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[Ferrika💚 @Ferika0409]

Felix dichtet! Wie niedlich! Und wat er 'n Spass hat :-)

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

We do not need to restore the West. We need to defend it...

We do not need to restore the West. Our society has not collapsed. We are stronger than ever, and it is that strength that allows us to endure adversity and continue to prosper.

There are two invasions. The first comes with tanks, aircraft and drones advancing from the east, held back by Ukraine. A nation that has survived against all odds and continues to resist an adversary many times its size. But Ukraine cannot hold forever, nor should it be expected to. We must do everything within our power to assist and reinforce its defence with resources, personnel, equipment and arms.

We owe Ukraine a debt that cannot be measured in money or weapons alone. Its people have fought a war they did not ask for, defending not only their own sovereignty but the security of Europe and global democracy. They should never have been left to bear so much of that burden alone. For that, we all owe them an apology.

The second invasion is not at our borders. It is not being carried out by immigrants or foreigners whose cultures, religions or traditions differ from our own. It is at our fingertips.

It comes through the devices we carry every day, through digital platforms weaponized by oligarchs and hostile states seeking to weaken, divide and ultimately subjugate our societies and make fools of our men and slaves of our women and children.

Through fear, these actors manipulate the masses, particularly our youth and our men. Through fabricated images, videos and narratives, they exploit the psychologically vulnerable, the socially isolated and those who struggle to distinguish truth from deception. They convince people to fear their neighbours, hate and have contempt towards women, distrust their governments and turn against their own communities. It creates traitors out of patriots, and sinners out of the righteous.

They transform ordinary citizens into unwitting instruments of information warfare, spreading the disease of disinformation to everyone around them, often without realizing that they have become part of the machinery being used against their own society, to attack their own nation.

The objective is not simply to make people believe lies. It is to destroy their ability to trust one another, distinguish fact from fiction and recognise the institutions and communities that hold their societies together. It allows them to commit arson, rape, theft and mass murder without remorse, convinced that their actions are justified, their victims are enemies and their crimes are acts of righteousness.

A population consumed by fear and suspicion becomes easier to divide, manipulate and control. A society that can no longer agree on what is real becomes increasingly incapable of recognising the threats against it, let alone defending itself. Its enemies no longer need to cross its borders when they can turn its own citizens against one another.

We do not have the answer to how we bring back those who have been lost to this manipulation, yet. I do not know how we reach people who have become so consumed by fabricated realities that they can no longer recognise the humanity of their own neighbours.

I refuse to believe they are beyond our reach, but until we understand how to reach them, we must also recognise the danger they can pose to others and take the necessary steps to protect ourselves, our communities and our institutions.

For those who remain, who refuse to surrender their judgment to fear, who continue to recognise the humanity in their neighbours and the strength of their communities, we must endure. We must not allow fear to dictate our actions. We must not permit those who seek to divide us to determine our future. And we must never mistake the deliberate manufacture of social disorder for evidence that our civilization has failed.

Our societies are not perfect, and our institutions must be subject to scrutiny, accountability and reform. But their failures do not erase what generations before us have built, defended and sacrificed for. Nor do they justify surrendering the rights, freedoms and institutions they fought to establish to oligarchs and hostile powers seeking to dismantle them.

We do not need to restore a civilization that has not fallen. We need to recognise the value of what we already have, understand the forces seeking to undermine it and stand together to defend what generations before us fought to build.

We are not a collapsing civilization waiting to be saved. We are a society worth defending.

Stay calm. Stay smart. Stay strong.

[Bonnie Boden @designergirla]

Occupy Democrats
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BREAKING: PANIC! Trump is DESPERATELY trying to stop Jack Smith from testifying in his own $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.

Donald Trump sued the BBC for defamation, asking for a whopping $10 billion in damages. Now, he’s panicking about the one witness who might actually know something about the behavior that led the British broadcaster to publish what it did.

According to The New Republic, the BBC subpoenaed former special counsel Jack Smith to testify as part of its defense against Trump’s defamation suit. The suit claims the network defamed him with deceptive editing in a 2024 documentary about the January 6 Capitol attack.
Trump’s lawyers filed a motion Friday to block the deposition, arguing that “Smith lacks any personal knowledge regarding the issues in this matter.”
Their reasoning: Smith wasn’t at the January 6 speech, didn’t help prepare it, and can’t know what Trump was thinking. They say anything he gathered was “secondhand knowledge” from materials collected from other sources.

The BBC’s lawyers weren’t impressed. They wrote that “none of [Trump]’s arguments for blocking the deposition of Mr. Smith can withstand scrutiny.” They noted that Smith himself doesn’t object to testifying, and that Trump still has to prove he “did not foment or incite the January 6 Capitol riot,” which he claims the documentary falsely implied.

Then came the line that says it all: “No one forced Plaintiff to file this lawsuit and to dispute that his speech on January 6 incited the violence that followed at the Capitol. But as long as he chooses to maintain the case, he cannot commit the fundamental injustice of preventing the BBC from obtaining the evidence it needs to robustly defend itself.”

This isn’t Trump’s only dodge. His attorneys are also fighting efforts to make Trump himself testify, to subpoena his children, and to look into his finances. Trump sued over what the BBC said about January 6, and now he’s fighting every attempt to examine what actually happened.

There’s another problem for him. The BBC is funded by British taxpayers, so Trump can’t bully it into a hefty settlement or force it to back off its coverage the way he has with some American media companies.

So now he has two choices: drop the case, or actually try to prove his point and live with the consequences.
If Trump really believes he did nothing wrong on January 6, a deposition should be no problem. His lawyers’ desperation suggests otherwise.

Please like and share if you can’t wait to hear what Jack Smith has to say if the BBC successfully gets him to testify!

[Julian Joswig MdB @JoswigJulian]

Von Januar bis September haben Katherina Reiche und ihre Staatssekretäre Energiekonzerne 37-mal getroffen. Umweltverbände einmal. Unternehmen der Erneuerbaren-Branche kein einziges Mal. Das hat eine kleine Anfrage von uns Grünen ergeben. Danke besonders an Micha Kellner.

[Martin RJ Ⓥ Fürholz @martinfuerholz]

Schönen guten Morgen! Die erste Version der #CoronaAmpel ist online, basierend auf den #AMELAG - Abwassermonitoring-Daten des @RKI, als Berechnungsgrundlage nutze ich die Modelle der Autoren der Studie von doi:10.1007/s10049-025-01520-9

Gerne bitte ich euch um Feedback hier im Thread. Es gibt im Moment noch ein paar Ecken und Kanten hier und da, die Inzidenzkalibrierung für die einzelnen Standorte fehlt noch komplett, daran arbeite ich gerade.

Sobald alle UI/UX-Kleinigkeiten behoben sind und die Inzidenzkalibrierung so weit ist, mache ich einen 'offiziellen' Post zum Launch:
https://t.co/rzikCkOJFb

#COVID #CovidCautious #COVID_19 #CoronaAmpel

[Catfella 📯 🇺🇦🤝🇩🇪🇨🇦 @SusanneM0905]

‼️ 🕊 Вітер змін. Перша ніч миру

❤️ Дякуємо легендарним Scorpions і Клаусу Майне за підтримку України, за вашу музику та віру в мир! 👇

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Trump openly lies that Zelenskyy “doesn’t care” about ending the war. He also lies that Russia is generously sending cheap diesel to the world. Russia is selling it under a deal Trump struck with Putin, after the US lifted sanctions to allow it.

Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia can stop the war any day by withdrawing. Ukraine can’t.

Breakdown of Trump lies⬇️

“I am in the process of negotiating Peace in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and don’t want to do anything that will drive, foolishly, Russia away from the bargaining table.”

Trump lied.

Trump’s own words give other reasons for going easy on Russia. Later in the same post he says that perhaps more importantly, Russia is doing very little to help Iran and he wants to keep it that way. Bloomberg reported that he waived the Russia energy tariffs because they were getting in the way of lowering diesel prices before the midterms. When he announced the diesel deal with Putin, he didn’t mention the war or sanctions and performatively called lower prices for farmers, ranchers and truckers his greatest priority, all the meanwhile being the culprit behind the increased prices.

He has shown no similar concern about driving Ukraine away. He said Kyiv "had better damn well stop" its refinery strikes and that Ukraine should replace its president, and Ukrainian officials say US counterparts warned that the US would cut off intelligence if the strikes continued. Russia, meanwhile, hit power plants in Ukraine within hours of Trump announcing his energy ceasefire.

"Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

Trump lied.

“Very little compared to what they could be doing” is a standard nobody can test. Moscow and Tehran have a deep military relationship. Russia’s air war on Ukrainian cities was built on Iranian-designed Shahed drones.

Read the sentence in context. Trump says he wants to keep Russia’s help to Iran limited and will, unless stupid people get in the way. That’s an admission that he’s going easy on Moscow over Ukraine to keep it quiet on Iran.

His own military has said otherwise. Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed Russia has been aiding Iran during the war, including expanded intelligence sharing and satellite imagery to help Tehran target US forces. Ukraine has said Russian satellites photographed Diego Garcia, Incirlik in Turkey, Al Udeid in Qatar and Saudi oil and gas fields, all of which Iran later attacked.

Russia was shipping TNT, ammunition and drone components to Iran across the Caspian Sea, helping it rebuild arsenals used up fighting the US and Israel. Moscow has also coached Tehran on drone use and electronic warfare, drawing on its experience in Ukraine. Eighteen American service members have been killed in the war. Trump knew this months prior, did nothing to protect service members.

“Farmers, ranchers, and businesses of all kinds are suffering greatly from this.”

Trump lied.

Ukrainian strikes forced Russia to ban diesel exports, which tightened global supply, but the main cause of record US diesel prices is the war with Iran. Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz after the first US and Israeli strikes in February, and shipping crude out of the Gulf now costs about $33 a barrel, up from about $2. NBC reported that Trump has tried to blame the Ukraine conflict for record diesel prices rather than his own war on Iran.

“Russia is, nevertheless, sending, at a low price, millions of barrels of diesel to the World.”

Trump lied.

Russia isn’t sending diesel out of goodwill. It is selling it under a deal Trump negotiated with Putin, after the Treasury licensed transactions in Russian diesel, including US imports, through April 2027. Russian industry experts had already been calling for the export ban to be lifted because Russia was losing profit. The shipments come to about ten days of US consumption and are expected to do little for prices. Trump provides nothing to back up “at a low price.”

“Zelenskyy doesn’t care.”

Trump lied.

On Oct. 11 Zelenskyy said Ukraine would stop striking Russian refineries if Russia stopped attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. He made the same offer in an ABC interview, asking Trump to tell Russia to stop hitting Ukraine’s grid. Trump announced his energy ceasefire after that interview aired, and Zelenskyy’s office learned of it from social media. Ukraine suspended its refinery strikes anyway and resumed them only after Russian missile and drone attacks broke the truce.

“He doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did.”

Trump lied.

Trump struck the diesel deal with Putin by phone while his envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner were meeting Ukrainian officials to discuss a plan to end the war. Ukraine was at the table with Trump’s own negotiators when he went around them to Moscow.

A senior CFR fellow said the deal came as a major shock to the Ukrainians, to European governments, and to members of Congress who thought Trump was being moved toward new sanctions on Russia. Zelenskyy later said the US-Russia agreements were made without informing Ukraine.

“With all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past…”

Trump lied.

Europe isn’t giving Zelenskyy money. Much of what it spends goes to US weapons makers, under a program Trump set up himself. In July 2025, Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte launched PURL, after the White House complained that Europe should carry more of the cost of Ukraine’s security. Under PURL, European allies and Canada buy US-made weapons, which are then sent to Ukraine. By July 2026, partners had put nearly $7 billion into it, and the program supplies 95% of Ukraine’s Patriot missiles.

The European money Trump is complaining about is going to American factories. He knows that because he arranged it. His administration has also reportedly threatened to shut PURL down to force Ukraine to stop hitting Russian refineries.

The Biden-era aid followed the same pattern. In 2023, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said as much as 90% of US security assistance for Ukraine was being spent in the United States, on new weapons or on replacing weapons sent from US stockpiles. Biden said nearly two-thirds of the 2024 Ukraine package would go to US industry, in states like Arizona, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas, where Patriots, Javelins and artillery shells are made.

“Giving him” is chosen to make the aid sound like cash in Zelenskyy’s pocket, and the rest of the sentence uses that to suggest he is dragging the war out for the money.

“His male population is low, wounded, and/or dead.”

Trump lied.

Ukraine’s losses are heavy, but the numbers don’t come close to what Trump describes. CSIS estimated in July 2026 that Ukrainian forces had lost between 525,000 and 625,000 killed, wounded or missing since February 2022. Former NATO commander Christopher Cavoli put Ukrainian deaths at about 150,000. In a country of roughly 36 million people, that is a terrible toll, but it is nowhere near a male population that is mostly wounded or dead.

Ukraine still fields one of the largest armies in Europe. Zelenskyy has said the armed forces total about 880,000, second in Europe only to Russia’s.

Ukraine does have a real manpower problem. The number of conscription-age men in the country fell from about 8.7 million before the invasion to roughly 5 million by early 2024, through death and emigration. Recruiting enough soldiers is a constant struggle. Trump turns that strain into a claim that Ukraine’s men are gone.

He also leaves out Russia’s losses, which are far worse. CSIS estimates Russian forces lost about 1.4 million killed, wounded or missing over the same period, more than twice Ukraine’s toll. Cavoli puts Russian deaths at about 450,000. Trump doesn’t say Russia’s male population is low, wounded or dead.

Trump has a record of inventing Ukrainian casualty figures. In January 2025 he claimed 700,000 Ukrainians had been killed, more than four times the estimate today.

“His oceans and seas are gone.”

Trump lied.

Ukraine still controls its Black Sea coast west of the occupied south, including Odesa, and its ports continue to export grain.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Since Europe is funding Ukraine and the US is not, Europe must take control of negotiations. Trump should not be dictating any terms when we pay the bill.

Let’s end the circus

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇪🇺🇬🇧 US betrayal will be good for the EU.

The EU rejected the US–Russia deal from day one, responding with more sanctions on Russia.

We have also rejected the war in Iran and refused to support it.

The London–Brussels axis is defeating Russia, marking the beginning of an independent European era.

A fully integrated Single Market and Military Union will mark the beginning of a new Europe.

The United States of Europe.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Imagine if Europe, in the days after 9/11, had cleared its throat and announced: We have struck a tremendous deal with Osama bin Laden. We have lifted the sanctions on his organization, so he is now free to trade on the open market and bankroll his war against the United States. Bush must step down. The man has no cards.

Has he even looked at his hand?

But no. Europe did nothing of the sort. Europe did not sit down with a mass murderer and come home gushing about what a strong and reasonable fellow he turned out to be.

Europe laced up its boots, flew to Afghanistan, stood shoulder to shoulder with the Americans and hunted that bearded wretch through every godforsaken mountain in the country, because that is what you do when a friend gets hit, and handing the attacker a shopping list while telling the victim to surrender is what you do when you have lost your mind.

[ULTRAKÆRL @ULTRAKAERL]

Früher war es beängstigend, wenn sich der amerikanische und der russische Präsident feindlich gegenüberstanden. Heute ist es noch beängstigender, dass die beiden zusammenarbeiten.

[Bertrand Redonnet @BRedonnet]

En 5 ans, ces deux scélérats ont fait plus de mal aux hommes, aux femmes, aux enfants, au bonheur de vivre, à la joie d'être sur terre, à la vie, que tous les autres hommes depuis 86 ans😡
Mais l'Histoire présentera l'addition.
La justice viendra.
Il ne peut en être autrement.

[Fred @FredKuehlkamp]

Liebe Bürger der USA, wenn ihr nicht möchtet, dass die komplette Weltordnung den Bach runter geht, dann geht jetzt alle auf die Straße. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Ihr habt den Verbrecher Trump gewählt und jetzt seht zu, dass er ganz schnell verschwindet. Rettet die Welt.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson unleashes a SCORCHING attack on Trump and his disgusting cozying up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's skin...

"I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is 2026, and sadly nothing is what it used to be," Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. "The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?"

"How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering?" he asked.

Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a stunning deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of diesel into the global markets, a move that will directly pump money into the Russian war machine. Then, he began a concerted smear campaign against President Zelenskyy and said that Putin is easier to deal with.

The backstabbing escalated when Washington failed to provide its usual early warning to Kyiv of an incoming Russian ballistic missile attack. Now, it appears that the White House ordered a temporary disruption of Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk's Starlink that the Ukrainian armed forces rely upon.

"The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily," wrote Branson. "How much worse can it get?"

"If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for," he continued. "All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus."

"Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes," Branson concluded.

We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy to Ukraine, an enemy to democracy, and an enemy to the American people. When Democrats retake power, we have our work cut out for us. Every last trace of this monstrous man's legacy must be erased.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is Putin's puppet!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

So, MAGA, let me make sure I understand the strategy.

Canada is the enemy. Europe is the enemy. Japan is the enemy. South Korea is the enemy. Australia and New Zealand are the enemy.

Russia is the friend.

You want to trade the richest, most technologically advanced alliance network on Earth, representing tens of trillions of dollars in economic power, for Russia.

You are trading a fleet of aircraft carriers for a rowboat.

You are trading North America, Europe and the advanced democracies of Asia-Pacific for Russia.

You are trading an economic and military network spanning three continents for one country with an economy comparable to a single small European state.

And this is supposed to make America stronger?
That is a big downgrade. But it is who you are.

[Ben 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇪🇺🌍 @twidderix]

R. Habeck spricht mir, Europa betreffend, mit jedem seiner Worte aus dem Herzen. Entweder rücken wir enger zusammen bis vielleicht in Zukunft zur USE oder wir werden, wie es bereits geschieht durch willfährige Gesellen wie AfD und BSW, durch andere Weltmächte filetiert!

[Andrea Opachi @OpachiAndrea]

Pacifinti del cazzo.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

First Trump stopped selling interceptor missiles to Ukraine.
Then Trump stopped providing early warning intel for incoming strikes.
Then Musk cut off Starlink.
The blood of those dead Ukrainians is on your hands, Trump voters.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

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.