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Quite the consequential Friday night massacre. They not only took out three top military leaders, but also the JAG officers who interpret what’s lawful and constitutional for military command.

Trump fires top US military officers - including America's most senior commander news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

Fearless and independent investigative journalism is needed more than ever in these times. Attempts to suppress this story on Trump and the KGB demonstrate this ⬇️ To help fund the stories you won't read in the established press, and to keep honesty alive, subscribe: subscribe.bylinetimes.com

Three reasons never to make any sort of deal with Trump: 1. He wouldn’t keep it. 2. He wouldn’t remember it. 3. He’s Trump.

Interesting to see that US safety standards focus on what happens to people inside the car on collision, whereas in the UK there’s a much greater focus on pedestrian safety and that of people in the cars you collide with.

a new frontier of climate science denial is upon us www.newscientist.com/article/2469...

RFK Jr. promptly cancels vaccine advisory meeting, pulls flu shot campaign arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Ensuring all our spies are monolingual white guys is a terrific idea. If you want to destroy our global intelligence gathering abilities. Who would want to do that? Oh, right.

Dickhead did WHAT?

Trump Does Show Biz Firing Of Maine Governor In Ugly Exchange: This is an amazing clip on so many levels. We are now in month two of the ordeal known as Trump 2.0 and the rabid cur that is the 47th president of the United States showed his fangs and his character at a White House governors’…

The government lawyer is arguing that every recipient of an NIH grant should file a separate contract breach lawsuit... 🫠

Rumors of deeper cuts at the NIH. www.reddit.com/r/NIH/s/5P6j...

"Climate is a big target," a former Trump NOAA appointee tells @vox.com DOGE attacks to dismantle NOAA are following the Project 2025 playbook. As the agency girds for massive cuts, Umair Irfan provides all of the context about what we stand to lose: www.vox.com/climate/4007...

Sic semper tyrannis

WHAT. Ecuador's government recently authorized a U.S. military base on the Galápagos Islands. NO. No no no no no no noooooooo NO 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If Trump wants to see elections in Ukraine, all he has to do is use the power he keeps talking about to get the Russian invaders off Ukrainian soil. Then martial law in Ukraine ends, and elections will follow.

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

Just what I want to read given I am flying into the chaos of the USA tomorrow...

Musk isn't a member of the National Academy of Sciences, but he is member of the NA of Engineering. Has the latter said anything?

The tragic mistake we keep making in politics is ‘the ratchet view’: the belief that once social progress is made it will stick. Pre-Thatcherite socialists thought that the mixed economy was here to stay. Pre-Trumpian everyone thought the same about the rule of law.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

An apt moment for a remarkable piece of journalism, documenting Russia’s seemingly systematic murder of Ukrainian PoWs. (By @christopherjm.ft.com @joesinft.ft.com & the visual investigations team) on.ft.com/4gLNn61

Latest White House Press Release: Ice Hockey is a stupid Un-American game and is banned. And we won anyway.

“Last month, Norway…. recorded a biting 37.9 percent slump [in Tesla sales]. At the same time, Tesla sales in France fell by a thumping 63.4 percent. And it gets even worse: In Spain, Tesla sales plummeted by 75.4 percent.” link.wired.com/click/67b7ad...

Musk isn't a member of the National Academy of Sciences, but he is member of the NA of Engineering. Has the latter said anything?

All I can say at this stage is… FINALLY! 💥

The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

In 1931 Mussolini imposed to all academics to pledge allegiance to the fascist regime -- or be fired. Just *12* out of ~1200 academics chose not to in the whole country. Here are the names of those brave few who chose to forfeit their careers.

Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term—and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.

Nathan Gill, 51, ex UKIP, ex Brexit Party, and the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been charged with nine bribery offences after an investigation led by the Metropolitan police’s counter-terrorism command. It gets better apple.news/AZFUaz-S1REu...

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🔴‘Donald Trump’s USAID Freeze Is Already Hurting Ukraine and Will Come Back to Bite America Later’ The US President’s suspension of all foreign aid is already having a devastating impact in war-torn Ukraine, reports George Llewelyn bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

Republicans are trying to pass a law making it difficult for married women to vote. The law requires proof of US citizenship - like a birth certificate. Problem is, a woman's birth certificate name does not match her married name. Difficult to get around it. www.newsweek.com/married-wome...