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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

OMG. The AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet is currently being broadcast INSIDE the federal Department of Housing & Urban Development. This footage from the cafeteria was shared with Vox. DOGE & Musk has laid off half the Department’s workforce. (🎥 Vox)

Wat een interessante manier van een Tweede Kamerlid om burgers te woord te staan… @stichtingmobilisation.nl

BREAKING: Mexican President Sheinbaum argues that if cartels are deemed terrorist orgs, then the suppliers of weapons—over 74% of which come FROM the U.S.—should ALSO face accountability for enabling terrorism. As a result, Mexico is expanding its lawsuit targeting U.S gun manufacturers. 🇲🇽

Drie van onze vier regeringspartijen staan hier niet onder. 🥲

When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year. Amanda’s Story: Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy. It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…

🤡 Hungary has become a co-author of the American draft UN resolution that does not condemn Russian aggression, Szijjártó announced.

elon still working the bugs out of grok 3…

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz: “The economy is supposed to serve the people. Not the people the economy”.

When Russians come to your cities. Toretsk city, Ukraine

Every day, the goals become clearer: The point of DOGE is not efficiency, but regime change www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

another chapter at the bookbanning circus of dictator trump www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/a...

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

What a fucked-up framing from the #BrokenPost. Trump is surrendering Ukraine and the West to Putin but here the burden is on Zelensky to "salvage his relationship." Can Zelensky salvage his relationship with Trump and save Ukraine? wapo.st/4it7ZS3

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Not. A. Single. Freaking. Time. Have. They. Trashed. Russia. For. Exterminating. Ukraine. Instead. Of. Blaming. Ukrainians. For. Resisting.

Kunnen ministers van asiel ook zichzelf het land uitzetten?

Iedere politieke partij die in een coalitie zit met Partij Voor Vladimir is medeplichtig aan Kremlins propaganda in Nederland.

“Voor de „sociale grondrechten”, die de overheid bijvoorbeeld verplichten te zorgen voor werkgelegenheid, bestaanszekerheid en een goed milieu, wil het kabinet het toetsingsverbod in stand houden. De reden hiervoor… is dat anders het risico zou dreigen van politisering van de rechtspraak.”

Hear, hear, hear

Der Spiegel cover 👀🇺🇦

10 truths: 1.Putin started the war 2.🇷🇺 is fighting for conquest 3.🇺🇦 is fighting for independence 4.Ukrainians are not Russians 5.Putin is a dictator 6.Zelensky is not a dictator 7.🇷🇺 is not a friend of 🇺🇸 8.🇺🇦 is a friend of 🇺🇸 9.Putin cannot be trusted 10.🇺🇸 aid is not wasted nypost.com/2025/02/20/o...

Today's front page of The New York Post.

Trump is a liar #deel2356: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... "Gaven de VS echt meer hulp aan Oekraïne dan Europa? En negen andere onwaarheden in de post van Trump"

Meeste reddingen dit seizoen in een wedstrijd in de vijf grote Europese competities, Eredivisie, Champions League, Europa League & Conference League: Dmytro Riznyk van Shakhtar uit tegen PSV (15) Vasilios Barkas van FC Utrecht uit tegen PSV (15)

whether or not you’re a fan of zelensky, the usa trying to force an election in a foreign democracy during wartime–when it can’t be held safely and securely–against most ukrainians’ wishes (including much of zelensky’s opposition) and in violation of the ukrainian constitution is unacceptable.