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"If you are going through hell, keep going."
~Churchill
"If your voice held no power, they wouldn't try to silence you."
~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg
#NoKingsInAmerica
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🔥 It’s been confirmed that Ukraine’s Defence Forces reportedly struck the 75th Arsenal in Serpukhov, near Moscow.
The facility is used to store, repair and restore air defence systems, including Buk and S-300 systems.
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This will, ironically, make it easier for the Democrats to clean house in 2029. They can simply say that anyone who was hired this way was promoted through an illegal process, and void its outcomes as invalid ab initio. By doing this illegally, the Trumpists are effectively enabling the Democrats to identify and perfectly legally remove their appointees without having to resort to illegal partisan criteria to do so.
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
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I big shoutout goes out to 27 year-old St. Paul man, Ebro Ahmed, who saw a school bus rolling by with its door open.
He saw a bus with 18 middle schoolers aboard, ran & jumped into the moving bus, engaged the emergency brake, & stopped the bus. The driver had a medical emergency
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Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling on Trump telling Camp Lejeune victims there’s “no money” unless Republicans win the midterms:
“For the president to say, ‘If I don’t get elected, we’re just not going to pay it’ — that’s extortion… I just find it despicable.”
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russia sentenced a 68-year-old Ukrainian woman to 12.5 years in prison. Now she may not survive captivity.
Halyna Bekhter weighs just 50 kg at 176 cm. She can barely move, cannot care for herself, and is being transferred to an unknown destination. Her cellmate fears she won’t survive the journey.
Her alleged crime? Donating to Ukraine’s army.
The world must not look away.
#FreeUkrainianPOWs
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I firmly believe that a super-majority of Americans are profoundly exhausted of a politics that promotes the worst of us...the most cruel, the most crass, the most debased.
"America cannot be great if it is not good" is not a cliché.
It's destiny.
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The Russians tortured 500 people in Bucha.
The Russians tortured children in Bucha.
The Russians tortured dogs in Bucha.
The Russians killed animals in Bucha.
In Bucha, the Russians used military vehicles to hunt people—turning it into a game.
People ran, the Russians fired, they hunted them down, playing games.
And this didn’t just happen in Bucha.
Trump and his mafia gang call this "humanitarian."
What do you call it?
Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.
When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?
From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)
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During a trip to Venezuela in September, I found people hoping for change, but shocked and surprised by US policy. The system looks, one economist told me, like “a coalition of two kleptocracies"
theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Dozens of people with registration in Crimea, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics are being held at Russia's Krasnodar airport after arriving from abroad.
Since this morning, after passport control they have been sent for additional checks. Passports were taken and people were placed in a room with no explanation. They've been waiting for over 10 hours. It is reported that some of them have been questioned but still not allowed to leave.
Technically, those people have Russian passports and Russia should consider them full-right citizens. But it doesn't.
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Yesterday, Ukrainian defenders killed or seriously wounded 2,250 russian invaders. This is a one-day record since fascist russia invaded Crimea and started the war 12 years and 8 months ago.
The enemy suffers personnel losses in battle much greater than the replacement rate.
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Zelenskyy: Dozens of Russian soldiers took Crimea, with 3 million people, without a fight. Hundreds of thousands failed to take Kyiv, also 3 million, because people fought back.
Putin saw Crimea fall so easily and thought Kyiv would go the same way. 1/
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“Save me and have mercy on my tormentors, O Lord.”
77-year-old Crimean activist Anatolii Ananyev has been sentenced to 18 years in a russian prison over an alleged plot to assassinate the russian-installed head of occupied Crimea.
He is seriously ill. His health deteriorated in detention, where human rights defenders reported he was denied medical care.
After russia occupied Crimea, he moved to Kyiv. In November 2023, he returned to Kerch to visit his parents’ graves.
He called any prison sentence a death sentence.
Yet in his final statement, he prayed for the very people who imprisoned him:
“They have already punished themselves — they have lost their honour and conscience.”
A 77-year-old man showed more humanity towards his tormentors than the system that condemned him ever showed towards him.
russian occupation is not peace.
#FreeUkrainianPOWs
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Whether or not Pavel is right on the specifics here, giving Russia an economic boost when they're struggling at the front and Moscow and St. Pete are burning nightly certainly didn't add more pressure on Putin to make a deal...
Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel.
vist.ly/5pf23
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Greg Abbott is still approving data centers in Texas despite his election year “pause.”
That’s Abbott’s playbook: he sells us out and then lies about it.
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Blatantly illegal. Rubio needs to be hauled in front of Congress when we finally get a Congress. washingtonsun.com/administra…
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Yesterday's Trump rally in SC had 34 hecklers. It was 1 heckler for each felony conviction.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump and World Liberty Financial have been sued over claims the president illegally profited from his office, per Bloomberg.
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Trump wants the attacks on Russian oil refineries stopped. This comes just as Bloomberg’s figures show how much damage Ukraine is doing to the industry that helps fund Putin’s war.
THE STRIKE RATE
Bloomberg calculates that Ukrainian drones have attacked Russian refineries at least 114 times since the start of 2026. That is more than double the number in the same period last year. Refinery processing has fallen to its lowest level in years. Fuel shortages have followed, and Moscow has restricted exports of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
A single spectacular fire followed by a return to business as usual misses what happens here. Ukraine is hitting facilities again while operators are trying to bring them back online. Every interruption costs time, money and output.
ROSNEFT’S REPAIR SPIRAL
In September, strikes damaged five of Rosneft’s 15 refineries in European Russia. Ryazan was hit repeatedly as the company tried to restart it. Syzran has spent much of the past six months either shut down or operating below a third of capacity. The Tuapse refinery on the Black Sea has been closed since April.
Rosneft representatives have acknowledged internally that the cost of constant repairs cannot be sustained indefinitely, according to Bloomberg’s reporting. Some work that should take days is being stretched over weeks. Sanctions compound the problem. Replacement parts must be sourced domestically or from China, can take months to arrive and do not always fit the equipment they are meant to repair.
THE BALANCE SHEET
Rosneft’s first-half net profit fell by nearly a fifth to 200 billion rubles, about $2.4 billion. By the end of June, its net debt-to-EBITDA ratio had reached 1.8, the highest in quarterly reports dating back to 2020. Bloomberg also reports signs of distress at Credit Bank of Moscow, a lender associated by market participants and officials with Rosneft chief Igor Sechin’s sphere of influence: it has $8 billion in non-performing loans.
Trump’s proposed halt would come at the precise point when repeated Ukrainian strikes are turning refinery damage into a sustained operational and financial burden. The burning Ryazan refinery in the archive footage is one visible episode of that campaign. The numbers tell the larger story.