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“What explains the solicititude towards Vladimir Putin?” Chris Christie “Because he wants to be Vladimir Putin.” #PrinciplesFirst Summit @principlesfirst.bsky.social

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This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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"Would Louisiana doctor and Sen. Bill Cassidy, who provided a decisive vote for RFK Jr.’s confirmation, care to comment?" www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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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...

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Tom Friedman warned in the late 90s about "super-empowered individuals" able to act much more directly and powerfully to influence markets and nation-states. Tonight's news about Ukraine and Starlink is a stark reminder that Musk is a global security threat. www.thomaslfriedman.com/longitudes-a...

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Cartoon by @adamzyglis.bsky.social - from 2018.

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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Judge Advocates General. He’s fired the top military lawyers in each service.

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I write about trump take egg.

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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NEW: The Colorado GOP says Trump strategist Steve Bannon will headline the party's "Golden Age Gala" in March. Yesterday, a French far-right leader pulled out of CPAC after Bannon offered an Elon Musk-style "Roman salute" on stage.

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A story as old as time: Republicans inherit a strong economy from Democrats then totally tank it by being utterly reckless, power-hungry and greedy.

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Chinese researchers have discovered another Covid-like bat virus. @robertlangreth.bsky.social and John Lauerman have the details > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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How it started. How it’s going

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The man is nothing but a two-bit thug.

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"This is what happens when innumeracy hits ambition." President Trump and Elon Musk are touting a new plan to send checks to Americans with the money purportedly saved by DOGE. @justinwolfers.bsky.social breaks down the math.

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On top of everything else it's just hard to get over how dumb all this is www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

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🧵 Outstanding critique of the "deeply cynical" DOGE project from @brbarrett.bsky.social on @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social. "A lot of the savings they are showing...that's just thousands of federal workers who are out of a job now for no reason other than that they had just started their job... 1/3

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Cheering myself up by looking at an ancient scan of a 1982 USPS booklet I loved as a kid: "P.S. Write Soon," developed jointly by the postal service and the National Council of Teachers of English to instill a love of writing letters. It worked!

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Gift link to WaPo story on USPS, which I found very informative: wapo.st/4309Ysp Note: "After this story was published, a White House spokesperson said no such executive order was planned." Also: The AI summary of reader comments is a nice feature. 👇

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“We have to stand up,” said Murkowski. “The ‘we’ has to be more than just me. And this is where it becomes more of a challenge.”

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"Republicans secretly don't agree with the things they do & say in public" is not a newsworthy story ten years after Trump took over the party. Any three House Republicans could grind DOGE to a halt, yet they all refuse to b/c they are either cowards or they actually do agree with all these cuts.

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Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

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sure, mitch mcconnell cynically masterminded the plot to destroy the US constitution and american democracy, but you have to at least credit him with lifting up his own constituents in Kentucky to make it one of our richest and most prosperous... (touching earpiece) wait I'm getting new information

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Between DOGE, the Supreme Court, and this new EO, Trump is dismantling all corporate oversight and turning our regulatory agencies into the legal and policy equivalent of decorative gourds this WILL kill people at scale, but every story I read about it puts you to sleep by the fourth paragraph

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For the record, U.S. Attorney Martin, I definitely did not laugh at this reply thread... 😉

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"Asked whether it was trained on data from the federal government obtained by DOGE, Grok 3 responded that 'it’s plausible that data DOGE accessed could have flowed to xAI projects like Grok 3.' Its 'best guess' is that 'Grok 3 probably wasn’t primarily trained on DOGE-obtained federal data.'” 1/2

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Far-right media gets center stage at White House even as Trump holds established media at bay My story with @Tomdreisbach.Bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

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"While some Republicans have expressed dismay at Mr. Trump’s moves and statements, there has been no concerted effort to challenge him from G.O.P. leaders or senators who play pivotal roles in overseeing military and foreign policy in Congress." Gift article 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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The reply to Senator Grassley from Tim Miller made me laugh. And I needed a laugh.

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"There's going to be a moment when the United States needs allies...and they won't be there, because America has abandoned its allies. ... The second, third and fourth order effects of this are hard to even imagine, but they're going to be very negative." ~ @billbrowder.bsky.social on #DeadlineWH

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"...always amazes me about these politicians...the U.S. has an armed forces…with a couple million people who are ready to lay down their lives for the country. And you don’t have people in Congress that are ready to risk their careers for the country?" ~ @billbrowder.bsky.social on #DeadlineWH

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A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, the euphoria is fading around many of the trades investors piled into after his November victory — from stocks to the dollar to Bitcoin

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I hate to ask this but i have to, are we now the bad guys? adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/are-we-now...

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The event...was changed at the last minute to a simple photo opportunity where the two posed for journalists. They did not deliver statements or field questions as expected. The change was requested by the U.S. side, Ukrainian presidential spokesman Serhii Nikiforov said. apnews.com/article/ukra...

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"...the U.S. is objecting to language on 'Russian aggression'." I am seething today at the "Russia hoax" crowd and everyone who continues to "reject the evidence of your eyes and ears" and trust the merchants of misinformation. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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