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Daily reminder of who Musk is:

submitted 7 hours ago • 71 comments

It means Europe must move away from all American enablers. Including GPS. The mind boggles. The scale of change required is very large. But it must be done.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

Ook als Trump nog eens wordt afgezet door het leger, het tijdelijke met het eeuwige verwisselt of na nieuwe verkiezingen uit zichzelf verdwijnt, is duidelijk dat de VS een onbetrouwbare bondgenoot zijn. We moeten af van de afhankelijkheid van de Verenigde Staten.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Funny, we both see the same development. And Northern and Baltic countries are leading the way. I wrote a column about it this week (excuse my Dutch) www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

It's time to make a deck of cards for the Trump regime and their oligarch overloads

submitted 2 hours ago • 35 comments

He nails it.

submitted 2 hours ago • 646 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 112 comments

Plus: Apple turns off end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the UK after pressure to install a backdoor, and two spyware apps expose victim data—and the identities of people who installed the apps.

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

If only everyone would realise that it is they who provide the billionaires with their wealth and that by acting as one and selectively boycotting the billionaires products, eg Tesla cars etc. in their millions, they have the power and can make a massive difference!

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Het vlijmscherpe tegengeluid van Bernie #Sanders (83) is waarop ik zat te wachten. Ik hoop dat gaandeweg steeds meer Amerikanen door dat geluid worden wakker geschud.

submitted 6 hours ago • 21 comments

🇪🇺 should immediately threaten sanctions against SpaceX in case this happens. Only playing hardball will yield results.

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

45% of all mobile users in the UK are on Apple. That's tens of millions of people that have now had their online security put at risk by Labour. Experts are aghast.

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

Ukrainian source said: "The agreement is not yet ready to be signed, there are a number of problematic issues, and in the current form of the draft, the president is not ready to accept it. "The drafts do not reflect a partnership in the agreement and contain only unilateral commitments by Ukraine”

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Europe can fairly easily replace American military support for Ukraine, but it will require massive investments to replace U.S. in NATO. Interesting assessments from @kiel.institute. www.ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Da...

submitted 6 hours ago • 41 comments

Zelensky is not ready to sign a minerals deal with the US, as it contains only unilateral obligations for Ukraine — Sky News

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 17 hours ago • 460 comments

Grade noch rechtzeitig vor der Bundestagswahl: das Opinion-Stück für die @nytimes.com über das Erstarken der Rechtsextremen, effektives "truth twisting" und die deutsche Geschichtsvergessenheit. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

I went to CPAC as an anthropologist − for Trump fans a ‘golden age’ has begun: By Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark At the start of his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald…

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

"Strikes at the core of the First Amendment": AP sues Trump admin over Gulf of Mexico spat: The president has booted the outlet from certain events until it uses his preferred term for the Gulf of Mexico

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

AP sues Trump, stocks crash, consumer confidence plummets, Trump fires the ICE director over poor deportation numbers, GOP has horrible fundraising numbers, and more. Catch up on today's news!

submitted 19 hours ago • 143 comments

oh boy -- Rich McCormick bailed on CNN after his ill-fated town hall

submitted 19 hours ago • 519 comments

Holy shit! You’ve got to see this town hall. Republicans are starting to get torn apart by their own constituents. Rep. Rich McCormick: “You don’t think I’m going to stand up for you?” Woman in the crowd: “You need to stand up.” Another woman: “Don’t bend over.” 🔥

submitted 1 day ago • 992 comments

It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families. Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

"No matter DOGE’s goal, putting so much information in one place and under the control of a small group of people with little government experience has raised substantial security concerns," Matteo Wong writes in the Atlantic Intelligence newsletter:

submitted 22 hours ago • 18 comments

“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

submitted 2 days ago • 1407 comments

🇷🇺Med Sea Flotilla🇷🇺 30cm📷 from the port of 🇸🇾Tartus on 17 Feb 2025 Confirmation that it was Ropucha Class LSD (Pr. 775 II) Alexandre Shabalin loading more 🇷🇺equipment for the transfer out of Syria Either to Baltysk or perhaps like Baltic Leader (IMO: 9220639), to Algeria?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

US corporate concentration camps www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes in conjunction with #Februarty and some of the most famous #glasses in history “Imagine all the people, living life in peace…..” #mobilephotography #ArtYear

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

submitted 2 days ago • 511 comments

🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that he will travel to Ukraine on February 24 to show support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian democracy.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It is Europe's responsibility to prevent the US from throwing Ukraine under the bus, and this can be accomplished quite easily. We simply need to provide long-term military aid to Ukraine; without such a commitment, Putin is unlikely to alter his strategy

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency finally released a “wall of receipts” as part of its “maximum transparency” promise Monday, but some of their figures are not quite adding up.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Now this is something I can get behind. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm... Newsrooms need to agree that "an attack on one is an attack on all." Yes. "What is surprising — and disappointing — is the lack of collective action and response on the part of the press itself," writes Jim Friedlich.

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⚡Canada wants to participate in talks on Ukraine's security guarantees, official says. Canada is interested in partaking in conversations about security guarantees for Ukraine, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Feb. 18.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

forgot to update my geopolitical bingo. that a nuclear power plant got attacked by death cult ruZZia as the 2nd thing is god damn insane

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments