Old Soldier
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"Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." - Bertolt Brecht
BS Business Admin
MS Cybersecurity
DLI/FLC Alum
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Pining for that downhill run to Papeʻetē.
BS Business Admin
MS Cybersecurity
DLI/FLC Alum
ΦΚΦ
Pining for that downhill run to Papeʻetē.
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
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It was an MRI of his soul. The results were negative.
December 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It was an MRI of his soul. The results were negative.
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Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
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One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One sign that your brain is super good is when your doctors keep giving you cognitive tests
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NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEWS: A unanimous Third Circuit panel rules that Alina Habba is not U.S. Attorney, cannot be Acting U.S. Attorney, and cannot have the powers delegated to her. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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And we're off with SCOTUS arguments in Sony v Cox. The question at issue: whether ISPs can be liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
And we're off with SCOTUS arguments in Sony v Cox. The question at issue: whether ISPs can be liable for the copyright infringement committed by their users.
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Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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I agree with this critique although I will add that my critique (additionally) is that these stories do not discuss STATE VIOLENCE, like, you know, the goons kidnapping folks on the street and leaving children in the car.
Yet another long feature article about political violence that refuses to acknowledge the basic reality that right-wing violence is far more common than left-wing violence.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I agree with this critique although I will add that my critique (additionally) is that these stories do not discuss STATE VIOLENCE, like, you know, the goons kidnapping folks on the street and leaving children in the car.
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Yermak was keeping Budanov out of the way.
"Andriy Yermak may be behind the attempts to achieve the resignation of the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) Kyrylo Budanov."
babel.ua/en/news/1194...
"Andriy Yermak may be behind the attempts to achieve the resignation of the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) Kyrylo Budanov."
babel.ua/en/news/1194...
The Economist: Yermak demanded Budanovʼs resignation — but it didnʼt happen
The Economist writes that the head of the OP Andriy Yermak tried nine times to get the resignation of the head of GUR Kyrylo Budanov
babel.ua
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yermak was keeping Budanov out of the way.
"Andriy Yermak may be behind the attempts to achieve the resignation of the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) Kyrylo Budanov."
babel.ua/en/news/1194...
"Andriy Yermak may be behind the attempts to achieve the resignation of the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) Kyrylo Budanov."
babel.ua/en/news/1194...
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Trump, who as part of his plan to attack Venezuela is killing people he says w/o evidence are cartel drug smugglers — is pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández, a coke trafficker & former Honduras prez with close ties to cartels doing 45 years in the slam. How does this not make Trump a cartel associate?
November 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Trump, who as part of his plan to attack Venezuela is killing people he says w/o evidence are cartel drug smugglers — is pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández, a coke trafficker & former Honduras prez with close ties to cartels doing 45 years in the slam. How does this not make Trump a cartel associate?
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Minus 30 degrees outside, plus 10 inside. While the men are waging hot war on foreign soil, the wives and children of military men from the Kola Peninsula live through ice-cold winter days without heating in their houses
Families of Russian arctic warriors are left in freezing cold
While the men are waging war on foreign soil, and the state spends massive resources on violence and territorial expansion, the wives and children of military men from the Kola Peninsula live through ...
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Minus 30 degrees outside, plus 10 inside. While the men are waging hot war on foreign soil, the wives and children of military men from the Kola Peninsula live through ice-cold winter days without heating in their houses
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Norilsk Nickel’s revenue has been declining every year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The company posted a 13% drop in revenue and a 37% decline in net profit in 2024. Compared to 2021, Norilsk Nickel’s profit decreased fourfold.
Potanin admits trouble as Russia’s war-torn economy suffers due to sanctions
In a meeting with Putin in the Kremlin, Vladimir Potanin said his Norilsk Nickel company is forced to operate under difficult conditions.
www.thebarentsobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Norilsk Nickel’s revenue has been declining every year since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The company posted a 13% drop in revenue and a 37% decline in net profit in 2024. Compared to 2021, Norilsk Nickel’s profit decreased fourfold.
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📉 The January-September net income of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft fell by 70% year-on-year to 277 billion roubles ($3.57 billion) amid high interest rates, cheaper oil and a stronger rouble, - Reuters
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📉 The January-September net income of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft fell by 70% year-on-year to 277 billion roubles ($3.57 billion) amid high interest rates, cheaper oil and a stronger rouble, - Reuters
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After numerous attempts by the presidential office to remove General Budanov from his post (which would have been disastrous), Zelenskyy appears to have finally begun to listen to him.
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
After numerous attempts by the presidential office to remove General Budanov from his post (which would have been disastrous), Zelenskyy appears to have finally begun to listen to him.
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A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack.
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”
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Rodynske in Donetsk region today looks like a post-apocalyptic world.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Rodynske in Donetsk region today looks like a post-apocalyptic world.
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⚔️ Frozen War or a War Until One Side Falls
🇺🇦🇬🇧 Zaluzhnyi believes that the most realistic way the war may end is a multi-year freeze, and he stresses that clear victories rarely conclude modern wars and the WW2 is rather an exception
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/frozen-war-o...
🇺🇦🇬🇧 Zaluzhnyi believes that the most realistic way the war may end is a multi-year freeze, and he stresses that clear victories rarely conclude modern wars and the WW2 is rather an exception
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/frozen-war-o...
Frozen War or a War Until One Side Falls
Conditions remain difficult, and the situation continues to deteriorate. Valerii Zaluzhnyi believes that the most realistic way the war may end is a multi-year
theukrainianreview.info
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
⚔️ Frozen War or a War Until One Side Falls
🇺🇦🇬🇧 Zaluzhnyi believes that the most realistic way the war may end is a multi-year freeze, and he stresses that clear victories rarely conclude modern wars and the WW2 is rather an exception
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/frozen-war-o...
🇺🇦🇬🇧 Zaluzhnyi believes that the most realistic way the war may end is a multi-year freeze, and he stresses that clear victories rarely conclude modern wars and the WW2 is rather an exception
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/frozen-war-o...
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On the front lines of Donetsk, soldiers are outraged by the idea that Ukraine could give territory to Russia.
"No one will make concessions on territory, this is our land, and we stand here."
Staff Sergeant Volodymyr Rzhavsky, who serves near Pokrovsk, called the proposal “a real capitulation.”
"No one will make concessions on territory, this is our land, and we stand here."
Staff Sergeant Volodymyr Rzhavsky, who serves near Pokrovsk, called the proposal “a real capitulation.”
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
On the front lines of Donetsk, soldiers are outraged by the idea that Ukraine could give territory to Russia.
"No one will make concessions on territory, this is our land, and we stand here."
Staff Sergeant Volodymyr Rzhavsky, who serves near Pokrovsk, called the proposal “a real capitulation.”
"No one will make concessions on territory, this is our land, and we stand here."
Staff Sergeant Volodymyr Rzhavsky, who serves near Pokrovsk, called the proposal “a real capitulation.”
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🇺🇦 The Armed Forces of Ukraine will not withdraw from Donbas, even if a corresponding order is received, - as NBC News writes, this was stated by Ukrainian soldiers stationed in this direction.
Ukrainian military sees Trump peace plan as capitulation, not peace they seek.
Ukrainian military sees Trump peace plan as capitulation, not peace they seek.
November 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🇺🇦 The Armed Forces of Ukraine will not withdraw from Donbas, even if a corresponding order is received, - as NBC News writes, this was stated by Ukrainian soldiers stationed in this direction.
Ukrainian military sees Trump peace plan as capitulation, not peace they seek.
Ukrainian military sees Trump peace plan as capitulation, not peace they seek.
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FT says during his recent visit, Trump's envoy Driscoll gave Kyiv a Moscow-coordinated plan and told them to accept losing allegedly "disputed" cities.
One EU official told FT the tone was “nauseating.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/30/t...
One EU official told FT the tone was “nauseating.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/30/t...
Trump envoy pushed Europe to help force Ukraine into US-Russia’s deal recognizing Moscow control of allegedly disputed cities
A senior European official described Driscoll’s tone during the Kyiv meeting as “nauseating,” according to the Financial Times.
euromaidanpress.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
FT says during his recent visit, Trump's envoy Driscoll gave Kyiv a Moscow-coordinated plan and told them to accept losing allegedly "disputed" cities.
One EU official told FT the tone was “nauseating.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/30/t...
One EU official told FT the tone was “nauseating.”
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/30/t...
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 US wants to close all territorial disputes with Ukraine today so it can hand over plan to Putin on Tuesday – Axios
▪️Today, Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner will participate in the negotiations from the US side.
▪️Russia expects Witkoff to arrive in Moscow by December 4-5.
▪️Today, Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner will participate in the negotiations from the US side.
▪️Russia expects Witkoff to arrive in Moscow by December 4-5.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🇺🇸🇺🇦 US wants to close all territorial disputes with Ukraine today so it can hand over plan to Putin on Tuesday – Axios
▪️Today, Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner will participate in the negotiations from the US side.
▪️Russia expects Witkoff to arrive in Moscow by December 4-5.
▪️Today, Rubio, Witkoff and Kushner will participate in the negotiations from the US side.
▪️Russia expects Witkoff to arrive in Moscow by December 4-5.
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“These are horrific and unbearable conditions. With no food, no water, no dog tags, no proper clothing. We are asking for help”.
The families of Russian soldiers used as cannon fodder near Pokrovsk share the truth about Russia's "meat assaults".
The families of Russian soldiers used as cannon fodder near Pokrovsk share the truth about Russia's "meat assaults".
November 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“These are horrific and unbearable conditions. With no food, no water, no dog tags, no proper clothing. We are asking for help”.
The families of Russian soldiers used as cannon fodder near Pokrovsk share the truth about Russia's "meat assaults".
The families of Russian soldiers used as cannon fodder near Pokrovsk share the truth about Russia's "meat assaults".
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❗️Russia gains the upper hand in the battle of drones. Ukrainian logistics and drone units are now suffering greater losses than infantry (!) on the front line, — WSH
▪️They outnumber Ukrainian UAVs in key areas of the front.
▪️The new unit of Russia "Rubikon" gathered the best Russian drone pilots.
▪️They outnumber Ukrainian UAVs in key areas of the front.
▪️The new unit of Russia "Rubikon" gathered the best Russian drone pilots.
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
❗️Russia gains the upper hand in the battle of drones. Ukrainian logistics and drone units are now suffering greater losses than infantry (!) on the front line, — WSH
▪️They outnumber Ukrainian UAVs in key areas of the front.
▪️The new unit of Russia "Rubikon" gathered the best Russian drone pilots.
▪️They outnumber Ukrainian UAVs in key areas of the front.
▪️The new unit of Russia "Rubikon" gathered the best Russian drone pilots.
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💥 Aerobomber UAV operators clearing roads of Russian "waiting" drones.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
💥 Aerobomber UAV operators clearing roads of Russian "waiting" drones.
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💔 One person died, 19 were injured. In a building in Vyshhorod that was attacked by Russia, apartments from the 1st to the 6th floor burned to the ground.
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
💔 One person died, 19 were injured. In a building in Vyshhorod that was attacked by Russia, apartments from the 1st to the 6th floor burned to the ground.