Motorsport🏎️ journalist. @CanMtspHF inductee (2018). Bylines: @TorontoStar @Inside_Track @MtlGazette @GlobeAndMail. Likes/RTs ≠ endorsement

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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
There's always a tweet
Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow - if so, will he become my new best friend?
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
the united states is just a handful of tech oligarchs and war criminals in a trench coat
The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetterOct 18
BREAKING: US threatens "devastating" retaliation against European companies if EU restricts Elon Musk's Starlink from the European market, the US ambassador to the EU tells the FT. He warned European companies they "should be wary that it could happen and it would be very devastating for those companies," given the size of the US market, and urged the EU to keep using US tech. European policymakers are seeking to reduce their dependence on US technology over the risk of relying on foreign companies for critical infrastructure. At the same time the US throttled Starshield for Ukraine's military last week. Musk proposed it, Trump agreed, and the Pentagon executed it.
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
As a major in Afghanistan, I was Chief, Ops & Tng (S-3) mentoring the Afghan National Army, serving beside troops from the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Ireland, Luxembourg & even Mongolia! No one EVER said this!
Clash Report
@clashreportOct 17
Hegseth on Afghanistan: I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters. It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there. Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations. In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths. t.co/x4tGhxJiFG
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
As I wrote over a year ago, it would only take a handful of GOP Senators to stand up to Trump and grind his agenda to a halt until he ceased his actions against Ukraine and on behalf of Russia. Instead, they tweeted and signed letters that Trump ignored. Do something.
Sarah Longwell
@SarahLongwell25Oct 17
Reminder: Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, and Bill Cassidy are all current sitting Senators. They have the ability to do more than complain and put out statements. If they don’t act now, when they have real power, I don’t want to see them on TV in four months opining.
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Since the American President announced the energy ceasefire a week ago, Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy and oil and gas sectors 76 times. Last night alone, there were strikes on substations in the Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and Odesa regions. Tens of thousands of families remain without power. Energy workers and repair crews are working virtually around the clock to restore electricity supply. Overnight, the Russians also struck residential buildings in our regions. As of now, 12 people have been reported injured, including two children. Two people have been killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. This morning, there was a strike on an agricultural enterprise in Volyn. All necessary services are working at the site. In total, over this past week, the Russians have attacked Ukraine with almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 66 missiles, most of them ballistic. The main targets of these strikes are energy facilities – the Russians are trying to cause a blackout. And America should see that Russia is not taking any reciprocal steps in response to sanctions relief or agreements. On the contrary, they take every signal of an opportunity to make money as proof that their bet on war is paying off and they can keep fighting. It is because of this position of Russia’s that the war continues, not because Ukraine is rightfully defending itself. It is Russia that must face pressure for peace to have a chance. Thank you to everyone who understands this and helps.
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
From the unbiased CBS News Network
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A special visitor at The Bugatti Trust today: Joe Saward, author of The Grand Prix Saboteurs. His book tells the true story of three Bugatti racing drivers who became British-trained secret agents in WW2: •    William Grover-Williams, who raced as “W. Williams” and won the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 in a Bugatti Type 35B •    Robert Benoist, Le Mans winner and Bugatti works driver •    Jean-Pierre Wimille, Grand Prix star who ran the Paris Bugatti showroom with Benoist Working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the French Resistance, their network sabotaged power supplies near Nantes. On the eve of D-Day they also cut telephone lines and put railway lines out of action. In 1940, Benoist escaped a German patrol by flooring the throttle of his Bugatti Type 57 Atalante. Sadly, Grover-Williams and Benoist were both captured and killed. Only Wimille survived the war. Joe spent 18 years researching the book. Much of the story stayed top secret until the British Government released the files in 2003. Thank you for visiting, Joe, and for keeping their remarkable story alive. #BugattiTrust #Bugatti #GrandPrixSaboteurs #MotorRacingHistory #SOE #WW2History #MonacoGrandPrix #Heritage
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
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Jimmy Kimmel
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The level of moral degeneracy required to convince yourself of this — or if not convinced, to say it anyway — is of a kind we have rarely seen before. And yet they all do it, in lockstep.
Zelensky is the single biggest obstacle to achieving peace in the Ukraine. Once everyone realizes that, this war will end and people of that region of the world can start rebuilding their lives.
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
Elon Musk just helped Russia kill a bunch of Ukrainian civilians. And now he's trying to influence US elections again. The guy is basically a Bond villain.
POLITICO: Three billionaires including Elon Musk have accounted for $600 million in federal donations to the GOP this cycle
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
The “influencer” in this is none other than @nicksortor. It’s time for a full exposé on Nick.
Two years ago I drove $60,000 of freeze-dried beef from Waco to Asheville. Arrived at 2:30 in the morning. Back on the road by 3. The Blaze covered it. I met an influencer on the ground who promised to highlight the delivery. He never did. I texted him asking where the food went so I could file my taxes. No reply. Here’s what bothers me. A week after Helene, a freeze-dried food company posted that they were trying to get supplies in but the roads were shut down. I found a road. It was hard. And while I was doing that, other large conservative accounts were amplifying their post — people making money off the idea of helping while I was already home. The shoutout wasn’t about credit. It was the point. If other companies saw that a road existed, they’d take it. Instead, the story that got told was ‘you can’t get in.’ That’s not what happened. I got in. I’m not asking for a shoutout now. I’m asking why the guy who built his brand on exposing fraud won’t answer a simple question from a donor.
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Michael Weiss
@michaeldweissOct 16
Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
7 laps to go in the 2005 Indy500 when Dan Wheldon took the lead over Danica Patrick. Dan passed away 15 years ago today.
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
Rep Andy Harris defends his viral exchange where he threatened to have a student journalist arrested at a press conference for taking video of him. Fox45 not having it.
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
Remember when this guy was convicted of making false statements to the FBI about contacts with Russian spies (and receiving money from Russians)?
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
20,000? Remember just months ago when DHS told Nevada it found 15,903 noncitizens on its voter rolls, then when pushed, said, okay, we admit we’re not sure about them all, but here’s 185 we know are noncitizens — but they were ALL CITIZENS? You guys have no credibility!
The Department of Justice sent a list to California election officials of more than 20,000 individuals who @USCIS and @HSI_HQ identified are likely noncitizens and who are on California’s voter rolls. This is of serious concern because California automatically mails ballots to every active registered voter on its voter rolls, whether a voter has requested a mail ballot or not. We provided California an opportunity to self correct its records and we requested that it segregate the suspected illegal ballots for the upcoming election. California has refused to comply and intends to facilitate noncitizens in voting, which is a violation of federal law. So, today we filed an emergency court action against California seeking to ensure that noncitizens who received ballots in California do NOT vote in the upcoming election. Election integrity is a top priority for Americans and the Justice Department.
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
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Jeff Pappone 🇨🇦 retweeted
Replying to @champwebdotnet
Ford’s interest in Indycar
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