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1 There can be no peace with russia.
2 We dont talk to a criminal who has committed crimes against humanity & of genocide.
3 Talking to a radical enemy who seeks normalization gives them a narrative advantage and ultimately weakens us.
4 It leads to dividing the Allies and damages reputation.
Period

Live Updates: Israel and Iran Trade Strikes as Conflict Enters 2nd Day

‘In private text messages shared with The New York Times, some officials were angrily asking one another, “Where is our air defense?” and “How can Israel come and attack anything it wants, kill our top commanders, and we are incapable of stopping it?”’
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Rep. Garbarino: Ending CISA mobile app security program for feds sends ‘wrong signal’ The chairman of the House Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity is apprehensive about the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to end a program that vets mobile apps for federal agencies.

Rep. Andrew Garbarino sent a letter to Kristi Noem today saying that now is the wrong time to cut the CISA's managed Mobile App Vetting (MAV) program, especially in light of Salt Typhoon. @timstarks.bsky.social has the scoop cyberscoop.com/rep-garbarin...

US intelligence employee arrested for alleged double-dealing of classified info The 28-year-old, who’d been employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency since 2019, specialized in insider threats and had top secret security clearance, officials said.

DIA insider threat specialist Nathan Laatsch arrested for allegedly leaking classified intel to a foreign government, seeking citizenship in return. #Espionage #InsiderThreat #NationalSecurity #DIA cyberscoop.com/dia-employee...

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By the way a military parade when we’re not celebrating a war victory is something a dude who never served would do.

Obvi

Russia: The fascists took urgent action to protect the public from imminent danger and stormed the home of {checks notes} ... 17-year old kid who posted a Putin Huylo meme online.
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia.

Russia shatters drone record, launches 472 UAVs at Ukraine night before Kyiv's strike on Russian airfields The mass aerial attack breaks Russia's previous record, set just last week on May 26, by over 100 drones.

After a long time of resisting the term, I think I am now ready to call this “a drone war”.

kyivindependent.com/russia-shatt...

Handelsblatt just wrote that
Trump’s Oval Office now looks like Versailles. A Versailles ordered on Temu.
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By the time we deliver Taurus, Ukraine will have used some duct tape and spare parts to build a fractional orbital bombardment system.

Opinion | Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war A drone attack damaged Russia’s bomber fleet — and exposed air base vulnerabilities worldwide.

If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese from doing the same with U.S. air bases? Or the Pakistanis with Indian air bases? Or the North Koreans with South Korean air bases? wapo.st/3Zag72z

“Neither RUS nor UKR has leveraged AI/ML #drones on the battlefield at scale as of June 25.Both are,however, increasingly integrating ML capabilities with limited AI adaptations into new drone variants on the path to developing fully AI-powered drones”

Very useful @thestudyofwar.bsky.social report

◾️ Shoot down Russian drones using Ukrainian drones

◾️ Destroy a helicopter from a naval drone

◾️ Destroy a fighter jet with a naval drone

◾️ Destroy strategic bombers with FPV drones

To be continued, I'm sure!

#SlavaUkraini!

I don’t find this convincing anymore because I don’t think that this US administration does in any way take Europe’s actions into consideration. They walk away if they feel like it, independently of Europe’s ability.

Take aways from PM Carney on the Golden Dome:

-He made a case for Cdn participation in ballistic missile defence, not only cruise or hypersonic.

-He noted that Canada will cooperate with the US when it serves Cdn interests --missile defence is an example.

WaPo homepage: National Protests She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, just let it all burn? Democrats are struggling to match the massive resistance movement that sprang up in Trump's first term - and battling cynicism among their own voters. • • (Kristen Zeis for The Post) D.C. rally draws tens of thousands as Trump protests held across U.S.

Quote from WaPo story: “In their permit application to the National Park Service, rally organizers said they anticipated a crowd of 10,000. By Friday night, though, the organizers said they expected at least 20,000. Saturday afternoon, they were guessing the crowd was five times as big as they predicted.”

Listen, I’m not saying this woman doesn’t exist, but running this big photo feature about a former Dem who’s become apathetic about politics on the day when hundreds of thousands of people are rallying nationwide is a choice

Kyiv is under Russian ballistic missile attack this early morning. Several large explosions just rocked the Ukrainian capital, moments after the air raid sirens sounded.

The Big Five - 6 April edition My regular update on global conflict. This week: a major Russian missile strike on Kyiv and other cities, peace negotiations, peacekeeping forces, and China's snap joint exercise around Taiwan.

My weekly update has just been published. It includes today's major Russian missile strike on #Kyiv and other cities, peace negotiations, peacekeeping forces, fighting on the eastern front in #Ukraine & China's snap joint exercise around Taiwan.
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-big-fi...

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

New Haven, CT! #HandsOff

Salt Lake City showed up

I think this is a brilliant framing of this issue. If the government can send people to a third world country to a lifetime of involuntary servitude, that is slavery. Query whether this meets the “jurisdiction” requirement of the 13th Amendment (the officials sending them are!)

Inspectors Say More Than 100 Chemical Weapons Sites Could Remain in Syria The number, far higher than any previous estimate, poses a test for the new government. Experts fear that sarin, chlorine and mustard gas stockpiles could be unsecured.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

Kyiv residents currently sheltering from a massive pre-dawn missile attack.

Ukraine's hands are now tied by a ceasefire that only Ukraine adheres to, Russians are again using the Black Sea to fire missiles onto Ukraine's cities.

The ceasefire has only been a gift to Russia.

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A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

4) Well over half of Americans expect the economy to deteriorate over the next year, again the highest figure ever recorded.

Halleluja!