*nasty* Debbie L 🇨🇦

Self-employed. Political nerd. News hound. Ticat fan. Formula 1 fan. Ukraine supporter. I'm not here to argue. Trolls will be blocked. No DMs, please.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

My reach on X has dropped sharply, and other Ukrainian accounts are reporting the same thing.

It won’t deter me, I’ll keep reporting from Ukraine, and Voices From The Front is now reaching people across several platforms, including YouTube, Substack, Bluesky and Apple Podcast, also Spotify.

Thanks for sticking with us. 🙏🇺🇦
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[Covie @covie_93]

So impeaching hegseth during a conflict "sends a terrible message" but hegseth firing generals and the top military planner doesn't?????

[*nasty* Debbie L 🇨🇦 @Debalap]

@RpsAgainstTrump Why is the US even involved in negotiations? This is Europe's job.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

And why is this crook representing the United States in negotiations with Russia and Ukraine in the first place? Who elected him? Where the hell is the Secretary of State?

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Picking Jim Jordan to lead the way tells you which direction Republicans are headed. They are going all in on MAGA, once again. They have clearly learned nothing from the midterm drubbing they suffered last week.

[jonbandit @OldManLefty1]

A REALLY REALLY BIG SHOUT OUT, to the Army sentinel guarding the Tomb, who had to yell at Pete Hegseth and his unruly guests to maintain “silence and respect"

That took a love of country, respect for our fallen soldiers.. and some serious fucking courage.

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

Hundreds in uniform, were cheered on and thanked by thousands at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. as Canadians stopped to remember sacrifices made by CAF members

Veterans from many wars were in attendance but only three from the Second World War, all of them over 100 years old, with Veterans affairs saying there are only 4300 WW2 and Korean vets still alive #cdnpoli

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Mary Peltola lead in Alaska has surpassed 4,000 votes

Scott Colom lead in Mississippi has eclipsed 3,100 votes

The incoming Senate majority will swell to 56

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Meanwhile in Russia's Omsk.

Who would have thought we'd live to see the day when Ukraine strikes Russia's largest oil refinery, which is located as far away as in Western Siberia, sending it up in flames and explosions, and nobody even bats an eye anymore? It just gets buried in the news feed like any other routine story.

[Max Sterling @MaxSterlindh]

Jennifer Hegseth was a Fox News producer when she had Pete Hegseth's baby. He was still married to his second wife. Two months later, a woman said he sexually assaulted her in a Monterey hotel room. He said it was consensual and later paid her $50,000 under a confidentiality agreement.

In the video below, Senator Tim Kaine walks him through it at his confirmation hearing. "You were still married to your second wife, correct?" "I believe so." Every answer after that is the same: "I was falsely charged, fully investigated and completely cleared."

He was confirmed 51 to 50. JD Vance broke the tie. Jennifer became his third wife in 2019, and she sat in on his closed-door meetings with senators and on interviews for his top hires.

On November 4, Politico reported she had been paid as a consultant by Watchtower Strategy, a Trump-aligned PR firm. One of its clients is Lockheed Martin, which got more than $66 billion from the government that year. The Pentagon called it "ridiculous slander."

Six days later, Republican Thomas Massie forced a vote to impeach her husband over illegal military operations. It failed 211 to 204. Eleven Democrats did not show up.

His wife was paid by a firm that works for the biggest contractor in his department. Conflict of interest, or is she allowed to have a job?

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Cindy Hyde-Smith once joked about attending a public hanging. Now she's watching a Black Democrat take her Senate seat. History has a wicked sense of irony.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski:

- American negotiators are mistaken if they think this war is only about territory. Giving up two cities in Donbas would not end the war. It would merely pause it.
- Russia needs Ukraine to become a global superpower.
- Ukrainians are fighting to remain independent, democratic, and European.
- Russian occupation means filtration camps, abducted children, forced Russification, and repression.
- Ukraine can now produce drones and cruise missiles without American components. It cannot simply be forced into surrender.
- Ukraine appears to have struck Russia’s Finance Ministry data center, potentially disrupting tax collection.
- Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities cause enormous civilian casualties but do not destroy Ukraine’s ability to hold the front.
- Hypersonic missiles are extremely difficult to intercept. It is easier to destroy the aircraft launching them or the factories producing them.

“We can help.”

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[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

You work for Israel, Marco.

[Ferdinand Swinghammer @FSwinghammer]

Too cute...

[*nasty* Debbie L 🇨🇦 @Debalap]

@Ishaku__Audu @HormuzLetter He can come to Canada. We'd turn him in to the Hague as soon as he got off the plane.

[*nasty* Debbie L 🇨🇦 @Debalap]

More corruption

[Molotov @ipoolgian]

🚨 IMPORTANTE

Exclusiva de Reuters muestra el verdadero móvil de la operación militar que llevó a la captura de Maduro

La investigación reveló que una semana antes de la operación militar del 3 de enero, el vicepresidente JD Vance abordó la futura venta del crudo venezolano con un operador de la firma Vitol y megadonante de su campaña, allanando el camino para que Vitol y Trafigura recibieran sin licitación el monopolio de comercialización petrolera que ya les ha generado cientos de millones de dólares.

Registros de vuelo ubican el avión oficial de JD Vance y el jet privado de John Addison (operador de Vitol) juntos el 27 de diciembre en Bozeman, Montana, rumbo al exclusivo Yellowstone Club.

Según una fuente enterada del encuentro, Vance preguntó qué tan rápido podrían vender el crudo venezolano si EEUE tomaba el control del suministro.

Aunque Addison negociaba gasolina en EEUU y carecía de experiencia técnica en contratos internacionales de crudo, había donado 300.000 dólares a Vance en 2022 y 7 millones de dólares a comités de Trump en 2024 (el mismo año en que Vitol pagó 50 millones en California por un caso de manipulación de precios donde Addison fue señalado).

Recomendado por Vance, Addison recibió el 5 de enero (dos días después de la operación) la llamada del secretario de Energía, Chris Wright.

La Casa Blanca omitió la licitación pública y el 9 de enero Vitol y Trafigura ya tenían las licencias.

Con más de 200 millones de barriles exportados en lo que va de 2026, expertos estiman que los operadores ganan entre 3 y 3,50 dólares por barril (un margen de 3,5 % a 4 %, superior al 1 %–3 % habitual de Vitol). Ambas firmas mantienen en secreto sus contratos con PDVSA, y Vitol confirmó tener además relación comercial con NABEP, la petrolera de Alejandro Betancourt

Este reporte se suma a la filtración del informe de KPMG publicada ayer por The New York Times, según la cual Vitol y Trafigura concentraron el 61 % de los 12.260 millones de dólares ingresados a la Cuenta de Custodia de Venezuela antes de que Washington transfiriera casi la totalidad de esos fondos de vuelta al Banco Central de Venezuela

Es decir:

Una semana antes del ataque militar, el gobierno de Trump ya estaba coordinando en un club privado de esquí cómo repartir la comercialización del petróleo venezolano a sus megadonantes de campaña sin licitación pública.

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[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Imagine being the Secretary of Defense and being scolded by a real and authentic soldier for not knowing how to behave at a military memorial.

[Proudly Blue @JohnLukeSam1]

Congratulations to Senator-elect Scott Colom, Mississippians, Americans, the Democratic Party, black Americans, & everyone else who loves America.

[*nasty* Debbie L 🇨🇦 @Debalap]

@Alexwestlives

[🇨🇦 @𝓜𝝄𝒏𝓽𝓮_𝓐ℓ𝓽𝝄 (everywhere) 🇬🇧 @Monte_Alto]

wow ... this was quite the moment and massive kudos to the Army Sentinel for maintaining decorum.

On Veterans Day (November 11, 2026), a U.S. Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery publicly reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth