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Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

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Russia does not want to end the war, and the Trump administration has shown no ability to induce Russia to end the war. And so, predictably, the Trump administration blames the victim, blames Ukraine.

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Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

submitted 2 hours ago • 298 comments

I really don’t know how a Russian plant in the White House would act differently.

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x.com/sarahironsid...

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New USDA secretary on egg prices. tl;dr - 1. Biden administration did nothing. 2. New administration will lower egg prices by building on successful Biden measures to improve biosecurity. 3. Will continue Biden's efforts to develop avian flu vaccine. Gift link. www.wsj.com/opinion/agri...

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“The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting.” Well, I guess we conclusively verified that it’s pointless and we can get rid of it. Because it sure as shit doesn’t seem to be an effective “defense against tyranny” when the vast majority of gun nuts line up in support of the brazen autocrat.

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"Effective reform requires a nuanced understanding of how power operates. It means addressing regulatory inefficiencies and overreach without dismantling the fundamental structures that disperse power and protect liberty." Clear and insightful analysis of power. All power gets used.

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We are well and truly fucked. wapo.st/41pgR5d

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@madeleinewatts.bsky.social on the prescient genius of WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

https://www.bespacific.com/site-tracks-how-much-of-project-2025-has-been-implemented/ #Project2025 Tracker Site tracks overall progress now at 34% as well as well as detailed objectives specific to each government agency. This is a significant and very disconcerting tool. >See also Searchable […]

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 531 comments

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

submitted 108 days ago • 4786 comments

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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Ich hoffe sehr, dass Deutschland rasch nach dem nächsten Sonntag eine stabile Regierung bekommt. Europa braucht jetzt ein stabiles Deutschland.

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Walter Olson has a sober and informative post explaining what that “I AM THE LAW” executive order actually means and how it’s troublesome.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Der Asteroid hat die FDP bald eingeholt

submitted 9 days ago • 61 comments

i mean this kind of sanewashing shit is why i don't even do wordle any more -- he's gonna wreck vaccines but he's spiritual, okay then

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Criminals are running amok inside our government and nothing will be done about it because—oh, that’s right!—America voted for a convicted criminal to be in charge of all federal law enforcement See how that works

submitted 9 days ago • 342 comments

Katie Britt: "Oversight is back" (In fact, one of the first things Trump did upon returning to the White House was fire inspectors general)

submitted 9 days ago • 306 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 11 days ago • 2289 comments

"Ah, yes, I in my brilliance and sagacity have sussed out the REAL REASON for Elon/trump/who-ever doing some horrible thing." Just... don't. They are fascists executing a fascist coup. Fight them, or surrender. Talking about your deep insights into their behaviour is not fighting them.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Expect to see a lot of appeasing Putin.

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Apparently, the best way to solve immigration is to turn the US into a place nobody wants to be.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

This #censorship is not surprising from #Musk, but we all need to reach out and encourage folks to join us on #mastodon. We need people to communicate securely about their experiences with mass government firings, security breaches, and total loss or privacy with the capture of all our […]

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WaPo still using the old name when talking about the upcoming winter storm: "As the frigid air clashes with a warmer, moist flow of air from the Gulf of Mexico, a storm will form in the Plains on Tuesday and track to the East Coast by Thursday."

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 13 days ago • 5654 comments

By the way the significance of styling it pretentiously as a NOLLE PROSEQUI — instead of just a generic Rule 48 motion — is that they are implying, without having the cobbles to say, that actually the judge doesn’t have any say in it.

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New from me at @cato.org: "Officials Resign En Masse at Justice Department After Political Intervention in Adams Case"

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fediscience.org/@petersuber/...

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The passive authoritarian tense

submitted 15 days ago • 112 comments

It's all a big grift. www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

submitted 15 days ago • 104 comments

Go LIL!

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News dynamic emerging where reporters can 1) go to McConnell for R quotes attacking Trump and 2) go to Fetterman for D quotes criticizing Ds but neither has any control over the conference.

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

As a loyal alumna, I always honor my law school's snow days by also taking them off. Pulls covers up over head, ignores emails

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I'd thought Donald Trump was going to be the one to destroy democracy, but it turns out that role is being fulfilled by an unelected South African billionaire, leaving Trump like a little kid in one of those shopping carts shaped like a car, spinning a fake steering wheel while controlling nothing.

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Once again, I am here from Poland to tell you that predicating your response to a rule of law crisis on fear of how your opponents will frame your resistance is as ineffectual as it is solipsistic.

submitted 17 days ago • 53 comments

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

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We believe in the rule of law. We believe in workers' rights. We believe in privacy. And we are going to fight. I'm glad @eff.org is stepping up when it's needed most. www.theverge.com/news/609990/...

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lawyers: your bat signal has been activated

submitted 17 days ago • 65 comments