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At least 2 US ambassadors to Ukraine have experienced Trump’s corruption and Kremlin treason scheme first hand; both resigned one after another. If your diplomats are sounding the alarm that your head of state is a turncoat, under normal circumstances that would be a trigger for an inquiry.

Man verloor tien kinderen en kleinkinderen bij één inslag en is alles kwijt Na het uitdelen van lekkernijen aan daklozen in Kyiv sprak een man ons aan. Hij bedankte ons… maar brak al snel. Hij verloor tien familieleden, waaronder al zijn kinderen en kleinkinderen. Alle tien, bij één bombardement op een burgerwoning. Hij is alles kwijt. Dit en meer zie je zaterdag 2 mei in aflevering 3 van Patatje Hoop seizoen 3 om 17:30 op RTL 4 #standwithukraine

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine left its waters heavily mined, Ukraine developed advanced sea drones to help clear the bottom of its seafloor. Now, President Zelenskyy is offering the same technology to the U.S. to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz. CBS News’ Aidan Stretch saw up-close how they work.

This was a large middle processor who was grinding for an exclusive restaurant program. We caught them heavily cutting our product with something else. When we confronted them our orders went up 3X-4x. The cattle market had jumped so high we couldn’t keep up. Borrowed millions, sold what we could, lost ranches. So we opened up a lawsuit. And they’re trying to break us for it. Thank you for helping bring awareness to this. It’s been detrimental to our family. My number and email is on our website and I will be glad to personally tell our story.

"You Won't Believe What I Saw in Ukraine vs Russia War" | Spencer Taylor Not watching it from the outside — living it. What he saw isn’t always what makes the headlines.

What really burns me about this as an American fighting for Ukraine, is that Israel buys stolen Ukrainian grain instead of American grain. 😡 Our farmers are suffering terrible times right now, as China stopped buying many of our farmed products, and as a result a historic number of American farms are failing. Our "ally" and "close friend" Israel choses to buy stolen Ukrainian grain instead of American grain. This is wrong on so many levels. If Israel is our ally, why not help our farmers? Why put money into Russian hands while Russia is commiting GENOCIDE in Ukraine!? This needs to be a bigger story! 🤬 #StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

Each teddy bear represents a Ukrainian child who has been abducted by Russians. The "20,000 Teddy Bears on the National Mall - Bring Ukrainian Kids Back" installation was created over five days (Friday through Tuesday) by more than 50 volunteers, with over 120 volunteers involved in total. The display featured white, brown, maroon, and red teddy bears, with the maroon and red bears forming the message: "Putin abducted 20,000 Ukrainian children. Bring Kids Back." And those are only the cases we know about. According to experts, the real numbers are much higher. The project was created by @razomforukraine and implemented in partnership with @AmericaforUA

Welcome home! 🥹 A 193-for-193 prisoner exchange has taken place. Servicemen from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the State Border Guard Service, the National Police, and the State Special Transport Service have returned home. They defended Ukraine on different frontlines. Among them are wounded defenders, as well as those against whom Russia opened criminal cases.

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late. The right stack is always taller. On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN. I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS. The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts." I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes. The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200. I waived it. I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness. Let me show you what I processed this year. January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%. February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed. March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file. I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again. In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not. I want to tell you about the soldier again. He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in. In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on: Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee. Defense appropriations they voted on. Trade policy they negotiated. Pandemic response measures they drafted. Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public. None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012. Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that. The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop. She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. I want to tell you about the fine. $200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk. Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself. On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office. The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year. The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million. The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write. He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million. The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised. In my field, we call this self-regulation. The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate. Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return. I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process. As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

For reference, the head of the CIA only makes $230K / year.

Whatever you think of the NY Times (yes, me too) their photographers are among the very best A Ukrainian dad buries his baby, murdered by Russia

Wait, you're telling me a law aimed at regulating billing & prices had unintended consequences? Who could possibly have predicted such a thing?

This is Ukrainian boy Volodya, 10 years old. Russians severely wounded him, but didn't break his spirit. No child should experience such horrors. Never forget. Never forgive.

BREAKING: USA has started using a Ukrainian counter-drone system called Sky Map to protect U.S. planes at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia against Iranian drones attacks. Ukrainian soldiers on the ground are now training the Americans on how to use their system 🇺🇸🇺🇦

From "Please give us Javelins to survive" to "We'll train your military to survive" in just 4 years Ukraine's military story arch is truly incredible

Eight trips to Moscow. Zero trips to Kyiv. For the same envoys. Negotiating the same peace. Zelensky said disrespectful. He is correct on the facts. If the U.S. position is that both parties to this conflict deserve equal engagement, the travel record does not support it. Russia launched 700-plus drones in a single night last week, killing at least 18 Ukrainians. The U.S. envoys are in Islamabad. The last time they were in the same room with both sides was February. Eight to zero is the arithmetic of the relationship as it actually exists.

9 січня. Місто знову без хліба. 14 січня. З продуктами знову проблемно, доїдаємо запаси. 29 січня. Я перед складним вибором — кого годувати, бо харчі на нулі. Той варіант, що приготувати ні з чого. Люди хліба не бачили місяць. Підвозу продуктів чи будь-чого взагалі поки немає. Суцільна блокада. Це уривок зі щоденника мешканки окупованих Олешок на Херсонщині, де люди вже четвертий місяць недоїдають На фото — хліб, який печуть люди на сковорідці

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds. Not a guess. Not a theory. A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it. Samsung TVs: every minute. LG TVs: every 15 seconds. Even when you're just using it as a monitor. Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

⚡️⚡️⚡️BREAKING: 🇷🇺Russia is moving to develop one of the world’s largest manganese deposits on occupied 🇺🇦Ukrainian territory. In Feb 2026, a state-linked firm secured a license and by April launched exploration at the Veliko-Tokmak field, holding ~1.7B tons of reserves with ore grades above 25%. Potential output is estimated at up to 1.7M tons annually, exceeding Russia’s domestic demand of ~1.3M ‼️Today, over 90% of its manganese - a key steel additive - is imported.📌 For context, this deposit vastly exceeds Russia’s largest fields (127.7M and 29.5M tons). A 3,000-worker processing plant is already under construction, pointing to long-term extraction plans. Russia does not change in its pursuit of stealing others’ resources. #RussiaEconomy #NaturalResources #MakeRussiaPay Photo: nadra. info