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So Hegseth is blaming the Ukrainians and saying Elon made the decision to downgrade Ukraine’s Starlink service? Isn’t that completely different from Rubio’s explanation that it was a technical glitch? Days into this scandal and they can’t seem to get their stories straight.
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Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
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Russia is using a network of holiday homes in the Baltic to wage hybrid war on the West.
Great investigation from @JamesERothwell and @LilyShanagher
Western officials are taking action against hundreds of Russian-linked homes in Lithuania, Sweden and Norway, which have been bought close to strategic military sites or key infrastructure.
The most serious cases involve oligarch-linked properties at the entrances to naval bases, and holiday homes in close proximity to Nato facilities.
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Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
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See fraud? It's time to expose it.
Report fraud, waste, and abuse to the federal government 📲 America.gov/fraud
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Amy Acton’s stepfather was indicted for raping her from ages 9-12, and her mother chose to stay with her rapist until he died. Acton’s mother lost custody of her and her brother following her stepfather’s arrest for rape. She had not spoken to her mother since this happened.
Politics can be dirty, but this is so utterly despicable and such a POS move that if you support this clown, that says a lot about you as a person.
Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign responds to the horrific ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged and abusive mother. They don't deny they played a part in it.
It is very difficult to imagine a world in which Acton's estranged mom did not get paid for this, and the payment wouldn't have had to come from Vivek's campaign directly.
ALT Screenshot of a statement: Attributable to Connie Luck, spokesperson for the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign: “We don't know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor. Black text on a white background, centered on a black frame.
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Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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It’s astonishing that Ramaswamy thinks trotting out Amy Acton’s mother—who hasn’t spoken to her daughter in 48 YEARS—as a character witness is a good idea.
This is the woman who stayed married to the man charged with raping her 12-year-old daughter. Even after her children were removed from her custody.
.@VivekGRamaswamy campaign responds:
ALT Attributable to Connie Luck, spokesperson for the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign: “We don't know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020, but we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as governor.
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The Justice department that is supposed to be committed to letting 100 guilty people go free rather than convicting one innocent man is willing to take away citizens’ right to vote because they’re too lazy to check their work and make sure it’s right
WOW. Trump’s #2 at DOJ just admitted this:
“There may be some names on there who it turns out ultimately are citizens. We’re not perfect.”
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"We have to drive six hours to Dallas, or nine hours to Austin, just to get the medical care that my children need every single month."
Listen to the story of a single mother with two young kids who attended our event in Amarillo, Texas.
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Jason Selvig: “What’s your message to Democrats?”
Trump supporter: “Wake up, please. Quit drinking the Kool-Aid”
JS: “Kool-Aid is like the Jim Jones where it’s like a cult leader, everyone’s kind of blindly following them. It was like a guy who’s very charismatic and everyone’s kind of following him around”
TS: “Yup that’s exactly what happened and they follow him all the way to their death”
JS: “And how long have you been following Donald Trump?”
TS: “Since the beginning. I believe in Jesus Christ and I believe in Donald Trump”
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Thank you, @SenBlumenthal and @SenThomTillis, for the opportunity to meet with you and your colleagues from both parties and both chambers of Congress. I informed them about Russia’s brutal “shahed” drone attack in the Kharkiv region, where Russia killed six people, including a mother and her child, who was just over a year old. I showed the horrifying photos from the scene – a child killed in a stroller… This is how Russia responds to sanctions waivers and reduced pressure.
I also explained where things stand with intelligence sharing and Starlink operations in Ukraine. Unfortunately, we received no early warning from our partners about the first wave of the Russian ballistic missile attack last night. And we still face speed restrictions on Starlink and Starshield services in different parts of the front. No explanation for either of these issues has been provided to Ukraine by the American side.
Our teams will follow up on everything discussed today. I thank everybody who participated in this call for their strong support.
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We suspected this was the reason Ukraine’s access to Starshield was restricted. But to see it from senior officials in this reporting is still utterly unconscionable.
Let’s be absolutely clear about what this means. The Trump Administration deliberately restricted technology Ukraine relies on to intercept Russian drones and ballistic missiles. It made it harder for Ukraine to defend itself and easier for Russia to carry out its deadly attacks against Ukrainian civilians.
They knew exactly what was at stake. They knew that more Russian drones and missiles would get through, allowing Russia to kill even more Ukrainians. And yet they went ahead anyway.
This is a deliberate weaking of Ukraine’s defenses that only Russia will benefit from. It is a betrayal of our ally that this Administration cannot wash its hands of.
The American people deserve to know who made this decision, why they made it, and how they can possibly justify putting more innocent Ukrainian lives in the crosshairs of Putin’s war machine.
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A military spouse was detained by ICE after she showed up to a Navy base in Texas to pick up her family’s military ID cards.
Her name is Giovanna Perez. She’s lived in this country since she was six years old, has four kids, and no criminal record. Her husband, Pedro, enlisted in the Army and applied for a program built to protect the families of people in uniform. That very application appears to have been used to find her. How can we expect Americans to serve, knowing their own government might hunt down the people they love most?
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