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Paragraph below taken from the bio/CV of the main (?) negotiator for Russia (linked here....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_... )
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Indirectly related...
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Also? Fact or fiction?
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tangentially,
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Seeking to answer my own question on executive .war-"power"...
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I hear this (below) again and again. Assuming it's true, does it need to be better understood "out there" and more top of mind?

Would a little supportive flesh on its bones and a melody to sing it to help?
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Fact or fiction....?
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Strictly inspired by the Trump plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, it is proposed….
November 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thank you.
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tangentially, at least he's not inserting the United States between two dictatorships as has happened in the past:
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Reformation. It's not what you mean, but maybe admire, say, Germany a bit and get well? Deal with a bad part of the past that keeps on giving? (Some people in Germany would probably be willing to help....No conflicts to declare, by the way!)
November 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thanks for doing the right thing.
Not quite what my text says, have to say.
What about admiring, say, Germany a bit and getting well? By dealing with a past that's continuing? No, this story won't be called bowing by some but ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
On how the US support of dictatorship led to the imperial presidency in action now...
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Agree.
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Everybody has already read this. So why am I putting it here? I don't know. Safety and sovereignty to Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
? Don't know about these things. Found this ?
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Piggy" is a label. Labels are bully words. Bully words are meant to throw a target off. After being hit with a label, was the target below (in the shadows opposite the finger continuing her work) expected to look thrown, etc.? Was that the idea?
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
She is so happy simply to hear no alarms for a while as she goes mushroom picking, my friend who works and lives in Kyiv. Very worrying. Way too much hurt. She had refugee status here and lived with a neighbour but returned to Ukraine by choice.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
James B Stewart on what seems potentially like Camus' Fall where the narrator confesses his sins for the explicit purpose of manipulating his listener into confessing their own unworthiness and secrets....
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
On "the Epstein class," a useful phrase referred to in a recent Ro Khanna article
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My brief notes from the article. If interested, click on the image and enlarge.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Notes from the article linked...
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Wondered the same.
Tangentially, did he traffic boys and people of colour as well?
Also, some tenured here...what's the trickle-down effect?
November 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM