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Deborah Garrison offers a poem about watching Timothée Chalamet's transporting performance in "A Complete Unknown" and what may be lost in translation between the generations.

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⚡️Austria offers to host Ukraine peace negotiations, ambassador says. Europe must participate in potential peace talks "not only because we are the biggest donors but because Ukraine is a European country fighting for our values and freedom," Austrian Ambassador to Ukraine Arad Benko said.

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French President Emmanuel Macron will host a meeting of European leaders on Monday to discuss the situation in Ukraine.

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

If only there had been some kind of warning - on.ft.com/40Zncmv

submitted 14 days ago • 215 comments

The memes are still coming many days later.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

Having passed up the opportunity years ago to run DOJ’s Civil Division, I’ve never run a large organization, let alone at DOJ. So I’m no expert. But I’m gonna spitball that if hundreds of your subordinates want to tell you to “go fuck yourself,” you might, perhaps, have a management problem.

submitted 15 days ago • 292 comments

Good advice ⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 509 comments

The BBC presenter asked Sebastian Gorka: "Have you just handed victory to President Putin on a plate?"

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Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

submitted 17 days ago • 1351 comments

Imagine you're just some 30-something guy who converts to one of the world's major religions and in less than a decade its spiritual leader is rebuking you in front of the entire world That's how big a loser JD Vance is apnews.com/article/pope...

submitted 18 days ago • 95 comments

Trust me, bro.

submitted 20 days ago • 3255 comments

It's getting a little North Korean around here.

submitted 21 days ago • 2540 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 22 days ago • 6588 comments

The Alliance for Retired Americans filed a lawsuit against Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary for disclosing information and treasury data to DOGE. A hearing on the restraining order is at 3:00. 🍿

submitted 23 days ago • 529 comments

The Trump-Bannon convo. "They say Elon’s talking secretly with JD and Tucker about 'managing' me and telling the press I’m losing it and gradually edging me aside. I’m stuck with JD. But Elon’s gotta go...Steve, I need you to figure out how I can get rid of Elon." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-stev...

submitted 22 days ago • 173 comments

"Stop the Coup!" Scene at Treasury.

submitted 24 days ago • 533 comments

“The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point.” snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-... @timothysnyder.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

submitted 27 days ago • 1110 comments

Trump just ordered 2 dams opened up in California in an unprecedented move that risks depleting the reservoirs ahead of the dry summer months. And the kicker? The water from the dams doesn't even flow to Los Angeles.

submitted 28 days ago • 891 comments

The deportees included two pregnant women and more than 20 children, Colombian officials said. Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo: “Being a migrant is not a crime" @schmidtsam.bsky.social reports from Bogotá with @mariasacchetti.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Excellent post

submitted 33 days ago • 2081 comments

Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines: "The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."

submitted 33 days ago • 60 comments

Another non-shocker: Trump revokes the cap on Medicare and Medicaid prescription drug costs. Watch for him to take steps to privatize these programs.

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some news: David Shipley, The Post's opinions editor, urged Ann Telnaes to reconsider her resignation on a call earlier Friday. He wanted them both to take the weekend to think things over. By this evening, she had resigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

submitted 56 days ago • 52 comments

Trump scuttled a bipartisan spending bill in order to shield the Chinese investments of the richest man in the world and to protect the profits of second-largest pharmacy benefit manager UnitedHealth Group. Some populist!

submitted 68 days ago • 42 comments

What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights? Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com‬ reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.

submitted 96 days ago • 20 comments