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(1/4) It was America and Britain that guaranteed the sovereignty of Ukraine and its borders in return for persuading them to give up their nuclear weapons.

submitted 34 days ago • 714 comments

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

submitted 37 days ago • 3479 comments

Whoever came up with this plan appears to have slept through the first three months of the Trump administration. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 43 days ago • 10 comments

Theme song for the next MAGA convention. youtube.com/watch?v=r4ya...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

We need more of this—and more solidarity: “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - Harvard President Alan Garber www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

submitted 44 days ago • 60 comments

“Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy,” said Captain G M Gilbert, the army psychologist assigned to watching the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. Just in case you were wondering what to call it.

submitted 44 days ago • 33 comments

You can’t fix stupid. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Ouch! 😆🇨🇦 youtu.be/wT_n4Khmq0o?...

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

"Formerly we were in the habit of saying: ‘This is right or wrong.’ Today we must ask the question: ‘What would the Führer say?’ We are under the great obligation of recognizing as a holy work of our Folk Spirit the laws signed by Adolf Hitler." -- Hans Frank, the role of lawyers and judges (1933).

submitted 59 days ago • 104 comments

The French government should send them a letter that all companies dealing with French government contracts need to comply with the full French law, paid holidays, parental leave, free health care, etc.

submitted 59 days ago • 54 comments

Is "unusual" really the best the New York Times can do?

submitted 59 days ago • 1166 comments

This is extraordinary, and I think I should play it for myself once a week or so.

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

A nice example from the Times letters column today of how historical analogies can help illuminate the present.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

From today’s NYT: « The administration […] gave access to some of the government’s more sensitive systems to a teenager with a history of aiding a cybercrime ring, who goes by the nickname Big Balls. »

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

This is all going well. RFK Jr has picked David Geier, not a doctor but who practiced medicine without a licence, to head a big study on the “link” between vaccines and autism.

submitted 63 days ago • 27 comments

"Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online" www.spiegel.de/internationa...

submitted 63 days ago • 97 comments

It seems that every day they hit a new low. This will take some beating.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I guess I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. Fuck decorum. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/american-f...

submitted 65 days ago • 40 comments

“This shredding undermines the rights of agency employees, removes essential evidence from current litigation and investigation over foreign aid, and prevents citizens from holding their government to account.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/2025-03...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 78 days ago • 1097 comments

The Trump voters got what they wished for, a president who runs the country like he runs his businesses. But the US can’t just file Chapter 7.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

submitted 80 days ago • 386 comments

Elon Musk gives Asperger’s a bad name.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is a narcissistic, sociopathic bully.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/s... Am I the only one experiencing schadenfreude right now ?

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Stupidity has exceeded itself: « H.R.1161 - Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025 »

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

If you don’t already like Zelenskyy enough: He said "fuck you bitch (suka, blyat)" to JD Vance during their argument.

submitted 89 days ago • 118 comments

In the age of AI, why is Amazon’s search function still AS?

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments