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It's only Tuesday and Trump has fucked up a pool for $14 Million, lost a war agreeing to pay Iran $300 Billion, and ballooned his already expensive ballroom budget by another $200 Million. Where are the Republicans screaming about "waste, fraud and abuse"?

🎯 As I’ve been saying for years, Putin has exposed himself in Ukraine. Want to stop Russia’s election interference and propaganda? Its campaigns of sabotage and assassination? Its aid to dictatorships from Cuba and Venezuela to Iran and its terror proxies? Defeat him in Ukraine.

Buried in the BBC writeup of the Russian-sponsored arson attack on Keir Starmer's home is the following nugget. The attackers' handler, Evgeny Lyukshin, the son of a Russian diplomat, studied at Moscow State University's diplomatic academy, which has a Rybar-run media school. Ryber is a sanctioned organization which seeks "to sow discord, promote social division, stoke partisan and racial discord, and encourage hate and violence," according to the U.S. government. Tutors at the media school's program on "information warfare" include SVR illegal Colonel Andrey Berzukov, or "Donald Heathfield," as he was known in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the FBI arrested him as part of Operation Ghost Stories. Another tutor is Sergey Nalobin, formerly the first secretary in the political section of the Russian Embassy in the UK, but so much more than that, too. Nalobin's father's was a general in the KGB who then went on to serve as Alexander Litvinenko's boss in the economic crimes division of the FSB. Nalobin's brother was also FSB. So, well... yeah. When he was stationed in London, Nalobin (seen at right with Boris Johnson) helped found a pro-Russian front group called Conservative Friends of Russia, to which @lukeharding1968 and I devoted some attention fifteen years ago. Sir Malcolm Rifkind was the honorary president at one point before he cottoned onto what he'd signed up for and quit. Nalobin's diplomatic credentials expired and he was subsequently posted to Tallinn. (My informed guess is the Estonians let him in to keep an eye on him.) Looks like Sergey's time in the West wasn't wasted, however. He's now helping to instruct a bright young generation of Russian operatives how to foment race war and remotely recruit gig saboteurs from an elite institution of higher learning in Moscow. A whole gaggle of Tories can say they knew him when... bbc.com/news/articles/c8r2l3…

Against all the early odds in this war, Zelensky’s got Putin on the run. Amazing.

CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false? JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation. *A massive strategic failure. x.com/atrupar/status/2066512…

I’m classed as a terrorist by a govt that supports terrorist regimes, says arrested 78yr-old retired psychiatrist Anne Read | via @SaulStaniforth

Friedrich Merz, who styles himself as a "strong" German Chancellor, has reached a new low in German foreign policy with his obsequious birthday tribute to Donald Trump. Anyone who plays "on the same team" as a US president—one who regularly berates Europe as a free-rider, uses punitive tariffs to extort it, and threatens conquest—has evidently forgotten whose Chancellor he actually is. Merz is not merely trading away dignity; he is signaling weakness. This is precisely the kind of submissive attitude that Trump is all too eager to exploit. Instead of earning respect, Germany reaps only contempt—and rightly so. German foreign policy requires backbone, not gifts of jerseys and talk of "team spirit." Merz’s performance epitomizes everything rotten in current Berlin politics: a lack of principles, posturing, and a desperate attempt to feign strength through weakness. Europe deserves better than this act of subservience.

🚨 NEW: The BBC has revealed Russia has been setting up fake far-right and Islamist groups in the UK to stoke division Operatives paid people to vandalise mosques, spread extremist propaganda and inflame tensions after the Southport riots

GENERAL: “The $300,000,000,000 is real. Who cares where it comes from? The Iranians are still in charge. They’re gonna take that money and recover everything. You know that, Sean.” Even Fox guests aren’t letting them pretend Trump’s deal is good. (Obama had a deal for far less)

This is a brilliant investigation. It shows what many of us knew. Hostile states are supporting both Islamist & far right causes in order to divide us. If you are echoing those narratives you are aiding & abeting a hostile state. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r2…

The story is even more alarming when you read the whole thing. A normal American president would be rallying the G7 today to confront the Russians on this and all the incidents Putin has been efforting to destabilize the West. Alas…

Israeli military vehicles open fire on Salah al-Din Road at the Bani Suheila roundabout east of Khan Yunis and towards al-Bureij camp english.palinfo.com/news/202…

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.s…?

Trump's Iran war is one of the greatest strategic blunders in US history. Analysis from Sky's @DominicWaghorn ⬇️ trib.al/kynBtBk

The real Trump derangement syndrome is his followers excusing everything he does that they would have been furious about had it been done by Biden or Obama. It's not mere hypocrisy, it's a cult. Iran is the latest example and one of the worst. My latest:

Russia was behind arson attacks targeting the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on British soil. Let that sink in. And never underestimate how far Russia is prepared to go.

Breaking News: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California accused President Trump of using the Justice Department to investigate him and his wife. nyti.ms/4uyASSp

Russians attacked a high-rise building and a medical facility. Russia: We never attack civilian targets. Reality: Russia attacks almost exclusively civilian targets.

This is the greatest act of blasphemy that Putin could commit. This is worse than russia bombing the Vatican.

From @TheAthleticFC: The most famous goalless draw in World Cup history. Cape Verde, a chain of 10 islands off the coast of West Africa with a population of 529,000, has held the European champions and favourites Spain in Atlanta. nyti.ms/4xvKXCa