Maybe a pope can rescue the US

New: The US has for months been helping Ukraine mount long-range strikes on Russian energy facilities, in what officials say is a co-ordinated effort to weaken Vladimir Putin’s economy and force him to the negotiating table.
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Flights are holding or diverting away from St. Maarten due to a fire just off the airfield. SXM ARFF crews are in attendance. www.flightradar24.com/multiview/3c...

💬 Poland's critical infrastructure has been subject to a growing number of cyberattacks by #Russia, whose military intelligence, has trebled its resources for such action against #Poland this year, the country's digital affairs minister told Reuters.

www.reuters.com/technology/p...

Yet another massive Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine, which lasted all night. Russia used:

◾️ 465 Shahed and Gerbera drones;
◾️ 2 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles;
◾️ 14 Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
◾️ 12 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
◾️ 2 Kh-59/69 guided air-launched missiles.

Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls reut.rs/4mWnFis

Mark Bray teaches the history of antifascism at Rutgers U. He is trying to leave the US with his family bc of death threats they are receiving since Charlie Kirk’s outfit called him an antifa terrorist. Situation sounds crazy. Bookmarking this until I hear they have successfully left the US.

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

💬 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces were inflicting heavy losses in a counteroffensive in eastern Donetsk region, the main theatre of the more than 3-1/2 years of war in #Ukraine

www.reuters.com/world/zelens...

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

America 2025

How long are Americans going to tolerate this from their president?

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

The Communist Insurrection in Portland, Oregon

Putin arrived in Tajikistan, where he was greeted with honors despite the ICC arrest warrant against him.

Despite calls from Human Rights Watch to deny entry or arrest the Russian war criminal, the country’s authorities welcomed him with an embrace from President Rahmon.

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

⚡️EU ambassadors approve plan to phase out Russian gas, oil by 2028, Reuters reports.

The plan to phase out Russian oil and gas by January 2028 has received broad backing from most member states, though Hungary and Slovakia continue to oppose it, a source told Reuters.

Scientist on three-week off-grid hike finds out he's won the Nobel prize

Morning Bid: Gold at $4K - Be afraid, be very afraid reut.rs/431gsGw

🇺🇦🦩 Ukraine has begun using FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles, costing about $500,000, — The Economist.

For comparison, Tomahawk missile costs four times as much, has a shorter claimed range and payload, but is more accurate and harder to shoot down.

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

⚡️ Trump on supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine: Sort of made a decision