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Trump’s collusion with Russia is real. It’s time to reopen the investigation.

In one week, the president cut an illegal fuel deal with Putin and may have switched off the warnings that keep Ukrainians alive, for his own political benefit.

Miles Taylor
Oct 15, 2026
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Donald Trump may have just done something far worse than his first impeachment. In fact, he went back to the scene of the crime. And there may be a phone call to prove it.

At three in the morning on Tuesday, Russian ballistic missiles started landing on Ukraine, and for the first time in a very long time, nobody in the United States warned Ukraine they were coming.

America has a system for this. U.S. satellites reportedly spot Russian launches and pass the data to Kyiv in time to switch on air defenses. This week, Ukrainian officials say, the system went dark. When they asked why, American officials told them the system had failed because of “bad weather.” The Ukrainians didn’t buy it. They told CBS News the U.S. was “playing” with the system.

The following night, something else went dark. Starshield, which is the military version of Elon Musk’s Starlink — which Ukrainian troops use to fly drones and intercept Russian attacks — was suddenly throttled without warning. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy was furious and warned that “people will die.”

Surprisingly, Musk himself pointed the finger at the White House. “Any limits on speed or usage are decided by the U.S. military and ultimately POTUS,” he wrote, referring to the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Most damningly, the White House has not denied it.

Are we to believe this was a coincidence? Missile warnings and battlefield communications all coming down at the same time? Was it all “the weather”?

Not even a fool would accept that conclusion. Look at last week, and you can surmise exactly what happened. And it may well be criminal.

On Friday, Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and something about that call is very suspicious. Because Trump subsequently announced a deal to buy millions of tons of Russian diesel, waiving sanctions he had signed into law a month earlier. Even GOP Senators have warned this may be an act that broke U.S. law and gave a financial gift to America’s enemy. That very same day in Florida, Trump’s envoys told Ukraine that if Kyiv didn’t stop hitting Russian oil refineries, Washington would cut off intelligence. Then on Saturday, after Russian glide bombs killed 20 people in Ukraine, Trump said the words Putin has been dreaming of him saying: “It’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”

It doesn’t stop there. On Sunday, Trump announced an “energy ceasefire” neither side had agreed to, basically pressuring Ukraine not to attack Russian energy infrastructure (even though Russia bombed a Ukrainian power station within hours). And by Tuesday, the intelligence warnings and internet connections for Ukrainian forces had gone dark, and the missiles started flying in from Russia. Then last night, the FBI director responded to reports that he’s planning to visit Moscow to meet with the FSB, the successor to the KGB, with a gloating tweet: “From Russia, with Love…”

There are very serious questions here, with very serious implications for the Trump presidency. What did the president know, and when? What did Putin ask of Trump in that phone call? Did Donald Trump agree to give Putin a financial boost and buy his oil? Did Putin suggest it might help Trump in the midterms by lowering gas prices? Did Trump offer to weaken Ukraine’s defenses for Putin? Did Trump then personally order the Pentagon to restrict Ukraine’s satellite communications while Ukrainian cities were under attack? Did he order American agencies to sit on intelligence about incoming strikes? What, exactly, did the two men say to each other on Friday?

And here I suppose is the most glaring question: Does Donald Trump remember that he was investigated for two years over Russia, and impeached over Ukraine, on almost this exact subject? The parallels are uncanny. The first impeachment, in 2019, was about how he had withheld military support from Ukraine in order to extract a political benefit for himself in a “perfect phone call” with the Ukrainian leader. Back then, he froze foreign aid that was supposed to go to Ukraine in order to get leverage over them to help his re-election.

Seven years later, he’s evidently doing it again, but this time it’s far more serious. After a very suspicious phone call with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump may have shut down early warning systems and battlefield communications — by literally switching them off while civilians slept in their apartments in Ukraine, in the crosshairs of Russia — in order to pressure Ukraine into a bogus “energy ceasefire” in order to herald lower gas prices before the U.S. midterm elections.

There’s a provision in the Constitution about treason, though it’s too narrow to apply directly to this situation. Yet a president who puts his allies in mortal danger with favors to an enemy and for personal benefit has essentially done what treason describes. And impeachment doesn’t require a statute. Indeed, the words “high crimes and misdemeanors” were written to allow Congress to impeach a president for abuses of the public trust, and there’s no clearer abuse than a commander in chief using American intelligence as leverage against the people it was built to protect, on behalf of the dictator trying to kill them.

Vladimir Putin is unleashing hell on Ukraine, and the question our country must confront is whether the leader of the United States lowered the shield so that Putin could carry out murder and so that he could secure some political wins. In 2017, it took a special counsel to find out what Trump and Russia were doing together. In 2026, it might get blown open over an alleged lie about a weather report.

The collusion is real. While the FBI won’t do anything about it, Congress should reopen the Russia investigation. This time, they may have a smoking gun.

Trust me, I'm not... and nobody reading this is "laughing at my jokes". They're laughing, just not at jokes.

My thoughts exactly.

Good news Lamar is ruled out.

Carson and Graham have returned to practice.

Also KC cleared the concussion protocol.

This is meaningful news and ups our chances to win the game.

looks like the weather will hold up

MRGA!

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate sued Thursday to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”

The complaint adds to the growing list of legal challenges to the mass terminations by FBI Director Kash Patel of agents who participated in investigations of the Republican president or who were perceived as opposed to Trump administration interests.

The suit was filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of nine agents, intelligence analysts and staff operations specialists who were fired in February following earlier dismissals of agents who had investigated Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Patel has said in congressional testimony that the fired employees had “weaponized” the FBI and that terminations at the bureau follow internal investigations that turn up inappropriate conduct. But the agents deny that claim in the lawsuit, noting that that they were fired without any investigation, notice or hearing. They said that between them they had more than a century of distinguished and apolitical FBI service that involved responding to the Boston Marathon bombing, hostage recoveries and the investigation into the 2024 assassination attempt of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Their firings, the lawsuit says, create an “immeasurable loss” to “America’s national security.”

“In return for their service, they were fired because they did their jobs, as they always did, to follow the facts and law without bias or favor. To this administration, this is an offense. To the rest of us, it is heroic,” said a statement from their attorneys, Margaret Donovan, Abbe Lowell and Rebecca Tinio.

“This lawsuit will prove their unlawful dismissal and hold the administration accountable for this blatant attack on the rule of law,” the statement added.

The Mar-a-Lago investigation produced criminal charges against Trump

The suit includes a detailed recitation of the allegations against Trump, describing how he improperly stored dozens of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, that he took with him after leaving the White House, showed them to people not authorized to see them and obstructed FBI efforts to get them back.

The investigation resulted in a 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago that recovered classified records, and a federal indictment in Florida the following year charged Trump with dozens of felony counts.

Trump denied wrongdoing, and the case was dismissed in 2024 by a Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon, who ruled that the special counsel who filed the charges, Jack Smith, had been illegally appointed by the Biden administration Justice Department.

The nine fired FBI employees did not volunteer for the investigation but were rather assigned to it as part of their work on counterintelligence and counterespionage squads, according to the lawsuit, which says they were terminated because of a baseless perception that the performance of their law enforcement duties had run “afoul of the political and personal loyalty to Trump that Defendants demanded.”

“By casting Plaintiffs’ work on the Plasmic Echo investigation as ‘politically weaponized,’ Defendants incorrectly presumed to know the personal political convictions of Plaintiffs and took unlawful action based on that presumption,” the lawsuit says, using the FBI code name for the classified documents investigation. “Worse still, Defendants incorrectly concluded that those personal political convictions affected or drove their work.”

Several of the fired employees participated in the search, and one signed the affidavit that was presented to a magistrate judge for approval, the lawsuit says. But beyond that particular case, the suit says, the agents and analysts had a diversity of career experience, including expertise in the counterintelligence threat from Iran and instances of helping recover American hostages held abroad.

At least one participated in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in January 2021 near the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national committees. The investigative team was praised at a news conference by Patel, who shook the hand of one of the employees who would later be fired, Harrison Kaufman, and thanked him for his work, the complaint says.

The lawsuit seeks remedies including reinstatement to the FBI, an awarding of back pay and a court order declaring the firings unlawful.

The suit says the firings were the culmination of a retribution campaign

Lawyers for the fired employees suggest their clients’ “fate was sealed” well before the February terminations, casting the ousters as the culmination of a long-running retribution campaign that kicked into gear once Trump returned to the White House in 2025.

The lawsuit notes how Patel, in his capacity as a conservative podcaster before becoming Trump’s FBI director, had derided the Mar-a-Lago search as “unlawful” and had called agents who participated in it “corrupt government gangsters.”

Days after Trump was inaugurated, a top Justice Department official demanded that the FBI produce a list of employees who had investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, an order that the then-director, Brian Driscoll, resisted and that was seen within the workforce as a potential prelude to mass firings of employees involved in Trump-related inquiries.

Over the following year, the FBI and Justice Department fired waves of employees involved in investigations of Trump, without hearings or proper notice that the plaintiffs’ lawyers say are required by law. Besides the Mar-a-Lago agents, other employees were dismissed for kneeling at a racial justice protest in Washington in 2020 and for their involvement in a dispute intelligence assessment from 2023 warning of a potential threat from Catholic violent extremists.

The lawsuit suggests the February 2026 firings may have been an attempt to take public attention away from negative publicity Patel received days earlier from his attendance at the Winter Olympics in Milan, where he was seen chugging beer and partying with the U.S. men’s hockey team after their gold medal win.

“The Plaintiffs were unlawfully terminated not for any cause or any legitimate reason, but only to satisfy the President’s personal vendetta,” the lawsuit states. “The firings did not follow any internal investigation or disciplinary process within the FBI, and Plaintiffs were not given any notice, a hearing, or an opportunity to appeal.”

https://apnews.com/article/fired-fb...aralago-69d3544a73ddcdb54f164807adde85ea

This guy can play anytime for me.

Called it.

This isn't coming out for quite a while but I just saw the trailer today.....................

Premiering February 15 on Hulu and Disney+

I'm confused....

I thought we were trying to AVOID damaging energy infrastructure (?). At least, that's what we've been telling Ukraine. Why are we dragging out a conflict that is having an outsized effect on global energy prices (and we actually did start this one)?

UNABLE to log-in 10/ 14. Same problem as before. Return to previous page; roughly a dozen tries. Left, and this sign in worked smoothly after a break.

nice job buddy!

I’m not making excuses for Judkins but it’s possible he may not be 100% back from his injury or it could be the new O system. Either way he does have talent and he did look good before the injury last season

Cardinals trade WR Marvin Harrison Jr. to Texans

Marvin Harrison Jr. is officially on the move.

The Cardinals traded the third-year wide receiver and a 2027 sixth-round pick to the Texans in exchange for 2027 second-round and seventh-round selections, Arizona announced Monday. The deal is official, pending the passing of a physical.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported the news Sunday afternoon.

“Decisions like this are never easy,” Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort said in a statement. “Ultimately, we have to do what is best for our football team and that will always be the driving factor. We are extremely grateful to Marvin for what he has contributed to our organization and wish him the very best as he moves forward in his career.”

The trade comes after ESPN and NFL Network reported Saturday that the Cardinals were finalizing a trade to send Harrison to at the time an unidentified team.

The Texans reportedly had been in trade talks for Harrison, and that smoke proved to be the fire of a deal that will send the No. 4 overall pick of the 2024 NFL Draft from the NFC West to the AFC South.

"You guys want to know, huh? Yes, we traded for Marvin Harrison," Texans head coach DeMeco Ryans said on Sunday following his team's 26-3 win over the Titans.

Harrison entered the NFL with Hall of Fame heritage and sky-high expectations after a celebrated career at Ohio State.

But 33 games into his pro career, Harrison has struggled to live up to his draft billing.

Harrison entered his third season with 103 catches for 1,493 yards and 12 touchdowns over 29 games, but he struggled through consistency and injuries over those first two years.

His play, however, has cratered through four games to begin the 2026 season. Harrison has just five receptions on 13 targets for 85 yards and a TD this season and was subject to trade speculation the past few weeks.

One team that was rumored as a potential destination was the Indianapolis Colts. It would have been a logical fit and a familiar new home for Harrison, as the Colts are currently without Alec Pierce due to injury, and Harrison's father, Marvin Harrison, starred in Indy during his Hall of Fame career from 1996 to 2008.

Harrison instead will head to a different AFC South team in Houston and one that is looking to save its season after an 0-4 start -- now 1-4 following the Texans' win on Sunday -- that has quickly soured what was thought to be a potential Super Bowl year for Ryans' squad.

Harrison will reunite with his former college QB in C.J. Stroud with the Texans and will fit into a receiver room led by Nico Collins and potentially Tank Dell, who returned to practice this past week.

https://www.nfl.com/news/marvin-harrison-jr-trade-texans-cardinals

"Reunited, and it feels so good
Reunited, 'cause we understood
There's one perfect fit
And, sugar, this one is it
We both are so excited
'Cause we're reunited, hey, hey"

If handing off gets the ball out of DW's hand quicker, then I am all for it!

Hope today was better, tomorrow is better than today, and healing continues to find you.
PS Prayers attached! Be strong!

Brilliance, this is! LOLetc.

Yeessss! That is it. I had forgotten the Fridge and Mike and a few others. Thanks for the memory, Pit! So hip, it hurts. You do not see choreography like this every day. Ditka rocked!

Maybe they should have just made one excuse and stuck with it then instead fo trying to use three different excuses...................

• The "Hypothetical Threat" Argument: White House Communications Director Steven Cheung and administration spokespersons stated that Trump was not encouraging an attack, but was instead warning about what would have happened to U.S. cities if a nuclear-armed Iran had not been stopped by his administration's actions.

• The "Misinterpretation" Claim: Trump and his supporters argued that his words were misinterpreted out of context, claiming the remark was part of a broader, off-the-cuff point about Americans accepting temporary economic sacrifices (such as higher gas prices) in exchange for long-term national security.

• The "Deterrence / We Protect Our Cities" Clarification: At a subsequent rally in San Antonio, Texas, Trump attempted to reframe the statement, adding that the U.S. actively defends its territory and would never actually let such an attack happen ("We're not going to let that happen, we protect our cities").

He's either evil or stupid. Watching his actions and hearing his words for years now, probably both.

"the lady doth protest too much, methinks"

Trump wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for ending 8 wars and ending one war (the war in Iran) 34 times. Trump was gracious in his acknowledgement and acceptance of the award and the world applauded.
🤣

Coulda, woulda, shoulda---- Nothing in this forum since the Jax massace. WOW, now 3-1 and in FIRST PLACE. Coulda kept Ski....JMHO, Stefanski’s message had run stale in Cleveland. Woulda our OLD DC been 3-1....I doubt it. Shoulda hired our current head coach, he has worked hard to get the best out of an offensive line with whole new crew.....and they are doing well. He has brought "freshness to the O, and has Watson playing his best football since the trade......GREAT, go Browns!!!!

Alito says Supreme Court can’t stem emergency appeals and voices concern over Trump’s rhetoric

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the escalating volume of emergency appeals before the court isn’t a good thing, but he adds there’s little the court can do to change the trajectory.

The number of petitions asking the justices to intervene quickly has skyrocketed during President Donald Trump’s second administration, putting the court at the center of hotly debated issues such as the Republican president’s new ballroom construction and his proposed restrictions on mail ballots in the midterm elections.

The number of emergency applications now rivals the annual tally of cases the justices consider with full briefing and oral arguments, Alito wrote in a new book released Tuesday.

The justice told The Associated Press in a rare interview that the rhetoric about the court from Trump and his administration doesn’t sit well with him.

“I personally am not pleased with that,” he said. “Everybody in this country has the right to criticize what we do. The substance of their criticism can be quite harsh. If we deserve it, then that’s fine. But rhetoric is a different story.”

Alito spoke in connection with his first book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of The Constitution, The Court and Our Country.”

Coming 20 years after he was confirmed to the court after his nomination by President George W. Bush, a Republican, the book is a collection of speeches the 76-year-old has given over the years on religious liberty, his judicial philosophy and constitutional rights.

Alito calls it ‘offensive’ to cast his opinions as MAGA

Alito is perhaps best known for writing the decision that reversed Roe v. Wade and ended abortion as a nationwide right, and he has been one of the most consistent members of the court’s conservative bloc. He’s also voted in favor of some of Trump’s signature policies, even those the rest of the conservative wing has struck down. But he rejects the idea that his decisions are in the “Make America Great Again” camp.

“It’s offensive,” he said. “I honestly try to decide every single case on the merits, every single application on the merit. And that’s true whether the president is Donald Trump or Joe Biden or Barack Obama or anybody else.”

Trump, for his part, has cheered Alito as “one of the Greatest of All Time” even as he maligned justices whom he appointed as “unpatriotic” and “merely a shell of their original selves.” Alito said the harsh rhetoric from across the spectrum doesn’t affect how the justices rule but does play a role in the public’s declining trust in the court.

“The terms used by presidents and by members of their administration, Cabinet officers, other high-ranking officers in describing the Supreme Court and their decisions, and sometimes individual justices, is far different from what we saw 15 years ago,” Alito said.

Much of the president’s frustration has come after the court ruled against him on some of his central initiatives, including tariffs and birthright citizenship. Those decisions have been handed down after months of consideration, including oral arguments.

Surge in court’s emergency decisions is likely ‘going to continue’

In emergency decisions, by contrast, the president has a much stronger track record of wins.

Typically made in days or weeks, emergency orders are designed to be temporary, lasting only as cases continue to play out in lower courts. But since that process can take years, those decisions can still have important real-world consequences.

Critics, including Alito’s liberal-leaning colleague Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, have complained about the court’s recent handling of the emergency docket and outlined proposed steps the justices could take.

Alito, though, said there’s little the court can do to stem the tide. Presidents have increasingly used executive orders to enact their policies rather than passing laws through Congress, leading to lawsuits and “robust” decisions from lower-court judges that send a case quickly to the Supreme Court, he said.

“Unless something changes there, and I don’t foresee it right now, I’m afraid this is going to continue,” he said. “An application is something that I think we have to rule on.”

Alito says recusal from climate change case wasn’t required but a ‘judgment call’

Alito also detailed his decision to step away from hearing a climate change case that opened the term. Dozens of similar lawsuits have been filed on whether cities can sue oil and gas companies over damage linked to global warming. Billions of dollars could be at stake, a potentially serious threat to the industry, according to court documents.

Alito had faced calls to recuse himself because he owns stock in oil companies. He told the AP that the stock came from an inheritance his wife received from her father that she doesn’t want to sell.

He initially stayed on the case because he doesn’t have stock in the companies involved, he said, adding that the court’s legal office agreed that he could hear the case under its ethics code.

But as he delved deeper into the substance of the case, he decided to step aside.

“This particular decision was a judgment call,” he said. “I gave it very, very serious consideration.”

https://apnews.com/article/alito-su...8eb38760?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us