In the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, Ukraine agreed to relinquish nuclear weapons inherited from the Soviet Union. In return, the US, UK, & Russia gave security assurances, incl. commitments to respect Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, & existing borders.
Russia violated that agreement.
#ProudBlue
Autocrat rule outsted in Serbia. Three more-- in Brazil, Israel and the U.S.-- facing voters over the next ten days. Fingers crossed.
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🚨BREAKING: Brazil's President Lula, a vocal critic of Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of Trump and keeps some distance between Latin America's biggest economy and Washington.
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Undisclosed here: Katie Miller was paid up to $250,000 last year as a consultant for Elon Musk's xAI (Twitter), and owns over $1 million worth of stock in xAI (now part of SpaceX)
This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.
Brazil just stopped the right-wing wave.
Serbia sent Vučić packing.
Hungary showed Orbán the door.
The world is sending strongmen home.
AMERICA, IT'S YOUR TURN!
Trump says he's on the ballot.
Take him at his word.
Vote early, or on Tuesday, November 3. 🇺🇸
LEAKED CORNELL AUDIO‼️
Audio recording from a closed door faculty meeting at Cornell.
Faculty members grilled President Michael Kotikoff over the university’s handling of the allegations, student safety, and why some of the accused men are back on campus.
Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome?
SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated.
Q: So it didn't change the outcome
If think you know someone who may not vote who is struggling to pay their bills, let them know this is what the Republican Party was working on today to improve their life.
At his confirmation hearing, John Roberts swore judges are like umpires: “Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them.”
Then he rewrote the rulebook so one player can never be called out.
Most people don’t know Congress can remove the umpire.
Chief Justice John Roberts handed Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card and called it constitutional law.
He thinks a lifetime seat makes him untouchable. It doesn’t.
Congress can impeach a chief justice. Most Americans have no idea. Spread it.
NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...
The way JD Vance says this, he is acting as if Abdul El-Sayed is an immigrant who should "show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything."
Once again, it should be pointed out that El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan.
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
@reuters.com 🇺🇦
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