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Sky is yellow at night, it’s all just smoke and explosions, I’m assuming this is the art of the deal

submitted 66 days ago • 14 comments

The clearest formulation of the Trump administration pitch to the average American I can articulate is: "You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."

submitted 84 days ago • 26 comments

“Entire neighborhoods were conquered” is the kind of thing the crazy guy on the street corner says. It’s divorced from reality. Yet there are millions of people who legitimately believe it and panic at the idea of going into a city because they think Tren de Aragua is lurking around every corner.

submitted 90 days ago • 380 comments

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

After leaving the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention (Ottawa Convention), Poland plans to mine the borders to Russia and Belarus. The Polish Ministry of Defense sees no alternative, in light of current events.

submitted 101 days ago • 128 comments

News: Zelensky tells me @FT tonight on zoom it was NOT all 4 of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants he and Trump were talking about US owning but “the one under temporary [Russian] occupation,” referring to Zaporizhzhia plant, that the US could potentially control if it is able to be “recover[ed].”

submitted 101 days ago • 8 comments

State Department statement on the Ukraine talks today:

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Among the work jammed up by the Trump administration's freeze on government purchase cards is genealogy research that the Army sees as essential to identify the remains of soldiers who went missing in combat. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 111 days ago • 11 comments

Thank you for your support. 🇺🇦

submitted 120 days ago • 100 comments

you can tell the people trying to gut the government have never had a real job because they landed on "one micromanaging email" as the thing that would break regular people

submitted 125 days ago • 20 comments

The White House says Elon Musk is not administrator of DOGE and that he’s merely a Senior Advisor to President Trump. Incredible but not surprising. Reminds me of the movie Casino when DeNiro played a Casino boss but said he was food and beverage manager to avoid scrutiny.

submitted 130 days ago • 36 comments

I do not have a problem with ketamine as a therapeutic device, I do have a problem with some dickhead who takes ketamine piping up about people taking adderall. Mentioning his ketamine usage is completely acceptable, as it is germane to the discussion at hand.

submitted 133 days ago • 3 comments

Worth repeating: The administration is unilaterally cancelling spending from programs that have been funded by Congress, in agency after agency. This is a direct violation of the Impoundment Act. Yet here we are.

submitted 133 days ago • 9 comments

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

submitted 134 days ago • 102 comments

🚨 JUST IN: US rolls out > $6 Billion Arms sale to Israel : 1- Munitions, Guidance Kits, Fuzes, and Munitions Support and related equipment for an estimated cost of $6.75 billion 2- AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles and related equipment for an estimated cost of $660 million

submitted 141 days ago • 2 comments

🚨BREAKING: Alliance for Retired Americans and two labor unions file lawsuit against Treasury Dept. to block disclosure of personal and financial information to Musk and DOGE. Follow @democracydocket.com for details on this and every pro-democracy lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com

submitted 145 days ago • 708 comments

What on earth is this performative BS? Musk broke into a Federal building and stole data and your here talking about Asylum claims?

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

submitted 145 days ago • 9 comments

I made this handy diagram to explain that I am clearly a DoD contractor fella.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Don Beyer said about USAID, says it's no coincidence "that Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man with billions of dollars of investment in China, is doing China's bidding."

submitted 145 days ago • 8 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 146 days ago • 233 comments

Dude is on enough meth to get his panzer division from the Luxembourg border to the Channel in nine days.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Are John Thune, Mike Johnston, Jamie Diamond, and David Solomon hiding in a bunker somewhere? How is this not a 5 alarm fire for congress and the private sector?

submitted 146 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: The two top Democratic appropriators, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, write to Trump budget office: "The scope of what you are ordering is breathtaking, unprecedented, and will have devastating consequences across the country."

submitted 151 days ago • 66 comments

If you think your job is a waste of time, consider that someone works to monitor voting at Belarus election commission.

submitted 153 days ago • 29 comments

1. BREAKING President Trump has signed an order re-designating Ansar Allah (the Houthis) as a Foreign Terrorist Org. (FTO). This designation was placed on Ansar Allah during the Trump administration but was lifted when Biden took office because it was impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid.

submitted 157 days ago • 7 comments

Michael Fanone live on CNN: "This is what I'd say to Stewart Rhodes: Go fuck yourself"

submitted 157 days ago • 2485 comments

The oil depot in Lisky, Voronezh Oblast, which was sanctioned yesterday, is still burning. Interestingly, when you look at the city’s recent local news, it almost feels like Lisky should consider seceding from Russia altogether. In 2023, the city faced a rabies outbreak....

submitted 163 days ago • 5 comments

Russian channels moan about another possible loss of a helicopter. This time a Mi-28 helicopter was allegedly shot down by their own air defense. This is not yet confirmed.

submitted 178 days ago • 13 comments

Fighterbomber confirms the shoot down of Russian Mi-8 helicopters by Ukrainian naval drones modified to carry R-73s. This is consistent with claims and video published by the HUR the other day

submitted 178 days ago • 1 comment