We suspected this was the reason Ukraine’s access to Starshield was restricted. But to see it from senior officials in this reporting is still utterly unconscionable.
Let’s be absolutely clear about what this means. The Trump Administration deliberately restricted technology Ukraine relies on to intercept Russian drones and ballistic missiles. It made it harder for Ukraine to defend itself and easier for Russia to carry out its deadly attacks against Ukrainian civilians.
They knew exactly what was at stake. They knew that more Russian drones and missiles would get through, allowing Russia to kill even more Ukrainians. And yet they went ahead anyway.
This is a deliberate weaking of Ukraine’s defenses that only Russia will benefit from. It is a betrayal of our ally that this Administration cannot wash its hands of.
The American people deserve to know who made this decision, why they made it, and how they can possibly justify putting more innocent Ukrainian lives in the crosshairs of Putin’s war machine.
https://t.co/y0iYN9QNPP
It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski: "Since January of last year, the U.S. has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it, Europe."
Active Measures (2018) connects the dots between Trump, dirty Russian money, and how he’s been Putin’s puppet all along.
Fun fact: After Trump’s bankruptcies in the ’90s, Russian buyers poured millions into his real estate empire.
In October 2024, The WSJ reported Musk maintained regular contact with Putin and senior Kremlin official Sergei Kiriyenko. US senators raised national security concerns over these contacts, particularly given Musk’s security clearance and SpaceX’s multibillion-dollar Pentagon contracts.
No wonder Trump and Musk love Russia:
“The Office of the Director of National Intelligence shared a report with Congress in recent weeks warning that foreign adversaries are using artificial intelligence to spread disinformation online…..Russia is the most active in using digital tools to undermine confidence in election integrity.”
“Russia is trying to spread false stories about Democrats in numerous races nationwide, including 29 of the 36 running for governor and 20 of the 35 vying for Senate, according to Bloomberg’s review.”
“Russian disinformation operators are deploying an army of bots to inflate view counts of fictitious posts about celebrities and Democratic candidates ahead of the US midterm elections.”
- Bloomberg
NEWS: The board overseeing the NIH research hospital says RFK Jr.'s new vaccine clinic is politicizing and undermining trust in its research. Studies must "be designed to find the truth, not to confirm a conclusion reached in advance."
https://t.co/3SP9fAgke7
Leaked audio of Mike Rogers reveals that the Michigan Republican plans to kick people who are "really, really sick" off their health insurance and put them in a separate "catastrophic fund."
"The sickest part of our society ends up consuming the most." https://t.co/Lvkgzizixg
Alex Gibney: “There was an estimate that what [Elon Musk] did by suddenly cutting USAID would cost through disease and starvation as many as 14M lives. Even if you discount that, we know within a year of those cuts where they were literally burning food going to starving children, 500K children died. This is really a crime against humanity, but he makes a joke about it, I put USAID into the woodchipper. What he put into the woodchipper were children”
Maj. Sorffly Davius — NYPD officer, father of 6 — died in Kuwait in March during combat ops.
For 6 months, Pete Hegseth's Pentagon refused to count him among the war dead. Last week, they finally admitted the truth
🚨 JUST IN: @SenatorShaheen and a group of bipartisan senators sent a letter to @DoW_IG calling for an investigation into the disruption of @SpaceX Starlink and Starshield systems in Ukraine.
Read the full letter ⬇️
https://t.co/8vOFJrdGGU
If a woman wearing a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt makes you angry enough to join a group of men in beating the shit out of her, I’m going to assume you’re all fucking pedophiles too.
In newly disclosed court papers Trump and Musk had DOGE secretly in touch with advocacy groups to steal Social Security account info to commit voter fraud https://t.co/upyaaRq2A6 Repost and share! 889