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Treason. "The US press speculated that Elon Musk ordered the downgrade in speeds and services available to Ukraine. Musk rejected the notion that SpaceX or Starlink were responsible for the decision to throttle services available to Ukraine. Musk wrote on Twitter, “Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS”. Trump’s long list of grievances against Ukraine strongly suggests he is the person responsible for the amazing coincidence of a degradation of the Starshield defense just before Russia launched its biggest barrage of ballistic missiles of the war. Recall that Trump’s first impeachment involved Trump withholding military aid from Ukraine to pressure Zelensky into fabricating political dirt on the Biden family. The 2019 articles of impeachment provided in part: Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election. He did so by soliciting the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 United States Presidential election to his advantage. Trump also sought to pressure the Government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States Government acts of significant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations. Trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit. Trump’s 2019 efforts to pressure Ukraine involved the following: (a) withholding military aid from Ukraine, (b) to obtain a political benefit in the 2020 presidential election. Trump is repeating his 2019 strategy in 2026. He is (a) withholding military aid from Ukraine by throttling satellite services essential to its defense, (b) to obtain a political benefit in the 2026 midterms, i.e., a last-minute “settlement” of the war because Ukraine is defenseless against Russian ballistic missiles. Trump’s abhorrent pressure tactics will lead to violent deaths and injuries of thousands of Ukrainians hit by missile strikes, and will cause slow, painful deaths due to freezing and starvation as Ukrainians endure a winter without electricity. Never in the history of the United States has a "president" used the lives of allies as bargaining chips to obtain a partisan political benefit. Trump’s actions in throttling Ukraine’s satellite access to pressure it to surrender warrant a third impeachment, standing alone." Democrats try to expand the map. https://t.co/BrxvLEp7in

More than FOUR HUNDRED families were thrown off the land in one Tennessee winter. Not for a debt. Not for a crime. They had registered to vote. So they spent the winter in army surplus tents, in a field, with children. Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960. Sharecropping families — they did not own the land they worked, and that was the whole lever. They registered. The landowners evicted them, many without notice. Then came the part that was meant to finish it. **The merchants closed ranks.** Names were circulated. Families who had registered could not buy groceries. Could not buy seed. Could not get petrol. Credit was cancelled. Insurance policies were cancelled. And white doctors refused to treat their own patients. Read that again. Not a mob. Not a night ride. A list, passed between shopkeepers, that meant a pregnant woman could not see the doctor she had always seen. John and Viola McFerren had started the civic league that ran the registration drive. A landowner named Shepard Towles let the evicted families put tents on his ground, which took more courage than most people will ever have to find. They called it Tent City. Surplus army canvas, through a Tennessee winter, with no running water, cooking outside, children going to school out of a tent. In Haywood County next door, about thirty more families did the same. They did not fold. The Justice Department came in. By December 1960 it had sued forty-five landowners, twenty-four merchants and one bank. On 26 July 1962 the landowners were permanently ordered to stop interfering with Black registration and voting. So this one ends with a win — a federal injunction, won by sharecroppers living in tents. But hold the price in your head. Four hundred families. Two winters. And the weapon was not a gun. It was a grocery list.

Trump's D.C. Chainsaw Massacre: Over 500 Historic Trees Gutted to Build a Millionaire's Golf Course Donald Trump has begun actively destroying hundreds of trees in Washington, D.C., and the lack of mainstream coverage is absolutely criminal. Please scream this from the rooftops and spread the word immediately! These aren't dead, dying, or invasive trees — these are perfectly healthy, decades-old oak and maple trees that are being brutally clear-cut. This disturbing footage from Rick Maese at The Washington Post exposes the truth: the Trump administration is massacring upwards of 500 healthy, historic trees at the East Potomac Golf Course. But honestly, why are we surprised? This is just the latest chapter in Trump's complete and utter disregard for our nation's historic capital. It follows the exact same playbook as his shocking demolition of the White House East Wing, and the disastrous, botched "renovations" of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that left an iconic American landmark falling apart and peeling. To make matters even more sickening, they've even been dumping toxic debris from the demolished East Wing right onto this very public parkland! The National Park Service is trying to gaslight the public by claiming this ecological disaster is just routine maintenance, but we know the truth: they are gutting public land to build a glitzy, exclusive championship golf course. Residents across the city are rightfully furious and disgusted. Witnessing 500+ majestic trees being ripped out of the ground is an absolute horror show for the people living in this city. Do not let them slide on this. Share this everywhere, expose this environmental atrocity, and follow for updates.