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[Anne Reilly 🇺🇸🦅 @AnneVReilly]

@CWidow_ @EmmanuelMacron @PeterSchorschFL Sorry for our behavior.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ.

The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles.

Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough.

The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan.

Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth.

The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times.

Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost.

And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one.

Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.”

The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption.

The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need.

Full analysis - https://t.co/32ixeQpfif

[Anne Reilly 🇺🇸🦅 @AnneVReilly]

@DemocracyDocket 📫📫

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:

Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"

And, it included a non-party in the caption.

These are the people who want access to your voting records and who my team fights in court every day.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts.

The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him.

The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed in cold blood. There is no conceivable justification for this intentional homicide. And make no mistake, that intentional, unjustified homicide was committed on behalf of Donald J. Trump.

Trump's militarization of Minneapolis and other parts of our nation isn't about illegal immigration. It's not about enhancing public safety. It's about destroying any sense of that safety—to intimidate political opponents, and to punish dissent. It's about a corrupt, out-of-control regime's effort to provoke citizens in order to justify the violence it desires to commit against them so that it can expand and retain its power.

That is fascism. It is tyranny. It is governmental criminality.

And the ultimate legal check the Framers of our Constitution provided to stop this kind of tyranny and criminality in the executive branch is impeachment and removal of the executive.

Congress needs to do its job.

Now.

Before it's too late.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is not about Right or Left, it’s about Right and Wrong.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @usairforce, @USNavy, @USArmy @USMC: Greenland is part of Denmark, a NATO ally. If Trump orders the military to attack Greenland without congressional approval, that would be an illegal order. You will disobey the illegal order.

Your oath is to the Constitution, not Trump.

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

Venezuela is ruled by an illegitimate regime, but the Administration has not made the case that an urgent threat to America’s national security existed to justify the use of U.S. military force.

President Trump has made no secret of his intentions to effectively abolish the Congress, and that pattern continues today with his flagrant disregard for the Article One war powers of Congress which is essential to our constitutional system of checks and balances.

If the President grounds his actions on the basis of drug trafficking charges, it is entirely hypocritical in light of his recent pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández who was responsible for bringing more than 400 tons of cocaine in the United States in order to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.”

The Administration says Maduro will be tried for drug trafficking in a U.S. court — but Hernández was convicted of the same crime by an American jury and Trump pardoned him.

Congress must be fully and immediately briefed on the strikes and regime change in Venezuela, the objectives and extent of this operation, and how the Administration intends to prevent further regional fallout.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

This Jack Smith deposition makes one thing abundantly clear:

If Donald Trump wasn’t re-elected, he’d be spending the rest of his life in prison.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The President of the United States is a criminal.

Thank you for your service, Jack Smith.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Sorry... why would there need to be an emergency indoor inauguration on January 20, 2029 with bulletproof glass and protections against civilian monitoring tech?

Oh, that's right. Martial law is coming. I keep forgetting.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

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Post this today and I will follow as many as I can:

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[Anne Reilly 🇺🇸🦅 @AnneVReilly]

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[Jack @alphacharts365]

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[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

NEWS: I'm demanding @SecRubio provide an All-Senators classified briefing on Trump’s military buildup and reported plans for military operations in Venezuela.

The Trump administration has failed in their duty to consult with Congress.

The last thing Americans want right now is another endless war.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is insane. How can any Republican stand by and endorse this? I never ever thought I would see this in America in my lifetime.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito.

It also just so happens not only that the only lawyer who signed (would sign!) the Comey indictment was … {checks notes again} … Halligan, but that the statute of limitations on the charges it purports to allege expired … {here's another handy note!} … at midnight last night.

Which means that unless the courts accept some kind of wild (and I can't imagine precedented) tolling argument, Halligan, @PamBondi, and @realDonaldTrump won't be able to fix this even if they had a single working brain among the three of them. SAD!

Happy October, and Happy Jim Comey Statute of Limitations Expiration Day to all who celebrate!!

AND, AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! 😉😂

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

#EdMartin
There are so many dangerous people in this administration‼️