Our Man in Moscow: Inside Putin’s Russia | BBC Panorama

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Russia has become one of the most challenging places in the world to be a journalist, where reporters face threats of intimidation, expulsion and imprisonment. BBC Panorama has followed a year in the life of the BBC’s Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg, as he tries to walk the tightrope during a time of geopolitical upheaval.

He is confronted by police, suspected spies pop up and local TV crews doorstep him – all while doing his job as a reporter. Steve also reflects on how Russia has changed in the more than 30 years he has been living there.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he hosted the country’s Eurovision Song Contest, but now he is mocked on national television, with one pundit describing him as an enemy of the state.

Donald Trump
President of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)

Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB with codename ‘Krasnov’, claims an ex-Soviet spy in an article published by ‘The Mirror’, a UK Based ‘Red-Top’

Michael Ramirez – Creators

Christopher Weyant – caglecartoons.com/cartoonist/christopher-weyan

Bill Bramhall – Tribune Content Agency

David Horsey – Tribune Content Agency

Michael de Adder – cagle.com/de-adder

Tim Campbell – Tribune Content Agency

Lee Judge – King Features

Clay Bennett – Tribune Content Agency

Donald Trump has once again extended his Iran deadline, because apparently even ultimatums now run on Trump Time.
After previously demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday, Trump moved the deadline to Tuesday night and announced that failure to comply would result in America obliterating Iran’s power plants and bridges, because accomplishing “peace through strength” requires threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on Easter weekend in an all-caps, expletive-laden social media post.
Trump’s message, which included “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” was immediately followed by his claim that there was also still a “good chance” for a deal. In other words, U.S. foreign policy now appears to consist of alternating between “let’s negotiate” and “I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil” depending on which Truth Social post you happen to read first.
Meanwhile, oil prices surged again, because markets have finally learned that when Trump says he might bomb something “Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern,” it is no longer safe to assume he’s joking.
Iran responded by warning that Trump’s “reckless moves” could set the entire region on fire, while legal experts noted that targeting power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure is generally frowned upon by the Geneva Conventions and more commonly associated with war crimes than with “art of the deal” diplomacy.
Chris Britt – Creators Donald Trump has once again extended his Iran deadline, because apparently even ultimatums now run on Trump Time.
After previously demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday, Trump moved the deadline to Tuesday night and announced that failure to comply would result in America obliterating Iran’s power plants and bridges, because accomplishing “peace through strength” requires threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on Easter weekend in an all-caps, expletive-laden social media post.
Trump’s message, which included “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” was immediately followed by his claim that there was also still a “good chance” for a deal. In other words, U.S. foreign policy now appears to consist of alternating between “let’s negotiate” and “I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil” depending on which Truth Social post you happen to read first.
Meanwhile, oil prices surged again, because markets have finally learned that when Trump says he might bomb something “Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern,” it is no longer safe to assume he’s joking.
Iran responded by warning that Trump’s “reckless moves” could set the entire region on fire, while legal experts noted that targeting power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure is generally frowned upon by the Geneva Conventions and more commonly associated with war crimes than with “art of the deal” diplomacy.

Nick Anderson – Substack and Tribune Content Agency

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Mike Smith – King Features

Drew Sheneman – Substack and Tribune Content Agency

Paul Lander and Dan McConnell

Adam Zyglis – cagle.com/zyglis
For years, politicians have talked about mail voting as though every absentee ballot arrives tucked inside a briefcase handcuffed to a Venezuelan operative riding a dead person’s bicycle.
But according to the actual data, mail voting fraud is vanishingly rare: about four fraudulent ballots out of every 10 million mailed votes. In other words, you are statistically more likely to get struck by lightning while being bitten by a shark in a sinking electric boat than have your local election stolen by Grandma mailing in her ballot twice.
Mail voting has been around since the Civil War, is widely used around the world, and processed more than 99 million ballots in 2024 alone. It also tends to increase turnout, save money, and make voting easier for older people, disabled voters, students, military personnel, and anyone else who cannot spend three hours standing in line at an elementary school cafeteria.
The most secure system appears to be universal vote-by-mail, which has produced “essentially zero fraud” in some states while also cutting election costs. Colorado, for example, saw election administration costs drop by about 40% after switching to universal mail voting.
Unfortunately, mail voting has become politically radioactive because Donald Trump spent years insisting it was a giant cheating operation—except when he used it himself—in which case it magically transformed into a perfectly reasonable convenience for a busy man with “a lot of different things” to do.
So the great mail-voting panic increasingly looks less like an election-security issue and more like America’s favorite modern pastime: inventing a national crisis out of something that works perfectly fine.

David Horsey – Tribune Content Agency

Steve Greenberg – Crooksandliars.com

Bill Bramhall – Tribune Content Agency

Jack Ohman – Substack and Tribune Content Agency

Mike Luckovich – Creators

Pedro Molina – Tinyview and Tribune Content Agency

Jeff Stahler – Andrew McMeel

By Pedro Molina – Counterpoint Media

By Jack Ohman – Tribune Content Agency

By Bill Bramhall – Tribune Content Agency

By Mike Luckovich – Creators

By Ted Rall – Andrews McMeel

By Henry Payne – Andrews McMeel
Meanwhile, Jake Tapper’s book about Biden’s cognitive decline continues to generate controversy and copious commentary.

By Lisa Benson – Counterpoint Media

By Drew Sheneman – Tribune Content Agency
And now a couple cartoons from our conservative colleagues. The U.S. Senate moved to block California’s mandate to phase out gas-powered vehicles in favor of electric vehicles (EVs), reversing a Biden-era waiver that allowed stricter state emissions standards. Backed by President Trump, the move is part of a broader rollback of federal climate policies.

By Nick Anderson – Tribune Content Agency (Nick’s Substack newsletter)

SpaceX’s latest Starship launch went off with the confidence of a Vegas magician — until the rocket spontaneously unbuilt itself mid-flight in what engineers lovingly call a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Yes, folks, another billion-dollar firework show courtesy of Elon Musk, freshly returned from his White House cameo and now re-devoted to colonizing Mars… just as soon as he can get a rocket to stop disintegrating.
The launch was billed as a critical step in Musk’s master plan: getting humanity to Mars before his Twitter posts get him banned from Earth. Instead, the booster faceplanted into the Gulf, the spacecraft spun into chaos, and the mock satellite deployment went about as well as Musk’s attempt to name his child with a Wi-Fi password.
SpaceX insists it’s “learning” with every explosive failure — though at this rate, they’ll master rocket science right around the time Mars applies for U.N. membership. Meanwhile, NASA, which is relying on Starship to land astronauts on the Moon, might want to start backing up their plans… or calling Bezos.

Adam Zyglis – cagle.com/zyglis
For years, politicians have talked about mail voting as though every absentee ballot arrives tucked inside a briefcase handcuffed to a Venezuelan operative riding a dead person’s bicycle.
But according to the actual data, mail voting fraud is vanishingly rare: about four fraudulent ballots out of every 10 million mailed votes. In other words, you are statistically more likely to get struck by lightning while being bitten by a shark in a sinking electric boat than have your local election stolen by Grandma mailing in her ballot twice.
Mail voting has been around since the Civil War, is widely used around the world, and processed more than 99 million ballots in 2024 alone. It also tends to increase turnout, save money, and make voting easier for older people, disabled voters, students, military personnel, and anyone else who cannot spend three hours standing in line at an elementary school cafeteria.
The most secure system appears to be universal vote-by-mail, which has produced “essentially zero fraud” in some states while also cutting election costs. Colorado, for example, saw election administration costs drop by about 40% after switching to universal mail voting.
Unfortunately, mail voting has become politically radioactive because Donald Trump spent years insisting it was a giant cheating operation—except when he used it himself—in which case it magically transformed into a perfectly reasonable convenience for a busy man with “a lot of different things” to do.
So the great mail-voting panic increasingly looks less like an election-security issue and more like America’s favorite modern pastime: inventing a national crisis out of something that works perfectly fine.

Paul Lander and Dan McConnell

Drew Sheneman – Substack and Tribune Content Agency

Mike Smith – King Features

Looking for captions…

Nick Anderson – Substack and Tribune Content Agency

Donald Trump has once again extended his Iran deadline, because apparently even ultimatums now run on Trump Time.
After previously demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday, Trump moved the deadline to Tuesday night and announced that failure to comply would result in America obliterating Iran’s power plants and bridges, because accomplishing “peace through strength” requires threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on Easter weekend in an all-caps, expletive-laden social media post.
Trump’s message, which included “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” was immediately followed by his claim that there was also still a “good chance” for a deal. In other words, U.S. foreign policy now appears to consist of alternating between “let’s negotiate” and “I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil” depending on which Truth Social post you happen to read first.
Meanwhile, oil prices surged again, because markets have finally learned that when Trump says he might bomb something “Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern,” it is no longer safe to assume he’s joking.
Iran responded by warning that Trump’s “reckless moves” could set the entire region on fire, while legal experts noted that targeting power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure is generally frowned upon by the Geneva Conventions and more commonly associated with war crimes than with “art of the deal” diplomacy.
Chris Britt – Creators Donald Trump has once again extended his Iran deadline, because apparently even ultimatums now run on Trump Time.
After previously demanding Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Monday, Trump moved the deadline to Tuesday night and announced that failure to comply would result in America obliterating Iran’s power plants and bridges, because accomplishing “peace through strength” requires threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on Easter weekend in an all-caps, expletive-laden social media post.
Trump’s message, which included “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards,” was immediately followed by his claim that there was also still a “good chance” for a deal. In other words, U.S. foreign policy now appears to consist of alternating between “let’s negotiate” and “I’m considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil” depending on which Truth Social post you happen to read first.
Meanwhile, oil prices surged again, because markets have finally learned that when Trump says he might bomb something “Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern,” it is no longer safe to assume he’s joking.
Iran responded by warning that Trump’s “reckless moves” could set the entire region on fire, while legal experts noted that targeting power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure is generally frowned upon by the Geneva Conventions and more commonly associated with war crimes than with “art of the deal” diplomacy.


Vladimir Putin. The fella on the right
President of Russia (1999–2008, 2012–present)

Dear Elon Musk.

You are one billionaire I can think of who hasn’t stolen their way to their profits. Your continued support for the Starlink system upon which President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine and his countrymen and women rely to defeat the one-sided illegal onslaught. Please step up to the mark. Malcolm Patten

NB Jessica Rose Phillips (née Trainor; born 9 October 1981) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Yardley since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls since July 2024.

PS Your new name for “La Manche” will upset the French… When you move into your new office pay particular attention to the Sobchak reading lamp bulbs. Your security team may wish to pay particular attention in view of the history that may apply to them…

Additionally, read Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney, among other books, plus anything by Anna Politkovskaya.

PPS French television journalists are complaining that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian sleeper Agent…

Russia: Don’t join NATO, we’ll protect you.
Eastern Europe: Protect us from what?
Russia: From what we might do if you try to join NATO…

First of all, I think Putin in his military fatigues when he went to Kursk, just looks like a stupid little man. President Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy of Ukraine, on the other hand, looks like a warrior ~ Sir Bill Browder

Jimmy Margulies – King Features
The GOP just spent millions convincing its voters that mail ballots were safe, effective, and even—dare we say—patriotic. And it worked: Republicans closed the mail-voting gap in swing states and even outpaced Democrats in places like North Carolina and Arizona. But now, Donald Trump has decided to light that investment on fire like a stack of Dominion voting machines doused

Possibly the essence of the Steel Report?

Update to this: Trump landed with £300,000 costs after losing ‘Dirty Dossier’ case against Christopher Steele! Donald J Trump handed bill in UK court after he fails to prove former MI6 spy breached data protection law. And he has not paid it. Surprise surprise. Another scam…

More on the Steel Report
Canadian MP Destroys Trump In Takedown Over Ukraine | https://tinyurl.com/3rcy9v7z | Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Who would have thought it? A man who has his tiny hands on nuclear codes and who is Commander in Chief of the worlds most powerful military complex is at he same time weak and timid before another man who is simply brighter and in charge of a crumbling economy, a resourceful yet badly led military and who will not win the war he has engaged in since 2014. He just doesn’t have all the cards!

This ‘Tiny Hands’ man Trump deserves to be charged with war crimes, alongside Putin for the death of countless Ukrainians after Krasnov applied the Kill Switch to US intelligence recently. What bravery and one up to the KGB!

Trump is a short fingured vulgarian ~ Kurt Anderson

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