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It is probably a safe bet that a gallon of ketchup hit the wall when Trump heard that his billionaire real estate buddy Steve Witkoff was dissing him in his leaked conversation with the Russians (see below). How many scaramuccis before Trump claims he...

Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...

60 yards and a cloud of horseshoe dust They died with their boots (and underwear) on, having left their Gatling guns behind. Scalping is associated with American Indians on the Western frontier, but white settlers also performed the gruesome practice....

Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 23 to 24. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 162 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones – of which roughly 80 were Shahed-type...

All that work Steve Witkoff did to appease Putin and it’s all getting carved up. Poor Steve. Trump isn’t a details guy — unless it involves putting gold-plated crap all over the Oval Office. Trump was in a damn hurry to force Ukraine to accept by...

Social Media's version of stochastic counterterrorism in X is Rentier Capitalism amok Translation of Mister Orange ‘accordion hands’ Krasnov killing the Department of Education (or putting it on life-support) demoting ‘professional’ college degrees:...

A diplomatic snafu came from Kushner and Witkoff having a secret meeting with Kremlin minions that regurgitated the same Russian ‘maximalist demands’, with Trump ‘acting tough’ demanding that Ukraine agree by Thursday as though turkey pardoning...

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Musk and MAGA are suffering a self-inflicted injury... The Daily Beast Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually...