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I think back to this from Zelensky regularly. I don't think I've ever seen a greater example of national leadership and courage in the face of extreme personal danger. edition.cnn.com/2022/02/26/e...

submitted 53 minutes ago • 19 comments

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

submitted 31 minutes ago • 263 comments

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

submitted 1 hour ago • 268 comments

Hold up, what?

submitted 31 minutes ago • 59 comments

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

submitted 2 hours ago • 621 comments

American statements in the Oval Office indistinguishable from Russian propaganda and celebrated by Russian propagandists.

submitted 1 hour ago • 91 comments

EU foreign policy chief: “.. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.” @kajakallas.bsky.social

submitted 40 minutes ago • 82 comments

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

submitted 2 hours ago • 81 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 3 hours ago • 658 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

submitted 3 hours ago • 590 comments

Let it all come out. There will be a reckoning. Zelensky is a hero.

submitted 3 hours ago • 205 comments

It wasn't a "tense exchange" or a "shouting match", It was the American president and VP attacking an ally on live television, lying, acting like tyrants. In a long list of despicable, grotesque displays from this WH what just happened in the Oval Office is close to the top. What a shameful day.

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump and cronies have to go! One way or another! They are a total disgrace for humanity!

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

"In King County, about 87% of 2-year-olds are up-to-date on the MMR vaccine, meaning they’ve received one dose, and about 72% of 4- to 6-year-olds have received both doses. Herd immunity requires about 95% of people to be vaccinated against measles because it’s so infectious."

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

👀 There's a court hearing tomorrow in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops emergency bid to stave off State Department contract cuts. So today State abruptly canceled the conference's contract entirely and said Judge McFadden has no jurisdiction anymore.

submitted 21 hours ago • 79 comments

The Poughkeepsie Social Security Office just showed up on the DOGE website under savings. This is exactly what I feared when it closed for “temporary renovations.” I have multiple seniors on with my team looking for help. Elon, get ready to testify in front of Congress.

submitted 23 hours ago • 7 comments

Saying this again: IT IS NOT JUST TEXAS. Measles vax rates are way down in NYC as well. Just 81% of most recent cohort of toddlers here got 1st dose by 24 mos. NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d. Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I'm sure it's a total coincidence that I got this weird-ass message weeks after DOGE accessed all the VA's data (Have not even once received a spam message referencing my service or my unit before today)

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.

submitted 2 days ago • 1500 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 2 days ago • 409 comments

Elon Musk is now presiding over the cabinet meeting. They're not beating the co-president allegations. (And co-president might be putting it charitably for Trump.)

submitted 2 days ago • 1207 comments

BREAKING: The Social Security Administration "eliminated" its civil rights office on Tuesday. "Please wait for instructions from the agency to ... report harassment." New, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/social-sec...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

State medical experts have confirmed 124 cases of measles in Texas. This is the largest measles outbreak in Texas in 30 years. Here is how it started and an overview of the situation, as of Feb. 25.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

For accessibility: posting the chief information officer's resignation letter with alt text ⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

A couple of thoughts: - We already have a similar program, the EB-5 visa, but that requires investing $500k or 1 million in US businesses and creating jobs, not just buying in with cold hard cash. - Trump can't do anything like this without Congress. The president can't sell green cards. Period.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

A Washington federal judge has granted a nationwide injunction request from religious groups challenging President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement as well as withholding funds for those services appropriated by Congress. Story TK.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

"Suppression Alert: Back to Pre-VRA Days – The Horrible 'SAVE' Act, and How You Can Help Stop It" By David Pepper open.substack.com/pub/davidpep...

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Join us TODAY at 1:30pm ET/12:30pm CT/11:30am MT/10:30am PT! Let's tell our legislators: 🎇 HANDS OFF our healthcare, research, jobs, and education! 🎇 See you in D.C. and online. Register: labor4highered.org/feb-25 @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @phew-cwa.bsky.social @uaw.org

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration blamed Biden for a $400 million federal government contract with Elon Musk's Tesla to build armored electric vehicles. But NPR obtained documents showing the Biden administration only approved $483,000, not the $400 million that the Trump-Musk administration wanted.

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

So they started out with ~100 existing staffers, 60 have now resigned. *21 FEDERAL TECHNOLOGY STAFFERS RESIGNED FROM DOGE, AP SAYS

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” they wrote. “We will not lend our expertise to carry out or legitimize DOGE’s actions.”

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

What the F…. The Financial Times reports that Peter Navarro, senior advisor to President Trump, is working to expel Canada from the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance (U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada).

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Many have been preparing for Trump 2.0 by trying to build a bigger emergency fund to absorb the fallout. Now, with Musk’s DOGE ravaging our federal government and slashing services, shoring up your finances is critical. @kazweida.bsky.social's column has some advice for us all.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The new Muslim Ban is coming into effect on March 20th; it is boring, it is sneaky, it is worse than the last one by far, and it is trying to make the Muslim Ban normal forever. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

Big news for anyone with federal student loans: after we rang the alarm, a judge stopped Elon Musk and his team from seizing your personal data. This is why we get in the fight.

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

This truly breaks my 💔 Thank you @joyannreid.bsky.social, I’ll be watching for what’s next. 🙏🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 2700 comments

Even accepting LLMs are capable of this task (lol, no), this is set up to fail, to create excuses for arbitrarily firing people. Nobody was told that was the query; you can't tell "mission-critical" from five bullet points; a snapshot of one week won't tell you that either; the list goes on and on.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Johnson: "Elon's cracked the code. He's now inside these agencies. He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data & as he told me in his office, data doesn't lie. We're gonna be able to get the information. We're gonna be able to transform the way federal govt works."

submitted 4 days ago • 2488 comments

The Trump administration has sought to limit information about pregnancy termination, scrubbing “abortion” search results from federal health websites and withholding federal funding from reproductive-health organizations that give information on abortion.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The fuck ups continue

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court issues TRO blocking the Department of Education and OPM from disclosing personal information to DOGE. Visit www.democracydocket.com for breaking democracy news.

submitted 4 days ago • 196 comments

Dear OPM, here’s 5 things I did last week: - Made 3 rings for the eleven kings under the sky - Made 9 for mortal men doomed to die - Made 7 for the dwarf lords in their house of stone - Made 1 ring to rule them all - Went TDY to Mordor where the shadows lie

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed at least 90 cases of measles in the South Plains region of the state. At least 90 confirmed cases of a rapidly growing outbreak — across seven counties. Only five of the 90 patients had been vaccinated. The outbreak has resulted in 16…

submitted 4 days ago • 513 comments