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Chris Murphy: "Everyone who signs up to work for Donald Trump is signing up for one single project, and that is the transition of American democracy to a kind of kleptocratic oligarchy in which the billionaires rule and get to steal from regular Americans."

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critical piece on Trump's cruelty to vets open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy argues that his newfound push to oppose President Donald Trump is imperative for Democrats during an interview with NBC News.

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Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

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⚡️ Zelenskyy: Peace is needed as soon as possible.

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"One of the first things President Donald Trump did was fire all the lawyers. Perhaps he and his minions have not read Shakespeare recently, but they intuited the role of a Shakespearean villain, nevertheless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Of course, the burglar opposes the plan to install better locks. This is a good plan for Ukraine. Move to implementation asap

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EXCLUSIVE interview with Judge Susan Crawford on ballot in critical Wisc state supreme court race: contrarian.substack.com/p/judge-susa...

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“Donald Trump is fond of saying that trade wars are easy to win,” writes William J. Bernstein. “Among the litany of patently false Trumpisms, this may well prove one of the most disastrous”:

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"Jobs were also eliminated at the National Hurricane Center and Storm Prediction Center... and the tsunami warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii..." www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

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Stopping cyber operations while the Russians aggressively pursue theirs is another unearned accommodation. Historically, Russia banks concessions and pushes harder. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

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www.politico.com/news/2025/03... makes Collins, Tillis and others look even more cowardly. Now she needs to leave GOP

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European leaders gather in London, embrace Zelenskyy after Trump blowup

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Trump’s foreign policy “coincides with our vision” — official Kremlin spokesman kyivindependent.com/kremlin-comm...

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Trump's statement of the problems caused to Putin by the Russia investigation, the supposed toll on Putin caused by Trump being unable to stop it, reminds me of the "self-criticisms" of people who displeased Communist regimes. lucid.substack.com/p/trump-unle...

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America faces a Trumpian economic slowdown Protectionist threats and erratic policies are combining to hurt growth www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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@lisamurkowski.bsky.social "This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine."

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The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

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Welcome to the Trump Gilded Age... www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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This is insane. Is the Kremlin just directly puppeteering the U.S. Republican Party??? www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcn...

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Russia takes a victory lap... www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/02/k...

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Trump and Elon are firing workers who help staff the federal suicide hotline. No one voted for this. www.cbsnews.com/news/samhsa-...

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At the point on our timeline where millions of lives are put at risk because one person must insist on the truth of lies the internet taught him.

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“The Washington Post is dying not in darkness but by the light of noon, and by its own hand,” George Packer writes. The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect: theatln.tc/Uu1eHotV

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"We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Sen John Curtis is the first Republican Sen to make a statement in support of Ukraine since the Oval Office

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The Trump administration has made limited progress so far toward promised mass deportations, but a dire message is filtering into communities of long-term undocumented immigrants, @mccrummen.bsky.social reports from southwest Chicago.

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Thank you @timothysnyder.bsky.social I hope leaders in government hear you and take action

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In which... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Next Tuesday, we won’t waste a second in responding to Trump’s steam of lies at the State of the Union. I’m not attending in person. Instead I’m partnering w @moveon.org to provide live real time response. Join us to learn the truth about the billionaire seizure of our government.

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