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The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

Mad king watch - calls for a ban on opposition media, then gets distracted www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 17 hours ago • 89 comments

On CNN tonight with Jessica Dean discussing U.S. - Ukraine - and Russian relations. youtu.be/pPtyeyKTX10?...

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

Civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors. By banding together, federal workers say they hope to catalyze a wider movement. Nicholas Nehamas/Ryan Mac/Nikole Hannah-Jones www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

classy stuff from Tom Homan at CPAC

submitted 20 hours ago • 424 comments

So basically presenting Ukraine with a choice: insolvency or occupation.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Why aren’t you here? Want to show the administration how you feel? Show up. Now. Lincoln Memorial. Please.

submitted 20 hours ago • 116 comments

Someone’s lying here, big time. And just this once, I don’t think it’s Trump.

submitted 20 hours ago • 183 comments

Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 21 hours ago • 145 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 20 hours ago • 245 comments

Wait. It gets worse: "The new document states that the revenues will be directed to a fund in which the United States holds 100 percent financial interest, and that Ukraine should contribute to the fund until it reaches $500 billion....The US has allocated $119 billion for aid to Ukraine."

submitted 1 day ago • 263 comments

"We are the federal law"

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Once again: Much of Trump's PR strategy is just repackaging the status quo as a victory.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Important new in Eric Adams case. Judge Ho does the right thing. "To assist with its decision-making via an adversarial process, the Court exercises its inherent authority to appoint Paul Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC as amicus curiae to present arguments on the Government's Motion to Dismiss."

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

NEW: The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has risen to 90, ABC News reports. (Our current HHS Secretary has long advocated against the measles vaccine.)

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 3 days ago • 674 comments

It’s very simple. #DontAbandonUkraine

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky angered Donald Trump so much during the peace talks with Russia that Trump was on the verge of withdrawing American military support from Ukraine, three U.S. officials familiar with the discussions tell Axios.

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

This is devastating. Yes, when we bought our first home, in 1987, we were in our early 30s, right on point.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Median age of homebuyers just hit a new record high of 56 (Via Torsten Slok)

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Justice Dept. to Drop Discrimination Case Against Elon Musk’s SpaceX www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 265 comments

Executives from Hershey and Mondelez International signaled more price increases may be coming as the chocolate makers navigate a sustained rise in cocoa prices. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 2 days ago • 276 comments

State media. I was not joking.

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If you’re looking for something concrete you can do, give money to Susan Crawford in Wisconsin who is about to get hit with a ton of Musk Bucks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

@brma64.bsky.social Lunacy. This would restrict the armed forces to territorial defense and little else. It would be impossible to call us a world power.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Madness. We will withdraw from Europe and the Pacific. Instability. War. Alliances collapse.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Politico’s owner liked Vance cozying up to the Nazi-tainted AfD. Good to know.

submitted 2 days ago • 201 comments

Donald Trump’s Putinization of America My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

send help, i'm in danger of becoming a "it's a republic not a democracy" guy

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Literally begging people to read @radiofreetom.bsky.social I. @theatlantic.com today (I’ve gifted the link to you) because facts matter, history matters, expertise - expertise like his - MATTERS, IT COUNTS, IT IS CRUCIAL, OH MY GOD: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 2 days ago • 988 comments

CDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices meeting, scheduled for next week, has been "postponed."

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Inbox: Morgan Stanley economists warn that Trump's immigration restrictions look likely to drag on GDP this year, increase inflationary pressures, limit interest rate cuts

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5078 comments

Multiple sources tell me that the USDA's Food & Nutrition Services division cancelled research contracts today. One contract was related to school meals. The contract was to study program participation, meal counting, financial management, and program integrity (so...detecting fraud)

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

"In the future, historians will wonder what might have been, what kind of peace could have been achieved, if Trump had done what he himself suggested doing a few weeks ago: keep up military aid for Ukraine; tighten sanctions on Russia; bully the aggressors, not their victims, into suing for peace."

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Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Never more relevant. Do read.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Lawfare is tracking over 70 cases of legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive orders and actions, as well as cases on behalf of the Trump administration to enforce them. Check out the tracker here, updated by @annahickey.bsky.social: www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Don’t worry, General, we will form an alliance with Russia. A tremendous alliance, one like no one has ever seen. We will defeat all the woke countries, and people will say to Trump, in tears, “Sir, you are the greatest allier in the history of the world!”

submitted 3 days ago • 155 comments

It will get to the point where he orders troops to do illegal things in country - then blood

submitted 3 days ago • 256 comments

Correct. He does not believe in legal limits—on him. And he has no moral limits.

submitted 3 days ago • 239 comments

Indeed. He’s in the wrong public housing.

submitted 3 days ago • 192 comments

“Ultimately, by joining in Trump’s effort to make America lawless, Sullivan & Cromwell may be working to render itself irrelevant.”

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

That would be a good point except: Unlike Trump, other criminals aren’t hell-bent on, and aren’t in a position to, destroy the Constitution and rule of law. I once represented an armed robber on appeal for free. I’d represent a triple ax-murderer before I’d ever consider representing Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments