😬Witnesses told FBI that Trump ordered boxes moved from storage at ‘Mar-a-Lago to his residence AFTER Trump received a subpoena to return classified documents. Security-camera footage corroborates the accounts. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
DOJ's key cooperating witness is a Trump employee. Seems he initially protected Trump, but in re-interviews spilled his guts: "[H]is story changed dramatically… described moving boxes at Trump’s request… The witness is now considered a key part of the Mar-a-Lago investigation."
Quite the understatement: Authorities are "concerned that if or when the witness’s identity eventually becomes public, that person could face harassment or threats from Trump supporters."
Trump & MAGA will eat him alive, even though the poor jerk lied to DOJ for Trump initially.
NYT identifies Trump worker seen moving boxes on security video at MAL. WaPo reported he’s cooperating w/ DOJ after apparently caught lying. Walt Nauta, long-time Trump aide, told the FBI that Trump directed him to move the boxes to Trump residence after a subpoena. #Obstruction
@tedcruz 🚨"Sometimes the good guys win, like we saw in Italy"—GOP @TedCruz backs fascists at rally in🇪🇸
🤥Cruz: global elites & left growing "thuggish & violent"
🤔Cruz: Conservative Populists "share values of God, country, family, freedom"
🚫Cruz: GOP will win landslide in midterms.
@tedcruz If you want to see where fascism leads, look at the horrors in Ukraine. Genocide is an inevitable consequence of fascist hate & violence.
Cruz is a clown but Republicans embracing autocrats & fascists isn't funny. Ukrainians today & our dead ancestors tell you fascism is no joke.
@elonmusk Starlink "outages led to a “catastrophic” loss of communication…Many were reported as soldiers breached the frontline into Russian-controlled territory…some DURING pitched battles…
in the south around the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia…and…in eastern Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk"
@elonmusk (emph added) "connection failures were widespread and prompted PANICKED calls from soldiers… Both Ukrainian officials said the problems occurred when soldiers liberated territory from Russia and moved past the frontline."
#Starlink outages during Ukraine push against Russia, FT
"War is a form of politics, and the Russian regime is altered by defeat. As Ukraine continues to win battles, one reversal is accompanied by another: the televisual yields to the real, and the Ukrainian campaign yields to a struggle for power in Russia"
.@TimothyDSnyder begins by untrapping our imaginations
Trap 1: Omnipotent Putin
Tyrants gives the impression they can do whatever they like. This is not true ofc. Their regimes are deceptively brittle. Ukraine's military victories are already altering Russian political realities.
Snyder methodically clears Putin's nuclear "static"—a psyop infowar tactic to scare us into abandoning Ukraine.
Evidence nukes unlikely:
a) None in 8 months
b) 300+k just mobilized Russians
c) Kadyrov sending own children
d) Won't end the war
e) Wind
🧵Brutal @npwcnn: Even though in the Kremlin's viewpoint I'm now standing in somewhere they refer to as Russia, ["annexation"] means absolutely nothing, in terms of the battlefield. We've seen Ukraine make significant advances, particularly around the strategic hub of Lyman 1/
@npwcnn CNN: Lyman has possibly 1000s of Russian troops who may now be encircled by Ukraine. That could have a rolling impact on positions behind it, and some suggest, significantly alters Russian control of the territory which is has just falsely suggested is part of Russia proper. 2/
@npwcnn 🔥Reporting from #Kramatorsk, #Ukraine, @npwCNN: Russia is trying to change the narrative so Russia feels it's again in control of events. BUT [purported annexation] does not alter the progress being made by Ukrainian forces here. That has been stark and it continues. 3/
@Meta 🧵On foiled Russian op targeting Europeans around Russia’s war in Ukraine & the US ahead of the midterms:
In Europe, Russia mostly targeted Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine, UK w/ anti-Ukraine narratives via a sprawling network of 60+ websites impersonating legitimate news orgs.
@Meta#Russia's op began in May. Over 60+ websites IMPERSONATING legitimate news outlets—incl Spiegel, The Guardian, Bild—Russians posted original articles criticizing #Ukraine & Ukrainian refugees, supporting Russia, and arguing Western sanctions on Russia would backfire. per @Meta
😮#Russian#mobilization: A man shot the head of the draft enlistment office in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk, Russia. Early reports said the military commissar was killed, but witnesses now say he survived.
Here’s the video of the man opening fire in the military recruitment (#mobilization) office in Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk, #Russia. The head was reported to have died from his wounds, but other reports say he survived.
(Via @Andrew__Roth)