The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵
HODGES: If we get our act together and return to the goal of defeating Russia, it would isolate Iran more, signal to China that the West is still united and capable, and deter any move against Taiwan. But that requires strong, clear leadership from the US and from Europe.
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
Guys it’s not happening. The Navy doesn’t have the right ship mix nor near enough hulls nor near enough sailors if it did. It’s too small, overstretched, and underfunded.
Which is what the navalists were trying to say before it was too late.
Well, it’s too late.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
"The U.S. response to countering Iran’s Shahed drones has been 'disappointing,' an U.S. official said, particularly because the drones fired by Iran are a much more basic version of the same drone that Russia is continuously refining and updating in Ukraine."
@apnews.com
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This is what happens when you have a military lead by the kind of people who think wars are fought like Call of Duty games.
This is terrible news for the world on so many levels
Zelensky blasts Europe's inaction
"Just last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech by saying Europe needs to know how to defend itself," Zelensky said. "A year has passed, and nothing has changed. I am forced to say the same words again."
kyivindependent.com/trump-says-h...
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Makes me feel better to know that I'm not the only one who does that, thanks.
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
This one needs an intermission.
LTS kernel!
Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.
Trump is the first US president to bomb 7 countries in one year.
Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.
I hadn't seen this. I guess I need to pay more attention to Bluesky, thank you for sharing!
Chancellor Merz:
It’s a war of aggression by Russia against Ukraine,against Europe.If Ukraine falls,it won't end.Just as the Sudetenland wasn't enough in 1938
Putin doesn't stop.Anyone who still believes he's had enough should carefully analyze his strategies,documents,speeches,public appearances
Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036 Document sets 95% "Russian civic identity" target for occupied populations by 2036
Let us hear the infamous story about the necessity of a “land swap” again..
These Ukrainians will be demoralized, tortured and men will be forced to fight on Russia’s behalf. Don’t be naive or romantic about it.
EU, the people you leave with Putin, will be forced to kill your citizens. Wake up.
Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”
TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”
ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
- #Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa & Foreign Minister @AsaadHShaibani playing basketball with @CENTCOM Commander Admiral Cooper & @CJTFOIR Commander BG Kevin Lambert.
Calum over on YouTube did a great video on it too.
youtu.be/zR0M7KjnJTE?...
The most immediate and important thing Congress can do is to call Adm Holsey, Lt Gen McGee and other cashiered officers to testify about their experience since Trump took office. Unless, that is, the GOP majority can’t handle the truth about what Trump is doing to the armed forces. wapo.st/4nEItvh
Nobody is really prepared for when we go cyber-hot with China. Society is going to halt.
The desktop environment itself looks interesting to me, though I'd have to pass being an Ubuntu base for the distro. Looks good though, maybe we'll see the DE exported to other distros down the road hopefully.
