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Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…

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“Trump has been far weaker at curbing Putin’s aggression than Chamberlain was at curbing Hitler’s.” —Aryeh Neier

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“You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!” Representative Al Green was escorted out of Congress during President Trump's speech to the joint session on Tuesday. Green, a Texas Democrat, introduced the first articles of impeachment against Trump in 2017. nyti.ms/4h7iiKi

submitted 12 days ago • 222 comments

At least SOMEONE stood up and said something

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Looking forward to republicans clutching their pearls and whining about decorum and respect at the State of the Union tonight.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Cowards. Every last one of them.

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The good doctor. William Carlos Williams who died on March 4, 1963. "We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels."

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Let this sink in.

submitted 12 days ago • 955 comments

President Trump said in his address to Congress that he inherited an “economic catastrophe” from Joe Biden. The U.S. had the strongest economy in the world when Trump took over, but it's shown signs of strain from Trump's federal funding cuts and tariffs. Follow live.

submitted 12 days ago • 162 comments

Western Australia premier apologises after calling JD Vance a ‘knob’

submitted 13 days ago • 154 comments

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

submitted 13 days ago • 667 comments

With today’s extraordinary, televised fight between Trump and Zelensky, we all saw clearly something that has been unfolding over the past couple of weeks: the U.S. has switched sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine, @sbg1.bsky.social writes.

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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

submitted 17 days ago • 287 comments

Why is Dave Portnoy asking better questions than many newsrooms?

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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‘On the horizon is a legally unfettered behemoth capable of coercing organisations, negating rights, suppressing speech and reshaping the economy and society of the United States – all at the whim of the Oval Office.’ Aziz Huq on Trump’s first month: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Becoming increasingly difficult to just carry on through the workday as if everything’s normal.

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Rose Girone, who was believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, died on Monday at 113. She fled Nazi Germany in 1939 with her husband and baby only to be forced into a Jewish ghetto in Shanghai. Still, she would often say, “Aren’t we lucky?” nyti.ms/4h3tkA2

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“Mafia state” seems pretty fitting. From Masha Gessen’s “Surviving Autocracy.”

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This is a shameful move from Governor Hochul. Institutions of higher education have a duty to present a diverse set of perspectives to their students. Declaring an area of academic inquiry out of bounds sets a dangerous precedent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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