Dave Brown

JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

This is explosive. In the Witkoff/Kushner discussions with the Kremlin with respect to the sale to a Trump-backed consortium of LUKoil's foreign assets, Trump has offered a slice of his big Alaska project to a Russian major close to Putin. The structure is designed to entangle US investments

Absolutely 👇

They have to double down. It is a core MAGA tenet that you never apologize or admit wrongdoing. So Trump doubles down on attacking a woman for having been abused as a child.

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Cancel the SpaceX gov contracts and let Musk play with his sword.

Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

This is actually hilarious 😂 🤣 The man makes some valid points, tho Shark, at home just minding its business, then here comes this stranger

Religion as a search for moral truth or a search for power.

Fine to invade, occupy and work to actively destroy a country.

Trump is counting on Putin to save him. Let’s see what comes next.

Susie Wiles goes, but the men behind the wildly unpopular tariffs, ICE/CBP violence and Iran War stay. Interesting…

Lindsey Graham a decade ago predicted that Trump would destroy the GOP, as Trump has destroyed everything and everyone in his life.

Oh Wow.

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an abrupt attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:

Translation: Putin wants Zelensky to surrender But Zelensky won’t surrender I think Putin wants Zelensky to surrender more than Zelensky wants to

What about Russia? Do they need a new president?

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

Which is why we require food labels to note artificial flavors and sweeteners. Same logic applies to AI.

Trump doesn’t want to cut off most trade. He wants to trade things TO other countries without trading things FROM other countries—suggesting a fundamental misunderstanding of the word “trade”.

I'm not sure who saw this coming, but so far nearly all the jobs created during the second Trump administration have gone to women.

At least 5 beardos in this picture. Even more weirdos.

this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)

I just realized Schmitt is from Missouri! How does his ofgice NOT know about the “Hawks” right next door?

Reminds me of a CA friend who don't know the difference between Illinois, Iowa and Indiana. How could they have never heard of the "Hawks" as short for Hawkeyes. Amateur hour.

Mind boggling stupidity.

AI will take our jobs, but we all need to work well into old age.

Just a bundle of grievances in the skin of an old, sick, demented man.

Truly staggering economic ignorance.

Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.

Amen. Yes. Push back hard when the media act as if GOP attacks set the agenda. Counter with your agenda, forcefully articulated.

This is what Trump did on 9/11.

13 years later, the data has been updated, and the distribution is worse than before. And here’s the interesting part: Republicans and Democrats agree on what a more equal distribution of wealth should look like. It’s not left vs. right. It’s up vs. down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...

Or the US and Israeli regimes will change?

I'm not a Mouton champion, but statistically Markey has a 60% chance of surviving another 6 years in the Senate.

Economic genius. His uncle was at MIT.

The Daily Beast discovers clinical malignant narcissism.

Pre-tax earnings in the US have hit the highest level since the aftermath of the second world war, while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent and a widening political backlash. ft.trib.al/ThPVQhN

Seriously, what is going on with Trump’s rear end here? It looks like he has some sort of contraption back there

Politics represented by a toroid where the far left meets the far right in Maha crazyland.

Fox News is more hopeful about the Senate than a good chunk of Bluesky, I feel.

The defense budget was $841 billion in 2024.

They needed a hook to pull Trump off the stage.