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U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says it’s long past time for tough sanctions on Russia, calling the moment “desperate times demanding desperate measures.” He expressed strong congressional support. But, he said no action will be taken without alignment with Trump. A dog listening to its owner.

Went from “nato close the sky over Ukraine” to “nato close the sky over yourself”

🇵🇱🇺🇦 Tusk: "We reject all manipulations and disinformation suggesting that Ukraine is behind the attack. The responsibility lies with Russia." 🗣️"It is becoming increasingly clear who — whether for political reasons, out of stupidity, or due to treacherous intentions — serves Russian propaganda."

There is literally no Western politician alive that I can think of that has incited more hate, bigotry, and violence than Donald Trump. That so many in our public life, in our 'liberal' media, have just memory-holed 10 years of nonstop incitement and abuse from him is shameful.

A reminder that Trump called Baltimore a 'hellhole' today to no controversy or scandalous headlines. Imagine a Democratic president calling a red state or red city a hellhole. Just imagine. Oh, the double standards.

I remember early November 2023. I think I was the first person on US mainstream media, while at MSNBC/Peacock, to say the G-word on TV. On my show. It was seen as hugely controversial then. It's controversial no longer. It's undeniable, irrefutable, the consensus view.

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🇺🇦🇭🇺 Magyar responds to Szijjártó: Shove your sanctions and Hungary entry ban, Mr. ‘dancer on bones.’ I am Ukrainian and will visit my father’s homeland after you’re gone.

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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆

It's just so sad and pathetic to think that Marco Rubio of all people—who long reviled Putin and who spent his Senate career championing human rights—would be reduced to echoing Neville Chamberlain ("A quarrel in a faraway country, between people of whom we know nothing").

I’d give anything to have John McCain alive again for just a few hours so he could repeatedly slap Lindsey Graham upside the head until Lindsey cried.

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... What happened in Anchorage yesterday wasn’t a summit, it wasn’t diplomacy, and it sure as hell wasn’t leadership. It was a spectacle. A freak show of power inverted — the President of the United States turned into a clapping seal, and Vladimir Putin

Trump went to Alaska threatening Putin with sanctions. Three hours later, he dropped the threats and started pressuring Ukraine to surrender cities Russia couldn't capture. Zelenskyy faces an impossible choice Monday. euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/17/a...

that summit could've been an email

It's like waiting to hear how a negotiation went between Hans Gruber and Ralph Wiggum. You already know. But somehow it will still be worse than you think.

Preparing for summit with Donald.

I'm a new kind of mob boss. I'm going to make Ukraine an offer they can't accept.

“Putin Got a Red Carpet, Trump Got Nothing” The ‘dealmaker’ leaves Alaska summit with no deal – only humiliation, writes ⁦‪Aida Chavez‬⁩ for Zeteo.

⚡️'Clearly 1:0 to Putin' — European officials react to Alaska Summit. "Putin got his red carpet treatment with Trump, Trump got nothing. ... For the Ukrainians: nothing. For Europe: deeply disappointing."

The "summit" hasn't even begun, and I'm pissed about headlines, like "Trump traveling to Alaska to meet Putin." This isn't some cordial meeting of leaders. It's a deranged fascist Felon welcoming the most hideous war criminal of our time on US soil. Never normalize this. Any of it.

He’ll never get elected. Norms will restrain him. Mueller will get him. He can’t come back from J6. No way he’ll get re-elected. Epstein will bring him down. He’s overplayed his hand. He has dementia. This isn’t who we are. (Fables of the Trumpocene)

Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me Fool me all the time, make me POTUS www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🇺🇦 "If Russia does not want to stop the war, then it is necessary to stop its economy," — Zelensky reacted to the airstrike in Zaporizhzhia. 🗣️"No deadlines, no expectations from them work - they do not want to stop the killings. The only thing they are looking for is a way to kill Ukraine."

Horrific www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

Trump has gone from "I will sanction Putin" to "I will meet Putin and lift sanctions" in about 72 hours.

After ignoring Trump's words and insulting & belittling him with my actions every single day of his 2nd presidency, he has finally snapped and punished me with a 1-1 summit on US soil.

Zelenskyy should counter by offering Russia Alaska.

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It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine. Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

So Trump is allowing a war criminal terrorist with an arrest warrant on U.S. soil. Hope Trump doesn’t hand Alaska to Russia since he is handing everything else over This is beyond sickening

So the delay and distraction will take place in Alaska.

The United States is hosting Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15. If we had a real president, he would not be coming because a real president would arrest him and send him to answer for his war crimes. I miss when we had a president who wasn't Russia's stooge. www.nbcnews.com/now/video/tr...

No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me Fool me every time, make me POTUS

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan. And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

This is actually the pinnacle of political consciousness

We're at the stage where an adjudged rapist is hoping a convicted child sex trafficker can help end allegations of his pedophillia.

“We have a belligerent teen in the White House now, and the Constitution isn’t structured to deal with him.” Kim Wehle writes about the gaping hole in the constitution that Trump is using to his advantage. Visit zeteo.com to read: zeteo.com/p/trump-has-...

Me when Ukraine wins in something I never even took interest in

When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

I guess it’s a Taco Tuesday?