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"Reagan was a zealous patriot, a gifted orator, and a statesman. Trump is a grifter, a humorless clown, and a dangerous demagogue. The very idea of a Trump-Reagan fusion is a grotesque calumny of the Gipper." Gabriel Schoenfeld from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trumpis...

submitted 8 hours ago • 55 comments

The origin of the obsession matters. From Giuliani to Musk, the Trump circle is obsessed with slandering and attacking Ukraine. Why? And instead of making a real case for abandoning it to Russia, it’s just one bullshit Kremlin propaganda tale after another.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

So far, Trump’s art of the deal is to give Russia whatever it wants in advance while asking for nothing from Putin. At the same time, he has tried to extort Ukraine for mineral rights. Once again, he seems not to know or care who America’s allies and enemies are.

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

These are probably just corrupt business meetings to discuss how to divide up the spoils of Russia taking over Ukraine with American help. Some quisling Ukrainian oligarchs and their peers.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Instead of Napoleon, Trump should cite Óscar Benavides: "For my friends, anything. For my enemies, the law."

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Trump letting everyone know the law doesn't apply to him or his cronies anymore.

submitted 7 days ago • 104 comments

💯 Foreign Minister Sybiha: "Putin doesn’t want peace—he wants war. For him, war is a tool to control his society, country, provinces. If Ukraine surrendered, it would be easier for him, but only because he wouldn’t have to pay the price he’s paying now."

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

The MAGA and AfD slogan may as well be, “Maybe again”.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

80 years ago, American power was needed to demilitarize Germany in order to defend the values of the free world. Today, German militarization is required to defend those same values from American power!

submitted 7 days ago • 32 comments

Disgusting. "Now, thanks to Republicans in MI and MO, the rules of bounty hunting could be applied to undocumented immigrants. Prospective laws in each state would allow residents to receive $1,000 if a tip on someone in the country illegally leads to an arrest." www.thebulwark.com/p/state-repu...

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

submitted 8 days ago • 247 comments

My latest for the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social. "To secure Taiwan, the US must first secure Ukraine." These two objectives cannot be separated or treated as mutually exclusive - they are strategically intertwined. #WriteFightWin www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

😂 And imagine the expression on the bust of Winston Churchill after today’s Trump admin kowtowing to Putin in Munich! (Of course it had to be Munich…)

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

So far, Hesgeth says US policy is surrender to Russian aggression, selling out Ukraine and US interests for nothing. They don’t even make a case for one of those quid pro quos Trump is fond of. What is the US, or Trump, getting from Russia after these gifts? Certainly not peace.

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

Some 'smaller government' folks are being duped by the idea this is some kind of one-way ratchet. It's not. A president who can cancel programs created and funds appropriated by law can just as easily create programs and spend money Congress has not authorized. He already is.

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Trump says he wants $500 billion in rare earths from Ukraine in return for US aid. The US has appropriated $175B for aid to Ukraine and much of that has gone to US defense contractors. www.cfr.org/article/how-...

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

You’ll get quite far in politics if you can take credit for the sun rising each day and blame your opponents for the sun going down.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

So what happens when Musk has total control of the labor and budget numbers and can make them say whatever he wants or just disappear? What is the backup for understanding the state of the economy? Or will it be like Russia and China, making things up?

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

What can the opposition party do? Like, actually do, right now? Five concrete things the Democrats can do to fight Trump:

submitted 16 days ago • 13 comments

I also had minders when I traveled abroad as a Soviet chess player. Must be sure everything is party line!

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

I’m hardly a personal fan of USAID, but the way Musk and his personal, unaccountable minions are ripping everything up to harm the most people possible is vile and dangerous. Is there to be any real opposition at all or is just to be the uncrowned king of America?

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

“Unless these cruel and immensely counterproductive actions are reversed, . . .future generations will marvel that it wasn’t China’s actions that eroded U.S. standing and global security, paving the way for Beijing to become the partner of choice around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 140 comments

As I’ve said about NATO, a treaty is only as good as the leaders in power when it’s needed. Nothing is automatically triggered, nothing is permanent. It takes will even if it’s the law. Autocrats understand this better than elected leaders.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

And now this! contrarian.substack.com/p/musks-stat...

submitted 17 days ago • 157 comments

Oh shoot. I forgot Canada, “the 51st state.”

submitted 18 days ago • 19 comments

Very serious Democratic strategists advise the party to allow Trump to illegally dismantle USAID -- a decision that will result in the unnecessary deaths of people around the world. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

submitted 18 days ago • 1076 comments

Clearly it was unfair of me to compare the GOP to United Russia for obsequiously forfeiting parliamentary power to a rampaging wannabe dictator and his oligarchs. There were still a few voices of conscience in the Russian Duma!

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Add to the list of MAGA copying from Putin’s to-do list the garbage circulating today from RFK Jr telling refuted Kremlin myths about the Maidan revolution &USAID in Ukraine. People don't spontaneously arrive at conspiracy theories. There's no factual basis for them and we know where they started.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Attacking NED, the National Endowment for Democracy, is also strangely high on the Musk hit list. Interesting from someone with no foreign policy interest beyond bashing Ukraine and endorsing fascists. If this to-do list had been written by Putin, how would it be different?

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Oligarchic control and subservient justice & security systems are lessons Russia has for Americans, & another is the neutering of the Russian Duma, which abdicated most of its powers to Putin and soon had the rest taken away. The GOP looks ready to become Trump's United Russia.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

A new, ideologically driven American oligarchy is on the march, and in DC, not on Wall St or Silicon Valley. What does it mean for democracy, and the 2026 midterms in particular? Fighting back takes strategy, not hysteria. My new article: t.co/FZpP5FtZjB

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

🎯 I wrote about this 8 years ago in my book Deep Thinking and it’s just as true today. It’s a race, and authoritarian regimes see institutions and regulations only as a way to slow down naïve rivals in the free world. Innovation is essential, but so is human accountability.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

🔴 Death toll rises to 8 after Russia’s strike on an apartment building in Sumy. Rescuers found the bodies of a 74-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman—the mother of an injured 8-year-old girl.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

The catchy name for Trump’s plan comes from Israel’s Iron Dome, system designed to defend against rockets that travel up to 44 miles. That’s not very useful for the United States, unless Canada were to launch missiles at Detroit. wapo.st/4jDLT0s

submitted 23 days ago • 25 comments

He represents America’s poorest Congressional district. Meet Rep. @ritchietorres.bsky.social. He sees a crisis brewing at the intersection of homelessness, mental illness, incarceration, and institutionalization—and it all ties back to America’s rivalry with Russia and China.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

You can fight for ideals without being an ideologue. You can have passion without joining a cult. Great @renewdemocracy.bsky.social interview with @ritchietorres.bsky.social, who doesn't have a problem talking about values, right, and wrong—and the big picture. youtube.com/watch?v=z7jzL_…

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Big if true! 😂

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments