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💀 SKELETONS IN ACTBLUE'S CLOSET

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🔶 Feds aren’t alone: Besides Congress and the DoJ, officials in Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming have launched their own probes into ActBlue over the last two years, alleging

📍 money laundering
📍 identity theft
📍 fraudulent donations
📍 racketeering

🔶 What’s ActBlue saying? The mega fundraiser has denied the latest charges, claiming they’re “politically motivated” and assuring “robust” fraud prevention measures are now in place.

Democratic officials fear the investigations could “undermine” “grassroots fundraising.”

🔶 Big numbers: ActBlue is the Democrats’ largest and most influential online fundraising platform, processing over $16.8B in donations since 2004, and $400M in Q1 2025 alone.

Without fresh donations, the party may have a hard time financing future election campaigns.

🔶 Claims confirmed: In 2023-2024, James O’Keefe (formerly of Project Veritas) independently uncovered alleged schemes later corroborated by Congress. The Maryland State Board of Elections refused to investigate, and a District Court judge dismissed a federal lawsuit.

🔶 Foreign meddling? In the ultimate twist of irony, ActBlue has been accused of easing foreign actors’ “exploitation” of donation systems through straw contributions.

After 10 years of unproven claims of Russian meddling for Trump, Democrats are finally on the hot seat.

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🚨🇵🇦 Panama STRIKES BACK!

The National Union of Workers of Construction and Similar Industries (SUNTRACS) announced a nationwide strike beginning Monday, April 28, to protest social security reforms and the deployment of US troops in the country.

"When the people organize, the strike is a cry for dignity and sovereignty," wrote the movement's official X account.


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❗️ Top Epstein accuser found DEAD

Australian police found 41-year-old Virginia Giuffre dead in her home. Her death is not being treated as suspicious, as police have concluded that she died of suicide.

Virginia Giuffre accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking, claiming she was sexually abused by Britain's Prince Andrew and other Epstein clients.

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💥US strikes hit key Houthis targets in Yemen

Two US airstrikes have targeted Ras Issa port in the Al-Salif district, Al-Hudaydah province, western Yemen.

Other airstrikes overnight attacked Ansar Allah positions in Marib, Sanaa, and Saada.

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🛳Upgraded NAVAL FIREPOWER: North Korea showcases new missile-ready destroyer

DPRK leader Kim Jong-un attended the launch ceremony of the 5,000-ton multipurpose destroyer Choe Hyon at a shipyard in the port city of Nampho alongside his daughter, Kim Ju-ae, state media KCNA reported on Saturday.

The warship, unveiled to mark the 93rd anniversary of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army (KPRA), boasts:

advanced air defense,
anti-ship, anti-submarine, and missile systems,
ability to be equipped with supersonic cruise and tactical ballistic missiles.

Kim Jong-un denounced joint military drills by South Korea and the US held in March and stressed the need to construct more warships amid a "serious threat" to North Korea's security.

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🚶‍♀️US makes move toward Europe in Ukraine peace deal push

The US is dangling security guarantees, intelligence, and logistical support as potential leverage with its European allies in the push for a Ukraine peace deal, The Telegraph reports.

💬 The US message behind closed doors is, "We won’t put boots on the ground but could support UK and European forces to back up a Ukraine peace deal from land, air, and sea."


This support has been central to the “coalition of the willing” plan led by UK PM Keir Starmer and France’s Emmanuel Macron, who are pushing for European troops on the ground in Ukraine. The response to this plan has been tepid, with only a few willing to get on board.

Russia has repeatedly emphasized that the deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine is totally unacceptable.

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📹Iranian delegation gearing up for a new round of talks with the US 🇮🇷🇺🇸

Footage from Iranian media

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US AXES cyber aid to Ukraine amid Trump’s funding crackdown

Dozens of people who had provided cybersecurity technical assistance to Ukraine have had their contracts cancelled amid Donald Trump’s funding cuts for government agencies, Bloomberg reported.

💻US cybersecurity help for Ukraine - specialist support, training, gear, computer hardware, and software shipments - are all stalled, sources say.

💻Over the past five years, USAID pumped more than $200 MILLION into Ukraine’s cybersecurity, with backup from the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command, the report notes.

What, Ukrainians have to actually do something themselves now? 😏

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🚨Massive outage in online banking in Ukraine

A widespread malfunction has occurred affecting Apple Pay, Google Pay, as well as the Diia government app and the Nova Poshta logistics company app, local outlet Telegraph says.

⛔️Several Ukrainian media are also reporting a failure in the terminals in Kiev’s metro as residents are unable to pay by cards. The issue reportedly stems from a glitch in the operations of Oschadbank, which services the capital's metro system.

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📹THROWBACK: CIA, USAID-backed ops role in orchestrating Trump’s 2019 impeachment REVEALED

American taxpayers may have unknowingly helped fund Trump’s 2019 impeachment, journalist Michael Shellenberger told Fox News in February. 💳

💬 The impeachment was triggered by a hearsay-based CIA memo that leaned on reports from OCCRP — a USAID-funded group tied to regime-change ops abroad, he said.

🎤 Fox News anchor: So, USAID is involved in regime change abroad AND AT HOME. Very interesting 🤨

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🔥 13 Days to Victory

Sputnik continues to highlight significant moments from the Great Patriotic War.

On April 26, 80 years ago, troops of the 2nd Belarusian Front liberated Brno, which strengthened control over Czechoslovakia. A total of 38 settlements were freed, with 3,500 German soldiers taken prisoner.

At the same time, allied forces took Bremen, completing the destruction of German forces in the west. Italian partisans liberated Milan, further weakening German defenses in northern Italy.

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🗣Trump’s plan to let Russia keep liberated territories ‘set in stone’

As Trump believes Zelensky “really has no choice” but to sign the proposal, The Times laments that Ukrainian leader will have to "accept a forced peace."

Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov commented on the Times article, saying that the newspaper complains on the “real state of affairs” in Ukraine.

💬 The new territories weren't "given away" to Russia by Trump, Ukraine lost them as a result of military actions, Pushkov said adding that peace is always forced measure for the losing side.


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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian MoD daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:    

▪️Russia's Battlegroup Yug has struck six Ukrainian brigades in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️Russian aviation shot down eight JDAM bombs, two HIMARS missile and 236 drones.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 360 troops in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 200 soldiers in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 230 troops in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukrainian lost up to 35 servicemen and a tank in the Belgorod region.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 85 soldiers in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr.

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🤡Gearing up for showdown? Norway tests military limits in Arctic

Under the cover of "defense readiness," the West is steadily turning the Arctic into its next military playground. Norwegian soldiers are now enduring -37°C in 100-day survival missions - testing gear, tech, and their own bodies for future conflict in freezing conditions☃️

Struggling with frozen skis, glitchy GPS, and battling hypothermia and frostbite, the prep for new battlegrounds comes as the West cranks the 'Russia threat' narrative into overdrive🐻

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