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Europe provides about as much direct aid to Ukraine as the United States. European loans to Ukraine are backed by income from frozen Russian assets, not Ukraine. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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Context for what’s happening here. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

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The Trump regime's segregationist agenda is clear. I argue that having a Black man as president of white America enraged a portion of this country so much, that they decided to destroy any pipeline to Black advancement in academia, government, & workplaces. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trumps-seg...

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This … after destruction of the foundations of our democracy, weakening of military, turning DOJ and FBI into policing protest and criticism, after mass deportations the country can be sold off www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

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Just a reminder: Tomorrow night on CBS & BET, Kamala Harris, the woman who received over 75 million votes and was nearly elected president, will be making her first major public appearance since Trump took office as she receives the Chairman's Award at the NAACP Image Awards.

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The lack of empathy to these human beings, their families and the economic damage to them and their communities… do people still remember the peace of mind they had during Biden Harris and what could have been? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Has someone recently witnessed a Naturalization Ceremony? In the past have seen families, singing the anthem, ballons, flags and lots of proud picture taking with certificates in hand. Last week it looked more like people leaving the viewing of a funeral. Did 47 & Musk break the American Dream?

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Today in National Parks News The pushback from the idiotic firing of thousands of National Parks employees is having an effect. Keep calling Keep the pressure on 202 224 3121 www.latimes.com/california/s...

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"North Carolina senator Thom Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary... "Tillis ultimately provided the crucial 50th vote to confirm." www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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This is the most cowardly administration in history.

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EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

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Crockett: He went from being the dork that was jumping around on stage to allegedly being this amazing genius that's gonna save a country he wasn't born in, and one that maybe he doesn't agree w/the idea of a democratic republic, considering the fact he may have been more on the side of apartheid.

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I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back Putin’s invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children.

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Please play this for your maga relatives. Then ask them to call their reps, all of them. Because Edolf is coming their Social Security... and fast.

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These are the kinds of stories about the human costs of the Trump-Musk coup that desperately need telling right now. Local news outlets and independent journalists can do a lot of important work here, for their own communities but also for the national effort to push back against this insanity.

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FDA employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, The cuts included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink

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Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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Where are the CEOs of @deltaairline.bsky.social @americanair.bsky.social @unitedairlinesual.bsky.social @jetblue2.bsky.social ? They’re good with this. Where are the leaders of business?

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These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

submitted 6 days ago • 129 comments

the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

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This

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It’s time to do what we do best: Make Republicans squirm and ensure Democrats fight like hell. Your representative is back home for recess and we’ve got events planned across the country (including Tesla dealerships). We know that showing up works and the stakes are too high to stay home. LFG. 👇

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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With the planet warming the Carbon emitting industries continue to lie about their impact on the climate of now and the future www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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New Yorkers: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in this year's mayoral primary — don’t count on others to get rid of the corrupt & compromised collaborator Eric Adams, who's mayor because 79% of eligible NYers failed to turn out last time. Do your part, dammit: vote.nyc/page/registe...

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This … you don’t give me “my” minerals to get rich so I let you being eradicated by the Russians and get my metals from Putin later

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Good advice ⬇️

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We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

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Things only happen if people DO things. Keep fighting. www.theverge.com/news/610765/...

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