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electiontruthalliance.org and smartelections.us . They’ve been doing the work. The analysis aligns with the weird feeling we all had on election night.
This! And this is exactly the right tone and information to share every time someone blames the US electorate for where we are right now... every time someone says how devastated they are that he won the election. We can't change it now, but we CAN protect 2026 & acknowledging the truth matters!
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So he was "homegrown" + trained by the CIA, working for the Zero Unit in Afghanistan, which had a reputation for the following:
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Here’s a Look at the D.C. Shooting Suspect’s C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
So he was "homegrown" + trained by the CIA, working for the Zero Unit in Afghanistan, which had a reputation for the following:
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
"The units also had a reputation for ruthlessness, with journalists and human rights groups referring to them as 'death squads.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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So its now been 4 days since the Witkoff-Ushakov transcript was released. And in that time, Witkoff has been confirmed in office, has been told he is off to Moscow, and has been strongly supported by Trump AND Putin.
Add 2+2 together and you get....
Add 2+2 together and you get....
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
So its now been 4 days since the Witkoff-Ushakov transcript was released. And in that time, Witkoff has been confirmed in office, has been told he is off to Moscow, and has been strongly supported by Trump AND Putin.
Add 2+2 together and you get....
Add 2+2 together and you get....
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Why this matters:
Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:
"Wales is Reform’s next big target… if they [win the Senedd next May] it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
(quote from @thenerve.news)
Reform run Kent has already disappeared £40 million. Wales would be much more.
Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:
"Wales is Reform’s next big target… if they [win the Senedd next May] it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
(quote from @thenerve.news)
Reform run Kent has already disappeared £40 million. Wales would be much more.
NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why this matters:
Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:
"Wales is Reform’s next big target… if they [win the Senedd next May] it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
(quote from @thenerve.news)
Reform run Kent has already disappeared £40 million. Wales would be much more.
Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:
"Wales is Reform’s next big target… if they [win the Senedd next May] it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
(quote from @thenerve.news)
Reform run Kent has already disappeared £40 million. Wales would be much more.
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NEWSWEEK: “Tennessee Democrats are investigating postcards allegedly sent to voters with an incorrect date for the upcoming special election…” (ELECTION IS 12/2)
Why is Sec. Hargett not looking into it🤔?
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
Why is Sec. Hargett not looking into it🤔?
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
November 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
NEWSWEEK: “Tennessee Democrats are investigating postcards allegedly sent to voters with an incorrect date for the upcoming special election…” (ELECTION IS 12/2)
Why is Sec. Hargett not looking into it🤔?
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
Why is Sec. Hargett not looking into it🤔?
www.newsweek.com/democrats-in...
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A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
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This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
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We’re losing trusted allies daily
These losses will be generational
These losses will be generational
Carney: We know that this decades-long process of our ever-closer economic relationship between Canada and the US has ended. And as a consequence of that, many of our strengths have become our vulnerabilities, particularly in those industries that are most tightly integrated with the US….
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
We’re losing trusted allies daily
These losses will be generational
These losses will be generational
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CNN previously reported the suspect applied for asylum in 2024, which was granted by the Trump administration in April 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
CNN previously reported the suspect applied for asylum in 2024, which was granted by the Trump administration in April 2025.
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DONALD TRUMP GRANTED THE MAN WHO IS THE ALLEGED SHOOTER OF THE TWO GUARDSMEN ASYLUM IN APRIL OF 2025. LET. IT. BE. KNOWN.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
DONALD TRUMP GRANTED THE MAN WHO IS THE ALLEGED SHOOTER OF THE TWO GUARDSMEN ASYLUM IN APRIL OF 2025. LET. IT. BE. KNOWN.
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Warning for 'Remove the Regime' Protesters: ‘Refuse Fascism’ Is Not Your Ally
Refuse Fascism is a Front for the Revolutionary Communist Party—a Personality Cult that Co-opts and Sabotages Effective Movements
onoffense.substack.com/p/warning-fo...
Refuse Fascism is a Front for the Revolutionary Communist Party—a Personality Cult that Co-opts and Sabotages Effective Movements
onoffense.substack.com/p/warning-fo...
Warning for 'Remove the Regime' Protestors: ‘Refuse Fascism’ Is Not Your Ally
Refuse Fascism is a Front for the Revolutionary Communist Party—a Personality Cult that Co-opts and Sabotages Effective Movements
onoffense.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Warning for 'Remove the Regime' Protesters: ‘Refuse Fascism’ Is Not Your Ally
Refuse Fascism is a Front for the Revolutionary Communist Party—a Personality Cult that Co-opts and Sabotages Effective Movements
onoffense.substack.com/p/warning-fo...
Refuse Fascism is a Front for the Revolutionary Communist Party—a Personality Cult that Co-opts and Sabotages Effective Movements
onoffense.substack.com/p/warning-fo...
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Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Most of the public think net migration increased last year, when in fact numbers halved.
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
New findings from the Ipsos/British Future Immigration Attitudes Tracker show that 56% of the public thinks immigration increased last year. Just 1 in 6 realise it was down
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This!
When Washington, Kyiv, and European capitals are forced to respond to a sudden scandal, the result is:
suspicion
mixed messaging
diplomatic friction
paralysis in policy coordination
Russia thrives when allies are distracted and divided.
suspicion
mixed messaging
diplomatic friction
paralysis in policy coordination
Russia thrives when allies are distracted and divided.
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This!
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NEW: Wales’s first minister @prifweinidog.gov.wales backs call for a full investigation into Russian interference.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
Wales’s Senedd elections next spring ‘at risk’. @bbcwales.bsky.social report below.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This!!!!
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This!!!!
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Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Ukraine relations get even more chaotic. Two factions - Kushner/Witkoff and Vance/Driscoll - are both freelancing to set US policy: cutting out the State Dept, pushing Ukraine to surrender, then leaking to press to claim they are official. Why? Putin is desperate and has called in his assets. A 🧵 1/
Honestly- it’s even bigger in some ways because for these couples it means easier residence if the partner is non-eu. Huge!!!!
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Honestly- it’s even bigger in some ways because for these couples it means easier residence if the partner is non-eu. Huge!!!!
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Looks like it’s going to be another perfectly normal day from the American right-wing.
November 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Looks like it’s going to be another perfectly normal day from the American right-wing.
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"The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Anti-socialism update:
Anti-socialism update:
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Anti-socialism update:
Anti-socialism update:
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Every day, this administration does things that are almost too on-the-nose for me.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Every day, this administration does things that are almost too on-the-nose for me.
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This would be a good time for the military establishment to turn on Hegseth in a unified front. There needs to be a rebellion right now, an organized stand down.
Illegally bombing boats, poised for war with Venezuela, threatening six MOC & Mark Kelly - Trump & SecDef crossed the line. Enough!
Illegally bombing boats, poised for war with Venezuela, threatening six MOC & Mark Kelly - Trump & SecDef crossed the line. Enough!
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This would be a good time for the military establishment to turn on Hegseth in a unified front. There needs to be a rebellion right now, an organized stand down.
Illegally bombing boats, poised for war with Venezuela, threatening six MOC & Mark Kelly - Trump & SecDef crossed the line. Enough!
Illegally bombing boats, poised for war with Venezuela, threatening six MOC & Mark Kelly - Trump & SecDef crossed the line. Enough!
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...