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Isn’t This Illegal, Part 8792.

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— oh.

Tanking a 10+ year gaining economy in only 6 weeks has to be a record for any President

Anastasia, a 27-year-old Ukrainian captain of the 17th Motorized Brigade, is serving on the Kursk front. Trump and his administration betrayed her.

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

OTD in 2014 i denied the masked, armed men in Crimea were Russian soldiers. I lied. But you can believe me over a peace deal now.

I haven't even met Donald for negotiations and he's already given me everything I want.

BREAKING: Ontario’s terminating its $100-million deal with Starlink, and US companies will be barred from future contracts. They warned NY, Michigan, and Minnesota if the tariffs persist, Ontario will impose a 25% surcharge on electricity and may cut off the supply entirely.

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

I don't know who this guy is but he's absolute right.

A brilliant Banksy.

January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice.

L - Eric Trump tells people to “buy the dips” on crypto. R - A couple days later, Trump makes his crypto announcement. How much time did the media spend on Hunter Biden? I read more articles about Biden’s shoes than this blatant and obvious corruption.

Chris Murphy: "Let's remember- congressional Republicans held up Ukraine aid for over 6 months, allowed for Russia to go on the offensive. So even before Donald Trump was president, congressional Republicans were not doing the things necessary to support the most vital fight in defense of democracy"

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

Chris Murphy: "Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule and get to steal from regular Americans."

It took six weeks to get here

How to deal with fascists 101.

apnews.com/article/russ... Ukraine's Zelenskyy says end of war with Russia is 'very, very far away'

1. Money laundering 2. Corruption 3. Nazism 4. Minority oppression Why are they doing everything they accused Ukraine of doing

So let me see if I have this right - hundreds of thousands are getting/have been laid off, the economy is about to nosedive from tariffs, a measles outbreak is currently spreading with bird flu waiting in the wings, and now he wants to blow up the farm industry? And this is going to make us great?

The U.S. is drafting a plan to ease some sanctions on Russia. The White House has tasked the State Dept. & Treasury with identifying sanctions that could be lifted. Talks with Russian officials may take place soon, including potential relief for some oligarchs. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

It's not shocking, but it's still heartbreaking

This is oh so Soviet. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Exactly #traitortrump #impeachtrump

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

Water supply of strategic Baltic island Gotland was sabotaged last night. Someone broke into the pump controls and destroyed them. The pumps serve a large part of Gotland (pop 61k) and had it gone unnoticed could have left all island without water. Security services are notified. Water is ok.

Great news for money launderers!

This is sketchy as hell

www.bushcenter.org/publications...

Another strong woman speaks the TRUTH…

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

It seems Moscow's quite pleased with how the last few days have gone. Today's Russian papers: · “Russia can't conceal its malicious pleasure…” · “The Western system is crashing like a house of cards.” · Kremlin “New US foreign policy configurations largely aligned with Russia’s” #ReadingRussia

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

Or asking for a “thank you.”

“I don't want to be overly dramatic, but we could be looking at the last days of NATO,” - Admiral James Stavridis, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.

Putin has signed a law ratifying the security treaty with Belarus. Russia can now officially deploy military bases and troops in Belarus and use nuclear weapons to defend the "Union State," even in response to conventional attacks.

But top spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that there is still “a long way to go” in improving bilateral relations between the U.S. and Russia.

Russian drone hit another public bus in Kherson, while it was at a bus stop, according to Ukrainian authorities. One woman dead, 10 more people injured. Russia consciously and consistently targets Ukrainian civilians in its terror campaign.

It's not clear whether Elon really wants to stop the spending. He came in dressed the wrong way to address these issues…

Sure, sure. on.ft.com/3FbtZlK Putin ally pushes deal to restart Nord Stream 2 with US backing