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The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by Trump — deleting a resource experts said improved public safety by helping prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies and starting over with clean records. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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"If anything, Moscow is likely to pocket the advantages such a reopening of relations with Washington has already granted it & then continue its revisionist trajectory in Europe & beyond" - & improve its position re🇨🇳 Important from @andrewmichta.bsky.social www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/dona...

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OpenAI said on Friday that it had uncovered evidence that a Chinese security operation had built an AI-powered surveillance tool to gather real-time reports about anti-Chinese posts on social media services in Western countries.

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The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on their citizenship status.

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We've collected our articles and videos to help you understand why Zelensky's legitimacy is being questioned and how that plays into Russia's hands.

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Correct about the ongoing existential crisis of American democracy on every point, from one of the world's great scholars of democracy: (via: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-ame...)

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Really good piece. Other Democrats in power need to look at what AOC is doing right now and follow her example. One of the worst and most frightening aspects of this moment is seeing how many Dems in leadership roles seem resigned to defeat.

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Ukraine represents truth. Russia represents lies. Every time we speak the truth, we support the war effort. Every time we reject lies, we help defeat the enemy. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

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A front page that sums up the confused mess we’re now in, thanks to the rightwing politics championed by The Times. Hateful authoritarianism from Musk & Trump. Yet despite that threat, such self-harming reluctance still to rebuild our broken relationship with our neighbours, just a train ride away.

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As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

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Humanity created a massive tool for social control and placed it in the hands of the worst people possible techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

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“One shouldn’t be surprised, at this point, to see Trump bend over backwards for Putin. But surely all those hawkish Republicans on the Hill, many of whom criticized the Biden administration for not doing enough to help Ukraine, would be moved to speak out in protest? Surely you jest.”

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🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Confirmation of major Trump nominees has tended to be followed by radical moves in the related subject area, such as the pivot to Russia now that a foreign policy team is in place. I wonder what's coming after the Senate confirms Kash Patel?

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Trump's done a great job of acting on behalf of Putin. Openly discussing conceding most of Putin's war aims. Not joining NATO, not regaining Crimea, maybe being Russian sometime. Suggesting Ukraine started the war and should have conceded before....

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One of my experiences as a government official was that when the UK and France agreed on something, joint progress could be made pretty quickly. Reading between the lines, this is happening with regard to Ukraine and Trump. A small ray of hope in an otherwise bleak day.

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Dear media: Please do not waste time hyperventilating about this dumb comment. It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking. Focus on those.

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Let us not despair but act. That's my No.1 takeaway from #MSC2025, yesterday’s Paris summit, & today's US-Russia talks in Riyadh. Enough of the 'wake-up calls', ‘unity’ & the 'hour of Europe', those Europeans who get it must embrace the 'Nike Strategy' & #JustDoIt 🧵

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A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.

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This excellent column from @mrjohncrace.bsky.social is a good excuse to share @barrydeutsch.bsky.social 's cartoon once again. It's never been more relevant.

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Fact checking the Vance speech www.thecipherbrief.com/column_artic...

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great. someone woke up. Now where are Cotton, Cruz, etc? Tough guys hiding under the desk instead of defending Ukraine. www.mediaite.com/news/top-gop...

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Russia has wanted talks with the US on an equal basis & without Europe or Ukraine for a long time. So beyond any substantive concessions in the actual talks, the fact they're going to continue in this format is an important win for Putin & strategic setback for Ukraine & Europe

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We are a full on Idiocracy

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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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Donald Trump is the President of the United States and the Spokesperson for Vladimir Putin. Only we in the UK and Europe will protect Ukraine.

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A party leader telling it like it is. Finally.

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Can you imagine if a female politician behaved like this on live news? Her career would be over.

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Yuan here, I’m afraid deliberately, confuses his (misconceived) attack on the AG’s guidelines with his attack on the government’s position on the Chagos Islands.

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Russia on Feb. 18 ended years of political isolation sparked by its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as a delegation of Kremlin officials met with their U.S. counterparts in Saudi Arabia to discuss how to end the very war it started.

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If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

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Clive Lewis has always been one of the most thoughtful and interesting person on the Labour left. This article on how Britain responds to the challenge Trump poses to the Western security architecture is therefore well worth reading. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

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My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

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Just weeks before the 🇩🇪 election, the #farright #AfD received a huge (>2 million Euros) donation from an 🇦🇹 citizen who is not particularly rich. Now the Austrian authorities say they can trace the money to a shady billionaire in 🇨🇭, who has form for illegally funneling 💶 to the party.

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Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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Trump is telling us to our faces that he's going to stand by while Musk guts and likely steals the social security that several generations have paid into. He's counting on his flock being perfectly fine with it. And sadly, they probably will be.

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"Right now, the most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin. Because his whims have the power to block NATO decisions," - President Zelenskyy at the Munich Security Conference

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