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❗️In Dnipropetrovsk region, "Shahed" hit a residential building.

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

When Ru tried a similar campaign in 2022-23, journalists were calling me non-stop, essentially to ask when Ukrainians would crack and demand their govt surrender to Ru. By now, the West has realized Ukr won't surrender and now our media doesn't cover the story as much, maybe because...

I have been saying

For someone like Stephen Miller a democratically elected Congress even with a Republican majority is not a legislative instrument to be used but rather a constitutional obstruction to be eliminated

Morgan McSweeney quits as PM's chief of staff following Mandelson scandal McSweeney says he takes

The first sentence of this statement is really interesting. McSweeney says he is resigning from the government. But he was not a member of the government: he was an adviser to it, albeit an important one. The govt comprises the cabinet and other ministers. Says it all?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

Ex-Corbynites exuding schadenfreude at Starmer's self-inflicted disasters need to ask themselves why someone like Zack Polanski and before him Caroline Lucas when faced with the Labour establishment seems able to avoid all the traps that Corbyn and co so enthusiastically plunged into

Post by the National Transportation Safety Board on Twitter: "Big safety rec win: Cockpit Voice Recorders are going from recording 2 hours to 25 hours on new aircraft. The FAA’s final rule aligns the U.S. with international safety standards and reflects years of NTSB safety recs. More data = better investigations = safer skies."

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

Wow, NBC edited out the audience booing JD Vance at the Olympics. And this is one of the few remaining news outlets NOT owned by right-wing billionaire Trump sycophants

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Things used to matter once. People dreamed of uniting the Arabs, of "Awakening" the Arabs into modernity. They did thousands of coups for all this. Hundreds of massacres. Dozens of wars.

The Baath, Nasserists and Commies burned Iraq for 2 decades. Hafez rolled into the Golans once.

L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas X.com You all started it and we fucking finished it. &i Ted Cruz • @tedcruz• 18h A brazen abuse of power & an insult to democracy. 47% of VA voted Trump. They will now get just 9% of

I love how National R’s are learning the lesson and name of Senator Louise Lucas that Youngkin learned over the course of his term.

I kinda think that anyone who has “gerontocracy Dems bad” arguments needs to wrestle with the spectacular legislative effectiveness of Lucas.

Reporter: The WH says a staffer sent that video. Are you going to fire the staffer?

Trump: No. I looked at it. I didn’t see the whole thing. I gave it to the people, they posted it.

Reporter: Are you going to apologize?

Trump: No, I didn’t make a mistake. It was a take off The Lion King.

Reporter: Will you apologize for that racist video?

Trump: *walks away*

Trump is seeking to undermine British and European democracy and anyone who takes the money and does his bidding should be called out fir what they are

The UK's political order may collapse over this Epstein stuff and the US is just shrugging this shit off like it's any given Tuesday because it is now the country equivalent of the guy who goes into Walmart without a shirt on

Facing high Trump tariffs, Africa's leading economy says it's close to a new trade deal with China China and South Africa have signed a framework agreement for a new trade deal. It shows how Africa’s leading economy is looking for other options following the high U.S. import tariffs imposed on it b...

The major flaw with the claim that Trump's foreign policy is "realist" is the fact that it is so deeply ideological. There is no "realist" case for driving South Africa into China's embrace, rather than competing for its partnership. The only reason Trump is doing so is based on racist memes.

The loyalty test has been initiated:
(1) Who wd go and bow.
(2) Who wd go but wdn't bow.
(3) Who wdn't go.

Reminder: in US, elex are a state matter - not fed matter. Trump/FBI/etc have no authority over state elex officials.

Kind of fascinating how China hawks and the UK Right seems unable to process that if it is to his advantage Trump will sell them out over and over again without blinking

Now I reckon Trump declaring mid-term results to be illegitimate and sending in goons to violently disrupt Congress after mid-terms does not end well for him. But he is surrounded by courtiers who would be desperate and deluded enough to talk him into it unless the work is put in to head them off

I'm old enough to remember when columnists claimed that Bessent was the adult in the room

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.

What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...

"Could it happen here?"

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this.

There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.

Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

And again, Trump hasn't got the resources to undermine the mid-term elections in themselves, but he definitely has enough DHS goons and fanatical grass roots loyalists to swarm into Washington and disrupt the swearing in of a Dem-controlled Congress in January 2027

Pet Iguana Assumed He’d Move Out Of Starter Tank By Now

Pet Iguana Assumed He’d Move Out Of Starter Tank By Now https://theonion.com/pet-iguana-assumed-hed-move-out-of-starter-tank-by-now/

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