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Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
Ten years ago today.
In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine, hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for.
Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China.
We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
BREAKING: The US is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East, adding more than 10,000 sailors and Marines, and will arrive around the November midterms, two US officials confirm to Fox News.
It will be the third carrier in the region, joining the USS George H.W. Bush and the USS George Washington.
This comes in despite today's baseless reports about an imminent peace deal or negotiations.
Iran said today it is prolonging talks to deny Trump a political victory before the midterms and is preparing for renewed US and Israeli attacks.
Leaving the ship?
Chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour announces that she will leave CNN next June after a 43-year career at the network cnn.it/4hY7PDe
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
BREAKING: Trump administration considers large-scale strikes on Iran's Kharg Island, which handles around 90% of Iran's oil exports, to force concessions on the nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz before the November 3 midterms, per senior US sources cited by Israel Hayom.
The options include massive precision strikes on oil storage tanks, oil pipelines and loading facilities on the island, as well as military installations there and elsewhere. Trump discussed them with advisers at the Defense Department and the CIA.
The sources say fears of electoral losses are pushing Trump to "seek a foreign policy achievement before the midterms." Strikes on Pickaxe Mountain remain on the table in parallel, with Kharg not cancelling the other out.
Iran has already warned that "All oil, economic and energy infrastructure throughout the region that own US stocks or cooperate with the US will be immediately destroyed and turned into a pile of ashes," in return.
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
Being ‘blessed’ by ‘Revd Brett Murphy’ who’s was kicked out of the Church of England & the Free Church of England because he’s a bigot. Currently squatting in the Emmanuel Church in Morecambe.
PS Back in my day it was customary to take your hands out of your pockets when being blessed.
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
Emmanuel Macron faces political firestorm after riots - ft.com/content/19495e50-0f55… via @FT
I'm staying in France's West Coast at the moment and I saw nothing on Saturday. Some areas of the country were impacted but seems like aside from a LV store in Bordeaux, L'Ouest was okay.
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
BREAKING: President Trump has declined to rule out declaring a national emergency related to the 2026 midterms, per Reuters
There used to be have free analogue scales at airports and trainstations. Now we have electric machines which you have to pay for. Progress. 1chf/eur per bag.
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
NEW: The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.
Germany’s Friedrich Merz vows to fight on: ‘We are the firewall’ - ft.com/content/da781749-f146… via @FT
Seems like a cool dude. ♾️ > AFD amateurs.
I hope the German voters agree.
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
Katie Zacharia Failed Bar Exam In 2011, Report Says—Amid Legal Credentials Controversy
go.forbes.com/c_Gyv5
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
The president’s scheme to secure Russian diesel is wrong-headed and immoral economist.com/leaders/2026/1…
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s husband, Tyler Zacharia, helped expand Schulze Global Investments (later SGI Frontier Capital) into North Korea while based in China, where Katie also previously lived.
The firm made three loans to North Korean mining companies in 2008 and provided a $1 million loan to a North Korean conglomerate in 2011, while U.S. sanctions on North Korea were in effect.
Follow: @AFpost
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
To protect his Russian diesel deal, he appears to be withholding vital military intelligence economist.com/europe/2026/10…
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
We have no hereditary memory of fascism.
In Britain you go to the Churchill War Rooms or bombed out areas of London.
In France you go to Normandy and in Poland you go to Auschwitz.
The scourge of Nazism is in the veins of those countries. It lives in their schools, their field trips, their national consciousness.
We had a Nazi movement here too, America First in the late 1930s.
Charles Lindbergh led it, there was even a Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
Franklin Roosevelt banded together with people who had strength and courage and put that movement down.
We don’t have that now. We have jellyfish.
Republican politicians put their personal power, their personal needs, their self-aggrandizement ahead of the American public.
The Constitution is still there and the institutions are still there.
But the people who are supposed to use them are hiding under their desks.
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
The Starlink disruption comes as Kyiv faces escalating Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure and mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump to make concessions to Moscow to end the war ft.trib.al/sCFJoFy
ALT Firefighters spray water on flames and smoke pouring from a damaged multi-storey residential building at night
Thomas Fitzpatrick retweeted
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia took the California bar exam but didn't pass it. Trump has referred to her as an attorney. on.wsj.com/4B6Rox9
Salmon producers start feeding chicken to fish - ft.com/content/8f1e2cc9-4e2a… via @FT
And of course feeding fish to chicken.
It's the circle of intensive farming life!
