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From France in the American Revolution to NATO today, U.S. allies have shaped history. A scholar reviews how they’ve helped secure independence, defend freedom, and keep the peace. By Donald Heflin, Tufts University 🗃️ #diplomacy #EU https://buff.ly/4i9OEoK

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Elon Musk isn’t just trying to bypass all checks and balances, ignore popular will, plunder our public goods, and wreck the world. As we protest this vandalism, we need to remember that he aims to build a future in which we have nothing left to defend.

submitted 10 hours ago • 41 comments

As @monacharen.bsky.social warns, Trump and his minions have set the world on a dark, extremely perilous path...and not in a direction toward "peace." www.nationalmemo.com/trump-putin-...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Germans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

So #Trump's toy press secretary still invents "alternative facts" and smears journalism -- but 47 has a new social media tool to promote the lies. www.nationalmemo.com/trump-social...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Can you guess how many days #Trump has played golf during "working" hours since January 20? While complaining about the "lazy" federal workforce.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

this is barely more than 'white people were promised this wouldn't happen to us'

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will NOT allow the Trump admin to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants.

submitted 4 days ago • 86 comments

Oh my God if this is true

submitted 4 days ago • 853 comments

This was posted to my X account a few minutes ago (I deleted it immediately). To my knowledge I have not been hacked, was not the victim of a phishing scam, and I have two factor on. What could possibly explain it?

submitted 4 days ago • 427 comments

Every Democrat should be telling this story.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

@jamisonfoser.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

At a Drive By Truckers' show in GA, Patterson Hood opened with the first verse of The Band’s 'Up On Cripple Creek' : "When I get off of this mountain / I’ll tell you where I’m gonna go / straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of..." And then what... www.findinggravity.net/p/go-ahead-p...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans once lavished praise on an NIH center that deals with Alzheimer’s. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are hobbling it. What will those Republicans say now?

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Why does #Musk need our confidential #socialsecurity data? He’s already lying about the program without it.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“Read this immediately,” went the subject line of a termination email received by one federal worker. For another, it was the prepaid UPS label that showed up without warning — along with instructions for returning the work computer they were using.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

Of course it’s working. That’s why #Trump wants to kill it.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The programme, where drivers paid to enter the busiest areas of Manhattan during peak hours, had been working, according to early data, with bridge and tunnel rush-hour speeds increasing. www.ft.com/content/cd79...

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

#Bannon isn't letting up on his nemesis #Musk -- in fact, his attacks on the billionaire are even angrier. But why isn't he mad at #Trump? www.nationalmemo.com/bannon-berat...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#HouseRepublicans are perfectly willing to kill red state voters (and their kids) with #Medicaid cuts if it means passing a tax cut for rich donors. That's what their budget means. www.nationalmemo.com/medicaid

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

WATCH: Trump blames Ukraine for being invaded by Russia, scoffs at the idea that Ukraine deserves a seat at the table, throws Zelensky under the bus, and capitulates to Putin in every possible way. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGOuUOX...

submitted 5 days ago • 363 comments

At the behest of Wall Street donors, Congressional Republicans are trying to overturn the CFPB's new rule against predatory overdraft fees. The rule would have capped overdraft charges at $5, saving consumers $5B annually. The GOP is the party of junk fees.

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

If your news program invites Dollar General Himmler on, I’m diving for the remote

submitted 5 days ago • 172 comments

Trump closed the Kennedy Library.

submitted 5 days ago • 179 comments

Yep, DOGE is as incompetent as everyone thought. An $8 million "saving" has been listed as an $8 BILLION saving. That is 14.5% of their total claimed $55 billion in "savings" having been completely made up.

submitted 5 days ago • 278 comments

"Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Jim Moran (Kansas) and Steve Daines (Mont.) were all co-sponsors of this law. None responded to requests for comment."

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

Did you see how Ukraine was dressed? It was asking for it.

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

This is a concerning milestone. Bringing new investigations and prosecutions is different than just dismissing cases against allies.

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

Right. They're going to split the Ukraine spoils and work together to harm Europe, their common enemy. (A modern Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact = Lavrov-Rubio?)

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

"Native-born Americans consume, on an average per capita basis, more welfare and entitlement benefits than all immigrants, and this pattern has held for several years across data from multiple datasets analyzed with different methods" www.cato.org/briefing-pap...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

OIL SPILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: “The sudden departure of Justice Department veteran Denise Cheung comes a day after President Donald Trump announced his nominee to lead the prosecutor’s office, Ed Martin, who has supported unwinding all January 6 criminal cases that the office brought.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

#WestPoint grad @lktiv.bsky.social reveals how our reformed military academy -- once an impregnable bastion of racism, antisemitism, and misogyny -- threatens the draft-dodging commander-in-chief and his front men www.nationalmemo.com/trump-nomine...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

How #TrumpAdministration celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth --- and mocks its #BlackMAGA dupes www.nationalmemo.com/trump-nomine...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Of course Pete Hegseth should be blamed for his incompetence and screw-ups. But spare some blame for Trump, Vance, and the Senate Republicans who voted to confirm him, too. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

I am not going to let Trump and his cronies scare us. I am more focused today than ever. I am more motivated today than ever. I feel so fortunate to be on the front lines fighting alongside you against the Trump regime. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

I should say, House Ways and Means ALSO should be asking why DOGE is snooping in your tax records.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

True.

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

‘The US Is Doing Russia’s Work’ Say Ecstatic Propagandists Putin’s mouthpieces are in a lather of excitement over the US administration’s willingness to make a deal to their liking. My latest for @cepa.org: cepa.org/article/the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 40 comments

Do it @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedem.bsky.social.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 5 days ago • 1419 comments

Hating on federal workers means hating on American veterans -- both of which come naturally to draft-evading #Trump, #Musk and their frontman #Hegseth. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk’s unparalleled online reach has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE, with one post able to spark hundreds of blistering responses from his followers.

submitted 6 days ago • 212 comments

The first visit by top U.S. officials to Europe has left the impression that the Trump administration was ready to embrace the Kremlin while it cold-shouldered many of its age-old European allies.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

“The reason why this is bad is the very fact that it’s transparently ridiculous: It shows how this is becoming a Kim Jong-Un-style cult of personality."

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

🗣 ' They could leave critical holes in America's key security infrastructure' Are DOGE's actions a hostile takeover of Washington and the start of a constitutional crisis? 🎙️The Story podcast

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

“We’re going to leave people abandoned,” says leading bioethicist Dr. Ruth Faden. Faden discusses the Trump administration’s abrupt shutdown of USAID-funded clinical trials, ending access to critical healthcare for patients across the world. www.democracynow.org/2025/2/17/us...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Donald Trump’s administration has begun indiscriminately culling scores of people who keep air travel safe, despite four deadly plane crashes during his first two months as president.

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

submitted 6 days ago • 106 comments