Hungary and Slovakia were not invited to the Sept 26 EU video conference on creating a “drone wall” along the bloc’s eastern border. The meeting, called by EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, will include: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, plus Ukraine.

Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued. Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially. Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Part of me almost thinks that one legal approach to justice after this administration may be the use of extradition. Pack these guys off to the countries they have wronged and let them decide what justice is.

What an incredibly evil creature.

"And every drone strike by the heroes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, may God bless them, brings this day closer," he added. Sikorski stressed that NATO countries will not be intimidated by Russia, and any escalation will have consequences for the aggressor.

🇵🇱 "We know that you disregard international law and cannot live in peace with your neighbors. Your extreme nationalism is a thirst for domination that will not end until you accept that the era of empires is over and yours will not return," — Sikorski told the Russian representative at UN meeting.

Perceived grievance is a key barometer of underlying risk to democracy. My testimony to European Parliament from June. "Who in my communities are aggrieved...and who is influencing them? Because that is a force multiplier because that actually radicalizes." www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35i...

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We continue Russia’s policy of parading with Europe’s far right.

OTD in 1939 the German–Soviet victory parade took place in Polish town of Brest-Litovsk. As allies, we celebrated liberating Poland from the Poles

Gift link on.ft.com/3VFJMhJ ASML and Mistral agree €1.3bn blockbuster European AI deal

Ukraine’s FM Andriy Sybiha met Slovak counterpart Juraj Blanár on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Talks focused on Europe’s future security architecture, defense cooperation under the SAFE mechanism, and energy security, alongside strengthening bilateral relations.

‼️🇺🇦 SBU Detains FSB Agents Who Were Shipping Ukrainian SIM Cards for Shahed Strike UAVs to Russia. Counterintelligence detained them in the Kyiv region. One of them turned out to be a former law enforcement officer. The presence of SIM cards improved the navigation of Russian drones.

Malta is laundering Russian oil. Malta is bunkering oil under fake certificates of origin - September 2025 A free thread from Beefy 👇 Please remember to support his work with a coffee or two! open.substack.com/pub/beefeate...

🇰🇿🇺🇦 The Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan and Ukraine, Nurlteu and Sybiga, held a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. 1/3

Russia has recruited 1 in 6 tankers in the world for its dodgy oil exports. The @nytimes, citing data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, says the Terrorist State's "shadow fleet" accounts for 17% of tankers in operation. Russia "owns" 940 such vessels according to the data, up 45% from 2024.

Kyrgyzstan gets 90% of its gasoline from Russia. And prices are skyrocketing there. rus.azattyq.org/a/33527412.h...

🍿 EVERYTHING IS BAD! A Russian economic blogger in occupied Crimea writes: “Sometimes there are times when there is nothing to write about. There are no bright, attractive, attention-demanding news. But lately, I simply haven't had time to cover all the desired topics.”

Wer verstehen will, warum Jens Spahn bei Miosga den Trumpismus verharmlost & die Linke derart verteufelt, dem lege ich unsere @gabrielakeller.bsky.social Recherche zu Jens Spahns engen Verbindungen zu MAGA-Milliardären & trumpschen Stiftungen ans Herz - erklärt vieles: correctiv.org/aktuelles/ge...

Well Vance invested $50k in AcreTrader didn't he? Also Peter Thiel as a neoreactionary understands the value of owning the food supply. Neo-reactionaries, sometimes called neo-monarchists, want to go back to something roughly comparable to feudalism government and economy wise.

Excellent! Thank you!

Republicans were running anti trans ads against other republicans in Oklahoma. No amount of transphobic vitriol is ever enough. www.oudaily.com/news/anti-tr...

🇵🇹🇵🇸 Portugal recognizes the State of Palestine.

‼️ Russia is changing tactics: drones are cutting Ukrainian supply lines, - WSJ Now, strikes on roads and convoys are no longer sporadic, but systematic. Russia is using fiber-optic drones, which are immune to EW, as well as "mother drones" that launch smaller strike UAVs from behind the front.

💥👀 According to Russian media, AFU attacked the so-called "FSB dacha", where Putin personally rested on several occasions. ‼️ Monitoring sites report the destruction of some "government building".

🚨 Austria: Unnamed long-time senior executive at oil, gas, and chemicals giant OMV turned out to be a Russian spy. He made regular contacts with the FSB at the Russian Embassy in Vienna and passed on classified information to Russia. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/21/a...

🇫🇷🇮🇱 Macron: Israel's security strategy against Hamas has failed. They killed all the key leaders. This is a success. But at the beginning of this war, you had more or less 25,000 Hamas fighters. The Israeli army killed probably half, but Hamas managed to recruit the equivalent.

You might think Donald's DM to Pam Bondi was bad but you haven't seen what sends me.

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

1/ An apparent Russian espionage scandal is unfolding in the Dominican Republic after the arrest of a 25-year-old man who has been linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin's disinformation network. He has been linked to a recently-exposed Russian network in Argentina. ⬇️

🇪🇺 The EU will act in its own interests and will not automatically impose 100% tariffs on India and China at the request of Washington, — Ursula von der Leyen said to Soir. "The EU will make its own decisions, we are preparing to sign a free trade agreement with India by the end of 2025."

Dein Drucker verrät dich. 🖨️ Viele Farbdrucker fügen jedem Ausdruck unsichtbare Punkte hinzu – eine Art Signatur. 1/6

Good morning #Fellas and #NAFOFELLAS Putin apparently just had an appointment and got diagnosed with a bad case of Fellas Keep it up Remember to donate to Ukraine and keep bonking those vatniks. Make them cry

Ukrainian firm Realgold makes 10,000 FPV drone engines a month—but pays full VAT while Chinese imports don’t. It says it could scale to 100,000 without extra investment—if the law wasn’t rigged against it. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/21/u...

Over the past week, Russia has unleashed: • ⚡ 1,500+ strike drones • 💣 1,280+ guided bombs • 🚀 50 missiles of various types In these weapons, Ukraine has found more than 132,000 foreign-made components — from countries like Europe, the USA, China, Japan, and dozens more. — Zelensky

✈️🚫🇺🇦 Back on the Table: A No-Fly Zone for Ukraine 🇵🇱 Sikorski has asked NATO to consider shielding Ukraine during Russian attacks, calling it the best way to prevent Russian drones from flying over other European territories as well. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/back-on-the-...

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

🛳️❗️NYT: Sanctions are taking Russian shadow fleet out of the legal business, but not out of the market altogether. The shadow fleet is growing rapidly — now 940 vessels, 17% of the world's oil tankers, and allows Russia and Iran to supply oil directly to India and China.

🇮🇹❗️Russia supplies weapons to the Italian mafia, — Linkiesta This concerns modern small arms from 2010–2020 from the Tula plant. The weapons are hidden in metal containers or wooden barrels filled with lubricants. Their supply is carried out and controlled by state structures of Russia.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Failing to defend our rights never leads to keeping those rights. Every single human and civil right has to be fought for against erosion, even when you think those rights are guaranteed. Our institutions keep refusing to understand this.

Wie vor ein paar Tagen vermutet, die AFD Abgeordnete Birgit Bessin hat eine Reisegruppe auf Kosten der Steuerzahlenden durch die russische Botschaft geführt. www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

Vile grift in plain sight, celebrated on russian Telegram US President Donald Trump signed an order to implement the The Trump Gold Card program. It allows Russians and other foreigners to obtain a residence permit through an accelerated procedure for $1 million. 1/3

The Pentagon must review and approve any article by journalists covering it in order to access the building. This is what authoritarian regimes do. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...