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Forge slave at Culinary Institute of America. Some things that slumber should never be awoken. Sketchy and kind of organized. Still largely on the other hellsite.
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An agency head finally said no. And when DOGE threatened employees and security guards they said no again. “No” might’ve stopped DOGE completely.

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway will more than double its financial pledge to Ukraine this year while also hiking its own defence spending, - Reuters ❗️The government and opposition leaders agreed to raise this year's Ukraine funding to $7.83 billion.

Supporting Putin over Ukraine is a position with single digit support limited to the most fringe of far-right freaks, and it is the official policy of the United States because that's who controls the government.

Стівен Пайфер був послом США в Україні з 1998 по 2000 рік.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss the Russian shadow fleet: a network of ships that operate in secret, dodge sanctions, smuggle oil, and undermine the security of Europe’s seas while keeping Putin’s war machine running. 1/15

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

Ukrainian Warriors Prove Gepard’s Power Against russian-iranian Shahed Drones "It works perfectly against Shaheds and even against missiles. We have shot down four missiles and 28 Shaheds," en.defence-ua.com/news/ukraini...

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Eutelsat, the owner of OneWeb, a satellite rival to Starlink, said today that it was “actively collaborating with European institutions and business partners,” adding that it had equipment that could be “deployed swiftly in Ukraine to connect the most critical missions and infrastructures.”

Important: Commission plan ‘Rearm Europe’ will not require unanimity. Hungary and Slovakia cannot block it on their own ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Europe’s disarmed state is … (also) an advantage ✅… IF we use it right - by stepping up, NOW, to arm ourselves, for the ST, MT & LT future in a smart way ❌not slowly spending a fortune trying to replace US capabilities & arming ourselves to fight the last war, not the next one. 🧵

Double-empathy problem: Because autistic and non-autistic people experience the world and express emotions differently, it can be difficult for autistic and non-autistic people to experience cognitive empathy for one another, which can cause misunderstandings. reframingautism.org.au/miltons-doub...

Or to put it another way (using words short enough that I understand them), any European plan that treats conflict as a *future* problem is already out of date.

❗️“Anyone who cannot admit that Russia attacked Ukraine should not be helping to make decisions about our national security,” Senator Tammy Duckworth commented on the response of the candidate for the position

“Any deal that allows Russia once again to avoid defeat would be a betrayal of the Ukrainians, a win for the Russians, and a blunder by the United States.” My latest. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ukra...

Europe, not assholes.

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

❗️🇺🇸🙏 The US has stopped selling (!) weapons to Ukraine: even those companies that were supposed to transfer them to us tomorrow are waiting because there is no decision, — People's Deputy Roman Kostenko.

❗️ The US opposes the use of the wording "aggressor" in relation to Russia in the new G7 communique, — Financial Times

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested during Huntington Beach City Council meeting www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

The 'useful idiot' classifications for your information 1. The Seeker 2. The Utopian 3. The Power Worshiper 4. The Relativist 5. The Stability - Fetishist 6. The Nostalgist unherd.com/2018/06/six-...