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I’ve always felt I’d rather not have a pilot who believed in afterlife. Otherwise the stakes of getting us to our destination safely are too low. In the same way I’d prefer not to have national economics decisions made by billionaires who be never feel their effects.

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“There are times when it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. This President is disrupting the healthcare system. He is all but defying court orders. At some point, we’re all going to have to stand up.” - Rep. @algreen.house.gov, after being removed from the House chamber, 3/4/25

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I think it's pretty clear that Rep Green was the one Dem in attendance last night who moved the needle at all. It's pretty simple. Stand up and speak the truth regardless of the personal consequences. MAGA would not promote a torrent of lies if they didn't think it helped them. Challenge them.

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Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

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Make no mistake, Trump not only wants no alliance with Ukraine but is now actively working to undermine its government and therefore its war effort. He is in league with Vladimir Putin in every way that matters.

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Rodriguez: They're slashing staff, crushing unions, and selling out the VA for what? So billionaires can make more money while veterans sit on waitlists. Our president was asleep while Moscow was at the wheel. Veterans don't trust him. He’s not one of us.

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Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

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Perfect title — the famous quote from The Great Gatsby which i also used as the opener of my memoir Burn Book. We need more insiders there and elsewhere to come forward and explain what happened since these careless people have never been more powerful. apnews.com/article/meta...

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In grim contrast to the red carpet, Soheila Golestani faces 74 lashes for her Oscar-nominated film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. Watch this film to understand the repression of Iran’s theocratic regime &why the #WomenLifeFreedom movement is so important: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

submitted 22 hours ago • 342 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

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Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!

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Let this sink in.

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Military aid to Ukraine has always been a bargain for the U.S. We degraded Russia’s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainians— not Americans—fought the Russians off. Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, it’s plain stupid.

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The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

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This address is an obscenity even by Trump's standards.

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Every Democrat that voted for Laken Riley Act to punish immigrants for the crime of one individual should hang their head in shame. No care for women who are dying due to overturning Roe v Wade, but go on. #StateOfTheUnion

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Call it by its name: Trumpcession.

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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid

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Yeah, ya think? "They are there to make sure we handle and store these materials in a way that avoids a nuclear chain reaction from occurring..... Losing these folks is concerning.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Stalin and Hitler killed millions of Ukrainians. Can Putin and Trump even hope to compete?

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“Make no mistake, Trump’s singular goal is to force Kyiv’s capitulation under the guise of a “deal” My latest on Trump ending military aid to Ukraine and the other victories he has delivered to Russia

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Tariffs UP. Groceries UP. Exports DOWN. Stock market DOWN. Consumer confidence DOWN. Chance of a recession UP UP UP. After Trump left, it took Biden 4 years to rebuild the US economy. It’s taken Trump just 6 weeks to destroy it again.

submitted 2 days ago • 157 comments

Linda McMahon is a former WWE executive who "wholeheartedly" agrees with Trump that we should abolish the Department of Education. I’m fighting to defend our students and teachers.

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Western countries must keep military aid flowing to Ukraine, Starmer warns

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We must not wait a minute longer to use Russia's frozen billions to aid Ukraine's fight, argues BILL BROWDER www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

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By cutting funding for USAID Elon Musk and Donald Trump are probably condemning one million children to die of starvation 200,000 to be paralyzed because they’ll likely contract polio And up to 18 million cases of malaria per year Which could cause another 166,000 deaths Pure unadulterated evil

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

The Russian-backed government of Serbia under pressure tonight as massive protests fill the center of Belgrade. It seems that only the US hasn't gotten the note that Russian-backed fascism just isn't cool anymore.

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Woke up this morning thinking about the fact that three autocratic, anti-democratic regimes—the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, and the United States of America—now constitute a majority of the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.

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RALLY FOR UKRAINE. Sunday, March 2nd, 2:00 pm, Chicago Water Tower, 806 N Michigan. Organized by Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, IL Division. Justice for Ukraine!

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Trump's scandal on Feb 28 is very clear: 1. It was provoked by lying Trump who called it great television. 2. His aim was to find an excuse to stop all support for Ukraine. 3. Obviously, Trump works for Putin. Such a person is normally been called a traitor.

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Mike Johnson is Living With an Evangelical Influence Seeker www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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Extraordinary quote from the German president about Trump/Vance's ambush of Zelensky: "I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

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Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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⬇️ A lesson in humility and vainglory from @djrothkopf.bsky.social in light of Trump’s display of allegiance to war criminal, Putin, and his forsaking of long-standing American principles that heretofore drove our foreign policy. ⬇️ 🇺🇦💙💛

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If the UK’s immigration rules mean what they say, Trump shouldn’t even be allowed to enter the country, let alone for a state visit ….

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Judge Jackson makes a good point here: that OSC’s authority “is not significant executive authority. It is hardly executive authority at all.” I’m old enough to remember OSC correctly finding a counselor to POTUS violated the Hatch Act and the White House basically just laughed at the finding.

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Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

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“We have not adjusted our policies. We have switched sides.” @djrothkopf.bsky.social in @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/why-this-wee...

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If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two. Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time. But fear of war led to war. Don’t repeat the mistake. #SlavaUkraini

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Yesterday, every American who loves freedom and democracy and the other values for which prior generations fought and sacrificed found themselves aligned against our own president and vice president. The pro-American president in the Oval Office Friday was Zelensky.

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