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Here I am this morning in the Washington Post on the Trump Administration's defiance of an "apportionment transparency" law Congress passed to rein in abuses like the first-term Ukraine shakedown. wapo.st/3FXgjey

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Very clear the USA needs everyone to speak up & denounce authoritarianism - yes that includes CEOs who have been playing a cowardly hedge game with fascism. Protests this week on Sat 5 April. There will be one near you. Everyone has a voice. Make it be heard.

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The Economist is very mad

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You don’t say ….

submitted 29 days ago • 274 comments

Politico: The figures who represented the Trump administration in secret talks with political opponents of Zelensky were: Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Tucker Carlson, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff. All are on the record as anti-Ukrainian.

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“The Golden Age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.” -Donald Trump, January 20, 2025.

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You think it’s an accident Tesla sales are down almost 80% in Germany? They know what his salute meant.

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Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’

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Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

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The Economist: "THEY TALKED by phone for over two hours, but Vladimir Putin left Donald Trump with almost nothing to show for it—a slap in the face that only a man possessed of unbounded chutzpah could pretend was a win."

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Read this declaration. A professional soccer player has been imprisoned in El Salvador and forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos and a single, innocent hand gesture. This is why the administration is withholding due process. It knows its targets could prove their innocence.

submitted 43 days ago • 91 comments

Basically, the far right accurately identified the weak point in liberal democracy: mainstream media institutions that were collapsing and therefore easy to purchase or pressure, combined with a public that got most of its information from an almost totally unstructured info ecosystem.

submitted 43 days ago • 31 comments

An unknown new air defense system with R-73 aircraft missiles in service with the Third Assault Brigade of Ukraine. mil.in.ua/uk/news/tret...

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I've been screaming it for years: the right in Canada is headed down an American-style path on almost every issue because the right-wing media plays that tune, and the right-wing pretend media plays that tune. It's headed in one direction, and we have never had a clearer view of where that leads.

submitted 43 days ago • 477 comments

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

submitted 43 days ago • 961 comments

Russia's long range bomber fleet is the other Achilles Heel in Putin's war machine, an inherited and irreplaceable tool of terror. Now, Ukraine is going after it. kyivinsider.com/ukrainian-fo...

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😍😍

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An article telling the story of Jackie Robinson's Army career is no longer is accessible on the Department of Defense's website. Asked Josiah Gray and Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro League Baseball Museum, for their thoughts. w/@cindyboren.bsky.social

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Kirsty Coventry's election as the first female president of the IOC may seem like a positive step for the organisation, but she is very much the establishment's choice, with Thomas Bach lobbying hard for her (against the rules, it should be said). Do not expect reform or change.

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This is the story that Karoline Leavitt said probably wasn’t accurate when it was first reported by Reuters because she said they aren’t reliable.

submitted 43 days ago • 1020 comments

The only thing that separates this from Hitler’s claims about reparations is that Hitler actually had facts on his side (which is why the Allied forces committed to the Marshall Plan after WWII ended) The end goal remains the same though - stoke fear and hatred to justify unnecessary violence/war

submitted 43 days ago • 89 comments

We told you it would happen. Trump and Musk are abandoning our veterans because they've never cared about the men and women who serve.

submitted 43 days ago • 186 comments

NEW! France says russian strikes on Ukraine infrastructure 'show gap between words and actions' “Unlike russia, Ukraine accepted the proposal for an immediate, complete, and unconditional ceasefire put forward by the U.S,” French foreign ministry spox Christophe Lemoine says

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The Trump administration has stopped the tracking of thousands of abducted Ukrainian children in Russia and Belarus. And a US lawmaker says in a letter to Sec. Marco Rubio that US officials or contractors might have deleted a database on the children. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...

submitted 44 days ago • 16 comments

One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.

submitted 45 days ago • 312 comments

💥/1. Very impressive video of attacks by Ukrainian FPV drones launched from sea drones deep in the Russian rear. By the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine.

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main rival detained by Turkish police https://www.ft.com/content/c1a2b2fb-aede-42dc-8776-69446c242c0a

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Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, along with around 100 other people, prosecutors said.

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This is a difficult time for my trolls. They've spent 1119 days saying Ukraine should accept unconditional ceasefire. Now they have, we violated it anyway.

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Taiwan launches rapid response drills defence-blog.com/taiwan-launc...

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Zelensky responds to Putin's ultimatums.

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“The regs slated for repeal, affecting…sources of pollution, had been set to deliver at least $254bn in economic benefits annually via lowered healthcare costs and fewer sick days [etc]. By contrast, the cost of complying with the regulations is around $40bn a year.” apple.news/AwtejKUztQSm...

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"El barcelonismo ha pasado de preguntar por el resultado de su equipo a organizar la agenda en función de los días de partido". Esta frase de Ramon Besa resume a la perfección lo que está siendo el Barça de Flick. elpais.com/deportes/fut...

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll continue the “Degenerate Russia” series. In it, we look behind the Kremlin propaganda and see the real Russia – an authoritarian country that doesn’t care about its people and desperately tries to hold on to its imperialistic past. 1/18

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When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 45 days ago • 977 comments

new NBC poll shows Trump's approval rating at its highest point ever

submitted 46 days ago • 579 comments

Dictator shit

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Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Trump for his call to impeach judges who rule against him: “For more than 2 centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose”

submitted 45 days ago • 114 comments

Just a non-gentle reminder of this guy's past. People knew who he was and what he stood for. His resume was blatantly clear. Now, he is doing the same on a massive scale and with help.

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Reminder that the USA is co-hosting the World Cup next year with two countries it has been actively hostile towards, which will involve hundreds of thousands of visitors coming into the country and crossing the borders with Canada and Mexico during the event.

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Barcelona pulled off a stunning comeback against Atlético Madrid to stay top of La Liga. Ferran Torres’ brace proved decisive in Barça's thrilling 4-2 victory. @andybrassell.bsky.social breaks it down 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vITr...

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87 years ago on 16-18 March 1938 the Italian fascist airforce, Franco's ally, bombed Barcelona in wave after wave. ~1000 people killed including 500 today, when a bomb hit a truck carrying high explosives (pictured) on the Gran Via front of the Coliseum cinema at 2pm today, 17 March...

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Mainstream media will remain unconvinced that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship up to the moment when they're so convinced that they're afraid to say it.

submitted 45 days ago • 28 comments

Strong Molotov-Ribbentrop vibes these days

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El Barça ya no tiene mandíbula de cristal

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If you want to know what Donald will say tomorrow, listen to what Kremlin says today.

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

Ukraine as a sovereign nation can make alliances as it pleases. Russia has attacked Ukraine to strip it of its sovereignty. Russia is now trying to get the US to do something to Ukraine it cannot do itself.

submitted 45 days ago • 101 comments

Can Ukraine stop Russia from allying with North Korea, Iran, and China? If not, then Russia cannot forbid Ukraine from allying with whom it chooses. That is a basic element of sovereignty.

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