Tony Somogyi 🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇪🇺
@tonysomo.bsky.social
Father, grandfather, humanist, life long Democrat, Physician, with wide ranging interests in literature, science, art and nature.
In 2016, I was the general counsel to the Clinton campaign. In 2022, Trump sued me and others for RICO. The case was dismissed. Trump and his lawyers were sanctioned. Now, they have asked SCOTUS to hear the case. I will never back down. I will never stop fighting. When we fight we win.💪⚖️🗳️
Trump just handed Putin a lifeline weeks before the midterms. Energy analysts say his Russian diesel deal won’t meaningfully lower prices. And a tanker that left Russia weeks before the announcement raises an even bigger question: How long was this in the works?
Trump Reopens U.S. Market to Putin’s Diesel — Consumers Get Little Relief
Days after the White House invoked an emergency to ease diesel costs, Trump promised Russia new fuel sales as analysts warned the arrangement is unlikely to move prices.
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Lock trump up he's a criminal russian bootlicker put him in that El Salvador prison
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Discord, le réseau social au cœur du procès de Rohan Rane, accusé de ne pas assez protéger les mineurs
Discord, le réseau social au cœur du procès de Rohan Rane, accusé de ne pas assez protéger les mineurs
La plateforme américaine, populaire chez les jeunes et les joueurs, est aussi régulièrement utilisée par des groupuscules ultraviolents, à l’image de celui fondé par l’étudiant indien, qui imposait des tortures sexuelles à des mineures, condamné vendredi. L’association e-Enfance alerte, par ailleurs, sur « l’explosion » de l’extorsion sexuelle qui y sévit.
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Start a war that you should have never started. Then when you find out that you are losing that war, you turn around and kick your ally, in the groins, who’s fighting a war that you should be fully supporting. A stupid, weak, & treasonous decision.
Trump announces diesel deal with Russia in bid to lower prices
The amount is small compared with U.S. demand, but the deal aligns the U.S. with Russia and against Ukraine’s efforts to bomb Russian refineries.
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"She promised me that she would be my ride or die in the Trump administration, no request too big, too small, as many requests as I wanted," said Eric Deters, the Republican donor who accused Kimberly Guilfoyle of asking for payment in exchange for access to top officials. https://to.pbs.org/47dJYur
‘It was a definite quid pro quo.’ GOP donor who accused Guilfoyle of corruption speaks out
A Republican donor is accusing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle of asking for $100,000 in exchange for access to top Trump administration officials. Amna Nawaz speaks with Eric Deters, a f...
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The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterdayThe NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
Jack Smith would be a stellar role model for your children. Donald Trump, you don't leave alone with your children for five minutes.
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Navi Pillay, qui vient de recevoir le prix Nobel de la Paix, n'avait pas hésité à qualifier il y a un an la guerre israélienne contre Gaza de « génocide ». Combien de médias vont prendre le temps de rappeler cette intéressante information ? news.un.org/fr/story/202...
Navi Pillay accuse Israël de génocide à Gaza et dénonce l’inaction internationale
Devant un parterre de journalistes, Navi Pillay n’a pas pris de gants. « L’État d’Israël est responsable de quatre actes de génocide à Gaza », a-t-elle affirmé mardi dans la salle de presse des Nation...
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Once we are done with the ICC, we will be livestreaming the execution of Ukraine and paying Russia so that gas prices go down. It's crucial to buy from Russia so it could give more to Iran to target US troops when we restart the war, for which we need the gas prices go down. Stable genius.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
Quand les étudiant-es de l'Ecole des Chartes bloquent leur bâtiment sont vraiment drôles!!!!
We testified before the UN Human Rights Council about the alarming number of Black people who have been found dead, hanging, or drowned in the U.S. over the past decade. We urge UN human rights experts to investigate these deaths properly as our government continues to fail the public.
President Zelenskyy is exactly right. That first sentence is exactly right. Donald will never put any pressure on Putin. Putin knows this and will take full advantage of his weakness.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d agoZelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
"Allowing Russia to sell petroleum products is an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged," says Zelensky, commenting on Trump's diesel deal with Putin. x.com/ZelenskyyUa/...
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Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. https://cnn.it/4rRrZU0
JD Vance Went To Ohio To Save Republicans And It Was A Disaster #Politicus
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JD Vance Went To Ohio To Save Republicans And It Was A Disaster
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Ukraine needs to attack anything it wants until Russia STOPS their illegal war & leaves.
A federal judge has sanctioned a DOJ attorney for accusing an ICE detainee's attorney of misconduct without any evidence. The punishment: Two hours of legal training about the "special role of US attorneys" and the need to support claims with evidence. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump won’t rule out putting soldiers at your polling place. But Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan moved to make sure he can never do it. Her bill is called the Protect Our Polls Act. Take action here: https://bit.ly/4gfLW2L #ResistTrump
I am horrified by reports of ICE shooting a man with his five-year-old child in the car. Abolish ICE now.
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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NEW: A private-equity executive took a top Pentagon role to help secure weapons contracts and critical minerals for the Department of Defense. After he joined, a firm he has ties to began landing major military contracts.
The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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I second the suggestion that *everyone* do some organizer training. It's free, it doesn't take a lot of time. You'll understand way better how things work. You can make yourself a confident and understanding ally even if you yourself (like me!) are not eligible. No one deserves "The Bad Meeting."
WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD@devonwiersma.bsky.social · 2d agoEven if you don't see yourself as an organizer, understanding how the process works (and what unions do/don't do) is crucial and will help you avoid baseless accusations and potentially sabotaging your vulnerable peers fighting for protections they need. (Link for NA folks, I recommend it)
The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d ago"The last thing I did is the report on Gaza naming what is happening there as genocide. One of the main reactions to that report [was] paying tribute to me for my courage.. why would you need courage to speak the truth?" Navi Pillay upon winning the 2026 Nobel peace prize
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoOssoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
