Karen Piper✓

@PiperK

Just another girl with a PhD. I follow academics in solidarity. https://t.co/bwc5MAXMGq

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  1. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    My dad was a World War II hero, and my mom played a crucial role in designing the Tomahawk missile. She called her team the "Tomma Group." I didn't know what they did as a child, since neither of them felt war was for children... but now I feel like I have high standards to live up to. They both believed in "just wars," and only Hitler and Putin have taught me what that really means.
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  2. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @JuliaDavisNews: Trump Administration Halts Funding for Key Ukraine Security Programs The INCLE program helps Ukraine’s police, border guards and other security personnel protect civilians and critical infrastructure.
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    Karen Piper
    RT @TheRickWilson: Trump hasn't had a crowd like this is years.
    Students for Amy Acton @students4amy
    Amy Acton packed a 10,000 venue and gets a massive welcome in Cleveland
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  4. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @ProgIntl: How to Steal a Hemisphere 🌐 Fernando Cerimedo and the Heist of Latin American Democracy Read more on the Reactionary International.
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  5. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @BenjaminNorton: This is absolutely insane! The US government is desperately trying to protect a drug-trafficking network of corrupt right-wing political operatives, election meddlers, and assassins in Latin America. Bolivia's attorney general was investigating the US asset Fernando Cerimedo, a criminal who hired hitmen to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Cerimedo oversaw a large scheme of US-sponsored election meddling in Latin America, putting in power right-wing, pro-US politicians by rigging elections, operating countless bots, and spreading mountains of disinformation online. Cerimedo worked for pretty much all of the right-wing, pro-US leaders in Latin America, and he collaborated very closely with the Trump administration. He was given an award in Mar-a-Lago a few weeks before he was arrested, and was photographed with Donald Trump Jr. This scandal was all exposed when Cerimedo failed to assassinate his pregnant ex-girlfriend, and was subsequently arrested. She has since revealed a lot of his dirty laundry, with thorough evidence. Bolivia's attorney general has also been investigating Cerimedo for drug trafficking and money laundering. So the Trump administration got desperate to silence the Bolivian attorney general. First the US government hit him with sanctions, and now it ordered the corrupt right-wing Bolivian government to arrest him, to stop the investigation into the criminal Cerimedo. Now, in Kafkaesque fashion, the US government claims he was arrested because of supposed drug trafficking and corruption. But he was the one investigating the drug trafficking and corruption of a powerful US asset! The US government is the main protector of drug cartels in Latin America.
    Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio
    The Trump Administration stands firmly with President @Rodrigo_PazP and Bolivia's democratically elected government as it takes bold and decisive actions to combat narco-trafficking, systemic corruption, and transnational organized crime in Bolivia. Last week, at the historic Shield of the Americas leaders meeting, the U.S. explicitly reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to safeguarding democratic governance and security in our region against the destabilizing influence of armed narco-terrorist networks. Bolivia's actions demonstrate the kind of leadership needed to make our hemisphere safer, stronger and more prosperous.
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  6. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Oh well.
    Will Sommer @willsommer
    MAGA data guru Data Republican says the early vote data is so depressing for the GOP, she can’t share it with her audience.
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  7. Secretary Marco Rubio✓@SecRubio
    The Trump Administration stands firmly with President @Rodrigo_PazP and Bolivia's democratically elected government as it takes bold and decisive actions to combat narco-trafficking, systemic corruption, and transnational organized crime in Bolivia. Last week, at the historic Shield of the Americas leaders meeting, the U.S. explicitly reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to safeguarding democratic governance and security in our region against the destabilizing influence of armed narco-terrorist networks. Bolivia's actions demonstrate the kind of leadership needed to make our hemisphere safer, stronger and more prosperous.
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  8. Will Sommer✓@willsommer
    MAGA data guru Data Republican says the early vote data is so depressing for the GOP, she can’t share it with her audience.
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  9. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Here's Donald Trump Jr. with the political operative who hired a hitman to kill his girlfriend in Argentina.
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  10. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    I think maybe these folks are lying on purpose. Right, @planetofmemes and @libsoftiktok? Of course, neither of them gives a shit, as long as there are fools who will believe anything.
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    Being J Wood @BeingJWood
    @libsoftiktok You have access to the internet. Still you make shit up. Why?
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  11. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @marceelias: I made the decision to have Democracy Docket take down its paywall through Election Day. Read it, enjoy it, share it -- all for free. If you want to support this effort, here is how:
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  12. Being J Wood@BeingJWood
    Posts @libsoftiktok
    @libsoftiktok You have access to the internet. Still you make shit up. Why?
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  13. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @RVAwonk: Over the past few hours, X has banned a network of accounts that were part of a Russian disinformation campaign targeting Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson of Maine. I've been watching them disappear in real time. (I'll post the details asap).
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  14. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Jared Kushner had plans to tear down a war memorial and build a luxury hotel in Belgrade. He seems to be toppling governments wherever he goes.
    kos_data @kos_data
    🇷🇸 Students continue celebrating their election victory over autocrat Vucic past midnight. They have school tomorrow.
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    Karen Piper
    RT @stuartpstevens: I hope Republicans allowing genocide in Europe are haunted by these screams every night of their lives. You can stop this. You don’t. You are complicit. Shame. Shame. Shame.
    Lesia Vasylenko @lesiavasylenko
    I am in tears and speechless. The scream of this father over the body of his 15 y.o. daughter is the sound of pure torture. Another #russia attack on civilians. Mid day in #Chernihiv . These terrorist monsters have no soul. They will not stop until stopped.
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  16. kos_data✓@kos_data
    🇷🇸 Students continue celebrating their election victory over autocrat Vucic past midnight. They have school tomorrow.
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  17. Lesia Vasylenko✓@lesiavasylenko
    I am in tears and speechless. The scream of this father over the body of his 15 y.o. daughter is the sound of pure torture. Another #russia attack on civilians. Mid day in #Chernihiv . These terrorist monsters have no soul. They will not stop until stopped.
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  18. 🪴Laurie✓@Laurieluvsmolly
    Lula supporters literally moved cars to vote!! Bolsonaro supporters tried blocking Lula voters going to the poll. Democracy held! CONGRATULATIONS Lula!! 🇧🇷
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  19. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    What the world looks like when Russia takes over. 👇
    NEXTA @nexta_tv
    💔 Ghost town: Footage reveals the devastation in Russian-occupied Oleshky Burned-out vehicles along the roads, destroyed buildings, and deserted streets. This is what Oleshky, a Ukrainian town in the Kherson region under Russian occupation since 2022, looks like today. Archive drone footage released by Ukraine's 34th Separate Marine Brigade "Borysfen" in September reveals the scale of the destruction. A temporary ceasefire is set to begin here on October 29, following an agreement between Ukraine and Russia brokered by Melania Trump. The pause is intended to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians. According to estimates, between 1,700 and 2,000 people remain in the town, most of them elderly.
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    Karen Piper
    RT @60Minutes: “[Tina Peters] was elected by her county to uphold the elections. Instead, she attacked the elections from within,” says Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
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  21. NEXTA✓@nexta_tv
    💔 Ghost town: Footage reveals the devastation in Russian-occupied Oleshky Burned-out vehicles along the roads, destroyed buildings, and deserted streets. This is what Oleshky, a Ukrainian town in the Kherson region under Russian occupation since 2022, looks like today. Archive drone footage released by Ukraine's 34th Separate Marine Brigade "Borysfen" in September reveals the scale of the destruction. A temporary ceasefire is set to begin here on October 29, following an agreement between Ukraine and Russia brokered by Melania Trump. The pause is intended to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians. According to estimates, between 1,700 and 2,000 people remain in the town, most of them elderly.
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  22. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @atrupar: Obama: "I'm not making this up -- the president of the United States is spending time supergluing gold medallions to the mantle in the Oval Office. He's literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war and trying to deal with out of control prices."
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  23. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Hey, look. Elizabeth Holmes is on TV again, claiming she's innocent. The "machines" and "the cloud" did it, not her. She just had "a vision." 😉😂
    60 Minutes @60Minutes
    Former Colorado election official Tina Peter ordered security cameras be turned off and gave an outsider fake credentials. 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker asks her: “Did you break the law?”
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  24. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    It's a publicity stunt to keep legal immigrants from voting.
    Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports
    SCOOP: Blanche personally charged small-fry Nevada ‘voter fraud’ cases All four of the cases were misdemeanors—signed off on by the AG of the United States. That's highly unusual, and an ex-prosecutor who served alongside him in SDNY told me it raises "huge red flags." First reported by All Rise News
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  25. 60 Minutes✓@60Minutes
    Former Colorado election official Tina Peter ordered security cameras be turned off and gave an outsider fake credentials. 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker asks her: “Did you break the law?”
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  26. Adam Klasfeld✓@KlasfeldReports
    SCOOP: Blanche personally charged small-fry Nevada ‘voter fraud’ cases All four of the cases were misdemeanors—signed off on by the AG of the United States. That's highly unusual, and an ex-prosecutor who served alongside him in SDNY told me it raises "huge red flags." First reported by All Rise News
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  27. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @ivanastradner: Radio Free Europe played a vital role in providing independent news during the struggle against Milošević. Today, once again, @RFERL stands with the Serbian people in their fight for democracy and freedom of information. Amazing work @RSE_Balkan
    Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty @RFERL
    Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's former president and dominant political figure for more than a decade, conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in the country's parliamentary elections. While the final election results were yet to be announced, independent observers reported that voter turnout could reach its highest level in decades, approaching 70 percent after a day of long lines at polling stations. By @RSE_Balkan ⬇️
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  28. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    The FBI is investigating @RepIlhanOmar for getting her date of birth wrong on her immigration application? WTF? They've apparently never visited a country torn apart by civil war. In Vietnam, people traditionally celebrated birthdays on January 1st. In other countries, people just don't keep track of it.
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  29. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty✓@RFERL
    Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia's former president and dominant political figure for more than a decade, conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in the country's parliamentary elections. While the final election results were yet to be announced, independent observers reported that voter turnout could reach its highest level in decades, approaching 70 percent after a day of long lines at polling stations. By @RSE_Balkan ⬇️
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  30. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @RYP__: Can Melania swing by Dnipro and help collect body parts? Thanks.
    Marcus Kolga 🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦 @kolga
    Putin joins the First Lady in celebrating the Oleshky truce by slaughtering 14 unsuspecting civilians who were just waiting for their train in Dnipro today.
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  31. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    I don't get this. Poor Dan Sullivan Jr. can't run for Senate just because he has a common name? He has a real campaign statement. 👇
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    Aaron Rupar @atrupar
    BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter
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  32. Marcus Kolga 🇨🇦🇪🇪🇺🇦✓@kolga
    Putin joins the First Lady in celebrating the Oleshky truce by slaughtering 14 unsuspecting civilians who were just waiting for their train in Dnipro today.
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  33. Aaron Rupar✓@atrupar
    BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter
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  34. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Sure, James. Typical American journalists here. 👇 In this video, James says, "There's too much of a liability of getting arrested. That will destroy what we're trying to do here today." Consciousness of guilt.
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    James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII
    I’m not a “conservative influencer” I’m an American Journalist. I’m fighting for your 1st amendment rights to report at @NBCNews in this case, as much as I am our own.
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  35. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    I came across this awesome Justin Timberlake video about an apocalypse fueled by conspiracy theorists and a violent culture. (It's so 2020.) 1/
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  36. James O'Keefe✓@JamesOKeefeIII
    I’m not a “conservative influencer” I’m an American Journalist. I’m fighting for your 1st amendment rights to report at @NBCNews in this case, as much as I am our own.
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  37. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Posts @PiperK
    What's wild are the comments at the time. Conspiracy folks thought it proved Pizzagate was real and that JT wanted to drink children's blood. 🤦‍♀️ 2/
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    Karen Piper
    RT @DemocracyDocket: NEW: At least 18 voting centers in Alaska Native communities have not opened despite early voting starting in the state last week. “There is no legal excuse for the failure to open these sites,” one state senator wrote to the Alaska elections chief.
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  39. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Yay! I’m buying it!
    Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach
    New: Amid legal threats from Jared Kushner over explosive allegations published in a Vanity Fair excerpt, Simon & Schuster quietly expedited the release of Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early
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    Karen Piper
    RT @DanielMillerEsq: We cannot normalize this. This is utterly fucking insane that the United States JUSTICE Department would be doing this.
    Ben Penn @benjaminpenn
    SCOOP: Trump DOJ has directed California's US attorneys to start criminally subpoenaing state & local officials over their roles facilitating allegedly unlawful voting. Prosecutors in LA & elsewhere expected to start issuing grand jury subpoenas today.
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  41. Natalie Korach✓@NatalieKorach
    New: Amid legal threats from Jared Kushner over explosive allegations published in a Vanity Fair excerpt, Simon & Schuster quietly expedited the release of Matthew Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early
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  42. Ben Penn@benjaminpenn
    SCOOP: Trump DOJ has directed California's US attorneys to start criminally subpoenaing state & local officials over their roles facilitating allegedly unlawful voting. Prosecutors in LA & elsewhere expected to start issuing grand jury subpoenas today.
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  43. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Yay!
    MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch
    A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election. Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. personally met with Vučić, while Jared Kushner pursued a major luxury real estate project with his government. Now, after nearly two years of massive student-led protests against corruption and authoritarianism, Vučić's ruling party has been defeated at the ballot box. The student-backed movement is projected to win a parliamentary majority, ending more than a decade of dominance by Vučić's party.
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  44. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    So, North Korea stole approximately $3 billion from the rest of the world today. That's 1/10th of its entire GDP.
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  45. MeidasTouch✓@MeidasTouch
    A stunning defeat for a Trump-aligned right-wing leader in Europe. Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić, whose government cultivated close ties with Donald Trump and his family, has conceded defeat to a student-led opposition movement in a historic parliamentary election. Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. personally met with Vučić, while Jared Kushner pursued a major luxury real estate project with his government. Now, after nearly two years of massive student-led protests against corruption and authoritarianism, Vučić's ruling party has been defeated at the ballot box. The student-backed movement is projected to win a parliamentary majority, ending more than a decade of dominance by Vučić's party.
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  46. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Wow.
    Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman
    🚨TRM Labs is saying that the multi-billion-dollar Binance hack was done by North Korea.
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  47. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    The nice thing about papa Bolsonaro being in prison is that he can’t try another coup. Too bad we don’t have that in the US.
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  48. Scott Stedman✓@ScottMStedman
    🚨TRM Labs is saying that the multi-billion-dollar Binance hack was done by North Korea.
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  49. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @AlexanderSoros: Lula Lula Lula! Congrats to Brazil for standing up against authoritarianism once again! 🇧🇷 ⚖️✌️
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  50. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Reminder. 👇
    Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie
    Trump pardoned billionaire Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto company Binance partnered with Trump's crypto company in a deal that will generate tens of millions of dollars for Trump and his family each year. This is what a shamelessly corrupt oligarchy looks like.
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  51. Melanie D'Arrigo✓@DarrigoMelanie
    Trump pardoned billionaire Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto company Binance partnered with Trump's crypto company in a deal that will generate tens of millions of dollars for Trump and his family each year. This is what a shamelessly corrupt oligarchy looks like.
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  52. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Hm. Was the laptop "compromised" or the engineer?
    Binance @binance
    Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified. The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far. Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete. As an immediate precaution, Binance has: - temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed; - revoked the affected address authorisation; - engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds. Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice. Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
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  53. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @Tendar: Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings. This happened in Alaska. Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, stepped down after finding out that the Russian "Novatek" company, which is under US sanctions, has been involved in a $25 billion energy project in Alaska. The CEO thought that he was working with Gentry Beach, a close friend of Donald Trump Junior. Reportedly, that project was also discussed between Witkoff and Jared Kushner when they were with Putin. The White House admitted that the project was talked about "briefly". We are witnessing the greatest corruption scandal the USA has ever witnessed. It all leads to Trump, his family and the Russians, and apparently they were even ready to sell riches of Alaska to the Russians. The people in Alaska just need to look over to Russia, where the richest regions in terms of minerals and hydrocarbon resources have been stripped-mined, transferring all the wealth to Moscow and Saint Petersburg and leaving a scarred landscape in extreme poverty. That is the result of rampant corruption. We are starting to see more details why Trump and his friends are trying so strongly to bully Ukraine into surrender. This is most certainly only the tip of the iceberg.
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  54. Binance@binance
    Binance's initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions. We have found no evidence of any wallet private key leak. We will share a detailed technical post-mortem once the investigation is complete and the facts are fully verified. The estimated total impact sits at around $6.3B. We have worked with blockchain partners to freeze affected assets, with ~$3 billion frozen on-chain so far. Binance will cover all losses from the SAFU fund and the company’s funds. User funds are safe. We will also publish an updated Proof of Reserves once the remediation is complete. As an immediate precaution, Binance has: - temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals while security checks are completed; - revoked the affected address authorisation; - engaged law enforcement and blockchain intelligence partners to trace and recover funds. Our teams are working around the clock to resolve this issue safely and thoroughly. We are working closely with our law enforcement partners to confirm the identity of these criminals and bring them to justice. Please rely only on official Binance channels for updates. Please feel free to contact Binance Customer Support if you have any further questions.
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  55. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Attorney Bill is illegally occupying the U.S. Attorney position. "Professor Barb" is a real professor.
    F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli
    Professor Barb is upset that we’re publicly responding to disinformation and smear campaigns from political leaders. Sorry, Barb, we won’t allow the media or politicians to discredit the great work of the men and women of @TheJusticeDept, and we definitely won’t let noncitizens vote.
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  56. F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli✓@USAttyEssayli
    Professor Barb is upset that we’re publicly responding to disinformation and smear campaigns from political leaders. Sorry, Barb, we won’t allow the media or politicians to discredit the great work of the men and women of @TheJusticeDept, and we definitely won’t let noncitizens vote.
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  57. Karen Piper✓@PiperK
    Karen Piper
    RT @LorraineEvanoff: Fucking amazing
    🪴Laurie @Laurieluvsmolly
    Lula supporters literally moved cars to vote!! Bolsonaro supporters tried blocking Lula voters going to the poll. Democracy held! CONGRATULATIONS Lula!! 🇧🇷
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