S L Boyes-Schiller

Ex-pat, US Army veteran, semi-retired Yankee living in Europe. Interested in logistics, history and anthropology, cool IT, travel - and Dachshunds!!!!

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Republicans control all 3 branches of government.

Democrats introduced 7 bills to fund TSA.

Each one was blocked by Republicans.

[Jamie Raskin @jamie_raskin]

Check out the Boss’ stirring new anthem honoring Renee Good and Alex Pretti. This melancholy and powerful song will mobilize millions more in the streets against “King Trump’s private army” as we hear the voice of Minneapolis “singing through the bloody mist.”

https://t.co/XrkbKfizcr

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

During a late-night nonsense-posting spree, President Trump shared two posts and a video that falsely claimed Walmart is about to shut 250 of its 303 California stores because of the state’s “$22 per hour minimum wage.” The minimum wage is $16.90, not $22, and Walmart tells me this morning that the mass-closure claim is fake, in fact that it just opened a new store in California last month; Gov. Newsom’s office posted a tweet expressing disbelief at this nonsense and an even wilder inaccurate conspiracy theory Trump shared about Newsom during the posting blitz. Newsom’s office wrote, “We cannot believe we have to say any of this out loud. We cannot believe this is real life. And we truly cannot believe this man has the nuclear codes.”

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Thank you Bruce Springsteen for “Streets of Minneapolis,” a powerful tribute to Renee Good and Alex Pretti and to the strength of the people of Minnesota.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!!

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs.

Petty insults at the expense of people with disabilities won't change the fact that you're risking troops' lives to boost Chevron's stock price.

It's my job to hold you accountable.

[S L Boyes-Schiller @ssboyes]

@strategywoman It’s a beautiful tree. Prayers for Ukraine as always!

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

President Trump’s plan to force Ukraine to give up more territory, to cut its Army by more than half, to never join NATO nor let foreign troops in its territory is an abomination. Freedom loving Americans must tell the President that we reject the worst appeasement seen since 1938. The Russians said they respected Ukraines sovereignty and boundaries in 1994. What makes President Trump think we can now trust Putin? This agreement weakens Ukraine and leaves them vulnerable to new Russian invasions in the years to come.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous
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https://t.co/rjEjEXZyd0

[S L Boyes-Schiller @ssboyes]

@saintjavelin @JonathanLanday Unbelievable.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

The US will forever bear the shame if our policies do not change to support this brave leader and our European allies.

[S L Boyes-Schiller @ssboyes]

@strategywoman Greetings from the Netherlands with my war coffee. We remember the Holodomor and honor the victims.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Trump has provoked a new and dire development in the ongoing American constitutional crisis. The voters, Congress, and, yes, the U.S. military must all now be more vigilant than at any time in our modern history.

https://t.co/LsCF3S5y1u

[S L Boyes-Schiller @ssboyes]

@strategywoman Glad you are back. And I am here to see you again.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

I am having a hard time understanding how withholding intelligence and early warning from Ukraine advances our strategic interests or helps make America great.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Game, set, match.

The only message that matters.

🇨🇦🇺🇦

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

WHITE HOUSE USED KGB INTERROGATION TACTICS AGAINST ZELENSKY
Lech Wałęsa, political prisoner who went on to become the first president of Poland as the Soviet Union collapsed and won a Nobel Peace Prize, had flashbacks to his own interrogations by the KGB-run secret police while watching Trump and Vance attack Zelensky in the Oval Office. Here is his letter, signed by dozens of political prisoners of the Kremlin communists —

Dear Mr. President,

We watched the account of your conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with horror and disgust. We find your expectations for respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States to Ukraine, which is fighting Russia, offensive. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who are shedding their blood in defense of the values of the free world. For over 11 years, they have been dying on the front lines in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland, which has been attacked by Putin’s Russia.

We do not understand how the leader of a country that is a symbol of the free world can fail to see this.

Our horror was also caused by the fact that the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation reminded us of what we remember well from interrogations by the Security Service and from courtrooms in communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, on the orders of the all-powerful communist political police, also explained to us that they held all the cards, and we had none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that because of us, thousands of innocent people were suffering. They deprived us of our freedom and civil rights because we did not agree to cooperate with the authorities and did not show them gratitude. We are shocked that you treated President Volodymyr Zelensky in a similar manner.

The history of the 20th century shows that every time the United States wanted to maintain distance from democratic values and its European allies, it ended up threatening itself. This was understood by President Woodrow Wilson, who decided on the United States’ entry into World War I in 1917. This was understood by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, decided that the war in defense of America would be fought not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the states attacked by the Third Reich.

We remember that without President Ronald Reagan and American financial involvement, the collapse of the Soviet Union empire would not have been possible. President Reagan was aware that in Soviet Russia and the countries it conquered, millions of enslaved people were suffering, including thousands of political prisoners who paid with their freedom for their dedication to defending democratic values. His greatness consisted, among other things, in the fact that he unhesitatingly called the USSR the “Evil Empire” and waged a decisive fight against it. We won, and a monument to President Ronald Reagan stands today in Warsaw opposite the US Embassy.

Mr. President, material assistance—military and financial—cannot be an equivalent for the blood shed in the name of the independence and freedom of Ukraine, Europe, and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is owed to those who make the sacrifice of blood and freedom. For us, people of “Solidarity,” former political prisoners of the communist regime serving Soviet Russia, this is obvious.

We appeal for the United States to fulfill the guarantees it provided along with Great Britain in the Budapest Memorandum in 1994, which explicitly committed to defending the inviolability of Ukraine’s borders in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear weapons arsenal. These guarantees are unconditional: there is not a word there about treating such assistance as an economic exchange.

[. @GregTSargent]

Openly admitting that the Trump/GOP position is expressly that Putin should decide the fate of Ukraine, and Ukraine should not

[Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 @notesfrompoland]

Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques https://t.co/HUgCqVzlLz

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.