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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 2s

WTF! CONGRESS NEEDS TO WAKE THE EFF UP!

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28m

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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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Federal judge orders Trump administration to stop DHS's pro-Trump propaganda ads immediately, including ordering the canceling of ads set to run as soon as this evening. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-does-n...

Based on the materials provided, the Court does not require the additional conference on
October 13, 2026 and such conference is adjourned. The Court finds that (1) the present motion
is not moot, (2) there is standing to proceed, and (3) the moving Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they are likely to succeed on the merits, will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of an injunction, the balance of the equities tips in their favor, and an injunction serves the public interest. A full opinion shall follow shortly. Therefore, the Court GRANTS the moving Plaintiffs' motion, and IT IS HEREBY:
ORDERED that under 5 U.S.C. § 705, the purchase order entered into on or about September 20, 2026 between Customs Border Protection ("CBP") and Lepugh, Inc., doing business as LMD Agency, Inc., ("LMD") ("September 20, 2026 purchase order") is stayed, including all future payments made thereunder; it is further
ORDERED that under 5 U.S.C. § 705, the Office of Management and Budget's ("OMB") apportionment of $20 million to fund the development, creation, and/or airing of the

advertisements covered by the September 20, 2026 purchase order, including but not limited to The Country He Loves, Celebrating the Enduring Spirit, Final Battle, To the Great Proud People of Iran, and Maduro (collectively "the challenged advertisements") is stayed; it is further
ORDERED that Defendants are enjoined from using, disbursing, or transferring funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") to develop, create, disseminate, place, distribute, publish, or air the challenged advertisements; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants shall cancel or cause to be cancelled any slot, placement, reservation, or arrangement for the airing or dissemination of the challenged advertisements,
including those placements for the evening of October 11, 2026;
ORDERED that Defendants shall not enter into, renew, or expand any agreement authorizing the development, creation, dissemination, placement, or airing of the challenged
advertisements; and it is further

ORDERED that the foregoing instructions bind Defendants' officers, agents, employees, contractors, and anyone acting in concert with them. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 65(d)(2).
ORDERED that Defendants shall immediately provide a copy of this order to LMD,
under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 65(d)(2)(C), and that LMD, as a contractor that is in active concert and participation with Defendants, is enjoined from continuing to run or place the
challenged advertisements; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants will file a status report within 24 hours of the entry of this temporary restraining order and Section 705 stay, confirming compliance with this Order; and it
is further
ORDERED that this Order shall remain in effect until 14 days from today, subject to an extension of this Court; and it is further
ORDERED that, in the Court's discretion, Plaintiffs shall not be required to post a bond.

Case 1:26-cv-08882-JLR Document 41 Filed 10/11/26 Page 4 of 4
This Order shall be effective as of 6:45 p.m. on October 11, 2026 and the Clerk of Court
is respectfully requested to close the motion at Dkt. 25. The Court will reschedule the October
13, 2026 conference to discuss next steps in this matter.
Dated: October 11, 2026
New York, New York
SO ORDERED.
Kanifer Rockon
JENNIFER L. ROCHON
United States District Judge

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

This is especially galling given how cavalier this administration has been about deploying the troops and how callous they've been about their well-being while they're there. Sailors are trying to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln as the Millers soak up benefits meant for the military.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Ron Brownstein gives his opinion on the most important branch of government for Democrats to regain control of: “ Nothing…will change America more than whether Democrats can hold the Senate long enough to get a legitimate shot at five Supreme Court seats.”

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 5h

Taxpayer dollars flow to DHS / ICE. But Americans can’t afford food, gas, healthcare, housing. VOTE

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

Adding: this will be *doubly* true if Dems win big in 2028 and are in a position to impose some accountability. The whole RW media blob, the NYT, the Atlantic, all the Very Serious outlets filled with Very Serious People will be scolding them to calm down, don't dwell on the past, look forward, etc.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6h

A new cat cafe is opening in Naperville later this fall

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A new cat cafe is opening in Naperville later this fall

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was due - are you? Every 10 years for adults, friends. In 2023, there were ~7,000 US cases of pertussis; last year, almost 29,000 cases (!), & 16 deaths - more than from measles. Pertussis vaccination for kids is below a 90% target goal for all but 4 states. My state did best (93%); ... 🧵 1/3

The Tdap box from the booster shot I just got.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 6h

Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...

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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO

Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

One person listed as a top donor to David Flippo's congressional campaign says they never contributed to the Nevada Republican. The Campaign Legal Center's Brendan Fischer says that "suggests very serious campaign finance violations.”

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David Flippo has close ties to accused fraudster whose company spent lavishly on his behalf

Arizona Land Reserve, which the Nevada Republican listed as one of his biggest assets on his financial disclosure, cut $50,000 checks to conservative groups that endorsed him.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 6h

extremely funny that a MAGA Super PAC is dropping $200K to boost the Party for Socialism and Liberation's candidate with non-union printed mailers

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 6h

My favorite part of things like this is the deliberate choice to ignore that one of Mike Collins' former staffers is, in fact, a neo Nazi, and I need us to stop with this kind of insane both sideism that insists swastikas and Seig Heils are totally normal because calling a Nazi a Nazi is... rude?

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 Seven US senators from both parties say Trump broke the law by greenlighting Russian diesel imports, pointing to a 2022 ban meant to stop American $$ from bankrolling Russia's war & accusing regime of skipping Congress entirely. Russian blood diesel ship ETA in 3 hours at Wilmington, NC! 🧵

United States Senate Committee on
FOREIGN RELATIONS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 11, 2026
CONTACT:
James Nycz
Ranking Member Shaheen and
Six Bipartisan Senators' Statement on Legality of Imports of Russian Diesel Fuel
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Curtis (R-UT) issued a statement regarding the legality of Russian diesel fuel imports to the United States.
"Congress explicitly banned Russian energy imports in 2022 to prevent American dollars from financing Putin's brutal war against Ukraine. Congress was clear: the U.S. should not import oil from Russia until it ends its aggression against Ukraine and ceases threats against our NATO Allies.
"President Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel imports to the U.S. runs directly counter to that law. The Administration has also failed to consult with Congress or submit any explanation to justify its decision as required by statute.
"The United States should not provide Putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. The Administration must immediately reverse course."
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Photo of a large oil tanker on the ocean.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 7h

Votebeat reports on several election clerks in Michigan missing the deadline to send absentee ballots to voters:

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Some Michigan voters still without absentee ballots after clerks miss state deadline

Voters in multiple Michigan counties are still waiting for their ballots.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h

A GOP-led purge of Democratic voters is underway in New Jersey — and voters are fighting back in court. In one stark example, a Democratic voter received a “Gilmore Letter” questioning their eligibility to vote. Their Republican spouse did not: demdock.com/4yCxbOh

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 9h

There's a diphtheria case in NY. Let's hope it's a one-off; diphtheria is deadly (1 in 10) & highly contagious (transmission is respiratory or cutaneous - via skin contact), but very rare in the US - just 10 cases in the last 20 years. The last respiratory case... 🧵 www.btpm.org/local/2026-1...

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Erie County Health Department reports case of diphtheria in local school district

Diphtheria cases are extremely rare but officials in the West Seneca Central School District are acting “out of abundance of caution” to alert families.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 8h

This is devastating. There are only 74 Southern Resident Killer Whales left and they rely on endangered Chinook salmon for survival. I'm fighting to urgently invest in salmon recovery and to create a better ecosystem so that we can help support these orcas' survival.

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Another grieving orca mom carries dead calf on her nose off Washington state

Whale researchers spotted the female orca carrying a tiny carcass through the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Saturday.

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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 8h

Someone should show this to David Brooks because he's really concerned about labeling these folks as "Nazis."

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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 12h

“If they don’t attack us—kill our children, we won’t attack their diesel.” - Volodymr Zelenskyy The leader of a democratic nation shouldn’t have to beg America to not fund the war killing its children. The time is long past to choose good over evil. We should be ashamed of our leaders.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 11h

Non-zero chance Trump has begun to truly unravel as the reality of his impending ass whooping sinks in.

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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 8h

It's becoming obvious that these guys believe that radicalized terrorists will work in their favor.

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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 8h

This is like Israel's "ceasefire" where they killed >Gazans and invaded Lebanon.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

The push alerts we received from multiple major news channels assured us there was an energy ceasefire. Surely they wouldn’t fall for Trump’s lies this easily.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8h

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

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Jooooohhhh No! @josefoshea.bsky.social · 16h

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15h

In fact my biggest problem with Democratic leaders is their unwillingness to directly confront the right wing threat.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15h

Political violence is a serious issue. But it’s not a “both sides” issue. The leaders of the Democratic Party do not call for violence, do not elevate violent supporters, do not pardon violent thugs who attack our seat of government and our elections. America is under threat from the right.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 15h

VERY important point from my colleague Sam Bagenstos - the 2026 Senate races will determine the future of the Supreme Court and federal courts more broadly. Which means the 2026 Senate race in MICHIGAN could determine the future of the Supreme Court

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

I'm convinced Newsom isn't running for President at all. Sure, he might have a committee and use it as a slush fund, but he's running to be appointed to corporate boards and fake think tanks and stuff. Just too many examples of him going out of his way to show he's not aligned with the Dem base.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Fetterman does not seem to like his job, the biggest city in his state, or his governor. He does like spending time online and going on TV.

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 14h

1) it’s great the times painstakingly attempted to document how much this had grown 2) and also how do you do the article about HOW this is happening without addressing WHY? What CAUSED this uptick? Did you try to figure that out?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

I hate it when US officials refer to warfare, includng the deaths of thousands of noncombatants, as "kinetic engagement." Euphemism is the weapon of charlatans.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Every word of this from @drewmagary.bsky.social. Democrats will likely retake Congress, but what they do next is an open question. That's why it's important for us all to press Democrats -- right now -- to commit to an aggressive agenda of oversight and accountability.

As desperate as Republicans are to hold onto power, the Democratic establishment is even more rattled. An oil slick like Schumer sees his GOP chums on the other side of the aisle get marginalized by an interloper (Trump), and now fears a similar interloper on his side doing likewise. The Schumers of the DNC fear the likes of Zohran Mamdani and AOC (even as she's gone about sanding down her politics over the last eight years) far more than they fear Trump. So if they wrest control of Congress a month from now, their priority won’t be to reform a brazenly corrupt Supreme Court, or to punish Trump and his many accomplices for their endless crimes, or to finally cut off aid to Israel, or even to force an end to that shitty war in Iran. All they’ll do is sit on their candy asses and wait around for the next election. Then they’ll tell you the best way, the most responsible way, to express your anger at their indifference is to continue voting for them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

This is the scene of Lonesome Rhodes' undoing in A FACE IN THE CROWD, except here the audience loves that their idol is calling them dumb fucking sheep.

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"Good night, you stupid people!" clip from A FACE IN THE CROWD

YouTube video by Club Samely

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 10h

According to CDC data from 2020 through 2023, more than 70 women each month are shot and killed by a current or former intimate partner. Women accounted for 77% of intimate-partner firearm homicide victims. guessingheadlights.com/florida-man-...

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Florida Man Kills 20-Year Acquaintance Inside Truck After Disagreement Escalated

A disagreement that began at a Tampa restaurant spilled into a white Chevrolet pickup truck, where police say a 74-year-old man fatally shot a woman he had

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 18h

“Russia invaded Ukraine. The first country to surrender was the United States,” — Canadian political analyst Michael MacKay.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 19h

Search and rescue operations have concluded at the site of Russia’s October 10 airstrike on a residential building in Zaporizhzhia. Twenty people were killed, including four children, while 17 others were injured, including three children. #Ukraine

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