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Eric and Don Jr travel the world, meet presidents, dodgy businessmen and beauty queens. Everywhere they are treated as representatives of the White House. This is how US foreign policy now works.
The Trump sons’ global network: money, influence and the family business ft.trib.al/GXbuq7d
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
The US is openly leading "opposition" movements against democratically elected world leaders.
Shame on you, @SecRubio.
As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States.
The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio .
From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
Trump is considering lifting sanctions against Russia's government investment fund, run by Dmitriev.
Trump Jr. was just on a Mongolian hunting trip, paid for by the same Russian oligarch who paid for his wedding.
Do ANY of the US checks and balances still actually function??
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
Ukraine wants to end Russia’s invasion. Trump’s envoys apparently want to turn it into a business opportunity.
According to Le Monde, they demanded Ukraine stop hitting Russian refineries, then pitched deals selling Russian energy.
Just whose interests are they representing?
Content of Tense Conversation Between Budanov and Trump's Team Revealed
Negotiations between the Ukrainian delegation and Donald Trump's special envoys in Miami, as reported by Le Monde, escalated into a conflict. According to the publication, during a three-hour meeting at the Shell Bay golf club, Steve Witkoff "with irritation" demanded that Kyrylo Budanov, head of Zelenskyy's office, cease strikes on Russian oil refineries.
Budanov, per Le Monde's information, "barely contained his anger" and felt that he was being "treated like a child, trying to teach him how to make money." The Americans presented an ambitious plan for postwar "regional prosperity," which envisioned resuming the transit of Russian oil and gas to Europe through Ukraine, with dividends paid to Kyiv.
Budanov was outraged that such a deal would tie Ukraine to Moscow, after which the negotiations broke off. When the meeting resumed, the Americans proposed accepting a deal for supplies of Russian diesel to the United States.
The publication's sources noted that they had never seen Ukrainians "so upset and alarmed." Zelenskyy's entourage described the situation as "hopeless," since Trump's envoys "think only about business."
📸: Press service of the President of Ukraine
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
So, the Melania Trump brokered ceasefire is just a means for Russia to kidnap 1500 people, not allowed to go to Ukraine, only Russia.
🚨 FT: Residents of occupied Oleshky seeking evacuation would be taken to Crimea or Russia instead of Ukrainian-controlled territory just across the Dnipro River.
This is a terrifying warning sign. Russia is preparing to turn an evacuation into a deportation operation. It will exploit people’s desperation for a propaganda stunt, put them through filtration camps, and forcibly keep them under Russian occupation, where they would remain in grave danger.
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
“Nazis”, “saving Russian speakers”, “biolabs”, “NATO expansion”, “historical claims”. The excuses keep changing, but Putin doesn’t.
It’s garbage to think he has changed, naïve to believe he will, and foolish to think he wants peace.
He is still committing war crimes, bombing power stations, schools and hospitals. I believe he intends to grind through this winter and prepare for another offensive in spring.
People need to stop mistaking his willingness to talk for a willingness to stop.
NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin used his October 27 call with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store to reiterate Moscow’s longstanding demands in Ukraine and rearticulate Moscow’s claims that NATO expansion is among the “root causes” of the war. Putin also stated that “root causes” must be resolved as preconditions for any future peace negotiations.
Other Key Takeaways:
Russia and Ukraine began observing a limited ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson Oblast, on October 27 to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuate civilians from the settlement. Both sides are reportedly abiding by the ceasefire terms as of this writing.
It remains unclear how the Russian authorities will treat Ukrainians evacuated from Oleshky and whether Russian occupation authorities will provide the residents a legitimate and duress-free choice to return to Ukrainian government-controlled Ukraine.
The Russian 26th Tank Regiment (47th Tank Division, 1st Guards Tank Army [GTA], Moscow Military District) operating in the Kupyansk direction is reportedly planning to disband several platoons to create an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) company.
Neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces advanced on October 27.
Russian forces launched an unspecified number of Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles and 280 drones against Ukraine overnight.
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
A trust owned by Texas AG Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, invested in a company led by a convicted fraudster.
The firm and its affiliates later sent the trust 15 payments totaling $83K before and during the AG’s impeachment trial.
propublica.org/article/ken-p…
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
The pro-Russian faction hss finally frozen Italy's aid to Ukraine.
🇮🇹🇺🇦 Italian Prime Minister Meloni has frozen the thirteenth package of military aid to Ukraine in anticipation of the US midterm elections, — Il Giornale d'Italia.
The new package is ready to be sent, but after several postponements, its delivery has not been set for a specific date.
The last Italian delivery of military aid to Ukraine took place ten months ago.
Initially, a decision on the new package was expected in July, then in September, later it was postponed until the League party congress, and now the US midterm elections on November 3 have become the reference point.
It is not specified what exactly the result of the US elections could affect Rome's decision, and there is no information that the aid will be sent immediately after the vote.
At the same time, the Meloni government officially continues to insist that "support for Ukraine will continue," but does not explain when exactly the new aid will be sent and what exactly is still preventing a final decision.
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
Witkoff tried to convince Budanov of how rich he could be if he sold out his country by allowing Russian pipelines to again flow through Ukraine. Budanov ended the meeting.
Content of Tense Conversation Between Budanov and Trump's Team Revealed
Negotiations between the Ukrainian delegation and Donald Trump's special envoys in Miami, as reported by Le Monde, escalated into a conflict. According to the publication, during a three-hour meeting at the Shell Bay golf club, Steve Witkoff "with irritation" demanded that Kyrylo Budanov, head of Zelenskyy's office, cease strikes on Russian oil refineries.
Budanov, per Le Monde's information, "barely contained his anger" and felt that he was being "treated like a child, trying to teach him how to make money." The Americans presented an ambitious plan for postwar "regional prosperity," which envisioned resuming the transit of Russian oil and gas to Europe through Ukraine, with dividends paid to Kyiv.
Budanov was outraged that such a deal would tie Ukraine to Moscow, after which the negotiations broke off. When the meeting resumed, the Americans proposed accepting a deal for supplies of Russian diesel to the United States.
The publication's sources noted that they had never seen Ukrainians "so upset and alarmed." Zelenskyy's entourage described the situation as "hopeless," since Trump's envoys "think only about business."
📸: Press service of the President of Ukraine
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
Am familiar with news avoidance by the center/left/non Trump aligned. Wonder if this suggests news avoidance by the right.
"According to Nielsen ratings obtained by Status in advance of their release, October 2026 will be Fox News' lowest-rated month since December 2023, with the network averaging 1.1 million total day viewers" status.news/p/fox-news-ratin…
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
Selling out a democratic ally for money. No greater or more tragic corruption scandal in American history. Look at how Hegseth is blocking interceptors and the slate of other things over the last few weeks that have caused civilian deaths. Lowest moment since slavery in the U.S.
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
You’re angry because you’re dumber than dog shit and a total loser.
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TREASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Trump administration is considering dropping sanctions on the Russian Direct Investment Fund, run by Kirill Dmitriev. An unbelievable betrayal of Ukraine. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/us/po… via @NYTimes
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So when you flooded Texas with your printed fake pamphlets addressed to children offering sex changes, and trying to smear James Telarico, did you feel ready to create hate? Were you ready to cheat and lie and smear people for self-gain? You’re definitely a perfect fraud.
Don’t wait until you’re perfect to start showing up.
I used to think I needed to clean up first. That I had to be more consistent, get my life in order and then I’d be ready to go to church, join a group and take faith seriously.
But if I had waited until I felt “ready,” I never would’ve started. Faith doesn’t begin when you’ve got it all figured out. It begins when you show up anyway.
Even with your doubts. Even with your mess. Even when it’s awkward, uncomfortable or unfamiliar. God doesn’t ask you to be polished. God asks you to be present.
So show up. Even if it’s not every Sunday. Even if it’s just one friend, one step, one try. That’s where it starts.
elizabeth 🌊 retweeted
Zuckerberg already admitted it wrongly suspended the No Kings Instagram account during the peak of a massive voter-mobilization effort.
Now, seven days before the midterms, Zuckerberg has suspended the account Angie Nixon’s Senate campaign uses to organize Latino voters.
At what point do repeated “mistakes” that suppress organizing by Democrats become an election-integrity crisis?
