SFO International, July 22 Ukrainian woman disappeared by ICE
@ordinary-observer.bsky.social
Supporter of Democracy. Originally from Central Europe. I live in the USA.
Things you can buy at the Russian Wildberries: Drone components, such as fiber optic cables or clamping devices.
The Ukrainian unmanned systems forces has been using Skyranger planes (kits costs ~$35,000) modified to fly autonomously + drop ~100kg to 250kg bombs & return to base. A group of these recently bombed an underground Russian base in occupied Armyansk. With Russian air defenses degraded in Crimea ..
Ukraine Just Revealed a Secret Bomber Drone Squadron Russia Never Saw Coming
Jul 13, 2026 A lineup of Ukrainian Horynych reusable bomber drones before a reported strike on a Russian logistics hub near occupied Armyansk. (Source: Serhii Sternenko) Ukraine has publicly reveal…
ukrainetoday.org
According to this article from January 2026, Russia cut the budget for building new Volgamax cargo ships at the end of 2025. In 2023, Russia signed a contract for 34 new ships. That was cut to 18 in December 2025. ZERO have been delivered. Each costs $22 million, and they're now scheduled for 2028.
Russia Cuts Funding to Build River-Sea Cargo Ships Citing Sanctions
Reports from Russia indicate that an ambitious program to build a new generation of river-sea cargo ships has been reduced. The Moscow Times cites the...
maritime-executive.com
According to this article from 2025, Russia recently had up a bit less than 200 Volgoneft tankers that it used to transport oil products in the Sea of Azov + the Volga-Don river & canal system. Ukraine may have destroyed ~60 to 70 of those ships (plus others) in the past week.
“Floating Dead” of Aggressor’s Tanker Fleet - Association of Reintegration of Crimea
We have previously described the consequences of the environmental disaster on December 15 last year, when the Russian tanker "Volgoneft-212" sank in a storm near the Kerch Strait and its sister ship ...
arcrimea.org
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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🇵🇱 PM Tusk: Every missile successfully fired in Ukraine that destroys aggressor’s missiles, rockets, drones, or aircraft makes Poland safer. This is directly a matter of our own security. We cannot allow this issue to become part of some foolish political struggle here at home.
"Where's the money and the gasoline, Vova? Spent it all on yachts and palaces?" Russians waiting in line for gasoline are starting to ask the right questions.
Russians are starting to realize the huge costs Putin spends on war instead of improving the lives of Russians: Putin decided to invest 25 trillion rubles not into developing his own country but to occupy a foreign one.
ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database
New letters show ICE shifting its rhetoric—and Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Max Frost demanding answers.
motherjones.com
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
They are all grifters.
Dan Friedman@dfriedman.bsky.social · last mo.Miles Guo got 30 years yesterday for stealing $1 billion or so from followers of the phony anti-CCP movement he and Steve Bannon launched. But I wanted to remind everyone that Karoline Leavitt, for a few hundred $, put her name on op-eds lavishing praise on Guo. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Back in December 2022,the propaganda news channel Russia Today released a video promising Europe a fuel crisis and suggesting that Europeans switch to donkeys and horses because "soon the petrol will be too expensive."
"Mom, I signed a contract. They promised drones, admission, money - said everything would be fine. Instead, they sent me on a f*cking assault." A wounded Russian soldier from occupied Donetsk says he signed up for a drone unit but was sent on a meat assault instead.
The most corrupt Administration in American history. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...
Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading
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At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family. That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know. I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.
💥 Every day, ships leave this Russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tons of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral. @caolanrob.bsky.social
It's amazing that an AMERICAN far-right propagandist + her German-national boyfriend would instigate a racially-motivated attack on a darker-skinned mother in London (likely a UK national) & make comments that she "doesn't belong here". The foreign racist criminals should be deported from the UK.
Maga influencer Melissa Rein Lively admits Bond Street assault
Melissa Rein Lively accepted a caution, while an assault by beating charge against her was withdrawn.
bbc.com
Toretsk. Another town in Ukraine that Russia has turned to ash and ruins. Russians who claimed to have come to "liberate" Donbas are only liberating it from life itself.
The Moscow Times reports that Trump’s White House Ballroom Commissioner will attend Putin’s speech at St. Petersburg Economic Forum Rodney Mims Cook Jr. - overseeing new ballroom, DC arches etc - will be first American official to attend forum in 10 yrs www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/22/t...
Trump’s White House Ballroom Commissioner to Attend Putin’s Speech at St. Petersburg Economic Forum - The Moscow Times
The head of the U.S.
themoscowtimes.com
Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...
Why did the press ignore a gathering of the world's leading fascists?
Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it's not getting the coverage.
theredoubt.net
Eric Trump is an investor in merger deal of drone company Xtend & JFB Construction (Don Jr also an investor thru stake in American Ventures) Xtend announced it was selected for phase II qualifier stage of US Defense Dept $1 billion drone dominance program www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
Wendy Siegelman@wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 3mo agoEric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investors in two publicly listed companies (a golf business and a construction company) that plan to merge with drone companies and are pursuing business with the Pentagon. While deals were previously reported, my latest piece adds new details:
Commit a series of extremely grave crimes, get a pardon and a $106 mn no-bid federal contract payoff. It's life under Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Company led by Republican fundraiser pardoned by Trump wins $106m federal contract
There is no evidence Elliott Broidy’s links to Trump helped AI company win contract to monitor prisoners’ phone calls
theguardian.com
Bezos: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens." Let's. Try.
Pivot Podcast@pivotpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago“He was so disingenuous in this interview.” @profgalloway.com and @karaswisher.bsky.social react to Jeff Bezos’ argument that it wouldn’t help ordinary Americans if he paid more taxes.
Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.
Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.
