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If you're rational, facts inform your opinion. #JustAnotherLiberal On BlueSky: https://xitter.cf/t.co/qTeyK3Lzt7
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I'm enjoying blue skies. Hope I'll eventually find all the people I follow here are there too (including politicians) would find their way over but in the meantime I'll be checking in here as well. Find me at:
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US, Russia, and Israel appear to be coordinating against Europe and Canada, and it is clearly escalating. Trump & Netanyahu face being declawed in a few weeks. We must remain calm and resolute, do not give in to their provocations and destabilisation attempts. Together strong.
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Donald Trump set another record.
There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry.
Until now.
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🇺🇦 Zelenskyy delivers a blunt message to the United States:
“Just give us Starlink back. If you refuse, Ukraine will survive. We will continue defending ourselves with or without it.
But why would you restrict a country fighting for its survival? Why make it harder for us to defend our people?
I simply cannot understand the reasoning behind this decision. It is a mistake.”
Ukraine isn’t asking America to fight its war. It’s asking America not to stand in the way of its defense.
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BREAKING: Trump administration proposes allowing Russia to sell large amounts of natural gas to Europe, offering Putin billions in revenue, with envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arguing Ukraine should now consider restarting all pipelines that used to carry it, per the NYT.
The same envoys are weighing the release of up to $100 billion in frozen Russian sovereign assets as an upfront incentive for a limited ceasefire. European officials rejected that outright.
Assets, diesel sanctions, and now pipeline gas.
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The damage for SpaceX is massive
"The European Union is working toward fast-track antitrust approval for a satellite joint venture between Leonardo SpA, Airbus SE, and Thales SA, which is positioned as Europe's response to SpaceX"
The actions of the 🇺🇸 US administration have consequences.
Recent reports from 4 sources confirm that both Elon and Trump supported the restrictions of Starshield, which confirms my earlier posts stating that SpaceX is involved and part of it.
The Telegraph on Oct. 16 reported that it was Musk who proposed the speed cap to Trump — and Trump "agreed," one source said.
That sounds very likely to what really had happened including Elons denial to have any responsibility (half true) and Trumps lie which is just one more of the many he spreads every day. finance.yahoo.com/economy/po…
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Please remember that Marco Rubio is not only Secretary of State; he is also Trump's National Security Advisor. He owns every one of these decisions and is just as morally bankrupt as Trump is. Stop pretending otherwise.
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The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history.
No Kings. No Courtiers.
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An important study that deserves to be shared as widely as possible within the English-speaking world.
Last night, our friends at the *Militarnyi* portal published an English-language article containing a technical analysis of the onboard computer from a Russian jet-powered drone—the "Geran-4."
Of the 105 components identified, 80 come from American companies; Texas Instruments alone (including components from National Semiconductor, which was acquired by TI in 2011) accounts for 58.1% of the total.
In short: this points to a systemic reliance on Western electronics in this Russian attack drone.
For this reason, we have created a separate English-language "quote tweet" with commentary, in which we have tagged @TXInstruments directly.
We would appreciate it if you could share this post. 😉
Please tag journalists, American politicians, experts, and organizations involved in sanctions and export controls in the comments.
Our experience in disseminating such investigations shows that it is crucial to bring these findings to light beyond the Ukrainian "information bubble." They need to be seen by the manufacturers themselves, as well as by journalists, analysts, sanctions experts, American policymakers, and export control specialists.
Regardless of the current policy of the White House, the United States is much more than just a single administration or a single president. They include Congress, the media, industry experts, manufacturers, and government institutions—all of whom can raise the question of how American electronics end up in Russian attack drones on such a large scale. Therefore, such revelations must continue.
@informnapalm xitter.cf/InformNapalm/status/21…
Russia calls this “domestic production.”
Yet in the Geran-4 flight controller examined by Ukrainian specialists, no Russian-made electronics were found at all. Of 105 identified components, 80 came from 🇺🇸 U.S. companies — with @TXInstruments, including components from National Semiconductor acquired by TI in 2011, accounting for 58.1%.
#Russia #US #ExportControls
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If you read only one thing in Canada today, I encourage you to read this open letter.
It addresses something far more important than partisan politics. It addresses the rule of law, judicial independence, and the protections every Canadian citizen has against the abuse of government power.
Premier Danielle Smith is playing a dangerous game with one of the foundations of our constitutional democracy. When governments overstep their authority, disregard our rights, or act contrary to the law, where do citizens turn for protection? We turn to the courts. That is precisely why our judiciary must remain independent of political interference, including interference by the governments responsible for appointing judges.
Our democracy rests on three distinct branches of government: the legislature makes laws, the executive administers and enforces them, and the judiciary independently interprets and applies the law, including determining whether government actions comply with the Constitution. No government should be able to choose judges based on their willingness to support its political agenda.
Question 6 in Alberta’s October 19 referendum proposes changing who selects judges for Alberta’s superior courts. Changing the appointment process does not automatically eliminate judicial independence, but the political rhetoric surrounding this proposal raises serious concerns about undermining public confidence in our courts and introducing partisan influence into judicial appointments.
This open letter, supported by Alberta lawyers and retired judges, explains why those concerns deserve our attention. This isn’t simply an Alberta issue. The independence of our courts protects every Canadian, regardless of political affiliation.
The rule of law means that governments are accountable to the law, not that the law is accountable to governments.
Please take a few minutes to read this important letter.
alji.ca/sign-our-open-letter
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Leaked audio of Mike Rogers calling on Republicans to use off-duty police officers to intimidate voters in Detroit in an attempt to manipulate the Michigan Senate race:
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"President Trump should withdraw the invitation for Putin to attend. Failing that, the leaders of the other NATO states in the G20 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and the United Kingdom) should boycott the meeting."
lnk.thebulwark.com/4hPOo0U
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Morning after Trump decided not to implement Lindsey Graham's sanctions on Russia that received 86 Senate votes.
Yesterday, the Russians carried out one of their largest attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector – more than 15 critical power generation and transmission facilities were targeted across different regions of Ukraine. Restoration work is ongoing, with all necessary services and all available resources of Ukrainian energy companies involved. I thank everyone working practically nonstop to restore power.
The most difficult situation was in Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Shepetivka, Slavuta, and Netishyn. Energy facilities in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, and other regions were also hit. The Russians have scaled up their anti-energy operation and are trying to stretch our reserves and repair capabilities as thin as possible. Between 7 p.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today alone, more than 320 jet-powered and gasoline-powered “shaheds,” along with loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, were used against our energy sector, our cities, and our communities. And although our warriors are shooting down a significant number of them, the sheer scale and unrelenting pace of Russia’s strikes, specifically against our energy sector, are unfortunately having severe consequences.
It is important that our European partners have already prepared new support packages for Ukraine. I am grateful to them for this. And it is important that everyone in America also sees what is really happening. At a time when the Russians have carried out such a massive attack on our energy sector, a decision was unfortunately made in America to completely disregard the Lindsey Graham Act, which was supposed to impose truly effective pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end. This Act could have helped enormously – and still can! But it needs to actually work, and every voice in support of it matters.
Russia is trying to cause a blackout in Ukraine – right before winter. Russia is trying to leave millions of our people without electricity and heating. Pressure is needed to stop this. A U.S. sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor, financial rewards for Putin – all of this only encourages him to keep attacking. We must not give up ground. We must keep trying to end the war. To end it, not give Putin every reason to continue it indefinitely. I thank everyone who is truly fighting for peace and helping Ukraine!
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Yesterday, the Russians carried out one of their largest attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector – more than 15 critical power generation and transmission facilities were targeted across different regions of Ukraine. Restoration work is ongoing, with all necessary services and all available resources of Ukrainian energy companies involved. I thank everyone working practically nonstop to restore power.
The most difficult situation was in Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Shepetivka, Slavuta, and Netishyn. Energy facilities in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, and other regions were also hit. The Russians have scaled up their anti-energy operation and are trying to stretch our reserves and repair capabilities as thin as possible. Between 7 p.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today alone, more than 320 jet-powered and gasoline-powered “shaheds,” along with loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, were used against our energy sector, our cities, and our communities. And although our warriors are shooting down a significant number of them, the sheer scale and unrelenting pace of Russia’s strikes, specifically against our energy sector, are unfortunately having severe consequences.
It is important that our European partners have already prepared new support packages for Ukraine. I am grateful to them for this. And it is important that everyone in America also sees what is really happening. At a time when the Russians have carried out such a massive attack on our energy sector, a decision was unfortunately made in America to completely disregard the Lindsey Graham Act, which was supposed to impose truly effective pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end. This Act could have helped enormously – and still can! But it needs to actually work, and every voice in support of it matters.
Russia is trying to cause a blackout in Ukraine – right before winter. Russia is trying to leave millions of our people without electricity and heating. Pressure is needed to stop this. A U.S. sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor, financial rewards for Putin – all of this only encourages him to keep attacking. We must not give up ground. We must keep trying to end the war. To end it, not give Putin every reason to continue it indefinitely. I thank everyone who is truly fighting for peace and helping Ukraine!
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Bank of Canada sees sharply higher inflation outlook as oil surges, Macklem says reut.rs/4dNdICe reut.rs/4dNdICe
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To put this in laymen's terms, Musk and Trump are now hobbling Ukraine's ability to protect its civilian population from a type of Russian drone that functions more like a cruise missile. This is not the United States adopting a neutral position vis-a-vis the war. This is the United States facilitating Russian terror.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
kyivindependent.com/planned-…
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Putin’s bitch has his orders
Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order to exempt Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. nyti.ms/4zDoByS
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Any attorneys able to make sense of why the executive order waiving the Graham Act’s sanctions and tariffs also purports to waive §117?
That provision governs the termination of sanctions, requiring specific presidential certifications, notification to Congress, and a congressional review period during which lawmakers can seek to block termination.
But §115 only authorizes the president to waive sanctions, restrictions on persons, and tariffs. It doesn’t appear to authorize waiving congressional oversight requirements related to the termination of the Graham Act’s sanctions/tariffs.
How, then, can the administration waive §117 at all?
The tariffs and sanctions from the Graham Act have been waived. Trump delegated authority for future action to the relevant departments and agencies, but none will occur as long as the waivers remain in place.
whitehouse.gov/presidential-…
