Aboard a train to Samara, somebody attacked Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov with red paint laced with the solvent acetone. “This is for our boys!” the assailant shouted. Muratov’s eyes now burn, he wrote in a statement.

Can’t say I’m surprised, but the blatant disrespect up until the bitter end is really something

Back in the USSR

The Russian brain drain, in stats.

I wrote about why so many Russians believe the lies about this war, the disconnect it's causing in my own family, and coming to terms with my first job at RT.

Three findings from latest Левада-Центр polling (which, as always, will be accepted by those whose beliefs are confirmed and rejected by those whose beliefs aren’t). (1) Only 59% of Russians are really following the war anymore. Only 36% of the youngest demographic!

As ever Elizabeth Warren has the appropriate response to GOP power grabs

He then says “Iraq too” and laughs. War is so funny!

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This is America. Where it's easier to get a gun than paid parental leave or baby formula. Where kids can learn shooting drills in school but can't learn about diversity. Where gun sales are skyrocketing but Congress (GOP and Manchin) can't fund the child tax credit.

Sen. Chris Murphy to his fellow senators: "What are we doing? Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate … if your answer is that, as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives, we do nothing? What are we doing? Why are you here?"

“Protecting” kids from masks, from LGBTQ people, from history, from getting health care but not from getting shot and killed at school. Got it.

They called us "hysterical." Now Roe is dead. jezebel.com/roe-v-wade-dea…

everything here is correct washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…

Run out of words to describe this court, but, among other things, it's now a threat to the planet.

Almost like their idea of “justice” is making life worse and more dangerous for most people…

So thrilled to see Дождь launch their English language broadcast TV Rain Newsroom. Congratulations to Tikhon Dzyadko and the entire team! They continue to do incredible work and provide an unvarnished look at what’s happening inside Russia.

Москва, я тебя люблю