Olga Lautman 🇺🇦

Lolol. The visit by Dmitriev, Putin’s messenger, to the U.S. seemed to be such a failure that Russia deployed its bots to boast how wonderful it was. Such desperation by Russia

He did manage to meet loonie Rep Luna and hand her chocolates and Putin propaganda. Pathetic

Paul Manafort: The Kremlin’s Man Inside Trump’s 2016 Campaign Chapter 14 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

Check out @julieroginsky.bsky.social and my latest chapter on how Russia attacked the 2016 election to help Trump win.
This week, we focus on Russia's inside man: Paul Manafort

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The Billionaires Behind the Throne And the danger of a billionaire’s $130 million donation to pay U.S. troops

So this week, we crossed another dangerous line as the United States slipped further into a system where power is concentrated in wealth and loyalty networks, information is controlled from the top, and the boundary between private patronage and public governance continues to dissolve. My latest…

Why the Netherlands No Longer Trusts U.S. Intelligence Because of Trump Last week, something significant happened that should alarm every American.

Dutch intelligence recently started scaling back intelligence sharing with the US over concerns of Trump’s increasingly autocratic actions.

My latest…

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 272-273 October 18-19, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 272-273 Weekend Roundup

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Trump’s nominee, Paul Ingrassia, to head Office of Special Counsel and accused of sexual harassment.

But we can’t call them Nazis because legacy media insists that’s divisive and escalatory.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Russia's Trump Tower Election Dangle Chapter 13 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

Check out the latest chapter on how Russia attacked the US election in 2016 to help Trump win…

This was at the Capitol

So someone had a call with Rep Dave Taylor’s staffer and this was in the background. 🤦🏼‍♀️😡 www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"Little Green Men" Spotted Near Estonia As Russia’s Continues to Escalate Against NATO

My latest on Russia's escalating aggressions across Europe

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 267 October 13, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 267

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 265-266 October 11-12, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 265-266

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 264 October 10, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 264

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Russia targets Ukraine's power grid as Moscow expresses 'extreme concern' over long-range U.S. weapons Kyiv regional Governor Mykola Kalashnyk said two employees of Ukraine’s largest private energy company were wounded in the strikes. Ukraine’s Energy Ministry also said that infrastructure was also tar...

Russia attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight, part of an ongoing campaign to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter, and expressed “extreme concern” over the U.S. potentially providing Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine.
https://to.pbs.org/3IHxT8p

This was the DOJ criminal case. Remember when we had a DOJ 🤦🏼‍♀️ www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Erdogan*

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261 October 7, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261

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Stephen Miller, CNN, and the ‘Plenary Authority’ That Got Buried While Trump continues to flood the zone with chaos and deliberate distractions, and as the National Guard prepares to occupy more cities, something deeply revealing slipped from the mouth of his most ...

A few days ago, fascist Miller gave an interview to CNN and said “Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority. Has—” Then he went silent.

But guess what? Not only did they not push back after a supposed “technical glitch” but the edited version removed that section

Trump-appointed prosecutor seeks indictment of New York AG Letitia James: Sources A Trump-appointed prosecutor has presented evidence to a grand jury seeking an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, sources tell ABC News.

Welcome to Russia

Exactly what happens there

abcnews.go.com/US/trump-app...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Censorship has fully arrived. In the latest, Apple banned an app that archived ICE abuses for legal evidence

Every single day, censorship gets stronger as media and corporations bend to serve the regime

Stephen Miller, CNN, and the ‘Plenary Authority’ That Got Buried While Trump continues to flood the zone with chaos and deliberate distractions, and as the National Guard prepares to occupy more cities, something deeply revealing slipped from the mouth of his most ...

A few days ago, fascist Miller gave an interview to CNN and said “Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority. Has—” Then he went silent.

But guess what? Not only did they not push back after a supposed “technical glitch” but the edited version removed that section

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 260 October 6, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 260

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The Dangerous Precedent Behind Johnson’s Refusal to Seat Adelita Grijalva On September 10, Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva won her Arizona special election, and nearly a month later, Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.

Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is more than the Epstein files, and a dangerous test of whether election results still guarantee representation. My latest

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Kremlin Chapter 11 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

Check out Julie and my latest chapter of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 US election to help Trump win.

This week we dive into the role Cambridge Analytica and Facebook played

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 258-259 October 4-5, 2025

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 258-259

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 257 October 3, 2025

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Slight correction "election" updates. It's a rigged election by the Kremlin-owned party