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“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”
So Trump has been planning to stitch up Ukraine for weeks.
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.
Trump just shitting all over the legacy of his pal Lindsey Graham
…, a Greek tanker was loading sanctioned Russian diesel in St Petersburg’s Peterburgskiy Neftyanoy Terminal. It sailed for the US on September 23rd and will arrive to the East Coast in one week, likely the Port of Wilmington
Trump has been hiding his Russian diesel deal for over a month: the deal was announced yesterday, but it was likely agreed when Witkoff and Kushner visited the Kremlin on 5th September. While Trump was signing the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 on 18th September,…
Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
See, also, Prof @admati.bsky.social’s keynote at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit:
Stanford financial economist Anat Admati @admati.bsky.social just joined here.
She’s a leading voice on systemic risk in banks, corporate governance, and finance.
I highly recommend following her here and reading her book The Bankers’ New Clothes.
3️⃣ Expanding student protests will ignite massive social strikes, plunging France into a total economic collapse and civil war that will rapidly spread as a contagion across Europe.
2️⃣ High school protests, strikes, and decaying education infrastructure are framed as a direct consequence of sanctions against Russia and aid to Ukraine.
1️⃣ "Experts agree that" Macron must prioritize the interests of French citizens over the demands of "authoritarian regimes such as Ukraine".
🧵 Tracking bots matters because covert ops reveal what official propaganda hides. As seen Oct 9, Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka network is pleading with Macron to lift sanctions against Russia before his term ends. To build pressure, it is pushing the 3 key claims below ⤵️
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
Well okay then. Ukrainian attack drones struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don, setting the Russian fuel facility ablaze. The strike came just hours after the US eased sanctions on Russian diesel exports and Trump announced a major diesel deal with Putin. #Russia
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For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato.
