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Italy and Spain demand solidarity whenever their debt blows up. But they show no solidarity when Ukraine gets invaded and freeride on Germany and others to pay. I think they misunderstand the word solidarity. What they do is grifting. That's different... robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/why-german...

🇭🇺🇺🇸 WSJ: The Trump administration has encouraged Orbán to run for UN Secretary-General, with Russia and China reportedly supportive of a joint candidacy. Orbán is reportedly interested but reluctant to run without confidence of winning. Trump and Vance are expected to support him.

Is a universal basic income a good idea? OPP voters are keenest at +0.65, with 90% agreeing. Greens +0.53, Labour a softer +0.25. ACT -0.59, National -0.44, NZ First -0.30. 84% of ACT voters disagree. https://kiwivalues.nz/research/welfare-and-work/ 2/8 #nzpol #nz

🇺🇦❄️ WSJ: Russia is intensifying attacks on Kyiv's energy sector (CHP, substations), because progress on the front is expensive and limited. The goal is to make the capital unlivable and break the morale of the population. The lights are going out more and more often, the water pressure is dropping…

🇺🇦 FM Sybiha: Proposals to resume Russian gas sales to Europe, as reported by The Economist, are flawed and dangerous. After decades of Russian energy blackmail, Europe has only just begun to achieve true energy independence. For Moscow, energy is a weapon, not a business.

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

⚡️️️️️️️Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system. "Ukraine needs secure, sovereign, and high-performance satellite communications systems that it controls," ICEYE CEO Rafal Modrzewski said.

Bad time to be maga. Hope you all enjoyed it. “The ride is coming to an end. please keep your hands inside the vehicle” www.the-sun.com/money/171908...

Can you recall the faux outrage that Biden let the Ukrainian military use cluster munitions on the battlefield? It stands in contrast to the silence that we use them on civilians.

‼️🇺🇸 POLITICO: Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes said Russia is running a covert online influence/disinformation campaign ahead of the midterms.

⚡️Ukrainian military intelligence reveals new Russian cruise missile 'Filin' Some parts of the missile are apparently 3-D printed, HUR said, while the electronic component stands out for the increased share of Chinese components.

Ukrainian Magura MV7 sea drones took part in the training of the US 7th Infantry Division in Michigan. Ukraine is sharing the experience of modern warfare and using sea drones with our partners.

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

🇺🇸👀 US VP Vance: "Yes, Washington is a city riddled with corruption, but I have not seen any evidence that Trump is involved in that corruption. You can criticize our policies and our decisions all you want, but I have never seen any evidence that Trump has enriched himself through it."

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas calls to investigate Republican President Trump's Aid and Comfort to Russia/Putin. Zelensky confirmed Starlink continues to disconnect above 161km/h - Ukraine can't intercept Russian drones, and tests outside Ukraine border show the sabotage is willful.

“They can’t erase history.” The administration pardoned the rioters, fired the prosecutors, and scrubbed the website. But the facts are still there. Tom Joscelyn's "January 6 Memory Project" is making sure of it, and the link to it is in the comment below.

❗️Russia will be able to control missiles and UAVs in real time across Ukraine: full satellite coverage is expected in about 6 months. This is a big disaster for everyone, — Presidential Advisor Serhiy “Flash”.

The various players accused of hitting and groping women aren't being supported by trolls. Interesting. fansided.com/nfl/4-nfl-ar...

Even the NFL is nicer place thanks to Ukraine's Operation Quiet Piggy 🤫🐷

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

🇺🇸‼️ Following Trump’s announcement, US Department of the Treasury issued a temporary general license allowing operations related to the sale, delivery, unloading, and import of Russian-origin diesel fuel. A specified date — April 7, 2027. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/russian-dies...

Seth Bodnar has great momentum in Montana! The chair of the Democratic Party in Montana just endorsed him. www.sethformontana.com

Texas Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico: We need to strengthen Ukraine.We need to strengthen our NATO allies as they stand up to Russ aggression so we don't have to…I see this as a cost-saving measure.If we can stop…Putin in Ukraine,then we're not going to have to stop him elsewhere

The White House is hiding a report about your taxes until after you vote. Each year the IRS publishes data on what people at every income level deducted and owed. This version is the first look at the GOP tax law from 2025. It was expected in July. It’s October. Full story at link in comments ⬇️

Elon Musk is basically pointing at Trump. He is obviously trying to protect Starlink from the economic fallout this incident created. With several European nations starting to question services by Starlink and India actively pushing back, this has become a serious problem for Musk and SpaceX.

A bipartisan Ukraine Caucus in the US Congress raised concerns over Starlink restrictions and a possible halt to intelligence sharing with Ukraine, warning this could leave civilians, including US citizens in Ukraine, more vulnerable to Russian attacks. #Ukraine

Despite Daily bombings of innocent civilians by russia and the USA betrayal Ukraine is still standing and fighting for its survival You can help Ukraine by donating towards engineering equipment using link below Equipment is used to build shelter and bunkers givebutter.com/liberty-engi...

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⚡️Update: Death toll rises to 26, including 5 children, following mass Russian attack on Ukrainian cities on Oct. 7. The deadliest strike hit a residential building in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, killing at least 20 people, including all five children.

“Seventeen years ago, I made a decision that wounded two Rangers. I have carried that decision ever since. If a machine makes that same mistake twenty years from now, who will carry it?” A good piece on human decision-making & AI from @MWI_editor mwi.westpoint.edu/we-shot-the-...

⚡️ 'It was humiliating' — ex-US Army Secretary says Washington lags behind Ukraine in war innovations.

🇺🇦📚 Russian strikes destroyed 13 million Ukrainian books over the summer, - The Guardian Summer losses account for one-third of all copies printed in the country this year. The publication views these losses within the broader context of the war against Ukrainian culture, literature, and language.

First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)

Nobody is prepared for the world of drone warfare that is coming, in fact is already here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

Following a bio lab accident in Russia, which caused the breakout of the plague pathogen (pestis bacteria) and the death of at least one lab technician, 5 hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been put under strict quarantine. The quarantine is not voluntary.

⚡Dozens detained at authorized Communist Party rally after chants of 'Down with the Tsar'. Moscow police detained about 60 people at an authorized Communist Party rally on Oct. 4 after participants began chanting anti-Kremlin slogans, according to the party and Russian rights group OVD-Info.

OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....

That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.

😡❗️ Russia plans to paralyze Kyiv before winter to maximize public tension and destabilize the political situation in Ukraine, — The Economist This involves missile and drone strikes, sabotage, and information operations. The campaign is expected to peak in November.

A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.

Yesterday, the Rusich group made ambiguous hints about the Estonian town of Narva on its Telegram channel.

❗️Estonia’s Internal Security Service says Russia’s intelligence services ordered the Aug. 15 arson attack on a Milrem Robotics facility in Tallinn. Three Latvian citizens suspected of directly carrying out the attack have been arrested and extradited to Estonia. #Russia

⚡️Kremlin seizes control of German retailer Metro AG's Russian properties. Metro AG first entered the Russian market in 2001 and operated 91 wholesale stores, employing around 9,000 employees in the country.

🇬🇧 BBC: Several men were arrested under the Explosives Act after a “major incident” was declared near RAF Fairford, a UK base hosting the U.S. Air Force. Homes in Whelford were evacuated as Army bomb disposal specialists examined several vehicles. Police said the incident appeared contained.

If you want to know what Donald will say tomorrow, listen to what the Kremlin says today.

Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️

For decades Americans in Republican counties have died sooner than those living in Democratic ones Now they’re dying faster than they’re being born These are policy choices