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WTF! Who put Musk in charge of the federal work force and where does he come off making threats like this? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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If you want to know what Hamas is all about, and the depths of their depravity, listen to this podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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While Zelensky is doing everything he can to save his country, he has to fight back against Trump’s extortion. Since when do we demand a quid pro quo for helping our allies. We didn’t do it when we instituted the Marshall Plan, and it shouldn’t be done now.

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This may b the most shameful and duplicitous act of U.S. diplomacy ever committed. Allies deserve our support without strings attached. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/w...

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From the Marshall Plan to outright extortion - www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

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Giving Czechoslovakia to Hitler didn’t sate his appetite for more. Why are we letting history repeat?

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This isn't diplomacy; it's extortion. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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WTF! Is Vance unaware of the suffering Europe experienced due to racism and that we fought a War so it would never happen again? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/w...

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Blistering take on the Senate’s abdication of its role to advise and consent. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

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Why aren't alarm bells ringing about Trump's surrender of Ukraine to Russia? How is this different from Neville Chamberlain's surrender of Czechoslovakia in 1938 with a touch of treason thrown in?

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Trump rewards corruption and the corrupt. Witness the Blagojovich pardon and his rumored ambassadorship to Serbia and dropping corruption charges against Eric Adams. The rule of law in America - gone in less than one month.

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Heather Cox Richardson’s essay (thanks to Senator Angus King and Governor J.B. Pritzker as well) captured the essence of what is going on right now. Kudos. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7...

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If this country has one resource that needs protection above all others is the Great Lakes. Reducing the EPA’s protection of the largest repository of fresh drinking water in the entire world should be setting off alarm bells, sirens, and flashing lights. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/06/t...

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Essential reading. Dana Milbank has compiled the full litany of how Trump has destroyed democracy and bulldozed Constitutional checks and balances in less than three weeks. Read it and weep. wapo.st/4hv2Hp0

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And Israel was accused of ethnic cleaning? THIS is ethnic cleaning. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-feb...

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Trump’s usurpation of sweeping powers marks the end of the Constitution’s separation of powers. Unless Congress immediately reasserts its authority, Trump and Musk will soon have full dictatorial powers and will ignore any judicial effort to stop him. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Why has there been no attention paid to Trump’s second golf trip in the two weeks he’s been president while demanding federal workers be in their offices every day?

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What is Trump really up to? His arguments for the tariffs are clearly preposterous. If he’s just trying to destroy the country, which is what it looks like, why isn’t this being treated like a four alarm fire.

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Dana Milbank's wrap-up of the last few days and his recounting of Trump's malignant narcissism is whiplash-inducing. wapo.st/42xEJop

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Trump’s new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is hysterical. And I don’t mean funny.

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Criminality, sex abuse, and drunkenness are all ok but supporting unions may cost Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary Republican votes. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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While there have been many books written about how Hitler and the Nazis took over Germany as well as on the horror of the Holocaust, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, two books stand out - Rachel Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days and Jonathan Freedland's The Escape Artist.

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