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This was written about in project 2025

what democrats urgently need to understand is that there is a very real chance their party won't exist in anything resembling its present form -- or indeed at all -- in four years (via @mpbreen21.bsky.social)

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.

AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.” @apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/doge...

Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

1 year ago, after #AlexeiNavalny ’s death, surges of scams were posted to Facebook impersonating the Navalny team, Putin’s political opponents, or posing as credible news sources. @vchatelet.bsky.social & Kristina Gildejeva investigate: dfrlab.org/2025/02/25/n...

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Régis Genté: "Donald Trump a touché beaucoup d'argent" grâce à sa relation privilégiée avec la Russie www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...

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It’s the only way. And not just some of them—every single Democrat needs to boycott it.

Schiff: This is not who we are. We don’t bully an ally. We don’t take the side of a dictator. We’re just not what we saw displayed by the President of the United States today. I would say to our allies around the world that what they witnessed today might be Donald Trump, but it is not America.

"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.

To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing. The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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After a meeting between Pres. Zelensky and Pres. Trump ended in disaster, an administration official said the U.S. might cut off all aid to Ukraine completely -- even canceling arms shipments already authorized and paid for www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

This is one of the most shameful days in U.S. history. A weak, corrupt, deceitful, compromised Kremlinist U.S. president recruited his Yarvinist VP to gang up on a heroic ally on live TV. It devolved into a shouting match. Why? This report explains _exactly_ why:

Sometime in oh, 2019, 2020, when Marco Rubio was quoting Bible verses that were apropos of…nothing, I said on X that had he been in Castro’s Cuba he totally would have been an informer for the regime. Right wing trolls lambasted me (bc he’s Cuban and you can’t say that, I guess). Am I wrong?

In 2013, Trump tweeted that he wanted to be best friends with Putin. Nothing that happened today is a surprise. Trump has been looking to be Putin‘s wing man for a dozen years. This afternoon, he demonstrated his love for that tyrannical thug.

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

A glance at popular Japanese YouTube comments in response to a TBS report about the Trump-Zelensky meeting: "Heated argument in front of cameras: U.S.-Ukraine summit ends in discord" - no surprises here, it looked terrible from the perspective of a US ally. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aerO...

You would not treat a guest in your home — even one you really didn’t like — the way Trump and Vance treated Zelensky today.

Fuck Donald Trump Fuck JD Vance Fuck Marco Rubio Fuck Lindsey Graham Fuck ALL the spineless, hypocritical, lying, worthless, traitorous Republican bastards.

This was the plan all along

Republicans have constituents screaming at them about Elon deleting their jobs, but that has to come second to the whims of the world's richest man, who will dump money in their opponents' laps if they stray. Musk's GOP takeover is the culmination of a post-Citizens United USA.

“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj

HAYES: “The United States siding with Putin against democratic allies will have massive consequences for global politics for decades to come.”

Been a while since I did a late night BBC hit but I’m very eager to inform the rest of the world that not all Americans are disinformed, disrespectful cretins

The derogatory term “rubio” now has three meanings in American slang: 1) A spineless lump of nothing 2) The piece of shit you scrape off the bottom of your shoe 3) A person with no scruples or sense of morality Example: “Don’t be such a fucking rubio — just think of what your mother would say.”

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Edward VIII's relationship with Wallis Simpson was widely reported in the US, but UK press didn't until one Anglican priest made an ambiguously oblique allusion to it, that was taken as the establishment's signal, the floodgates opened and he abdicated a week later. I think about that sometimes.

“Any deal that allows Russia once again to avoid defeat would be a betrayal of the Ukrainians, a win for the Russians, and a blunder by the United States.” My latest. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ukra...

NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board comes out swinging against JD Vance. Indeed, key moment in downward spiral was Vance lashing out in response to Zelenskyy's point on diplomacy with Putin WSJ: "It is bewildering to see Mr. Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength."

“Bewildering”?? Seriously?? Perhaps the editorial writers at Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal should familiarize themselves with the propaganda broadcast on Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel.

If nothing else, and way too late, people who believed that government does nothing of value are now getting some remedial civic education.

“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

Zelensky, the ELECTED leader of a free country, should not be expected to kiss the ass of the toddler. His people expect Him to be strong. Trump would have fled where Zelensky stayed and fought. Trump is the worst negotiator

That Oval Office debacle today solidified two things: 1. The US is not a trusted ally 2. Zelensky is a hero