US gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach agreement to end war, Zelenskyy says

The U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He said the U.S. plans to pressure both sides to meet this timeline. Zelenskyy spoke to reporters on Friday, with comments released on Saturday. Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure have forced nuclear power plants to cut output. Over 400 drones and about 40 missiles targeted the energy grid. The strikes have increased power deficits, leading to extended outages. U.S.-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi failed to produce a breakthrough, with both sides holding firm on key issues.

AP News

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/116021564140687821

The #PizzaGaetz are coming from inside the [ #AltWhite ] House....

RE: https://mstdn.social/@bweller/115980025699487539

As a professional leader and planner of war, I both share this frustration and understand the nuance. IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE (Intelligence officer here, who's had eyes on the planning) that #AgolfShitler has been conducting this with the EXPLICIT AIM OF provoking reciprocal violence that would give him ammunition to tell my General Officer peers that now he's Constitutionally justified in invoking the Insurrection Act.

On the OTHER hand, I also know that HE'S PLANNING ON DOING IT ANYHOW, even if he just has to pull a justification wholly out of his ass. I currently assess it as HIGHLY PROBABLE that there is no longer a path out of this that does not involve large-scale violence--by THE FASCISTS' choice, even if we were to choose NOT TO. It may take all sides to choose peace...but it only takes ONE side to choose war.

And they have chosen it, long ago. I've been warning people for a decade now that we got here because the American #AltWhite had watched FOR HALF A CENTURY as the (racist, misogynist, heteronormative) America they loved faded away NO MATTER WHICH party was in power. And rather than doing the hard work of trying to come up with a more saleable platform--OR EVEN A MORE EFFECTIVE PITCH FOR THE ONE THEY HAD--they simply gave up on democracy, and started learning from cultures that had successfully overthrown it, how to blow it up from the inside.

What's critical for us to understand is that BOTH THESE THINGS CAN BE TRUE AT ONCE. It's a trap AND the fascists are gonna use it even if they have to spring it THEMSELVES, like a Claymore. So what I take from this is that governors, mayors, and private organization leaders need to be planning & organizing NOW, BEFORE they choose to fight fire with fire, so that WHEN Chancellor Shitler invokes the Insurrection Act (whether we act first or he does), IT'S HIM who's walking into the trap, not us.

Denny Carter (@dennycarter.bsky.social)

ICE recruitment is going well.

Bluesky Social

After ENRAGING America by having his #ICEtapo #Sturmtrumpers murder an American woman exercising her First Amendment rights to hold agents of her government accountable, #AgolfShitler tries to find SOMEBODY he can have armed government agents kill THAT NOBODY WILL BE MAD ABOUT, to distract people from the fact that the #PizzaGaetz were coming FROM INSIDE THE (#ALTWHITE) HOUSE, before the midterms that will decide the future of his #TurdReich....

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/10/us-military-strikes-isis-syria/88121097007/

US military says it carried out strikes across Syria targeting Islamic State

The strikes were part of Operation Hawkeye Strike, which launched in December in response to a deadly ISIS attack on U.S. and Syrian forces in December.

USA TODAY

RE: https://mastodon.social/@austinkocher/115849144853997431

Yup--the "murderers and rapists" ARE IN THE #ALTWHITE HOUSE, ordering it....

The un-American activities are coming from within the (#AltWhite) House....

Defend your neighbors, folks. Defend your HUMANITY--because the #Donjjal was sent to con you into giving it up.

https://aje.io/q16kh4

Threatened with ICE raids, US groups consider cancelling Dia de los Muertos

Groups fear the annual festivity, popular in Latino communities, may be targeted for immigration operations under Trump.

Al Jazeera
10 hours ago. They figured this out 10 hours ago. man I should have bought that bottle of wine because I definitely need a drink.
#AltWhite