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Nights of BLUE SKIES (sound ) DAY28 FEBRUARY 2025 I am EMBARRASSED to be an American DEAR PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY On behalf of America, we APOLOGIZE TO YOU & all of Ukraine. Your Country did not deserve to be invaded by Russia. What happened today was an ambush led by Putin's lap dog

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McFaul: But we keep talking about Trump wants to do a deal to end the war. I'm not so sure that's true. I think he wants to do a deal with Putin. And the Ukraine thing is kind of a sideshow.

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Marco Rubio today.

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Zelensky didn't provoke Trump to take Russia's side. He was planning this all along. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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AMANPOUR (with face in hands): “Never have I ever ever ever seen anything like it… the president and VP were taking all the Putin talking points.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGolFp-...

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"I gotta be honest, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or the other" - JD Vance in 2022. Explains a lot of today's behavior.

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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

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contrarian.substack.com/p/ben-wikler... @benwikler.bsky.social explains the stakes- Elon wants a referendum on him? Game on

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The arc of @danamilbank.bsky.social going from one of the worst pundits to an actual good guy is pretty great.

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Great meeting with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers! When our unions are strong, Minnesota is strong.

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Notice how on the day Trump promises to release the Epstein files he actually releases Andrew Tate, another sex trafficking rapist.

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Russia’s greatest military asset is not any bomb, tank, plane or ship. It is the Republican Party.

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This is straight out of project 2025

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CALL TO ACTION: Call your representatives at (202) 224-3121 and ask what criteria they plan to use when “vetting” their constituents.

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It isn't about fentanyl, eggs, abortion, or freedom.It's about Trump/Elon/Putin destablizing every aspect of the United States for their own agenda (w/ Xi). World domination. Elon wants to be the first trillionaire. We’re nothing to them and should stop imagining they're anything but evil dictators

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these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

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Dissenting from the 5-4 win for POTUS in Zivotofsky v Kerry in 2015, Roberts strongly opposed letting Obama’s State Dept defy Congress’s command in foreign affairs — even when the power of the purse wasn’t at stake. In today’s suit against Trump’s State Dept, it is. www.google.com/gasearch?q=z...

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Republicans like Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger are trying to dismantle the Voting Rights Act. Please read.👇 www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rep...

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Lies, Cuts, Closures: Trump and Musk Ravage Social Security Administration First, the Trump administration closed field offices, then they fired online help workers. How will Americans access their benefits?

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Marco Rubio’s self-gelding proceeded apace this week, as he signed off on massive cuts in foreign aid programs that he had previously supported. (I’m tempted to call the Rubio this year’s Lindsey Graham, but I’m afraid that may turn out to be unfair to Lindsey.) open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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In the words of my man Thomas Paine, you know why they call it nobility — no-ability.

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An Arizona judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to upend election policies in Yavapai County. The decision delivered a blow to Stephen Miller's right-wing legal group which brought the challenge.

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Hold up your ✋ and repost this if you're participating…

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Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

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And here comes Rubella 💔 news4sanantonio.com/news/local/c...

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I appreciate the deep reporting here but would add one thing: This isn’t just an attack on the federal workforce. It’s an assault on the entire country. We ALL rely on government services that Musk is paralyzing. The impact of his cuts will only grow more horrific. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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This is what was talked about in project 2025 the unitary executive theory It’s bad! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/o...

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Sitting before me was the arc of one Black family’s history. Juan Benn Sr. never went to college, his path not extending beyond eastern Tennessee. But his son was wearing his shirt at the offices of [The Washington Post]. Juan Benn Sr. died 10 years ago today. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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This! 💯

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Expect Elon to make the government purchase swasticars and batteries to recoup his losses.

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U.S.-funded projects worldwide, including those providing lifesaving care for millions of people in countries such as Sudan and South Africa, received termination notices on Thursday sending shockwaves across the global aid community. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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"Your negative feelings are a healthy response to an unhealthy situation. ... Do not allow yourself to believe that what is happening in America in the Age of Trump is normal or routine. It is the opposite." Another brilliant piece by Chauncey Devega: www.salon.com/2025/02/28/s...

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“Though both Hitler and Hugenberg were fiercely anti-Communist, antidemocratic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic, their attempts at political partnership failed spectacularly and repeatedly.” Timothy W. Ryback on Hitler's relationship with his oligarchs: theatln.tc/Hy5fsNe5

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How it started/How it's going

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We're not owned by Jeff Bezos, so if you like your cartoons and news uncensored, subscribe to our monthly newsletter: cartoonmovement.substack.com The next issue will be sent out on Monday. Cartoons by Ramses and @mwcartoons.bsky.social #newsletter #news #politicalcartoons

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What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a radical takeover of the federal bureaucracy, driven with frenetic focus by Musk, who channeled libertarian impulses and resentment of oversight of his businesses into a singular position of power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Congressman Joe Neguse and Jen Rubin discuss Republican plan to Cut Medicaid open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.' A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Susan B. Glasser takes no prisoners with this column. Brilliant. 'the man who calls himself our King is more than delighted for his enemies to wallow offstage in their own weakness. Nature, and Trump, abhor a vacuum' www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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