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19 January 2025 22:16

🇺🇸 Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.

📎 Aaron Rupar

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19 January 2025 15:14

🇺🇸🇵🇭 U.S. and Philippine Navies held their first joint patrol in the South China Sea involving an aircraft carrier this week with the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group. The first joint patrol of 2025 also included BRP Andrés Bonifacio, BRP Antonio Luna, USS Princeton and USS Sterett.

📎 Aaron-Matthew Lariosa

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19 January 2025 10:42

🇺🇸🏛🇮🇱 AIPAC now holds 329 seats in the United States House of Representatives:

🔵 86 DEM
⚫️ 329 AIPAC
🔴 19 GOP
⚪️ 1 vacant

📎 AIPAC Tracker

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19 January 2025 07:24

🇲🇽 Mexico President Claudia: "What do you call someone who asks for intervention from another country?"

Reporter: "A traitor to the homeland."

President nods: "The opposition is desperate because the people of Mexico overwhelmingly support us."

📎 COMBATE

📝 Anon: Not a good sign when a President acknowledges that their country might be invaded by their neighbor soon.

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18 January 2025 22:29

🇺🇸🇮🇱 During ceasefire talks, Trump’s envoy reportedly told Netanyahu, “The president has been a great friend of Israel. And now it’s time to be a friend back.”

📎 AF Post

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18 January 2025 16:57

📝 S2 Underground on X:

"I don't know much, but signing a bill that allows an international consortium to dictate what speech is and is not allowed in the United States, *and to allow that organization to change those definitions at will...AFTER the law was passed*, might be fairly well radicalizing, just a tiny bit.

She literally granted legal authority over Americans to a foreign entity.

But what do I know, I've been told these things are forbidden to bring up anyway."

📎 s2_underground

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18 January 2025 14:08

🇪🇬🇺🇳🇱🇾 Egypt confirms support for UNSMIL efforts to resolve Libyan crisis

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aaty has expressed his country’s aspiration to enhance cooperation with the Acting Head of the United Nations Support Mission to Libya (UNSMIL), Stephanie Koury, in a way that serves efforts to reach an intra-Libyan solution to the crisis in Libya.

https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/egypt-confirms-support-unsmil-efforts-resolve-libyan-crisis

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18 January 2025 11:54

You may not be interested in group-level identity politics, but group-level identity politics is interested in you.

📎 arctotherium

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18 January 2025 10:08

🇺🇸🛳 U.S. Navy force posture ahead of the presidential transition of power

8 of America’s 11 aircraft carriers are active or working up, and 3 are currently deployed: Truman in the Middle East (5th Fleet), Vinson + Washington in the Indo-Pacific (7th Fleet)

📎 Ian Ellis

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18 January 2025 08:05

💸 The Mississippi House voted to eliminate the state income tax.

The Bill also cuts grocery tax, but raises gas and sales tax.

📝 The plan would over time cut about $1.1 billion from the state’s current $7 billion general fund money.

📎 Hunter Estes

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17 January 2025 23:18

🔥 No Water in Southern California Fires | Dry Hydrants | Using Seawater from the Pacific Ocean

What is Going on With Shipping?

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17 January 2025 19:45

A message from the Erasmusbrug: WHITE LIVES MATTER

Please share

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17 January 2025 16:20

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

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17 January 2025 09:14

🇬🇧UK leader Starmer signs ‘100-year partnership’ agreement with Ukraine during trip to Kyiv

“We are with you not just today or tomorrow, for this year or the next, but for 100 years — long after this terrible war is over and Ukraine is free and thriving once again,” Starmer told Zelenskyy during a visit to Kyiv, promising that the U.K. would “play our part” in guaranteeing Ukraine’s post-war security.

Starmer said that the landmark century-long agreement commits the two sides to cooperate on defense — especially maritime security against Russian activity in the Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Sea of Azov — and on technology projects including drones, which have become vital weapons for both sides in the war.

📝 Philip Pilkington: "Okay I’m calling it: Britain is on its last legs. The economy is collapsing and the state is trashing around like a headless chicken."

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17 January 2025 06:07

President Biden confronted Israeli PM Netanyahu for “carpet bombing” Gaza, to which Netanyahu replied, “You carpet bombed Berlin.

Biden then retorted, “But that’s why we came up with the UN.”

📎 AF Post

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19 January 2025 20:48

🇺🇸📱 TikTok begins restoring service for U.S. users after Trump comments

The company said in a statement that TikTok was coming back online in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump provided assurances to the company’s service providers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-says-restoring-service-us-users-rcna188320

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19 January 2025 12:32

🇮🇱❌🇮🇱 — Ben Gvir's party has resigned, the resignation headline was titled:

The end of our path in government due to "surrendering to terrorism"

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19 January 2025 09:13

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Senator Ted Cruz on X:

"The Trump administration, with Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, are going to reverse the Biden administration's policies undermining Israel.

They're going to end sanctions on Israel Jews living in Judea and Samaria, impose the mandatory sanctions passed by Congress against Palestinians for terrorism, and end the secret boycotts Biden officials have been imposing against Israelis.

I look forward to Marco's confirmation as Secretary of State immediately after President Trump is inaugurated on Monday."

📎 Senator Ted Cruz

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18 January 2025 22:30

🇺🇸🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Senior European officials believe that Israel will launch an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities after Trump takes office

📎 OSTINTdefender

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18 January 2025 18:27

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18 January 2025 16:57

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says Homeland Security needs to work more closely with the CIA to identify how U.S. citizens are becoming radicalized

📎 Ken Klippenstein

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18 January 2025 13:22

🇲🇱🇨🇦🇷🇺 Canadian gold mining company Barrick Gold temporarily suspended mining operations in Mali, and Russia is poised to fill any potential void.

Barrick’s decision is the result of a multiyear Russian-supported campaign to extract more money from Western mining companies and possibly pressure them out of Mali entirely.

The Malian government and Barrick had been at odds after both parties failed to agree on a restructured contract after Mali reformed its mining code in 2023 to secure a bigger share of mining revenue.

Russia had lobbied Mali to evict Western gold mining companies and reallot Western-owned contracts to Russian companies since the arrival of the Wagner Group in 2021.

Russia has increased cooperation on natural resource exploitation in Mali since March 2024 and used the same strategy that it has in Mali to secure access to uranium sites in neighboring Niger after the Nigerien junta pressured Western mining companies to halt operations.

Increased Russian access to mining in the Sahel will boost the Russian economy & mitigate Western efforts to isolate Russia.

📎 criticalthreats

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18 January 2025 10:56

🇨🇳🇮🇳🛢 China and India Scramble for Crude as Sanctioned Russian Tankers Turn Back

The most aggressive Western sanctions imposed on Russia’s oil sector since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine threaten to disrupt global supply as buyers — led by China and India — scour the Middle East for alternative suppliers. Some estimates suggest the measures could halve Russian oil exports and their introduction has driven up Brent futures by as much as $5 a barrel in recent days.

Buyers in both Asian nations have been asking producers in the Middle East including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait to provide more oil, according to officials in those countries. But finding additional barrels would be difficult given that these countries have made commitments to OPEC+ — in which Moscow is a leading force — to keep supply restrained.

In a sign of a more-urgent need for barrels, China’s state owned refiners and larger independents have been frantically seeking out crude and selected so-called prompt barrels for more-immediate loading, according to traders. It’s been a similar picture for India’s state-owned plants, a critical source of buying of seaborne Russian cargoes, they said.

Sanctioned tankers were still delivering to ports in both China and India this week but New Delhi has warned that any designated vessels will only be allowed to deliver cargoes if they were loaded before Jan. 10 and discharged no later than March 12. After that, the ships will be off limits.

Some vessels heading to collect fresh loads are starting to abandon their voyages. At least five of the 77 ocean-going crude carriers — excluding the shuttle tankers tied to specific projects — sanctioned by OFAC have abandoned the journeys they were on at the time. The Atlas, Heng Tai and Venture were all heading to the Baltic when they made U-turns off the western coast of Europe and headed toward the Mediterranean.

In the Pacific, the Himalayan and the Salty Wolf both stopped journeys to the Russian port of Kozmino on Jan. 12. The Himalayan moved to waters off China’s Shandong province where it anchored. The Salty Wolf was last seen on Wednesday heading toward Singapore.

The measures have also made tankers not targeted by OFAC wary: two unsanctioned vessels heading toward the Arctic port of Murmansk — where both storage ships and all the shuttle tankers that fill them have been designated — turned round close to the Norwegian city of Tromso shortly after the measures were announced. They are now heading for the Baltic.

https://gcaptain.com/china-and-india-scramble-for-crude-as-sanctioned-russian-tankers-turn-back/

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18 January 2025 09:01

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump Administration is planning a Large-Scale Immigration Raid next week in Chicago, as part of his Campaign Promise of carrying out the Mass Deportation of Criminal Illegal Immigrants across the Country. Upwards of 200 Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs

📎 OSINTdefender

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17 January 2025 23:22

Senate breaks filibuster, passing Laken Riley Act, 61-35.

The bill mandates the deportation of any illegal alien found guilty of crimes, from homicide to shoplifting. It is the first immigration bill in decades to be passed without an amnesty amendment.

📎 AF Post

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17 January 2025 19:45

A Fundraiser was just set up to help the activists to fight the decision in higher court.

This case is very important for all Dutch Activists, so please donate and share.

https://www.givesendgo.com/laseractivists

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17 January 2025 19:07

🏛 U.S. Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban

Read the full opinion here:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

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17 January 2025 10:57

🇪🇺🇨🇳 Europe’s carmakers risk hefty bill for carbon credits from Chinese rivals

European carmakers led by Volkswagen could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of euros to Chinese electric-vehicle rivals to buy carbon credits, as the auto sector tries to avoid potential fines for failing to meet 2025 pollution rules set by Brussels.

Under EU rules requiring carmakers to cut emissions, manufacturers lagging behind in the electric transition face the choice of paying billions of euros in fines, boosting EV sales by slashing prices or buying credits from less polluting competitors.

The European Commission plans to fine carmakers €95 per car for every gramme of CO₂ per km above a 93.6g limit, based on average emissions across a company’s vehicle sales in 2025. 

Many carmakers in the EU are looking to use the “pooling” option, where manufacturers average out the greenhouse gas emissions of their fleets with other companies that sell in the bloc.

Analysts estimate that some European groups may be forced to buy hundreds of millions of euros worth of carbon credits from Chinese rivals such as BYD, which has one of the largest pools of credits to sell thanks to high EV sales in the EU.

https://www.ft.com/content/677190d1-7d34-4506-a037-418baab67237

https://archive.is/wL13z

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17 January 2025 07:53

#BREAKING
🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊❗️ — Axios reports that Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal has been officially signed in Doha, making the deal now de jure official!

➡️ Israel’s security cabinet is set to meet Friday morning to vote on the deal, followed by a full government plenary vote on Saturday night. The ceasefire and hostage release are anticipated to take place on Monday.

➡️ A U.S. official said that on Wednesday night, after the deal was announced, there was a disagreement about the final list of Palestinian prisoners who are supposed to be released as part of the deal.

➡️ Hamas demanded to swap several names on the list for military leaders of the militant group who are serving multiple life sentences for planning and orchestrating suicide bombings, Israeli and U.S. officials said.

➡️ Israel had earlier used the veto it has as part of the deal to block their release but Hamas brought them up again as a new demand in the negotiations.

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16 January 2025 21:55

🇺🇸 - The FBI is shutting down its Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

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