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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time
Screenshot of a statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reporting a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv targeting critical energy infrastructure, including the CHPP-4 power plant. Zelenskyy says a residential building was also damaged and caught fire, warns of further Russian missile attacks, and criticizes the lack of advance warnings from Ukraine’s partners. An accompanying nighttime photo shows flames engulfing part of a multistory residential building, with debris scattered across the ground.
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The Coalition to Protect America's National Parks @protectnps.bsky.social · 2h
“Yosemite belongs to the American people. Not a single administration, corporation, or developer.” Army veteran, retired NPS ranger and Coalition member JT Reynolds explains why Yosemite deserves better. Read his full piece: protectnps.org/2026/10/08/v...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h
❗️At about 22:40, October 13, the enemy struck the capital of Ukraine with ballistic missiles, - Air Forces The situation is similar to yesterday's - there was no information from partners about launches from enemy territory. The reasons are being established.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 4h
“Putin’s real objective is the eradication of the Ukrainian nation.” Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Andriy Melnyk on Russia’s war goals at an emergency UN Security Council session.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 4h
🚨 BREAKING: Russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting TEC-4 power station. Intelligence indicates Russia is preparing further ballistic launches, warns President Zelenskyy.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h
Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no warning from partners before Russia’s overnight attack with 100+ drones and missiles, incl 5 ballistic strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv. Ukraine had paused refinery strikes for 2 days after Trump’s energy ceasefire announcement, Russia continued attacks.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11h
Did you know businesses with federal govt contracts aren’t allowed to spend for or against federal candidates? How then has Elon Musk, whose companies get billions in contracts, spent hundreds of millions in our elections? The answer: A giant loophole I'm working to close.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
* US SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BID TO LIMIT DISCLOSURE OF DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY RECORDS @reuters.com #DOGE
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 12/10/2026
From Alaska's Arctic Refuge to Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, Indigenous people have stewarded our public lands for thousands of years. On this #IndigenousPeoplesDay and every day, we stand with them as they continue to lead the fight to protect our most treasured natural places.
People stand in front of Bears Ears National Monument sign in Utah

Credit: Tim PetersonSmall girl on horseback in Bears Ears National Monument, Utah

Credit: Tim PetersonLummi totem carving

Credit: Tim Peterson
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 23h
The Trump administration on Friday announced that it will hold an offshore lease sale in federal waters of Cook Inlet next March, about a year after a similar federal lease sale offering the same acreage drew no bids.
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Second ‘Big Beautiful’ lease sale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet planned after first sale flops
The Trump administration on Friday announced that it will hold an offshore lease sale in federal waters of Cook Inlet next March, about a year after a similar federal lease sale offering the same acreage drew no bids.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 12/10/2026
Oscar Belgal, 28, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park without access to surgeons that could remove the bullet lodged in his neck, attorneys say.
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Man Shot by ICE Held in Solitary Without Adequate Food or Medical Care, Bullet Still Lodged in Neck, Attorneys Say
Oscar Belgal, 28, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park without access to surgeons that could remove the bullet lodged in his neck, attorneys say.
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 12/10/2026
The CDC is planning to fund a study that would withhold Hepatitis B vaccines from half of its newborn participants. It’s led by anti-vaccine activists and experts say it's unethical. We sent FOIAs to HHS, CDC, and FDA for related comms and risk analyses. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Image of a Freedom of Information Act request.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/10/2026
When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong | Richard Hermer
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When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong | Richard Hermer
Let’s be clear: the risk to humanity is unprecedented. Without an urgent public debate and robust use of international law, we will lose control of the future, says Labour life peer Richard Hermer
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12/10/2026
⚡️ BREAKING: All EU member countries have agreed to advance Ukraine's EU accession by opening the second and third negotiating clusters. Irish Minister of State for European Affairs Thomas Byrne confirmed the decision as Ireland holds the Presidency of the Council of the EU.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Damn, she’s out here radiating pure, unapologetic radical love and compassion!
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 10/10/2026
The Guardian reports on defendants who have formed a union while facing prosecution for protesting:
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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Restoring oyster reefs could deliver $12 trillion in ecosystem benefits—cleaning water, capturing carbon and protecting coastlines across 295,000 sq km of suitable habitat.
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The world's oyster reefs could deliver an estimated $12 trillion in ecosystem benefits if restored and protected, scientists say. Researchers identified 295,000 square kilometres of suitable habitat across 10 countries, where reefs can clean water,…
The world's oyster reefs could deliver an estimated $12 trillion in ecosystem benefits if restored and protected, scientists say. Researchers identified 295,000 square kilometres of suitable habitat across 10 countries, where reefs can clean water, capture carbon and protect coastlines.
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LadyCat311🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Vandenberg test launches missile that will carry next-generation nuclear weapon By Janene Scully Noozhawk www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/a...
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Vandenberg test launches missile that will carry next-generation nuclear weapon
The Minotaur missile was launched early Friday with an unarmed Mk21A reentry vehicle.
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Forests Forever @forestsforeverca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group, rebuked the plan, calling it a 'corrupt back-room deal' that would break with a longstanding commitment to 'protect Yosemite for the public good' by handing over national park land to a developer." buff.ly/S3SVPmr
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Trump administration weighs Yosemite land swap for private developer’s access road
The Trump administration is considering a Yosemite land exchange that could give a developer more direct park access.
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
JUST IN: After 500 trees were cut over the weekend at DC's East Potomac golf course, opponents of Trump's revamp plan file for temporary restraining order immediately halting more tree removals. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum in Support – #76, Att. #1 in DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE v. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-00477) – CourtListener.com
Emergency MOTION for Temporary Restraining Order or, Alternatively, For a 14-Day Stay Under Section 705 of the Administrative Procedure Act by DC PRESERVATION LEAGUE, ALEX DICKSON, DAVE ROBERTS. (Atta...
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Two hours after President Trump claimed on social media that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," Russia fired a missile at a CHP-5 thermal power plant in Kharkiv and reportedly other infrastructure in Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...
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Ukraine war latest: Russia pounds Kyiv's energy infrastructure as Trump’s energy ceasefire claim catches Ukraine off guard
Key developments on Oct. 10-11: * Russia besieges Kyiv's energy infrastructure as Trump calls for an energy ceasefire * Ukraine's drone production jumps 370% in 2026, says defense ministry * Russi...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🤷‍♂️The Russian Federation does not know anything about the energy truce with Ukraine, - Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy. "We all know that Trump often says something so that oil prices do not rise."
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨 Zelensky told Barak Ravid: "The ceasefire announcement was news for me. But if Russians agree to an energy ceasefire Ukraine will agree. If president Trump negotiated it with Putin - please tell us when the ceasefire begins - we are ready and we will accept it"
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 11/10/2026
⚡ Zelenskyy: "The truth is on our side."
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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
PLEASE put this phone number in your phone. report any problems you see with voting. ELECTION PROTECTION HOTLINE 866-687-8683.
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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This cargo, provided the reporting is accurate, left Russia for the US 17 days after Jared & Witkoff's last visit to Moscow where they met w/Putin & his catspaw Dmitriev the latter of whom dangled the Dmitriev package of business deals for Trump, Jared, and Witkoff.
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Zelenskyy: Ukraine's intelligence obtained data on $12 trillion Russia-US cooperation proposal - Euromaidan Press
The package, presented by Kremlin negotiator Kirill Dmitriev during recent contacts with Washington, may include provisions affecting Ukraine's sovereignty, according to Zelenskyy.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Zelenskyy approval rating: 54% Trump approval rating: 32%
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And there it is.
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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
On top of this. Via @christopherjm.ft.com
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 10/10/2026
A developer wants to build a short road in the park for his planned resort. Opponents say it would set a terrible precedent. on.wsj.com/4dv356X
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A sliver of meadow and trees on the edge of Yosemite has become an unlikely battleground over whether development is allowed in national parks
A developer wants to build a short road in the park for his planned resort. Opponents say it would set a terrible precedent.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Austin City Limits
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
🚨 THEY’VE SEEN ENOUGH: Trump rallygoers in Syracuse start leaving early while he’s still speaking
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With "The Social Reckoning" and "Musk," Americans are getting a better look at the monsters who have created a crasser, meaner, more divisive and tyrant-friendly world. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/m...
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Ashley St. Clair Was Offered Millions for Her Silence on Elon Musk. She Spoke Out Instead. (Gift Article)
In the documentary “Musk,” Ashley St. Clair, a former right-wing influencer and mother of one of Musk’s children, speaks about her relationship with him.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2026
In the United States, Russian dissident activist Leonid Melekhin ended up in immigration detention, but he was confident he would be granted asylum. Instead, he was deported back to Russia. Now he has six years in a penal colony.
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He Fled a Dictatorship. We Sent Him Back.
Russian activist Leonid Melekhin sought refuge in America. His reward was a one-way trip to a penal colony.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
President Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner says a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine could be completed if Ukraine surrendered territory Russia claims but has failed to capture. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/jared-kush...
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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Re: Trump's diesel deal with Putin Conversion factor is 7.5 barrels of diesel per metric ton. Daily global diesel consumption is around 25 million bpd. So, the initial 300,000 tons, or 2.2 million barrels, would meet global demand for about two hours.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this analysis is correct. Reports out of Russia for the last six weeks show huge diesel shortages and long lines of cars trying to get it. Russia doesn't have the diesel Trump says he's buying for them. This is all for another purpose, which is psy ops.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not for free right? So, let's do the math. 500,000 metric tons of diesel is about $500 million. A million worth $1 billion dollars. This looks an aid program for Russia and an effective disabling of US sanctions. This strengthens the Kremlin and is a threat to US, allied interests.
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