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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 13 hours ago • 286 comments

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1189 comments

It might be fictional but this is the USA the world wants and needs now. youtu.be/5FPxn-yvxGI?...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

An instant classic. 3 listens in and it’s brilliant.

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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

submitted 1 day ago • 266 comments

The battle of our day is no longer about Democrats versus Republicans or left versus right. The choice right now is democracy or dictatorship. And we're sliding faster than I ever thought possible into the latter. Everyone must choose which side they’re on. Now.

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

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Sophy Ridge calls out President Trump's lies, "Donald Trump said Ukraine should never have started the war, that is not true, and it should be called out"

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

President Zelensky’s approval rating in Ukraine stands at 57% (KIIS). Donald Trump’s approval rating in the U.S. is 45% (Gallup).

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

In remarks to reporters Tuesday and in a social media post on Wednesday, Trump made numerous false claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Russian war on Ukraine – some of which echoed inaccurate talking points from Vladimir Putin. Here is a fact check of some of his assertions.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

Trump trashes Zelensky as a dictator. Still has never said a negative word about Putin. Idk whether Europe/Ukraine has figured this out yet - but you are on your own. You have no friend in the current US govt & Republicans in Congress who said they supported you will say nothing.

submitted 3 days ago • 256 comments

Big crowd at the SF Tesla dealership protesting our unelected overlord. A tiny sign hangs from an upstairs window

submitted 4 days ago • 218 comments

The top Social Security official stepped down after Elon Musk’s team sought access to the agency’s sensitive data about millions of Americans.

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

submitted 4 days ago • 512 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8248 comments

“Trump’s America has started its own cold war against liberal democracy. His weapons include the withdrawal of military support, the elevation of Vladimir Putin from pariah to partner, propaganda attacks, & subversion” Superb read from @nickcohen.bsky.social nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-tru...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

“Few European politicians intend to be lectured on democratic norms by the sidekick of a president who staged a failed coup when he lost an election four years ago” Excellent article app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/129062...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

As always @maitlis.bsky.social neatly sums it up

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

JD Vance is graceless, reckless and pointless The vice president’s arrogant and counterproductive rant in Munich was a lesson in hypocrisy www.theneweuropean.co.uk/jd-vance-is-...

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

Yes, the Trump-Vance administration just told Germany it should make nice with a far-right political party with a history of using Nazi rhetoric and accepting racists and antisemites. And no Republican will complain. This is neo-fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 131 comments

Vance was awful at Munich, and made clear the terrible truth that the Trump administration is on the side of the autocrats not the democracies. But some courageous and principled lawyers at SDNY and DOJ show there's still cause for hope here in the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9m...

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

He’s pathetic.

submitted 7 days ago • 366 comments

In 2019, Facebook set a goal for itself: ensure half of its workforce was from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds by 2024. But, as of 10 January, 2025, the vast majority of that work has been summarily abandoned.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

The Trump Gaza plan will not happen. The United States has neither the authority or the ability to enforce "peace" in Ukraine. Americans are panic-buying eggs and there's a toddler - several - in the Oval Office. I think the possibility of everything just collapsing in chaos is under-priced.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

Ukraine has fought too hard for its freedom, only to have its future dictated by Putin and Trump behind closed doors. Any peace must guarantee Ukraine’s sovereignty and security on terms acceptable to Ukrainians, not just to Moscow and Mar-a-Lago.

submitted 9 days ago • 40 comments

Today, we honor the 216th birthday of Abraham Lincoln by carrying out his legacy in the continued fight for democracy & truth. The party he built has been bastardized - he wouldn't recognize it today. With our institutions & freedoms in danger, Lincoln's memory is more important now than ever.

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

Danes offer to buy California to spite Trump’s Greenland aims: ‘We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood’

submitted 10 days ago • 101 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 3913 comments

Trump: "I would own this [Gaza]." Brett Baeir: "Would the Palestinians have a right to return [to Gaza]?" Trump: "No, they wouldn't." Trump plans on committing multiple, and unprecedented, war crimes.

submitted 11 days ago • 465 comments

It's amazing to me that as Kanye goes on an antisemitic tear, saying pro Hitler, anti-Jewish stuff, no prominent Democrats are pointing out that he was being praised by the House GOP and hosted by Trump just a couple of years ago. This is how the right gets way with everything.

submitted 12 days ago • 140 comments

The world in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism. The top aide to the president of the United States supports it. apnews.com/article/germ...

submitted 13 days ago • 492 comments

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

submitted 14 days ago • 198 comments