Once again, I am personally convinced that the only right way to deal with this administration is a firm, confident, calm, and utterly non-negotiable “no.” And to calmly, methodically call things by their names in public. We call betrayal betrayal, lies lies, and truth truth. Let him rage and spew whatever vile, lying curses and threats he wants, foaming at the mouth if he likes. If he thinks it will be easier to bully Ukraine into committing suicide for the sake of his own absurd whims of the moment and his itchy little hands, he is deeply mistaken. All that sickening groveling, crawling on our knees, and kissing his ass only makes him climb onto our heads, try to solve his problems at our expense, and go on pleasing his idol in the Kremlin. Ukraine has the extraordinary heroism of its soldiers, Europe, basic common sense, and American public opinion on its side. And has no cards in his deranged attempt to collude with the Kremlin.

Ukraine evidence hub is an organization documenting Russian war crimes. Give them a follow, as their work now more valuable than ever.

Americký karikaturista Jeffrey Koterba má jasno. A každý normální člověk taky.

James Talarico: “We’ve all been focused on the wrong 1%. You heard a lot about trans people in this race, they’re 1% of the population. You’ve heard about Muslims in this race from Republicans, they’re 1% of the population. Even undocumented immigrants are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1% because the only minority destroying America is the billionaire class and it’s time that we tax them, make them pay their fair share so we can invest in education and healthcare”

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Everyone should see this. Everything trump does in his administration is beginning to make a lot more sense...

Well-known Ukrainian military aerial reconnaissance specialist Oleksandr "Serg Marco" Karpiuk writes on Facebook: "...Starlink is a civilian communications system. And SpaceX is responsible for its civilian use. Standard Starlink terminals currently have a default speed limit of 22 m/s. To enable flight at speeds above 22 m/s, Ukraine signed contracts for Starshield, which is overseen by the Pentagon. This is already a military system, with Starlink terminals that offer greater functionality, although the accounts are considerably more expensive. And it was the Pentagon that did two things in a single day: restricted intelligence sharing and changed the parameters of Starshield accounts. This was a decision by the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth. Clearly on Trump's orders...." Maybe this is the key to understanding what exactly happened.

RT @IlhanMN: I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years,…

A golden statue of Donald Trump titled "The Orange Plague", depicting him naked and riding on another man’s shoulders, will be on display this week at the European Parliament’s headquarters.

As the HSBC whistleblower, I need to say something about whistleblower Simon Andriesz. @SAndriesz raised concerns at BGC Partners and was fired. He reported to the FBI in 2020 and 2021 that he believed Howard Lutnick had undeclared business ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Nothing happened. He took it to Congress. He spent years trying to get anyone to listen. He took his own life. He was 57. I spoke with Simon through Whistleblowers of America @WhistleP2P. He was serious and careful and worn down from being ignored. Now his case is in every headline, covered with an intensity he never saw while he was alive. That is the pattern, and I want to name it. We marginalize whistleblowers while they are breathing and discover them when they are dead. I know what Simon was carrying, because I carried it too. In 2012 I found out that HSBC would pay a fine and not one banker would go to prison. I had lost my job, my savings, and every door in my industry. I was living in a 300 square foot apartment with a Flemish Giant rabbit who had the run of the place. I had decided I was done. Right as I was about to do it, she hopped over to me. I thought: who is going to feed the rabbit? That question stopped me. Years later I named my company Tactical Rabbit. People think it is a clever brand. It is the reason I am alive. Here is what I want people to understand about how whistleblowers die. Simon's death was a suicide. I am not saying otherwise. But I have lived through what gets aimed at a person who exposes the powerful, and I will not pretend it is a coincidence when one of us does not make it. After HSBC I faced external threats from the same cartels and terrorist networks whose money I had reported. On top of that came the harassment, the bullying, the targeting, the psychological warfare that is designed to isolate you and make you doubt your own mind. It is not a side effect. It is the strategy. Its purpose is to break the person so the facts never matter. Sometimes it works. A lot of whistleblowers do not survive it. I nearly did not. So when I say the campaigns against whistleblowers are a kind of killing, I do not mean it literally, but I mean it. The people who run them know exactly what they are doing to a human being, and it should be treated as the crime it is. This is why I serve on the board of Whistleblowers of America. Everyone else focuses on the case. Whistleblowers of America on the person: the trauma, the mental pain, the years after the headline when the phone stops ringing. If you are a whistleblower reading this, or you are sitting on something and deciding whether to speak, hear me clearly. It gets dark. It also gets better. There are people who care about you and will stand beside you, and I am one of them. Reach out to me. Reach out to Whistleblowers of America. Reach out to anyone. Do not carry it alone. Simon, I am sorry the world listened too late. Rest in peace.

That’s about 20 Epstein whistleblowers who have now ‘died by suicide’. Absolutely nothing suspicious about that at all…

Robert De Niro: “Every day there’s a new atrocity adding to the climate of outrage and sorrow. Unspeakable cruelty, unprecedented corruption, blatant disregard for human life and humanity, malignant narcissism, the lies, the stupidity. As horrific as all that is, his hoarding of the Epstein Files is its own category of evil. The abuse of children is a crime that belongs in the lowest circle of hell reviled only by the vermin who protect them. They sicken me. The 3.5M files in the Trump-Epstein Bookmobile tell only half the story. One man is standing in the way of releasing the rest: Donald Trump”

A private jet flew Romanian politicians, judges, state-company executives and businessmen to Mykonos to meet unnamed US investors. 3 months later, their identities hidden. The flight has triggered a Senate inquiry and separate Judicial Inspection checks.

乌克兰最近把一架相对完好迫降的俄军最新型“天竺葵-4”（Geran-4）无人机，当场大卸八块。 拆完之后，桌上摆着的零件，呈现出一个既荒谬又无比现实的真相： 整架号称打得乌克兰防空防不胜防的喷气大杀器，除了最外面的机壳和总装螺丝是俄罗斯自己拧的， 里面所有的关键器官，几乎全是从外面运进来的。 先看动力。 过去老款天竺葵-2用的是活塞螺旋桨，飞起来像拖拉机一样嗡嗡响，时速不到两百公里，乌克兰机动防空队开着皮卡架挺机枪就能拦截。 但这次拆开天竺葵-4，机腹里塞的是一台微型涡喷发动机。 飞行高度直接从四千米拔到了八千米，是老款的两倍； 巡航时速干到了四百五十到五百公里，甚至还能更快。 这玩意儿已经能从克里米亚起飞，一口气狂奔七百多公里，直接扎进乌克兰西北部的卢茨克。 谁造的？ 拆开一看，中国产的微型涡喷。有些虽然标着俄罗斯组装，核心组件也全是中国货。 再看眼睛。 头部装了一套光电转塔，白昼、夜视、红外三合一。 十倍光学变焦，加三十二倍数码变焦。 八千米的高空往下看，地面车辆的轮廓一清二楚。 它根本不需要前线侦察兵冒死指引。操纵员哪怕坐在几百公里外的布良斯克、奥廖尔或者克里米亚的后方工位上，只要链路连着，就能像玩模拟器一样实时遥控它扑向目标。 那实时信号怎么传？ 专家从机身里抠出了两个普通的 GSM 模块，上面插着民用电话卡。 更离奇的是，现场技术人员在这些残骸里，不仅翻出了俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的 SIM 卡，甚至还找到了乌克兰本土运营商、以及欧盟国家的流量卡。 无人机只要一过境，直接蹭乌克兰本地民用基站的网络，把自己的实时位置往回传。 万一飞进没有手机信号的荒郊野岭呢？ 它还有备手。 拆解人员从里面掏出了一块来自中国的自组网 Mesh 调制解调器，通信半径三百公里。 几架天竺葵在空中编队飞，彼此之间能自动互相当中继，你传给我、我传给后方，直接在天上搭出一套无中心的移动局域网，几百公里外的视频画面照样掐不断。 最后拆到最值钱的机载电脑飞控板。 刮开主板上的涂层，芯片上的丝印虽然被磨去了一半，但剩下的英文字母依然清晰可辨： Texas Instruments——美国德州仪器。 现场专家给了一句很冷酷的总结： “这架飞机上真正属于俄罗斯制造的，就只有复合材料的机身外壳，以及最后的总装车间。” 这些零件最后运到鞑靼斯坦的阿拉布加（Alabuga）特区，工人们把壳子一合、螺丝一拧，就成了前线每天夜里呼啸而过的精确打击武器。 而根据乌克兰军情局的评估，像阿拉布加这样的工厂，现在每个月能量产大概三千架天竺葵-4和天竺葵-5。 打了四年多，制裁令签了一叠又一叠，结果最前沿的致命武器内部，流淌的依然是全球供应链的血液： 动力与通信来自成熟民用货架，核心控制芯片来自美国转道走私，连定位回传都在蹭对手基站的 SIM 卡。 这才是现代战争里最棘手的现实： 威权体制根本不需要在温室里从头研发一套自给自足的军工帝国。 只要民用消费级工业品在全球随处可买，只要洗钱通道和转口贸易依然处处漏风， 他们就能用极低的成本，把全世界的民用技术拼装成工业级的杀人工厂。 如果外部世界的制裁只盯着军品清单打补丁，却堵不住庞大的双用途灰色管涌， 这种廉价而致命的涡喷蜂群，在流水线上就很难真正停下来。 x.com/RFERL/status/210336387…

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the UN Security Council: 🗣 "To the representatives of the Russian Federation, I have this to say: You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over twelve years and Kyiv for over four. You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine, a country with one-tenth of Russia's GDP. But Poland has almost half of your GDP. Europe has 10 times your GDP. NATO has 25 times your GDP. You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don't endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia's future. Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: 'enough is enough.' Thank you."

Iran President Pezeshkian at the UN: "Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists." "For two hundred years, Iran has not attacked any country. For two hundred years, we have always defended ourselves." "They bombed and killed these children, with weapons supplied by America and Israel. They were guilty of nothing. They had committed no crime." "In Gaza, they murdered more than eighty thousand innocent people." "Then they say others are terrorists, these are the ones causing instability -- are we the ones causing instability?" "Anyone they want to destroy, they label a terrorist." "Palestine remains a wound on the body of the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent the suffering of civilians." "Israel murders thousands of people in Gaza every week. But Iran was bombed while at the negotiating table." "Yet Israel receives billions of dollars in free weapons as a reward, and it is licensed to bomb any capital it wishes." "The nuclear bombs are in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, yet Iran is sanctioned, and this is a tragedy that would make anyone you tell laugh." "We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, sanctions replace diplomacy, terror replaces politics, and war replaces dialogue." "We have found our answer. We need power. Because a nation that cannot defend itself, they crush it in this world." "Let him know: the Iranian nation, in the face of force, will not bow its head, and will make the aggressors regret it."

Leigh McGowan @IAmPoliticsGirl says it how it is and always hits the nail on the head! 🎯

This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined. Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels. Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion. Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times. In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere: “How many combines are available in Europe?” “Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.” “I’ll take them all.” Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers. He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him: “Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.” Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center. “$14 million.” “Okay. And what do you expect in return?” “Nothing. Build it.” Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients. But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics. It is food: 642 million meals. And that is only part of it: * 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks; * 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories; * Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding. “I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says. He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson. Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world. I simply want to thank him and wish him well. Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine. He simply chose to help. Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.

Good question…