Billy Cliff @3rdcoastlib

The Nazi guards never heard the baby crying inside her toolbox. If they had, 2,500 children would have died. In 1942, a 32-year-old Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked into the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a simple toolbox. She had a permit to check for typhus outbreaks. The guards waved her through. Hidden beneath the wrenches and rags was a six-month-old baby. She walked past armed soldiers and handed the child to a Polish family waiting outside the walls. The next morning she walked back in and did it again. For three years Irena smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. She hid infants in toolboxes, sedated children and smuggled them in coffins, concealed them in ambulances under stretchers, and used sewer pipes. Every child received a new Polish name. Irena recorded everything—real names, new names, locations—on tissue paper sealed in glass jars and buried in a friend’s garden. By October 1943 the Gestapo caught her. They tortured her, broke both her legs and both her feet, and beat her unconscious. She gave them nothing. After months they sentenced her to death. The night before her execution, the underground bribed a guard. He led her out and recorded her as “executed.” She went immediately back to work and continued until the war ended. When the war ended she dug up the jars and spent months trying to reunite children with families. Most parents had died in the camps. For decades almost no one knew about her. Then in 1999 four teenage girls in Kansas found a brief mention of a woman who had saved 2,500 children. They researched and wrote a play. At age 89 Irena Sendler became famous. She was honored by Pope John Paul II and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She died in 2008 at age 98. One estimate suggests those 2,500 rescued children produced approximately 6,000 descendants. She was a social worker with a permit and a toolbox. She walked into hell every day for three years and walked out carrying children. The Nazis broke her legs. They couldn’t break her will.

Will we continue to have a rubber-stamp Republican Senate for Trump and his billionaire pals? Or will we elect leaders like Abdul El-Sayed who will take on the oligarchs and fight for working families? MICHIGAN: Join me on Sunday and Monday to get out the vote for Abdul.

"Win or lose, Vivek Ramaswamy will be the candidate who took a woman’s childhood abuse and made it his closing argument." Read more from Rick Wilson here: bit.ly/4dN6ka0

拿三万人去围三百万人的城，俄军连后勤线都守不住。 川普之前聊到基辅战役，觉得俄军当时没拿下来，纯粹是带兵的将领太蠢。 几十公里的机械化车队，硬生生在泥地里趴了窝。 泽连斯基在播客访谈里，算了一笔完全不同的账。 他说，他根本不知道川普在说什么。 俄军当时确实冲到了基辅城外，包围了外围，也占领了沿途的城镇。 这根本就不是某个将军犯傻的问题。 我们看一眼当时真实的兵力对比。 基辅是一个常住人口近三百万人的大城市。 二战以来所有的城市攻防战，进攻方要想啃下一个重兵把守的都市，兵力至少得是防守方的三到五倍。 而俄军当时从北线扑向基辅的主力，满打满算只有三四万人。 泽连斯基给出的估算是：要想拿下基辅，俄军至少需要三十万到四十万人。 手头的兵力，差了一倍都不止。 那多出来的二三十万人，到底要用在哪里？ 全在后勤线上。 从边境插到基辅市中心，上百公里的补给通道，中间要经过霍斯托梅尔、布恰、伊尔平这一连串城镇。 如果真像莫斯科战前预想的那样，当地人毫无防备甚至开门欢迎，三四万人进城换防确实够用。 偏偏他们碰到了顽强的抵抗。 当地人在手机上给乌军报车队坐标，平民在林道里伏击油罐车。 只要有人抵抗，规矩就彻底变了。 每一个路口要留人看管，每一座桥梁要重兵设防，占领的每一个小镇都得留下驻军防止后路被断。 装甲前锋还没摸到基辅外围防线，手头那点兵力就已经全被沿途的城镇吸干了。 几十公里的车队趴在公路上断油断粮，根源在后方：整条漫长的补给通道，俄军根本没有足够的人手去清空两翼的伏击。 战争最残酷的地方就在这里。 兵力算漏了，后勤线断了，现场指挥再怎么调整都无济于事。 俄军最大的致命伤，在于从头到尾都没把对方的抵抗意志算进成本里。 拿着阅兵的兵力去打一场全面动员的首都保卫战，账从第一天起在物理上就平不了。 x.com/clashreport/st…

Trump's recent actions—the purchase of diesel, the lifting of Russia sanctions, the degrading of Starlink—clearly show his malicious desire to bleed Ukraine & strongarm them into submission. I joined @AC360 to discuss.

We don't know this man, Doug Whitley, but he's definitely an American hero for writing this excellent letter-to-the-editor. #ResistTrump

According to Russian sources, the 4th Motor Rifle Company of Russia's 127th Motor Rifle Regiment was completely wiped out in recent fighting on the Belgorod-Kharkiv axis. The company belongs to the regiment's 2nd Battalion. Formed in 2025, the 127th has remained heavily engaged around Vovchansk and nearby sectors throughout 2026, with repeated reports of personnel losses and soldiers going missing during combat missions. #Russia

The Ukrainian and Russian armies are increasingly fighting underground, using old Soviet-era pipelines, The Wall Street Journal reports. "Despite the danger and the pervasive sense of claustrophobia, Ukrainian soldiers told their officers that they often prefer these underground battles to fighting on the surface, where drones pose a constant threat," the article states. According to Ukrainian military personnel, Russia is preparing entire units specializing in underground combat. Russian forces use underground pipes to covertly travel several kilometers, emerge behind Ukrainian Armed Forces lines, and launch drones from there. Initially, Ukrainian forces tried to destroy the pipe exits with artillery and airstrikes, but the Russians simply cut new openings. The Ukrainian troops then began waging a full-scale war underground. Inside the pipes, which are approximately 1.2 meters in diameter, Russian forces have set up machine-gun positions, sandbag barricades, and even living quarters where soldiers have spent months. The Ukrainians send in ground drones equipped with explosives and remotely operated machine guns. The WSJ notes that similar fighting could spread to other sections of the front line, and that Soviet-era pipeline networks extend toward Poland and the Baltic states as well. 📹: Khartiia Brigade

Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en

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❗️Ukraine's first underground operation - Khartiia in Kharkiv region conducted operation Veles. Russian troops went almost completely underground in Kharkiv region after Ukraine practically halted their advances on the ground. The region has a lot of gas pipes that allowed them

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Putin's diesel arrives in New York Nov 7 aboard the Agioi Fanendes: 40,000 tons, the first Russian fuel cargo since 2022. It's coming in on a Treasury license that sidesteps federal law. New York should refuse to be the loading dock for Putin's war chest. 🧵 1/5

Reuters @Reuters

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EXCLUSIVE: Tanker carrying 40,000 T of Russian diesel heads to New York after Putin-Trump deal, data shows reut.rs/47zYFZ2 reut.rs/47zYFZ2

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AOC: I don't care if you are a criminal on Main Street or a criminal on Pennsylvania Avenue. Everyone must be held to the same standard. We will never get our country back if we allow criminals to have cabinet seats in the United States of America.

A new survey reveals a record-high 92 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured. Why? Trump and Republicans made massive cuts to Medicaid and the ACA to pay for tax breaks for the 1%. Thousands will die because they can’t afford healthcare. We must pass Medicare for All.

Roy Cooper is the leader North Carolinians need - and deserve - in this moment. I'm proud to support him in his run for Senate and to have joined him in Charlotte recently.

Republicans control every branch of government and what did they give you? Higher gas prices. Higher cost of living. Higher healthcare costs. Higher inflation.

Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite." "Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable. People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble? He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!" - George Clooney actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

AIPAC is now spending as much as $9 million against Abdul El-Sayed. AIPAC is why we’re at war in Iran. AIPAC is why the U.S. has supported genocide in Gaza. We must say NO to AIPAC. YES to electing Abdul as Michigan’s next U.S. Senator.

More reporting suggesting that Musk does indeed have his finger on Starshield's operability. Quite a lot of power for a ketamine-addicted trillionaire in bed with hostile foreign regimes. You might even say this endangers U.S. national security. wsj.com/world/trump-ca…

Lt. Gen. @MarkHertling on Trump telling Camp Lejeune victims there’s “no money” unless Republicans win the midterms: “For the president to say, ‘If I don’t get elected, we’re just not going to pay it’ — that’s extortion… I just find it despicable.”

Pete Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s WWII-era globe in his office. The military historians who handle these artifacts were furloughed in the shutdown and never brought back. Rather than wait for the experts required to move it, the shit-weasel ordered his staff to do it. They dropped it — smashing Antarctica and damaging the mount. The perfect metaphor for Hegseth’s Pentagon and Trump’s “presidency.”

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Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down. That’s not going to happen. I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.

Trump has served as US president for just over 2% of the nation's history, yet he is responsible for nearly 30% of its entire public debt. Read that again