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Read this. Then read it again.

1. A blockade is an act of war

2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨

3. It’s always about oil.

If you lose Fox News on basic human decency, you’re not leading. You’re rotting.

Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."

Voting for more hepatitis B, which is a leading cause of cancer worldwide is peak MAHA / MAGA self own right now.

ICE detained an asylum seeker with no deportation order who had just had a C-section, has Type 1 diabetes, and whose newborn was in the NICU, without giving her any medical care, a breast pump, anything. What is the point of this

How Online Radicalisation Works: What the New X Study Reveals About Cambridge Analytica, the IRA, and the Dark Triad Machine The debate is over. A major new experiment show how effective Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions with hostile, anti-democratic content online

For nearly a decade, sceptics have dismissed allegations that Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Prigozhin’s troll farms successfully intervened in the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election in 2016 - now the argument is over

pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...

All of this becomes a lot easier to understand if we stop thinking of Trump, Witkoff, Putin, and Dmitriev as political leaders of opposing powers and instead think of them as leaders of competing but friendly mafia families dividing up territory and clout. Looking at the deal they concluded and the rhetoric emanating from both camps, it’s not too hard to get into that mindset. Nothing about this deal would ensure peace over the long (or even medium) term. Instead, this is merely a breather, offering Russia the chance to consolidate its gains and bide its time until it can attack again while the US, and more importantly, those in Trump’s immediate circles, have a chance to profit from doing business with Russia.

Garry Kasparov on the Ukraine "piece" plan.

www.thenextmove.org/p/diplomacy-...

DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order Read more here.

Here is Democracy Docket's excellent write-up:
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Kalshi Is a Corruption Time Bomb—and Congress Is Sitting on It A platform that lets insiders (and legislators) gamble on their own behavior is a threat to democracy.

A member of Congress could literally bet on their own vote and profit 10x. A White House aide could bet on a tariff decision before it’s announced. Theres ZERO oversight. This isn’t innovation, it’s legalized insider trading on democracy itself. Ban Kalshi politics
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Fuck DOGE and fuck Elon Musk.

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.

Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders

All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

Why AP is standing for your right to speak freely The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.

Must-read: "Letting the government control which journalists can cover the highest office in the land and setting rules about what those journalists can say or write is a direct attempt to undercut the First Amendment."

"It should worry all of us." apnews.com/article/asso...

Such a small, petty, insecure loser. The Trump admin didn’t trust this drunken fool anywhere near the Ukraine negotiations so they sent the Sec of the Army instead. So this clown needs to play more stupid games.

It's somewhat amusing that you can pass yourself off as a Russia expert commenting on this "peace deal" as messy but at least "a way to end the war" without realising Kremlin sees it as just a tactic to continue it later.

It will end nothing.

What Europe should do about a bad Ukraine deal Donald Trump’s 28-point plan to end the fighting in Ukraine would be a dream outcome for the Kremlin. Here is how Europeans can ensure it does not become their continent’s nightmare.

“28 steps… to the next war…In short, it would erect a giant, eastwards-facing “come back soon” sign over the entire country.”

ecfr.eu/article/what...

Deep Dive: Trump’s Political Prosecutions Are Faltering, but Not Over Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

“I can’t think of a remotely close parallel to a situation where the president of the United States basically demanded publicly that his Justice Department prosecute people who he dislikes for political reasons.” It’s a situation virtually unprecedented in U.S. history.

MAGA Nation is an account based in the EU. Dark MAGA is an account based in Thailand. Joined from UK.

MAGA Scope is an account based in Nigeria. The MAGA Beacon is an account based in South Asia.

Spetsna 007 is an account based in France, joined from Nigeria. Mary Tiles Texas is an account based in Russia.

Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin.

He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S.

Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed.

Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.

An really important thing a lot of people don't realize about Trump is that he doesn't bully people he doesn't think he can bully.

Extraordinary sign of life for the rule of law.

Dilanian also writes: "[T]he probe is focused on whether the mortgage fraud investigations of Sen. Adam Schiff and possibly New York Attorney General Letitia James have been tainted by the investigative methods allegedly used by Pulte and Martin."

Drafting a "peace plan" with Putin and then telling the Ukrainians to accept it is not mediation. It's acting as an agent for the Kremlin. Trump's and Witkoff's efforts to appease Putin are deeply disappointing. I was fooled into thinking Trump had finally figured Putin out. Looks like I was wrong

Judge Boasberg to resume contempt proceedings over Alien Enemies Act deportations Boasberg said he intends to receive testimony from a DOJ attorney who was fired in April and has since accused his superiors of flouting court orders related to the deportation flights.

MAGA DOJ is desperate to block this inquiry into MAGA misconduct. Like they don’t have enough troubles with Patel jets, Halligan screw-ups, and Epstein files.

As Judge Boasberg proceeds, watch for more MAGA threats and pressure.

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Cool cool cool so are you going to answer the question, or...?

WTF

Trump's comments on Jamal Khashoggi are fucking nuts.

A lot of people didn’t like the Washington Post journalist who was tortured and dismembered with a bone saw for writing critically about the man sitting next to me