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I wish he was one of the types of Christians who thinks lying is a sin.

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Unreal. Just how far up Putin’s ass are their tongues?

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Horseshit

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Anne Applebaum: "The assumption [has been] the US would lead...Rethinking how Europe could act together is not [easy]...[But] there is something like a ‘coalition of the willing’ emerging--Scandinavia, the Baltic States, Poland, Germany, UK, France." youtu.be/e2E2UsorCkc?...

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“A golden era of America”

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An absolutely keen and crystallizing summation of our current predicament by the @theatlantic.com’s Jonathan Rausch 👇 apple.news/AtCLRsfEfTG-...

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“May you live in interesting times.” The beginning of a shift in history, America’s slide into autocracy, and the end of 80 years of peace and prosperity in the post-war world. We are living in a time that will be parsed by historians and we’ll be judged harshly for letting the world down.

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NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

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Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.

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"Let’s drop the macho act. The position we’re in with Putin isn’t toe to toe. It’s tongue to toe. The toes are his, and the tongues belong to Trump, Hegseth, Waltz, Witkoff, Bessent, JD Vance, and the rest of this bootlicking administration." @saletan.bsky.social:

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Another day another Republican getting booed out of his own town hall meeting. Rep Keith Self (TX-03) gets an earful from his constituents.

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The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

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Lyndsay Graham yet again reminding us that he is morally bankrupt

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📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today. Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.

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I think Ostracizing Fascist is good, actually.

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If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

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"Germany is going to get nuclear weapons at the exact moment that the German youth vote is becoming fascism-curious. What could possibly go wrong?"

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Finally some judicial branch action to stop the removal of all the watchdogs.

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NC-10 congressman Harrigan wants to pretend it was an “unruly mob” last week. Here’s the video (not mine - found on YouTube). There was one lady (not captured on this camera) who did a silent protest of walking with a sign in the room: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1xfg...

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Individual steps towards autocracy can seem petty and personal. But their significance goes beyond that. Retaliation or retribution against one individual or institution is a way to intimidate many others. It’s a way to induce much broader compliance.

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“For some of the workers, it was their second time being fired in a month.” @matteowong.bsky.social on the chaos inside 18F:

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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They’ve already halted work on the flu vaccine and defunded Ebola and bird flu containment.

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Breaking News: Israel announced that it was halting all aid into Gaza, hours after proposing a temporary extension of the now-expired cease-fire with Hamas.

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In the 1890s, tariffs reduced government income, increased government expenditure, and undercut foreign investors’ confidence in U.S. reliability, leading to catastrophic effects for ordinary Americans. Tariffs haven't changed.

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Will Congress assert Article I powers? Will the Administration move fast enough to destroy everything before they’re overruled? Will SCOTUS greenlight the Unitary Executive, or just invent new constitutional law from whole cloth like they did with the immunity ruling? apple.news/AcY9cPld7Scy...

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This is an outstanding discussion between @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @fareedzakaria.bsky.social Always great when the two talk.

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"America’s alliances are now in danger, and should be: Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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“We’re witnessing the self-sabotage of the United States.”

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Ben Meiselas lists the five things that Donald Trump did last week…

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Governor Josh Shapiro: He has demonstrated nothing but weakness when it comes to national security over the course of his first month in office.

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@lulugn.bsky.social ‘s interview with Maura Healy is great!

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"Ukraine as the gravedigger of both Putinism and Trumpism sounds like a feel-good fantasy. But history has known even stranger twists." ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/betrayal-a...

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The confrontation between President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday was not planned, people with knowledge of what took place beforehand said.

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AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

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Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

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This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3. Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.

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Marco Rubio just sat there like a useless sack of shit. What a global embarrassment.

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Trump has made purging the government of diversity, equity and inclusion programs a top priority of his new administration, calling them “illegal” and “immoral.” But throughout his career Trump has espoused the opposite view and has often highlighted the importance of such initiatives in business.

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Unreal

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"Ukraine offers NATO the greatest deal ever presented in military history: It is singlehandedly destroying the alliance’s greatest rival at the cost of no NATO lives."

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How Elon Musk planned for DOGE: Our investigation found that he raised the idea in 2023, becoming fixated on gaining insider access to federal systems. By Dec., he chose USDS as a landing place, and future DOGE members began applying for jobs there. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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trump 2 is a permission structure that emboldens bosses of all kinds to exercise power unapologetically, cross red lines, threaten/punish workers with precarity, and tear down institutions only to rebuild them in their image www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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