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This is an important thread for those focused on events in Ukraine. It brings to light what many of us already knew but what Russian disinfo efforts are trying to distort. Please read and share.
11 years ago, a pivotal moment took place in the history of Ukraine. The Berkut special police unit killed 48 people in the center of Kyiv, Yanukovych fled, and the Russians started a war against Ukraine. Share this thread. It`s huge. 👇
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Trump...Bolsonaro...Orban...Netanyahu... Create the narrative ahead of time, then continue pounding away to undermine trust in the election.
Netanyahu: They are trying to steal the election from us!
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Well, based on several in this administration, Arabs produce billions in shady deals. Racist POS.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Novel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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I don't even....
Trump on Daylight Savings Time: They say the clocks automatically change, but you don't know that, so you wind it back still further.
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Not a slip. Not a bug.
BILLIONAIRES FIRST? —Ashley Moody had a MAJOR GAFFE "When you stand up for representing the BOSSES and putting them first"
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With all the blaming & lecturing Ukraine about lives wasted, none are slamming Putin about sending a million Russians (among other nationalities) to their deaths with more wounded for life. Elon & others never seem to call out Putin for these senseless deaths.
This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.
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Making a mockery of our elections. It's like putting a tipline out there. The DoJ has to love this.
Trump: “—Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!“
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Telling that Israel's own military sees no sense of urgency here. Put these together - Israeli elections tomorrow, Netanyahu begging for strikes on Iran. Bibi definitely needed Trump to bail him out on strikes so Bibi could postpone elections. He's scared.
💥An Israeli security official to @CNN: "Netanyahu very much wanted to carry out a joint strike against Iran before the elections, and tried to persuade Trump, but didn't get the okay. One reason for that is that IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir told US counterpart Dan Kane that a strike would harm electoral process in Israel and lead to postponement of vote."
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How far our nation has slipped. This is the 'norm' of our President. Try teaching American Government when this is the story overriding anything Washington, Lincoln, FDR, & Kennedy did while in office.
Trump on Husted: "He went up 14 points or something. That was when I said the A-word. I looked at his body."
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Murdering POWs here. War crimes. This is what Witkoff calls "humanitarian" behavior. You think this is just Zelensky making Ukrainians fight? Ukrainians know what surrender to Russia means. Freedom cannot be taken for granted. It must be defended.
This is what Musk defends: Russian war crimes carried out openly. This is the humanity that Steve Witkoff defends. RUSSIAN EXECUTIONS.
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Bibi AND Trump are the same. Went from Iran is a nuclear danger to threat obliterated to they rebuilt AND weeks away to bombing the hell out of them endlessly to rebuilt and threatening shortly to destroy Israel. Massive lies OR incompetent leadership allowing Iran to rebuild?
נתניהו העלה פוסט שטוען שישראל נמצאת בסכנה מוחשית וקיומית בהקשר של גרעין האיראני. נתניהו לפני 12 ימים בפטריוטים: "ערוצי התבהלה לא מספרים שחיסלנו את הגרעין"
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Not a lot of happy faces when he says "I don't give a damn." Makes for a great ad - "I can't afford groceries"/"I don't give a damn". "Diesel is too expensive"/"I don't give a damn". "I can't afford a house"/"I don't give a damn". "Utility bill's killing me"/"I don't give a damn"
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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When you pay to top off that tank, remember this: "We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher' ... we're making a frickin' fortune" GOP2026 - "Vote for us! We're making a frickin' fortune."
Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'Cause Greenland has a lot of oil. We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher' ... we're making a frickin' fortune"
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And so it begins. They're saying Republican voters are too stupid and gullible. That they might vote for the wrong Sullivan.
Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month. wapo.st/47GV3EC
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All while we're told more oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz than pre-'excursion'.
BREAKING: Brent crude oil surges above $114/barrel for the first time since May 5th as US-Iran tensions escalate.
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So Elon is still enabling civilian deaths.
❗️Ukraine's General Staff now also confirms that Starlink/Starshield connection losses are still being recorded at certain speeds. Despite the disruption, Ukrainian forces continue striking Russian military targets. #Ukraine
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Castration with a dull butter knife would be a good start.
Allow me to put the vile Vivek Ramaswamy ad into perspective. This is Mike Caruso, GOP politician in Florida. He was arrested for molesting his grandson. He stuck his penis in his 3 year old grandson’s mouth and urinated. Vivek and JD Vance support Mike Caruso.
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This is truly frightening. Knowing how much these oligarchs that have fringe accelerationist/dark enlightenment beliefs, giving this much control over military command is beyond seriously concerning.
More reporting suggesting that Musk does indeed have his finger on Starshield's operability. Quite a lot of power for a ketamine-addicted trillionaire in bed with hostile foreign regimes. You might even say this endangers U.S. national security. wsj.com/world/trump-called-m…
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Pathetic. We can't defend our bases, our troops, or their families. And the Pentagon left military families to fend for themselves.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch has obtained dozens of NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. military bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families are breaking their silence, describing being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.” meidasnews.com/news/so-much-…
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