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Hi All, just sent out my weekend update (free as always). The only way to understand the USA and its interactions with Russia, Ukraine and Europe is to accept that the US is now a mafia state. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 8 hours ago • 35 comments

Dear #CNN, do you really believe "outspokenness" is synonymous to baseless, barefaced slander? PLEASE, look it up in the dictionary: it isn't.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

... not even the 🍊 himself, that's why he needs so many people to talk him up.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There are exactly three options: (1) L. is lying; (2) L. hasn't met a lot of people in his life; (3) both.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It really is that simple

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

"When talking about tyranny I remeber having the same discussions when Biden was elected" - yeah, right, that's why everyone was shivering like hell, expecting huge disruptions and fearing the worst when SCOTUS expanded presidential immunity to near total impunity while Biden was president.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Quite predictable development. His rating was way down during his first term, it will be during the second. The difference is, this time around everyone knew what was coming.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Such hostile nonsense from Americans in power just now. I wish we would listen to people who have suffered for reporting the truth, like Stanislav Aseyev, combat veteran and survivor of a Russian torture camp.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

True. Whereas some GOP yelling should perhaps have been directed towards a different target (hint: it's orange and killing their party).

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Totally agree. I think throughout those past four years I remember other people's yelling that led to this in the first place. Blaming the firefighters instead of the arsonists?

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Illinois Governor Pritzker compares Trump to the Nazis Great speech. I think we just found the leader of the resistance.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity... in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. snyder.substack.com/p/recoup-the...

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

Sounds incredibly shallow. I've never been aware of her singing anything before, so I didn't quite see the point in posting this. Now I do.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Never in my life could I imagine that Ukraine, as a result of a war with Russia (!) under the leadership of Zelensky (!!), would become the leader of the free world (!!!!!) amid looming authoritarian swift in the United States and its growing confrontation with Europe (aAAAaaAAAaaaAaAAa!!!)

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5078 comments

Funny that when you add a few dots to DJT’s signature, you see a meeting of the KKK.. 🤨

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The transatlantic partnership is in our interest but it’s at a turning point. Rather than hand-wringing, time to muscle up. 🔹seize $300bn in frozen Russian assets & use them to arm Ukraine 🔹boost defence spending & industry now 🔹no new Yalta. @carnegieendowment.org @rmomtaz.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

russia is an imperial construct projected by Muscovite Kremlin. It can only exert cohesion by imperialist expansionism ..

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

🔥 The Lebedev Institute of Precision Mechanics and Computer Engineering is on fire in Moscow, covering an area of 1,500 square meters. ❗️There is a risk of explosion of cylinders on the territory of institute. The university is participating in the Russian defense industry.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Hate to break it to you, Senator, but Trump is not Neville Chamberlain. As misguided and naive as Chamberlain was, he was at least acting in good faith and in what he believed was the cause of peace. Trump is Joachim von Ribbentrop—or worse.

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

(6) US-Russian unification under Putin's rule, with Musk as chancellor and 🍊 as puppet to pose behind the desk.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Former US Ambassador to Moscow Michael McFaul:

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Everyone knew it, some pretended not to.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 6 days ago • 126 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social nails it, what’s happening in the US isn’t just politics as usual, it’s a full-blown shift toward #Broligarchy. Now @theguardian.com’s ditching experienced journalists like her and jumping in bed with #OpenAI? Support independent journalism if you can. #USPol #Politics

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

"For my enemies, law enforcement" - at best. There's lawlessness in both directions: Impunity for friends, punishment for all others. Law is beeing crushed dead in between.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Sent this piece out yesterday. Calling Trump's policy towards Putin "appeasement", in unkind to Neville Chamberlain. Its closer to Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Your dynamic guide to which place is getting most screwed by Donald Trump

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

I miss how nice and normal the last 4 years were. It was nice to have a president who's a kind, benevolent grandpa who likes ice cream, not a criminally insane Nazi who likes to torture people.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Easy move now, since America is becoming the new russia.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The 🍊 standing in salute to Jon Batiste, although a minor feature to the overall picture, was lovely to watch, too.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"The fact that people will go hungry now, people in conflict zones who are caught in the crossfire, with genocide happening on some of the smaller minorities — it makes me sick to my stomach." Interview ⤵️

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments