Witkoff: Russia will legally enshrine its commitment not to attack other countries or territories and not to violate their sovereignty.

Are they not laughing at themselves yet?

— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) August 17, 2025

The problem with this plan lies in the “men can give birth” arena. Russia decides over and over again that another country is not really a country. And that its sovereignty is not real sovereignty. And then it attacks that country with complete certainty of not having violated its commitment to not attack other countries.

What needs to happen for people to understand the underlying principle of neoliberalism is that there is no reality? Reality is whatever I say it is at any given moment. The fight against the manifestations of this approach is doomed until you at the very least understand the rules of the game.

Yes, you should stop and do what’s natural to you. You aren’t helping anybody by torturing yourself. There are other ways to help which are much more effective. The road to finding those ways lies through inhabiting your neoliberal self as fully as possible because that’s how you’ll know what it’s really like and why it won’t work for many people.

Video from a few days ago in Rodynske, near Pokrovsk.

A Russian soldier murders a Ukrainian woman and steals her phone. This is what is being done to Ukrainians in occupied areas https://t.co/jPQyUA5V4E

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 17, 2025

Remember all those people who wept over a Russian soldier killed by a Ukrainian drone?

They have zero reaction to these murders of Ukrainian civilians by Russians.

Stupid, pathetic, completely owned people.

The semester starts strangely early, and I’m switching into a Fall time state of mind. I cooked lentil soup and my favorite dish of shaved steak with bok choy, mushrooms and Savoy cabbage. I have changed the dining room table layout. I brewed fennel and anise tea. And now I’m in the midst of my favorite neoliberal pastime which is creating a mood board and a list of guiding principles for the Fall.

It takes more work than it should to feel the approach of the Fall because we are in the midst of the worst heat wave of an already very hot summer.

How would you define the main difference between liberal and conservative?

I don’t mean the extremes. Only the actual standard liberal and conservative.

Together 10 years and she’s still a fiancee?

Dude, 6 is a huge compliment. You are barely a 2.

Freida McFadden writes mega bestsellers, thrillers with a million plot twists. Fun, entertaining reads, perfect for the beach, the airport, and the beginning of the academic year.

I want to mention The Tenant in particular because it’s the second novel this week (after Culpability) that portrays a hen-pecked man, eager to please, and fussing around helplessly as women tug him around and pummel him.

A man terrified of displeasing women is now a major theme in American literature. I could give a long list of books where that is the center of the narrative. The Brits are obsessed with housing, the Spaniards are fixated on their depopulating countryside, and Americans can’t figure out how men and women should coexist.

The novel is great fun. Probably the best I have read by McFadden.

I know people who do these things and they always make carveouts for their acquaintances.

“I think we should strip tenure off everybody who voted Republican in this election.”

“I voted Republican.”

“Oh! I didn’t mean you! You know I love you. I’m sure you had good reasons. I mean other people.”

These aren’t bad individuals. They do these land acknowledgements like I put on eye shadow, because I think it looks nice.

The actual real fanatics who enjoy hurting others are few. Just like women who put on eye shadow because they want to steal your husband.

Most of them are clueless and they don’t care much one way or the other. They were told that BLM posters and pronouns in signatures are the thing, so they do it.

Putin sent his happy Udmurt double to meet with Trump, and American soldiers had to crawl on their knees in front of him.

Lukashenko invited Trump and his family to Minsk, and this invitation was accepted.

What?

— WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@WarMonitor3) August 15, 2025

I hope it’s not true because seriously? Belarus? Have we solved all our domestic problems so that our President can take trips to the utterly insignificant Belarus?