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I've been keeping a scorecard for Mamdani and there are both good things you never heard of and a fair number of unfinished/stalled programs and some put off to the "bright future". Tell me what I missed. Here's my new Substack
therunoff.substack.com/p/cop…
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catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad is apparently unprecedented. It would be just awful to activate all the members of a politician’s family to attack them…as the Democrats did with every member of RFK’s family.
youtube.com/watch?v=ww9fTNrW…
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Acton's mother has been estranged from her daughter for 48 years because she sided with her husband (Acton's stepfather) when Acton reported that her stepfather had sexually assaulted her. That is different than RFK Jr.'s family, whose criticism of RFK Jr is focused on policy. dispatch.com/story/news/loc…
This is something every web site in the known universe had to deal with today, including even me on my little site but if their devs couldn't quickly download the new widely-available security patch in their situation, maybe there's more to this.
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
🛑Israeli actress is taking Francesca Albanese to court.
Israeli actress and model Sarai Givaty has filed a NIS 500,000 defamation lawsuit against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.
According to the lawsuit, Albanese shared a 23-second clip from a 2025 interview, presented without its full context, and compared Givaty’s remarks to arguments used by Nazi officials to justify the murder of children during the Holocaust.
Givaty says she never called for children to be killed. She was discussing the dangers of extremism and the radicalization of children.
Albanese’s post reportedly reached more than two million views. Givaty says she subsequently received death threats and suffered damage to her reputation and career.
Think about that. A UN official used her international platform to make a devastating comparison involving an Israeli woman, without presenting the full context of her remarks.
Givaty is now fighting back in court.
Holding a UN position does not place anyone above accountability. Accusations this serious demand evidence, context, and responsibility.
Source: N12 :Yael Yafeh
Photo: Heli Friedman , N12
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
When you praise a mass murderer as a 'humanitarian,' you become complicit in his crimes.
You insult the memory of the victims of the destruction of Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol. You gaslight the women raped in Bucha. You mock the families of stolen Ukrainian children. You show that you share the same nihilistic universe as the perpetrator of these atrocities.
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
I remember that article. And how infuriating it was in tone (patronising) and content (error-strewn)
Digging in the archives of The Atlantic, I found this gem from 2002.
"The Baltics are knocking at NATO's door. Don't let them in"
Talk about aged like milk...
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Just looking at these 5 ballot questions, I ask "Did the construction lobby get to Mamdani after the hotel lobby was through him and got theirs last year, on last year's back-of-the-ballot giveaways?" Let me read the article, however.
gothamist.com/news/ballot-qu…
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Anthropic will be very surprised to learn that the US government can’t direct a private company to make or not make particular decisions.
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
ГОССЕКРЕТАРЬ РУБИО: Если бы не помощь Соединённых Штатов, в том числе при администрации Трампа, Украины сегодня просто не существовало бы.
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
So that gives his boss the right to torture the country now for a percentage for his friends and family.
⚡️ Rubio says Ukraine wouldn't exist today without the US
"We're no longer going to be defensive about this topic, okay?" the US Secretary of State told reporters in a visibly irritated tone, stressing that Ukraine would not exist as a sovereign state without American assistance.
According to Rubio, the US has provided Ukraine with billions of dollars in aid, starting under the Biden administration and continuing under Trump.
At the same time, Rubio acknowledged the bravery of Ukrainian soldiers, who have "very bravely fought for their country" against a much larger nation.
What?..
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Trump has provided no new aid Trump after he took office. Biden provided €30B a year.
29 countries have put $6.7B into PURL to buy US weapons, which supply about 95% of Ukraine's Patriot interceptors. US refuses to supply them.
kielinstitut.de/media/news/eur…
assets.ctfassets.net/mj324dykhxwi/4…
defence-industry.eu/ukraine-says-p…
statista.com/chart/35554/mi…
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
The late Vladimir Bukovsky once articulated the proper way to talk to Putin, should you have to:
“The KGB are a particular species that don’t understand the word no. You can’t compromise with them and they won’t genuinely seek to compromise with you. An opponent’s attempts at compromise are viewed as weakness and you will cause immense grief for yourself if you don’t tell them off. If you don’t, they will press harder until they get you to work for them. For the KGB, you are either their agent or their enemy — there is nothing in between. So what you have to do is look Putin straight in the eyes and tell him to go you know where. That’s it.”
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
As Russia penalises European firms over Ukraine, US rivals largely spared - reuters.com/business/finance…
What is this really about, anybody? Besides the joke pest guy at the end. They are too white? Too liberal? Not DSA enough? Or the opposite? Too DSA to actually do work? anybody?
nytimes.com/2026/10/21/nyreg…
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Amid all the sophistry about Starshield / Starlink and the promise to return service within 48 hours, frontline officers tell me they have yet to see previous speeds restored.
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Read about how @JDVance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice President's falling for it was collected in a file sent directly to the Kremlin. Inside Putin's "Doppelgänger" operation, based on leaked correspondence between the PA and Russia's Agency for Social Design: theins.press/en/inv/298359
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Remarkable piece (tied both to #Ukraine and to the unrest in France)
Read about how @JDVance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice President's falling for it was collected in a file sent directly to the Kremlin. Inside Putin's "Doppelgänger" operation, based on leaked correspondence between the PA and Russia's Agency for Social Design: theins.press/en/inv/298359
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Look what snowflakes these people are. Witkoff could have said “thank you.” He called Putin a “humanitarian” days after his drone murdered a baby in her stroller, and the baby’s mother. Tweet through the universal condemnation, though—that’ll help.
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
The reporter who exposed Theranos loved the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary but says its ‘artistry’ shouldn’t obscure the fraud fortune.com/2026/10/20/john-…
catfitz 🌻🪆✡️♱📖⚛️🌐🤖 retweeted
Indeed. The biggest change to Starlink usage in the war recently was turning it off for the Russians—something Musk agreed to do at the request of Fedorov. This is punitive without cause.
