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Not a crackpot source. Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s security service, who rose up the ranks of the Soviet KGB, claims Moscow groomed Trump under pseudonym “Krasnov” in 1987. #krasnov www.kyivpost.com/post/47630

'“With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, to warn against the ways that what he called elective despotism can become a self-feeding cycle.' www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

Helpful explanations here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

A federal judge has blocked a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, finding it likely violates free-speech rights and granting an injunction blocking it as a lawsuit plays out.

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

abcnews.go.com/Politics/att...

Excellent read from Zephyr Teachout @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

europe’s best shot at leverage with trump (& helping save ukraine): seize the $300 billion in frozen russian assets and transfer them 1) to rebuild ukraine 2) to buy american arms to defend ukraine. there’s nothing more america first than using russian money to pay for american defense systems.

Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

“The White House has assured the public it’s snot a permanent change.” nypost.com/2025/02/20/u...

Indeed. www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Well, talk about a drop in the bucket for Soto. Spring training is off! ⚾️ batter up Phils!

We are in the process of losing the underpinnings of American leadership in scientific and medical research. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

Meanwhile, “Russia believes it is in conflict with what it calls ‘the collective West,’ and is acting accordingly, up to and including threatening us with nuclear attack and building up its military” from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...