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[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“ALBANIA FOR ALBANIANS!”

Massive protests against Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury private island project in the Mediterranean and the corruption that is enabling it, as the Trumps continue to personally profit while in office.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

🚨BREAKING: The House has passed the Ukraine Support Act, 226-195, to provide new military aid to Ukraine and impose tougher sanctions on Russia.

The bill advanced through a discharge petition despite Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to block a vote.

18 Republicans and former Republican Kevin Kiley broke with leadership to vote for it.

[Permanently Exasperated @MrHenryFH]

Here’s an oldie to give us a wee laugh…! 👇😂😂😂

[NATO @NATO]

Putin said to all missions ‘leave Kyiv’.

Instead, all 32 NATO Ambassadors and the Secretary General visit Ukraine.

Our message is crystal clear: NATO’s support for Ukraine is unshaken

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

[Ciarán Cuffe @CiaranCuffe]

It's time to close the loophole that feeds Irish raw materials from Limerick to Russia’s military industry.

It's time for effective EU sanctions.

Photo: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
https://t.co/cZX6hH4UgX

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

Alabama dot com: Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama

Tuberville is the Republican nominee for Alabama governor

https://t.co/0coGne0crk

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

A very important issue.

Investigation needed.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

While Putin talks about greatness, occupied Crimea is facing a fuel blockade

This is what the so-called “land corridor” to Crimea looks like, which has been paralyzed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

On the peninsula, filming fuel trucks has been banned. Taking photos or videos can lead to severe penalties, including charges of “treason” and “aiding sabotage activity.”

Crimea now feels like Cuba.

[J.R. Kineman 🇺🇦 I STAND WITH UKRAINE #HOLDFAST @Jkineman]

Commander in 💤
#CommanderInSleep

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.

Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.

The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.

The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).

Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.

I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

Crimea is quickly becoming a gasoline-free zone.🚫

All gasoline sales in Crimea have stopped: only vouchers are accepted, and voucher sales are suspended indefinitely.

People were also warned that posting videos of fuel trucks, even burning ones, could mean 20 years in prison.

[Lara Korte @lara_korte]

CENTCOM has released this photo of an F-16 refueling in an "undisclosed location."

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

A Chinese robot wearing a clown wig kicked a child in the stomach.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🔥 Donetsk Airport has become a trap for Russian forces

Ukrainian troops say they have established fire control over the entire territory of Donetsk Airport.

Russia had been using the site as a logistics hub and a launch base for Shahed drones. Ukrainian drone operators now regularly strike equipment, warehouses, launch positions, and air defense systems there.

Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces describe it as one of the first large-scale asymmetric operations of its kind and say Russian troops no longer have a safe rear area in this sector.

[⚽️ Kyle Sheldon @kylesheldon]

Is this the best World Cup team photo of all time?

Bravo, Norway 🇳🇴⚔️

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[William Butler YEETS @MC23589]

@NYGovPress Lol