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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 5h

@governor.pa.gov We commend you in filing an amicus brief to make it clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under your command.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 12h

www.politico.eu/article/belg...

Belgium lays out red lines on €140B Ukraine loan

Belgian PM Bart De Wever has suggested that the Commission’s scheme to leverage Russian frozen assets effectively amounts to confiscation.

www.politico.eu

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 12h

BRUSSELS — “Belgium has laid out its red lines for using Russian assets to fund a €140 billion reparations loan to Ukraine, including an agreement by EU countries to share all current and future risks related to the plan for an amount exceeding €170 billion.”

- Politico

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 12h

“Has Trump brought peace to Gaza? Ended the war and cycle of killing that has now been going on for two years?”

- Talking Points Memo

Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 14h

How much credit does Trump deserve for tentatively bringing peace to Israel and Gaza? Smart analysis by Josh Marshall. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...

Has Trump Brought Peace to Gaza?

Has Trump brought peace to Gaza? Ended the war and cycle of...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 13h

“As Ukrainian drones strike deeper into Russia, targeting oil refineries, the Kremlin’s response has been to flip the switch, shutting down mobile networks across dozens of regions.”

- David Kirichenko
@kirichenko.bsky.social

David Kirichenko @kirichenko.bsky.social · 13h

My report on the downstream economic impact of Ukrainian drone strikes.

www.forbes.com/sites/davidk...

Russia Is Shutting Down Its Own Internet To Stop Ukrainian Drones

Ukraine’s long-range drones are forcing Russia to turn off mobile networks, triggering economic chaos.

www.forbes.com

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 13h

“As U.S. President Donald Trump dreams of receiving the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, his track record as a peacemaker in the world's largest ongoing war remains questionable.”

- Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 13h

As U.S. President Donald Trump dreams of receiving the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, his track record as a peacemaker in the world's largest ongoing war remains questionable.

Despite high-profile meetings and Trump's flamboyant rhetoric, progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine has been scarce.

Russia-Ukraine peace talks are dead, for now. But were they ever alive?

As U.S. President Donald Trump dreams of receiving the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, his track record as a peacemaker in the world's largest ongoing war remains questionable. Despite high-profile meetings ...

kyivindependent.com

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 17h

“Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film”

- The Guardian

Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Trump regime is waging an all out information war on social media. As noted in the article this has two components:

1) Department of Homeland Security agency directly (and all other government agencies).

2) Social media "influencers."

Kristi Noem tours Portland Ice facility with Maga influencers in tow

Oregon governor, Tina Kotek, accuses Ice of antagonizing protesters with teargas and by inviting influencers to film

www.theguardian.com

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

During his 2005 state-of-the-nation address, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the Soviet Union "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

20 years later, many in the West are beginning to grasp the depth and seriousness of his intentions.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

“The danger of Russian drones buzzing over urban areas and key infrastructure like major airports is no longer confined to Ukraine. The same swarms of drones that darken Kyiv’s skies are already beginning to menace European cities. As Ukraine attests, things can get much worse.”

- David Kirichenko

SupFellas @supfellas.bsky.social · 1d

Scalability is a key componebt of the strategy cepa.org/article/a-de...

A Desperate Race for Drone Defenses

Defense industries have tended to focus on the quality of military output, but the Ukraine war shows the importance of mass.

cepa.org

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

“The drone alliance between Russia and China is booming, with their allies reaping the benefits of greater technological cooperation”

- David Kirichenko
@kirichenko.bsky.social

David Kirichenko @kirichenko.bsky.social · 1d

My piece for an Australian think tank on how Russia and China are strengthening the Axis of Evil technologically.

www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-russia-a...

How Russia and China technologically enable authoritarian partners | The Strategist

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has not only accelerated the erosion of the international order but also deepened its partnership with China. Beijing has made clear it does not want the war to...

www.aspistrategist.org.au

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

"I will not back down."
- Illinois Governor Pritzker

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans must negotiate with Democrats to preserve the health care premium credits.

Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 1d

If Republicans allow the tax credits that help people afford their health care premiums expire, a couple in Ouray would be forced to pay over $1000/ month for health insurance. That is unbelievable.

Coloradans cannot afford that.

Republicans must negotiate with Democrats to preserve these credits.

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

@phillipspobrien.bsky.social is absolutely correct

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Dance party in progress in Portland

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

Thank-you @bennet.senate.gov for voting against the Republicans’ partisan budget bill.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

“Miller’s goal is to supplant the rule of law with the “rule of Trump,” a personalist form of rule that answers to Trump the man and no one else.”

-The New Republic

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

OUR PUBLIC LANDS ARE NOT FOR SALE.

Senator John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.senate.gov · 1d

OUR PUBLIC LANDS ARE NOT FOR SALE.

Last night, the Senate voted to override both environmental and community input to sell off our public lands.

This admin’s attacks on our public lands are relentless. We’ll continue to stand against their attempts to pawn them off to the highest bidder.

Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve been at war with the Russians for 300 years,” he said. “We can hold on for a while longer.”

The commander of Ukraine’s 2nd Mechanized Battalion, 66 Mechanized Brigade, call sign YG

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 2d

Alarming🔔

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 2d

Chuck Schumer: “No fucking way’

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 2d

likely factors enumerated are part of the Kremlin equation

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Neonila 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @catskillowl.bsky.social · 2d

and Intimidating

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