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It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

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Brutal.

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Que retenir du spectacle indigne de Trump face à Zelensky hier ? L'admirable courage et la dignité du président ukrainien. Et une confirmation : l'Europe doit se préparer à défendre seule l’Ukraine face à la Russie de Poutine. Billet de @bouchetpetersen.bsky.social :

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Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

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This is WILD

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No, this is the most ashamed you've felt as an American so far.

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🇵🇱❤️🇺🇦

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So sad…

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News Analysis: The GOP won the last election in no small part because of its new appeal with working-class voters. But the economic agenda Republicans are now putting together would by and large help rich Americans, all while teeing up cuts to programs that provide health care and food to the poor.

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"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

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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.”

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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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This is how you do it. Other news agencies like Axios and CBS, stop rolling over! Grow a spine, stand up straight and fight!

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LOL🤣

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 9 days ago • 305 comments

Trump Claims Ukraine Started War theonion.com/trump-c...

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Des décennies de sévices, de silence et de déni sur Bétharram, et le problème pour la ministre de l’Éducation nationale, c’est… Mediapart. Réalise-t-elle qu’elle ne fait que prolonger le problème en réagissant de la sorte ?

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When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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The waste is coming from the White House. 👇

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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👇🏻👇🏻

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As a reporter who covered the Facebook apology tour circa 2016, and spent HOURS on the phone with FB flak and executives earnestly telling me Zuckerberg was torn up over Russian election interference and was making it a top priority to fix misinfo on FB, this week’s developments are 🙃

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TechCrunch going in hard!

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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal. www.propublica.org/article/unit... 👇

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Can confirm.

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Assad has fled Syria after returning from Russia, the Kremlin denied further assistance to the regime citing "their own issues", the collapse of the Assad regime may be hours away. Reportedly he is meeting with Iranian officials in Tehran. Likely to form a government in exile.

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BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

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Yes. This experiment will work if you make it your own. Customize your experience, build new ones, make a social network that can be controlled by the people who use it an idea we do not go back on.

submitted 87 days ago • 417 comments

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight. The class wars.

submitted 87 days ago • 1257 comments

When men rage, they blow and shoot things up and start wars. When women rage, we create. We knit, do embroidery and cross stitch. We create new things ... while we figure out how to fix the broken things. Behold rage project #1

submitted 89 days ago • 1027 comments

On ne souligne pas suffisamment l'extraordinaire bouffonnerie de la presse d'extrême droite.

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L'historien Jacques Baynac, mort en janvier 2024, avait déserté durant la guerre d'Algérie, rompu avec les négationnistes de la Vieille Taupe, fait l'histoire critique du léninisme. Son legs paiera un abonnement à 3000 lecteurs de Mediapart. blogs.mediapart.fr/edwy-plenel/...

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The West gets russia doubly wrong: 1) it severely underestimates ru's ambitions and the result are policies that assume compromise is possible and restraint will beget restraint; 2) it overestimates ru's capacity and the result is a policy of appeasement. Meanwhile, ru: www.ft.com/content/ac39...

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BREAKING NEWS! Per, Swedish journalist, Peter Imanuelsen, "The European Federation of Journalists representing 320,000 journalists have announced they will stop posting on X." THIS IS BIG!

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Germany’s intelligence chief warns Russia is heading to war with the West and NATO invoking Article 5. “From Russia's point of view, [success] would be achieved if Article 5 had no effect in the event of an attack,” Russia's goal is to split NATO, so it can isolate smaller countries to invade.

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Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris is scheduled to reopen to the public on Dec. 8 after a fire engulfed it five years ago. Once the doors are reopened, more than 40,000 people are expected daily. Here’s how to plan your visit and what to expect.

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We are in the decisive phase of national liberation now! WE NEED TANGIBLE SUPPORT! 🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests 📷 George Khelashvili

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