, partnership, and our shared European future. 🇭🇺🇵🇱