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When I read these words I read them with a different oligarch in mind. "Crush all vipers" is our resistance call! #crushtheviper #alexanderskobov
Alexander Skobov’s closing statement at the trial. He is a Russian journalist opposing Putin's tyranny set to die in Russian gulag.
Source: Grani.Ru (Facebook), 15 January 2025. Translated by Thomas Campbell (aka the Russian Reader). 🧡
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So this story is super duper interesting for a whole ton of reasons, but one big one is its a very rare glimpse into the private valuation of high-end exploits held by major defense contractors

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Peter Williams, A former executive with US defense contractor L3Harris has pleaded guilty to selling digital spy tools to a Russian broker, the Justice Department announced. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets reut.rs/49o7Q0I
What worries me is that hunger will bring people on the streets, in much bigger numbers than 8 million. And hangry is a real thing. I am worried that it is hard to think and control emotions when one's kids are hungry and that is what the regime is waiting for.
Just like any other dictator (Bibi, and Putin are obvious examples) Trump needs a war to keep power when hungry angry people start walking the streets. Venezuela and Colombia are easy targets.
If the shut down continues for another month it might just be a catalyst that breaks the current federal state tax system and causes states to stop contributing to the federal budget.
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
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Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."
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btw the white house isn't the only thing these guys are destroying, they want to chop up the Smithsonian's space shuttle so they can let it rot in a Texas museum

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The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces
"You'd be doing irreparable damage."
www.space.com
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
If it turns out that Trump indeed is suffering dementia are all the executive actions and pardons he signed still valid? The same question goes for any other president.
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10th boat blown up in the Caribbean.

6 people dead this time.

Not a single arrest made.

Not an ounce recovered.

Not a shred of evidence provided.
Two years ago was October 7th, 2023.
WATCH: β€œA MASTER PLAN”

Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for β€˜TWO YEARSβ€™πŸ€”

(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is β€œnot a lot of money”! πŸ’°πŸ™ƒ)

PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
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Melania Trump has brought a frivilous SLAPP lawsuit against Trump biographer Michaelf Wolff.

So he has let her know he will be suboenaing Trumps for depositions under oath.

You know the porn model immigrant turned absent-First Lady won't be down for that!

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFilea
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Breaking News: Democratic lawmakers in Virginia plan to redraw congressional maps, hoping to hand their party two or three more House seats.
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Hey fellow people with strong (some might say inflexible but I just call that being consistent 😀) senses of justice and honesty!

Just wanted to say that I see you. Being in this level of distress all the damn time is exhausting. It's wrecking my health too.

I'm also not ok, and that's ok. ❀️
I have been trying to express this sentiment. Thank you @patrickiber.bsky.social for the words.
I think the thing that is hitting me most about the destruction of the East Wing of the White House is that it is the most physical manifestation of the fact that nobody who could stop him is stopping Trump from indulging his autocratic whims
At least not until the power in the US is out of the hands of those who are in the pockets of Putin.
Ukrainians are clever. I would not be surprised if such accolades have not already been thrown at Trump. If Trump is not taking the bait of eternal glory through victory over Russia whatever Putin has in his files must be huge. And what this means for Ukraine is that there is no West to count on. 🧡
Tell him that they did not have balls to do it but Trump can in one fell swoop without loss of any American life. And tell him, send him videos, photos of Ukrainians wanting to build the world's largest statue in gold of Trump following such victory. 🧡
Now, what might overcome Trump's covering his hide instincts could be his ego. So what might work is pandering showing him videos of power of use of the US weapons and telling him how he has the power to do what no one could do before him. Toss Biden and Obama on and say they were weak. 🧡