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New in PN: Arresting judges is a 5-alarm escalation "It’s not just that Dugan was arrested, but how she was arrested. The whole point was to cause a scene. There’s no allegation she was attempting to evade arrest, but the FBI still forced a sitting judge to do a perp walk at her place of work."

submitted 1 day ago • 961 comments

Couple killed holding hands as Russia rained missiles and drones on Kyiv overnight.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Macron shook one hand.

submitted 3 days ago • 4865 comments

Extremely excited to announce that @phillipspobrien.bsky.social has invited me to become a co-contributor to his substack ! I will start writing a weekly column on European security. Really looking forward to this collaboration with Phillips, whose analysis I’m an an avid reader of.

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

submitted 19 days ago • 2333 comments

The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.

submitted 26 days ago • 488 comments

The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed Russian occupiers who attempted an assault near Andriivka in Donetsk region. Losses in Russian armored vehicles: 12 units, seven of which were completely destroyed. Glory! 📹: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

submitted 26 days ago • 22 comments

Fucking idiot.

submitted 26 days ago • 676 comments

Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.

submitted 26 days ago • 249 comments

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

submitted 26 days ago • 2137 comments

loser

submitted 27 days ago • 81 comments

Midterms can’t come soon enough.

submitted 27 days ago • 445 comments

Anyway, he just lost.

submitted 27 days ago • 655 comments

👏 👏 👏

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.

submitted 27 days ago • 1534 comments

Regardless of anything else about the Wisconsin race, it's just a relief to learn that money can't always buy elections

submitted 27 days ago • 414 comments

Ending a war in 24 hours sometimes takes months or years, especially when you’re really just the agent of one of the world’s worst people.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

Happy Liberation Day everyone, the day on which we commemorate being liberated from our leadership role in the global economy, from growth, from vast numbers of jobs, and from better futures for our children. Trumponomics is junkonomics, the stupidest, most destructive of all policy approaches.

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 36 days ago • 422 comments

Direct evidence of criminal election bribery under Wis. Stat. §12.11: “‘My name’s Ekaterina Deistler,’ she said in a video posted Monday morning. ‘I did exactly what Elon Musk told everyone to do: sign the petition, refer friends and family, vote, and now I have a million dollars.’”

submitted 27 days ago • 654 comments

Thurmond was the same age as Booker when he set the record Senator Cory Booker just broke. Thurmond was afforded a bathroom break and read from the encyclopedia. Booker held the floor the entire time and delivered a consistent, cogent speech for more than 24 hours. Incredible.

submitted 27 days ago • 113 comments

A video appeared in Russian Telegram channels that reportedly shows the aftermath of a strike on a Russian airfield located in the village of Ivnya,Belgorod region Reportedly,the strike was carried out using HIMARS M30A2 As a result 4 helicopters –two Ka-52&two Mi-8 –were critically damaged

submitted 27 days ago • 33 comments

They really tried to buy the election, till the very end

submitted 27 days ago • 78 comments

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

submitted 27 days ago • 523 comments

Trump says Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins are being “unbelievably disloyal” for introducing a bill to reverse his Canada tariffs.

submitted 27 days ago • 673 comments

Every time I dipped in he was talking about health care for seniors & disabled, veterans benefits, democracy, tax cuts for billionaires, tariffs, selling out our allies, etc, while doing something this small, petty, weak propagandist could never do physically or intellectually.

submitted 27 days ago • 430 comments

🫡 Last week, in the southern Donetsk direction "Vuhledar" tactical group repelled 226 attacks. Russian losses: ☠️ 1206 occupiers wounded and destroyed; 🔥 14 tanks; 💥 26 armored vehicles; 🔥 160 cars, motorcycles and buggies; 🔥 24 communication and EW antennas.

submitted 28 days ago • 23 comments

Howard Lutnick's Wall Street firm blasts RFK Jr.: Kennedy “is steering this country into dangerous territory based on his own whims and invalidated beliefs.” “He’s ventured far outside of his swim lane. It’s time to take him out of the pool.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 28 days ago • 21 comments

“Beautiful thing to watch.”

submitted 28 days ago • 1523 comments

Pay attention to who he is hurting most with these cuts.

submitted 28 days ago • 167 comments

The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”

submitted 28 days ago • 38 comments

Musk has so much to say about German and French and British and Ukrainian and South African internal politics but never a word about China or Russia. Strange, right? 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/elon...

submitted 28 days ago • 234 comments

Democratic Super Attorney Marc Elias: "We need to be laser-focused, everyone, not just on what outrageous thing he's doing here and outrageous thing he's doing there, but we need to really be focused to make sure that we're protecting our elections." Spot on!

submitted 28 days ago • 87 comments

People in Alabama, Texas and New Mexico have reported receiving seeds in packages apparently sent from China, prompting officials in those states to warn residents not to plant them because the seeds could sprout into invasive plants.

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments

We have yet to receive adequate information from Homeland Security about the recent news of Minnesota students being detained by ICE. Snatching up students who come here legally to work hard and get an education does not make you tough on immigration. We need answers.

submitted 28 days ago • 164 comments

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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I still believe Trump is going to water down the tariffs & back off quite a bit when he announces details on Wed. He may just go ahead at this point to try & prove everyone wrong about the impact, but he has to be getting tons of calls from Republicans in Congress & Wall Street.

submitted 28 days ago • 295 comments

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressed strong words of support: "The abduction of Ukrainian children is grotesque. The UK will play our full part to bring them home.It's a stark reminder that any peace settlement must see Russia held accountable for their deplorable actions,"he said.

submitted 34 days ago • 43 comments

May?

submitted 34 days ago • 36 comments

Tulsi Gabbard refused three times to say if she was on the Signal group chat. John Ratcliffe said he was on the chat after Gabbard's refusal.

submitted 35 days ago • 211 comments

"at this point we should assume that the same combination of incompetence and bad intentions that afflicts national security and budget policy applies to everything the Trump administration touches." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/incompeten...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Listen everyone. I’ve see classified stuff before. This in the Atlantic is the kind of stuff that gets the highest classification. I had to have TS clearance to hear the names of the people we targeted in Iraq when i was with TF16 and 17. And still some names were withheld until op was over….

submitted 34 days ago • 958 comments

You can’t get to peace by repeating the obvious lies of the aggressor. Even if you have no moral qualms about becoming the propagandist of a foreign power, practically speaking it just can’t work.

submitted 36 days ago • 46 comments

Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.

submitted 36 days ago • 119 comments

I’m crying.

submitted 36 days ago • 56 comments

Incredible. Powerful. Tragic. Please share.

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

Part 1 on neighbors being disappeared by the US government.

submitted 36 days ago • 240 comments

This was so much fun to do. A great conversation on a late Saturday afternoon with Joyce. We discuss her new book, how we met, and of course our dogs Bella, Elsa, and Innis. In short, a wonderful Saturday afternoon get together. Here is the recording:

submitted 44 days ago • 27 comments