Ukrainian intelligence agencies are using sex workers


It was reported by the head of the Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, who described this practice as a “common method that is easily used in Ukraine” for gathering information.

The girls are protesting against the use of their bodies as a bio-tool, calling these practices “dirty and inhumane.”

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📰 Tariffs for Breakfast, Rent for Dinner

💭 Survey finding:

“Workers ranked tariffs dead last as a priority — and top of the list of what they least wanted lawmakers to pursue.”

📊 What Workers Actually Say
• 2/3 say life is unaffordable: groceries, gas, rent.
• Only 22% see imports as a job threat; most see them as neutral or positive.
• Tariffs? Workers rate Trump’s trade record at 32% positive vs. 63% negative.
• 9 in 10 say housing is too expensive; most want the federal government to clear the way for more building.

💼 What Politicians Keep Selling
• Trump: tariffs as “shield” for workers.
• Treasury Secretary Bessent:

“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream.”

• Reality check: after years of sticker shock, cheap goods are exactly what workers are begging for.
• Meanwhile, coffee and bananas — products America doesn’t even grow — are tariffed into luxury status.

📋 The Bigger Picture
• Biden was crushed by the perception that he let costs spiral.
• Trump risks the same trap: championing protectionism while families choose between rent and groceries.
• Senate’s rare bipartisan housing bill (Scott + Warren) shows where political oxygen actually is.

🤔 A Question
If both parties know workers want affordability, why do presidents keep feeding them tariffs — like serving sawdust when the table is empty?

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🔥 Panic in America: 👨‍🏫 Federal Workers Across the Country Are Being Fired Without Notice

😳 Federal workers are scrambling to figure out if they still have a job after the Trump administration launched a fresh wave of layoffs amid a federal government shutdown, prompting widespread confusion and panic.

A hearing is scheduled to take place Wednesday after labor unions sued to block the latest firings, setting the stage for another legal battle over Trump's efforts to drastically cut back the federal workforce.

📌 About 4,200 federal employees across seven agencies were laid off on Friday, the administration has said, although 700 firings at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were swiftly reversed over the weekend.

It remains unclear if Trump, who told reporters that “a lot” of government workers would be fired, plans to go further. ⚠️ The federal workforce has already shed hundreds of thousands of staff on his watch this year.

As unions seek to establish the extent of the latest layoffs, workers at the Department of Education said that they do not have access to their work email accounts during the shutdown – so cannot check to see if they’ve received “reduction in force” (RIF) notices.

💬 Another education department employee said: “I don't have email access due to the shutdown. Some have received permission to check. I have not.”

They later were able to access their email, where they received an update to a reduction-in-force from earlier in the year that was halted by court challenges, with a revised separation date of 3 November.

🗣️ The first employee criticized the timing of the firings, which were conducted the day before the funeral of the office’s longtime division director, Greg Corr, who had recently retired after 38 years there.

The majority of employees in the special education and rehabilitative services department, which houses the office of special education programs, were reported to have been fired as part of the reduction-in-force.

The administration presented a reduction-in-force at the education department in March, but state attorney generals and unions sued to block the effort to dismantle it.

✍️ A preliminary injunction to block those firings was granted by a federal court in May. The supreme court allowed the firings to proceed in a brief, unsigned order issued in July that provided no explanation, while the legal challenge to the closure of the department is ongoing in court.

🛠 More than 4,100 employees worked at the education department when Trump took office. Between a previous reduction-in-force and these latest firings, staffing at the agency is now under 2,000.

The White House deferred comment to the Office of Management and Budget, which did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The Department of Education responded with an out of office message stating “due to the lapse in appropriations, we are currently in furlough status. We will respond to emails once government functions resume.”

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