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Feb 18
What is President Trump’s DOJ doing? open.substack.com/pub/decentfijc…Image
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Keep in mind, this was generated with jewAI. 🤦‍♀️
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Feb 18
Hillary Clinton: If Trump thinks he can dominate the Western Hemisphere and give Europe to Putin, he’s mistaken — and Europeans must prove it.

If you want a just, lasting peace in Ukraine, you have to better equip them. That’s the only thing Putin understands. 1/
Clinton: One of the biggest threats we face is Trump and Putin forcing an insecure, unjust end to the war in Ukraine that favors Putin.

There is reporting about corruption among their allies and oligarchs trying to profit from the misery and death of the Ukrainian people. 2/
Clinton: The rift between Europe and the US is deep. For a year, Trump and his administration have baited and insulted European leaders, countries and civilization.

After disbelief that a close ally would act this way, Europeans are pulling together and facing the reality. 3/
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Feb 18
1🚨 The truth about Pam Bondi [fully sourced]! I had from the start been skeptical of Pam Bondi for no other reason than the Epstein Files that she certainly would have to tackle. People say she was chosen perfectly & depending on the reason I'd agree. Image
2🚨 For the record, Pam Bondi was FL's 37th AG spanning from 2011-2019. She campaigned HARD on her promise to end child trafficking in FL.

Pam had a few notable efforts; adding a tip-line and taking down a trafficker on Backpage in 2018 w/ a 98% conviction rate that year. Image
3🚨Despite a few wins the Florida’s Office of Statewide Prosecution (OSP) in 2014 noted that during Pam's term FL saw human trafficking [HT] cases increased 60% & defendants increased 8X(23 → 179).

Moreover, 4yrs later [2018] Active HT cases were up 30% from 2017. Image
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Feb 18
🫡 Thread of all Decent Jonathan articles (plus infographics/explainer videos I generated) decentfijc.substack.comImage
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Feb 18
🚨 Profs Herrick & @Azeem_Majeed on clinical vulnerability

We are grateful that data collected by CVF (last year) was used by @covidinquiryuk to highlight some of the ongoing impacts faced by Clinically Vulnerable people.

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You can have a sneak (advanced) peak at @lara_wong's witness statement on behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families...

Many and varied consequences (relating to mental health) were identified.
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Long term mental health impacts persist to this day.

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Feb 18
Expulsions
Alternative history:

If Jews had had a nation, say in the 17th century - or earlier, how would they have treated outsiders (pagans, Christians)? Would such outsiders have been welcome, allowed to rise to middle class status, meddle with the affairs of aristocracy etc?
"under a genuinely halakhic regime, the question “Should we invite thousands of useful Christian merchants to live among us and help rebuild the economy?” would be laughed out of the room, or treated as a dangerous breach of purity."
"The default [would have been] expulsion or severe restriction, not invitation for pragmatic gain."
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Feb 18
Leavitt: Yesterday there was a round of trilateral talks between the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine. Meaningful progress was made.

Both sides agreed to brief their leaders and continue working toward a peace deal. Another round of talks will follow. 1/
Reporter: Zelenskyy said it is not fair Trump is saying Ukraine has to make concessions and not Russia.

Leavitt: The President would say it's not fair that thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives, and Russians too, in this deadly war. 2/
Leavitt: The President also sees this situation as unfair for the American people who were funding the war effort before President Trump stopped it.

The U.S. continues selling weapons to NATO that are sent to Ukraine. 3X
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Feb 18
This is not surprising and, in fact, characteristic of Trump. The Americans elected as their president a man who was always notorious for not paying his debts and trying to wriggle out of agreements. Apparently, in the the kind of business he was in, this did him not harm.
Foreign policy is not like this. Already the ancients, Greeks and Romans, understood the importance of keeping agreements. This was underscored by giving keeping agreements religious significance and solemn ceremonies accompanying their signing.
This was true of most cultures for most of human history. In later times, when growing secularisation made the religious motive unreliable, other means of ensuring that treaties are kept were created. The concept of “national honor” was one of them.
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Feb 18
The Josh Simons story isn't just about one minister commissioning smears on journalists. It's about a toxic political culture that was built to destroy Corbyn — and then walked straight into government.
My piece for @tribunemagazine 🧵 1/4 Image
For years, Labour Together operated as an internal machine: donor-funded, factional, and ruthless.

Smears, briefings, disinformation — all justified as necessary to “save the party”.

But once you normalise that kind of politics, it doesn’t just switch off when you win.
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Now that culture pervades government under Keir Starmer.

From smear campaigns to cosy relationships with firms like Palantir, the pattern is the same: centralise power, sideline scrutiny, and serve those with wealth and influence. 🧵3/4
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Feb 18
@RabbiShmuley @j_fishback @_kosher_sex_ Oh you just asking for it today aren’t ya shmuley

Well I got ya

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Feb 18
1/ Russia may be preparing to announce a mass mobilisation, a bad peace deal with the US, or confiscate people's savings to fund the war effort, according to Russian warbloggers. They suspect that the government wants to ban Telegram to block public dissent over such moves. ⬇️ Image
2/ Russian officials have hinted strongly that Telegram, which is currently being slowed down and partly blocked by the government, faces a total ban by 1 April 2026. 'Alex Parker Returns' writes (in a since-deleted post) that the government faces a dilemma:
3/ "Either capitulate in accordance with the renewed spirit of Anchorage—freezing the line of contact, surrendering the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, and other whimsical proposals that our esteemed partners will come up with along the way, …
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