Conditions at Georgia jail where Trump was booked violate constitution – DOJ report

The Fulton County Jail in Georgia, where President-elect Donald Trump was booked in August 2023, has been found to be in violation of constitutional rights of inmates due to "unsanitary and dangerous" conditions, the US Department of Justice said in a report released on Thursday.

The jail has been infamous for egregious conditions, including overcrowding, a lack of hygiene, and malnourishment, which have led to prisoner deaths. In 2023, the family of Fulton County jail inmate Lashawn Thompson said the 35-year-old man found dead in a filthy jail cell in September 2022 was "eaten alive by insects and bed bugs."

"After an extensive investigation, we find reasonable cause to believe that Fulton County and the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office violate the constitutional and statutory rights of people incarcerated in the Fulton County Jail. Fulton County Jail fails to adequately protect incarcerated people from the substantial risk of serious harm from violence, including homicides and stabbings by other incarcerated people," the DOJ Civil Rights Division said in the report.

The report describes conditions at the jail as "dangerous and unsanitary." Meals are also served to the incarcerated population in an unsanitary manner and do not meet nutritional standards, the report observed.

The report also stated that the jail's deputies and detention officers use excessive force against incarcerated people.
Living conditions, medical and mental health care in the Fulton County Jail "do not meet basic constitutional standards," the report concluded.

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🇷🇺🇮🇩 Indonesia requests Russian military equipment supplies – Federation Council

Russia has received a request from Indonesia for the supply of weapons and military equipment for 2025-2030, Vladimir Bulavin, head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, told Sputnik.

Bulavin said Russia and Indonesia are currently jointly working on seven defense industry contracts, which are at different stages of implementation.

"We have received a request from our colleagues in Indonesia for 2025-2030. In the near future, proposals from the Russian side will be prepared in accordance with this request," he said.

Bulavin said personnel training for the Indonesian Armed Forces is also underway.

"It should also be noted that we continue to train personnel and specialists for the Indonesian Armed Forces; in particular, we have trained several dozen pilots on a Su-27 simulator. Over the entire period of cooperation in the military sphere, we have trained more than 6,000 specialists," he said.

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Nuclear bomb will not help Ukraine – Zelensky's Office

The Kiev regime is not engaged in the creation of nuclear weapons, and even the hypothetical possession of an atomic bomb by Ukraine would not affect the situation on the battlefield, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said.

On Wednesday, UK newspaper The Times reported that Ukraine could develop a nuclear bomb within a few months if the United States reduces military aid to Kiev. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said later that Ukraine does not possess nuclear weapons, does not intend to create them, and closely cooperates with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Zelensky told the EU summit in Brussels in mid-October that Kiev would either get an invitation to NATO or a nuclear weapon. German media cited an unnamed Ukrainian official as saying that Ukraine could make a nuclear bomb within weeks to use it against Russia if NATO did not invite it to join the alliance.

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📹'It's got to stop' – Trump on Russia-Ukraine conflict

Delivering his remarks at an America First Policy Institute Gala, President-elect Donald Trump stated that his team is going to work on the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine crisis.

"We're going to work on Middle East, and we're going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It's got to stop," Trump said.

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🔸 VIDEO: Trump will ‘work very hard on Russia and Ukraine’

🔸 Nuclear bomb will not help Ukraine – Zelensky's office

🔸 Trump won't allow Ukraine to build an atomic bomb – US foreign policy analysts

🔸 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picked as US health and human services secretary

🔸 Kim Jong-un personally oversees testing of kamikaze drones

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📊 Suicides among US military personnel on the rise - reports

In 2023, 523 people committed suicide, while the number was 493 the year before, a Pentagon report said.

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Ukrainian forces abandon positions in Kurakhovo amid lack of personnel, ammunition, and low morale

Ukraine’s military is retreating from the city of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and a number of nearby villages due to a severe lack of personnel, ammunition, and plummeting morale, a Russian gunner from the crew of a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system revealed.

Desperate attempts by the enemy to resupply ammunition, manpower, and equipment are being crushed with relentless firepower, the soldier from Russia's fierce Battlegroup Yug added.

Kurakhovo has served as the lynchpin of Ukrainian defenses in the region, as it’s only 46 kilometers (approx. 28.6 miles) away from Donetsk. The city’s liberation would open the way for Russian troops to Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), a key logistical hub for the Kiev regime.

Russian forces have been advancing on Kurakhovo from multiple directions with the aim of encircling it, while the Ukrainian forces dug in there are unable to hold their positions.

As the Russian Armed Forces head toward the Pokrovsk rail hub, they also appear to be gearing up for a new offensive in the Zaporozhye region, The Washington Post cited Ukrainian troops as saying.

The outlet added that after regularly dropping glide bombs and other explosives on fields to identify land mines and Ukrainian positions throughout the summer, Russian forces are now “ramping up” simultaneous drone and infantry assaults.

As awareness of a looming major attack spreads, Ukrainian soldiers expect “little let up in the onslaught,” the publication noted.

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💬 'Back to a place where our enemies fear us' - Pompeo

Neocon Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State and CIA director during Trump’s first term, offered lavish praise for Marco Rubio.

"With Senator Rubio's leadership, we can get back to a place where our enemies fear us and our allies trust us," Pompeo said on his X account.

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📹 THROWBACK: Trump's pick for CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, slammed Biden for failing to arm Ukraine quickly enough and sanction Russia aggressively enough.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the village of Stepanovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry announced

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🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's weekly briefing on the special military operation's progress:

🔸 Ukraine lost over 4,715 soldiers during the week in the Russia's Battlegroup Yug area of responsibility.

🔸 Ukraine lost over 3,235 militants during the week and five tanks, including a Leopard tank. in the Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr area of responsibility.

🔸 Ukraine lost over 960 troops during the week in the Russia's Battlegroup Vostok area of responsibility.

🔸 41 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered during the week.

🔸 Ukraine lost over 3,435 militants during the week and three tanks in the Russia's Battlegroup Zapad area of responsibility.

🔸 Russian aviation shot down 10 Hammer guided bomb, 24 HIMARS missiles and 449 Ukrainian drones.

🔸 During the week Ukrainian forces lost up to 465 militants and four warehouses in the Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr area of responsibility.

🔸 Ukraine lost over 2,760 militants during the week and 24 tanks in the Russia's Battlegroup Sever area of responsibility.

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📹 THROWBACK: Vivek Ramaswamy's notorious anti-Palestinian comments

Vivek Ramaswamy, Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) alongside Elon Musk, alongside Elon Musk, supports Israel's genocide in Gaza and its attempts to obliterate Hezbollah.

"Do I stand for Israel's right to defend itself? Absolutely, I do. I think that Iranian incursion, the Arab states, Turkiye, and Israel have plenty of an interest to make sure that doesn't happen," he said in a 2023 interview.

✍️ "Israel has an absolute right to defend itself and to pursue Israel-First policies, just as we should pursue America-First policies here. That’s consistent with the original Zionist vision and also George Washington’s vision for America. Calls for vague US involvement without clear objectives will lead us to a no-win war that will be bad for Israel and bad for the US," he wrote on X in October 2023.

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