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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

WILSON: In 1987, Trump made his first trip to Moscow, and while he was there, something happened. No one knows what.

He came back and immediately placed a paid ad in New York Times saying we need to get out of NATO, that we’re paying too much.

It was Russian talking points 101. At that moment, something happened in Trump’s brain.

Whether it was kompromat, Trump’s unsophisticated nature, or Russians simply persuading him that he could do business in Russia and build a Trump Tower in Moscow, whether it was venality or kompromat, Trump changed, and he's never abandoned that view since 1987.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Reminder: Donald Trump’s immediate reaction to the 9/11 attacks was to brag that his building was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan after the Twin Towers collapsed.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

four years into putin’s war, russia’s economy suddenly getting crushed by ukrainian counterstrikes

[How To Prompt @HowToPrompt__]

This paper answers why psychopaths keep ending up as CEOs and politicians.

Researchers mapping out the mechanics of "successful psychopathy" found that corporate capitalism and modern political selection systems are not neutral.

They are hyper-efficient filtering machines.

And they are specifically optimized to select for the exact traits normal people find repulsive.

Normal leaders are constrained by empathy, guilt, and long-term risk aversion. They hesitate when a decision hurts people. They feel the weight of collateral damage.

Psychopaths don’t have an emotional brake pedal.

When a company or a political party needs someone to ruthlessly slash budgets, fire thousands of people, bluff through a crisis, or project absolute, unshakeable confidence, normal candidates stutter.

Psychopaths step right up.

Their superficial charm, pathological fearlessness, and total lack of remorse look identical to "strong leadership" during an interview or a campaign.

They weaponize corporate chaos. While everyone else is panicking, they ruthlessly manipulate the narrative, step over their peers, and take credit for the wins.

They weaponize charisma to dazzle the board or the voters, and hide their emptiness behind a mask of high performance.

The system rewards the ruthlessness, promotes them to the top, and punishes anyone who tries to slow them down with ethics.

The researchers call it a feedback loop of structural decay.

Corporations and governments built an environment where being entirely devoid of a conscience isn't a disqualifier.

It’s a competitive advantage.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

A Chinese state-owned firm has supplied Russia with the materials required to build hundreds of kamikaze drones, according to internal Russian company shipping documents obtained by POLITICO. https://t.co/bSAOFW71iy

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

What would happen if Xi Jinping posted a map where 🇨🇳 has taken over all of East Asia, and Putin one of 🇷🇺 having absorbed all of Western Europe? It would have been seen as either insane or dangerous - or both.

[Financial Times @FT]

A foiled attack at a German airport last month using a drone laden with military-grade explosives has provided a brutal wake-up call about the level of Russian impunity over its aggressive approach towards Nato member states. https://t.co/kusnEG0ZVJ

[Reuters @Reuters]

The air raid alert in Kyiv was live during Alyona Bohatyrenko's labor. ‘I gave birth during an air alert!’ she beamed, one of several women to brave strikes to have their children at the Ukrainian hospital. Lucy Fielder has more https://t.co/dwefTyYjmk

[Global BC @GlobalBC]

Vancouver police officer Kalwinder Dosanjh charged over theft of more than $3M

https://t.co/hwmHRTNvff

[Донбасс Реалии @donbassrealii]

«Бежал ее ребенок, мальчик, лет 11, может, и он кричал: мама-мамочка, ты жива, мы будем жить, мамочка, мы выживем». Военные 23-й бригады «Хортица» спасли беременную женщину во время одной из недавних атак РФ КАБами на Запорожье.

Подробнее: https://t.co/fSCcAgT4gk

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

A Russian general suspected by Kyiv of orchestrating a 2024 attack on a children’s hospital was reportedly shot in the head on Thursday.

🔗: https://t.co/Jt9tZYrNsr

[Энергия на шару @PowerNaShary]

Мне иногда попадаются видео с опросами в РФ, где народ на голубом глазу верит, что с остановкой боевых действий россияне и украинцы снова станут друзьями. Такие же еб*нутые на весь свой пустой череп иногда приходят в комментарии под подобными видео.

Это прошлая ночь в Одессе.

[Chris Ryan @Watchdog_MP]

Paul Schmidt asked a man not to smoke in his toddler’s face. 💨

28 seconds later he is on a Vancouver Starbucks patio with six stab wounds in the torso and neck. His 3-year-old is there. His fiancée is there. 🔪

Inderdeep Singh Gosal, walked in with a knife he called a “sign from God.” Off his meds. Stabbed a father to death in public.

Yesterday a B.C. judge said that’s manslaughter, not murder because the dad threw a punch first, so the killer “feared for his life.”

If six stab wounds in the neck, in front of a child, is not murder in Canada, the word has no meaning.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #Murder

[DW на русском @dw_russian]

Германия выделит Украине еще 250 млн евро на подготовку энергосистемы к зиме. Средства поступят в Фонд поддержки энергетики, из которого Украина финансирует закупку запчастей и оборудования для восстановления разрушенной энергетической инфраструктуры
https://t.co/Ru9K4XaeEj

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Liberal French women are putting on hijabs in ‘solidarity’ with Muslims amid Marine Le Pen’s call to ban them in public.

Strangely, we never hear about removing the hijab in solidarity with women in Iran and Afghanistan who die for wearing it wrong, or taking it off.

The ‘solidarity’ is always one-sided.

[aly кішка! ✙ @mexic0la_]

Don’t look away. This is genocide

[Maksym Borodin @adnashmyash]

@BBCWorld This is the first thing Russian occupiers do on occupied Ukrainian territories.

[CTV News Vancouver @CTVVancouver]

Man convicted of manslaughter instead of murder in killing on Starbucks patio https://t.co/5GjOFEit9M

[Steve Kooner MLA @SteveKooner]

A man was killed on a downtown Vancouver Starbucks patio after a confrontation over public drug use. He was there with his partner and their three-year-old child. The accused has now been convicted of manslaughter, not murder.

That outcome will leave many British Columbians furious. A family went out for coffee and a father was killed in front of his partner and their young child. How did our streets get to the point where even a patio is not safe?

This government spent years weakening enforcement, normalizing open drug use, and failing to deliver a justice system that actually protects the public. They talked about public safety while disorder spread into the most ordinary places. A coffee shop. A family outing. A child sitting there when a man was killed.

The NDP’s soft-on-crime agenda has failed. British Columbians should not have to live like this.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Katherine Birbalsingh says it straight: schools teach slavery, but they don’t hear that Britain banned it, enforced it at sea, and paid a fortune to end it.

Katherine Birbalsingh is right. That gap isn’t education it’s a political lesson.

The Arab slave trade barely gets a look in.

That’s not an accident. It’s a story built around guilt, not history.

She’s talking common sense and the truth.

Every school needs a teacher like this. This woke version of the past is damaging children and every classroom needs this kind of honesty and every classroom needs a teacher like Katherine.