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More stories about Trump helping Putin by blocking a Congressional vote on sanctions. One quibble--Trump is not "vacillating" on the question.

He is rock-solid and in Putin's camp.

Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study Research suggests more than 75,000 killed in the first 16 months of conflict, 25,000 more than announced at the time

More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced at the time.

Research published in the Lancet also found that Gaza health ministry reporting about numbers of women, children + elderly among those killed was accurate.

Side point: it is literally Andrew Windsor’s birthday!

I suspect this is not designed to be a solution but to keep turning the screw on Musk.

Starmer: “Today…we are putting social media companies on notice to take down any non-consensual intimate images within 48 hours.”

Zelensky is choosing his words carefully. The glaring truth is that Trump is impatient ‘to end the war’ so he and his cronies can start benefiting from any deal they strike with Putin. Trump doesn’t give a flying f*** about Ukraine or Ukrainians.

It's just mad. GB News launched June 2021 and RT were finally shut down in Feb 2022 but for a long time there have been big links between the Chandlers / Legatum who founded it, and Putin.

GBNews is a replacement for RT - this is them on Putin's invasion of Ukraine:

Two lambs jumping in the air, they are facing away with a brick wall in the background

When you realise it's still light outside at 5pm!

Photo: Justin Minns

Reform UK (REFUK) voters when they see this clip 👇

(Cartoon by Paul Noth for The New Yorker, August 2016)
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Tice is a moral black hole, nothing says compassion like stealing money from the young starting out. It is all about filling his and his chums bank accounts, cutting their taxes and raiding our pockets.
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Nigel Farage unveils Reform UK frontbench team and warns over dissent Leader says move should end claims of one-man band and shows party is ‘creating a machine for government’

"We're not like other parties, and I won't tolerate disloyalty," says Farage, as he introduces a cabinet that is 50% disloyal people from another party.

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Just four years ago, Russia and its simps were frantically denying the obvious.

One person was killed + 10 injured in Ukraine during the night attack, which affected 12 regions.

The death came in Sumy region. A woman aged 68 died & four of her family, including two kids aged 7 and 15 were injured.

Two neighbours were also wounded in the attack on Kyrykivka.

Here is the man who's arguably head of the USSR/US combined delegation.

Agent Krasnov fulfilling orders, continuing to bully Ukraine despite the genocide being committed by his mate, indicted war criminal Putin.

The Russian delegation has arrived in Geneva for the two-day trilateral talks with Ukraine and the US.

I still think Zelenskyy and Europe should have insisted on having a European ally in the room, as the US is clearly Russia's ally.

It's Day 1455 of Russia's illegal, immoral and insane war on its peaceful neighbour.

Ahead of the so called peace talks in Geneva, Trump keeps heaping pressure on Ukraine, at exactly the same time as missiles hit Ukraine, killing civilians and hitting more power structures.

Here's Tuesday's daily🧵

@realDonald Trump The Reverend Jesse Jackson is Dead at 84. I knew him well, long before becoming President. He was a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and "street smarts." He was very gregarious - Someone who truly loved people! Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a Racist by the Scoundrels and Lunatics on the Radical Left, Democrats ALL, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way. I provided office space for him and his Rainbow Coalition, for years, in the Trump Building at 40 Wall Street; Responded to his request for help in getting CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM passed and signed, when no other President would even try; Single handedly pushed and passed long term funding for Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), which Jesse loved, but also, which other Presidents would not do; Responded to Jesse's support for Opportunity Zones, the single most successful economic development package yet approved for Black business men/women, and much more. Jesse was a force of nature like few others before him. He had much to do with the Election, without acknowledgment or credit, of Barack Hussein Obama, a man who Jesse could not stand. He loved his family greatly, and to them I send my deepest sympathies and condolences. Jesse will be missed! President DONALD J. TRUMP 4.25k ReTruths 19.1k Likes. 2/17/26, 2:28 PM

To literally nobody's surprise, the 'president' manages to make the obituary for Jesse Jackson
- all about himself
- spiteful,
- boasting,
- insulting, &
- partisan.

A very long text from a very small man whose biggest achievement are the dozen or so spelling & punctuation errors in one post.

Trump is, in effect, trying to force Ukraine’s capitulation and a ‘win’ for Putin. If anyone thinks this will bring peace (it won’t) then I recommend reading Carlo Masala’s “If Russia Wins” on the potential fallout. I hope Zelensky continues to stand firm and allies pull their finger out pdq.

Screenshot of CNN headline, today on its website: Former Ukrainian minister detained by anti-corruption authorities while trying to leave the country

Some will read this & think less of the Ukrainian govt. They should do the opposite. In every country there are individuals in power that break laws & fill their own pockets. If Ukraine while under attack can still uphold the law & hold them accountable, none of us have an excuse not to.

This isn't a purely philosophical or semantic argument about what "British" means.

Once you accept different tiers of British citizenship you gain a way to formally discriminate.

USSR documents famously had a "5th line" denoting ethnicity. Stalin's nationalist repressions used this as their basis.

Laila Cunningham, Reform UK was invited to speak at the Oxford Union about Churchill.

In her opening remarks she said “I didn’t go to Oxford … I didn’t read books … so I don’t come with facts, I don’t come with dates … I come with rhetoric”

Astonishingly it only got worse from there.

Palantir: too bad to be untrue.
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Reform want to undo Churchill’s greatest post-war achievment.

This is how we should be dealing with ECHR recalcitrants.

Complicated facts just don’t penetrate with Reform — they are immune to them.

We need to take the road of WWII nostalgia — this they understand.

It was infuriating to watch the commentary - because Rubio’s language was more ‘diplomatic’ compared to Vance’s (the previous year) it was viewed favourably, when in fact there was nothing in the words that suggested that anything had changed in the 🇺🇸administration’s stance.

Weekend Update #172: Is Ukraine Causing More Russian Losses Than Putin Can Replace? Rubio, Russia, Ukraine And The European Reaction: A Notable Ukrainian Reaction To Developments In The War

Free weekend update is out. The leading story is Ukrainian claims that for two months now Russian losses have significantly exceeded replacements. If that is happening, it will prove a major problem for the Russian military going forward. Armies rarely tread water. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

PM Tusk:

Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything.
The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.

So good. @kajakallas.bsky.social is all of us.

Zelenskyy taking a shot at Orban: “Even one Viktor can think about how to grow his belly, not how to grow his army to stop Russian tanks from returning to the streets of Budapest.”

Alexei Navalny died after being poisoned with dart frog toxin, UK and allies say The frog's poison is 200 times stronger than morphine, with Germany's foreign minister saying 'victims suffocate in agony'.

russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in Ecuadorian dart frogs, the UK and other allies have claimed.

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