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Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

The US government is now nonstop performative idiocracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2647 comments

The Gilded Age is Trump's ideal--let's check the stats, shall we? --most Americans disenfranchised --most Americans in extreme poverty --most Americans worked 12 hour workdays, 6-7 days a week --most Americans consumed unsafe food, water, medicine The Gilded Age was great only for the rich folks

submitted 21 hours ago • 159 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 583 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

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Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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This is why we need independent media outlets funded by the public. Our Byline Times story is still available to read despite attempts to suppress it.

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Opinion | The mainstream media is so broken that even throwing a Heil Hitler salute at a major political conference won’t get you any coverage. by Steve Bannon

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Serfs up Amerika

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The lies are the point: Ukraine is a battle for objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/the-lies-a...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Is it too much to ask to want the government to stop the president from doing the illegal stuff?

submitted 2 days ago • 496 comments

One year ago today, we launched the UK's first helpline dedicated to supporting people leaving high-control religious groups. In that time, we've provided life-saving support to nearly 500 people. A huge thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who made this possible ❤️🧵 humanists.uk/2025/02/21/h...

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How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

submitted 5 days ago • 133 comments

Which close Trump aid will do a Seig Heil and will it be as vigorous as Elon's was? Where we're at.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

If your adversary can't believe their luck, either you're very, very bad at negotiating, or you don't think they're your adversary.

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They aren’t helpless. They’re complicit. I have absolutely no sympathy for them at all. Project 2025 laid out this entire game plan and either they didn’t believe it would happen (which was dumb), or they did believe it and they stupidly thought it would never show up on their door. Reap meets sow.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

More evidence of harms inflicted by private equity on US healthcare. Usual pattern: profiteering, hiking debt, low investment, poor patient care and safety. Yet UK NHS being handed to private equity without any evidence, 30%-40% public money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

He’s really good at this!

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

submitted 3 days ago • 193 comments

At the very least keep harping on the fact that Trump fired the people who were finding fraud in his COVID programs, to the tune of $100s of Billions. And DOGE's receipts page is near-fraudulent itself.

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 1378 comments

The Finns are closing ranks on the security situation. "The US has issued an ultimatum, demanding that Europe agree on the terms of Ukraine's surrender within three weeks. If not, the US intends to withdraw its forces from Eastern Europe," says MEP Mika Aaltola. www.hbl.fi/2025-02-20/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Republican pollster Frank Luntz debunks Trump’s lie about zelensky’s approval numbers, points out they’re actually higher than Trump’s 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

In case you’re not sure how it’s going down here, America.

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Duckworth: "He essentially just surrendered to Putin."

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According to the trump Golf Tracker website, out of 29 days in office so far, trump has spent 7 of them golfing -- that's 24.14% ALREADY. What a fucking freeloader.

submitted 4 days ago • 526 comments

When Stalin and Hitler signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 to carve up Poland between them, they at least had the good grace to do it secretly. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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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 4 days ago • 1220 comments

Can we also keep in mind that while Zelenskyy like Churchill 1940-45 postponed elections, Trump in peacetime tried to overturn by violence an election he lost - and has since pardoned all the co-conspirators in his attempted coup?

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

Just discovered that Don Bacon posted this last Friday.

submitted 4 days ago • 273 comments

British Philosopher, humanist, and our former patron Bertrand Russell on 'Why I am not a Christian'.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Fantastic, clear-eyed analysis by @gideonrachman.bsky.social The Financial Times calls on Europeans to “de-risk” - from the US! Wow.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

This gave me a good chortle this morning. Vance has that mysterious property that I believe Terry Pratchett referred to as "Char-isn't-ma".

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

That’s how you write a headline, people.

submitted 4 days ago • 568 comments

Fascists rewrite history. Trump says Ukraine 'should have never started it' in comments about war with Russia. Claims it could have “made a deal” to avert war i e. handed over territory. Ukraine's biggest mistake was to give up nuclear weapons in 1994. US, UK, Russia guaranteed its security.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

The thing about people who use of term Judeo-Christian is that it generally turns out that they’re not that fond of fifty per cent of that group

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“The $7.992 billion mistake was discovered simply because it was the first item The Upshot reviewed, after sorting the list by the savings amount.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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As the US sits around the table with Lavrov (sanctioned by the Biden) the Russian attacks on civilians in Kyiv haven’t stopped. The Trump administration didn’t even get a cessation in drone attacks in exchange for the PR coup of talks and bringing the regime in from the cold.

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

After we let Russia occupy part of your country and steal your resources, we will occupy the other part and do the same. Quite the starting point for the Americans.

submitted 5 days ago • 196 comments

So I've lived to see a US President condemn a country for not surrendering immediately to an invading Russian army.

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"Judeo-Christian" is what people say when they'd like to be racist but know they'd get into trouble if it was too blatant.

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

UK MP says US is now “least reliable NATO partner”. And not just any MP - Gethins is an ex-Prof in International Relations.

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