pickAudio. Difficult to listen to, with technical verbiage. This was a very educational experience either way. As such, I think I learned more about the downfall of the USSR after the meltdown. What I did not know was focused upon how the government handled it afterwards. Like how the families were prosecuted. How the meltdown indirectly could be said to have caused the down fall of the Soviet Union due to the payout to the families.
pickJournalist Kostyuchenko is also a lesbian, apparently giving her government multiple reasons to target her. Yet here she is unafraid to show what truly happens on the ground in Russia while showing a deep love for her country and its people. This is searing and tough to read but excellent.
pickThis was very good, and not just because of all the attention-grabbing headlines that it has been getting. #2024Book34
...weapons and impulsive, combative diplomacy terrified Trump's national security advisers.
"You've got a problem with moderate women," Lindsey Graham told the former president. "The people that think the earth is flat and that we didn't go to the moon, you've got them." ?
