An US colonel of the Special Forces discovered a trespasser with a telescopic camera on his property. After an altercation, the elite US soldier was forced to kill the intruder. It turned out that the intruder is a Russian national of Chechen ethnicity and that he was illegally… pic.twitter.com/W9Ber0e4eV

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) May 26, 2024

The Russian dude is “from Chicago” but worked for a company “in New Jersey” while trawling around North Carolina. The company’s owner is Moldovan while everybody else working there is Russian. Obviously, everybody is in the country illegally, and “the company” is nowhere to be found.

Open borders was such an excellent idea. It doesn’t bear imagining what kind of operatives from which sorts of regimes are crossing into the US right now and in perpetuity because this process will never be stopped now. We’ve already brought in brutal gangs and drug cartels, now it’s spies. What the bloody Chechen are we even doing?

Today, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv turned 1542 years old. It was founded in the 5th century but there are people who argue it was in the 6th. Not that it matters much at such a remove.

The inhabitants of Kyiv were massively baptized into Christianity in 988.

Let’s celebrate our 7-millionth blog visit with some reflection and a cute, happy-making poll.

My books are all strangely linked to life and death. The first book was accepted for publication when I was pregnant with Eric. I was supposed to receive an award for it when he would be 6 weeks old.

I wrote the second book when I was pregnant with Klara.

This third book was inspired by the wish to stay connected to my father after he died.

I’m finally holding my book in my hands!

Hard cover, very shiny.

I know I get only about 4 Ukrainian visitors a week but if, by some miraculous chance, you are reading this in Ukraine, I have some promotional copies.

Тиснить на ось цей ґудзик, залишайте своє відділення Нової пошти та все інше, і я вам надішлю примірника безкоштовно:

Нічого від вас не хочу, тільки подарувати книгу.

Come on, people. Just a bit under 2,000 left until 7 million. We can do it!

In the meantime, I’m awaiting the delivery of the author’s copies of my book – which everybody has received before I will – and roasting young turnips with garlic scapes and mushroom-infused soy sauce.

Love doesn’t arise from similarity of education, similarity of background, similarity of experience. Love arises from nothing and creates as it goes. And without it, chaos is indeed come again.

Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes

My sister visited the Maasai tribe in Tanzania and was immediately offered marriage. She’s one of those women who can find 5 suitors without trying on a deserted island. But she hasn’t as much as looked at anybody since she met her husband at age 19.

The most touching proposition I received from a stranger was when I was 35 weeks pregnant and huge like a beached whale, and a very polite gentleman at the grocery store offered to be my baby daddy if I already didn’t have one.

Trump will never win New Jersey or New York but he’s still doing rallies in those places. Obviously, he has to hold the rallies there because he’s in court in New York and can’t leave but he’s still showing up. Still finding a way to campaign even when every possibility of actually campaigning has been taken away. I respect that.

I would respect that no matter who did it but if you react to the name “Trump” and can’t hear anything else that’s being said, it’s your problem.