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Former flag officers speaking up. The political firings at the top in the military must stop. They know how this will harm our national security.

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 314 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2386 comments

Texas. Where the lone star is a review.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Larry Diamond, @larrydiamond.bsky.social , a longstanding leader in the political science study of democracy, at @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Carville: The key issue is that in this century under Democratic President 50 million jobs have been created. One million jobs under Republicans

submitted 2 days ago • 84 comments

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 2 days ago • 288 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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BREAKING: The Trump administration has announced that it will kill Medicare coverage of most telehealth services on April 1st.

submitted 2 days ago • 166 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after stating, “MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” before engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

submitted 2 days ago • 567 comments

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2181 comments

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 573 comments

The JFK Library in Boston is reportedly closed indefinitely because of federal job cuts

submitted 4 days ago • 241 comments

AI expert Marietje Schaake: ‘The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves’

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www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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Looks like the FT is getting there..

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

U.S. and Russia Pursue Partnership in a Head-Spinning Shift in Relations. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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New York’s protest against the Trump Administration on Presidents Day. More of this please! (Video by @vuralelibol.bsky.social)

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 5 days ago • 830 comments

Union Square rally.

submitted 5 days ago • 498 comments

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Turned this megathread into a proper burn-it-all-down book review. "The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through." open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025...

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