Defenders of Democracy

#USA #Ukraine #Russia #NATO #EU #UN www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain... "Most Ukrainians are in no doubt that Putin ultimately intends to destroy their country... and take it for granted that the Kremlin’s end goal is a Ukraine without Ukrainians."

#USA #Datacenters #AI #elections prospect.org/2026/10/27/t... "Lawrence’s tech platform also proposes carving out a category of “humans only decisions,” for ethically freighted spheres like war, the courts, and medicine."

#USA #Treason #Musk #EU #NATO #Ukraine #Russia prospect.org/2026/10/26/d... "The richest man on Earth deciding to carry out his own freelance foreign policy is as far from constitutional government as could be imagined."

#Epstein #Congress #Democrats #elections newrepublic.com/post/217134/... "At least five women accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein’s company, according to interviews conducted by the committee."

Gifted Read: #Venezuela #USA #Oil #democracy www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... "Industry analysts believe that more than $13 billion worth of oil has been sold since January, but that number is speculative. "

#USA

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #NATO #USA www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... Excerpt: “So what’s the answer? You go underground.” There, at least, the drones cannot see you.

#USA #Russia #Ukraine #NATO #EU www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... "A Democratic win next month will, in the long run, likely help Kyiv...."

#USA #Russia #Ukraine #EU #Musk www.nationalreview.com/2026/10/cong... "This is dark. It demands answers. Now."

#Congress #DOJ #Minnesota www.thenation.com/article/poli... Excerpt: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries decried Trump’s “vile personal attacks” and the fact that Trump’s “violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.”

#Panama #Earthquake defendersofdemocracy.substack.com/p/panama-ear... "New satellite analysis has identified thousands of landslides, the number of homes classified as destroyed continues to rise, and reconstruction has begun in several provinces. "

#Ukraine #EU #NATO #Russia thehill.com/policy/inter... "Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Russia overnight Sunday, striking a major oil terminal in St. Petersburg and a data center, knocking out power to thousands of residents and causing fires."

#crypto #AI fortune.com/2026/10/16/r... "... an internal research model used a crypto wallet without permission...."

#Panama #Earthquake defendersofdemocracy.substack.com/p/panama-ear... "...Isla Cañas, in Los Santos, has been physically divided by a water channel following the earthquake."

#Elections #Electorate #CitizensUnited #democracy slate.com/news-and-pol... "Musk...has now spent more on the midterms than he spent to help elect Donald Trump in 2024. "

#Oligarcs #Tech #AI www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... "Human beings, not machines, must come first."

#Panama #Earthquake defendersofdemocracy.substack.com/p/panama-ear... "...the emerging recovery effort offers an opportunity that extends beyond reconstruction."

#Panama #Earthquake defendersofdemocracy.substack.com/p/panama-ear... New developments from October 14, 11:00 a.m., through October 15, 11:00 a.m., Panama time.

prospect.org/2026/10/14/i... "Immigration and Customs Enforcement is fast-tracking a $100 million domestic surveillance program to put 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen cities and the District of Columbia...."

#USA #Greenland #EU #NATO #Denmark www.salon.com/2026/10/13/a... "...the president is operating in a world where the conditions that once made annexation attractive and feasible have largely disappeared. "

#Ukraine #USA #NATO #EU #Russia www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... "...an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, perhaps in order to finally complete the multiple business deals...."

#DoD #Pentagon #Law #Crime slate.com/news-and-pol... "...it will be the kind of spectacle of cruelty that has become a staple in the administration’s use of power, like ... the American military killing people in boats off the coast of Venezuela."

#flock #surveillance www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... Don't shop with Flock?

#Iran #Russia #Israel #USA #War #terrorism snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug... "...it does show where Trump’s mind is: the weakness of a lost war can translate into the weakness of failing to prevent terror, and he can then hope to somehow be the man of the hour again."

#Panama defendersofdemocracy.substack.com/p/the-shapin... "A nation does not survive because its most fortunate individuals succeed in protecting themselves. It survives because enough of its people and institutions preserve the cooperative arrangements upon which the nation depends."

#Panama #Earthquake #Shipping substack.com/home/post/p-... "The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) announced a US$250,000 humanitarian donation and made US$50 million in disaster-recovery financing available to Panama."

#ICE #immigration #DHS #CBP slate.com/news-and-pol... "...loosening of guidelines, combined with scaled-up immigration enforcement, has resulted in the detention of thousands of parents, many of whose minor children are U.S. citizens...."

#NATO #EU #Ukraine #Russia #USA united24media.com/war-in-ukrai... "NATO’s Military Committee visited Kyiv for the first time in eight years, bringing together military representatives from all 32 NATO member states for talks with Ukraine’s military leadership...."

#news #propaganda www.thebulwark.com/p/propagandi... "...a supposedly straight news reporter working as a pool representative covering the president on behalf of the full American media blob one week then becoming a paid shill for that president a few days later."

#economy #politics #elections slate.com/news-and-pol... "...after winning the White House back in part over higher prices, Trump’s decision to smash the bright red “make gas more expensive” button may have handed Democrats the biggest electoral gift they could’ve hoped for.

#Ukraine #Russia #EU #NATO www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202... "Putin is not getting his way in Ukraine and wants to make us pay for it."

#ICE #DHS #CBP lawandcrime.com/high-profile... “… the government has also "confiscated his personal belongings, forced him on a plane, and again removed him to El Salvador, leaving him stranded there with no belongings, money, or even his phone….”

#USA #PoliticalScience #Tyranny www.cambridge.org/core/journal... The effort is to reshape America away from the constitutional republic it has been and the founding principle that government should serve the people and remain accountable to them.

#USA #economics #China www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... "Nearly everywhere, America’s influence is shrinking."

#Press #Governance #Constitution www.salon.com/2026/09/23/n... "The episode shows that Harp isn’t just there to flatter and soothe Trump; she is also willing to get him worked up so that his terrible decision-making skills deteriorate even further. "

#allies #international #UN #NATO #EU www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... "For years, the strategy among U.S. allies was to wait President Trump out. Now many are preparing for a world in which the United States is no longer indispensable...."

#DHS #ICE #CBP #Constitution #Law www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... "ICE training instructs officers that the use of deadly force against a fleeing suspect is not permissible unless there is an imminent risk of harm to law-enforcement personnel or the public. "

#UN #USA #NAVY #CRIME www.bbc.com/news/article... …"such attacks amount to serial extrajudicial killings….”

#Ukrane #Russia #EU #NATO #USA ukraine.ohchr.org/en/UN-Human-... “Most of the victims of sexual violence were men, particularly in places of detention, but women and children were also affected, primarily in occupied territory of Ukraine. “

#climatechange #environment news.arizona.edu/news/plants-... “…leaves are receiving direct radiation from the sunlight, so they can heat up much more than the air temperature around them….”

#USA #Iran #Israel #NuclearWeapons www.thenation.com/article/worl... Use of a tactical nuclear weapon would ... indelibly brand the US as a dangerous, pariah nation, feared but despised across the globe.

#freedom #terrorism #9/11 #democracy snyder.substack.com/p/helping-th... As I told my colleagues and friends when 9/11 was happening: This will make us all less free.

#economy #elections #tyranny newrepublic.com/post/215248/... This dubious IOU gets him more attention during the current news cycle and may distract some from his cratering approval ratings.

#NATO #EU #UN #USA thehill.com/opinion/whit... "...Trump has rejected and ruined 80 years of bipartisanship and general adherence to common themes. "

#Banking #ecomomy #USA newrepublic.com/article/2148... "...Trump 2.0 has ended an era of carefully built-up economic and financial institutions in remarkably short order. "

www.techtimes.co.uk/bernie-sande... Research capable of causing catastrophic harm should not be governed primarily by the private organizations hoping to profit from it.