So, before Kash Patel's FBI drives the narrative about Joshua John being radicalized or ANTIFA, actually, friends of his have already come forward and debunked it. Joshua followed a Libertarian ideology and was a follower of Ran Paul..

Ukraine has a golden opportunity for the funniest drone strike of this war if they go after this disabled and surfaced Russian submarine limping home.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Yermak: We had an important meeting with the Chairman of the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Congressman French Hill. The congressman noted that the current sanctions are not enough to break the backbone of the Russian economy.

💣🤩 Ukrainian aviation struck Russian position with GBU-39 bombs, - Soniashnyk

🇺🇸 Senate inches toward Russia sanctions vote. Senate Majority Leader John Thune is teasing an announcement as soon as this week on a path forward for Sen. Graham’s bipartisan Russia sanctions bill, - Punchbowl news He wants to see the bill become law and is taking a leading role in making it happen

🇪🇺❌ European Parliament committees supported projects that provide for the EU's complete rejection of Russian gas and oil. The Committees on Industry, Research and Energy and on International Trade approved drafts to ban imports of any Russian gas, including LNG, into the EU from 1 January 2026.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukrainian delegation to the US met with Keith Kellogg "An important conversation on the eve of the meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and the US - coordination of key priorities and accents. We sincerely hope for concrete decisions tomorrow," - wrote Yermak.

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💪 Reuters: Ukraine is striking not only oil refineries, but also pumping stations, storage facilities and export terminals. These strikes have already caused fuel supply disruptions, and gasoline prices have increased by about 10%.

🇮🇱 Netanyahu: I know exactly how many hostages Hamas holds. If we don’t get them, Israel will act accordingly.

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Meanwhile in the propaganda arm of Russia's genocide war 👇

UK warns Russian energy strikes risk Ukrainians “freezing to death in their own homes” Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for 4 consecutive winters, with recent strikes involving 35 missiles and 60 drones against gas facilities euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/16/u...

Russia’s economy is doing fine — if you believe the propaganda. Dig deeper, and the picture changes. The real inflation is 25.6%, reserves are shrinking fast, and the war budget eats everything else. Economist Volodymyr Vlasiuk traces the numbers to one conclusion — 18 months before the crisis.

Russians deployed six tanks, over 40 armored vehicles, and hundreds of troops. Instead, Ukrainian drone operators turned the advance into a massacre, destroying over 60 vehicles and killing more than 100 troops in a matter of hours.⤵️

Frontline report: Russia blew up an ammonia pipeline to poison Ukrainian defenders, then watched its massive relief column get obliterated anyway. Russian commanders hoped the toxic cloud would clear a path for a massive assault column to reach trapped soldiers near Pokrovsk⤵️

Fire reported at Lukoil-Nizhny Novgorod oil refinery in Kstovo, Russia, about 800 km from the Ukrainian border. According to the Supernova+ analysis of photos from the scene, the blaze occurred at the L-24/300 processing unit (coordinates: 56.096011, 44.162904). 📷Supernova+

365 verified cases, 10-20 unreported for each: UN estimates scale of sexual assault in Russian occupied territories 19 Russian soldiers were convicted in absentia for sexual violence since 2022, while Ukraine has verified cases involving survivors aged 4 to 80 euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/16/3...

A drone reportedly struck a major substation in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast, causing a fire and blackouts in nearby settlements. The adjacent Voronezh Oblast also reported power outages in several towns. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/16/d...

North Korean UAV crews coordinate Russian missile strikes from Kursk into Sumy Oblast Russia deploys North Korean drone operators to adjust launch missile system fire on Ukrainian positions, following critical personnel losses and a failed offensive euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/16/n...

Abducted Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant engineer sentenced to 16 years on grotesque ‘treason’ charges khpg.org/en/1608815182

🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout. Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

Big news here: the White House has backed down from shutting down I-5 this weekend following our reporting last night.

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

Justice Dept is expected to present a possible criminal case and seek a grand jury indictment against former national security adviser John Bolton as soon as this afternoon www.cbsnews.com/news/john-bo...

‼️🇫🇮 Russia is preparing for the second phase of aggression. After the war in Ukraine, there are threats to NATO, - Finnish Defense Minister What do you think? 🤔

🇺🇦‼️ Ukrainians should prepare for the fact that the coming years will not be peaceful, — Budanov The head of the GUR emphasizes that he does not mean constant hostilities, but about the threat that will exist next to Ukraine.

🇰🇵⚠️🇺🇦 North Korean drone operators are carrying out strikes on Ukrainian military personnel in the Sumy region, the General Staff reported.

🔥Kinburn Spit, AFU burned down Russian Giatsint gun. This is the same one that terrorized villages in the Mykolaiv region.

👀‼️ Footage of the repelling of an attack by a huge column of Russian armored vehicles on the village of Shakhove, Donetsk region this morning

🚀⚠️ Russia launched the largest number of Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Ukraine since the start of a full-scale war — 26 missiles — The Insider Previously, the record for a single strike was 14 missiles. Modernized missiles were used, and none of them were shot down.

🇳🇵⚠️ Nepalese mercenaries in Moscow Region, Odintsovo, Educational and Methodological Center for Military-Patriotic Education "Avangard"

🇸🇾😵‍💫 Yesterday, Putin met with the new head of Syria and shook his hand — the same one that, according to the Russians themselves, was torn off in 2017 as a result of an airstrike by the Russian Aerospace Forces.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 American-Ukrainian analogue of "Shaheda" with AI and homing at 1,600 km tested in Russia, will be produced in Ukraine, the US and Germany, - Defense Express Auterion's long-range drone is called Artemis ALM-20 and was created together with a Ukrainian company.

🤬 UN humanitarian convoy in Bilozerka in Kherson Region was attacked by Russia…

🙏🇺🇦 Ukraine returns 8 more children from occupation! Among them is a 1.5-year-old boy who was almost taken from his mother by Russian security forces. A 17-year-old girl was also returned, who witnessed the beatings and interrogations of her loved ones when Russian soldiers broke into their home.

❗️ Trump and Putin began a phone conversation, - CBS

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Qatar gave Trump a $400M jet. Trump gave them a military facility on US soil. The UAE bought $2B of Trump's stablecoin. Trump gave them access to rare AI chips. Saudi Arabia invested $2B in Kushner's firm. Trump sold them $142B in arms. If this isn't corruption, what is?

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!" Pamela Jo Bondi

Finkelstein, a gay, Jewish man, specialized in homophobic and antisemitic campaigns. He created the antisemitic Soros conspiracy for Orban. (Netanyahu didn't mind.) And it must be asked, too, why Finkelstein's most successful clients all share a close, cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin. 2/

🇳🇱 The Netherlands will provide an additional €90 million military aid package to Ukraine, focused on producing reconnaissance and strike drones. Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced the move at the NATO meeting in Brussels, urging the need to keep aid flowing to Ukraine.

Pakistan is now conducting airstrikes inside Afghanistan, including in Kabul. Tensions between the two countries have been high, with Pakistan accusing the Taliban of sheltering armed groups responsible for attacks inside Pakistani territory.

Syrian President Ahmad al-Shar’a to Putin: “Today, in the new Syria, we are renewing ties with all nations, especially Russia. We respect our shared history and past agreements, and we aim to redefine these relations based on Syria’s sovereignty, unity, and stability.”

Ukraine would have already won this war and liberated all occupied territories with partner support if not for the Kremlin's backing from its allies, especially North Korea, said Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov.

The UK has announced its toughest sanctions yet on Russia, targeting Rosneft, Lukoil, Naraya Energy, four Chinese oil terminals, 44 shadow fleet tankers, and suppliers of missile and drone components. The package also cracks down on insurers, ports, and financial firms enabling the trade.

German Defense Minister Pistorius announced over €2B in new military aid to Ukraine. The package includes Patriots, IRIS-T systems, radar, precision artillery, anti-tank weapons, and more. Germany also launched an effort to upgrade previously delivered systems to meet evolving battlefield needs.

Denmark is donating €147 million to boost Ukraine’s combat capabilities as part of its 27th military aid package. The funds will go toward naval support for Ukraine’s fleet, tank maintenance, €53 million specifically for training and education of Ukrainian soldiers, fuel and rehabilitation support.