I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. will begin losing legal protections Friday without action from the Trump administration.
RIA Novosti’s opinion desk regularly publishes the most outrageous shit, but this one still stands out.
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16 killed, record number of children injured in Russia’s massive attack on Kyiv; Trump sets Aug. 8 deadline for Ukraine peace deal, US diplomat tells UN; and more.
Unelected. Unapologetic. Uncompromising.
Andriy Yermak is not Ukraine’s president. But he often acts like one. He handpicks government officials—and dismisses them. The prime minister and military brass frequently defer to him.
My FT Mag profile of Ukraine's Green Cardinal
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2,000 Meters to Andriivka is another extraordinary documentary from @mstyslavchernov and team. The helmet footage immerses you into a strip of forest making you feel like you’re there with the Ukrainian soldiers. Highly recommend- playing at Film Forum in NYC now.
Messages from family in #Ukraine this morning: Kyiv - it was another loud night, but we are good, well as good as you can be in war. Lviv - the flooding is close to us plus air raids and Shahed drones.
⚡️ Kyiv under attack as Russia launches waves of drones on Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground reported hearing explosions in the capital.
For the first time in this war, I wrote in the first person.
Here is what it's like to experience an air raid in Kyiv, to negotiate between bombs and normality, and to come out of shelter into the smoky aftermath.
Free to read: www.wsj.com/world/gaming...
Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped Into Funding AK-47s for Coup By Ava Benny-Morrison and Sridhar Natarajan (Bloomberg) -- The indictment reads like a cinematic plot: A Harvard Fellow and another activist allegedly wanted to buy AK-47s, Stinger missiles and grenades to topple South Sudan’s government. What they lacked was enough cash. Now, Jane Street co-founder Robert Granieri concedes he put up the money — saying he was duped into funding the alleged coup plot. The role played by the wealthy recluse behind a Wall Street trading powerhouse emerges from the US prosecution of Peter Ajak, the Harvard Fellow who was accused last year of scheming to install himself atop the East African nation. “Granieri is a longtime supporter of human rights causes,” his lawyer said in a statement. “In this case, the person Rob thought was a human rights activist defrauded Rob and lied about his intentions.”
His indictment reads whatnow?!
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Sat down with AQR's Clifford Asness to get an update on the firm's machine learning efforts, managing through volatility, what is on the research agenda, plus his views on the push to get more private markets products into the retail market. www.pionline.com/alternatives...
⚡️Russian drone and missile attacks kill at least 13, injure 57 across Ukraine over past day.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia deployed 368 aerial weapons, including 352 attack drones, 11 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, and 5 Iskander-K cruise missiles, striking primarily Kyiv.
Rescuers have recovered another body from the rubble in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district.
This brings the death toll from the Russian missile strike on the nine-story building to 23 people. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing.
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
Another day, another #privatecredit bank partnership: Citi and Carlyle have teamed up on asset-backed finance focused on fintech. Anyone out there have a full list of all the partnerships of the last several years? www.pionline.com/alternatives...
ICYMI last week: Took a look at what happened a year after institutional investors led by the $207.3 billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas and a handful of consultants threw down the gauntlet with an open letter to #hedgefunds on cash hurdles www.pionline.com/alternatives...
Nice to see our piece on Ukrainian scouts re-air on DW's Inside Europe podcast. You can hear it here starting at 40:40 pod.link/insideeurope...
And here's an interview I did a few years ago on the significance of this day in Ukrainian tradition and in #Ukraine today theworld.org/segments/202...
Happy #VyshyvankaDay from an ever-growing section of my closet.
And now we have the resulting vote. www.pionline.com/money-manage...
"whatever you’d say about what the West was doing, we were just about stopping the Ukrainians from losing. But we never had the balls to give them what they needed actually" -Boris Johnson www.politico.eu/article/we-d...
Back in 2023, I reported how Ukrainian Greek Catholics (there are 5 million of them in #Ukraine and they are under the Pope in Rome) were feeling theworld.org/stories/2023...
This is a major change in tone from the Vatican www.ft.com/content/c933...
If I had a dollar for every time I heard the word "uncertainty" at the #Milken2025 conference, I could have bought multiple Erewhon smoothies in Beverly Hills. Here’s our wrap featuring exclusive sideline interviews and highlights from panels www.pionline.com/money-manage...
On the ground at #Milken2025 blogging what executives and world leaders are saying. So far uncertainty and wait and see around tariffs are top of mind. Follow here: www.pionline.com/live-blog/mi...
May Victoria RIP. This is Russia: "the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation...when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
ICYMI yesterday, another executive comp fight is brewing this year: www.pionline.com/money-manage...
⚡️Death toll in Russian missile attack on Kyiv rises to 12.
Twelve people were killed and 90 civilians, including six children, were injured in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv overnight on April 24, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.
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Since 2022, going to bed in the US knowing it's bad, checking on family and friends. Waking up in the morning to see the total death toll and again checking on everyone I love.
Largest missile attack on Kyiv in awhile. Cruise missiles, ballistics and Shahed drones. Really, really loud, very scary, very much designed to pressure the population to submission.
