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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.

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I called my senators and representatives and told them the truth: that NOAA and NWS are essential to human safety, the success of small businesses, and a healthy environment (including sustainable fisheries) here in Florida.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

I am ashamed to be an American today. I stand with Ukraine. I stand with Canada. I stand with Panama. I stand with Greenland. I stand with Europe.

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

Donald Trump has betrayed America. If you couldn’t see it before, you just saw it today.

submitted 2 days ago • 944 comments

Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

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This morning I went to John Lewis Middle School to watch a class taught by Brian Greene. 4 days a week he teaches botany. On Fridays, he teaches the kids how to cook using plants they’ve grown in the school’s gardens.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War. This timeless principle emphasizes the resilience of resistance, finding strength even in the most challenging circumstances.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 2 days ago • 863 comments

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 2 days ago • 932 comments

We all agree Governor Walz!

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 754 comments

The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.

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Again, @repjasmine.bsky.social Thank you. ❤️💙🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

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FIRED These folks and thousands, more like them are not examples of government “waste” and “fraud”. Elon Musk and Donald Trump are lying to us!

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

I’m an American patriot who stands with the brave people of Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I despise Trump and Putin!!

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

You do realize we've never had presidents threaten to wipe blue OR red states off the map, and if you support a president who does whether their politics line up with yours or not—you're kind of a sh*tty human being and a lousy American, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 287 comments

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submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

Interesting timing here between this and OPM's reversal. I'd bet cash money that DoJ got this motion for sanctions on Sunday, called OPM to tell them to knock it the fuck off, and then today OPM accordingly knocked it the fuck off.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Courage Has A Name - 🇺🇦 Please share… 🔁

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

submitted 7 days ago • 983 comments

The Texas Department of State Health Services confirmed at least 90 cases of measles in the South Plains region of the state. At least 90 confirmed cases of a rapidly growing outbreak — across seven counties. Only five of the 90 patients had been vaccinated. The outbreak has resulted in 16…

submitted 6 days ago • 513 comments

I love this sign! A lady at our rally today - in support of federal workers- gave it to me. ❤️

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Vegetable planting machines in AZ. The way the machines work is hundreds of small plants are loaded onto the belt and the worker then drops them into a circular wheel so they drop in evenly spaced intervals onto the ground. They can drop up to 45-60 plants per minute. #WeFeedYou

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 9 days ago • 2519 comments

Do this. Say this. 👇🏻

submitted 7 days ago • 709 comments

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 7 days ago • 2642 comments

Terrible news: MSNBC is cancelling my friend Joy Reid's show. It's reportedly part of a shake up at MSNBC. She is a unique, powerful voice who has always taken the fight to those in power. But big corporate media outlets like Comcast never likes that. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

submitted 7 days ago • 133 comments

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

submitted 7 days ago • 673 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 8 days ago • 1586 comments

“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 8 days ago • 589 comments

"These resemble the Nuremberg laws that steadily stripped Jews of their citizenship and finally personhood We are a family of Jews. The lessons of the Holocaust are burned into us at an early age. So while I'm feeling the trap closing at work, I'm also feeling it close around the country as a whole"

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I am begging every Democratic committee, PAC, and candidate to get control of your damn email program right now and stop sending tone deaf fundraising emails that have nothing to do with what's happening. Stop listening to focus groups from a month ago. Stop the 2 approved talking points.

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In case you missed yesterday’s speech, here is Trudeau’s powerful speech on the Trump tariffs www.youtube.com/live/PnvyrKv...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I don't care what those soulless bastards say, today is the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth We have to celebrate our diversity, because that is where we all draw our strength. Art by American artist Michael Rosato

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

@senatedemocrats.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and offer them to small to medium size businesses. Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations . Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ? Thoughts ?

submitted 29 days ago • 4164 comments

Musk loves the pro-Nazi Afd party in Germany, praises criminal and racist Tommy Robinson, and loves the Nazi salute. That's fine. But according to him USAID which literally saves lives around the world is "evil" and a "criminal organization." This is what you voted for, America.

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

1. Do not quit. 2. Stay in touch with Union.** 3. Remove personal belongings. 4. Make a written request for personnel file 5. Make copies of all performance evals that don’t contain classified info (thanks to @markzaidesq.bsky.social for the classified reminder).

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

We The People, the Patriotic Americans, actually swear to uphold the U.S. Constitution and to defend the United States against all enemies: foreign AND DOMESTIC!

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I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

submitted 29 days ago • 134 comments

All six of the FBI's top executives have been pushed out. This is a Hostile Takeover. I repeat this is a Hostile Takeover.

submitted 29 days ago • 287 comments

Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

submitted 29 days ago • 279 comments