"Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit." James Madison, Federalist No. 51.

In this powerful monologue, Joe Scarborough proves that Trump and his cronies acting as cheerleaders for putin are no different from the Nazi sympathisers of the 1930s. It’s a chilling, crystal-clear wake-up call about what happens when leaders trade American democracy for a dictator's favour. Joe Scarborough: “… just peeling what putin has had a collection of useful idiots across America do now for the past five years. I really I really don't say this often in American politics. but when you're defending vladimir putin, an ex KGB agent who is committing war crimes by the day, I'm not sure how you sleep at night. And this phenomenon though, has historical parallels. It was 89 years ago this month in October 1937, that the former king of England walked up the steps of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria. The Duke of Windsor had given up the throne less than a year earlier, but he toured German factories, inspected the SS and was photographed greeting the Führer. Time Magazine reported that Hitler gave the Duke a Nazi salute as they parted and Edward returned that Nazi salute. Later he told friends that Britain shouldn't fight Hitler, the war should not start. Winston Churchill had to actually send him to the Bahamas to keep him away from his new friend in Berlin. But the Duke wasn't alone, just like Donald Trump isn't alone. Here at home, Charles Lindbergh, an American hero who accepted the medal of freedom from Hermann Goering in 1938, went on to lead America First. And in a 1941 speech in Des Moines, he blamed Jews and the British for pushing America toward war. Even FDR's US Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, predicted democracy is finished in England. His appeasement and his lack of moral alarm cost Kennedy his job. In Britain, aristocrats like the Astors and Lord Halifax thought Hitler was a man they could do business with. Does that sound familiar? Sounded so respectable, trade, stability, money, peace in our time. History remembers them now as morally vacuous opportunists who looked at a tyrant who was devouring his neighbours, the only thing they saw, a business partner. The parallels with Trump are too on point. Now on Friday, Donald Trump got on the phone with vladimir putin who always plays him when they get on the phone and what happened? He lifted sanctions on the Russian diesel deal, he did it three weeks after Republicans had forced him to sign a Russia sanctions bill in honour of Lindsey Graham. The White House says his gift to putin will lower prices at the pump, but it won't. The first shipment is only about 2.2 million barrels and America burns through more than that every day. It's not going to lower gas prices in America. But it will help putin kill innocence in Ukraine, a country Trump has always hated. Trump's four billion dollar gift to the man he kowtows to every day will buy missiles, drones, and glide bombs that will keep terrorising and killing Ukrainians who are fighting for their country's freedom and their children's lives and yes, our freedom. A bipartisan group of senators including Susan Collins wrote in a statement Sunday that the United States should not provide putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. But Trump's aping of putin’s talking points, they just keep getting worse. With this weak president attacking Ukrainian freedom fighters and perversely calling for new leadership in Kyiv. We do need new leadership, Mr. President, but not in Ukraine. Donald, I've known you a long time and I know you don't read history, so let me tell you how this story ends. The Duke of Windsor ended up a footnote, a cautionary tale in a fancy suit forever assigned to the dustbin of British history. And your time to finally do the right thing in Ukraine, Mr. President, it's running out. Stop bowing down to putin. And start doing your job. 1/2

Escribe @alandete que Estados Unidos quiere un gabinete en Venezuela con “un perfil mucho más técnico” y menos vinculado al aparato político de Maduro. Esto significaría, evidentemente, la salida e muchos sujetos con poder en los Ministerios y otros entes. Tiene lógica, sin duda alguna, pero va a enfrentar los problemas básicos de la barbarie chavista: no hay gente “técnica”. Ningún chavista lo es. Tendrán que buscar perfiles externos y la mayoría no trabajaría para la tiranía, como ya quedó claro cuando sustituyeron al presidente del BCV. Esto lo saben bien los inversores, por eso instan a la administración Trump a avanzar en la tercera fase del plan de Rubio y a tratar con quien sí tiene un proyecto e país, un equipo técnico y, en definitiva, quien lidera a los venezolanos. Veremos cómo la inelecta maneja todo esto mientras, además, entrega a otros miembros del sistema al cual ella ha pertenecido durante tres décadas. Cuando el turno sea para Mikel Moreno, Tareck El Aissami y otros criminales allí mencionados, veremos qué excusa pondrá, pues estos no son colombianos como Saab y Pulido Vargas.

Tuve una llamada con la presidenta de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, para abordar la cooperación entre nuestros países, iniciar el apoyo a su plan Vuelta a la Patria, así como coordinar los procesos de expulsión del Perú de ciudadanos venezolanos indocumentados. Nuestros cancilleres ya vienen coordinando los protocolos necesarios para concretar estos procesos por vía aérea, de manera ordenada y segura. Agradecí la disposición del Gobierno venezolano para colaborar con el Perú.

The plot thickens. My original assessment might have been correct after all. I find this nauseating. The Telegraph is now reporting that Elon Musk personally approached Trump with a proposal to restrict Ukraine's Starshield connectivity. One source claims that Trump agreed, after which the Pentagon implemented the restrictions. This follows Reuters reporting yesterday that the order originated inside the White House. Both Trump and Musk have denied responsibility. The consequences for Ukraine have been significant. Ukrainian forces reported disruptions to drone operations, including interceptor drones used to defend against Russian Shahed attacks. Although some connectivity has been restored, the 160 km/h speed restriction remains in place, seriously affecting Ukraine's ability to intercept faster Russian drones. If The Telegraph's reporting is accurate, then Musk, whose company supplies critical military communications infrastructure to Ukraine and the U.S. Department of Defense, proposed restricting that capability, and the president agreed. All this took place while Trump was pressuring Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, even though Ukrainian officials have stated that Starshield is not used for those attacks. This warrants a congressional investigation into who initiated the decision, why it was made, whether the operational consequences were assessed, and what role Musk played in the process. It also reinforces my broader concern about the reliability of American military technology and the degree to which our allies can depend on it. If access to critical military systems can be curtailed without warning for political purposes, the implications extend well beyond Ukraine. This has serious ramifications for the entire defense sector. And if Musk was indeed instrumental in initiating these restrictions, his role as a major American defense contractor deserves particularly close scrutiny. If substantiated, this would demonstrate that he cannot be trusted with such responsibilities. Furthermore, his actions may have contributed to civilian deaths by undermining Ukraine's ability to intercept Russian attacks, and the continuing restrictions place more innocent lives at risk. If these reports are accurate, Trump and Musk knowingly advanced Putin's military interests at Ukraine's expense. That may not meet the legal definition of treason, but for all intents and purposes, it is a betrayal at the most fundamental level. They are both traitors.

Es vergonzoso lo que Trump ha logrado: conseguir que la derecha califique de «presidenta» a una figura ilegítima de extrema izquierda, alguien que jamás ha ganado una elección. Al llamarla así, se están burlando del pueblo venezolano.

Jorgito es inocente. Bravo, MAGAzuela. Lo están haciendo de lo más bien. #sarcasmo

For years, Trump and his gang (Musk, Sacks, Bessent et al) have been leading a campaign to rehabilitate and normalize terror state Russia and dictator Putin on the world stage. It's always been about money. Not peace, not US interests. Ukraine is an annoying obstacle to profits.

MAGA influencers had a meltdown over a fake Talarico "scandal" but will be completely silent over this very real Ken Paxton one.

Scandals this week in the Texas senate race: Ken Paxton on video with his latest mistress partying in Dubai with a wanted fugitive who committed over $300 million in health care fraud and gave $190K to Paxton. James Talarico stayed home to recover from the flu.

Kimberly Guilfoyle commits a crime in broad daylight but they conduct a pre-election raid relative to paperwork filed when Omar was a child. We all see what's happening here. And it's not going to scare people into silence. It's going to cause more people to vote.

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski with the absolute truth: “We appreciate President Trump’s involvement in trying to end the Russia Ukraine war. But in Poland, we believe that it will bear fruit if you put pressure on the aggressor and not on the victim of the aggressor.” x.com/clashreport/status/210…

“If you want to win, don’t buy oil from russia.” Do you know who said these words? The greatest hypocrite in the US history - Donald J. Trump. Trump repeatedly condemned European countries for buying russian oil, accusing them of financing russia’s war. And now - he is doing it himself. Here is a compilation of Trump’s own statements from 2025.

The House speaker’s wife runs a ministry for Hill staffers. Its funding is a mystery. Kelly Johnson's faith-based counsel services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors. washingtonpost.com/politics/…

Trump is lying. The WSJ reported that China has been shipping drone and missile components to Iran and provided satellite imagery used in an Iranian strike that killed three American troops. The Washington Post reported that Russia provided Iran with intelligence on the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft to help target American forces.

Ukraine blew up three buildings in Russia and a bunch of American Reddit arguments stopped mid-sentence. The buildings were Yandex data centers in Vladimir and Kaluga. Yandex is basically Russia's Google. Its network collapsed twice after the strikes, and Kommersant reported the fried servers could take up to six months to fix. Then people started checking Reddit. Several big US political subreddits lost a huge chunk of their activity within hours. One analysis found an Irish politics sub down as much as 80% in traffic tied to a single data center. German subs dropped too. Now for the honest caveat. This is correlation. Real Russian users lost internet too, and a regular guy in Moscow going offline looks exactly like a troll farm going offline in raw traffic data. If the numbers bounce back in a week as operations reroute through VPNs, the story shrinks. But one detail keeps nagging at me. Russia's digital development minister went to the Defense Ministry on Monday to talk about protecting Yandex's data centers. You don't ask the army to guard a search engine unless something more important than search runs inside it. And think about how hard this normally is to prove. Reddit spent a year investigating the Internet Research Agency and banned 944 accounts back in 2018, and that took a special counsel investigation on top of the platform's own work. A power outage did the same job in one morning, by accident.

🚨 BREAKING: Zelensky confirms Ukraine received no intelligence from its partners last night Since last evening, Russian forces have attacked Ukraine with more than 100 weapons, including jet-powered drones, loitering munitions and ballistic missiles. A significant number were intercepted, but unfortunately not all of them, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. In particular, Russia launched what Zelensky described as a particularly treacherous ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, with five missiles striking civilian infrastructure. “Unfortunately, there was no warning from our partners about this attack,” the Ukrainian president stressed. Intelligence on Russian ballistic missile launches is crucial for saving lives. Zelensky also noted that Ukraine had refrained from striking Russian oil refineries for two days following Trump's announcement of an energy ceasefire. Russia, meanwhile, continues to bomb civilians.

The center-right cannot condemn authoritarianism in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela while excusing it in El Salvador. Our commitment to democracy cannot depend on the ideology of the autocrat. Bukele’s security gains are real. The dangerous leap is to conclude that dismantling democracy was necessary to achieve them. This is the Bukele trap, and its appeal now extends even to Costa Rica. Here is my new article for the @idualliance monthly newsletter: “The Bukele Trap: The Authoritarian Temptation Facing Latin America’s Right.” forum.idu.org/media/01a130a1…

Fill the government with barbarians, you get barbaric government washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

En espacios físicos y mapas de planificación local de la entrega de los CLAP, los vecinos a contarse para recibir la asignación eran llamados "electores"; .los puntos rojos junto a centros de votación se usaron para su distribución y su cobertura variaba en tiempos de elecciones