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Duckworth: How many nations are in ASEAN? Hegseth: We have allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia Duckworth: None of those countries are in ASEAN

Russia: Invades Moldova ‘92 Flattens Grozny ‘99 Uses polonium UK ‘06 Cyber attacks Estonia ‘07 Invades Georgia ‘08 Invades Crimea & Eastern Ukraine ‘14 Downs MH17 2014 Flattens Syria 2015-24 Uses Novicok 2018 Invades Ukraine more 2022-.. Trump: why does Ukraine want to be NATO?

On devpolicy.org lagipoiva & Sami provide a great explainer of the political crisis in Samoa: devpolicy.org/trouble-is-bre…

Wow.🧐 Very rare to see OECD development committee chair tell an EU development commissioner (as Carsten Staur does to Jozef Síkela in this open letter today) to prioritise least-developed countries in EU's foreign aid. As I've been reporting for weeks, however, it isn't. 🧵

“If we want to rebuild social cohesion, we must embrace nuance. And nuance requires more than what politicians seem capable of giving us… Let’s start crossing the “either/or” line of supporting only one side and assert justice for both.” - Tim Costello smh.com.au/national/antis…

What a choice; a defining photo for the new gilded age. An inauguration that makes clearer than ever the triumph of oligarchy - one that isn’t incidental but intrinsic to the politics and policies that we’re seeing set out.

“Elon was interested in German politics at a very young age”

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Do you recall the good old days when some folks were sweating over Chinese Communist United Front activities undermining our cherished institutions and democratic freedoms? Happy days. theguardian.com/australia-news…

The German newspaper Die Zeit covered the hand, writing: "A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute".

Let’s all be honest. His election will not help one single working class American. His election will enrich the 21st Century American Oligarchs. You can see all three of them pictured here. The American working class will continue to face deepening poverty, suffer from

Trump's furious because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.

PEPFAR is *currently providing* lifesaving HIV treatment for 20.6 million people, including 566,000 children, as of Sept. 30, 2024. That treatment is now in serious jeopardy. I'm sure people in the administration don't want half a million kids on their conscience.

There’s a pattern here: first the Nazi salute & now addressing an election rally of Germany’s far right party. When does this become too much even for Trump, or are there no limits now? Let’s remember that Nazi Germany was responsible for #genocide: euractiv.com/section/politi…

Donald Trump's aid pause is horrific. What is going on? On devpolicy.org Cam has some excellent analysis. devpolicy.org/manufactured-c…

“Notwithstanding the exemption for food aid, the freeze on other forms of humanitarian aid & on assistance for medical supplies, vaccines and treatments for diseases like HIV/AIDS in Africa & other regions will cost lives,” says Cam from devpolicy.org. devpolicy.org/manufactured-c…

“Education services delivered in refugee settings are currently not recognised by the Thai education system, creating barriers to wider opportunities & #refugees are unable to leave the camp for work or study,” says Naomi Brooks from ACFID. The Border Consortium devpolicy.org/dont-forget-re…

Not sure about this new calendar...

sorry how would this story be different if America was being run by Chinese spies