'Biden didn't know that Africa was a country ... very embarrassing stuff' -- Newsmax host Rob Finnerty attacks Biden

UK's top diplomat David Cameron tells me he told Trump that supporting Ukraine would strengthen US against Russia, China. 'Whoever is president wants to be able to push forward in a way that is backing success and not trying to overturn failure.” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

It’s true

literally didn’t know airlines could do this…

my elderly in-laws’ 846pm flight was delayed an hour. then boarding started, but stopped again because they couldn’t find a captain. then they announced the flight is delayed again… until *5am tomorrow.* (1/x)

Global pressure grows on U.S. and Germany to stop arming Israel washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse.

Yossi Sariel unmasked as head of Unit 8200 and architect of AI strategy after book written under pen name reveals his Google account, via Harry Davies and Bethan McKernan theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

'The North Atlantic Treaty Organization celebrated its 75th birthday on Thursday, older, arguably wiser and freshly attuned to its own mortality.' Emily Rauhala John Hudson washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Asked by Hugh Hewitt about the reaction to his Israel/Gaza comments, which some took as dovish, Trump says he stands with Israel 100%:

'They’ve got to finish what they finish. They have to get it done. Get it over with, and get it over with fast, because we have to, you have to…

U.S. approved more bombs to Israel on day of World Central Kitchen strikes washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

3 U.K. citizens, one U.S.-Canada citizen, 1 Australian, 1 Palestinian and 1 Polish national killed in Israeli strike on WCK convoy in Gaza, aid organization confirms washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Munition dropped right through the World Central Kitchen logo

It is not necessarily helpful to share graphic images of the dead World Central Kitchen aid workers, no matter how horrific and criminal the act. Please consider your audience.

'The compound smelled of bodies. And rot. Everything that could be broken, smashed or twisted was, after 14 days of fighting.'
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Not a joke: the former chef of DC's Mari Vanna was allegedly a Russian spy.

This story is truly wild: washingtonian.com/2024/04/01/an-…

New satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows the destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings after nearly six months of war and multiple Israeli military raids, strikes and widespread demolition.

Left: June 1, 2022
Right: April 1, 2024

There is no shortage of aid waiting to enter Gaza. Before the war, around 500 trucks entered per day. This month, ~300 entered per day.

Aid shipments need to increase at least 10-fold to meet the increasing level of need.

Adam Taylor Manuel Canales
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Must read: Visualizing Gaza’s aid shortage as ‘man-made’ famine looms wapo.st/4cwEXi7 Adam Taylor Manuel Canales

I doubt this is the main reason, but always strikes me as hard to pull a complete narrative arc out of the Biden admin before his time in office ends. In the Trump admin, the first couple of years were so full of chaos there were several near-complete storylines right there.

'Putin was present at discussions where officials agreed there’s no link to Kyiv, but remains determined to use the tragedy to try to rally Russians behind the war in Ukraine, according to one person with knowledge of the situation...' bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Two years after the start of the Ukraine war, Russia continues to sell the West everything from oil and gas to titanium, diamonds and uranium, 'because the West wants the goods and allows carve-outs from sanctions,' says Adam Taylor washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…