Despite public promises to scale back or cease operations in Russia after the outbreak of full-scale war, major international alcohol producers Bacardi and Campari have taken advantage of the departure of competitors,
Despite public promises to scale back or cease operations in Russia after the outbreak of full-scale war, major international alcohol producers Bacardi and Campari have taken advantage of the departure of competitors,
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actually France has a history of giving refuge to the most despicable dictators no other country would let in (e.g. Bokassa and Duvalier) so no surprise here
A shocking video is circulating online showing a Russian soldier shooting a horse with a rifle while his comrades stand by and laugh The incident reportedly took place in the occupied part of Ukraine. Inhumane bastards. They only know how to murder. And they proudly post it.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public". Theodore Roosevelt
You canât make this sh*t up
âĄď¸ Ukraineâs intelligence found 45 foreign components inside a Russian Geran-3 drone â half made by US firms, plus parts from China, Switzerland, Germany, Britain, and Japan.
A new report from the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Lab shows Russia is holding kidnapped Ukrainian children at more than 200 sites where they are being forced intoâre-education programsâ and even subjected to military training. We need to find these kids and bring them home.
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With time dictatorial practices become more and more entrenched, they develop a system that works well to nip all the dissent in the bud and have people scared to even try to resist
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Speaking as a Ukrainian, Iâd say itâs important to go all in against the tyranny ASAP, that is why Maidan was possible. When dictators just start, they mostly just want to steal money and are not ready to face real resistance
Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizenâs house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake. This is America under Trump. No one is safe.
The Justice Department has removed a study from its website which found that "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremismâ, CNN reports.
Threatens Denmark with Greenland annexation. Threatens Australian journalist. Threatens own media. DOJ threatens the opposition. On the other hand, lifts sanctions from Belarus and rolls out the red carpet for Putin. I donât think this is the end, and the damage done will be very difficult to undo.
Troll's response to this is illustrative. Before Donald gave us a free hand, we used to invent 8 theories as well as claim it was a false flag when we bombed a hospital or a school. Now we just say a university is a legit target.
This was a town. I know itâs hard to believe. Thousands lived here. Worked. Dreamed. Built homes. Made plans. Russia erased. Completely. Vovchansk. Kharkiv region.đ
Charlie Kirk spent his lifeâs work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and weâre now not supposed to mention that because itâs not polite.
I spent the entire day trying to make someone care about Russiaâs murder of 24 people, most of them elderly, who were simply standing in line to collect their pensions. Russia dropped an aerial bomb on them as if they were a military command or strategic object.
This isn't "just" Shaheds on Poland It's jamming v/d Leyen and German general's planes It's bombing the EU HQ in Kyiv It's bombing Ukr civilians every day and night with 800+ drones and missiles AND THIS IS JUST LAST WEEK.
At least 19 Russian drones crossed into Polish air space last night. This was not an accidental breach or a mistake.
Vance is claiming that buying gas and oil from russia will somehow guarantee "durable peace" as if heâs spent the last two decades under a rock. Every single time rewarding russian aggression with new contracts fueled more aggression. Every.Single.Time. God, we are so screwed.
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Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead. Please. Donât look away and donât be silent. This is all I could ask for
This is fascism. Never forget and never forgive the so-called ânormie Republicansâ who enabled this monster, fully aware of how dangerous he was, all for their own political and personal gain.
Have you noticed when Russia gets long range weapons from Iran and soldiers from North Korea that it isnât an escalation?
You have my word Russia wont invade: Moldova Ok but not Georgia Ok but not Ukraine Ok just Crimea Ok just that & part of Donetsk Ok just that & all of Donetsk Ok just that & Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia Ok all of Ukraine But Zelensky has my word he'll be safe in Moscow...
Donald's "disappointment with Putin" manifests...
We now live in a country where: â The president is a felon. â The DHS chief kills puppies. â The HHS chief is an antivax ex-addict. â The education secretary canât read. â The defense secretary is a drunk. â The DNI answers to Moscow. WTF happened?
Ask Prigozhin how good Prez's word is.
Big Oil donates to his campaign...Trump hands out tax breaks and guts clean energy funding. Fraudsters donate to his Super PAC...Trump hands out pardons. Airlines donate to his inaugural fund...Trump cancels a rule requiring them to refund passengers. Everything is for sale.
Pro tip: If youâve spent the last decade begging for a Nobel Peace Prize, maybe donât rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War. Not exactly a winning strategy.
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NYT covering it in this manner is as surprising as Trump making this statement
Putin rarely says anything grounded in reality, yet major news outlets dutifully publish his quotes, forgetting to mention that he never honors his own words. The fact that this cycle never ends is one of the reasons russian propaganda is so successful.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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Sanctions that feel like more than a slap on the wrist? No way! All it took is to have the President of the European Commission almost killed
NATO should launch anti-radiation missiles and destroy GPS jamming stations on the territory of the russian terrorist state. Do it today. It is intolerable that NATO members submit to relentless and escalating attacks by russian terrorists and never defend themselves.
đ´ European Commission President Ursula von der Leyenâs plane was hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming, forcing the pilot to circle for an hour before landing manually with paper charts, the Financial Times reports.
If you flood the streets of a city with heavily-armed masked paramilitary (1) they will commit crimes (2) they will not stop crimes (3) but overall crime may go down because people are too scared of heavily-armed masked paramilitary to leave their houses.
𤨠New laws in Russia could tighten Moscowâs grip on daily life, expand surveillance, and revive Soviet-style repression, critics say.
Russia spends millions to hide its crimesâthese books reveal the truth it wants erased. 𧾠1/10 âŹď¸
Putin and Xi. This visit, coming right after Alaska, helps Putin sell the illusion of normalized international relations back home. That boost to his domestic propaganda machine means one thing: more Ukrainians will die.
You find signs like this all over our former colonies commemorating people who were taken by anonymous soviet secret policemen. In their 100s of thousands.
OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today
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More power?? He might have a higher ranking position right now, but de facto heâs a slave to Trump with zero agency
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
đ The price of independence is high. The children of Ukraine's fallen heroes will never forget their parents' deeds.
This has been Trump's foreign policy strategy for the last 8 months. Trump has done nothing to pressure Russia to stop these wars.
Communist regimes: Own companies Control their central banks Use tariffs to insulate their economies Use armies, false charges, home raids & arrests to intimidate the opposition Idolize their leaders with posters & praise Sound familiar?
Ukraine is attacking russian oil refineries - working engines of the russian war machine. russia is attacking apartment buildings in Ukraine with sleeping families inside. Both are happening at the same time.
The number of people killed in the Russian attack on Kyiv has risen to 15, including four childrenâźď¸ Another 38 people were injuredâď¸
You'd think a UN permanent security council member withdrawing from Convention for the Prevention of Torture would be bigger news. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-call...
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others â Congress, the courts, the American people â from having a say or even knowing what heâs going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.
One of the biggest obstacles to real and lasting peace today is the fearful conviction of many Western leaders that russia is invincible while the only way to stop it is appeasement by sacrificing someone weaker.
Christian Nationalism is destroying America.
ExxonMobil returns to Sakhalin-1. That's what Alaska was about. Doing business. Helping russian regime with money to kill more Ukrainians
The real Trump Syndrome is just this. A squadron of wealthy men who yell out 'Im the victim" This is when ignorance and lack of living life in the real world forces them into a stupor of Trump Syndrome clown's
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
This war will continue killing Ukrainians for generations regardless of its outcome. Russian crimes against Ukrainian people know no limits.
If you ask Ukrainians âafter 3.5 years of war, donât you wish youâd just given in at the start,â youâll get a hard no. Americans, of all people, should understand going âgive me liberty or give me deathâ when a foreign dictator tells people to bow down. Except the US govt now opposes those values.
I feel like there has been more debate over the Cracker Barrel logo than the military occupation of D.C. and the process of completely losing my mind is nearing completion
This week: The President said âa lot of people want a dictator.â His chief advisor called the Democratic Party âterrorists.â They sent military to occupy our cities under phony pretexts. Nobody declares ânow itâs Fascism.â Itâs here. In the White House & on the streets.
They are sending soldiers into cities to prepare to intimidate people at the polls next year. They gerrymander because they canât win on policy. They intimidate because even gerrymandering wonât work at this point.
Trump: âThe line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canât afford. Itâs about priorities.
The fundamental choice has not been as stark since World War II: democracy and freedom, or dictatorship and tyranny. Trump and his sycophants are siding with the latter. The rest of us must loudly, proudly, and boldly proclaim our allegiance to the former.
America is the Tesla Cybertruck of countries
Itâs continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
I donât think the Nobel committee gives out peace prizes to deranged despots who want to call their defense departments the Department of Warâand who intend to arrogantly ignore the role of Congress to approve such a name change.
Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
Russia can soon withdraw from the European Convention for the Prohibition of Torture, according to Russian media. Like they ever abide by it.
The military is in the streets and the full American media apparatus is fawning for peanuts while waving off concentration camps but sure, we can keep constantly relitigating when it's fascism or not.
Reporter: You called Kamala Harris a communist, yet the Biden-Harris administration never proposed nationalizing a private company like you are with Intel. Is this the new way of industrial policy? Trump: Yes. Sure it is. I wanna try to get as much as I can
The Fed was designed to be insulated from politics to maintain the stability and credibility of our financial system. The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.
âThis is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.â â Gov. J.B. Pritzker
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, UKRAINE đşđŚ 34 years ago, we chose us. All of us - East and West, Lviv and Kharkiv, Crimea and Donbas. We chose each other. Not division. We chose unity, identity, and the promise of a shared future. 1/3
If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, heâd likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.
Trump wants the FCC to revoke the licenses of ABC and NBC because they donât praise him enough MAGA calls that âfree speechâ
In Kherson, a Russian drone hunted down a civilian fixing his roof after a strike â part of Moscowâs sick pattern of targeting civilians.
World leaders have spent years nurturing a mĐžnster. Every time russia attacked another country, it was given part of the territory in the hope of âappeasingâ it. But this never stopped the aggressor â on the contrary, each concession only fueled its appetite.
Imagine how many world conflicts would fizzle out without Russian mercenaries.
âĄď¸ Russiaâs Shahed drone program runs on Chinese engines, electronics, and carbon fiberâwithout Beijing, the assembly lines would collapse.
Donald Trump is the weakest President America has ever had. Putin and the Russians own this guy. Cartoon by Daniel Boris
After 213 days of ending the war in 24 hours within 2 weeks, and then waiting 10 or 12 days, we now have a week or two to end it
Red states rely on the money from Blue states to function. This can all be over the second Democratic governors actually wield their power.
Day 1274 of my 3 day war. It's going so well that a country with massive reserves of oil is running out of fuel. I remain a master strategist.
To everyone looking ahead for the redlines, theyâre in the rearview. We have military in the streets, concentration camps, erasure of history, election fuckery, abandonment of due process, a Gestapo, an authoritarian leader, an impotent Congress, an obeisant SCOTUS, and an asleep populace.
Like most bullies, Trump can be constrained only if everyone stands up to his bullying. Protest. Go to town halls. Protect the vulnerable in your community. Keep speaking out. The fight against authoritarianism will take all of us â and we can't relent.
Only defeating Russia will end the war. Only destroying the Russian empire will bring peace.
Needless to say, any 'security guarantee' where russia has a veto is actually a new russian invasion guarantee. No one will ever agree to this. But the audacity, the entitlement, the confidence in everybody's stupidity is just... next level.
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Is this still a hybrid attack?
Polish authorities have confirmed that the explosion in the town of Osiny originated from a suicide drone. No casualties, but three building were damaged. Component in the debris suggest that it was Shahed type drone, built by Russia and Iran. The town is more than 110 km from the Ukrainian border.
Again, there is no difference between how an active Russian agent would act and how the president of the United States acts.
Again: this is not about what this country can or canât afford. Itâs about priorities.
The media is still spewing the "Doesn't hurt to talk to Putin" bullshit. Of course it does. The talks delay further sanctions and weapon assistance, and therefore delay peace. The talks legitimize Putin, and therefore prolong the root cause (strongman dictatorship). Fuck the talks.
Remember when getting caught doing something immoral or illegal would end a politicianâs career? That was awesome.
A murderous dictator has kompromat on the US President and is making him do his bidding. The Cold War never ended for Vladimir Putin. What is happening to America right now is his greatest triumph.
Current US policy is making this Russian atrocity worse. People in Zaporizhzhia take in refugees from occupied zones and build new underground schools to keep kids safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
In the first 60 seconds zelensky said âthank youâ 8 times. Thatâs 1 âthank youâ every 7.5 seconds
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.