Dominic Holland
@dominicholland.bsky.social
Posted here are politically relevant notes to myself, publicly available. Apolitical is political; no one is beyond politics, or history. And physics is not a good lens through which to view social reality.
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
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“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
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November 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
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Dear Europe: If you read this and still think the United States is with you, you deserve everything you fear is coming your way. This is Russian-style corruption incorporated into the American system. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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November 29, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Dear Europe: If you read this and still think the United States is with you, you deserve everything you fear is coming your way. This is Russian-style corruption incorporated into the American system. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Brexit was a Make Britain Great Again project. There is a lot of ruin in a nation, so much so that the ignoramuses and worse pushing the self-immolation will have no trouble operating in denial. There never will be any reckoning. In the USA the self-immolation is and will be a lot worse.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
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November 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Brexit was a Make Britain Great Again project. There is a lot of ruin in a nation, so much so that the ignoramuses and worse pushing the self-immolation will have no trouble operating in denial. There never will be any reckoning. In the USA the self-immolation is and will be a lot worse.
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One of whom presented a Russian capitulation document as a US peace plan. That’s the headline. We need headlines that are true and not news jargon that washes out the basic facts.
President Donald Trump’s demand that Ukraine sign a deal by Thanksgiving appears to have softened as he leaves some of the most important details of the peace plan in the hands of his envoys, one of whom was just embroiled in a high-profile phone leak. https://wapo.st/481ZdYG
Trump steps back from Ukraine peace process, sends out envoys
Envoy Steve Witkoff, who in new phone leaks appears to have advised Russia on negotiations, heads to Moscow next week to discuss the peace plan.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
One of whom presented a Russian capitulation document as a US peace plan. That’s the headline. We need headlines that are true and not news jargon that washes out the basic facts.
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“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
Except it is not possible for Trump to hand Putin Ukraine's occupied territories. Only the Ukrainians can do that, and obviously they will not do that.
If it's true, if the US is willing to allow borders to be redrawn by force and let aggressors be rewarded, then the gates of hell are about to be opened.
This may prove to be the single most destabilizing and conflict-spawning decision of the 21st century.
A truly Black Friday.
This may prove to be the single most destabilizing and conflict-spawning decision of the 21st century.
A truly Black Friday.
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Except it is not possible for Trump to hand Putin Ukraine's occupied territories. Only the Ukrainians can do that, and obviously they will not do that.
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It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo
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November 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...
Tuck and Morgan: who gives a fuck or a shit what these dumbfuck shitheads say about anything.
On today's Tucker Carlson show, he makes clear that he believes that the US fought on the wrong side in World War II. In particular he says that the UK was mistaken to declare war on Germany just because it invaded Poland. And he has lots of sympathy for Herr Hitler throughout.
Tucker Puts Piers Morgan’s Views on Free Speech to the Ultimate Test
YouTube video by Tucker Carlson
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November 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Tuck and Morgan: who gives a fuck or a shit what these dumbfuck shitheads say about anything.
If you are the Pope, indeed if you are Christian of any rank, you must believe in crazy shit, much of which is sheer bigotry, i.e., malevolent and inexcusable. It is fundamental to being Christian, all the more so being Catholic.
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
If you are the Pope, indeed if you are Christian of any rank, you must believe in crazy shit, much of which is sheer bigotry, i.e., malevolent and inexcusable. It is fundamental to being Christian, all the more so being Catholic.
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The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The White Christian Supremacism of this administration is so extreme that it seems like it’s got to resolve with either a massive rejection of such illiberalism, or a violent, authoritarian imposition of it.
Isn't America Great already?
Everyone who voted for Trump owns this shit. They did this, and much worse, and much worse yet to come. Republicans did this. Not one of them has any excuse for what they did — they voted for Trump out of sheer stupidity and/or assholery.
Everyone who voted for Trump owns this shit. They did this, and much worse, and much worse yet to come. Republicans did this. Not one of them has any excuse for what they did — they voted for Trump out of sheer stupidity and/or assholery.
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Isn't America Great already?
Everyone who voted for Trump owns this shit. They did this, and much worse, and much worse yet to come. Republicans did this. Not one of them has any excuse for what they did — they voted for Trump out of sheer stupidity and/or assholery.
Everyone who voted for Trump owns this shit. They did this, and much worse, and much worse yet to come. Republicans did this. Not one of them has any excuse for what they did — they voted for Trump out of sheer stupidity and/or assholery.
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"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
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November 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"We followed everything we were supposed to do"
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being
arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
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What Is Steve Witkoff Trying to Do?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Steve Witkoff isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin and prolonging the war
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Putin's useful malignant clowns: the Trump regime.
This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.
Don’t Call This a ‘Peace Plan’
If the U.S.-Russia plan for Ukraine goes forward, Donald Trump will be remembered as the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.
foreignpolicy.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Putin's useful malignant clowns: the Trump regime.
Excellent!
Ukrainian drone operators wiped out a Russian assault group in Zaporizhzhia after spotting a tank-led column forming in fog
Russia attacked with tanks, MT-LBs, and six Ulan vehicles near Verbove but was caught completely off guard by Ukrainian FPVs euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Russia attacked with tanks, MT-LBs, and six Ulan vehicles near Verbove but was caught completely off guard by Ukrainian FPVs euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Russian media claimed Mala Tokmachka “secured forever.” Ukrainian FPV drones destroyed entire column hours later
A small drone unit stops Russian tanks, Ulans, MT-LBs.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Excellent!
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
It's the Ross Douthat / Bret Stephens paper now.
These two are not just clowns; they are eager shills for fascists and other assholes.
These two are not just clowns; they are eager shills for fascists and other assholes.
In this interview, we learn all about Mike Johnson's attitude towards mayonnaise and bananas, but we also learn that the NYT's interviewer is incapable of asking him a serious question about anything. Which reflects rather more on NYT than it does on Johnson.
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
It's the Ross Douthat / Bret Stephens paper now.
These two are not just clowns; they are eager shills for fascists and other assholes.
These two are not just clowns; they are eager shills for fascists and other assholes.
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2016 happened. Russia did support Trump’s campaign. Good reporters were on it at the time. I wrote it up within the larger context of global oligarchy and neo-fascism in "Road to Unfreedom."
9 years ago,House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Speaker to be Kevin McCarthy had a recorded conversation in which McCarthy says, "There are two people that I think Putin pays, (Representative Dana) Rohrbacher and Trump. Swear to God."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oio0...
Washington Post: House majority leader said in 2016, "Putin pays" Trump
YouTube video by CBS News
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November 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
2016 happened. Russia did support Trump’s campaign. Good reporters were on it at the time. I wrote it up within the larger context of global oligarchy and neo-fascism in "Road to Unfreedom."
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Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.
Prosecute her and everyone involved.
DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
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DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
Democrats will have to repair the damage
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November 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
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Putin would like to get strategically important parts of UKR by making a "deal" with Trump. Then he'll take the rest more easily than would otherwise be the case. This kind of thing happened before: the Mnichovská zrada.
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Putin would like to get strategically important parts of UKR by making a "deal" with Trump. Then he'll take the rest more easily than would otherwise be the case. This kind of thing happened before: the Mnichovská zrada.