A copy of the destroyed bas-relief "Gratitude of the people to the military leader" depicting Joseph Stalin has been unveiled at Taganskaya station of the Moscow subway. Stalin's biggest crime was the organization of the artificial famine of 1932-33, or Holodomor in Ukraine and Kuban

Perfect -

NEW: To me, this sounds like Trump refuses to hand over the original agreement with Bukele, & that maybe he got Bukele to write a letter mischaracterizing the "deal" despite Bukele's previous public description of the agreement that proves otherwise. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This gives me great joy

So much of the worst of Trump 2.0 comes from Trump declaring bogus "emergencies." Congress passed the National Emergencies Act is 1976 - but Congress included a check on this authority, which SCOTUS overturned in 1983. We need "emergency powers" for The People - like calling for a new election ...

You all should know by now I criticize Republicans and Democrats, and have no problem calling out Dem leadership and Biden. However, the media obsessing over Biden's age while ignoring Trump is literally falling asleep during meetings and is the oldest man to be President is infuriating.

Trying to understand what's going on: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19229...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an "atmospheric river" event is set to hit Florida and other parts of the Southeast. The weather event typically occurs in the West.

Some 20 yrs ago th captain of a US submarine was fired after his sub ran into an underwater mountain. The mountain was not on any of the Navy's charts. I thought the punishment was severe and that the Chief Oceanographer should have been fired. So how is this captain still in charge of the Truman?

The Mafia Queen -

The fascism is accelerating -

In France, crypto bros aren’t just losing wallets—they’re losing fingers. Kidnappers now cut off body parts while waiting on ransom from NFT heirs. No blockchain can save you from pissed-off criminals with pliers.

8/ Now, Trump thinks he can get away with ANYTHING. He starts selling access to the White House for people who buy his crypto coin.

"It's not REALLY bribery. It's an investment."

Many will see this and know in their hearts that it’s wrong—that this incessant masturbatory bullshit, performed in our front window for the world to see, is the antithesis of everything that actually made America great and powerful and respected. 5/6

This time the ESCALATION podcast features Ben Hodges, former commander of US Army Europe and outspoken supporter of Ukraine. Find out the truth about the strategic military options available to Europe to help Ukraine win on the battlefield. 🔗👇

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

"controlled opposition" Look it up.

It really takes a lot for me to say this, but the Graham tweet is genuinely a pretty offensive thing to say.

Paul Clement was the amicus appointed by Judge Dale Ho in the Eric Adams case.

Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history. A NYT investigation. nyti.ms/44KUVn8

I’ll never get over how many in the media seem surprised that a con artist is charming in person. That’s like #1 in the list of grifter qualifications.

Charlie was spot on

Such calmer TV coverage… all manual voting, all manual counting with overseers. Results come in steady and none of the sensationalist drama and FOX style graphics and music. This system keeps conspiracists at bay.

Of course! Kraft is a buddy of Putin's.

Canadians invented insulin; Americans invented GoFundMe for insulin.

“The impact is staggering,” he said. #SummerOfScarcity @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/log...

She's a Mob lawyer.

The KKK ruled Indiana in the 1920's. And they want it back in the 2020's.

Pete Buttigieg going on right wing platforms and not giving an inch is a million times more productive than Gavin Newsom inviting right wingers to his platform and letting them walk all over him.

All of them. "Of course you can own an NFL team now, Mr. President."

The WSJ has been publishing so many sane and sensible editorials recently, that it needed to balance them out.

He's a Mob lawyer. Get used to it.

If we asked Trump to name 3 countries in Africa, he’d say Congo because that’s the example he always gives on African immigrants when he’s scaring the white people, then he’d say South Africa because it’s already got Africa in it & Elon’s from there. After that he’d have nothing.

It’s nice that the cult members in this administration keep asserting “they were disrespectful of Dear Leader” as the reason they’re torching the Constitution. No pretending that they’re anything but a wannabe dictatorship

A 30-year operation run by the Kremlin.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov praises Trump, saying he is “the only leader on Earth” who recognized the need to address the “root causes” of the war — meaning justifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Donald Trump is a Russian asset

WATCH: “This should be a bigger story in 🇺🇸— it’s not every day you see the ex Republican speaker of the house on trial for corruption and the current Republican speaker is a key witness for the prosecution.” Kanew recaps Day 4 of Casada’s corruption trial Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DI4-gCx...

⚡️Russian Telegram channels report that Russian Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces was blown up in his car in Moscow region. Information hasn’t been confirmed.

"Russia decided that Odesa is our territory, it goes ahead and does what it needs to. If you don't agree, die." Russian propagandists are no longer trying to pretend that civilians in Ukraine are not being killed on purpose. They are openly proclaiming that anyone who disagrees with Russia must die

More signs of plunging capital expenditure plans. This one from Kansas City Fed, now in contraction. (via Liz Ann Sonders) 🇺🇸

This is going to get very, very bad and the people responsible are first going to deny it’s happening and then claim they couldn’t have predicted how bad it got

Seriously though - if you owned a hot dog stand, would you hire Pete Hegseth and trust him to run it competently?

"Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) posted on X: 'This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.'" wapo.st/4iAatO1

“I’ll hook you up to a f—ing polygraph!” Hegseth shouted at Adm. Christopher Grady, the then-acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to two people familiar with the exchange. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Much, much, much worse than Watergate. Both on the surface, and because the context of the general attack on the Constitution matters to assessing each part. (Nixon's attack on the Constitution was much less broad than even first-term Trump's, let alone the current situation).