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March 19, 2025

WATCH: Putin Laughs Upon Being Told He's Running Late for Trump Call

Source: Newsweek

Russian president Vladimir Putin can be seen smiling and laughing when he was told that he's running late for his highly anticipated call with President Donald Trump in a video circulating on X, formerly known asTwitter.

The video of Putin laughing on Tuesday was posted by Pekka Kallioniemi, a nonresident research fellow at the International Centre for Defense and Security, who wrote on X, "Putin is making Trump wait again. They two leaders were supposed to have met already, but Putin is still at some conference. When Putin is reminded of the meeting, everyone starts laughing - they're literally making fun of Trump and his convoy."

https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/1901986931325514161

This is not the first time that Putin has kept a U.S. official waiting. He reportedly kept Trump's envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, waiting for eight hours on March 13 as he met with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, according to Sky News. Trump refuted these reports in a post on Truth Social.

The relationship between Putin and Trump has often been a focal point for global politics and their Tuesday phone call to discuss possible peace negotiations regarding Russia's war with Ukraine was highly anticipated.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/watch-putin-laughs-upon-being-told-hes-running-late-trump-call-2046618?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email



Putin made Trump wait one hour (the phone call was scheduled for 9 am ET today but Putin did not get on the phone until 10 am ET), and had the whole room laughing at Trump. Putin gleefully humiliated Trump. The whole world is laughing at Trump...in disgust.
March 19, 2025

103 Year Old WWII Vet Shares His Best Life Lessons



How did he live for so long? "Just luck." "I stay interested in life."

He survived being a prisoner of war for 4 years. He says, "I've always been optimistic...until Trump." "In the last few years truth means... nothing at all."
March 19, 2025

Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children

Source: Washington Post

The Trump administration has terminated a U.S.-funded initiative that documents alleged Russian war crimes, including a sensitive database detailing the mass deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia, according to U.S. officials familiar with the directive and documents obtained by The Washington Post.Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.

The move has barred the transmission of evidence to prosecutors pursuing multiple criminal cases, including the International Criminal Court’s landmark indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin for what it has called the “unlawful transfer” of children from occupied areas of Ukraine, U.S. officials said.

Researchers and experts involved in the initiative, spearheaded by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, were informed last month that the State Department had quietly terminated their contract — one of thousands eliminated at the behest of Trump appointee Peter Marocco and the Department of Government Efficiency, the budget slashing arm of tech billionaire Elon Musk.

At that time, the researchers lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/trump-ukraine-children-russia-war-crimes/



The evil of this is unfathomable. 35,000 abducted children! And Trump wants it buried!
March 18, 2025

Ex-Project 2025 Boss: Trump 2.0 'Beyond My Wildest Dreams'

Ayear ago, Paul Dans was chief architect of what was shaping up to be the blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term. Eight months ago, he was sent into MAGA exile.

Dans was the director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation when, midway through the 2024 presidential campaign, he and his program started to become a huge political liability for Trump. Democrats warned of Project 2025’s “radical” agenda, saying it would mean a ban on abortion, elimination of LGBTQ+ rights, and complete presidential power over federal agencies along with the elimination of some of them, including the Department of Education. At the Democratic National Convention, Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson held up a giant-size replica of the 900-page Project 2025 book and quipped, “You ever see a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time? Here it is.”

Conservatives began blaming Heritage and Project 2025 for hurting Trump’s election chances. Trump himself repeatedly contended he hadn’t even read Project 2025, claiming on Truth Social that he had “no idea who is behind it.” In an interview with the POLITICO Deep Dive podcast published Saturday, Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita complained that “there was some stuff in there that we were like, ‘Where the hell did that come from?’”Dans became a sacrificial lamb. Pressured to resign from Heritage, Dans left in a fit of pique at the end of July, and he later criticized LaCivita and campaign co-head Susie Wiles for campaign “malpractice.”

Now Dans, who lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and works as a lawyer and government relations consultant, is letting bygones be bygones and says he’s delighted with the extent to which Project 2025 has, in fact, become the Trump administration’s playbook.“It’s actually way beyond my wildest dreams,” Dans said. “It’s not going to be the easiest road to hoe going forward. The deep state is going to get its breath back. But the way that they’ve been able to move and upset the orthodoxy, and at the same time really capture the imagination of the people, I think portends a great four years.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/16/project-2025-paul-dans-qa-00228890

March 18, 2025

Calls in Serbia for independent investigation into claims of a sonic device attack at peaceful rally

Source: CNN

Calls were mounting in Serbia on Monday for an independent investigation into reports that security forces used a prohibited sonic weapon on crowds at a huge peaceful anti-corruption rally last weekend, even though authorities vehemently denied it.

Serbian rights groups and opposition officials allege that such a weapon that emits a targeted beam to temporarily incapacitate people was used at the protest Saturday, even though it is banned in Serbia. They said they will file charges with international and domestic courts against those who ordered the attack.

Serbia’s authoritarian and pro-Russian President Aleksandar Vucic again on Monday denied that the crowd-control device was deployed, calling it a “wicked lie” aimed at “destroying Serbia.”

He said he will soon invite the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and also Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, to investigate the claims.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/europe/serbia-protests-sonic-device-claims-intl-latam/index.html



Pretty sure Trump's FBI and Putin’s FSB aren't going to find anything against their buddy Vucic.

Here's video:

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1901018221291147402
March 18, 2025

Semisonic blasts use of 'Closing Time' in White House deportation video

Semisonic said it did not authorize and does not condone the White House's using its hit "Closing Time" in a video that appears to depict deportation, the band said in a statement Monday.

The video, posted on the White House's official social media accounts Monday, features a handcuffed man being patted down while the song plays in the background: "Closing time, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHTkMSkRhzo/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

In the next shot, the audience can see “BORDER PATROL” in capital letters as people climb up stairs to an airplane in the background, seemingly to be deported from the United States. The rest of the song's verse continues: "I know who I want to take me home."

“We did not authorize or condone the White House’s use of our song in any way. And no, they didn’t ask,” Semisonic said in a statement shared by its publicist. “The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/semisonic-blasts-use-closing-time-white-house-deportation-video-rcna196780

March 18, 2025

In 'very abnormal' development, longtime sponsors bail on San Francisco Pride

In the past four weeks, multiple companies told San Francisco Pride, the nonprofit behind San Francisco’s annual Pride Parade and Civic Center celebration, that they would not support the 2025 Pride celebrations. In an interview with SFGATE, San Francisco Pride’s executive director, Suzanne Ford, said she was “really disappointed” by the developments.

“I just interpreted that companies are making decisions that at this time it’s not good to be sponsoring Pride,” Ford told SFGATE. “I think in this political environment that they thought that was a risky decision. But that’s just me reading the tea leaves. I think for a long-term sponsor not to sponsor us, they are responding to what we are.”

Ford told KTVU-TV that those sponsors included Comcast; Anheuser-Busch, the company behind Budweiser and Beck’s beer; wine company La Crema; and Diageo, the beverage company that produces Guinness, Smirnoff and other alcoholic drink brands. Aside from Comcast, all of those companies specialize in alcoholic beverages, a market that has become more volatile as Americans’ drinking preferences shift.

Ford didn’t hesitate when asked whether the Pride festivities June 28-29 would still go as planned. “We have no choice,” she told SFGATE. “There are too many people depending on us. We will find a way to find the funds.”

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/longtime-sponsors-bail-on-sf-pride-20226582.php

March 18, 2025

Relatives of missing Venezuelan migrants desperate for answers after US deportations to El Salvador

Source: Reuters

The Trump administration has provided few details so far on the identities of those who were deported. But Solanyer Sarabia believes she saw her 19-year-old brother, Anyelo, among images shared online of the Venezuelans deported to El Salvador's mega-prison. His head had been shaved and he was dressed in white prison garb.

Solanyer said an ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to Tren de Aragua, a violent gang with Venezuelan prison origins that has spread through the Americas. She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas. "He thought it looked cool, looked nice, it didn't have any other significance," she said, stressing that he is not a gang member.

Johanny Sanchez, 22, suspects her husband Franco Caraballo, 26, who was detained in Texas, could now be in El Salvador, but does not know for sure.

Sanchez says Caraballo called her on Friday at around 5 p.m. to tell her he would be deported to Venezuela. He was confused because he had a pending asylum claim and a court date set for Wednesday.



Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/relatives-missing-venezuelan-migrants-desperate-answers-after-us-deportations-el-2025-03-17/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3za96N3hqjQbhrb159_oh174CnBr-ZkKcxulU8axUKszSLwtAj2b3Mjq4_aem__CwfHkflppUDQ2dJpm3TiA



It appears that any Venezuelan men with tattoos are assumed to be a gang members, regardless of their immigration status. Both of the men described in the article were here legally as asylum seekers.
March 18, 2025

Midwife Is First Person Charged With Violating Texas' Extreme Abortion Ban

A Houston-area midwife is the first person to be charged in Texas with violating the state’s extreme abortion ban, which outlaws the procedure under nearly all circumstances.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced the arrest of Maria Margarita Rojas on Tuesday, saying an investigation found she has been “providing illegal abortions and illegally operating a network of clinics in the Northwest Houston area.” Rojas, who Paxton said went by Dr. Maria, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion and practicing medicine without a license.

The former is a second-degree felony in Texas and is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

Rojas, who is listed as a licensed midwife by the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation, has not spoken out publicly, either directly or through legal counsel.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-abortion-ban-first-person-charged_n_67d89de8e4b0682946100786

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