Mike Snyder 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈

Former U.S. Foreign Service Officer, working on figuring out the next stage.

[Mike Snyder 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @dcmikesnyder]

Beautiful day for the #nokings rally in Charlotte. No question who in our family has the artistic talent. #no_kings

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

A jury found that Donald Trump jammed his fingers up a woman’s vagina against her will. The judge in the case said that action amounted to rape.

Waiting for the RNC chair to condemn that.

[Mike Snyder 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @dcmikesnyder]

@WalshFreedom We can't even get ICE to stop killing them, much less stop deporting them.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Not a trans person. Not a gay person. Not drag queen. Not an immigrant. Just the usual, cis white male.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Sen Alex Padilla (D-CA) statement tonight:

“When given the opportunity to deliver the bipartisan housing relief Americans have been waiting for, Trump instead threw a tantrum and refused to sign it into law..”

[Ukrinform @UKRINFORM]

Росія залишає по собі кривавий слід, де б вона не з'явилась

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[NC Democratic Party @NCDemParty]

Vote for a better life. Vote for Democrats. 💙

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

My mother grew up in Georgia picking somebody else’s cotton.

The hands that once picked somebody else’s cotton got to pick her son to be a United States senator.

That’s why voting rights are personal to me. We’ve come too far to go backward.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Call it the Trump effect.

[DroneBomber @DrnBmbr]

The Azov Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning ⚡️

By the end of June, strikes against logistics in occupied Crimea had created a severe fuel shortage. Russia was forced to urgently transport fuel by sea from ports in the Sea of Azov.

July 1–4 — large-scale loading of tankers began in the ports of Taganrog, Azov, and Rostov-on-Don. Fuel was brought in from neighboring regions, after which large groups of vessels were assembled.

July 5–6 — the first tankers departed for Crimea. Some vessels managed to get through, but at least two tankers were struck.

Despite this, the Russian command apparently decided not to halt the operation. A much larger convoy—estimated at 30–50 vessels—was later sent to sea. Even without any attacks, unloading such a large number of ships would have taken several days, if not weeks, as Crimean ports simply lack the capacity to process that volume quickly.

On July 7, Ukrainian drones intercepted the convoy in the Sea of Azov. During the night, 10 vessels were struck.

Chaos followed. Some ships stopped, damaged tankers had to be towed to the nearest ports, while dozens of others remained anchored offshore waiting for their turn. As a result, the convoy became increasingly stretched out, leaving vessels exposed in areas where they could be attacked for much longer.

July 8 — 9 more vessels were struck.

July 9 — 14 more vessels were struck.

July 10 — 13 additional vessels were struck, along with attacks on the port infrastructure of Taganrog, which had effectively become the main fuel loading hub.

At the same time, the flow of ships never stopped. Satellite imagery shows that at least until July 9, new tankers and other vessels continued arriving near the Kerch Strait. Despite mounting losses, Russia did not suspend maritime fuel deliveries, causing an ever-growing queue of ships to build up outside Crimean ports.

Why weren’t the tankers entering port?

The reason is straightforward: the ports of Kerch and Feodosia have limited throughput. They can handle only a few fuel tankers at a time, and unloading a single vessel carrying 5,000–7,000 tons of fuel typically takes 8–24 hours.

The situation was made even worse by damaged vessels. They had to be towed to the nearest ports, a process that could take 5–10 hours, or even longer. During that time, tugboats remained occupied, traffic around the ports slowed dramatically, and the queue continued to grow.

The result was a classic bottleneck. Even undamaged ships could not enter port and were forced to wait offshore for hours. That gave Ukrainian drones even more time to conduct follow-up strikes.

In just four days, more than 50 vessels were struck, the majority of them fuel tankers.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Democrats: Donald Trump said today he is protesting affordable housing. That's it, that's the ad.

[LynnZ @ZemanLynnZ]

just sayin’

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

Looking for any updates… has anyone gone to jail yet from the Epstein files release? Are their still millions hidden?

[Mike Snyder 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @dcmikesnyder]

@MikeNellis I can say with almost complete certainty that no one ever votes for a candidate because they love that person's staff - with the possible exception of the staff members' friends and family.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Pay to play. This is a kleptocracy. My God Republicans, you could stop the grift and corruption any time you wanted, but you’ve just decided to keep allowing it at our expense.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is all too obvious that Trump will do everything to steal this election.
Therefore no GOP victory will appear honest or credible.
Trump has turned the GOP into a party of his obedient criminals.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Should a country that kills athletes be allowed to participate in international athletic competitions? My vote is no.

[Ambassador Jonatan Vseviov @vseviov]

A textbook example of how Russian diplomacy works.

First, accuse others of exactly what you are doing yourself, while performing maximum outrage and wounded indignation.

Then draw some in the West into trying to prove the accusations wrong by demonstrating their sincere commitment to diplomacy, while Moscow plays hard to get, extracting concessions in return for essentially nothing—even before negotiations have begun.

All of this is reinforced by constant saber-rattling, designed to make us fear Russia’s failure more than our own—and to see concessions to Moscow as the price of “preventing escalation.”

A classic playbook.

But we’ve seen it too many times.

We won’t fall for it.

Keep calm and carry on.

Our strategy is working.

[Covie @covie_93]

There is so much diversity in the new recruits sworn in to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. There are white men, white women, tall white people, short white people, white people with glasses, white people without glasses, white people with blonde hair and white brunettes!.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Mitch on the other end of all these calls