Hello, and welcome back to Tomorrow Will Be Worse!

Before we get into it, I wanted to share two updates with you.

First, the bad news. As you recall, in the first week of the war, you met my old friend Mustafa Nayyem, the Ukrainian journalist who helped spark the Maidan Revolution in 2013. Mustafa, who is now a deputy minister in Zelensky’s government, confirmed on Sunday that his younger brother, Masi,had been severely wounded in the fighting in the Donbas. Masi, a lawyer, was a veteran of the long frozen war in the east, and this weekend, he suffered serious injuries to his head and eye. He was operated on and, according to Mustafa’s Telegram channel, he is still not out of the woods.

“The life of my brother was hanging by a thread and is still in danger,” Mustafa wrote, while thanking everyone who had helped his family evacuate Masi and get him into surgery. The tragic irony of this, of course, is that Masi and Mustafa, along with a younger sister, were children when they came to Ukraine from Afghanistan in the early 1980s. They were fleeing the Soviet invasion of their homeland. Now, they are defending their adopted homeland from still another invasion by the armies of Moscow. This time, however, they stayed and fought.

Now the good news. In early March, the Kremlin passed a law that punished people for speaking the truth about the war with up to 15 years in jail. In the face of this maneuver, and growing threats to independent journalists, many Russian reporters fled. TV Rain, the only independent broadcast network in Russia, shut down and most of its staff left Russia. I asked you to donate to a fundraiser that would help keep TV Rain’s employees fed and housed until they could reconstitute their channel outside of Russia’s borders.

Yesterday, editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko announced that TV Rain had received a broadcasting license in Latvia and that it would restart its work later this summer. I’ve spoken to Tikhon and he asked me to thank you and this incredible community for helping his team live to fight another day and to speak truth to their fellow citizens back in Russia. I am so proud and grateful for this little village we have here, and for the real and meaningful impact you have on the world.

Thank you, truly.

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