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The Oval Office ambush is wake up call #742 to Europe: America doesn’t have your back & you are out of time. Seize Russian assets in the EU, embargo Russian energy, allow Ukraine to hit targets on Russian territory with our missiles, & prepare new air defense & troop commitments.

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Finally there is a world leader who stands up to Trump and Vance. Bravo, President Zelensky! So refreshing compared to the White House appearances of Macron or Starmer. Zelensky is the moral leader in Europe.

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Skype is going away. An interesting story about global capitalism and technology. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/t...

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

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European Leaders in Kyiv, Ukraine, to show support on the third anniversary of the Russian attack.

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Trump is a Russian asset, he is Putin's KGP masterpiece. The American people, including many Republicans, are getting sidelined.

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Breaking news: The UN General Assembly has passed a resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The resolution was co-sponsored by Kyiv and EU nations, despite the US voting against it and urging other states to do so. www.ft.com/content/d0f3...

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Firing Park Rangers? EMT's? www.sfgate.com/national-par...

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That's the step Trump needs to flip our elections in the future. Putin will get into the US again and run his campaigns, Facebook will not object, and they are going to help Trump win in the next election cycle. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 9 days ago • 1220 comments

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

submitted 8 days ago • 2884 comments

Putin Agrees to Negotiate with Musk over Ownership of Trump open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

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Trumps attempt to make peace with Putin and throw the #Ukraine under the bus will end like his attempt to make a deal with North Korea. It will amount to nothing. But what he managed to do is to unite #Europe, and loose his influence over what happens next. Certainly not peace on Putin's terms.

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First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 9 days ago • 789 comments

Trump blames Ukraine for starting the war the way a rapist blames his victim for looking too sexy.

submitted 9 days ago • 922 comments

Siding with murderers and criminals: Trump and Putin are merging their Mafia groups. This is not what the US stands for. Fascism is coming, and time for all of us to rise up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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The response from a European observer of the US: “In the past, you assumed that the US was a serious, competent country. It’s unnerving to think that might not be the case. There is a sense that the guardrails just aren’t there.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Interesting chart. What it means is that firing federal workers has nothing to do with spending, it is just Fox News rhetoric, paid for by the now unemployed workers. If Trump wanted to reduce the deficit, he would not only cut spending, but also introduce more taxes.

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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes…

submitted 11 days ago • 485 comments

American decline is coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...

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This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

submitted 11 days ago • 673 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 11 days ago • 1057 comments

Trump managed to turn most of the nations friendly to the US into opponents. The US just lost its global leadership position. Who is left are people like Putin, the old Trump ally, and Netanyahu, another right-wing manipulator. Europe has to come together and stand up to Trump and Putin.

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I mean, this is just dumb. Yes, the GOP is opposed to tax enforcement, but this is gonna blow a huge hole in their already huge unfunded budget plan.

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It is a lengthy but devastating read. Rupert Murdoch's family gets torn up by the poisonous mix of falsehoods it created. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

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Great Letter! Read the Resignation Letter From Hagan Scotten www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Profiles in courage open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

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How much did the federal debt rise on the Trump's first presidency? www.propublica.org/article/nati...

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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This Isn’t Reform. It’s Sabotage. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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Perfectly captured.

submitted 25 days ago • 1487 comments

Yes, and that's from the New York Times. TIme to get organized. Where are you, Democrats? youtu.be/X_D-yW8v0Jo?...

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Help Wanted. 👇

submitted 25 days ago • 493 comments

Wow. From Japanese Internment camps, created by Executive Order, to the new Guantanamo and beyond. And a lot of proactive obedience begins to manifest in every branch of the government. As a German with some knowledge of history, I know the script. We are moving fast towards totalitarianism.

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This is what you get when you look up Stonewall. It has been a National Monument since 2016. The Wayback Machine sadly does not document this page, but at least there's Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewa...

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The DOJ's politicization undermines a democratic principle: equal justice under law. FBI agents upheld the Constitution against Jan 6 mob violence, and now face political retaliation. The transformation of law enforcement into a political weapon demands civic resistance www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...

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Brexit, 5 years later. It didn't work out so well for the UK. bbc.com/news/article...

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The AI revolution may not be as impressive for the stock market as we think: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

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