Ted Peters

@Stanovaya Might be time for a genuine Russian Revolution... so the Russian people can join the modern world.

Something Is Shifting Inside Russia Recent developments inside Russia suggest the system is struggling to cope with mounting pressures. These include growing domestic strains, behind-the-scenes manoeuvring among elites, rumours of a coup d’état, a tighter and more reactive grip on control, fears of losing that control, and increasing exposure to Ukrainian strikes and assassinations. All this is unfolding against a worsening external backdrop: a destabilised Middle East and stalemate over Iran, a distracted Trump, and a more militarised (including nuclear-oriented) Europe. For the first time in years of war, there may be a shift. Pressures have reached a point where too many actors inside Russia face a new reality: the status quo is starting to threaten their own position. If nothing changes, it makes survival difficult, if not impossible. Until recently, many assumed that Putin had a plan, even if it was simply to keep the war going. Now there are growing doubts as to whether such a plan exists. And even if it does, it may imply political or physical ruin for some. Ironically, after years of pursuing a “wait and see” approach towards the West and, in part, Ukraine, Putin has now become the object of a similar approach from the Americans — an uncomfortable position for Russians. There are growing sentiments in Russia that the current system of governance is becoming too damaging and increasingly self-defeating. Tolerance for the status quo is eroding. However, different actors interpret that change in opposing ways, while Putin appears either unable or unwilling to rethink his policy.

@Kasparov63 Unemployment was at 4.3% in March 2026. That is essentially full employment.

Quite an unfair assessment! Trump had many willing assistants in his administration, Congress, and the media.

@AbdulElSayedHQ Eloquent nonsense.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing putting government thugs on our streets against the constitution itself. You cannot reform this. You cannot retrain this. The only logical path is to abolish ICE.

@McFaul It's heartwarming to see an old school liberal who still recognizes the evil that is communism. Too many of your fellow Dems have become fellow travelers.

Delighted to see so many leaders of the democratic world in Armenia and Putin propagandists freaking out about it.

@Huma3310 No... mine is! I'm too old for you... sigh.

Is my age an problem? I’m 52 born in 1973

@JocelynBenson Spirit's employees would still have jobs but for Biden quashing its merger with Jet Blue.

Spirit Airlines shutting down this weekend is a devastating blow to thousands of workers and families in Michigan.
 I stand with the flight attendants of Spirit AFA-CWA Local 76 and every employee paying the price for the chaotic, reckless policies coming out of the White House — they deserve support, dignity, and a voice in what comes next.

@oelma__ I find it repulsive.

Men, be honest: Is it okay if a woman smokes on a date?

@bhaviklathia Clever and charismatic... but without a single notion of how economics functions.

Abdul is going to crush statewide this November. Anyone saying differently fundamentally is misunderstanding the moment.

@SenatorSlotkin Race baiting is so retro.

In a decision split along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court again attacked the right to fair representation in Congress. By again slicing away at the protections of the Voting Rights Act, communities of color in Michigan and across the country could see their voices diminished and lose the ability to elect a representative of their choice. This comes as President Trump kicked off a partisan redistricting war that has rippled across the nation. Here in Michigan, voters made their voices heard in 2018 when we passed a ballot initiative -- with overwhelming bipartisan support -- that ended partisan gerrymandering altogether. Politicians shouldn't get to draw the lines of the districts they plan to run in. Nobody gets to cook the books for their party. And the only antidote to what we're seeing now is to pass a federal law that calls on all states to do the same. The American people cannot rely on the courts alone to protect their rights. The only real remedy is for Congress to do its job: pass laws that protect the Voting Rights Act, and ban partisan gerrymandering once and for all. cbsnews.com/news/tennessee…

@apocalypseos Stalin sent more Russians to their deaths or the gulags than Hilter ever dreamed of.

The West Refused to Honor the 27 Million Dead Soviets who Defeated Hitler on the 80th Anniversary Jeffrey Sachs: And the shame of it is that we in the United States, or in Britain, or in continental Europe are so nasty not to recognize that fact that the Soviet Union lost 27 million people defeating Hitler and bore the brunt of it. And then would not even show up to the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Hitler because it was Russia—but Russia defeated Hitler, bearing the vast brunt of the war. And this shows the mindlessness of our countries, actually of our leadership—how cruel. By the way, same with China, incidentally. China lost an estimated 14 million people to Japan’s invasion, and when China had the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Japan, no Western government would show up. The ingratitude, the lack of the most basic decency and historical knowledge, is really something disgusting on our side. And then Trump—because, I mean, I hate to come back to him in this context—but he says, “Yes, we defeated Hitler and Russia helped.” I mean, it just is the cruelty of the stupidity, because there’s stupidity, of course, but it’s so stupid it becomes absolutely cruel in its stupidity. That’s where we are.

An economy should be as organic as possible to reflect human nature. So-called "model" economies are all based on a compulsion by some to repress the natural human drive for independence. This need to control others reflects a failure to adequately separate from one's mother during early development.

The US is not a model economy that other countries should seek to emulate. The bottom 50% of the US population own just 1–2% of the nation's wealth. Among wealthy countries, the US has one of the highest rates of poverty and child poverty. The US ranks lower in social mobility than almost every other OECD nation. The “American Dream”, it turns out, is in practice a non-American phenomenon.

@keithdorejel He's tenured and celebrated in the faculty lounge... and this is an issue that will fade away tomorrow.

There will be a massive campaign to ruin this man’s reputation and see him fired because as far as I can tell that’s all pro Israel politics really consists of anymore.

@MbarkCherguia It's trending that way... in only a few years.

Men only Is this considered “fat” ?

@bianca_nobilo Because the Chinese navy is useless more than 200 miles from its coast.

China is Iran’s most powerful friend, biggest trading partner and the primary buyer of Iran’s oil- so why isn’t China backing Iran harder against the US & Israel?

@Kasparov63 Ukraine represents a genuine Russian Revolution.

Russia will collapse long before Ukraine does.

@RebeccaKKatz I'd prefer we send back to school to study economics.

Let’s send this son of Michigan to the U.S. Senate! 💙

@Unseen_Archive @UMich You are a career resident of a modern Castalia and have zero understanding of the real world. The students who cheered your speech this week will look back after just a couple years from now and marvel at how blind they were.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of addressing the graduates @UMich commencement. I spoke about the long history of student activism, which has moved the University toward justice. Here is a video. It has caused a furore on social media & in UM admin. youtube.com/watch?v=iu0xsQ…

@jayfeely Magister Ludi would drown in the frozen lake of reality.

What a disgusting remark (& repulsive cheers) at the college my wife & I went to. What about the families of those murdered, raped & kidnapped by Hamas terrorists who broadcast the atrocities on their own social media accounts. The Left is anti-Semitic, embraces terrorists

@angelshalagina For me, Ukraine represents a genuine Russian Revolution. Down with the puny crypto-czar!

russians in 2022: “Kyiv will fall” Me now: Still here. Still walking to get coffee. Still alive under the same sky they couldn’t take.

@McFaul Hmmmm... I'm not sure that cuddling up with the CCP represents the causes of freedom, democracy or sovereignty.

Just shameful that the US is not sharing the burden in the greatest fight for freedom of our lifetimes. Canada is now a more consequential leader of the free world than the US. Hope this changes in the future.