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Caesar had it coming.

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

It is a short teaser for tomorrow’s Sunday Letter. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do it here www.patreon.com/c/strategywo... But you subscribed perhaps. Maybe you even a supporter of my work. If yes, thank you 🫂

On schedule. Drones arrived in Kyiv. Every evening and night they are here. Air defence is at work. russia wants peace? Perhaps somebody should tell this insane in the kremlin that the doves of peace look a bit different.

It is very loud in Kyiv this evening. Air defence is shooting down drones. The windows are shaking. You know, it really became worse after trump started his negotiations. As I wrote a few days ago, unpunished evil has been unleashed.

We are arms dealers to terrorists.

Illinois has proposed a bill that would require anyone seeking the role of public library trustee be a valid cardholder of the library they wish to serve. This is a positive bill, and it's one in a line of pro-library bills being drafted and championed in the state. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

🚌 May he wobble his way off a cliff. 🚌

This is how it’s done.

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

I'm starting to think that the Russia thing wasn't a hoax.

'Tax Elon!' Irate crowd shouts down GOP congressman during town hall in deep-red county: Even residents of a county President Donald Trump won by a significant margin are outraged by the Trump administration's slashing of public services — and their Republican congressman's support of the cuts.…

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

Just a forest in Ukraine. Maybe you need a moment of nature now.

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

German far left in surprise comeback ahead of election: by Claudia HORN and Femke COLBORNE Germany's far-left Die Linke party has enjoyed a late poll surge ahead of Sunday's elections, boosted by a spirited anti-fascist speech by its new rising star that quickly went viral. "I say to everyone out…

Morning from Ukraine! One more time, a view from my hometown. I will be back in Kyiv in the evening. Cannot say that I rested, as the week was hard for Ukraine. I had a #warcoffee already.

BREAKING: The Department of Energy said DOGE firings of nuclear safety officials were non-critical staff. That is not true. In fact, one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd.

A farm worker shared this photo with us from an Arizona watermelon field . It's physically demanding work. The loader crew is responsible for picking pick up hundreds of watermelons and loading them into the trailer. #WeFeedYou

@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

I see some tend to believe an orange king. I'll tell it once and won't repeat it. I don't consider our President a dictator or ever felt it. Other Ukrainians? Please see the latest poll conducted between Nov 2024 and Jan 2025 as part of the Onukh IBIF project, funded by the British Academy. ⬇️

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

⚡️63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows.

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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Sobering reading but essential for those of us who cry, "Hypocrisy!" when we encounter hateful MAGA christianity.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Yeah, that's the ticket!

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'Stand up for us!' Republican shouted down as he defends DOGE cuts at town hall: Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) tried to tout massive federal spending cuts proposed by tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force at a town hall in his heavily Republican district on…

He’s setting us all up for the funniest possible ending.

I don’t often feel rage. That said, I’ve been getting pretty damn close, watching one of the few truly warrior like heroes in the world of leadership…Zelensky…being rat fucked by two of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet.

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

Add SOMETHING to all the other somethings!

DOGE puts a $1 limit on government credit cards. Every single federal employee should order one $.96 Pentel ballpoint pen www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

As a humanitarian aid worker, 28-year-old Edward Scott has made multiple trips to the front-line areas to evacuate civilian Ukrainians. But the mission on Jan. 30 to the embattled city of Pokrovsk in southern Donetsk Oblast was different.

I am reading that the US is opposing calling russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. russia is the aggressor, even if the orange house would call it a messenger of God.