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  1. Ukrainian officials are reported to feel betrayed by the US president, who appears to have shifted position to side with Vladimir Putin on a number of key points in the wake of the meeting with him in Alaska.
    He is no longer threatening more severe sanctions, and more worryingly still, he seems open to the idea of making the Ukrainians hand over territory the Russians have not yet captured.

  2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/trump-ukraine-crimea-nato-zelesnkyy-washington-meeting

    Trump piles pressure on Zelenskyy before European leaders arrive in Washington
    US president tells Ukraine leader to give up Nato and Crimea ambitions in run-up to White House talks

    Donald Trump has put pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy before talks in Washington with European leaders on Monday, saying the Ukrainian leader could end the war “almost immediately” if he wanted to. The US president also ruled out allowing Ukraine to join Nato or retake Russian-occupied Crimea as part of negotiations with Moscow.
    Trump posted the remarks on his Truth Social platform on Sunday night, hours before he was due to meet the leaders of Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the EU and Nato at the Oval Office, amid fears the US president could try to pressure Kyiv into accepting a settlement favourable to Moscow.
    “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,” Trump posted. “No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and no going into Nato by Ukraine. Some things never change!!!” he added.
    A minute later, the US president posted that it would be a “great honour” to host so many European leaders at one time at the White House.
    The remarks may trigger alarm among European diplomats keen to avoid a repeat of the public mauling of Zelenskyy during his previous trip to the White House in February, when Trump and the US vice-president, JD Vance, accused him of ingratitude and disrespect and told him: “You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now.”
    Arriving in Washington for the meeting late on Sunday, Zelenskyy said he hoped Ukraine’s “shared strength” with the US and European counterparts would compel Russia to peace.
    “I am grateful to the president of the United States for the invitation. We all equally want to end this war swiftly and reliably,” Zelenskyy posted on the Telegram messaging app. “And I hope that our shared strength with America and with our European friends will compel Russia to real peace.”
    Trump will meet first with Zelenskyy at 1.15pm EDT (1715 GMT) in the Oval Office, and then with the European leaders in the East Room at 3pm, the White House said.
    Even before Trump’s remarks on Sunday, Zelenskyy faced a daunting task of reversing the damage done to Ukraine’s security prospects by the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on Friday.
    Earlier, Trump accused the media of misrepresenting his “great meeting in Alaska” – an encounter widely seen as a victory for Putin and a humiliation for the US president. On Sunday, Trump claimed he had made “big progress” on Russia, without giving details.
    European leaders on Monday will reaffirm their support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity and argue against any land swap plan that rewards Russian aggression. They will also seek further clarity on what security guarantees the US is willing to offer in the event of a settlement.
    Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s envoy to international organisations in Vienna, said early on Monday that Russia agreed that any future Ukraine peace agreement must provide security guarantees to Kyiv, but Russia “has equal right to expect that Moscow will also get efficient security guarantees”.
    In a conciliatory statement announcing his visit to Washington, the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, praised Trump for his “efforts to end Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine”. At the same time, he reasserted Europe’s red lines. Starmer said the “path to peace” could not be decided without Zelenskyy and said Russia should be “squeezed” with further sanctions.
    Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, told CNN that Putin had agreed for the first time for the US and Europe to provide protection to Ukraine as part of a deal. This would be outside the auspices of Nato but the equivalent of the alliance’s article 5 self-defence pact, Witkoff indicated.

  3. Tough to overstate how unprecedented this is — an emergency meeting of the big European dogs to chase a stupid president into herd formation.

    Meeting Timing
    Zelensky has already landed in Washington.
    A detailed schedule shows:
    1:15 pm EDT: Trump meets Zelenskiy bilaterally.
    3:00 pm EDT: The multilateral session begins with European leaders in attendance.

    My first thought is that doesn’t allow much (or any) time for Z to brief Europeans leaders about his Trump meeting.


  4. • “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…” The Great Dictator

  5. “doesn’t allow much (or any) time for Z to brief Europeans leaders”

    craig, does the source say exactly where all this takes place? will the EU leaders be cooling their heels just outside the Oval? who else will be in the room with the Dodo Zelenskyy one-on-one and will this be a filmed performance like the last one or behind super closed doors like the sessions with putie were?
    and what about interpreters and note takers????

  6. neat celestial alignment on the ecliptic this morning, 1/4 waning moon, jupiter i think, then venus

    Uranus and mercury also if you have optics 🤩

  8. anon,
    When the moon is in the Seventh House
    And Jupiter aligns with Mars
    Then peace will guide the planets
    And love will steer the stars

  9. imagine if Mexico invaded and occupied Florida and then engaged in a protracted bombing campaign against civilians in the US state of Georgia, and then China agreed to a deal to cede Florida to Mexico without including the US in the negotiations

    Would Americans roll over? Why would we tell Ukraine to?

    Not one inch 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

  11. I saw that veep vance is back in town and will be in the room. So sfb, vance, rubio, nutlick, and bessent are the most likely to be there. A clown car full of fools. I expect krasnov to push what putin told him to do. Followed by Zelensky telling him to suck a pickle. Then, the meeting over.

    The big question is once krasnov realizes he was told to go to hell will the meeting of the EU and NATO heads take place? I think it will. krasnov needs to pretend he is important and bigger than all of EU and NATO and a photo session proves it.

  16. I’m all in favor of the MSNBC split, but how will the new channel whatever its eventual name handle streaming. They are currently only available live with the big expensive feeds.

  17. So Putrid and Taco Don want Ukraine to give up both the Donbas & Crimea while promising not to ever join NATO. I can see ceding the territory but only if combined with immediate NATO membership.

  19. ~You can get the robbers who are rummaging through your things to leave by giving them your valuables. They’ll leave then. You can stop it. It’s not the robbers’ fault.~

    FDT!

    Zelensky shouldn’t have agreed to a bilateral meeting. He should show up LATE (make tRUMP wait) and just stare them down the whole time. Not a peep until everyone is together.

    FDT and all of the Russians in this administration and in Congress!

    Slava Ukraine!

    These MAGAt/Russo-Republican POSs don’t realize the world loves an underdog & hates Russia? Their brand sinks deeper into a hole by the minute.

    Черт их всех возьми!

  21. The other thing about the steal (er) deal tRUMPutin want(s) to make is that it’s being called a “freeze.” It will unfreeze. Russia never keeps its word. Putin is the devil.

  22. I have a feeling our favorite MSNBC stars are going to end up with their own podcasts on YouTube, and probably do quite well. Comcast seems to be having trouble finding buyers for the channel.

  23. @realDonald Trump
    I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women’s Sports, Transgender and “WOKE” for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON’T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    *Adolf knows Republicans will lose bigly if they don’t cheat. Hopefully, blue state governors won’t cave and let him take over what is a state’s responsibility. FDT!

    Gerrymandering in TX didn’t go smoothly thanks to Dem governors willing to fight fire either fire.

    If he actually won all of the swing states, why gerrymander? Why gerrymander in a red state? Why have the DOJ demand voter data and access to machines if he won and had a mandate to do the dirty things he’s doing?

    Release the Epstein files!

  24. Texas House Democrats return to Capitol, ending walkout over redistricting plan

    Texas House Democrats announced they would return to Austin Monday, ending a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan and paving the way for the map’s passage.

    “We killed the corrupt special session, withstood unprecedented surveillance and intimidation and rallied Democrats nationwide to join this existential fight for fair representation — reshaping the entire 2026 landscape,” Rep. Gene Wu of Houston, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, said in a statement.

    Though Democrats won’t have the votes to defeat the map on the floor, they framed their protest as a victory for sinking the first special session and building a national appetite among blue state leaders for their own partisan redistricting efforts in retaliation to Texas’ plan. And they said that the end of the walkout only marked the next phase of their plan to fight the map in court.

    “We’re returning to Texas more dangerous to Republicans’ plans than when we left,” Wu said. “Our return allows us to build the legal record necessary to defeat this racist map in court, take our message to communities across the state and country and inspire legislators across the country how to fight these undemocratic redistricting schemes in their own statehouses.”

  25. Team Trump confusion:
    Doing my morning reads I’ve come to the conclusion that even Team Trump doesn’t know what Trump is doing. There seems to be so much confusion. Ask one member of Team Trumps inner circle and you get one response but then ask another and you may get the opposite. One group is working to relax Russian sanctions , as another group is threatening India if they don’t quit buying Russian oil. And so on and so on.
    It makes me think this meeting today is not going to go well but I’m not sure that matters any more.
    Jack

    Driving the news: That uncertainty is part of the backdrop as European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive in Washington, D.C., for talks about a path to end the war.

    The high-stakes Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage concluded without a ceasefire agreement or peace deal, an outcome that President Trump previously warned would bring severe consequences.
    Bloomberg reported last week that the Trump administration was considering the possibility of sanctions on Russia’s largest oil producers, an action that officials hoped would be short-lived, given the possible impact on prices.
    But after the summit, Trump said he wouldn’t think about the possibility of sanctions for “two or three weeks.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday that additional sanctions might further delay peace talks.
    Yes, but: Top Trump adviser Peter Navarro said today that the White House would move to hit Russia indirectly with secondary tariffs targeting India.

    “India’s dependence on Russian crude is opportunistic and deeply corrosive of the world’s efforts to isolate Putin’s war economy,” Navarro wrote in an op-ed published in the Financial Times.
    Navarro, an influential voice on trade and tariffs, said the Trump administration’s plans to double tariffs on Indian goods to 50% — set to take effect next week — was a “two-pronged policy.”
    It will “hit India where it hurts — its access to US markets — even as it seeks to cut off the financial lifeline it has extended to Russia’s war effort,” Navarro wrote in the op-ed.

  26. It does look like Trump has achieved something no other president has.
    Agreement between the major European powers. And that is historical!

    Jack

  27. https://www.politico.eu/article/viral-video-russia-vehicle-wave-us-flag-attack-ukraine-fury-kyiv/

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s most senior adviser condemned a viral video showing a Russian combat vehicle waving an American flag speeding through Ukraine’s front lines.
    The footage shows an M113 armored personnel carrier, manufactured by the U.S. and captured by the Russian military, flying both Russian and American flags as it speeds through a village in Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine, according to Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT.
    POLITICO could not independently verify the footage or its provenance.

  29. Who is the Fox (I assume) suck up who has derailed the bilateral meeting into an opportunity for Orange Adolf to whine about how unfair the media and everyone is to him? Ga’dammit!

    Now he’s talking about golf & DC not being safe. Ummm, it’s where junior high & high school kids go to visit every year! For decades! Actually, 2025 may be the year they don’t do school trips because of the troops.

  31. Dodo possibly wouldn’t have won if his 2.5 million mail-in votes in 2024 hadn’t been there.
    Popular vote in ’24: Trump 77,302,580 Harris 75,017,613

    also interesting about mail-ins in last election from
    https://electionlab.mit.edu/articles/new-report-how-we-voted-2024

    Voting by mail
    The use of mail ballots in 2024 decreased from pandemic-era levels but stayed above historical norms.
    The partisan divide in mail voting continued, with more Democrats than Republicans utilizing this method, although the gap narrowed because of declining usage among Democrats.
    Patterns of ballot returns continued to evolve, with drop box usage rebounding and Postal Service usage decreasing modestly.
    Very few mail-in voters reported issues with requesting or completing their ballots.
    Nearly three percent of voters who returned their ballots at a drop box reported witnessing something disruptive, such as demonstrators, during the drop-off process.

  32. Trump is so ignorant that he doesn’t know the difference between what a leader can do on an emergency basis when the country is attacked and what he/she is allowed to do about the long-term state of the nation without Constitutional or Congressional action.

    Zelinsky cannot unilaterally give away chunks of the Ukraine without the approval of his government.

  33. Just add it to the lie list:

    Trump said Putin told him that no other countries allow mail in voting.

    In 2020, Putin signed into law Russians being able to vote by mail and also on the internet. more than 30 other countries also allow some forms of mail-in voting.

  35. Jack- we, the people, saw some things in the first circus. But, the various adults did what they could to control the problems. This second one lives in the moment of mangomoron, and whatever moment he is in is the answer. He will change the moment in during a sentence so you have to be real fast to get it. And, it is getting worse as he rapidly deteriorates.

  36. JD & Lil Marco sitting in the back of the room. JD always looks constipated. Marco always looks sad.

  38. BiD
    I suspect he will solve it like he just solved the DC crime problem, declare it solved and move on to the next glittery object.

    Jack

  39. BB
    Can’t argue with you there, what struck me was the number of lackies who were willing to go on the record spewing nonsense. But given that most of them have spent their lives in front of a camera, I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised.

    Jack

  40. From the “WTF” column
    Bloomberg

    The Trump administration is in discussions to take a stake of about 10% in Intel Corp., according to a White House official and other people familiar with the matter, in a move that could see the US become the beleaguered chipmaker’s largest shareholder.

  41. This is not how I thought the world would end.
    But I have no excuse, I’m a fan of Heinlein fiction and he did predict “the crazy years” Like most 20 century Sci Fi he thought it would happen faster than it has.

    Jack

  45. But government ownership is the socialist/communist way. Fascist use people like Musk and oppressive regulation/threats

    Jack

  46. The hoi polloi was worn out by politics last November. How the fuck are we gonna get them motivated for rigged midterms?

  48. The secret to surviving under an authoritarian system is to kiss the ring and keep your mouth shut.
    Which means you and I are screwed.
    Jack

  50. Dumb bastard complaining about Crimea (no shots fired) surrendered by Obama. Let’s break this down shall we?
    1. Russia annexed Crimea over Ukrainian objection during Obama admin, but without a war starting. No one’s ceding that back to Ukraine.
    2. Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine, Ukraine fought back, 1M – 1.2M casualties and vast parts of Ukraine destroyed under Dumbass admin. No one’s ceding that back to Ukraine.

    If I had to choose one of those scenarios if I was a Ukrainian, I’d probably choose No. 1.

  51. 🎥 Live on Tape just dropped — Trump’s presser meets Mystery Science Theater.
    Joined by CW (from my Imus days!) we cover:
    Media spin
    Protests in DC
    Dill pickles in tuna (don’t ask)

  54. https://www.thedailybeast.com/joyful-russian-state-tv-says-putin-hoodwinked-trump-during-limo-ride/

    “The summit in Alaska was triumphant for Putin,” exclaimed state TV host Olga Skabeeva during Monday’s broadcast of 60 Minutes. Likewise, other hosts and experts have relished a string of “Putin’s victories,” from the red carpet and the impressive flyover to cajoling Trump into abandoning his idea of a ceasefire. For this, they’ve credited the twosome’s ride in the presidential limousine, unaccompanied by interpreters or U.S. government officials, where they assert that the two presidents have “divided Ukraine.”

    *Most dangerous rideshare in history. I’d give both riders zero stars.

  56. Craig – This is the amended Banksy (The Flower Thrower) that Jamie & I were talking about. It’s somewhere in DC…a bunch of them in a row.

  58. Have not seen that poster but the subway guy has become quite the folk hero around here. I actually think he was kind of a dumbass but I appreciate the sentiment.

  59. it is not possible to hurt another adult human being with a wrapped, delicious hoagie

    certainly not an adult human being in body armor

  60. It’s not even assault- there’s no way an armored cop had a reasonable fear of threat to personal safety from a guy in a pink shirt throwing a delicious wrapped hoagie

    Free the Hoagie Hero 🇺🇸

  61. Hey, that was a footlong. Those can do serious damage – if you eat enough of them.

    Sounds like dumbass got his dick in the wringer and can kiss the NPP goodbye unless he can pull his dick out and get Putin to agree to a cease fire. He just doesn’t have a fucking clue about what he’s doing.

  62. if you were to build some sort of firearm to propel a delicious wrapped hoagie at velocities significant enough to cause bodily harm to an adult human being, the pressures you would need to contain would blow the delicious wrapped hoagie apart before it ever left the barrel

    Maybe if you dropped it from a great height is the only way a delicious wrapped hoagie could possibly hurt another adult human being

  64. Putin does NOT want to make a deal FOR tRUMPsky, unless it’s in exchange for someone even weaker.

  65. Craig – The sandwich hero guy WAS a lawyer, I think for the DOJ, so he probably calculated his punishment before he threw it.

    Now, something about jury nullification is making the rounds. Just because you think someone did something based on evidence produced, doesn’t mean you have to find someone guilty.

  66. I don’t practice criminal law but I can read a statute, and anon makes a good point – unless you’re an insanely snowflaky cop, with an insanely snowflake jury, no way, no how can you convince any but the biggest idiots that you can prove the “reasonable fear of threat to personal safety” element of the crime of assault when a guy in a pink shirt and shorts throws a $5 foot long atcha.

  68. Honestly, she looked drunk the other day. Kash looked high AF.
    Bondi looked like she’s out of her depth & maybe even realizes she’s teamed up with an international crime syndicate.

  69. Trump says Putin wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he were president.
    Sure — why steal the car when you’re handed the keys?

    From our “Mystery Science Theater Meets Trump Presser” Live On Tape→

  70. @realDonald Trump
    EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. Remember, the States are merely an “agent” for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them

    Aug 18, 2025

    *Not the way it works, Adolf.

  71. https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-democrat-nicole-collier-locked-inside-house-chamber-returning-texas-capitol/

    Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn’t sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

    The escorts for all House Democrats who left the state of Texas last month — preventing a vote on a GOP-led redistricting effort — are meant as a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.m. Wednesday for the next special session.

    She also said that, according to DPS, she must stay in the House chambers or inside her office at the Capitol.

    CBS News Texas has reached out to DPS for comment.

    In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said the police escorts were the “latest Republican tactic to monitor and control Democratic lawmakers following their successful quorum break.”

    *OK, all legal eagles (and raccoons), is this false imprisonment? Forcing her to sign something (clearly under duress) would be what?

  74. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jack-schlossberg-melania-trump-vladimir-putin-letter_n_68a36d1fe4b00feff7d097cc?utm_campaign=yahoo-recirc

    Stur- I have not seen the video, but based on other things he’s done (including kind of a weird interview on The View), I imagine he’s just trying to do something relevant with the platform he was born with, but may or may not have the ability (yet).

    Why aren’t they calling out Melonier for using AI to write it? Was she involved at all, other than signing it?

  75. https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20570074

    “You know, when you go to a voting booth and you do it the right way and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in. They even asked me. They asked me for my license plate. I said, I don’t know if I have it. They said, sir, you have to have it. I was very impressed, actually.” -Taco Don

    *Where are Jake Tapper and George Clooney?

    ps – tRUMPsky voted by mail-in ballot.

  76. Are those monstrosities on the mantle gold trophies he’s awarded himself or…?

    Why is there a toy airplane on the table?

    Maybe the British should take another crack at burning it down. Yee-gawdz.

  77. Well, I hot through yo DustyAss Burrows voicemail, but the Sgt. At Arms line just rings busy.

    False imprisonment.

    Forcing reps to sign permission slips to allow DPS to follow them around so they don’t break quorum, again, and they can redraw districts.

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