Rashed Chowdhury

I'll tell you this, though: if Cardinal Turkson gets elected Pope by his fellow cardinals, there are probably gonna be a lot of confused Turks out there. Just like there must have been with Volker Türk.

Niagara Falls from the Canadian side last month: youtu.be/eYQKHWT4Nys

Eid mubarak from Toronto!

Winter rain in the late afternoon here in Toronto. 🌧️ The snow is melting; the water is flowing. youtu.be/WUSf75eq6ks

Ramadan mubarak. 🌙🕌 رمضان مبارك. youtu.be/7kP29zrUMVc?...

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

This seems bad

estimated cost needed to rebuild ukraine’s economy after russia’s invasion: $524 billion (up 7% from last year) -report from world bank, un, european commission, ukrainian govt

The Justice Department is not the president's personal law firm. You are not his lawyers. The free press should be exactly that — free. If the facts they report don’t align with the president’s propaganda, tough. And this statement is a disgrace to the DOJ and the rule of law.

[Silence.]

a dramatic about face from the united states of america

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

BREAKING: Judge in our Treasury case vs. DOGE just raised profound "concerns about constitutionality of DOGE"! She follows Judge Chutkan who also raised questions last week We @sddaction.bsky.social will be in Md. Fed. Ct. Friday in our appointments clause case to prove DOGE is unconstitutional

“ukraine is not the country you can conquer in three days. the russians couldn’t break us in 300 years – they tried, but they couldn’t.” - kyiv resident yevheniia bondini on the 3rd anniversary of the invasion

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

Bloomberg has seen the draft text of the imminent minerals deal between the US and Ukraine: the US will commit to a “free, sovereign and secure” Ukraine and a “lasting peace”. The US will also agree a “durable partnership” between Washington and Kyiv and will invest in Ukraine.

Not a great time for citizens who have chosen to serve their country by working in government, when the current leaders have nothing but contempt for your very existence. I have an idea, run for office against a Republican who is enabling it - which is all of them.

Went out for dumplings with lots of British expats and their families yesterday. Main conversation: what’s the red line that Trump crosses that will make you leave the country and how close are you to it. One month on we’re all 20-30% on our way to leaving.

Trump wants to defeat Ukraine, which Putin has failed to do, while he only wants to help Putin. The US has now exited the Western alliance. It no longer acknowledges that Russia is the aggressor. Europe & Ukraine need to defend themselves against Trump.

The only obvious beneficiaries of Trump's foreign policy seems to be Putin & Netanyahu, certainly not the US. Should this be the aim of US foreign policy? I don't think so...

Yikes.

The first impression from the German elections is that Alternative for Germany's apparent rise stalled after JD Vance's objectionable public interference in their favor. Trump, Musk & Vance have become European hate objects & rightly so.

I don't think I'd realised previously that they were this young.

Russia's economy has certainly weathered better 3y of war than most (all?) economists expected esp. given that $500b of its reserved were impounded. The LT problems however remain: self-exile of many educated people, human losses among the active male population.

Yosemite National Park workers hang distress flag to protest Trump and Musk coming for their jobs.

McDonald’s looks like it went from being a happy kid to a depressed adult like many of us…

YouGov MRP projections for tomorrow’s German elections.

What were the great revolutions I witnessed in my life? The first & really big was the Iranian revolution. I had many Iranian friends. They were all anti-Pahlavi. But quickly they split into two or three camps.

200 million dollars of waste.

russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship, an economy and political system in decline under a government that stopped investing in human capital decades ago. the united states alliance with europe is far more valuable and should be treated as such by american leaders.

There's some truth to this, unfortunately.

The Tesla Cybertruck is banned in Europe, due to its design not meeting European safety regulations, with its sharp edges & potential for pedestrian harm; it cannot be legally sold or registered in most European countries, including the UK.

Translation: That’s a nice country you’ve got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.

One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

Headlines on today's @washingtonpost front page: "Trump Suggests Taking Over the District" "President is Expected to Wrest Control of USPS" "One Month In, a Tireless Pursuit of More Power"

This is in the US, I should specify.