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Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 4 hours ago • 56 comments

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1101 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

Wtf ?

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Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion in 2021, ProPublica found in a first-of-its-kind data analysis.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

As Trump makes concessions to Russia, he is showing weakness on a level unprecedented in modern US history. His position is so weak that it is unlikely to convince anyone. Trump is a sheep in wolf’s clothing. The wolves can tell the difference "The Weak Strongman" snyder.substack.com/p/the-weak-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 131 comments

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

What could go wrong ?

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Ketamine is a hell of a drug outside emergency medicine

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This is @murray.senate.gov's effort to track what Trump has cut. I'd love to crowdsource a way to make this a point of exchange, to collect info from contractors who've gotten cut off, and match it to what she's learning as Appropriations Ranking. www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

The Finns are closing ranks on the security situation. "The US has issued an ultimatum, demanding that Europe agree on the terms of Ukraine's surrender within three weeks. If not, the US intends to withdraw its forces from Eastern Europe," says MEP Mika Aaltola. www.hbl.fi/2025-02-20/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

This is so messed up

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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 1377 comments

One month in, and things are bleak. But it does seem personal resistance matters. MAGA voters didn't want tariffs and DOGE. They wanted "cat ladies" to give up and marry some MAGA douche. Not giving them the satisfaction isn't just fun. It's strategic. www.salon.com/2025/02/20/s...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 3 days ago • 570 comments

Trump: "Show up to work in person like the rest of us ... they're not working. They're playing tennis, they're playing golf. (Trump has been at his house and golfing all week.)

submitted 3 days ago • 207 comments

Ah yes, the "environmental warrior" is killing climate change programs. Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's latest www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

“Every American can do something—show up, walk out, call, sign up, demonstrate engagement.” The Musk-Trump axis thrives on chaos and intimidation, but resistance is growing. Thousands protested, DOJ lawyers resigned & NYC officials walked out. Jen Rubin explains.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 3 days ago • 407 comments

71 years old and finally achieving his dream of killing children. Not just some children here or there, like he's been doing, but thousands of children annually, systematically, by destroying one of the pillars of public health, one of the greatest achievements of humanity.

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

Tommy Robinson supporters network has links to Neo-Nazi groups and Russian hackers, Byline Times investigation reveals Members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

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“The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday ordered lawyers hired to represent unaccompanied children to stop working.”

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

By the way, the Chief of Criminal is a hugely important person in a U.S. Attorney’s Office, one of the 3 most important people. The involvement of someone that high-level in a decision about a prosecution suggests shenanigans.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

This is breaking my heart

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1. OSHA has ordered the digital and physical destruction of 18 publications on workplace safety practices, according to an email obtained by Popular Information. The email says the publications have been removed from the web and tells staff that physical copies should be "disposed of or recycled"

submitted 5 days ago • 483 comments

America is fucked. Workers are fucked.

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Vice President Vance gave two important speeches in Europe this week. Taken together, they show the foreign ambitions of the MAGA faction represented by DOGE and currently conducting a smash-and-grab across the U.S. government.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

After all we've seen in the past 3.5wks, I cannot believe anyone is confused about this. Musk. Owns. Trump. Trump sold Musk the functions of the Presidency; in return, Musk spent $250M to ensure Trump won instead of dying in prison. Trump just licenses his name to the deal: POTUS in name only.

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

submitted 6 days ago • 148 comments

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

submitted 8 days ago • 505 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 7 days ago • 326 comments

NEW: Scoop about the architect of the destruction of USAID. Pete Marocco was a USAID official in the first Trump Admin. On a trip to the Balkans, he secretly met with the Serb separatist leader. That was a no-no. Caused a big diplomatic incident. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments

Remember how they said they were going after criminals? That was funny.

submitted 8 days ago • 351 comments

New from me — “What it comes down to is the removal of choice, especially when it comes to established health care. People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science.”

submitted 7 days ago • 81 comments

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 8 days ago • 543 comments

Thank you @katiecouric.bsky.social And @hcrichardson.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Instead of prosecuting the mayor of America’s largest city with the ample evidence that he took bribes from a foreign government, the Trump administration decided to leave him in office, and use the threat of charges to blackmail him into carrying out their agenda. And they did it all in the open.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

This is how Jan6 happened in the first place: Bill Barr set up Proud Boys to report on imaginary leftists.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base. 📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

submitted 10 days ago • 466 comments

This is heartbreaking

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NEW This may be one of the most important cases. Doe 1-26 vs. Elon Musk and DOGE Complaint: "Attempted government takeover" in violation of the Appointments Clause. www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 126 comments

It’s really cool how some of the most hateable assholes on the planet are conducting foreign policy in our name

submitted 9 days ago • 69 comments