Retired Scientist, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt. Life is difficult but life is good. #WethepeoplestandwithUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @deborahaab@bsky.social

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russia > manufactures evidence, poisons trust, and lets the target society absorb the damage. Social media makes this even easier now. russia is the source of all the right wing chaos and protests in several countries right now. Don’t be fooled.
Replying to @Hoshi_Tokimitsu
The forged Spellman letter and fabricated case against Otto John show the method in practice: manufacture evidence, poison trust, and let the target society absorb the damage. Social platforms make that old operation faster and cheaper.
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Since February 2025, Europe has carried 100% of Ukraine’s support. That figure is from the Kiel Institute’s Ukraine Support Tracker. Europe’s share of military aid rose through 2025, 26, while financial and humanitarian allocations peaked in 2024. These are inflation-adjusted aid allocations, not weapons already in Ukrainian hands. Europe is committing the resources. Getting ammunition and air defence from allocation to the front fast enough remains the test. Ukraine’s forces bear the human cost of every delay.
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NEW: Arlington County, Virginia sued the Trump administration Tuesday to stop armed federal agents from operating at and near polling places. The lawsuit argues that their threatened presence at voting sites is already alarming voters just two weeks before Election Day. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Maybe you saw Trump's so desperate he's begging Putin for diesel. But listen to this: At the very same time, the White House is brokering the sale of billions in Russian energy assets to people who fund the Trump family and the Trump campaign.
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Nine FBI agents investigated the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. Kash Patel fired all nine. He told Congress it followed "internal investigations." Their lawsuit says there weren't any. Someone's lying to Congress, and I’d bet it’s not the agents.
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Marco Rubio’s attempt to portray the restrictions on Ukraine’s satellite communications as a private commercial matter is contradicted by significant evidence. There are two distinct systems. Starlink is commercially owned and operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Starshield, its military-grade counterpart, is supplied by SpaceX but operates under US government arrangements, with the Pentagon exercising authority over military access and usage. Crucially, Elon Musk himself stated that Starshield systems are controlled by the US government and that restrictions on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately the President. Reuters reported on 16 October that the instruction to restrict Ukraine’s Starshield capabilities originated inside the White House, citing three officials. However, subsequent Wall Street Journal and CBS reporting attributed the operational decision to Musk following discussions with administration officials. The precise chain of command therefore remains disputed. Rubio’s explanation is materially misleading because it obscures the distinction between private ownership and governmental military authority. Presenting SpaceX as an independent contractor does not establish that Washington lacked control or involvement. This as deliberate exercise in political disinformation, designed to create plausible deniability for Trump. A spineless git who lies for a living should never be a contender for any position in government, but a prime candidate for a bunk bed in prison. Four US senators have formally demanded those answers from SpaceX, but will they demand the Rubio is held accountable? Primary sources: foreign.senate.gov/press/dem… reuters.com/world/europe/ord…⁠
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Canada's $2.3B pivot away from Starlink isn't just about internet-it's a massive warning shot to Elon Musk over Ukraine. PM Mark Carney directly cited Musk's sudden service cuts and data restrictions to Ukraine as the exact reason Canada must achieve total strategic autonomy. No ally wants to rely on one unpredictable billionaire who can pull the military plug during a war. Canada isn't just protecting itself. The $2.3B contract expands Ottawa-based Telesat Lightspeed into a military-grade satellite network meant for secure Arctic and NORAD defense. Telesat confirmed they plan to deploy this secure system directly to Ukraine and other allied nations. Canada is literally funding the un-pluggable backup system Ukraine has been looking for. 🇨🇦
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Time to seriously talk about Elon’s deportation. Elon’s brother on video said, they both were illegals. Elon was on a student visa, but didn’t go to college. Stanford, his acceptance university, doesn’t have any records of his enrollment. In those situations when a student visa is not followed, the individual gets deported. But not Elon. He illegally worked, overstayed his student visa, and broke American laws, until the startup company gave him some kinda work permit. If he was truthful in his naturalization application that he overstayed his student visa, and broke the immigration laws, he’d never would have been granted naturalization citizenship. His naturalization application must be pulled out, and the information there must be examined to see if Elon whether withheld crucial visa status information, or he lied. Either way, those are deportable offenses.
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Trump threatens Kyiv over refusing a deal while asking nothing of Moscow about withdrawing. His policy is plainly out of step with Americans who support Ukraine.
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The Washington Post reports that a group of American national security officials is quietly advising state authorities and members of Congress on how to prepare for possible Trump administration interference in November’s midterm elections. Officials are examining scenarios involving federal agents, military deployments and disruption of voting. The extraordinary development is that American institutions are preparing for potential interference from their own government.
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Taking it to the federal government. @AZAGMayes
UPDATE: Arizona Attorney General @AZAGMayes tells Maricopa County Recorder @RecordersOffice she is prepared to sue if his office does not reinstate voting rights to 24 Arizonans who were allegedly noncitizens—but were confirmed to be citizens by @Rachel1Mitchell. Expect action this week.
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trump made up this whole story. He got the narrative from putin. So obvious. So delusional. Sociopath. Pathological liar. Characteristics of malignant narcissists.
Trump explains Russia's 2022 failure to take Kyiv with an account centered on a Russian general, a wrong turn and rain. In the Oval Office, the US president built that story into a broader argument for pressuring Ukraine to make a deal. His account deserves to be read in full, because each part points in the same direction. THE WAR AS TRUMP DESCRIBES IT Trump said Russian forces keep advancing, called Russia a “big machine” and claimed it has an unlimited supply of people while Ukraine does not. He also said Russia has taken a great deal of territory. Manpower losses are a real constraint on any army. But Trump presented Russian advance as an almost automatic process, as though Moscow’s willingness to spend lives settles the question of what Ukraine should do next. That framing treats the invader’s ability to keep attacking as power over the country it invaded. THE WARNING TO ZELENSKY Trump said Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelensky should seek to end the war. Trump warned that if Zelensky refuses, there would be “very bad consequences.” He also said American taxpayers are tired of giving Ukraine money and that he wants Zelensky to make a deal. Notice where the warning lands. Trump did not direct it at the government that launched the invasion and can order its troops out. He directed it at Ukraine’s president. Calling for an end to the war while threatening the defender for not accepting a deal is not neutral mediation. It makes Kyiv pay the cost of continuing the war. THE HIGHWAY STORY Trump then claimed the invasion could have been over in three and a half to four hours, or within a day. In his telling, thousands of Russian tanks were moving along a concrete highway toward Kyiv. At a maximum tank speed of 48 miles per hour, he said, nothing could have stopped them. He blamed an unnamed Russian general, whom he called “very stupid,” for leaving that road, driving into farmland and trying to approach Kyiv through mud. Trump said the general might no longer be alive. He also claimed that the night before the invasion brought Ukraine its heaviest rain in ten years, leaving the ground soaked. These are Trump’s claims, not a serious account of why Russia failed to seize the capital. His version turns the defence of Kyiv into a weather event and a Russian navigation error. It leaves Ukrainian soldiers, civilians and resistance to occupation out of the decisive part of the story. Russia’s failure becomes bad luck for Russia, rather than a defeat inflicted by Ukrainians. That omission matters politically. Trump was not merely telling an odd anecdote about tanks. He was describing a world in which Russia’s victory was hours away and Ukraine survived because one man took the wrong turn. It makes continued Ukrainian resistance sound like an interruption of an outcome he considers inevitable. THE BILL FOR AMERICA Trump said the United States had provided Ukraine with hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, topping nearly every other country, and received nothing in return. He presented American taxpayers as exhausted and linked that complaint directly to his demand for a deal. This reduces US support for a country resisting invasion to a failed transaction. It also skips over what is at stake when an aggressor learns that enough violence and enough patience will eventually make Ukraine’s partners pressure Ukraine instead. Trump's argument centers on the war's cost. Ukraine must answer for the cost, and Russia's decision to continue the war is treated as a fixed condition. Taken together, the claims form a clear sequence: Russia has more people and keeps moving; Kyiv escaped a rapid conquest because of mud and an incompetent general; America has paid too much; Zelensky must now agree to end it or face consequences. The burden moves at every step from the invading state to the state defending itself. Ukraine did not survive the opening assault because its people got lucky with the weather. Ukrainians fought. Reducing that fight to rain and a wrong turn is insulting enough. Using the same account to justify pressure on Zelensky while describing Russian advances as unstoppable makes the insult consequential.
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NEW: We just filed a records request for any communications between Meta and DHS concerning the No Kings movement, protests or Meta social accounts. The public deserves to know whether the Trump admin is coordinating with Meta to suppress or censor No Kings accounts.
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Jared Kushner cannot legally participate in meetings as Trump's envoy unless and until he is confirmed by the Senate and files financial disclosures. We sued to enforce the law last week. So, no, he can't join this meeting with Zelensky today. ft.com/content/581d8a59-b128…
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What is scandalous, @SecRubio , is you aligning yourself with a genocidal murderer. How far you have fallen.
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So disingenuous. All russia, the invader has to do is leave Ukraine. Their military casualties are much greater than Ukraine’s, their economy is in shambles, they are not winning but rubio will continue pretending for trump and putin that putin cares to negotiate.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: One of the reasons why this war needs to end is because too many people are dying. One of the reasons why this war needs to end is because Ukraine's electric grid is being devastated. One of the reasons this war needs to end is because every month 20,000 or 25,000 Russians are slaughtered as they try to advance in Ukraine. All of these are bad things. Mass death, the destruction, the death of civilians in Kyiv.
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