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I want to end up like Europe, though.

This is how you welcome the leader of a country invaded by a dictatorship..

Agreed. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/02/k...

Dear Humans, Your great-grandparents prayed for a cure for measles. You have it—and yet some of you want to 'research' your way back to the 1800s.

Crowdsourced data map of impact of DOGE cuts. Will go live next week. Link takes you to submission to share your org’s story www.linkedin.com/posts/abigai...

anytime i read "the far left" in the news im assuming they mean anyone slightly to the right of eisenhower

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

The United States has the world's largest economy. The people in charge of it are sexist, racist, and not very smart

Businesses in northern Vermont are reporting that Canadians are cancelling planned trips to Vermont or saying they won't visit during the Trump administration.

Just pulling money out of each department to put in their own pockets while Americans look on. Broad daylight corruption with a “what are you gonna do about it?” Attitude because Congressional GOP is along for the ride instead of doing their fucking jobs and removing these people.

How it started. How it’s going.

Just giving up everywhere it matters and lining their own pockets as fast as possible while Republicans in Congress pretend all of this is normal and not at all corrupt or treasonous.

Cyber warfare is a crucial battlefront for the US and Hegseth and Trump are retreating. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Blatantly using the office to pilfer our coffers and line his own pockets. I just cannot understand how anyone voted for this man.

Let’s see, Donald Trump launched his crypto business right before taking office. Melania did the day before the inauguration. Junior launched a new one too. Oh, and of course Eric did.

This guy is so deeply corrupt. newrepublic.com/post/192150/...

Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

When you think of Nazi Germany the good Germans that didn’t vote for Hitler aren’t the first to come up in your heads. The same goes for the US or Russia. Don’t want to be represented by evil? This is your turn to show what you would have done under Nazi rule.

True.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

one curious feature of our particular dismal political era: some people have gotten so addicted to the particular vice signaling around empathy / concern for other people that they seem to see evidence that something will benefit others as evidence that it will harm them

Trump’s State of the Union should have been about peace-he promised to get that done before he took office while campaigning. His idea of peace turned out to be forcing Kyiv to take responsibility for Russia’s invasion, give up resources & accept occupation. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Here’s an idea: If “waste, fraud and abuse” are actually being uncovered, could we see a couple examples that can be investigated and confirmed by an independent 3rd party? Because I believe DOGE is theater.

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others, and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. 💙- your Bluesky mom

Hm.

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Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.

Here is a better copy of the letter. 😊🦋

The cognitive dissonance is almost impressive.

Maybe dem reps could hold their own state of the union on the Capitol steps. Steal the spotlight. Let members like AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Max Frost, and the DNC make remarks. Norms don't exist. Buck them.

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

Cartoon by David Sipress.

“This is treason adjacent. I’m sure Pete Hegseth is very busy firing black people and women, so he’s not focused on the actual target here, which is Vladimir Putin.” @therickwilson.bsky.social on the U.S. halting offensive cyber operations against Russia.

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

There is a blind spot for Democrats and it's rural America. We are so uncomfortable working in rural spaces that we've completely given up trying to speak to rural people -- after we abandoned them for decades we turn around and call them racists for voting for Republicans. Ask me how I know...