“…election victory in 2019. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, by contrast, is an actual dictator whose elections have been widely dismissed as frauds and who faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes.” (3/3)

“Despite Mr. Trump’s claim last week, it was Russia that first attacked Ukraine in 2014 and then mounted a full-scale invasion in 2022. Although Ukrainian elections have been suspended for the past three years under martial law, Mr. Zelensky became president on the back of a landslide…” (2/3)

Wild turkeys have taken over Malden too!! There were over 20 in my neighbor’s yard a few weeks ago…. It felt (rightly) apocalyptic.