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WSJ Editorial Board:
“Congress is preoccupied with the Nov. 3 election, but Mr. Trump may not appreciate the anger he’s courting if he keeps aiding Mr. Putin.
When the election is over there needs to be a bipartisan reckoning for Mr. Trump’s budding alliance with the Kremlin against Ukraine, Europe and American interests”
wsj.com/opinion/to-russia-wi…
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NEW | 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳Vladimir Putin wants to discuss the future of Ukraine with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping without Volodymyr Zelensky at the table.
Putin has proposed a three way summit next month to explore a possible end to the war.
The meeting could take place during the APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, on November 18–19.
The idea of bringing the three leaders together isn't entirely new. Moscow had already raised it in September. What's significant in the latest reporting is the proposed focus on Ukraine, with Kyiv absent from the talks.
Zelensky, meanwhile, has been discussing a different three-way meeting involving Ukraine, Russia and the United States.
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So Mr. Trump has the right to cut the Starlink signal to Europeans.
And at the same time, Europeans don't have the right to promote their own services?
Time to wake up, Europe.
@RenewEurope – at Belfort, France
European companies face “devastating” retaliation from Washington if Brussels presses ahead with plans to restrict American rivals such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX from parts of the European market, the US ambassador to the EU warned in an interview with @FT’s @BMoens and @HenryJFoy.
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“Since the start of Trump’s second term, it has been excruciating to watch America’s president blame the victim, our ally Ukraine, for Putin’s war of aggression. As Ukraine fights for its survival against Moscow, Trump hectors it to surrender territory Putin has been unable to take on the battlefield after four years of barbarism.”
Trump’s Aid and Comfort to Putin — for those who came of age in the Cold War, this is hard to fathom. But if you stick to the facts, it’s impossible to deny … nationalreview.com/2026/10/c…
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ALERT: Judge rejects Trump Admin's request to recuse herself from East Potomac Park tree toppling, golf course overhaul lawsuit
"The Government has not met its burden to demonstrate that the Court’s actions and words demand disqualification"
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The Inspectors General Trump fired in his first days on the job had found $183B in fraud and abuse, much of it COVID fraud. SBA IG Mike Ware (who was fired) gave testimony in 2023 on those efforts that was well-received by GOPers.
smallbusiness.house.gov/uplo…
Why is @SBA_Kelly trying to cover up Trump's disruption of that hunt for COVID fraudsters, which languished for a year?
For four years, the Biden Administration failed to act while pandemic fraudsters made off with millions in stolen PPP and COVID EIDL loans.
Not only did this Administration put the guardrails back up; we’re partnering with @WHFraudTF to deliver justice to the criminals who abused programs meant for small businesses.
foxnews.com/opinion/fraudste…
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Something is happening to the US that is slow, systematic and deadly. Trump is dismantling our country, and it’s deliberate, calculated and surgical.
1: trump killed NATO partnership, our strongest defense alliance against Russia and China
2: trump’s HHS Secretary is killing our public health infrastructure, creating a more sicker and vulnerable America with communicative diseases
3: over at the pentagon trump’s frat boy Petey is firing our most qualified generals, depleting our best military hardware rapidly, in a stupid war to make our military a third world level armed forces
4: trump’s DOGE deliberately hollowed out our government from essential experts, to zap its functioning capabilities
5: trump killed USAID, and we lost our goodwill around the world and became isolated pariah
6: trump ICE became his brown shirts, killing and abusing Americans to obey
7: trump’s weirdo FBI director is charging everyone and anyone to silence Americans
8: trump DOJ is robbing the treasury to the tune of $1.8 billion dollars, to create an army of bribed foot soldiers to protect their dismantling of the country during midterm elections
9: trump’s interior secretary is dismantling our national parks
10: trump’s economic team of Bassett and lutnick is crashing the economy, creating a population of economically disadvantaged
11: trump’s Epstein files are now officially been shelved to protect trump the destroyer
12: trump let his oligarch enabler Peter Thiel to confiscate all our private data, including social security, tax, health and court and business records
13: finally and most importantly, trump and his family and his oligarch enablers are looting our treasury, and stuffing our tax dollars into their pockets.
Now tell me, you don’t think trump is a foreign agent, disguised as the president of the U.S, installed to destroy the US? Could it be that fuck Putin, specially after lifting all sanctions against Russia? Or, the other fuck Elon, the asshole AIPAC Netanyahu, the anti Christ fuck Theil owning trump’s ass? Trump is no longer doing the duties of the president, but having out loud fantasies about men in his circus rallies, shit posting all day, all night, and golfing in the weekend. Drag this enemy of America out of the White House. That foreign escort “Epstien hooker” Melania too.
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It looks like Katie Zacharia left us a gift before leaving as Press Secretary after only a few days. The picture of a map on Trump’s desk shows his plans for the East Potomac Golf Course after the DOI told a Judge that he had no concrete plans for the course yet when he did.
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❗️ During the night there were two ballistic strikes: one at 23:00, the second at 3:00. There was NO warning from the US about the first one, – Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Ihnat.
“I want to emphasize: if Russia launches a ballistic strike, for example at 11 or 12 o’clock (at night), it is not ruled out that it will repeat it. Therefore, it is necessary to be very vigilant.”
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The Trump administration is reportedly conducting raids in California using its unverified list of 20,000 people it alleges are “likely noncitizens” registered to vote in the Golden State. democracydocket.com/news-ale…
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Zelenskyy: Steps have been taken to convince Ukraine to capitulate.
I don’t want to think that our American partners believe the war could be ended sooner at Ukraine’s expense. But that’s how it looks. — Bloomberg.
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What could Trump have done better than rushing to buy diesel from putin?
When families, truckers, farmers,….are getting crushed by high diesel prices, everybody wants a fix. But giving mass murderer putin a get-out-of-jail-free card by lifting sanctions and cutting a fuel deal with Russia isn't a smart economic strategy.
As everyday citizens looking at the Trump administration's cozy relationship with putin, we have to ask a basic question:
What could Trump have done better than rushing to buy diesel from putin?
The truth is, buying a tiny fraction of diesel from putin does almost nothing for prices at your local pump. It’s a drop in the bucket compared to what the U.S. consumes every single day, and the hidden costs are enormous.
If Trump actually wants to lower diesel prices in a meaningful, long-term way without cozying up to dictators, he’s plenty of real solutions right in front of us:
Fix domestic refineries: Diesel isn't crude oil. It has to be refined. Instead of looking abroad, the administration could fast-track permits and clear regulatory hurdles to help domestic refineries maximise their output.
Use emergency reserves smartly: When sudden global shocks squeeze the market, the U.S. can use coordinated releases from strategic oil and fuel reserves to instantly cool wholesale prices without begging putin for help.
Give drivers a tax break: Federal and state taxes add a heavy, fixed cost to every single gallon. Temporarily rolling back the federal diesel tax would put instant, guaranteed cash right back into the pockets of truckers, farmers, and delivery workers.
Shield agriculture and freight: they can implement targeted temporary tax credits or expand off-road diesel programs for critical sectors like farming, keeping food prices down without relying on Russia.
lean on actual allies: Instead of turning to Moscow, a strong leader uses diplomacy to push friendly, non-sanctioned oil-producing nations to step up their own production and exports.
Trading American foreign policy and throwing a lifeline to putin for a microscopic dent in fuel prices isn't leadership—it’s a gimmick. Americans deserve solutions that protect American wallets and American values, instead of looking for answers from a Russian cruel dictator.
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Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Taylor: Ukraine has cards. Ukrainians manufacture their own weapons, take the fight deep into Russia and go after Russian refineries.
That is where the pressure on Putin will come from. 1/
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❗️The United States is supplying Ukraine with only 12 Patriot interceptor missiles per month, which is four times fewer than under the Biden administration. I believe that Trump is pushing us toward capitulation, — Zelenskyy.
▪️I believe that measures have been taken to persuade Ukraine to capitulate. I don’t want to think that our American partners believe the war against Russia should be ended as quickly as possible at Ukraine’s expense. But that is exactly how it looks.
▪️My latest model was this: we do not strike Russian diesel fuel, and you give us missiles for the Patriot systems to protect our facilities. But they simply want us to stop attacking diesel fuel. And if we strike, they will cut us off from something.
▪️Relations with the United States may improve after the midterm elections in America.
▪️At the moment, Trump cannot force Putin to end the war.
▪️I think that when the potential risks for Ukraine reach tsunami proportions, intervention is needed while it is still only a light storm. I believe that much more is at stake than a diesel deal.
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“Not all counties were effected”
Yeah this is the **9th** error that has “backlogged” voter registration records, in mostly left-leaning districts.
Unsurprisingly State officials (who openly support Paxton) have not done anything to help clear the backlog.
Texas county officials said they learned Thursday about another state error that has backlogged thousands of voter registration records.
The total number of backlogged records wasn’t immediately available, but the secretary of state’s office told election officials that not all counties were impacted. bit.ly/4hQS7v6
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Trump says he's not inclined to continue the war with Iran if Netanyahu is beaten at the ballot box.
WTF? He's been driving Americans into impoverishment for fucking Netanyahu??? This entire SHIT SHOW has been based on Bibi's political existence?
rawstory.com/trump-iran-2678…
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Most Americans wants answers on who made the order to throttle back Starlink and intel sharing. And we want them out of the government.
Bessent warns Zelenskyy to 'be very careful' about claims U.S. is throttling Starlink cnbc.com/2026/10/18/bessent-…
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So, Benjamin Netanyahu just essentially said that if any future US president turns its back on Israel it will not end well for the US and he is already teaming up with allies to ensure a "proper response" should that happen once Trump leaves office.
That certainly sounds like a threat to me.