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Ukraine war briefing: Poland scrambles planes to secure airspace as Russia targets western Ukraine

🇮🇱🇺🇦🇺🇸 Israel has transferred Patriot systems, which were previously in service with the Israeli army, to Ukraine, — Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Brodsky 🗣️ "Patriot systems, which we once received from the US, are now in Ukraine. These are Israeli systems that were in service in the early 1990s.."

The last few nights in Ukraine.

⚡️Ukraine shoots down nearly 500 drones, missiles in Russian record strike, Air Force says. Ukraine had reportedly neutralized 479 Russian drones and missiles, with 292 shot down, and 187 jammed or lost via electronic warfare.

Again? Again. Russian planes are in the air and on their way to bomb Ukraine. After unleashing almost 500 drones and missiles on Ukraine just last night. Too bad we couldn't destroy all of them. Please keep Ukraine in your thoughts tonight.

If Trump cared about democracy he would help Ukraine.

Earlier Trump refused to transfer 20,000 missiles to Ukraine to fight the Shahed drones raining down on civilians. The United States and Ukraine had already agreed on the transfer when Trump decided to skirt the deal after his conversation with Putin. These scenes are Trump and Putin's fault.

We feed you. They hunt us.

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

This is a superb speech by @governor.ca.gov just now. Clear. Strong. Simple. Direct. Angry—in a way that appeals to the best in people, not the worst. Seven plus minutes of the most effective rhetoric in response to Trump. This is how you want a leader to talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=linJ...

My latest on two maps telling you the real deal of the status of the way in Ukraine realcontextnews.com/the-two-maps...

Hegseth appears all too willing to put troops in a situation they should not be in, where they risk becoming political pawns in the administration’s attempt to foment a crisis that will enable the president to assert even greater executive power. bit.ly/4jGDpnS

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Posting this because literally the first 2 Roman civil wars setting up the death of the Roman Republic involved major legal violations deploying the military domestically for political purposes in internal political disputes. Absolutely not healthy realcontextnews.com/caesar-the-p...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

Dear readers! My official comeback announcement and my mea culpa on my 2024 coverage realcontextnews.com/a-comeback-a...

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Dear readers! My official comeback announcement and my mea culpa on my 2024 coverage realcontextnews.com/a-comeback-a...

Ukrainian MiG-29 crew nails a Russian troop concentration with ammo in the South using a precise AASM Hammer drop.

This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.

Posting this for no particular reason... youtu.be/hmRbPtmUQ2o?...

Re-upping this “One First” post from April asking—and trying to answer—five questions about the domestic use of the military:

Just going to point out here that John Adams defended the soldiers and got them acquitted in the name of the rule of law - which he then supported as a leader of the revolution.

Shame on us. Shame.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Within a few hours of Harvard's motion for a new temporary restraining order, judge grants the temporary restraining order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Would be a pity if someone told Trump about this.

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship