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I’m asking Congress to provide disaster funding to help Californians recover and rebuild from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. It’s all-hands-on-deck to support our fellow Americans and get them back on their feet to begin rebuilding as soon as possible.

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It is happening, yay!! Minister Anita Anand informed the provinces Friday that Ottawa will remove more than half of federal internal trade barriers in a move to make Canada less reliant on the US, according to a senior federal government source. #Canada #cdnpoli 🍁 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 14 hours ago • 144 comments

I thought crypto was supposed to be soooo secure. 🤔 techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/c...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Masterstroke by Judge Ho. Brilliant.

submitted 13 hours ago • 109 comments

POLITICO: Judge Abelson said “longstanding court precedent bars the federal government from ‘leveraging its funding to restrict federal contractors and grantees from otherwise exercising their First Amendment rights.’” @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

“Freedom of speech for me and not for thee,” sounds like something a king would say. As many of us have noted this week, we don’t do kings in America. Some thoughts on the AP’s lawsuit: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

submitted 8 hours ago • 42 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 8 hours ago • 130 comments

This is how it’s done.

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Thousands of federal employees, some of them Trump voters, are now without jobs thanks to Musk who is going to get contracts and government subsidies for his companies. This while the price of eggs & groceries are high. These families just lost a source of income. How do you think will play out?

submitted 8 hours ago • 65 comments

I’m not running for congress but I’m very excited to see who does.

submitted 8 hours ago • 101 comments

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Breaking News: The Supreme Court ruled that President Trump cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads a watchdog agency.

submitted 8 hours ago • 40 comments

Kraznov AKA Trump, recruited by KGB in 1987 after he went completely broke! This makes EVERYTHING make sense! GOP need to oust Trump/Musk, they’re working for Putin to destroy America. Not hyperbole!

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There’s a massive Antarctic exploration vehicle lost somewhere at the bottom of the world. It was built in 1939 & had a 20-ft wheelbase & a total length of ~56 ft. It was last seen in 1958 getpocket.com/explore/item...

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NEW: Trump’s DoJ Chief of Staff has filed a complaint against Judge Reyes because she bench slapped their bigoted asses into the sun three days ago.

submitted 9 hours ago • 196 comments

A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

submitted 16 hours ago • 192 comments

“As Washington alienates its allies and squanders 80 years of international credibility, Trump is helping Russia and China achieve their explicit mission of replacing the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

It’s only right for him to be on the first flight to Mars. It’s his baby.

submitted 11 hours ago • 376 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 10 hours ago • 684 comments

JPMORGAN: “.. the term ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ has appeared in more than 20 New York Times articles in the last two days alone. This attention level gives the impression that spending cuts, either realized or imminent, are dramatic. The reality so far is more mundane.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 18 hours ago • 316 comments

⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ 🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU is preparing a package of about €20 billion (!) in additional military support for Ukraine, - Bloomberg ❗️The initiative would aim to deliver artillery ammunition, air defense systems, deep-precision strike missiles, drones as well as other weapons.

submitted 9 hours ago • 43 comments

🇩🇪👀 Merz said that Trump's words are "a classic substitution of the perpetrator for the victim." "This is the Russian narrative, this is how Putin has presented it for years, and I am, frankly, shocked that Donald Trump has now apparently accepted it himself

submitted 17 hours ago • 32 comments

During his speech in the European Parliament, Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klychko said that "Ukrainians are now defending peace across Europe." "The reason for this senseless war is that we Ukrainians want to be part of the European family. And the Russian Federation cannot accept this.

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📞🇺🇦 Zelensky: There is a lot of coordination with leaders now, and not only in Europe. 🇵🇱Poland, 🇭🇷Croatia, 🇨🇿Czech Republic, 🇸🇪Sweden, 🇱🇺Luxembourg, 🇸🇮Slovenia, 🇮🇪Ireland, 🇨🇮Côte d'Ivoire. Thank you all for your support! 🤝

submitted 11 hours ago • 95 comments

On Fridays The Contrarian provides some levity to sustain us through the autocracy Today we shared cake, cats & comics w @marissarothkopf.bsky.social @kimlanelaw.bsky.social & @rubenbolling.bsky.social Come for the fun, stay for the democracy! All here👇https://contrarian.substack.com/

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Illinois looks very different in 2025 than it did in 2019. We've passed six balanced budgets with nine credit upgrades, invested in education, driven economic growth, strengthened our social safety network, reformed the criminal justice system, and rebuilt our infrastructure.

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“.. Take them seriously, don’t take it literally,” Bianco said, referring to the debt swap idea .. “If Trump is willing to blow up NATO, why wouldn’t he be willing to blow up the financial system?” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

oh boy -- Rich McCormick bailed on CNN after his ill-fated town hall

submitted 10 hours ago • 409 comments

About to cross 2M views this month over on substack. You can subscribe for free! Muellershewrote.com

submitted 10 hours ago • 44 comments

lol come on guys

submitted 12 hours ago • 82 comments

The fools who voted for this charlatan. Screwing up the booming Biden economy, and failing on his number one priority.

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Well, well, well. It seems maybe Americans don’t like being screwed over and shoved around, after all… open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

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Reports claiming convicted felon Donald Trump was a KGB asset in 1987 under codename "Krasnov" are vanishing without explanation. The Daily Beast and others erased the story with no retraction. A cover-up? DOJ pressure? Someone's scrubbing history fast. www.dailykos.com/sto...

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KGB groomed Trump as an asset for 40 years, former Russian spy says New book interviewing Yuri Shvets and many other sources alleges Moscow rescued Trump's businesses with laundered funds, directly tying this to ex-president's affinity for Putin www.timesofisrael.com/kgb-groomed-...

submitted 12 hours ago • 16 comments