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Had "frank and useful" call with Trump for 2 hours. As per "art of the deal", he is now ready to give me everything I want.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

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submitted 13 days ago • 292 comments

🧵🚨 Russian forces in Ukraine, numbering over 600,000, use US-based Starlink satellite internet and @discord.com for real-time communication and drone reconnaissance & targeting. These US platforms have become integral to Russian combat operations, from command & control to frontline units.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

🤔🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump: "We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China. Now we're essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we're saving hundreds of billions of dollars. It's very simple."

submitted 23 days ago • 60 comments

The country thats still defending is winning, the country that is breaking out tanks from WW2 in storage and attacking on donkeys and lost 900,000 men and got kicked out of Kyiv and begs NK for troops and Iran for weapons, isn’t. youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI

submitted 26 days ago • 174 comments

You know, Russians torture journalists, return their bodies without eyeballs, bomb children's cancer centers and hospitals - and then put on Italian suits, speak in English from the UN podium, passing themselves off as civilized people with whom you can do gas business and discuss Dostoevsky... 1/2

submitted 29 days ago • 17 comments

Since some in govt and the GOP seem to have forgotten how a war works, here’s a reminder. For a defending nation to win, they just have to….. wait for it…. Keep on defending. Ukraine is winner and Russia is destroying its youth Basic math

submitted 32 days ago • 168 comments

1/ Some excerpts from OBriens' brilliant newsletter👇 Remember that we in the West is in deep depth to #Ukraine... #Russia #Europe #US

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.

submitted 37 days ago • 651 comments

The saviors Easter message:

submitted 38 days ago • 3380 comments

#Protest #HandsOff #NoKings #MobilizeUs #FiftyFiftyOne #Indivisible #Resist

submitted 39 days ago • 38 comments

65 Years of The World Ripping of the US.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, “the greatest U.S. president” 🇺🇸, tried to make Ukraine surrender. It didn’t work. ❌ Now he talks about walking away from “negotiations” that never existed — while #Russia 🇷🇺 bombs #Sumy, Kryvyi Rih, and Kyiv. 💥🏙️ Capitulation was always #Putin’s plan, #Trump and #Witkoff just echo it. 🐦🗣️

submitted 40 days ago • 12 comments

My new piece in The Atlantic continues how to fight Putinization in America. Trump is accelerating his wide-spectrum attacks on the rule of law & on public & private institutions that might slow him. If legislators don’t fight now, they won’t be able to later. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 42 days ago • 37 comments

Trump has taken the most powerful country in the world, with the greatest alliances, and the strongest economy, and flushed it down the toilet based on his understanding of politics in 1984 and trade deficits. The greatest self shot to the nut sack in history

submitted 42 days ago • 582 comments

65 Years of The World Ripping of the US.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Donald just said Ukraine invaded itself.

submitted 44 days ago • 24 comments

What people must understand is that Putin is only accelerating his attacks on Ukrainian civilians because he is completely confident that Trump has his back. The US could make Russia pay for these attacks, but Putin knows that Trump never will. It’s a sign of (perverse) trust.

submitted 45 days ago • 21 comments

Only a billionaire who has his own crypto coin for practically limitless corruption could tell people who are seeing their life savings evaporate to just deal with it. He does not need to panic--they do.

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submitted 54 days ago • 499 comments

Those who want peace do not bomb children!

submitted 54 days ago • 7 comments

Moms at sleepovers:

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"We don’t want your Nazi cars / take a one-way trip to Mars" is a pretty good chant

submitted 60 days ago • 174 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 61 days ago • 2517 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 63 days ago • 1615 comments

Prediction time. When Trump's term is over, the deficit will still be far larger, the government wont have shrunk, immigration will be basically the same, as will the importation of illegal drugs. However, the ethics and norms of government will have irretrievably shattered.

submitted 66 days ago • 59 comments

Say something about Trump killing US democracy & rule of law instead!

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

Witkoff's repeating of Kremlin lies about "russian-speakers" wanting to "join Russia" is truly chilling. This is nothing less than carte blanche for Putin's genocidal imperialism. Hearing Americans talk like this should be an electric shock for Europe, not a wakeup call.

submitted 68 days ago • 92 comments

OTD 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. He immediately pardoned 8,000 violent Nazis, many of whom were involved in the failed 1923 coup.

submitted 69 days ago • 53 comments

While rejecting a full ceasefire in Ukraine, Putin agreed to organize future US-Russia hockey games with Trump After a call, Putin offered only minimal concessions: a minor POW exchange — but Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities continued

submitted 70 days ago • 5 comments

Europe to send €40 billion ($43.6 billion) worth of military support to Ukraine. For perspective, over 3 years the United States delivered to Ukraine a grand total of around $46.6 billion worth of weapons out of $65.9B "committed." www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Japan could lead the pack by unilaterally seizing the $60 billion in frozen Russian assets. It's by far the biggest chunk of the $300 billion outside of Europe. apnews.com/article/russ...

submitted 72 days ago • 14 comments

Trump's ceasefire means Ukraine stops hitting refineries so my army gets more fuel, in exchange for me bombing more of Ukraine's hospitals.

submitted 71 days ago • 14 comments

3 years ago on this day, Russia bombed the Mariupol Drama Theater, which at that time served as a bomb shelter for civilians and had a huge sign "CHILDREN" written in russian in front of it. Estimated casualties are over 300 people.

submitted 74 days ago • 43 comments

Forgetting brings impunity. russians carpet-bombed Mariupol, blocked civilian evacuations, forced people to seek refuge in the Drama Theater, bombed it too, and then kept shelling the area to make any rescue mission impossible. There can be no normalization with this evil.

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

🔥 It’s crazy how the #Trump team is calling this talk with #Putin a win. For three years, no one wanted to speak to Putin 🤡. Now it seems all American diplomacy revolves around letting Putin talk to Trump 🎭. The only place Putin should be talking is in court at The Hague ⚖️🚔

submitted 74 days ago • 23 comments

Chinese media published footage of a giant floating structure - partly standing on the seabed and partly a drifting platform. "These barges are designed solely for the rapid transfer of heavy equipment. It is difficult to explain them by civilian needs." - French magazine Naval News

submitted 74 days ago • 209 comments

"ISW has observed no geolocated evidence to indicate that Russian forces have encircled a significant number of Ukrainian forces in Kursk Oblast or elsewhere along the frontline in Ukraine." Apparently, Trump & his underlings are just spreading Kremlin disinformation as usual.

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

"At this time, no negotiations will succeed because Putin does not have any incentives to end his imperial ambitions to conquer Europe." Ukraine must be armed to win and Russia must be bankrupted before the negotiations can take place. open.substack.com/pub/igorsush...

submitted 104 days ago • 43 comments

Japan and South Korea are our strategic and military allies. This is a perfect illustration of the importance of such alliances. We can't do everything ourselves.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

Reminder: In Putin's view, the "root causes of the crisis" are Ukrainian independence, sovereignty and self-determination. Second Reminder: The actual root cause of the crisis is Putin.

submitted 76 days ago • 8 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

UPDATE: From the original poster of the letter on FB:

submitted 77 days ago • 458 comments

Opinion: The cost for Donald Trump of keeping the world’s richest man by his side is growing. The question now is how the US president will get rid of Musk, not whether. www.ft.com/content/ea5b...

submitted 78 days ago • 76 comments

First impressions on the US-Ukraine deal are that Ukraine has shown that its always best not to grovel, apologize or become desperate with Trump. He cut their aid, helped kill their people, and they kept fighting with their head held high. They made him look cruel and he blinked

submitted 78 days ago • 58 comments

I'm being asked what I think regarding today. I'm glad military aid to Ukraine is restored. And I'm thankful for that. I'm glad that the talks were productive, the right words were found and steps forward were taken. #Ukraine has shown we strive for peace. Now it's Russia's turn⤵️

submitted 78 days ago • 45 comments