Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

❗️🇱🇹Lithuania has announced the construction of a multi-level defensive line on its borders with 🇷🇺Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) and 🇧🇾Belarus. This line, 50 km long, will consist of three echelons, which in theory should effectively contain the Russian advance.

Between this and her silence on Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian's repugnant behavior at The Young Turks, I am officially DONE with @ninaturner.bsky.social. This level of naivety is going to result in the GOP controlling the US House of Representatives for the rest of my life. Nina is a pathetic loser.

❗️Consequences of the explosion at the Elastic gunpowder plant in the Ryazan region of Russia. The plant suffered colossal damage. Nothing remained of the workshop where the gunpowder explosion occurred. 5 people were killed, at least 100 more people were injured.

recall that this residence is available because the former Coast Guard commandant, Linda Fagan, was fired and then given three hours notice to vacate it back in February

Today’s Republican Party

That wasn’t a summit. That was a debacle.

So deeply embarrassing for the United States. Trump legitimized Putin and his illegal war on the world stage and got absolutely nothing in return. Not even a single step toward peace. Everyone involved in this charade should be ashamed.

Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

👀💥 Alleged video of the aftermath of a gunpowder explosion at the Elastic plant in the Ryazan region.

This is beautiful, all the more so because there's no audience.

Good morning, I stand with Ukraine.🇺🇦 Putin can go fuck himself. I stand with the sovereign country that was invaded, the sovereign country that has valiantly defended itself for the past 3 plus years. I stand with 🇺🇦 this morning. You? Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦

As Trotsky might have said: 'You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in burying 177 bombs under your children's playground' #SWWInTheNews share.google/BLNqiK2RaxyX...

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When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…

Exclusive footage of the Russian delegation leaving Alaska.

The New York Post says it how it is.

This is freaking crazy (and impressive, Canada!) The Liquor Control Board of Ontario sold more than $700 million of American liquor and wine in 2024. Today it's ZERO!!! That's going to leave a mark. www.rawstory.com/trump-trade-...

New in PN: The slide toward "competitive authoritarianism" "Orbán subverted Hungary’s democracy with gerrymandering and by creating a nationwide right-wing media network. He put loyalists in the public prosecutor’s office, ensuring the judicial system would go after his enemies. Sound familiar?"

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

The Lukoil refinery in Volgograd, Russia, was severely struck. Several pictures and videos show that the oil facility is burning. This is confirmed by the NASA FIRMS map. The refinery produces 14.5 million tons in oil products. It is the 7th time that this facility was struck.

There's a ... more accurate term for this ... 🤔

Russian Infantry Penetrated Ukrainian Lines. Kyiv Just Sent Its Best NATO-Style Corps to Hunt Them Down.

Russian Telegram channels report a drone attack on Monokristall plant in Russian Stavropol last night. The plant is one of the world's leading enterprises for the production of artificial corundum (sapphire). It is used in high-tech military appliances, among other things.

Unanswered question: What did Maxwell offer up as her side of the bargain? This is unprecedented, lenient treatment of a sex offender serving a 20 year sentence. Her side of the deal must have been highly valuable—someone really wanted whatever she offered.

I grew up in Washington DC and it has never felt safer or cleaner. Trump's "emergency" is fake, straight out of the authoritarian playbook

Ok this is my laugh for the night.

Idiot. The Russians tried to establish an airhead outside Kyiv, and were defeated at the battle of Antonov Airport. Then they rolled tank columns down both sides of the Dnieper—using highways!—and were beaten back.

We are at the point in this country where military personnel & law enforcement personnel & government officials need to say no to the tyrant. We are at the point in this country where Americans serving in government need to disobey his orders. We’re well past that point.

While chasing two Philippine coast guard ships the Chinese navy destroyer Guilin rammed a Chinese coast guard ship. This resulted in substantial damage to the Chinese ship‘s forecastle, rendering it unseaworthy. This happened 10.5 nautical miles east of the Scarborough Shoal, West Philippine Sea.

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

🇨🇳🇵🇭 A Chinese navy ship collided with a Chinese Coast Guard cutter near Scarborough Shoal while chasing a Philippine patrol. The cutter was heavily damaged and left out of action.

Desertions, AWOLs, manpower shortages, and recruitment struggles are often linked to the Ukrainian army. And rightly so - I’ve spoken about these issues at length. But the situation on the Russian side is also worsening. This issue deserves wider attention, so here’s a 🧵thread:

The Chinese skippers of that vessels will have soon meetings with their admirals and I doubt that coffee will be served. Both Chinese ships will be out of service for some time.

Welp

Trump is such a small, vindictive, pathetic, insecure little man. In fact, Trump is no man at all. He’s the very antithesis of a man.

I’m hopeful it will be Americans saving the prisoners from Trump’s Concentration Camps and not an invading Army of our former Allies. Hopeful, but given how lazy, racist, and self-absorbed at least 50% of our Nation is, I’m not confident it will be us saving them.

Nigel Farage posts a video from 2015 in Greece and claims it is the UK today. What more proof is needed that this lying, grifting sack of shit will do anything to incite hatred and division?

Lovely crowd at BAHACON in Sarnia, Ontario. Canadians are watching with grave concern America’s threats to them (and many of its own). Rattled attendees kept asking if I thought we’d all ultimately be OK. The only answer I could manage was, “I just don’t know.”

By this moment territory of the Saratov oil refinery is still on fire after tonight’s attack

Mark Kelly: "I hope we got something out of this. Putin is a war criminal. This is not a show of strength to allow him to fly into the United States to land here to negotiate with our president."

40 yrs ago today, Bryan Adams gets his first #1 album with “Reckless” — featuring “Summer of ‘69”. Originally titled “The Best Days Of My Life”, it helped Adams in his quest for a song about summer. “While we were doing the demo, I just threw in the lyric ‘It was the summer of ’69’ and it stuck.”