
randy r potts
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randy r potts
@thephatic
journo + editor; Hromadske, New Yorker, Baffler, et al Tulsa / Baltimore / mieszkam w Warszawie Signal: at thephatic dot 39


People bicker over whether to call this “third-worldism,” but you do see common propaganda threads here and elsewhere: the ideology is resentment-driven, civilization-skeptical, and obsessed with upending, cathartic violence enacted by the “historically downtrodden” (ie “wretched of the earth”).

President Zelensky has given up on Donald Trump and will secure support from the Gulf States to ensure Ukraine's continued progress against Russia. This move is equally embarrassing to Europe and the United States.

@PawlowskiMario Switzerland ordered some Tomahawks years ago. Now the US said they can't deliver them. So Switzerland said then we won't pay. The US have now seized the funds we paid for the F-35s (which we probably won't get as well) instead. srf.ch/news/schweiz/z…


TISZA Party has widened its lead over Viktor Orban's Fidesz to 23 percentage points among decided voters, up from a 20-point lead in a February survey, a poll showed today. 18 days left until election day.


Trump: I heard the head of Germany say, “This is not our war” for Iran. I said, well, Ukraine is not our war—we helped. I thought it was a very inappropriate statement to make, but he made it, and he can’t erase it.



The fact that Israel and the US are killing civilian officials is already crazy enough, but I don't think people realize how utterly insane it is that Israel even put Aragchi, a diplomat, on a kill list. Even Attila and Gengis Khan respected the immunity of diplomats.

Tonight, Israeli settlers armed with firearms & bats carried out a pogrom in Tyasir village in the occupied West Bank. One of the victims is an elderly Palestinian man who was beaten with clubs by settlers who stormed his home, leaving him with severe head and facial fractures.

Sky News foreign correspondent Alex Crawford reported that Lebanese health workers in Nabatieh are being forced to deliberately delay their arrival at emergency scenes to avoid Israeli “double-tap” strikes, which, she said, have become a “pattern”.












