FT confirms the existence of a highly leveraged Kremlin influence operation designed to insure the re-election of Viktor Orbán in Budapest. Orbán remains key to Putin's realization of his plans to collapse NATO and the EU. www.ft.com/content/34df...
FT: Most of the serious damage to the world economy is already done. Even an early exit to the war will make little difference. There is one big winner for this war, and that's Vladimir Putin. www.ft.com/content/b9c7...
Shadows of the next war: after Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and Greenland, a land invasion of Mexico?
Trump appears actually not to know that the US has a positive trade balance with Spain, which means that cutting off trade hits US manufacturers and farmers, not Spanish producers. bsky.app/profile/theb...
They won’t for long. Monopolies will be broken up. Ppl will be subpoenaed about payoffs. You will be fined into oblivion. We will create new networks owned by the people. There are more of us than there are of them!
GOP-run counties subsist off a federal funding drip. They are the country's leading mouchers
In Moscow, persistent report of failed mobile internet service are now routinely linked to rumors of a military coup against Putin. www.kommersant.ru/doc/8496065
The Kremlin gets exactly what it wants.
Close business partners and insiders of Trump and Kushner.
Massie votes with Trump 92% of the time. Which for Trump is not good enough. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Politico is recapping Pro Publica's reporting here, but it's essential stuff. Hegseth gutted the Pentagon offices that would have investigated the strike on an Iranian girls’ school. The Civilian Protection Center went from 200 employees to 20, with only 1 left investigating civilian casualties
“This is how wars get lost. You enter with no strategy, unforeseen events intrude, and the Logic of War takes over. Napoleon and Hitler did not want to fight the wars they ultimately lost, but one thing led to the other. They succumbed to the logic of war.” - Eurointelligence
"Two military officials said there was concern that the Pentagon did not have full clarity on all of Iran’s launch sites. The officials also said that Iran had kept many missiles in reserve to strike at important battlefield targets like the American radars....
Look- we need to get behind Ossoff. We need to keep this seat- it won’t be just skeeting that’s gonna get him over the top… he needs donations. Even if everybody sends five bucks.
BTW “progressives”🙄🙄🙄 you’re full of shit when you say you want an effective communicator to represent you. If this were true you’d be supporting Raphael
Warnock, Jon Ossoff, Lauren Underwood& Pete Buttigieg. Oh right you only think an eighty year old legislative failure from
Vermont is okay.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reporting that another $1 trillion was added to the federal deficit in the first five months of the year…
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Good-a little bit of an ideal what it will feel like when they land in prison!
I called- while waiting to go into an operating room. Can you call today please!
Look at this photo carefully.
Mikaeil Mirdoraghi. Third grade.
Waving goodbye to his mother before school.
She, and he, thought he'd be coming home.
That school is now rubble.
Mikaeil is gone.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
His name should be remembered.
F*ck the demons who killed him.
Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see
Not great when the only people in the free world who believe and trust Vladimir Putin’s word on critical things despite all evidence to the contrary are currently running the government of the United States.
Yeah- we all voted for Armageddon. Sure Satan!
He’s not playing chess literally. He’s not playing chess figuratively. He’s not playing chess on any level of abstraction whatsoever. I doubt he can play chess.
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social has not ruled out additional funding for #IranWar.
Please tell me I'm having a nightmare.
How about we give him one.
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A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
You can use this meme again tomorrow.
Everything is maybe slightly worse than we said it was going to be.
Anyone paying attention could have seen this coming a million miles away.
