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[🦋the-michael-datson.bsky.social🦋 @fuller_sean]

@samstein @SarahIronside6 In fact here is a partial list of actions Donald Trump has taken this term in an intentional effort to weaken election security. Maybe he should reverse these efforts if he’s concerned. Something tells me he will not.

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Witkoff and Kushner presented commemorative coins to terrorist leader Putin.

One side features a map showing all of North, Central and South America under U.S. political domination. It is an expansion of the "Technate of America" map presented by American fascists in the 1930s.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Le Pen’s retirement system reform would cost up to 1.2% of France’s GDP every year, yet she claims the 0.1% sent as bilateral aid to Ukraine, a country vital to European security, is "too expensive."

Hypocrisy, treason, incompetence, and idiocy at its finest

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

One of the few authors who traced the Old Man's Russian ties back to the 1980s. 👇

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

This is beyond reprehensible.

According to The Washington Post, while Witkoff and Kushner were supposedly in Moscow trying to negotiate an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine, they were also discussing potentially large U.S.-Russian economic projects with the Kremlin. (One thing to watch closely: whether any U.S.-Russian economic deal emerging from these negotiations creates direct or indirect financial benefits for Trump-linked businesses or members of his family.)

Putin’s foreign-policy adviser Yuri Ushakov said that “economic issues and potentially large, mutually beneficial joint projects for Russia and America were discussed in considerable detail.”

Russia is waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, Putin is showing little willingness to abandon his maximalist demands, and the two men Trump has ostensibly "entrusted" with negotiating a settlement are simultaneously discussing potentially large U.S.-Russian economic projects with the Kremlin.

Then Witkoff sits across from Putin, a war criminal, and tells him that, when they retire and look back on their lives, their conversations with him will be “right at the top” of their incredible memories.

Utterly disgusting.

The Washington Post reported the economic discussions today, citing Ushakov. Reuters has independently reported that economic cooperation was discussed in detail during the three-hour meeting.

To call these "negotiations" is laughable. A more apt description would be: two hucksters meet a war criminal to do business.

[Marcus Stanley @MarcusMStanley]

The Jerusalem Post runs an op-ed suggesting using indebted Americans to invade Iran...words fail me.

[Philip Obaji Jr. @PhilipObaji]

Russia is engineering a migration crisis for Europe via the West African. Disinfo on local radio & media pushes desperate people north through Niger toward Libya. Wagner trucks move migrants to smugglers; their militias then help load boats across the Mediterranean. Time to act.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A company in Riga, Latvia is paying a 300,000 dollar monthly budget to overseas contractors, told explicitly to hide their location with US proxy servers, to post clips designed to look like ordinary Americans spontaneously praising the GOP. The campaign's own instructions state the goal in writing: so that republican win in USA. No disclosure that the poster was paid, no disclosure it is coordinated. The money trail traces to Blake Wynn, 26, nephew of mega donor Steve Wynn, whose company's employees uploaded the campaign's source videos.

Wynn has said he regularly talks to FBI Director Kash Patel, sat next to Trump on Election Night 2024, and was close with Charlie Kirk. The campaign's own banned topics list is its own tell, no Jan 6 videos, no Trump family crypto, no RFK Jr, careful image management dressed up as spontaneous grassroots enthusiasm. When the Atlantic's reporter contacted everyone involved, the campaign folders and Discord listings started disappearing within a day.

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

Finland stands in full solidarity with its ally Germany after the Russian hybrid attack in Leipzig.

We know the Russian playbook. It attempts to intimidate us, to undermine our resolve and our willingness to support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion. It will not succeed.

We will stand united and deter anyone from attacking our freedom and security.

As the strong measures announced by the German government show, any action against any one of us will be met with a clear response.

Our commitment to supporting Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s aggression is unwavering.

I continue to be in close touch with Chancellor Merz and other Allies.

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Italy stands in full solidarity with Germany after the Russian hybrid attack in Leipzig.

The security of our Allies is the security of us all. Attempts to intimidate us or to drive a wedge between Allies will not succeed: hybrid actions against any one of us are a matter of concern for all of us, and will be met with a united response.

At times like this, it is essential to remain steadfast, to keep working closely together, and to maintain a credible posture of deterrence in defence of our citizens’ security.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Sorry I got carried away today and swore.

#SorryNotSorry

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and anyone else in leadership that decided that it was okay to grab Afghan interpreters who stood by our sides in combat and deport them to gulags in Africa is a damn traitor that has turned their backs on the very people that we relied on in combat.

Without these interpreters it would have been impossible for us to accomplish our mission and communicate with the people. I had no air support where I was most of the time. There was only 4 of us on my team, me, my NCO, my interpreter and a mechanic. I had 8 Afghan police stations that I was responsible for providing equipment for to defend themselves against the Taliban. What do you think would’ve happened if we had no means to communicate with the Afghan police?????

This entire administration is criminal. These people risked their lives for us. They are disappearing these folks to third world countries. The cruelty is unacceptable. When this nightmare ends, this entire corrupt administration must be held accountability. There is nothing patriotic about this.

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

L’Allemagne a établi la responsabilité de la Russie dans les graves incidents survenus à Leipzig début août.

Ces attaques hybrides se multiplient en Europe. Elles ne peuvent rester sans réponse.

La France est pleinement solidaire de l’Allemagne et soutient l’adoption de nouvelles sanctions européennes contre la Russie.

Face à cette escalade, nous devons être unis, déterminés et renforcer notre soutien à l’Ukraine. La France continuera d'y prendre toute sa part.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

I spoke with Chancellor Merz to express Canada’s support for Germany, following Russia’s hybrid attack at Leipzig Airport. 

Attacking a Ukrainian cargo plane on German soil was an egregious attempt by Russia to weaken our resolve and our collective defence — and it will fail. 

Our support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s aggression is unshakeable.

We remain relentless in the pursuit of a just and lasting peace across the continent.

[Jarosław Wałęsa @WalesaJL]

Dokładnie 46 lat temu, 31 sierpnia 1980 roku, w sali BHP Stoczni Gdańskiej, mój Ojciec, Lech Wałęsa, podpisał Porozumienia Sierpniowe, które otworzyły drogę do wielkich przemian w Polsce! 🇵🇱✌🏻

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

The Pentagon influencer scandal is getting bigger.

More partisan X accounts are being identified as Pentagon employees or special government employees — while spending their days pushing political talking points online.

Taxpayers deserve to know: Who hired them? What are they being paid to do? And are military officers violating the UCMJ?

This deserves a LOT more scrutiny.

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The U.S. military has a Pete Hegseth problem. Period.

Our troops are not props. The Pentagon is not a playground for incompetent fox news hacks with something to prove about their manliness.

I carry the names of 13 brothers I lost in war tattooed on my body. I know exactly who pays the price when the people at the top screw up.

It sure isn’t Pete Hegseth. It’s the kid strapping up his gear and walking outside the wire.

https://t.co/khJWdNEJYL

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

The story of Roy Cohn, and his influence on Trump, helps explain what is happening now, Michael Hirsh writes.
https://t.co/RZW90ct5Jc

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Ex-CIA officer Wiswesser: Hitler thought Western democracies were “worms” and would never act. He was shocked when Britain and France declared war.

Putin thinks the same. He sees the West as weak and unwilling to act. By failing to deter him, we keep enabling him. 1/

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

By celebrating Ukrainian resilience as an almost superhuman quality, the international community risks obscuring the much less glamorous reality: Ukrainians are ordinary people who have endured extraordinary violence for far too long. https://t.co/HAQy0dC19q