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Call your Senators & Reps tomorrow morning, especially the GOP ones, & demand support for Ukraine. Every GOP official needs to be asked if they are behind Trump & believe we should ally with Putin over Zelensky.

submitted 29 minutes ago • 53 comments

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1769 comments

NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

submitted 13 hours ago • 120 comments

I remember the wonderful days when such displays of unity were led by the United States, not aimed at it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 89 comments

This was the plan all along

submitted 7 hours ago • 117 comments

If nothing else, and way too late, people who believed that government does nothing of value are now getting some remedial civic education.

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

submitted 17 hours ago • 242 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin" www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

submitted 4 hours ago • 184 comments

The board of Virginia Military Institute voted on Friday against extending the contract of Major General Cedric Wins, the college’s first Black superintendent.

submitted 9 hours ago • 129 comments

accidentally got so irritated with the United States that I have been quoted in the New York Times

submitted 9 hours ago • 52 comments

huh weird!

submitted 8 hours ago • 173 comments

After World War I, Germany had to fork over billions to cover damages. After World War II, Japan was forced to pay reparations. But with Ukraine, Trump is flipping history upside down by demanding that the invaded, not the invader, pay up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 34 comments

All the "Don't show up" folks need to think harder about what that will look like on TV: Trump. Beaming behind him, Vance and Johnson. In the room, wall-to-wall GOP toadies. That is not a win for Dems, nor is some "alternative SOTU" gimmick that won't be on TV. The answer isn't always "Unsubscribe."

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

A disgraceful day.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1008 comments

SCOOP: The Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which had seemed to be in retreat, has claimed a new victim: a four-year-old boy who died on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by The New York Times. nyti.ms/4h5Qfed

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

Great minds grovel alike.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

There are many good answers to this, but "Don't go" and "Boycott" are not among them. This is television. Television is one of the only things Trump cares about. Don't allow that room to be filled only with his admirers. Shout back, disrupt, challenge, boo, fight. Mess up his show and make it yours.

submitted 12 hours ago • 91 comments

A federal judge said on Friday that it seemed “factually inaccurate” for the Trump administration to keep insisting that Elon Musk has no formal position in an operation that has led to mass firings of federal workers and the hobbling of the nation’s foreign aid agency.

submitted 11 hours ago • 52 comments

I totally get why JD Vance's real dad abandoned him.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

this was always the agenda and some of us said so and were called hysterical bsky.app/profile/jame...

submitted 13 hours ago • 41 comments

Wow. Republican and Independent state legislative leaders in Alaska write to the state's all Republican Congressional delegation with a dire warning:

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. “The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/5tozgdyn

submitted 13 hours ago • 183 comments

Silver lining, I guess: With one White House meeting, Trump and Vance managed to unite all of Europe today.

submitted 13 hours ago • 46 comments

Did you know Medicaid is the largest health insurance program in America? Or that Social Security is something you pay into & is an earned benefit? @hshierholz.bsky.social is right - expanding these programs, not slashing them, is how we help America's working families.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 13 hours ago • 577 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Gee…

submitted 14 hours ago • 53 comments

USAID cancels large contracts of Georgia peanut butter supplier www.ajc.com/news/georgia...

submitted 21 hours ago • 70 comments

The idea that Putin is a diplomatic partner for anybody is absurd. We’re trusting the wrong people.

submitted 13 hours ago • 34 comments

worth saying again that this was a bait and switch. if trump had openly announced he was running on allowing companies to discriminate against women and minorities he would not have won wapo.st/43aVQg1

submitted 13 hours ago • 223 comments

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

submitted 14 hours ago • 167 comments

i think it's good and cool that the united states is transforming itself into a gangster state that acts little more as a supplicant to putin

submitted 14 hours ago • 117 comments

New data on Friday showed a little progress with inflation, but also an unexpected pullback in consumer spending, complicating the path forward for the Federal Reserve as it debates when to restart interest rate cuts.

submitted 14 hours ago • 37 comments

To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 14 hours ago • 50 comments

Personal liberty and free markets, amirite?

submitted 14 hours ago • 20 comments

Lest you think we’ve done enough damage to our international alliances recently, here’s your reminder that we have tariffs against Canada and Mexico scheduled for Tuesday that Trump has to spend a news cycle making up another reason to “negotiate” away

submitted 14 hours ago • 9 comments

Credit where it's due: The WaPo and NYT both have strong ledes and headlines rightly describing what happened today as Trump and Vance attacking and berating Ukraine's leader. CBS, CNN and WSJ by contrast, are stuck in passive tense nonsense where stuff "happened" and the US leaders reacted.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Who needs a pee tape! Remember Helsinki? And the day when he brought the Russians into the Oval alone & insisted on no notes? You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to understand how dark all of this is, how venal & hollow & easy to play he is

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1555 comments

It's not necessarily the most important part of today's Oval Office debacle, but Vance suggested that Zelenskyy has never thanked the U.S. for its support — and that's demonstrably ridiculous. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 15 hours ago • 203 comments

EU foreign policy chief: “.. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader.” @kajakallas.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 147 comments

Dear #MAGA when they cut your Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and SNAP, when they take away your overtime & unemployment benefits & cut your wages, when your food is no longer safe to eat, know that we liberals/Dems weren't fighting against you, we were fighting for you.

submitted 21 hours ago • 55 comments

2 million people now in peril. 2 million! www.rescue.org/article/unit...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Yet another Duffy comment that reflects profound ignorance about how discipline and accountability work in aviation world, and how culture of safety that Trump, Musk, Duffy, Doge are now dismantling was originally built. (Somebody ask him if he knows what ASRS is) www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

Oh my, my. When Trump doesn’t get what he wants a tantrum ensues. This time his tantrum was shown in front of the world press. Big mistake. Optical mistake. Tactical mistake. Europe will take it from here, and we will defeat Putin. Slava Ukraini!

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments