Ivan Andriollo

People who have sacrificed very little and lost nothing often find it easiest to forgive the very worst atrocities, on behalf of those who have lost everything.

That is why, from now on, we will be extremely critical of the government.

👀❗️The HIV epidemic has spread to a third of Russia. A generalized epidemic has been recorded in 30 regions. The virus has gone beyond traditional risk groups: it has been detected in 3% of men aged 30–50. In the Kemerovo, Irkutsk and Sverdlovsk regions, more than 1% of pregnant women have HIV.

According to Haldane's logic, negotiating accession to the EU involves so much uncertainty of consequences that no state would have opted to start European integration in the first place

Really worth noting that even in Red Wall constituencies which backed Leave, most *Labour* voters back rejoining the EU. Over 90% of Labour considerers back rejoin - opposition to EU membership is mainly coming from non-Labour voters in these seats. Was on Times Radio yesterday making this point.

Important message for anyone who doesn't want to spend all their time online being annoyed. That's not a life. No one wants that.

The last one👀

Both of these numbers are completely insane. I don't think political donations should be banned completely but cap it at like 100k a year. No person or company or whatever, on left or right, should be able to donate $600 or $700 million. It's madness

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

RIP Walter Koenig. Of all his moments on Star Trek, one of his finest was accurately portraying an officer stuck doing bridge duty while massively hungover (Star Trek VI)

Folks, if you hate authoritarianism, you should be feeling good this morning. In Serbia, a student-led movement just ousted a longtime strongman, peacefully. And we Americans should be paying attention, because we have a chance in November to send a similar message. (link below)

Just as fossil fuel companies and their cronies sow doubt about scientific knowledge on climate change in order to prevent the development of non-fossil fuel resources, they’re doing the same thing now to climate attribution science to avoid accountability for climate damage. Pay attention!

In actual Ukraine? Just some of kids of the elites giving the ultimate sacrifice!

President @ilvestoomas.bsky.social explains Germany’s intelligence disaster on the latest episode of the Continental Rift. As Ilves notes, the international relationship with Germany’s BND spy agency has been problematic ..ever since Gerhard Schröder became Chancellor, funnily enough.

🇺🇸‼️ The top management of a US $25 billion gas project in Alaska has resigned amid suspicions that the project is secretly controlled by Russia. The former CEO of Polar Train LNG said that the export terminal is actually financed and controlled by Russia’s Novatek without Washington’s permission.

US senators plan to block Donald Trump’s federal nominees until the White House restores full Starlink access for Ukraine’s military. Bipartisan lawmakers also warned of funding cuts and potential congressional investigations into SpaceX disruptions. www.kyivpost.com/post/88059

...you'd see this. At a depth of just 60 miles (100km), the temperature is already 1,400°C (2,000°F). There's nothing to see not because there's no light, but because there's too damn much of it. (And that's you at just 1.57% of the way to the Earth's core. You're *nowhere*.) Crikey. 2/

Of the 50,000 heat deaths in Europe in the summer of 2026, 32,000 were killed by fossil fuels. Meanwhile, $65 billion in windfall profits for five biggest oil and gas companies in second quarter of 2026. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/g...

Musk has dropped nearly half a billion into state races. Russia is stepping up covert bot operations against Democrats. Musk keeps impeding Starlink to protect Moscow and kill Ukrainian civilians. Seems to me- it’s all connected.

I am beginning to think that “superpower suicide” understates the case.

Russia began using a new cruise missile called Filin that blends a Russian turbojet with US and Chinese electronics, HUR reported. The ground-launched weapon features 35 American and 22 Chinese parts, forming a cheap long-range strike system. www.kyivpost.com/post/87875

Although the oil and emissions in Jackdaw are small beer, the reason we are in this mess with the climate is that each marginal extraction and emission is small beer. It's a collective action problem and we are failing and lose our leverage with others if we signal our indifference.

More datapoints for the hypothesis that the America Crisis is on the cusp of another escalation spiral that could paralyse the US government at home and abroad

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

🇺🇦🙏 Soldier, who was evacuated by drone for the first time in history, spent 491 days in a row at the position, - Suspilne. ▪️Konstiantyn Vlasenko held a position in a concrete drainage pipe. After the death of his comrade, he was left alone.

Lavrov in Tehran right now. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi: "Never in our history have Iran and russia worked as closely as now." US gov. seemingly approves?

Ouch

🇺🇸👀 US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the Trump administration is authorizing the sale of sanctioned oil tankers so investors can buy idle vessels, refurbish them, and return them to legal service carrying non-sanctioned crude. Wright estimated the global shadow fleet at about 1,600 vessels…

Fresh AfD data leak needs more time to get fully analyzed but first glimpse shows all the classics. Party supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots... www.heistberlin.com/news/afd-lea...

It features a huge ballroom with niches for portraits of the dictator and his wife and a sliding roof so that a helicopter can enter and exit. The building also had a nuclear bunker. The aesthetic sense of the two men is much the same but Trump’s construction will probably be even worse.

I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.

It doesn't seem to matter to me whether Musk or a Trump staffer or Trump initiated the Starlink speed restriction. If Trump didn't suggest it, he's agreed to it. Either way, it was restricted. Maybe it's of concern in a post Trump world where Dems are deciding what to do with Musk's empire.

🇺🇦Zelensky: A terrible Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. Park near an ordinary cafe. 6 people died, including children. A girl was killed in a wheelchair. Her name was Angelina, she was a little over a year old, she was born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna, she died in the hospital…

You know how you can tell people who are still wilfully denying reality? They're telling you Trump has recently changed course, become more pro-Russian, or pivoted against Ukraine. This is nonsense. Trump has been with Putin throughout. Its just the press failed to see it.

It took 10 long years for conservative America to figure out that Trump is working with Putin to destroy the U.S., but they finally are. The National Review has turned on Putin's puppet: "Republicans and Democrats, together, should regard this week’s developments as the last straw."

6/ Second (looking at it purely commercially), the war is good for SpaceX. It's making a lot of money from selling Starlink terminals and connections to Ukraine. A Ukrainian surrender to Russia would be against its own commercial interests.

4/ Except that it now *has* happened, according to the reporting of @telegraph.co.uk. This has profound implications for the US defence industry.

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto: They will reach 1.5 million military personnel.So if the war ended tomorrow,what would Putin do with 1.5 million soldiers? He himself would face internal problems if he stopped the war tomorrow morning.

Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...

⚡️️️️️️️US lawmaker introduces bill blocking Trump's Russian diesel deal. "This deal won't lower costs for the American people, who are already paying forTrump's failed war of choice in Iran. It will hand Putin millions of dollars to continue slaughtering Ukrainian civilians with impunity."

Members of the Turkish mafia may have been responsible for the attack on a Starlink ground station in Poland, working on orders from russian intelligence www.spiegel.de/panorama/pol...