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Once again, if Trump really wanted to sanction Russia, he has an ideal vehicle crying out to be used; the Graham-Blumenthal act. However, he will not even allow Senate Republicans to vote on it. The only conclusion is that he really does not want to hurt Putin
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Finland 🇫🇮 💪
A while back the Finnish govt saved Valmet Automotive factory in Uusikaupunki from going bankrupt as Mercedes manufacturing deal ended. Many wondered why ...

Today Valmet Automotive and Patria Land announced LOI that the factory will start producing Patria armored vehicles.

yle.fi/a/74-20191475
Valmet Automotive ja Patria aiesopimukseen panssariajoneuvoista – toimitusjohtaja: ”Olemme kuuluisia siitä, kuinka nopeasti valmistusta voidaan käynnistää”
Yhtiöt ovat allekirjoittaneet aiesopimuksen panssaroitujen ajoneuvojen valmistuksesta. Neuvottelut lopullisista sopimuksista ovat käynnissä.
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Last year we got a tip about a children's pastor who'd managed to stay in ministry for decades even as allegations of sex abuse trailed him across four states.

I kept pulling thread and found something far bigger: a 50-year pattern of abuse and cover-up in the largest Pentecostal denomination 🧵 1/
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It’s not hard to grasp how this second Trump term is radicalizing many Democrats. Democratic leaders need to wake up.
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A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Or—please hear me out, as I know this may come as a shock to everyone—J.D. Vance knows the truth and is a calculating, habitual liar who will say absolutely, positively anything he thinks is politically expedient?
That just makes pants sound even dumber then if he hasn't taken the time to learn about his wifes faith
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Stephen Miller’s wife Katie Miller having a full-on meltdown on live TV. When Cenk Uygur called out her lies from the Piers Morgan show, she snapped, accusing him of being “anti-Semitic” and “racist,” and even claiming people attacked her kids (they didn’t)
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/3 Notice also how thankfully Heritage accepts the gift that people like Ezra Klein give them: if you can frame bigotry as a “debate,” if it’s done in a friendly chat or a podcast or some other stylized forum, then it’s just uncouth and intolerant to call it out. Works out swell for bigots.
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Look at this ridiculous primitive country, casting out its sex pests rather than making them Presidents or Mayors or Supreme Court justices
Breaking News: Andrew, the younger brother of King Charles III, is being stripped of his title as prince, Buckingham Palace said. nyti.ms/4oQeykJ
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A thought I never expected to have: House of Windsor currently beating the US government on transparency and accountability.
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will strip Prince Andrew of remaining titles and evict him from royal residence.
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It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls
Street Level Surveillance
EFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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The Trump administration has committed 14 known strikes on small boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean over the last two months, killing at least 61 people.

And it’s angering people on both sides of the aisle. trib.al/cQqXJHj
GOPer Joins Dems in Fury Over Trump Refusal to Share Boat Strike Info
Representative Mike Turner joined Democrats in calling out Donald Trump’s concerning lack of transparency.
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I’ve been saying this for months and it’s good to see another sober documentation. When oh when will the press start demanding to see the evidence for DHS’s inflammatory claims?
Trump claims ICE agents are in constant danger. The data tells another story. Records show that none of ICE’s agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s more than two-decade history.

Instead, the leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.
How dangerous is it really to work for ICE?
According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.
www.motherjones.com
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Oh, this is gonna go over great with people who have to sculpt a turkey out of SPAM because they lost their jobs and their health-insurance costs quintupled.
Bessent: "President Trump is promises made, promises kept on his campaign promises. And it's gonna start flowing through to working Americans next year. Wall Street has done great."
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If ICE agents believe they have blanket immunity or that citizens have no right to record them, it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error.

A free society depends on public oversight of government force, and on courts that uphold that freedom. @walterolson.bsky.social
There's a Right To Record ICE Raids--and There's No Blanket Immunity for Raiders
Notwithstanding pronouncements from leading officials of the Trump administration, the consensus of federal courts is that the Constitution protects the right to record immigration raids, and federal ...
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Binance formed a task force to strike a deal with the Trumps’ nascent cryptocurrency venture that Binance could leverage into clemency for Zhao...Binance took steps that catapulted the Trump family venture’s new stablecoin, pushing its market cap from $127M to $2.1B. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
How a Billionaire Felon Boosted Trump’s Crypto Company en Route to a Pardon
The giant crypto exchange facilitated a $2 billion purchase of World Liberty’s stablecoin and built its technology. The clemency for Changpeng Zhao—the tycoon known as CZ—surprised some in the adminis...
www.wsj.com