@michaeldweiss 1).
„Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell has threatened a $1 million lawsuit against musician Chuck Redd after the jazz artist pulled out as host of the venue’s annual Christmas Eve concert in response to the establishment’s renaming after President @realDonaldTrump.”
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„The EU’s recent decision to raise a €90 billion (£79 billion) loan to keep Kyiv funded into 2027 on the surface addresses the financial issue, but spending this money effectively is not always so easy, especially converting it into the weapons Ukraine needs.
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Even if war continues throughout 2026, though, it will be increasingly hard to sustain at the current level.
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The choices everyone is going to have to make are getting more painful – for Pootin (whether to mobilise reservists) or @ZelenskyyUa (whether to lower the conscription age).”
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„It is politically useful for Pootin to have an enemy, as this helps justify his continued militarisation of the Russian state and economy and the repression of dissidents as »traitors«. Europe is being lined up for that role.
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How far Pootin is motivated by political pragmatism and how far he really believes in a threat from the West is irrelevant. He will continue to see Europe as a threat, and one whose greatest strength lies in the solidarity within the EU, and between the EU and the UK.
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Any kind of lasting peace that can be negotiated for Ukraine will be ugly, unfair and will not lead to any great reconciliation with Pootin’s Russia.
The risk of any direct military action between the West and Russia, especially in 2026, is extremely low.
@P_Kallioniemi @Elle_Ham06 1).
„Larry Bushart, „a retired Tenn. law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of [...] Charlie Kirk [1].”
@P_Kallioniemi @Elle_Ham06 2).
„Bushart filed the lawsuit this week with the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (Fire), a non-profit organization, against Weems, Perry county and investigator Jason Morrow, who it alleges obtained the arrest warrant at Weems’s direction.
@P_Kallioniemi @Elle_Ham06 3).
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants violated Bushart’s first and fourth amendment rights.
@shannonrwatts @Elle_Ham06 1).
„Peter’s daughter was not vaccinated. Mennonite doctrine does not prohibit inoculations or modern medicine in general, though I encountered plenty of suspicion among Mennonites [1] [2] I spoke with in Seminole [county seat of Gaines County, Texas].
@shannonrwatts @Elle_Ham06 2).
Peter said that he has doubts about vaccines too. He told me that he considers getting measles a normal part of life, noting that his parents and grandparents had it.
@shannonrwatts @Elle_Ham06 3).
– »Everybody has it« – he told me. – »It’s not so new for us«.
He’d also heard that getting measles might strengthen your immune system against other diseases, a view @RobertKennedyJr (@SecKennedy) has promoted in the past.
@kyledcheney @Elle_Ham06 1).
Brian J. Cole Jr. „accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021,
@kyledcheney @Elle_Ham06 2)
riot at the U.S. Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to »speak up« for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen and that he wanted to target the countryʼs political parties because they were »in charge«, prosecutors said Sunday”
@P_Kallioniemi @atrupar 1).
„Within a few years, the whole earth will be trembling under the marching feet of the useful idiots, for their resources are inexhaustible”
„The Peace Movement And The Soviet Union” (1982) [1] by Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (1942–2019) [2] [3]
@P_Kallioniemi @atrupar 2).
„Через несколько лет земля будет дрожать под ногами »полезных дураков« ибо »запасы« их неистощимы.”
„Пацифисты против мира” (1982) [4], Владимир Константинович Буковский (1942–2919) [2] [3]