As President Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський rightly said, Belarus is being dragged into this war against its people's will. The criminal Lukashenka regime, backed by Putin, is holding 9 million Belarusians hostage. Stopping Belarus’ forced involvement is vital for Belarusians, 🇺🇦 & all of Europe.

Until then, we are determined to sharpen sanctions to pressure #Russia to change its course of senseless attacks. Work on the 20th sanctions package will be expedited. (2/2)

Congressman Pat Ryan warns DHS and ICE are moving to create a nationwide network of warehouse-style detention centers, with capacity for up to 80,000 people at a time, costing tens of billions, and enriching private contractors tied to Trump donors.

I can guarantee few things in life, but I can absolutely promise you this: the ICE detention archipelago will be a humanitarian disaster. I have a degree in criminology and spent years working on prison reform. All the signs are there. And people are already dying.

Russia currently making a mockery of peace talks - these are civilian targets and have nothing do to with the territory in the east they claim is the key to a settlement.

Don’t look away. The richest nations, the strongest military alliance in the history of the world are right next door and choose every day not to stop this. All while Ukrainian soldiers defend their cozy complacency.

Pope Leo XIV has turned his call for solidarity with Ukraine into action: the Vatican, via the Dicastery for the Service of Charity led by Cardinal Krajewski, delivered 80 electricity generators, thousands of medicine packs (antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, melatonin & more),

This is an outrageous abuse of power by Donald Trump and his lackies. It wasn’t enough for Pete Hegseth to censure me and threaten to demote me, now it appears they tried to have me charged with a crime — all because of something I said that they didn’t like. That’s not the way

Putin's desire to annex Ukraine is a personal vanity project and nothing more. Let's stop assigning more "noble" motivations -- Russian security, stopping NATO expansion, righting the wrongs of Soviet collapse -- to this brutal, imperial dictator.

My trip report from Munich: An Embarrassed American in Europe open.substack.com/pub/michaelmcf…

one of the Americans who really know what's up and stand by their word 💪💪💪

🚨 BREAKING: Trump just announced the U.S. will send $10 BILLION to his so-called “Board of Peace.” An offshore entity he controls. Where he’s chairman for life. That’s taxpayer money → straight into Trump’s personal power structure. He’s robbing America in real time.

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

Trump: “I can do anything I want to do to them… I’m allowed to destroy the country.” Let’s be clear. No president is “allowed” to unilaterally destroy any other country. If this isn’t impeachment-worthy, nothing is.

Ich sage es ganz nüchtern: Wenn die Ukraine fallen würde, hätten wir kein „eingefrorenes Problem“ – wir hätten eine strategisch veränderte Sicherheitsordnung in Europa Gerieten die kampferprobten ukrainischen Streitkräfte unter russische Kontrolle, stünde Europa schlagartig

4 years ago, Putin sent tanks to Kyiv, not Donetsk, because he wanted to conquer all of Ukraine. He failed. He also aimed to "denazify" Ukraine (i.e. overthrow Zelensky). He failed. He pledged to "demilitarize" Ukraine. He failed. He wanted to stop NATO expansion. Failure

So now you genocidal fucks are suddenly concerned about "unprovoked acts of armed aggression," huh? Get the fuck out of Ukraine.

MAGA called me pro-war for saying we should give Ukraine weapons to help them defend their sovereignty. This morning, they're cheering as America bombs Iran. They stand for nothing. Nothing whatsoever.

There has been no harsher critic to U.S. military action in Iran than Pope Leo XIV: “War is back in vogue and a zeal for war is spreading.  The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been