Karen White 🇨🇦🌻

happy and grateful, world traveller, entrepeneur, living and loving one epic life!!!

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

We’ve been quietly attacking Iran off and on for the last couple of weeks.

Iran targeted Bahrain again yesterday.

Now this.

It’s gonna keep getting dumber.

[MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine]

Russian strikes overnight killed two people and injured at least 14 others across Ukraine.

In Odesa, a Russian strike destroyed an ordinary private house, killing two civilians and injuring five others.

In Rivne, a Russian attack on an apartment building injured six people, including two children. Rescuers evacuated 42 residents.

In Vinnytsia, two women were injured in a Russian attack. Private homes, apartment buildings, and a kindergarten were damaged.

In Kyiv, a Russian strike hit a hospital, causing a fire and partially destroying the second floor. One person was injured, seven people were rescued and 30 evacuated.

In Sumy region, Russian drones hit civilian infrastructure in the Shostka community, causing a fire that spread over 1,000 square metres. In Kharkiv region, Russian drone attacks caused fires at civilian sites, including a postal terminal.

Russia continues to spread terror across Ukraine. To stop it, Ukraine needs more air defence systems and missiles to protect people. Russia must face much stronger pressure.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

President Donald Trump blamed Republicans’ resounding midterm defeat on the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate’s failure to pass the SAVE America Act, likely the most anti-voting bill in recent American history. https://t.co/aDE6LHmOnD

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

We are living in HELL.
That's where evil shit like this happens. In hell.

And Trump has appointed the architect of that HELL as his CHIEF OF STAFF inside the WHITE HOUSE.

And we're going to send Hakeem Jeffries and 75 year old Chuck Schumer to fight that hell.

What a joke.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

.@SEPeaceMissions, @jaredkushner, and I met in Ireland following all the negotiations held this week.

First, a humanitarian outcome – prisoners will be released, and we are counting on the largest prisoner exchange since the start of this war. The second outcome – we are involving European representatives even more actively in diplomacy so that they can have an equal seat at the negotiating table. Ukraine always defends the interests of all of Europe. Third, we are also preparing further multilateral meetings. Diplomacy will remain active.

Thank you to everyone who supports Ukraine. Thank you, Steve and Jared, for the intensive communication. Thank you to Ireland for the excellent organization of the European Political Community Summit and for hosting our negotiations today. Glory to Ukraine!

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

When Democrats take control of Congress in January, we cannot simply go back to the status quo before Trump.

We need to put forward a bold agenda that will dramatically lower costs — like Medicare for all.

The challenges are too great to go back to incrementalism.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

The most interesting thing is that nobody seems capable of actually explaining what exactly those famous “Russian security concerns” are that must be “addressed” in order to “eliminate the root causes of the conflict” and at least secure a ceasefire in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Especially if you actually listen to what Putin himself and his minions, like Lavrov, have been saying all these years, rather than the feverish fantasies of assorted Putinverstehers and “independent Ukraine skeptics.”

What exactly do they want in order to stop a war they have been unable to bring to a successful conclusion for almost five years (or twelve years, in the broader sense)?

For Ukraine to simply surrender the rest of Donbas without a fight? The famous “fortress belt,” the country’s largest defensive stronghold, which all of mighty, invincible Russia has failed to capture by military force for YEARS?

Well, Putin himself and his minions, speaking as though from their future seats in the dock at an international war crimes tribunal for Ukraine, have openly said for years that the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbas is merely a “precondition” for beginning “real negotiations” on peace. In other words, you hand over your main defensive lines to us, and only THEN will we consider what comes next.

And what comes next?

Well, it will “suddenly” turn out that Russia has also written Kherson and Zaporizhia into its so-called “constitution” as “inalienable parts of Russian territory.” Russia lost the former after a defeat back in November 2022, while it has still failed to capture the latter and won't manage to do so in any remotely foreseeable future. Putin has been openly talking about “four regions,” not merely “just Donbas,” all these years.

So Putin will finally calm down and leave Ukraine alone only after he is handed Ukraine’s main defensive line in Donbas for free, along with a bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnipro, an open route for an offensive into the heart of Ukraine that he lost on the battlefield years ago?

And he will most certainly, absolutely, GUARANTEED not take advantage of this magnificent invitation to launch another offensive, but will instead give his word that Russia’s “security interests” have been satisfied?

And what about that supposed “buffer zone” along the Russian-Ukrainian border, from Sumy to the outskirts of Kharkiv, which Putin also declared absolutely vital to Russia’s very survival years ago, and which he has likewise failed to conquer all this time? Is that included in the grand package of appeasement for the aggressor, or not?

And what about all the renewed empty chatter about a “new European security architecture”? Is that also something Putin absolutely must have before he can stop raining missiles down on apartment buildings in Kyiv every night, full of sleeping people?

And what exactly does “rolling NATO back to its 1997 borders” mean? Is that another thing we must hand to Putin, who practically orgasms on live television over (false) reports that his forces have captured some single street in the Ukrainian town of Druzhkivka after five years of fighting, and behaves as though his victorious space marines are feasting in Reykjavík?

Does it mean that, to secure a “ceasefire,” he must be allowed to kick every country from Finland to Czechia out of NATO and be handed his very own, personal, brand-new Warsaw Pact?

Or does it mean NATO must pledge not to defend those countries in the event of a Russian invasion, because doing otherwise would constitute an intolerable threat to Russia’s security and one of the “root causes of the crisis in Ukraine,” where Putin has already put half a million of his own soldiers into the ground trying to seize what remains of the ruins of Ukrainian Donbas?

And the most outrageous thing is that all this idiocy is being fueled by people who couldn't care less about the consequences, or about the fact that they're trying to sell something they neither own nor control.

All they need is to create, for two minutes of television airtime, the illusion of a spectacular diplomatic triumph and the “achievement of peace in Europe,” and then line their own pockets with the “economic opportunities” promised by the Kremlin.

[Cheyenne Hunt @CheyenneHuntCA]

Van Hollen differentiates himself from Schumer here brilliantly. We need a leader who will answer the call from working people and unrig this system instead of schmoozing with the corporate class that benefits from the status quo.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Who agrees with this? ✋🏽

[Reilly Belle Air 💙🚺🌈💪 🌊 💙 @ReillyBelle57]

Jimmy Kimmel on his hilarious take on Trump’s Veterans Day speeches and Hegseth:

[Pedro Pithan 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @pedropithan]

O cara foi o primeiro bilionário não pedófilo e por isso sofreu as consequências

[CantStopPoppin @CantStopPoppin]

For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.

She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.

When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.

DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.

She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.

Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
https://t.co/cu2O8Gz0Md

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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Our priorities remain the same. First – air defense. We need interceptor missiles for our Patriots and NASAMS. And I urge you to take this very seriously and help us find these missiles.

Second – our F-16 fighter jets and the ammunition they need. We use F-16s to shoot down Russian jet-powered “shahed” drones. The Russians are planning to increase both the production of jet-powered “shaheds” and the number of attacks with them. So we need ammunition to defend. I ask for your support with this too.

Third – energy support. We need it now, already in November, and throughout the winter. Our team has lists of the equipment we need.

From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (2/3)

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! Nevada Governor-elect Aaron Ford throws his full support behind abolishing the Electoral College with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

The blue tsunami could end MAGA forever...

“I didn’t initially support it frankly because I hadn’t done enough research on it, but I have researched it and looking at the electoral college, understanding the, frankly, racist underpinnings of it in the first place leads me to believe that we need to get rid of it,” said Ford. “Not only for that reason but because we’ve seen several times now the person who wins the popular vote not win because of the electoral college."

The Constitution gives states the power to control their electoral votes and how they're allocated during presidential elections. Currently, almost every state gives its votes to whoever wins the state.

In practice, that means that a candidate can win the national popular vote but lose the election because smaller states exert an imbalanced influence on the outcome. For example, Wyoming has a population of 577,000 people and 3 electoral votes. California, which 39.5 million people call home, gets 54 electoral votes. Essentially, that means a vote in Wyoming is 3.8 times as valuable as one in California.

States that join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact agree to give their electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote, not just their own state. Under this proposed system, a state could go red on the map, but if the Democrat wins the national vote, they'd still get that state's votes.

18 states plus D.C. have already joined the NPVIC, but it doesn't trigger until the member states have a combined 270 electoral votes, the number needed to win the White House.

Thanks to our party's overwhelming success in the midterm elections, Democrats have seized control of the state legislatures and governor's mansions in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. If all five join, it would push the compact over the 270 threshold.

This would transform the American political landscape and make it much harder for the Republican Party — which is an increasingly unpopular organization — to ever win again. It would incentivize presidential candidates to campaign in every state rather than devoting all of their attention to a handful of swing states.

The Electoral College is fundamentally undemocratic. It's time to hurl it into the trash for good!

Please ❤️ and share if you support abolishing the Electoral College!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Israel has once again bombed the Nasser Hospital in Gaza.

At least six people have died with 20+ others wounded. Dr. Rizk Abu Shaira, who featured in the documentary ‘American Doctor’, was killed in the strike.

📸: Abed Rahim Khatib

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: We will do everything possible and impossible to make sure everyone remembers exactly who was responsible for the vilest, most despicable acts of depravity during this war, and what they did.

And we have a very good memory.

[Karen White 🇨🇦🌻 @betimefree]

@donwinslow It was a great interview with Jen Psaki on MSNow tonight.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is really important.

[エリー（ラビット速報管理人）フォロバ100中 @elly_rabisoku]

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[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

It’s happening again. Hegseth says it is Musk, Musk says it is Hegseth. Where the hell is Congress?