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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

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Trump threatens new 'Dark Age' with policy of 'deliberate destruction': analysis "Every week brings fresh examples," wrote Serwer. For instance, Trump "is threatening colleges and universities with the loss of federal funding if they do not submit to its demands, or even if they do. The engines of American scientific inquiry and ingenuity, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are under sustained attack. Historical institutions such as the Smithsonian and artistic ones like the Kennedy Center are being converted into homes for MAGA ideology rather than historical fact and free expression."

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Homan taunts AOC after arrest of House Democrat over ICE protest: ‘Waiting on the consequences’ House Democratic leadership condemned the charges against her. ........ "Members of Congress have a constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight of the executive branch wherever and whenever it is needed," they wrote in a joint statement. "We are lawfully permitted to show up at any federal facility unannounced to conduct an inspection on behalf of the American people. By visiting the detention center in Newark, Rep. McIver and two other Members of Congress were upholding their oath of office. They didn’t assault anyone, but were themselves aggressively mistreated by illegally masked individuals." ......... Homan also sparred with Ocasio-Cortez in the media earlier this month: “I take pleasure [that] I can live with her mind rent-free every day, but we all know exactly what she’s doing,” Homan said. ........ Ocasio-Cortez had said she wasn't afraid of Homan at a Queens, New York, town hall: “Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to [the] DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections. To that I say: Come for me. Do I look like I care?”

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Putin Makes Major Demand To End Ukraine War, Sources Say The three Russian sources said Putin wants a “written” pledge by major Western powers not to enlarge the U.S.-led NATO alliance eastwards — shorthand for formally ruling out membership to Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova and other former Soviet republics......... Russia also wants Ukraine to be neutral, some Western sanctions lifted, a resolution of the issue of frozen Russian sovereign assets in the West, and protection for Russian speakers in Ukraine .......... if Putin realizes he is unable to reach a peace deal on his own terms, he will seek to show the Ukrainians and the Europeans by military victories that “peace tomorrow will be even more painful.” ........ Putin and Russian officials have repeatedly said any peace deal must address the “root causes” of the conflict — Russian shorthand for the issue of NATO enlargement and Western support for Ukraine. ......... Kyiv has repeatedly said that Russia should not be granted veto power over its aspirations to join the NATO alliance. Ukraine says it needs the West to give it a strong security guarantee with teeth to deter any future Russian attack. ............. NATO has also in the past said that it will not change its “open door” policy just because Moscow demands it. ........ Russia currently controls just under one fifth of the country. Though Russian advances have accelerated over the past year, the war is costing both Russia and Ukraine dearly in terms of casualties and military spending. ......... Putin was growing concerned by the economic distortions in Russia’s wartime economy, amid labour shortages and high interest rates imposed to curb inflation. The price of oil, the bedrock of Russia’s economy, has declined steadily this year. ......... if Putin saw a tactical opportunity on the battlefield, he would push further into Ukraine — and that the Kremlin believed Russia could fight on for years no matter what sanctions and economic pain were imposed by the West. ......... Putin was now less inclined to compromise on territory and was sticking to his public stance that he wanted the entirety of four regions in eastern Ukraine claimed by Russia. ........... As Trump and Putin joust in public over the outlook for peace in Ukraine, Reuters could not determine whether the intensification of the war and the toughening of positions heralds determination to reach a deal or the collapse of talks. ........... In June last year, Putin set out his opening terms for an immediate end to the war: Ukraine must drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw all of its troops from the entirety of the territory of four Ukrainian regions claimed and mostly controlled by Russia. ............ Putin casts the war as a watershed moment in Moscow’s relations with the West which he says humiliated Russia after the Soviet Union fell in 1991 by enlarging NATO and encroaching on what he considers Moscow’s sphere of influence. .......... At the 2008 Bucharest summit, NATO leaders agreed that Ukraine and Georgia would one day become members. Ukraine in 2019 amended its constitution committing to the path of full membership of NATO and the European Union. ........... Trump has said that previous U.S. support for Ukraine’s NATO membership bid was a cause of the war, and has indicated that Ukraine will not get membership. ............. In 2021, just two months before the Russian invasion, Moscow proposed a draft agreement with NATO members that, under Article 6, would bind NATO to “refrain from any further enlargement of NATO, including the accession of Ukraine as well as other States.” U.S. and NATO diplomats said at the time that Russia could not have a veto on expansion of the alliance. .............. Russia wants a pledge on NATO in writing because Putin thinks Moscow was misled by the United States after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall when U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO would not expand eastwards ............. There was such a verbal promise, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Director William J. Burns said in his memoires, but it was never formalised - and it was made at a time when the collapse of the Soviet Union had not occurred. .......... NATO, founded in 1949 to provide security against the Soviet Union, says it poses no challenge to Russia - though its 2022 assessment of peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic area identified Russia as the most “significant and direct threat”. .......... Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that year prompted Finland to join NATO in 2023, followed by Sweden in 2024. ...... Western European leaders have repeatedly said that if Russia wins the Ukraine war, it could one day attack NATO itself - a step that would trigger a world war. Russia dismisses such claims as baseless scaremongering, but has also warned the war in Ukraine could escalate into a broader conflict.

Netanyahu says Israel killed elusive Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in recent Gaza strike
Elon Musk’s $5 Billion ‘Ultimatum’ to Apple That May Have Fractured Tim Cook’s Leadership Circle Musk wanted Apple to choose SpaceX as the only satellite provider for iPhones. His offer included 18 months of exclusive service and then a yearly payment of $1 billion. Apple rejected this huge demand. Just two weeks later, Musk kept his word. He announced a new partnership with T-Mobile that would use Starlink satellites. This deal looked like it would leave Android devices behind and give Apple no space to compete.............. When T-Mobile officially turns on the satellite feature in July, compatible iPhones will use Starlink, not Apple’s Globalstar. This change will make Starlink more visible on iPhones, which is exactly what Musk wanted from the beginning. ........ There’s also a fear of government rules. If Apple adds too many satellite services, it might be treated like a phone carrier. That could mean Apple would have to add backdoors in private apps like iMessage, which Apple strongly opposes.

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