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Felipe Pait retweeted
We have detected speed restrictions on Starshield on our Ukrainian territory – in the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine. The speed limit is back at 161 kilometers per hour – that’s 100 miles per hour.
This directly affects our ability to intercept Russian jet-powered “shahed” drones. These drones come from those areas, and because of the speed restrictions, we simply cannot catch up with them in time.
Near the frontline, we cannot use our aircraft. Only drone interceptors can operate there. And without the speed we need, shooting down these “shaheds” becomes much harder.
This means more Russian strikes get through, and more of our people are killed by Russia. We are trying to get the details from the American side, but so far, we know very little.
If someone in America is making decisions that basically treat Ukrainian territory as if it is not Ukrainian, then this tells us where things are going. We need to be clear and never recognize Russia’s occupation of Ukrainian territory in any way.
From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (3/3)
Felipe Pait retweeted
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
Felipe Pait retweeted
Mais uma foto para o album de vergonha de Guterres. Está a ficar tão cheio que se calhar tem de comprar um outro.
Felipe Pait retweeted
Moral da história é que o FHC será lembrado pelas realizações em seus dois mandatos e o Lula por suas quatro vitórias eleitorais.
Felipe Pait retweeted
O que o PSOL está fazendo é muito, muito grave.
Enquanto pessoas do partido foram presas em uma investigação sobre exploração sexual de adolescentes, o partido está promovendo uma campanha de ódio e desinformação contra turistas israelenses em Itacaré.
O PSOL escolheu o racismo e a xenofobia. Pois bem. Não são eles que gritam “fogo nos racistas”? Que seja então!
#PSOLPartidoRacista
Felipe Pait retweeted
Lutnick advocated the tariffs, scuttled a trade deal with Canada that sparked a pre-midterm trade war, and has been covering for a company funneling our technology to China while stalling presidential orders to curtail those transfers.
Felipe Pait retweeted
Rahile Omer, the youngest detainee photographed in the Xinjiang Police Files, has died in a Chinese prison at 23.
RFA Uyghur Service reports that officials in Konasheher County, Kashgar, had confirmed by phone that she died one to two months earlier.
Her case is documented in my 2022 study of the Xinjiang Police Files. She was the youngest of the 2,884 photographed persons confirmed as detained.
Xinjiang’s mass surveillance platform flagged her as a “Type 12 person,” meaning someone connected to an existing police case. Both of her parents had been detained on July 3, 2017. Her father was a government official. The records note that she was first spared because she was “14 years old, a non-adult student.” Police detained her on September 28, less than three months after her parents.
RFA has now reported what followed. A judicial official said that in 2019 she was moved from the camp to a detention center because the “education” had not taken effect, she had given no information about others in her case, and she had prayed through gestures in her dormitory. In October 2021, after she turned 18, she was sentenced to 12 years in prison. An officer said she died of a heart condition but gave no further details. These statements cannot be independently verified.
Rahile spent more than a third of her life in custody because of her family. Beijing should release her medical and prison records and disclose what has happened to her parents.
Report links below.
Felipe Pait retweeted
Thank you for giving us the confidence that, at any moment, Denmark stands with us – and that Denmark truly wants the best for Ukraine.
There is something really special about this feeling knowing that someone truly wishes you well.
I feel this every time I speak with Mette. And every time I speak with people from Denmark.
Every time, I feel the same thing – your intentions are truly good. I think it’s because this is simply who you are. And because you understand something very simple, but very wise – treat others the way you would want to be treated.
This is part of your Danish spirit – what you call “samfundssind” – the belief that we are responsible not only for ourselves, but for others too. In today’s world, treating others this way is truly priceless. Thank you for that – thank you for being Denmark – a country that acts with heart, and confidence, a country that we in Ukraine – and everyone in Europe – can always count on.
From a speech at the Danish Folketing. (1/3)
Felipe Pait retweeted
He was an active public figure who "was at home in Paris" because he spent his exile years there. Back in BR he helped to organize the democratic transition in the 1970s, elected deputy Senator in 1978, ran for São Paulo mayor in 1985, elected Senator in 1986.⇓
Felipe Pait retweeted
How can a terrorist regime that blinded these women, sexually assaulted these political prisoners, and subjected them to mock executions be nominated to a UN committee that helps shape programs on human rights?
This is not just a slap in the face to the people of Iran. It is an insult to every democratic nation that claims to stand for human rights.
We are standing in German Parliament with a mother whose daughter was executed with a woman whose brother was executed by this regime.
They are holding the pictures of protesters who received death sentence.
Now imagine telling these women and men that the very regime responsible for their suffering has been nominated to a UN committee that helps shape the organization’s programs and priorities.
How can you look these women in the eyes and still call this human rights diplomacy?
Felipe Pait retweeted
Antissemitismo está normalizado no Brasil. Minha TL foi invadida por "antisionistas". Praticamente todos espumando antissemitismo.
Se as lideranças de partidos como o PSOL não pararem isso poderemos ter problemas sérios em breve.
Felipe Pait retweeted
This is not the work of one or a few individuals.
This is yet another indication that Europe is under a major hybrid attack from #Russia.
"Italy Evacuates Hundreds of Schools Due to Bomb Alert, With Threats in Scotland and Ireland."
usnews.com/news/world/articl…
Felipe Pait retweeted
O governador quer passar a boiada na Justiça de São Paulo? 🐂
A nomeação de Ricardo Salles, o ministro do “passar a boiada”, para comandar a Secretaria da Justiça e Cidadania do estado é uma afronta. Hoje ele é réu, acusado de facilitar contrabando de madeira.
É essa secretaria que cuida de direitos humanos, proteção de minorias, Fundação Casa e Procon.
São Paulo merece alguém que respeite a lei. Ricardo Salles na Justiça, não.
Tarcísio oficializa Ricardo Salles como secretário de Justiça
www1.folha.uol.com.br/coluna…
Felipe Pait retweeted
.@neeratanden on what Dems need to do to lower prices:
“If we got rid of the tariffs tomorrow, and you ended the war the next day, that would lower costs for a lot of people...I think that’s just really basic."
Felipe Pait retweeted
The federal minimum wage today is $7.25 an hour. No one with a full-time job can survive on that.
Illinois nearly doubled our minimum wage. The time for Congress to act is now.
Felipe Pait retweeted
For Other Worlds, I wrote about findings by the astronomer Sara Seager and her son Max that challenge "water chauvinism" in astrobiology by showing that sulfuric acid could be the solvent for an entirely different kind of extraterrestrial life. nytimes.com/2026/11/10/scien…
Felipe Pait retweeted
Mette Frederiksen @Statsmin and I had a great conversation with students at the University of Copenhagen. Thank you for the warm welcome and interesting questions. We spoke a lot about our unity in Europe and why it is so important to support Ukraine, which is preventing Russian aggression from spreading further.
I fully agree with Mette that if we allow Russia to decide Ukraine’s fate, we will open the way for it to make decisions about the rest of Europe. We need to be stronger than the Russians. And only through unity can we achieve this. Thank you!
