One of my favorite follows on Twitter right now is a smallish account run by an anti-imperialist activist who goes by "Left I on the News", because he has a real knack for going through articles in the mainstream press and highlighting the mundane little manipulations we're fed each day to shape our worldview in alignment with the US empire.

One story he singled out recently was a New York Times article titled "Russia Fires Drones and Missiles at Southern Ukraine," which opens with the line, "Russian forces launched drones and missiles at cities in southern Ukraine from the Black Sea early Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said, a day after Moscow blamed Kyiv for an attack on a bridge linking the occupied Crimean Peninsula to Russia."

Can you spot anything funny in that sentence? It's not super obvious at first glance.

"Look how the NYT phrases this subhead to make Russia sound extra evil," Left I tweeted with a screenshot of the article. "Not 'a day after Kyiv attacked the Kerch Bridge', but a day after Russia blamed them for doing it (as if it's just some wild accusation). Remember?—?the most effective propaganda is the subtlest."