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No DM’s Lifelong news junkie and Democrat Slava Ukranii

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

At the G7, the CEOs of the big AI companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers.

This is the nightmare scene.

Governments need to have a response to the state-like power of these companies, whether it’s by taking ownership shares, breaking them up into smaller entities, or imposing a regulatory structure that controls their power over citizens.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Pope Leo: “We tend to think...that the only issue of morality is sexual....I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that" issue.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“If we want the world to live in peace, we must begin with ourselves.

“Enough with insults, enough with bullying, enough with all those things that wage war between people, between communities, between countries!” — Pope Leo XIV

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey America,
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been in the streets for 21 FUCKING DAYS over Jared Kushner’s plan to turn an island into a billionaire resort.

You’re watching your country get hijacked in real time. Maybe get off the fucking couch?

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Ukrainian drone commander Robert „Magyar“ Brovdi says that Russian-occupied Crimea stopped being a springboard for Russian offensive operations against the Ukrainian army.

The Commander of Unmanned Systems Forces described the recipe for further demilitarization of Crimea: "complete air defense collapse, destruction of the remaining fleet, strikes on shadow logistics, resource exhaustion, energy desert, transport lockdown and tourist default.“

According to him, the Kremlin will hold on to Crimea as the main war trophy and symbol of its own imperial greatness until the very end.

„In the end, Crimea will bury Moscow.“

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

"Not to provoke Putin is to show weakness, which will 100% provoke Putin...A developing and democratic Ukraine is a threat to Putin's power..[Putin] will try to cut more Ukraine and then Baltics."

- Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Lisbon Valley, Utah. North of Bears Ears is to be opened for uranium mining.

Still scarred from the last uranium boom, the one the EPA hasn't even finished cleaning up.

This week, the federal government decided to do it again.

The whole approval took 11 days. Tribes got a 7-day window to respond, take it or leave it.

One leader called it outrageous and indefensible. A Canadian company gets to mine it, royalty free, under a law from 1872.

That law lets companies pull minerals off federal land without paying the public a dime in royalties, a rule written for pickaxes and mules, still running the uranium industry today.

Here's the part most people will miss: the general public didn't get a say at all this time, the emergency order waived that requirement completely.

Tribal nations are legally different. The government owes them direct, government to government consultation because of treaty and trust obligations going back generations. That legal requirement still applied here. It just got squeezed into 7 days.

Who decided 7 days was enough to weigh in on land that's been theirs for generations?

#DemsUnited

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

It is deeply frustrating how easily Americans moved past the reality that Donald Trump attempted an actual coup in 2021 and failed miserably.

He should have been disqualified from ever holding power again the moment he tried to overturn the election results. He is a traitor who belongs in jail, plain and simple.

Treating his actions as just another political scandal that can be brushed aside is completely unacceptable.

The Republicans who enabled this comeback are absolute traitors to the US. They had multiple opportunities to draw a line in the sand and reject him.

Instead, they acted in a pathetic manner by backing him as their candidate and enabling him to become president again

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Outrageous.

Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.

This is the impact of Trump's administration.
https://t.co/Gr3WRBHjOs

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

BREAKING: Crimea has fully suspended fuel sales to the public, with gas stations now supplying fuel exclusively to emergency and government services.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Mail-in voting was not a scheme created by Democrats, Marc Elias says. It was something that voters demanded.

And for a long time, Republicans used it to their advantage.

“[Trump] started spreading lies about mail-in voting [in 2020], and those lies about mail-in voting continue to this day.”

[Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي @NTarnopolsky]

💥Netanyahu bet it all on Trump– and Israel lost at the roulette table. For 10 years he bet Israeli security on Trump, alienating Democrats & much of the West. Trump's Iran deal has left Israel isolated, exposed & scrambling to limit damage. @itamareichner https://t.co/y81RrCFhGC

[Warren @swd2]

Trump finally got his dream ride: a shiny $400M Qatar Force One, gifted by his oil buddies. Because nothing says ‘America First’ like flying around in a foreign prince’s hand-me-down jet while taxpayers foot the retrofits.

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

If you weren’t sure why Bibi Netanyahu was wanted for war crimes by the ICC, now you know.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
https://t.co/RqGjdCjV6n

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Can we just quit giving Americans’ hard earned money to this blood thirsty war criminal? Peace in the Middle East would follow quickly.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

In this race, Chuck Schumer is throwing his weight behind Haley Stevens. Of the candidates, she’s the only one who accepts corporate PAC dollars, she’s taken thousands from the company that sells tasers to ICE and from Elon Musk’s companies, and she refuses to hold any public events or take hard questions from voters.

That’s what he wants to put up against Mike Rogers in November?

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Goebbels Lite is desperate for more violence. This regime is falling apart and he needs an excuse to crack down on the election. He’s adding “revolutionaries” for a reason.

[Malcolm Nance @MalcolmNance]

The lesson some Trump supporters fail to learn … you cannot bomb your way to peace if bombing was your only goal.

Trump lost this war & ended it bc the world economy was going to collapse.

His incompetent @SecWar never planned to keep the Strait of Hormuz open & protect global trade.

He had no strategy except kill & pray Iran would collapse.

Iran now controls 20% of the world’s energy flow.

Trump had to fold.
That’s the reason we lost.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Children belong at home and in school. Not locked away at the Dilley Trailer Prison. Every day, babies and children are traumatized. The food and water make them sick. Their medical needs are often ignored.

I am calling to shut down Dilley.