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​I call on the international community, especially journalists and editors, to remain vigilant. Russia can and will try to exploit this situation for propaganda, just as they have repeatedly created and exploited humanitarian disasters in the past.

Obama: "Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office"

OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

The right believes in a strict social hierarchy. Actions are only right or wrong relative to that hierarchy. Rules are broken by high status people as an expression of power, and used to punish people with low status. Cheating is justified, because it is unjust when their status is not recognized.

Moscow will host the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships. It’s the first competition of this level in Russia since 2022. Back in June, the IWF let athletes from Russia and Belarus of all ages return to international competitions under their national flag and anthem.

The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of corruption.

"It doesn't matter who gave the order" Well, when the Toddler in Chief says that, I guess we can finally say that the decision came from within the Executive Branch

Remember: If your vote didn't matter, billionaires wouldn't be spending their fortunes trying to buy our elections. Stay calm, support good candidates, do whatever you can to get out the vote, and vote as soon as you can. Don't let Big Money win.

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Day 1702. We go again. Hours after Steve Witless, trump's financial envoy, called Putin "a humanitarian", predictably the indicted war criminal inhumanely ordered one of the biggest ever missile strikes on Ukraine. All the details, like every day, in my daily thread:

NEW: Ukrainian officials continue to report disruptions to US assistance to Ukraine. Read the full update: isw.pub/UkrWar101926 (1/5)

4/ Recent aggressive Russian military satellite maneuvers are a continuation of Russia’s space policy against third country satellites since at least 2022. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Lyman tactical area, east of Dobropillya, and in western Zaporizhia Oblast.

The Pope needs better advisors. It's Zelenskyy that needs the cooperation in providing aid. Russia also needs to stop its soldiers from confiscating (stealing) the aid that it has tried to fly in by drone

Pope Leo held a phone call on Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Vatican ​said, and urged Ukraine and Russia to cooperate to let aid ‌and food into the blockaded town of Oleshky. www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

BREAKING The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit. Smith didn't object to the subpoena. Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2

Selivanov admitted the uncomfortable truth openly, which makes it harder to dismiss as mere propaganda. When an officer frames the goal as ending Ukrainian identity, the question stops being whether Moscow means it and becomes what the West does with a stated intent to erase a nation.

"Wherever Russian troops arrive, Ukrainians cease to exist." At an official event in Moscow, Russian Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Selivanov openly admitted their true goal is the total erasure of Ukrainian identity.

Hers your culprit

Kasparov's test is the right one: accepting Crimea as Ukrainian is the minimum price of admission, because any opposition that treats 2014 as a negotiable grievance still operates inside the imperial frame that produced 2022.

The video being responded to is worth watching, but this is a nice summary of one of the main points

Amoral and principle-free "anyway the wind blows" Mr. Vance, to paraphrase, "I'm not like a stupid hillbilly who holds sincere moral values, respects family ties and obligations, that sort, I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make a buck and pursue personal power, and I do mean anything."

Karoline Leavitt, say what you will about her, was witty and a terrific weaver of lies. When trump put her (and her newborn baby) on the decoy plane, for Natalie instead, trump lost his best liar. Now he’s upset Katie wasn’t as good.

Blowback has been ferocious. Words like traitor, perfidy and betrayal have been tossed around. Trump's dealing with it by pretending nothing happen. He knows nothing. It won't work. The cast of people needed to make it happen is very small. Trump and Hegseth. Impeach Trump.

🎵Scaramooch, Scaramooch, Katie do the fandango🎵

4. this is the key issue - the reason we go for expansion over any other reform is that it's a) fast and b) constitutional this court will rule against any other restriction on its power, like term limits, and any delayed reform will be repealed by republicans this breaks their power immediately

Please stop repeating GOP pro-Russian narratives. The Republicans are trying to force the democracy to surrender to the dictatorship. This needs to be the clear headline before you repeat their lies about "negotiating" or "wanting peace". Repeating their lies helps spread pro-Russian messaging.

France24 journalist, apparently sick of the complete bollocks emanating from the Whithouse, calls it as it is @bbcjamescook.bsky.social @bbcmaryam.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @dominicwaghorn.bsky.social @jameswaterhouse.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @cnn.com

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It’s long past time for the U.S. to get a new president.

Russian public figures Margarita Simonyan and Dmitry Medvedev reacted to the detention of Rybar’s team in Montenegro. Simonyan predicted they could be handed to Ukraine, while Medvedev warned Russians against traveling in Europe and called for an “exchange fund” of Europeans and Americans. #Russia

A man narrowly escaped a Russian drone strike on the grounds of a kindergarten in Ukraine’s Kyiv region yesterday.

Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.

Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."

El-Sayed: "You just heard something out of my opponent. He said he 'thinks the war is going to end.' He's got a direct line to the president who is making sure the war does not end and he's not using it because he's cheerled this war the entire time."

Ossoff: "If you want to understand whether the Trump-Collins budget has helped you, just go fill up a tank of gas. Go to the grocery store. Try to buy food for you kids. Look at your electric bill. Look at your health insurance premiums. They've doubled for more than a million Georgians."

El-Sayed: "The reason he's flip-flopping has nothing to do with policy, nothing do with your costs. It everything to do with his sagging poll numbers ... He's doing an ad drinking a Labatts, talking about the Red Wings, pretending he was not for this the entire time. Be serious, my guy."

my most memorable Collins quote is attributed to Harry Reid (possibly apocryphal): "She'll always be there for you, when you don't need her."

I don't think this is a matter of whether Collins was "naîve" Collins is past the point of "benefit of the doubt". She calculated that this would serve her purposes and to hell with anybody else. What G-Grandma worry about pregnant people?