Jarmo Mustonen

Grateful to 5000 reporters+scientists+artists+fellow global citizens who keep me/us informed on human progress...and 👹/🤡 Trump.

[Jarmo Mustonen @oak9]

Even with all the real-time information of the world available at their (phone) fingertips to fact-check all of the GOP lies, the poor chose not to do so.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

When historians look back on the collapse of the American empire, the *only* part that will baffle them for centuries to come will be that the poor voted over and over and over and over again to cut their own benefits in order to give more and more benefits to the rich and elite whom they so despised in every other aspect of life.

Just completely perplexing.

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

Former Trump administration adviser and intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy previously helped her father secure at least $12M from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin, leaked documents show.

Read the story: https://t.co/uzOx0PXXYT

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

Among the remarkable people from around the world who came to Ukraine in the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion to defend the country with weapons in their hands as part of the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was Ben Grant, the son of British Conservative MP Helen Grant. A former UK Sports Minister and adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2022, Helen Grant later learned of her son's decision only after he had already arrived in Ukraine.

A 30-year-old former Royal Marine and Afghanistan veteran, Ben Grant traveled to Ukraine on March 10, 2022, shortly after the full-scale invasion began. He did so secretly, without informing his mother in advance.

In May 2022, Ben Grant and his comrades rescued fellow British volunteer Dean Arthur, who had been seriously wounded during a Ukrainian counteroffensive north of Kharkiv. Thanks to their quick actions and the efforts of doctors in Kyiv, Arthur’s leg was saved.

In an interview at the time, Dean Arthur said that fighting for Ukraine was an honor and described Ukrainians as “a great people,” praising the courage of Ukrainian soldiers.

> “These guys are really fighting. They come into this as underdogs and they win. They do it every day, relentlessly. Not just the soldiers on the front line, but the volunteers, the hospitals, everyone,” he told The Telegraph.

Russian media also wrote about Ben Grant in his role as a commander of a group of foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine, unsurprisingly portraying him in a negative light.

That likely did little to concern Grant himself. From the beginning, he believed he was fighting on the side of what he saw as justice and freedom. Despite the risks, he was prepared to continue until Ukraine prevailed.

For him, the war was not only about territory—it was about values and human lives. Explaining why he came to Ukraine in March 2022, Grant said he made the decision after watching footage of a Russian strike on a residential building and hearing a child screaming in the background.

> “I’m a father of three children, and if those were my children, I know what I would do—I would go and fight.”

And so he came to fight for Ukraine.

Many Ukrainians remain grateful to him, as they are to all those who have defended Ukraine during the war. 🇺🇦🇬🇧

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation.
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[The Lever @LeverNews]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just let stand a bankruptcy tactic known as the “Texas two-step” — a corporate escape hatch for companies facing massive lawsuits.

Instead of facing victims in court, companies can move those claims into a separate shell company, send it into bankruptcy, and leave victims fighting for years while the real money stays protected.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"

Jewish journalist @kthalps

CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun

[ISHKA 🎒 @zvonko2026]

Une grande victoire pour les Albanais !

Le gouvernement albanais annonce l'arrêt des travaux du projet de Kushner et Ivanka et la suspension du projet.

Les foules refusent de rentrer chez elles tant que le projet n'est pas annulé intégralement.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Russian forces according to reports are being forced to withdraw on mass from positions around the Kinburn Spit south of the Dnipro river due to severe supply difficulties caused by continued Ukrainian drone strike campaigns on Southern logistical routes.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's be precise about what Bill Pulte actually did.

In December 2023, Pulte organized an event at a Florida hangar for investors in a company that had already gone bankrupt. They paid $500 each believing he had secret knowledge about how to recover their money. He arrived in a helicopter that had taken off from the same airfield, circled overhead, and landed again for dramatic effect. Attendees signed away their shareholder rights to one of Pulte's associates as a condition of getting a single share of Pulte Homes in their ticket package. They got cases of Coors Light, bottled water, and a promoter slapping a supporter in the face with a green dildo.

The bankrupt company did not resurrect. Nobody got their money back.

This is the man now nominated as acting Director of National Intelligence. Not a reformed con artist. Not someone who made one bad call. Someone whose documented record across memestock promotion, a failed 50-year mortgage proposal, and opposition research that went nowhere is a consistent pattern: say what the audience wants to hear, perform confidence, collect the reward, and move to the next room.

The intelligence community employs roughly 100,000 people and holds the country's most sensitive secrets. Indiana families have kids in that workforce. The people who rely on accurate threat assessment to make decisions about American safety deserve someone whose qualifications extend beyond getting a retweet from Trump and buying a Mar-a-Lago membership.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

The russian refinery says alumina shipped from Ireland does not end up in weapons.

The Irish Government seems uninterested in testing that claim.

So I took a sample myself.

It will now be compared with battlefield debris from Ukraine.

This should have been done by the state.

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 F-16 DESTROYS 4 RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS IN LOW-LEVEL STRIKE ON TAGANROG BASE

Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets reportedly carried out a bold airstrike against a Russian helicopter base near Taganrog in Russia's Rostov region.

Flying at very low altitude to avoid radar detection, the aircraft allegedly struck helicopters parked on the airfield, destroying at least four, including Ka-52 attack helicopter models.

The base, which had reportedly been used to support assaults on Ukrainian positions, was left engulfed in flames, with multiple secondary explosions reported across the site.

If confirmed, the operation would mark the first deep manned strike inside Russian territory using Western-supplied fighter aircraft.

👇 Will Russia move more of its aviation assets farther from the front line after this raid?

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Republican-appointed judge: “The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders.”

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me.

The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
https://t.co/HU5yWUCpCN

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.

This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @SecRollins: You lie. The average life cycle of a Screwworm ranges from 14 to 54 days depending on temperature and humidity.

The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days.

If you can’t accept responsibility, or even apologize for messing up, you need to resign.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russian attack on the center of Zaporizhzhia.

Two people killed. At least 23 more injured, including six kids aged 5 through 17.

Russian drones damaged residential buildings and vehicles and destroyed market stalls.

That lady's cries are heartbreaking. Russia caused them.

[The Black Spark @BlckSpark]

We have shut down the Valdai-Pskov-Riga gas pipeline.

The "Valdai-Pskov-Riga" pipeline runs through Staraya Russa (Novgorod Oblast, Russia) and supplies raw materials to the Pskov Long-Range Communications Equipment Plant (and it is one of Putin's "gifts" to his cronies who control the flow of gas money). An excellent target!

The plant manufactures classified communications equipment for the Ministry of Defense, Gazprom, and Russian Railways.

The reality is changing, and now it is no longer just Putin's inner circle can control who receives gas in northwestern Russia - we have lots more surprises in store🔥

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[Jonathan Richie @JRichieTX]

UPDATE: New World Screwworm is no longer contained to Texas.

USDA says that the infested dog announced earlier today lives in Lea County, New Mexico and will be reclassified as the first detection in that state.

And now a goat in Gillespie County, TX, has also been confirmed.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: A federal judge has ruled Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unauthorized tax on businesses and must be vacated. https://t.co/bQXFTaiMmK

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

BREAKING: NSO Group caught trying to hack across @WhatsApp. Again!

In defiance of 🇺🇸US Courts.

WhatsApp disrupted the Pegasus campaign & says it violates US Federal injunction they won against NSO.

Asks Federal judge to hold NSO Group in contempt.

Many implications... 1/

[César Biondini @BiondiniCesar]

La seleccion de fútbol de Irán llegó a México, donde se alojará durante el Mundial. Si bien jugará todos sus partidos en EEUU, Trump les negó hospedaje y los obliga a salir del país apenas termine cada encuentro. La FIFA aceptó ese acto de mal anfitrión.