Dejan Steinbuch

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.

[Rohoza (Дев'ятий) Mykhailo 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇨🇦 @Oct7NeverForget]

Thirty senior American psychiatrists and mental health experts have signed a statement declaring President Donald Trump mentally unfit to serve, warning that his sole authority over U.S. nuclear weapons poses a danger to the entire world.

According to the doctors, Trump’s behavior over the past year has shown “objectively observable signs of serious medical concern.”

They cited:
— a significant decline in cognitive functioning,
— episodes of apparent drowsiness during critical public appearances,
— severely impaired judgment and impulse control,
— loss of self-control,
— and grandiose or delusional beliefs, including claims of infallibility and imagery portraying himself as a figure with a “divine mission.”

The physicians argue that Trump now represents a “clear and present danger” and called for urgent action to remove him from office.

“It is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be president of the United States,” the statement reads.

The letter invokes the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allows the vice president and cabinet to declare a president incapable of performing the duties of office.

One of the signatories, Dr. Henry David Abraham of Tufts University School of Medicine, warned about “the buildup of psychiatric symptoms in a person who has sole authority to launch nuclear weapons.”

He pointed to Trump’s April 7, 2026 Truth Social post regarding Iran, in which Trump wrote:
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

According to the doctors, the warning signs include:
— grandiosity without restraint,
— paranoia,
— impulsivity,
— vindictiveness,
— uncontrolled rage,
— and a sense of omnipotence in a man with unchecked control over nuclear weapons.

Psychiatrist Bandy Lee, another signatory, said the issue now “transcends politics and concerns the survival of humanity itself.”

The statement was submitted to the U.S. Congressional Record by Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed.

The doctors emphasized that their declaration is “medical, not political,” and includes professionals with both conservative and liberal views.

Source: The BMJ

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Ne dobi vsak četrte priložnosti. Ampak dajmo mu — priložnost. Čez 100 dni bomo naredili prvo inventuro, pa bo marsikaj jasno. Pustimo se presenetiti. Sicer pa čestitke vsem, ki si jih zaslužijo. Demokracija v Sloveniji (še vedno) funkcionira.

[Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער @gidonsaar]

Today, I am proud to announce that Israel will open its first-ever embassy in Ljubljana.

The election of Prime Minister @JJansaSDS marks a new chapter in relations between Israel and Slovenia. After years of the hostility of the previous government- we now have an opportunity to rebuild, strengthen, and deepen a real partnership.

An Israeli embassy is more than a diplomatic mission. It is a statement of friendship, dialogue, and a shared belief in freedom, democracy, and security.

We are turning today a new page.

When Israel’s friends return to power - Israel returns.
🇸🇮🇮🇱

[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

🇸🇪⚡ Swedish proposal could ruin Russian summer
Migration Minister Johan Forssell (M) is now coming out with a Swedish initiative that could hit Russian tourists hard in the EU.

Last year, 477,878 Schengen visas were issued to Russian citizens.

Forssell: “It is completely unreasonable that Russian citizens are enjoying luxury holidays while Ukrainians are dying.”

Sweden wants EU countries to be able to deny visas based on nationality — something that is currently not allowed.

The proposal has the support of all Nordic countries, the Baltics, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Poland.

Why Sweden is pushing this:
– stop Russian luxury tourism
– reduce security threats and espionage
– close loopholes used by the Kremlin
– make a political mark during ongoing wars

Forssell: “We must put an end to Russian weekend trips around the Mediterranean.”

What is happening now:
The proposal is at the EU migration ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg.
If it goes through, Russian travel to the EU could be severely restricted — perhaps as early as this summer, depending on processing times.

In short:
Sweden wants to close the door to Russian tourism.
The question is whether the EU dares to take the step.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Smodej je sodišče zaprosil, da mu pokrije stroške za prihod v Slovenijo.

Ta pa ima smisel za humor.

https://t.co/3jpN00eIj6

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

@ZRonci33496 Peder sem, zdaj ste me pa dokončno razkrinkali 😞 Vi ste pa 100% proruski homofob in mizogin, ker vas je moj zapis tako vznemiril. Slava Vladimirju in njegovemu prijateljćku Stevotu 🙏

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Lepa otvoritvena slovesnost ob odprtju letošnjega gospodarskega foruma v Peterburgu. Za pirotehniko je brezplačno poskrbela Ukrajina.
Naj ob tej priliki javno pozovem predsednika Državnega zbora, naj 16. junija ne obišče Moskve, saj mu ne moremo zagotoviti varnosti. 😂😂😂

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Strahopetna sodrga Putinovih slovenskih trolov in anonimnežev — med njimi je posebej glasen spodnji “smerrrrrrch” — je zgrožena, ker so Ukrajinci napadli energetsko in vojaško infrastrukturo v Sankt Peterburgu. Kako si drznejo napasti Rusijo, ki zgolj mirno pobija Ukrajince?!

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Actually not. We just don’t care.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

USA: The whole world is laughing at your president.

[Kyrylo Shevchenko @KShevchenkoReal]

⚡⚡⚡BREAKING: Ireland’s dirty secret exposed: Data reveals Ireland’s Aughinish Alumina factory — owned by Russian giant Rusal — shipped a staggering 83% of its exports (200,619 tons) to Russia in Q1 2026 alone. While PM Micheál Martin claims sanctioning it would “hurt the EU more than Russia,” the truth is this Irish plant is fueling Putin’s war machine: alumina → Russian aluminum → weapons killing Ukrainians. Official statistics crush the factory’s own lies (they claimed only 45% to Russia). As Ireland prepares to lead the EU Council, will Dublin keep blocking sanctions on its Russian-owned cash cow? Share if you want real sanctions.

[Suzana Kos @SuzanaKos_]

S pomočjo informacijske pooblaščenke smo skoraj po treh mesecih prizadevanj dobili podatke, kako so ministri glasovali glede pridružitve Slovenije tožbi proti Izraelu. Golob ni glasoval, 7 Svobodinih ministrov je bilo proti. Glasovala ni niti Asta Vrečko
https://t.co/KuFcrGwf3M

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Systematic destruction of academic infrastructure, so called scholasticide, has been normalized in recent years. / Uničevanje akademske in znanstvene infrastrukture - sholasticid - je postala nova normalnost.

https://t.co/fz40l3hfUn

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

No, tole bo prva večja preizkušnja partnerskega odnosa med Stevanovićevimi populisti in formalno desno koalicijo Janeza Janše. Srbi so lahko nacionalna manjšina v Sloveniji kvečjemu v treh belokranjskih “uskoških” vaseh. Ostali so gasterbajtarji.

https://t.co/XgBQGx2KGC

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

If someone has to take a cognitive exam four times within an 18-month period, they're not just looking for dementia...

they've already found it.

The fact that he's confusing it with an IQ test only shows that it's worsening.

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Gospod Janša bo prvi vladar v slovenski moderni zgodovini, ki bo imel v vladi kar dva plemiča: Kralja Ciglerja in Kajzerja Toneta. Čestitke. Ali bo v kraljevski vladi poleg modre krvi tudi kaj politične modrosti, bomo kmalu videli.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Vladimir Putin is on a $26 billion quest for immortality—and it involves harvesting human organs from tiny pigs https://t.co/KYc1TwHaZw

[Dejan Steinbuch @steinbuch]

Se nam obeta nov fiasko specializirane tožilke Blanke Žgajnar? Njena statistika je samo v primeru Zorana Jankovića impresivna: od 13 zadev jih je 11 že izgubila, 2 sta še odprti. Verjetno dodatka za delovno uspešnost ne dobiva?

https://t.co/yMTARut5jk