Wow: "Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, a significant number for a Democrat in red-leaning Florida, while Nixon brought in just over $900,000."

Imagine how much ordinary voters have to hate the Democratic establishment to get these results at the ballot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/angie-nixon-winner-florida-senate-primary-democrat-alex-vindman-moody-rcna593255

Ruh roh, more trouble for Team Zelensky: ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is calling for wartime elections, arguing that postponing until peace effectively lets Moscow decide when Ukrainians can choose their own government again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGFTuUxZB54

St. Petersburg hotel prices jumped 48% ahead of Kanye West's announced concerts, according to the nationalist outlet Tsargrad, which is disgusted to see Russians desperately scrambling to hear an "actual American" rap about "cocaine, Hitler, and whores." Give the people what they want? https://t.me/tsargradtv/140377

Russian Post CEO Mikhail Volkov denies a recent Bloomberg report that the Russian govt might open the postal service's infrastructure to Wildberries sellers hit by drone attacks. Volkov says marketplaces need a scale of warehouses the postal service doesn't have. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8890825

Dmitry Larin, a deputy board chairman at Genbank, died Tuesday morning when his motorcycle collided with an ambulance in central Moscow. Genbank is one of the largest banks operating in Crimea and has been under U.S. sanctions since 2015 for its work there. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8891883

A Russian missile strike on Pechenihy in Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed 10 people and wounded 8, the regional governor said. Homes, a café, a post office, and a shop were damaged. Two more people died in a Russian drone attack on a residential building in Zaporizhzhia. https://t.me/synegubov/24805

Samara officials refused to authorize rallies by Communist lawmaker Mikhail Matveyev, who was barred from the State Duma ballot last week. They cited paperwork errors and said protesting the court's ruling is prohibited anyway as it conflicts with wartime restrictions on public assemblies. https://t.me/kontext_channel/76603

Russian officials say a Ukrainian drone attack near a bus stop in occupied Enerhodar killed one person and wounded 15. Russia's governor in Zaporizhzhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, says the victims were waiting to catch the bus to work. https://t.me/astrapress/122444

lol, Russia's tax service barred pop singer Philipp Kirkorov from opening businesses for 3 years after striking his company off the state register over false data. It has repeatedly suspended his clothing firm's accounts since 2021 over "unfiled returns." https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/8891673

"These wild speculations about my intelligence, these preposterous inventions, would be better suited to the pages of Amazing Tales magazine" is a line that regularly pops into my head