The greatest danger is not realizing the greatest danger. I wrote "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Democracy to Autocracy" as a plea to grasp the true danger facing America.
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You wouldn’t ask Jeffrey Dahmer for recipes. So why is Peter Navarro being treated as a trustworthy authority on the damage he helped create?
https://t.co/ivnZQdb8Jm
Giving extremists a prestigious platform doesn’t make them credible. It makes their extremism appear respectable. @stuartpstevens explains why The New York Times’ decision to platform Navarro as an “economist” is a dangerous act of normalization. Become a Lincoln Loyal Member to watch!
Asked about the daily murder of Ukrainian civilians by a monstrous invader, President Trump said, "Look, we're not involved. We're separated by an ocean." This prompted some thoughts in me. I have sundry other subjects as well, political and cultural.
https://t.co/J0ALSo65XX
9-year-old Hlib Kovtunenko and his 29-year-old mother, Olha.
Murdered today by russian terrorists in a drone strike on their home.
How many more Ukrainian children have to die before the world finally wakes up?
Maria “Marichka” Vlasiuk helped save hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers. Again and again, she risked her own life to evacuate wounded men from some of the hottest parts of the front.
Small and slender, with big eyes and an infectious smile, Marichka was known in her native village as “a little girl with a big heart.” She loved life, laughed easily and could never simply walk past someone else’s suffering. After surviving two road accidents herself, Maria decided she wanted to save lives and enrolled in Rivne Medical College. During Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity she attended demonstrations and training sessions. After graduation, she worked as an X-ray technician at a hospital in Rivne, where she met Ukrainian soldiers recovering from wounds sustained in the east. Their stories changed her life.
“I can no longer live and work as if everything in our country is fine,” she explained when she decided to join the military.
Marichka signed a contract with Ukraine’s 80th Air Assault Brigade, passed the physical requirements and completed basic military training. She then trained as a combat medic, including courses in Lithuania, before beginning her first seven-month deployment. Mariupol. Berdiansk. Shyrokyne. Novoazovsk. After returning, she continued studying medicine and teaching others. Then she went east again. When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Maria was already serving. Izium, Kharkiv region, Luhansk region — wherever wounded Ukrainian soldiers needed to be evacuated, “Simba,” as her comrades called her, was there.
Marichka drove an evacuation vehicle directly to the battlefield to collect the wounded. The moment they were inside, she examined them, stopped bleeding, kept them conscious and fought for every minute until they reached a hospital. Sometimes she could get a wounded soldier there in just fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes separating a battlefield from an operating room. Fifteen minutes that could determine whether somebody lived or died.
For her courage during evacuations, Maria was awarded Ukraine’s Order for Courage, 3rd Class. In the military she became a senior sergeant of the Air Assault Forces and served as a paramedic in the medical company’s evacuation unit. Her comrades said they had never met a woman so brave.
But courage never made her indifferent to suffering. Maria admitted that watching another person losing blood beside her was difficult every single time. She simply refused to allow herself to panic, because someone’s life depended on what she did next.
On May 24, 2022, near Bilohorivka, Marichka went out once again to evacuate wounded soldiers.
This time she never returned.
She was killed by mortar fire.
Maria was only 27 years old.
In those 27 years, she managed to do more for other people than many accomplish in an entire lifetime. She helped save hundreds of Ukrainian defenders, yet was given painfully little time to live her own life.
On August 11, Maria would have turned 32.
Her family remembers their cheerful, sincere Marichka. Her brothers and sisters in arms remember “Simba,” the tiny medic with extraordinary courage who kept driving toward wounded soldiers while others were trying to escape the shelling.
And Ukraine should remember her too.
Remember her name: Maria “Marichka” Vlasiuk.
She did not die because she wanted to be a hero. She died because somewhere under fire there were wounded people waiting for someone to come and save them.
And Marichka kept coming. 🇺🇦🕯️
🚨 RUSSIAN WAR CRIME IN ACTION.
A deliberate double-tap attack on first responders in Kramatorsk. Footage captures Ukrainian firefighters battling a blaze caused by shelling when Russian forces target them with FPV drones.
The rescuers were forced to flee for their lives mid-operation.
A gentle reminder: while Ukrainian civilians are being killed by Iranian drones and Russian ballistic missiles, France, Italy and Spain issue roughly over 350,000 tourist visas to Russian citizens in 2026.
Oleksii Stoliarenko, a 30-year-old rescuer, died from injuries sustained while responding to a russian drone strike in Sumy.
He was fighting the resulting fire when part of the structure collapsed on him. Despite doctors’ efforts, Oleksii died from his injuries.
it becomes more obvious all the time that the FBI counterintelligence investigation into Trump's ties to Russia should have continued.
https://t.co/8QxMZcZYpg via @NYTimes
In Kramatorsk, the russians destroyed another church. Since the beginning of the war, russia has destroyed over 700 churches in Ukraine.
I said this before - russia is a satanic country. It is the antithesis of Jesus and His teachings. Instead of life, russia brings death. Instead of peace, russia brings war.
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full!' - John 10:10
A Russian fighter’s missile hit his Su-25 near Kramatorsk.
The damaged aircraft was rapidly losing altitude. Directly ahead lay Shabelkivka — houses, civilians, and people who had gathered that day to receive humanitarian aid.
Ukrainian pilot Danylo Murashko had seconds to decide.
He turned the burning aircraft away from the settlement.
“I turned away!”
Those were the last words his comrades heard over the radio.
There was no longer enough altitude to eject safely.
Danylo saved people he had never met.
He paid for those few seconds with his life.
Today, he would have turned 28.
Danylo was born in Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, the only child in his family. He played football for nine years and spent hours training on pull-up bars. As a boy, he decided he would become a military officer — and never changed his mind.
In 2013, he entered a military lyceum in Chernihiv and later graduated from the Ivan Kozhedub Kharkiv National Air Force University.
The apartment where he lived with his mother was filled with model aircraft.
The sky had become his dream long before it became his profession.
From November 2020, Danylo served with Ukraine’s 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade. He began as a pilot, became a senior pilot and eventually a flight commander.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Murashko was a young third-class pilot with relatively limited experience.
Within months, he became one of his unit’s strongest combat pilots.
He learned extraordinarily quickly, studied Russian tactics and constantly volunteered for difficult missions.
“Palych, let me fly! The guys are there! We have to help them!”
His comrades called him “Mura” and the “combat Cossack.” He joked constantly and was almost always smiling.
But when there was a combat mission and another pilot couldn't fly, his attitude was simple:
“There’s still a combat mission. Who’s going to fly? Mura will.”
During just eleven months of the full-scale war, Danylo flew 141 combat missions.
According to Ukrainian military accounts, his missions resulted in the destruction of around 70 armored vehicles, more than 80 other vehicles, roughly 30 fuel trucks and hundreds of Russian troops.
Between missions, he studied English.
Danylo dreamed of flying the F-16 and was expected to be among the young Ukrainian pilots considered for conversion to Western fighter aircraft.
He never got that chance.
On January 27, 2023, Danylo Murashko took off on his 141st combat mission.
He was 24.
His Su-25 was hit near Kramatorsk. With the aircraft falling toward civilians, he chose not to save the few seconds he had left for himself.
He used them to save others.
Danylo was a full recipient of all three classes of Ukraine’s Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and had received the Steel Cross. Posthumously, he was promoted to major and awarded Ukraine’s highest title:
Hero of Ukraine, with the Order of the Gold Star.
Today Danylo Murashko should have been celebrating his 28th birthday.
Perhaps he would be flying an F-16 now.
Perhaps training younger Ukrainian pilots.
Perhaps returning from another mission to his wife and parents.
Instead, the final words of a 24-year-old pilot remain in Ukraine’s sky:
“I turned away.”
He did.
And because he did, other people lived.
Eternal memory and glory to Hero of Ukraine Danylo Murashko. 🇺🇦
Was Jamie Dimon, the longtime CEO of JP Morgan Chase, in the know about his company’s long and profitable relationship with Jeffrey Epstein? Or did the buck stop with his then-No. 2, James Edward “Jes” Staley?
Because one of them, apparently, is playing fast and loose with the truth.
What we know for sure is that Epstein was a big macher at his favorite bank. We know he helped the firm land other wealthy clients. Per the investigation of Senator Wyden, we know that over a 15-year period, JPM processed over a billion dollars—that’s billion with a “b”—in transactions across the late pedophile’s 134 JPM accounts that the bank retroactively flagged as suspicious. That’s $1,282,799,188 in sketchy transactions; Mammon only knows how much money passed through those accounts in total.
And we know that top JPM executives knew damned well who and what Epstein was.
What we don’t know for certain is if Jamie Dimon, JPM’s top banana, was among those executives in the know. He claimed, in a sworn deposition in May 2023, that he was not. And, because people in the media and in Washington tend to like Dimon, and because he didn’t hide behind his high-priced attorneys during questioning, and because perjury is a serious crime—albeit not one the last three Attorneys General have shown much of an interest in prosecuting, especially if the false witness is a rich and powerful white guy—everyone has pretty much taken him at his word.
But last month, at a closed Congressional hearing, Jes Staley—who before leaving the firm to head up Barclays was Dimon’s heir apparent, as well as JP Morgan’s primary liaison with the notorious child sex trafficker—claimed that he hipped his boss “on several occasions about criminal investigations into their client Jeffrey Epstein.” That seems to contradict what Dimon said at his own deposition.
As I see it, there are three possibilities here:
1) Jes Staley is full of shit.
2) Jamie Dimon is full of shit.
3) Both men are pretty much telling the truth.
Which is it? Let’s examine the case for each:
https://t.co/1eJnc6BmLk
We live in very strange times.
The oldest president in the US history is sleeping, while his Secretary of Health is shaking uncontrollably, all while pushing their conspiracies about vaccines.
Russians struck a route bus in Nikopol, killing the driver and injuring his 48-year-old colleague - Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Regional Administration reported.
Russia constantly kills civilians in Ukraine, like the true terrorists they are.
They were all killed by russia at Kvitneva railway station.
They were just waiting for a train.
Just ordinary people trying to get home.
They could still be alive if Ukraine had enough interceptors to shoot down russian ballistic missiles.
Remember that.