Brexit cost the United Kingdom so much economically, that it is now also struggling to re-arm and modernise its armed forces… #WhatPutinWanted podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/s...

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🇺🇸 The US has extended the Biden-era order banning Russian ships from docking in US ports. The document states that Russia still poses a national threat to the US.

Iran also retains significant missile and drone reserves, suggesting it could still respond if fighting resumes.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Western intelligence says Iran blunted the impact of US-Israeli strikes through pre-war planning, - Bloomberg While it suffered heavy infrastructure damage and lost top leaders, it preserved key missile and drone capabilities and maintained command structures by quickly replacing officials.

🇺🇦 Budanov: I confirm that an exchange will take place in the near future. 🇪🇺 "It is time for the EU to unblock the 90 billion euros loan and move forward with the 20th sanctions package. The Foreign Affairs Council will consider this next week," Kallas stressed. 6/6

💥 UAV control points were hit in the areas of Verbovye and Hola Prystan. 🔥 Enemy manpower was also hit in the areas of Rodynske and Zatyshne, as well as the enemy control point in the Rivnepil area. 5/6

VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝 💥 BAVOVNA at Tuapse oil depot! 🔥 SBU and SBS destroyed enemy fuel trains near Luhansk 🔥 Strike by SBS on 16 military targets: Pantsir, Osa-AK, Buk-M1, 2 Iskander basees, 2 Oil depots, warehouses! 1/6

Call it a VIP club charge and they’ll line up to pay it.

The Trump admin tried to end-run an order blocking the East Wing ballroom's construction by invoking an exception permitting work on the project’s “safety and security” features. Judge Leon indignantly clarifies: “That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!” buff.ly/kWARaBf

First ever criminal charges against ICE agents for pulling a gun on two people in a car during a road rage incident. They’re being charged with 2nd degree assault.

TODAY: Pirro's prosecutors are kicked off the Fed Reserve site, mass civil rights violations at the Everglades concentration camp, and Chinook salmon are hatching in the Upper Klamath River for the first time in a century. News with swearing: the-daily-beans.simplecast.com

Also Aliya Rahman is suing. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

NEW: the #AlabamaPenis has been freed!

Out and about

JUST IN: Trump's bid to overturn $5M award to E. Jean. Carroll for sexual abuse and defamation was set to be taken up by SCOTUS at closed-door conference tomorrow. Just rescheduled for 7th time. Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

DONALD & PETE should ask the Soviets what happens when you get in a fight with the Pope 🙏

Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context. wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...

Putin is teetering – Europe needs to give him one more push Now is the time to tighten the vice on a warmonger who represents the biggest threat to Western (I’d say World) security. Liam Fox The numbers in this article do add up to a very bleak picture indeed… www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8ebeae3...

1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.

2/7. The international character of Trumpism was a subject of "Road to Unfreedom," my history of the 2010s. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570367...

3/7. Trump emerged into international far right networks that backed him, funded him, ran social media campaigns for him, and supplied him with role models.

5/7. But one of our problems or syndromes is our provincialism: we just can’t see the possibility that other counties matter inside our political system. bsky.app/profile/gtco...

6/7. And they do matter and have never mattered more than under what was supposedly a nationalist movement — MAGA — but which is in fact a branch of international fascist oligarchy. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...

7/7. It's worth dwelling on this point. It’s hard for Americans to process that their hard right politics is in large measure a Russian and Hungarian import — intellectually and also financially. We should take advantage of the defeat of Orbán to let this basic fact sink in. bsky.app/profile/empt...

"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed... “You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..." www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

👀‼️‼️‼️👍 www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

Unbelievable‼️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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💥 Russia: Ukraine struck Belgorod. This apolitical Russian is confused by what he is seeing.

🙏 Rescuers found the body of a man under the rubble in Dnipro, the number of victims of the attack in this Ukrainian city has increased to 5, another person died in the hospital.

Wow‼️ #SlavaUkraini‼️‼️

💥 Ukrainian kinetic sanctions on Russian oil as seen from space. 🛰️ Port of Tuapse on the Black Sea in Krasnodar region.

💥 Russia: Oil that Russia intended to export continues to burn after Ukrainian housewife kitchen drone strikes at the Port of Tuapse on the Black Sea.

🇳🇱🇺🇦 Zelensky: I am grateful to King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands for the meeting. I thank His Majesty for his personal support of Ukraine and our entire people throughout more than four years of the fight against full-scale Russian aggression.

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"The use of faith as a political instrument is dangerous, and history gives us ample reason to understand why," writes Roman Sheremeta, Chair of the Economics Department at the Weatherhead School of Management, in this op-ed.

Kyiv burns as Ukraine no longer has any Patriot interceptor missiles - the only defense against Russian Iskander ballistic missiles. Vice President Vance recently bragged of his "proudest" achievement - cutting off military support for Ukraine.

Listening to @michaelkofman.bsky.social on the WOTR podcast. Ru-Ukr at drone parity. "most of the fight is not between infantry or soldiers on the ground. It's about the drone units of one side ... being able to displace the drone units of the other side." podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/u...

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