Sirens have been activated in the Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr oblasts and in Kyiv.

⚡️Air raid alerts go off in almost every region of Ukraine.

& of course, my “data set” is skewed– current and former USG officials & academics, as well as Russians who used to work closely with Putin. Those still close to him & not critical — Sechin, Patrushev, Bortninkov, etc — are not talking to me these days! (They used to)

Ive noticed an almost direct correlation between those who know Putin or have studied him closely and despise his evil ways, and those who only have observed him from afar and think he’s a rational actor.

The author adds that “denazification of Ukraine is also its inevitable de-Europeanization.”

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first black woman on the Supreme Court trib.al/5bnl79b

Trans people CAN be legally banned from single-sex spaces if there is ‘sufficiently good reason’, rules watchdog trib.al/tSDZHwB

@jmflam The car you can love and hate simultaneously.

Democratic anxiety grows over Biden’s dismal polls hill.cm/igND4sO

The looming break has Congress scrambling to wrap up negotiations on bipartisan legislative priorities, including coronavirus aid and Russia trade legislation, as Democrats take steps to allow them to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson by the end of the week.

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