Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.

When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
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If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

A quote from an article by Timothy Snyder titled "What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?" published in The New Yorker. The quote reads: "It is predictable ... that he will give free rein to the oligarchs who, he knows, will continue to generate the social and digital bases of a politics of us and them. It is predictable that, in returning to power, he will seek to change the system so that he can remain in power until death. It is predictable that he will use deportations to divide us, to accustom us to violence, and to make accomplices of us. It is predictable that he will create a cult out of the martyrs of January 6th. It is predictable that he will cooperate with similarly minded rulers abroad."

Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky America’s president calls Ukraine’s president “a dictator”

⚡️ Trump wants to remove Zelensky, according to The Economist. The publication states that Trump sees Zelensky as an obstacle and may cut military aid, intel access, and Starlink, while lifting sanctions on Russia.

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If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

U.S. government planes flying to Moscow.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

Can Europe Stop Elon Musk? He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
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Here is the Issue for Putin:

Putin invaded Ukraine for 2 reasons.

1: as punishment for rebelling against him, to send a signal to everyone else that he is the leader and cannot be questioned

2: To keep the west out of Ukraine at all costs

Putin Isn’t Fighting for Land in Ukraine And Biden has mere weeks to give the Ukrainians the resources they need to fight.

As I wrote in November, just after the election:

“Land for peace” sounds nice, but the president of Russia isn’t fighting for land. Putin is fighting not to conquer Pokrovsk but to destroy Ukraine as a nation."

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Trump Is Facing a Catastrophic Defeat in Ukraine If Ukraine falls, it will be hard to spin as anything but a debacle for the United States, and for its president.

Bob Kagan is right: the Russians don't want to negotiate, they want to destroy Ukraine

"Trump must now choose between accepting a humiliating strategic defeat on the global stage and immediately redoubling American support for Ukraine while there’s still time"
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Russian disinfo network “Matryoshka” is migrating to Bluesky as exodus from X continues The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the ...

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

Bravo, @anntelnaes.bsky.social.

I guess the new slogan for the Washington Post ought to be:

“Newspapers die in cowardice.”

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🇹🇼🤔 Taiwanese company TRC, on behalf of Russia, manufactures and modifies servo drives for controlling UMPK modules that convert unguided bombs into high-precision gliders, - InformNapalm

❗️During 2024, TRC plant made five changes to its product.

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Russian state TV New Year's special

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV's New Year's special was every bit as weird as you might imagine. Curiously, it featured a lot less bravado than previous holiday specials after Putin's invasion.
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russian scum shot 🇺🇦 prisoners today in the village of Ukrainka🤬

According to preliminary data, these are 6 military of the Armed Forces

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Russians celebrating by murdering people in Ukraine with ballistic missiles on Christmas morning.

Canada, UK, Germany are primary targets for the Russia right now. Elon Musk is helping the Kremlin amplify its influence operations and bankrolling the politicians favourable to Putin. This is an attack on democracy and an operation to decrease support and aid for Ukraine.

🤬 Today the Russians shot 8 prisoners in the Kursk direction, and the day before, Russian channels published a video of two prisoners being executed with sapper shovels.

I will not post the video… 💔

Musk out of nowhere endorses afd in Germany. Ten hours later there is a terror attack in Germany.
Disturbing

The most pro-Russian political party in Europe now has the support of Elon Musk. A party that that is constantly having its members arrested for espionage in favor of Russia AND China.

Musk needs to be in prison.

Interesting that Carlson asks "why am I required" to hate Assad. But nobody is "requiring" him. it's just that normal people, with what used to be normal American/Christian moral values, find torture and mass murder repugnant. He does not. And he also does not want to feel bad about that.

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor State TV discusses Russia's tactics towards Americans

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV hosts and experts discussed the Kremlin's approach towards Americans: they say the Russians should smile to our face and kill us every chance they get.
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Filthy Russian savages just committed another massacre in Zaporizhia, targeting a busy hospital with ballistic missiles.

We don't know how many dead yet but I'm sure that fucking piece of shit Musk and the US president's idiot son will find it hilarious.

4 months ago I bombed that kids hospital. You have imposed no meaningful consequences. To us in Kremlin, this means it is permitted.

🤬💔 The body of the tortured Mariupol Marine Ivan Makarov was returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity.

‼️ Hematomas, cuts, torn muscles, a dent in the skull, traumatized nose, carved brand in the form of a triangle with an eye inside above his heart…

Of course he has

Obama has a lot to answer for. The wars in Syria and Ukraine was his to prevent, but he did nothing.