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⚡️️ 80% of Ukrainians back strikes on Russian refineries even if US cuts support, poll shows.

I really hope that European states are waking to the reality that they are on their own with Ukraine--with Canadian help. The US is now their enemy and China is not their friend. They desperately tried to pretend this was not the case, but the time for illusions must be over.

Guardian and ITN have ‘duty to public and sources’ to publish sexual allegations against well-known figure, court hears www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I think it's endlessly "funny" how hostile these rich brunchlords all are to the humanities when they'd avoid so many rakes if they just had a few on staff educating them on what it means to actually be human

Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

Great piece by @kschake.bsky.social, laying out the immorality & the stupidity of the Trump administration's policy of weakening Ukraine (& the rest of Europe) while strengthening Putin's Russia.

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I know there's a lot going on, but "pillaging and plundering foreign countries for their natural resources" seems like it should be making more headlines.

It is reported that Jared Kushner, the arriviste son-in-law of Donald Trump, was paid $50 million by the UAE in 2017/2018 to get former Sec of State Tillerson fired. (He was indeed fired.) A good reason for Europe to refuse to engage with Kushner's "diplomacy" ❌❌❌ newrepublic.com/post/217201/...

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

And so is stunning win for democracy in Brazil. Whatever junk they try will only strengthen the Resistance. Over 34M have voted early . Keep at it folks !

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🇮🇷❗️Iranian-backed militias carried out a precision strike last month, hitting the pumping stations of Saudi Arabia’s most important oil pipeline. Days later, another attack hit a Saudi military air base, damaging an Italian fighter jet inside a hangar, - AP

Trump: "We're celebrating the greatest oil victory in history. To the victor belong the spoils, right? Thanks to our big victory in our recent war with Venezuela ... "

Maybe in 65 years we’ll have a Brazilian-American Secretary of State trying to overthrow the Brazilian government

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

Nobody is going to call it Super Intelligence any more than they're going to stop calling it Lake Ontario. It's not super intelligence. It's not even as good as a human at most tasks.

The Trump administration is exploring a new concession to Russia: lifting sanctions on the country’s flagship government investment fund, long viewed by U.S. officials as one of the Kremlin’s most powerful tools of international influence. - NYT

Every Ukraine backer who argued Trump would not be so bad, Trump could be persuaded to back Ukraine, that Trump was getting irritated with Putin, that the US just wanted peace--should have the basic decency to admit that they made it all up. Trump was with Putin, always.

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

The Alexander Yakovenko who told a fellow diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees, and they will not rise for a very long time.”? See fascinating article by @peterjukes.bsky.social and work by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social in bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

weird that both candidates have the exact same message on this lol

Audi’s CEO drew heavy criticism for appearing alongside US President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Georgia, with the head ‌of Germany's top union saying it violated the automaker's company guidelines reut.rs/4zdZlj0

Dragging this into the light...in light of Brazil.

This gibbering moron's political rhetoric is a fourth-grader standing at the edge of an elementary school blacktop yelling the first shard of juvenilia that floats into his head. And he is the President of the United States. We are so debased before the world.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

"Off the record" to hundreds of people while you are mic'd, recorded, and livestreamed. Donald is so stupid. And it's creepy to have a rapist leering at people's bodies.

This is straight Klan stuff. He's talking like a badly xeroxed neo-Nazi flyer someone stuffed in your mailbox back in 1975.

⚡️ President Zelenskyy proposed three alternatives to US partners to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries: an energy truce, Starlink access over Russian ballistic launch sites, or additional Patriot missiles. The US rejected all three, prompting a sharp reaction from Kyiv.

Norway: "I didn't get the Nobel Prize so I don't want anybody from Norway. I don't want anything to do with Norway…Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually."

“The defense department has now granted SpaceX access to its most precise data on potential collisions among satellites and other space objects, which will give Musk’s companies an advantage over competition that offers a similar service.” www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

First Musk said he did not disable Starlink for Ukraine. Now he's confessing to disabling it but says he was justified in doing so. Congress, if you can hear me, we need hearings when Dems take over. www.cnn.com/2026/10/25/e...

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

This is the kind of deal the Democrats need to investigate immediately if they take Congress. An oil deal in Alaska which actually might be a gift to the Russians with Trump involvement. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

⚡️ Poland accused social media giants of acting as "silent allies" to Russian intelligence by failing to curb Kremlin bot networks. united24media.com/world/social...

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

🚨BREAKING: Ukraine says the Starlink satellite system and its military version Starshield are again operating at high ​speeds after over a week of restrictions that disrupted military ‌operations. Problems with Elon Musk's SpaceX-owned systems came after Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel.

Seizing Elon Musk's assets and trying him for treason would not be the first time in history when enemies of America from among the wealthy saw their fortunes confiscated.

If there were a Nobel Prize for corruption...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney points out that Elon Musk crippling Starshield for Ukrainian defenders is resulting in direct casualties because more russian attacks are getting through. Musk and Trump have destroyed the reputation of the United States. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...