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[atzeff @atzeff]

How can any American (esp a veteran) not fully support these guys??

[Ukraine Territorial Defense Forces @TDF_UA]

When you just freed Kherson

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

A European capital is on fire because Russia spent the night firing missiles at civilians in their beds.

Kyiv is full of smoke. People are buried under rubble.

This is terrorism.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[atzeff @atzeff]

Russians fully committing to a fashion style only to accidentally end up a cartoon character:

[Big Serge @witte_sergei]

Dima doing the tech keynote thing with the earpiece mic and iPad while wearing a Nehru jacket. What a look!

[atzeff @atzeff]

@AmericaPapaBear Next: see the looks on their faces when they receive an ER bill or college tuition in America!

But Bass Pro Shops! 🤣

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

Everyone, this is SERIOUS.

There is a #russianfuelcrisis, shortages reported all over russia, Moscow is running out and the public is freaking out, which makes it even worse, so PLEASE don't use the hashtag #russianfuelcrisis and DEFINITELY DON'T retweet this message. PLEASE ❗️

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

Marco Rubio realizing he has to become a popstar to perform at the nation’s 250th.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

It took 70 years but it finally happened

[atzeff @atzeff]

Skipping wounded troops at Walter Reed 🤝 Telling a rich donor that her medal beats the Medal of Honor.

Vets… you cool with this?

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

We saw this before from Trump in the first term with soldiers injured in a retaliatory bombing that he refused to acknowledge. Nothing new. He’s pretending as if they don’t exist. https://t.co/HU1mIZBZS4

[Grok @grok]

@wolfejosh **Israel (Isra'il or Bani Isra'il) is mentioned 43 times in the Quran.**

**Palestine (or Filastin) is mentioned 0 times.**

The Quran refers to the "Children of Israel" and the blessed/holy land in several verses (e.g. Surah Al-Isra), but never uses the name Palestine.

[atzeff @atzeff]

Miller calls someone gay, someone else calls him ugly. Washington has become a middle school playground.

[Daily Wire @realDailyWire]

More love, tolerance, and civility from the Dems 🫶

[atzeff @atzeff]

His Henry Wallace factoids - also loopy. He didn’t almost become VP. He was VP… for four years. And he wasn’t an “actual, actual,actual communist” (a New Deal-peacenik-lefty for sure, but a religious capitalist who later denounced the USSR). #bewaretechfoundersrewritinghistory

[atzeff @atzeff]

Did Andreesen say Stalin was in a NYC ticker tape parade after WWII? 🤣

[atzeff @atzeff]

@alifarhat79 Ha! And lead singer of Aerosmith

[atzeff @atzeff]

In memoriam:

https://t.co/VYFerC5AE2

#ikewillis #zappa

[atzeff @atzeff]

Missed the news that Ike Willis, long time Zappa guitarist/vocalis, passed a couple days ago. An absolute legend.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

In my opinion, yesterday a turning point in the war took place.

Perhaps we still do not fully grasp the significance of what happened.

For the first time, Putin publicly showed his weakness and inability to independently protect his capital, his parade, and himself from our strikes. Because of this, a frightened Putin was forced to publicly humiliate himself and ask Trump, as a mediator, to help stop a strike on Moscow.

De facto, Putin asked Trump to protect him from the Ukrainians.

I consider President Zelenskyy’s order a brilliant informational slap in the face and an additional public humiliation.

It is obvious that before and during the parade, Putin was physically afraid - he felt vulnerable and threatened.

Putin publicly appeared weak and humiliated, and in Russia’s "prison-style" political culture, such things are not forgiven.

A weak "tsar," mocked by everyone, cannot remain a tsar in Russia.

These are very, very hard times for Ukraine. However, Ukraine is strong, resilient, and continues the fight.

Slava Ukraini!

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

Kaja Kallas was born on June 18, 1977, in Tallinn into a family deeply scarred by Soviet occupation. Her mother, Kristi, was only six months old when she, along with her mother and grandmother, was deported to Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk region in cattle wagons. They spent ten years there before finally returning to Estonia in 1959.
That family history of survival shaped Kallas into one of Europe’s strongest voices against Russian aggression — a stance that earned her the nickname “Europe’s Iron Lady” after she became Estonia’s first female prime minister in January 2021.
She studied law at University of Tartu, graduating in 1999, and later earned an Executive MBA from the Estonian Business School in 2010 while building a successful career as a competition lawyer and partner at major law firms.
Her father, Siim Kallas, served as Prime Minister of Estonia and later Vice-President of the European Commission. For many years, this actually pushed Kaja away from politics because she did not want to spend her life being compared to her father.
She played drums, loved dancing, and by age 27 had already become a partner in a law firm where the other partners were over 60 and spent their days golfing — making her question whether that was really the life she wanted.
That restlessness pushed her into politics in 2010. Within a year she entered parliament, and later became a member of the European Parliament for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 2014 to 2018, where Politico named her one of Brussels’ most influential women.
In 2018, she married her second husband, Arvo Hallik, while raising a blended family with two children and navigating the collapse of her first coalition government, the global pandemic, and the highest inflation in the European Union.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Kallas pushed Estonia to donate more than 1% of its GDP in support of Ukraine — a larger share than any other country. She repeatedly argued that every weapon sent to Ukraine weakens the enemy while strengthening Estonia’s own security.

[Bridget Brink @AmbBridgetBrink]

I resigned as U.S. Ambassador Ukraine when Trump kept siding with Putin over our democratic partner. Now, my successor is doing the same.

I knew I had to speak out and run for office because siding with dictators is just not who we are.

[Lauren @cabsav456]

This is categorically false. Not merely a stretch, but a straight-up lie.

Congress (not Biden alone) appropriated roughly $188 billion total for Ukraine-related support from 2022–2024. NOT $350 billion.

Of that, the bulk (~$110–130B in security/military categories) stayed right here in the U.S., paying American defense contractors & replenishing our own stockpiles.

Actual direct financial ("cash") support to Ukraine was roughly $31–38B. Those funds were tracked by the World Bank and were audited by firms like KPMG & Deloitte. We were not writing blank checks.

It's extremely frustrating to watch this President demonize an ally while downplaying Putin as the aggressor. This administration has ended new U.S. financial/military support for Ukraine (they can buy via the EU if needed). Combined with eased sanctions on Russia and the President's moral ambiguity on the war, it is just a complete betrayal that I will never, ever understand.

Polls show that the vast majority of Americans are very much clear eyed about this — we support Ukraine and we sympathize with Ukraine. Our President does not reflect that majority view.

[Chico Muya @chico_ray]

Trumps biggest geopolitical blunder is Ukraine, by far.
It’s genuinely baffling.

Being friendly with Russia, and harsh on Ukraine, makes no sense strategically, financially and—most importantly—morally.
It’s genuinely insane.

The Vice President Vance literally said that he is PROUD of not supporting Ukraine. What a disgrace.

Russia is not an ally to America.
They stand opposed to the Western world in almost every way.
If they could push a button and make America self destruct, they would.

In Ukraine, you have a brave people who LOVED America. A people who would be powerful allies to the US on multiple levels.
Throwing them under the bus at their time of need is a grave mistake.

Ukraine will rise from this war against their aggressor as a formidable power.
They will get there despite Americas lack of support.

I fully support Trump in his actions against the Islamic regime, and his support for Israel. I will continue supporting and cheering him on in that regard, with alacrity.

But his stance against Ukraine really is an embarrassment. A huge mistake. History will not look kindly on that aspect of his actions.