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Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
BREAKING: The Senate has confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence in a 52-48 vote. Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to vote no.
Gabbard is known for defending Putin and his war against Ukraine (Russian state TV calls her “our girlfriend Tulsi” for a reason), supporting Bashar al-Assad, and backing traitors like Edward Snowden.
A shameful day for the US Senate
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Do we possess the basic common sense — for the sake of our country, our most classified materials, and our intelligence professionals — to vote down Tulsi Gabbard? We will soon find out.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Quietly, Hegseth announces a major policy change, ruling out Ukraine joining NATO. This is a complete capitulation to Putin, justifying his wars of aggression starting with Georgia in 2008. This will embolden Putin and undermine the interests of peace in Ukraine and Europe. A major blow to U.S. national security.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
No country in Europe does more to stifle honest discussion of Israel/Palestine than Germany. It took five months for @Zeit to publish this interview. But it's finally out. Below, our exchange on Israeli apartheid and colonialism.
zeit.de/kultur/2025-02/natha…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
The lesson that Moscow, Beijing, and every other US adversary will take from this is that the US will back down in the end. That's very good news for them, not so much for the US.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
The US now runs the serious risk of looking to Russia and China as if it's weaker than Russia. That may or may not bother everyone making decisions in the Trump administration, but it should certainly bother any American who cares about the security and future of their country.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Birthright citizenship order - BLOCKED.
Federal funding cut off - BLOCKED.
Illegal feds resignation plan - BLOCKED.
Access to Treasury's vital data system - BLOCKED.
Firing 2000 USAID workers - BLOCKED.
Drastic NIH Grant Cuts - BLOCKED.
Removing public health websites - BLOCKED.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Dear @JustinTrudeau, it’s a pleasure to see you in Brussels.
Canada is one of our most trusted allies.
Our partnership is strong and thriving. We are ready to take it even further ↓ teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1yNGaLrev…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
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Two nurses in a Sydney hospital have been suspended for threatening to kill Jewish patients and refusing to treat them in a TikTok video
haaretz.com/world-news/asia-…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
The Israeli army continued for the 22nd day its attacks on the Jenin refugee camp. More than 20,000 people were evicted by force from their homes. The army caused huge damage to people’s homes and the infrastructure of the camp.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
I asked Zelenskyy something I’ve been curious to ask him for two years: for his version of the “and then Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and told us not to sign a deal” story.
His answer here, plus comments from @shustry
theguardian.com/world/2025/f…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
"First and foremost, it is about building a rapport with him, learning about US's thinking," says @_RafaelLoss about new US defense secretary Pete Hegseth first visit to NATO via @DeutscheWelle 📰 buff.ly/4jO2DlL
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
There’s a measles outbreak in W Texas where 18% of kindergartners
have a vaccine exemption (c/w 3% nationally). This will get much worse with RFK Jr. Wondering if Sen Collins will be very concerned when people start to die from preventable illnesses. forbes.com/sites/saradorn/20…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
NEW: Two planes crash on the runway at Scottsdale Airport.
At least one person has died after an aircraft crash on the runway Monday at the Scottsdale Airport.
At around 2:30 p.m., Officials say a jet veered off the runway and crashed into another jet.
Three other people onboard the plane have been taken to hospitals for treatment of their injuries. The extent of those injuries is unknown.
🔗 abc15.com/news/region-northe…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Columnist @LoganMDavis spoke with legendary investigative journalist Katherine Stewart (@kathsstewart) about her new book, and about the movement to destroy American democracy.
Read their timely conversation ⬇️
coloradotimesrecorder.com/20…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Kremlin-loyal pope Francis meets Russian Kremlin portrait painter Safronov, author of numerous Putin portraits, as well as of other dictators: Lukashenka, Yanukovych, etc. Why am I not surprised.
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
"USAID to keep on fewer than 300 staff, as thousands placed on leave"
Read more: politico.com/news/2025/02/06…
#Politico #USA
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Russian Aeroflot planes keep breaking down mid-air. A Boeing 777-300 flying from Phuket to Moscow was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangkok.
Second breakdown this year. But sure, who needs Western parts when you have import substitution?
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
Deepening losses in Russia's coal industry prompt Governor of Russia's largest coal producing region to warn that "survival of the whole industry now at stake".
kyivinsider.com/russias-coal…
Daniel Batt @[email protected] 🇺🇦 retweeted
HUGE. #FOIA. WIN
politico.com/news/2025/02/10…
