Favorites September 10th 2022

Downtown Mountain View, July 2022

Dr Mike Martin 🔶 @ThreshedThought

I tweeted this map a few days ago. Kupyansk is the yellow circle, and Izyum the red circle. By taking K the Ukr cut off the logistics to Izyum making it undefendable.

Taking back in hours what Russia took in a month, as much as everything they captured from April to June, a new battle of Tsushima. The railway hub is particularly important, here's a more detailed map, and they also captured Donetsk International Airport. It looks like Crimea is next, Russia is advising pro-Russian civilians to retreat, not to the "people's Republics", but all the way back to Russia. They're retreating so fast that they're leaving behind huge amounts of equipment.

Renato Mariotti @renato_mariotti

A lot of federal grand jury (criminal) subpoenas went out today to Trump allies regarding the fake elector scheme and his fundraising. Big news that suggests large, active investigations. This is likely what Bannon was talking about when he said 35 Trump allies were “raided.” https://t.co/l3nhFK31Fd

Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote

BREAKING: Stephen Miller and Brian Jack have been SUBPOENAED by a federal grand jury in connection with the fraudulent elector scheme AND the trump Save America PAC. 💃 https://t.co/t2LtHyTawv

One response: "Everything Trump touches turns into evidence"

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

This is a fantastic visualization of how freeway projects of the Urban Renewal era decimated thriving Black urbanism and turned Black areas into car centric, vacant lots and depressed property values.

nytimes.comOpinion | Mr. Biden, Tear Down This HighwayIf urban highways enforce racial barriers between neighborhoods, why do officials keep spending so much to expand them?

Really amazing graphics on this article, I love how they did the arial photo matching.

RegroupingHat @Popehat

On balance I think this was my favorite fictional depiction of the Queen.

youtube.comBad TV Impressions: The Crown Season 4

"Oh Dear". Also, I just realized Queen's replacement is not going to be able to move as quickly.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

The Jones Act is very bad

Jones act also slowed construction of wind turbines because no US ship was big enough to move them!

fbifemboy @0xfbifemboy

Chicago deep dish pizza is just American hot pot

Threads

• China's probable take on the Ukraine situation, also here's some translations of people shitposting on Chinese social media about Ukraine.

• If you're looking for even more Ukraine analysis, here's a link to highlights of an interview with Michael Kofman, a military analyst who's had great coverage of the war so far.