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submitted 22 hours ago • 918 comments

May I gently remind you that in the Budapest memorandum where Ukraine gave up the nukes, 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇷🇺 guaranteed “to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.” 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

Don’t be a nice person…

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Ukraine was warned it faced an imminent shutdown of Elon Musk’s vital Starlink satellite internet system unless it signed the extortion deal on rare earth minerals, Reuters reports.

submitted 2 days ago • 254 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 934 comments

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

submitted 4 days ago • 2370 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 4 days ago • 1382 comments

Excited to hear from Doug Jones and author Timothy Ryback this morning to get their take on the actions of the current administration. The webinar supports the Center for the Study of International Communications (CECI).

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 9 days ago • 853 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

No lie detected…

submitted 11 days ago • 533 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 14 days ago • 1165 comments

The cruelty is the point

submitted 17 days ago • 79 comments

How unfillable is the hole in your soul that one could be the literal richest person in the world and then be upset that America has an agency that helps the poorest in the world?

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

NEW: The board president of a small WV nonprofit says they haven't received their HHS funding since the Trump/Musk budget freeze. They had to lay off 3 of 5 employees on Friday. An 86-yr-old woman is counting on them to take her dialysis tomorrow. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 444 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 21 days ago • 1096 comments

As China continues to give money and projects to countries to gain influence, we are shutting down our agencies that do that. China is eating our lunch and Trump is the reason. Sorry folks, if you don’t see it you don’t understand how the world works. Period

submitted 21 days ago • 542 comments

All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire. This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy. It’s time to speak out and fight back. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 390 comments

Read this story from Ukrainian warzone

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 25 days ago • 331 comments

Despicable. It’s a joke to them. How very “Christ-like.”

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

submitted 26 days ago • 2741 comments

Please watch. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8FosWjT/

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

FYI: WH made ZERO posts on any social media platform on today’s Holocaust Remembrance Day

submitted 27 days ago • 29 comments

Happy Birthday to the leader of the free world. Slava Ukraini🇺🇦

submitted 29 days ago • 721 comments

The Ukrainian Navy has released footage of a ship-mounted VAMPIRE SAM system successfully intercepting a Russian Kh-59 short range cruise missile. This appears to be the first footage of a L3Harris VAMPIRE intercepting a Russian cruise missile with an APKWS laser-guided rocket

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

First read of 2025 - Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney. Thoroughly enjoying!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Not all companies are capitulating to drop DEI. Some are reaffirming that respecting and valuing their employees is good for business: Goldman Sachs, Costco and JPMorgan Chase. abcnews.go.com/Business/com...

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.

submitted 30 days ago • 62 comments

Bishop Mariann Budde wrote a book entitled “How We Learn To Be Brave”, published in May 2023. I went to buy it today and it is sold out in local bookstores! I will not purchase it from Amazon so I’ll put myself on a wait list and get it when it’s back in stock, but WOW, do I love this for her!

submitted 31 days ago • 619 comments

Leaving this here.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

NYT: “President Trump on Wednesday revoked a 60-year-old executive order banning discrimination in hiring practices in the federal government…”

submitted 32 days ago • 46 comments

Right? 🎯

submitted 32 days ago • 519 comments

And no one who could see past the propaganda is surprised.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Posted without further context.

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

The pardons of the rioters are about more than just rewards, it’s a signal to the future. My latest adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trump-pard...

submitted 33 days ago • 632 comments

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

submitted 34 days ago • 838 comments

If you find yourself in want of an ereader, consider not buying a Kindle. There are tons of alternatives so do some research before buying one! I have a Pocketbook Era Color and I love it but I’ve heard good things about Kobos, too. They don’t require you to constantly pay Bezos for books! #booksky

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

The mood in America today:

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video! Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.

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