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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.” 🧵

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Kristi Noem wants to use a flamethrower against the government. More unhinged behavior from MAGA Republicans.

submitted 5 hours ago • 169 comments

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

submitted 7 hours ago • 319 comments

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

submitted 5 hours ago • 46 comments

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 13 hours ago • 54 comments

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 6 hours ago • 169 comments

This is how it’s done!

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👋👋 runforsomething.net/donate to help build the biggest pipeline of young leaders on the left.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1232 comments

They continue to tell this debunked lie 🤥 for a reason: so when they cut social security to pave the way for their tax cuts for the rich you think they had an actual reason to do it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 387 comments

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Gift article

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 23 hours ago • 337 comments

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1877 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 13 hours ago • 1198 comments

This. Is. Insane.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1421 comments

He nails it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1328 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

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

submitted 13 hours ago • 51 comments

It’s very important that all of our spies all around the world have blond hair and blue eyes and speak only English.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Another national security nightmare happening before our eyes

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

What protection! So protected! >> "A sex-screening policy, if it were put into place, would impact over 500,000 student-athletes across the country — in sports like golf, tennis, swimming, and lacrosse — and potentially expose them to invasive exams or require them to submit to genetic testing."

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Gift article

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 hours ago • 95 comments

russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship, an economy and political system in decline under a government that stopped investing in human capital decades ago. the united states alliance with europe is far more valuable and should be treated as such by american leaders.

submitted 19 hours ago • 27 comments

What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching- truly I do not know. Mary Oliver

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Trump is doing things that are unpopular and hurt Americans because he knows there won’t be any more elections. He believes he is untouchable.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 22 hours ago • 565 comments

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

submitted 1 day ago • 467 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Trump benefits from the bully pulpit of the presidency, a legislative branch that has contracted out all of its autonomy, and Elon’s unlimited funding—but if he loses popular support, none of those things will matter. And we’re already seeing the tide turn. McCormick’s district (below) is R+22.

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

KUDLOW: "There could be some short term, one-off price hikes. But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good." 😬😬😬

submitted 1 day ago • 441 comments

Tracker

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 5 days ago • 78 comments

Elon Musk is off his rocker crazy! My god this man has all our sensitive data!

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

Kristi Noem wants to use a flamethrower against the government. More unhinged behavior from MAGA Republicans.

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

Even Elon Musk's own AI knows what Musk is really doing.

Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

This is how it’s done!

👋👋 runforsomething.net/donate to help build the biggest pipeline of young leaders on the left.

200 million dollars of waste.

They continue to tell this debunked lie 🤥 for a reason: so when they cut social security to pave the way for their tax cuts for the rich you think they had an actual reason to do it.

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Gift article

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

This. Is. Insane.

He nails it.

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...

When these inaccuracies were first found, they could be called "mistakes." When DOGE took efforts to cover them up, they can no longer be considered "mistakes."

It’s very important that all of our spies all around the world have blond hair and blue eyes and speak only English.

Another national security nightmare happening before our eyes

What protection! So protected! >> "A sex-screening policy, if it were put into place, would impact over 500,000 student-athletes across the country — in sports like golf, tennis, swimming, and lacrosse — and potentially expose them to invasive exams or require them to submit to genetic testing."

Gift article

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship, an economy and political system in decline under a government that stopped investing in human capital decades ago. the united states alliance with europe is far more valuable and should be treated as such by american leaders.

What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching- truly I do not know. Mary Oliver

Trump is doing things that are unpopular and hurt Americans because he knows there won’t be any more elections. He believes he is untouchable.

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments? LEAVITT: It's a clever question

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

they are telling us they are intentionally burning the economy to the ground, never seen anything like it

KUDLOW: "There could be some short term, one-off price hikes. But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good." 😬😬😬

Tracker

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

Elon Musk is off his rocker crazy! My god this man has all our sensitive data!

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Shooting ourselves in the foot again.