Natasha B 🚫🧊🇨🇦

Long before #Russia invaded and occupied #Ukraine: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 #RussianColonialism 🧵

What has Mojtaba been up to?

@AndriyBoguslav7 American vpn and Nigerian app store🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can’t wait. #GoHabsGo #StanleyCup

Fars News Agency published footage of a tanker on fire after it was allegedly struck near the UAE earlier today. This video is from last month and has nothing to do with ships that were attacked today.

Refrigeration trucks full of dead bodies would have been a clue.

The @CanadiensMTL scored the game winning goal while I was live on air. That was such an amazing moment. The Bell Centre erupted like it was a home game.

Ukrainian drones are operating inside the Moscow region. Looks like a warmup for May 9.

@caroaubureau DOBEŠ 👍 🥅

This has to be the most clueless ‘guess your country’ interviewers ever

Russia raises children from birth inside fake American towns deep in Siberia. American food. American TV. American holidays. Perfect Midwestern accents drilled in by native speakers brought in for the job. The kids grow up never knowing they are Russian. When they hit their early twenties, the SVR sends them to a cemetery in Canada or the United States, finds a baby who died young with no surviving relatives, and pulls a duplicate birth certificate in that dead child's name. The agent gets a real Social Security number, a real passport, a real identity. They walk into America as an American citizen who legally exists. Then they live a normal life. Real estate agent. Suburban dad. PTA mom. Consulting firm partner. For ten, fifteen, twenty years. Until one day the radio crackles a coded sequence, or a stranger on the subway whispers a phrase only their handler would know, and the sleeper wakes up. This is what former CIA officer John Kiriakou just told Steven Bartlett happens, and the case file is wilder than the story. In June 2010, the FBI rolled up ten of these agents across Boston, Yonkers, suburban New Jersey, and Northern Virginia in Operation Ghost Stories. They had been watching them for more than a decade. One couple, posing as Canadian, had been in Cambridge, Massachusetts long enough to put one kid through high school and into college. The husband held a Harvard MPA. The wife sold houses through Redfin. Their two sons were born in Toronto and grew up believing they were Canadian. When the FBI raided the home, the kids found out their parents were Russian intelligence officers from the agents' own arrest warrants. One agent's mission was to cultivate a venture capitalist who co-chaired Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. The intelligence target Moscow assigned her: details about the global gold market. The cash drops the SVR buried in the woods to fund her operations sat unrecovered in the dirt for two years before another sleeper dug them up. The agents communicated with Moscow through invisible ink, dead drops in suburban parks, radiograms beamed across the Atlantic on shortwave frequencies, and steganography hidden inside vacation photos. Press Control-Alt-E on the right JPEG, type a 27-character password, and the message decrypts. The same toolkit the KGB used in the 1960s, still operational in the 2010s. When the swap happened in Vienna on July 9, 2010, Russia traded ten of these agents for four Western-handled assets, including the GRU colonel later poisoned with novichok in Salisbury. Putin met the returnees personally at the Kremlin, sang the Soviet anthem "Where the Motherland Begins" with them, and placed them in elite positions. The lead Cambridge agent now teaches international relations at MGIMO and consults for Rosneft. His wife writes spy novels and lectures on networking at the Orator Club in Moscow. The program has been running continuously since the 1920s. The current generation is already deployed. Two more illegals were exposed in Slovenia in 2022, posing as Argentine art dealers, with their two young children also in the dark. One was caught in Norway. One was caught in Brazil. The scariest part is not that the sleepers exist. It is that the program has been running for a hundred years, the FBI has known about it for decades, and Moscow keeps replacing the burned agents faster than the West can find the new ones. Right now, somewhere in suburban America, a kid is at soccer practice. Their dad is making dinner. The radio is on in the kitchen. Both of them are waiting for the phrase.

Look at this cloud over Bogor, Indonesia. The physics of the rainbow rim are wild. A rainbow is refraction. Sunlight enters a raindrop, bends, reflects off the back, bends again on the way out. Each wavelength bends a slightly different amount and the colors separate. What you're looking at is diffraction. Light waves are bending around the droplets, never going through them. And the droplets responsible are 100x smaller than a raindrop, around 1 to 10 microns across. The cap on top of the cumulus is called a pileus. Pileus forms when a fast-growing storm cloud punches into a thin, humid layer of air above it. The air gets shoved up, expands, cools, and condenses into a fresh sheet of droplets in seconds. Because every droplet is born in the same instant from the same parcel of air, they all come out the same size. That uniformity is the entire trick. When droplets vary in size, the diffraction angles for each color blur into white. When droplets are within a few percent of each other, the colors stack constructively. Red bends one way, violet bends another, and the eye sees a coherent rim instead of a wash. The geometry has a hard limit. Bright bands like this only show within about 10 degrees of the sun. Weaker interference effects can stretch color to 40 degrees, but the saturated rim in this video sits close to the source. The iridescence wraps the top edge of the cloud because that's the part nearest the sun. The Weather Channel called it "lingering raindrops in the air after it rains." Raindrops are 100x too large to diffract visibly, and the droplets responsible sit on a cloud that hasn't rained yet. Pileus is the cap a storm wears before it breaks. Bogor sits on the equator. Indonesia has the most active deep convection on Earth. Tropical cumulus there grows tall and fast, often punching through 40,000 feet inside an hour. The faster the cloud rises, the cleaner the cap, the brighter the iridescence. You're watching the moment air becomes water.

Russians launched a missile attack on a street and a store in the town of Merefa in the Kharkiv region. At least 5 civilians were killed. Russians killed people in broad daylight for no reason. Putin, who did this, now is asking for a one-day ceasefire to have a military parade in Moscow. And then he will continue killing innocent people.

Leading Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan is now calling on Russia to invade Armenia after the Armenian government hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Ukraine used long range drones to destroy four Russian military planes 1,700km deep inside Russia.

Chaos in the Montreal streets after a huge Game 7 win 😅

Never heard of Newhook the Newfie before. Now he’s my new hero. He brought great joy to the streets of Montreal last night.

'To Jewish families, more than 1000 years of history is bleak evidence that they are right to fear they will once again be on their own.' @TrevorPTweets reflects on antisemitism in Britain, after a swathe of violence against the Jewish community trib.al/S3icMYg

MLK gave his life so Black Americans could have the right to vote. White people quoting MLK to justify gutting the VRA is diabolical.

The more you know.

@pepel_klaasa @pit__roig I’ve taken some flack lately for supporting the Iranian people’s resistance against the regime that has oppressed them for 47 years. Over 40,000 Iranians were massacred between January 8th and 9th. A man was just executed for using Starlink to access the internet. #FreeIran

@pit__roig Somehow the idea that one might support those who are unfairly treated for their very nature is alien to many people

For the last time: I am not Ukrainian. Not every person supporting Ukraine is Ukrainian. I was born and raised in Moscow, and my attitude towards Ukraine and Ukrainians was quite condescending, as the society projected, until I turned 21, went to Kyiv and grew some conscience. If you wish to address me by any of the identities, you can pick: Russian, Jewish, Israeli, Belgian. Good luck figuring how to bully me using those. I am a relatively public person, with 30 years of chats, forums and blogs behind my back. If you think you can invent anything original, be my guest.