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It's wild that Europe, the allies the United States joined hands with to stand up against Russia (then doing evil business as the "Soviet Union"), is now having to stand up against the United States for enabling Russia's war crimes.

submitted 62 days ago • 165 comments

Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?

submitted 87 days ago • 7007 comments

Each bullet point is worse than the one before Fucking Florida

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

JD Vance says it is "harassment for journalists to report that his university scholar mother in law does not agree with Vance's assault on civil rights. Hey JD, that's actually called reporting. It's protected by something you might have heard about at Yale, the First Amendment.

submitted 103 days ago • 51 comments

while newsom is hosting nazis on his podcast, walz is out there doing the work that matters

submitted 103 days ago • 75 comments

Killing off our research facilities and talent pipelines is perhaps the biggest, dumbest self-own in American history.

submitted 103 days ago • 117 comments

"What President Trump is doing is insane. It is absolutely insane." www.thedailybeast.com/cnbc-reporte...

submitted 104 days ago • 20 comments

Republicans did this!

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I’m always complaining about NYT headlines that underplay Trump’s lawlessness, so credit where due on this one:

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

Don't worry, none of the MAGAs who screeched about Democrats not standing up during the State of the Union when the biggest enemy cancer research in America has ever had used a pediatric brain cancer patient as a prop are going to take this deportation of a _U.S. citizen_ sitting down {crickets}

submitted 103 days ago • 65 comments

Governor Walz is back on the scene and he’s not pulling any punches. ✊🏼 Good to see you Coach!!

submitted 103 days ago • 576 comments

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

submitted 104 days ago • 455 comments

The news media gave more coverage to the idea Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 20 years was scandalous than to Trump's promise to destroy the department of education

submitted 103 days ago • 85 comments

Tim Walz & Bernie Sanders are going out and getting after it, they’ve got the right idea!

submitted 103 days ago • 756 comments

In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

submitted 103 days ago • 90 comments

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

submitted 115 days ago • 122 comments

Odds are pretty good Big Balls — grandson of a Russian spy and maintainer of a Russian hacking website — shared personal info of all fired employees to Russia

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

#DontAbandonUkraine: The Complete Thread bsky.app/profile/benj...

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

These are factual & legal lies Trump staff are saying. He never declassified docs & would have been convicted had case gone to trial. Of course, now as president he can do with them as he wishes. We've #FOIA'd them, incl govt summaries to make sure ppl know the damage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 115 days ago • 94 comments

Comrade Vance is not beloved.

submitted 115 days ago • 38 comments

someone just texted me this and it’s the best description yet

submitted 115 days ago • 861 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 117 days ago • 296 comments

Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.

submitted 116 days ago • 504 comments

Marco looks.........."little". It's amazing how much the human body contracts when the soul is sucked out of it by blind ambition..... .....cult of personality, tribal allegiance purity tests to sociopathic narcissistic authoritarians.... .....and cowardice:

submitted 116 days ago • 46 comments

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

submitted 115 days ago • 887 comments

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. 🧵

submitted 115 days ago • 485 comments

(CNN) - Russia is eyeing talks with the Trump administration about re-establishing a significant diplomatic presence in the US as an opening to rebuild its spy network in the West, current and former US officials say. 🇷🇺 @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 115 days ago • 35 comments

Silver lining: Europe became a Union yesterday. 🇪🇺

submitted 115 days ago • 337 comments

"More distasteful than President Donald Trump’s incessant lying is what the lies indicate: After years of yelling that the 'Russia hoax' was a witch hunt, Trump is now openly colluding with Vladimir Putin." ICYMI @ninajankowicz.com on Trump's Russia disinformation:

submitted 115 days ago • 93 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 115 days ago • 3157 comments

Yesterday was likely the first time someone invoked “But did you see what they was wearing?” as a justification for Trump’s violation of geopolitical norms but it is just as irrelevant.

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

Remember that picture of Obama with his feet up on the desk and people ranted about it being disrespectful to the Oval Office?

submitted 115 days ago • 24 comments

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

submitted 115 days ago • 378 comments

“Any deal that allows Russia once again to avoid defeat would be a betrayal of the Ukrainians, a win for the Russians, and a blunder by the United States.” My latest. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ukra...

submitted 117 days ago • 55 comments

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

submitted 115 days ago • 494 comments

“Bewildering”?? Seriously?? Perhaps the editorial writers at Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal should familiarize themselves with the propaganda broadcast on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel.

submitted 115 days ago • 122 comments

Marco Rubio must resign

submitted 115 days ago • 5 comments

*TRUMP ASKED IF HE SEES JD VANCE AS SUCCESSOR, SAYS: NO 10/10 no notes

submitted 134 days ago • 62 comments

Great point.

submitted 134 days ago • 1199 comments

Patel, Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, owns $1- $5 million in stocks in a company that controls Shein, a controversial chinese ecommerce fashion giant. The company also retained the services of a lobbying firm where Pam Bondi, Trump’s newly confirmed US attorney general, worked at the time.

submitted 134 days ago • 3 comments

NSA risks deleting its expertise about privilege escalation today in Stephen Miller's war against DEI [sic]. popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

submitted 134 days ago • 20 comments

this website shows you how many jobs NIH funding creates for your state along with the overall economic activity generated www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 136 days ago • 15 comments

Hundreds of thousands of Germans are on the streets demonstrating against right-wing extremism. (This photo from Munich.) Let's get off our asses, America. Hunderttausende gegen Rechtsextremismus www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

submitted 136 days ago • 16 comments