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NEW: Career DOJ spokesman — a Marine Corps vet — is resigning, saying “basic decency” has come to an end and there’s a “hostile and toxic work environment” inside DOJ. Reporting from NBC News:

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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 164 comments

Peter O’Mahony, Cian Healy and Conor Murray to retire from Ireland duty after Six Nations campaign @beltel.bsky.social #SixNations #Rugby #IrelandRugby

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No contest.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk's only profitable company, Tesla, has created a cumulative grand total net income of $34 billion in its more than 20 years of existence. That's less than the total amount of US federal subsidies his empire has collectively received. The economics of Elon Musk are as bad as the politics.

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The Trump administration blamed Biden for a $400 million federal government contract with Elon Musk's Tesla to build armored electric vehicles. But NPR obtained documents showing the Biden administration only approved $483,000, not the $400 million that the Trump-Musk administration wanted.

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Support for Ukraine at the UNGA, 93-18, 65 abstentions; the US swinging to vote with Russia, which I’d argue is the most dramatic shift in US policy at the UN since its founding 80 years ago

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Three years ago this morning, I was listening to Russian bombs fall on Ukraine. Three years on from Russia's full-blown invasion, its war continues. But Russia's attempt to subjugate Ukraine, undermine its sovereignty and erase its identity has been met with the fiercest resistance...

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Today marks a grim milestone. For three years, Russia has brutally attacked Ukraine, trying to steal land that isn’t theirs. Right now, more than ever, we have to support Ukraine. Extract from my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓

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Three years since Russia launched its full-scale war. Three years of Ukrainian heroism. It was an honour for me to receive the flag of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, a witness to Ukrainians’ bravery on the battlefield. The EU will stand with Ukraine and its people, always.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

H/T @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social for highlighting this thing... Found a picture of the Muskqvarna gifted to the South African by Melei. It's, needless to say, not a chainsaw that should ever be used

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

- "A unique opportunity" - "Substantial three-storey property" - "Versatile building" Gotta love the London property market 😭😭😭

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 10 days ago • 860 comments

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

submitted 9 days ago • 289 comments

1. After a federal judge ruled that websites containing LGBTQ+ information at the CDC must be restored, the Trump administration did so... but then also added snide and incorrect anti-trans headers to them. The latest from new EITM writer S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 9 days ago • 79 comments

Due to the layoffs I am afraid that we have had to take over the running of the US National Parks. We are updating the park regulations but for now the most important thing people can do before visiting a national park is to marinade themselves for 12 hours in olive oil, lime juice & garlic.

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

Trump plans to withdraw troops from the Baltics and parts of Western Europe - a key Putin demand - making former Soviet nations a prime target for Russian attacks, the FT reports.

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

NEW: Scoop about the architect of the destruction of USAID. Pete Marocco was a USAID official in the first Trump Admin. On a trip to the Balkans, he secretly met with the Serb separatist leader. That was a no-no. Caused a big diplomatic incident. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 12 days ago • 382 comments

Thursday: Trump officials fire hundreds at the National Nuclear Security Administration Friday: moved to hire them back “Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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“[Trump’s] role for the Europeans is: Pay for everything. Get no credit. Don’t necessarily even attend the meetings. And shut up.” Europe reels as Trump-Putin talks over Ukraine leave them blindsided and exposed www.ft.com/content/f727...

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.

submitted 15 days ago • 165 comments

Why are drug prices so high? Consider the case of Zolgensma. While taxpayers and small charities funded Zolgensma's early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

US JAN. CONSUMER PRICES RISE 0.5% M/M; EST. +0.3% US JAN. CORE CPI RISES 3.3% Y/Y; EST. +3.1%

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A consortium led by Elon Musk has made an unsolicited bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Huge scoop by @jtoonkel and @berber_jin1 www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

submitted 17 days ago • 39 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 18 days ago • 1165 comments

Fantastic piece by @francescaebel.bsky.social on the “frozen” people, thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in secret in Russian prisons and the activists in Ukraine and Russia fighting to get them out. Urgent story and brilliant storytelling. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

I suspect the best way to get Trump to abandon the South African is to get Time magazine to put Musk on the cover with the headline "The Most Important Man in America"

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Last June we got a call about 2 huskies living rough in the heat of Thailand. Their owners just left. They had been scavenging food and living in an abandoned villa. Their story is remarkable and today it got its happy ending… (1/10) 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 67 comments

JUST IN: Japan Airlines plane hits Delta Air Lines jet while taxiing at Seattle Airport

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Good God edition.cnn.com/travel/ameri...

submitted 22 days ago • 33 comments

Today's edition of MFN is about what a country might decide to do when Trump decides to tariff you. mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

Dogs never cease to amaze me. Just 72 hours since her operation Pepper is out and about looking absolutely stunning. Even I am blown away by her turnaround (1/5) 🧵

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

I think this is our future unless someone stops him. Musk’s plan for X has been for it to replace the entire banking system. His keen interest in seizing control of Treasury payments (and its tech) may forebode an intention to have such payments go through X www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/2...

submitted 26 days ago • 481 comments

Sloppy start sloppy end .. 😐 #SixNations

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 27 days ago • 510 comments

What do you call a government that starts to purge the bureaucracy, announces concentration camps, targets a minority for prosecution, frees violent extremists and defies the constitution, all in its first two weeks?

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

Oh so NOW the AI guys are worried about intellectual property theft

submitted 29 days ago • 7 comments

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

submitted 31 days ago • 76 comments

Ignore the review, but check out the comments on the YouTube review of the Tesla Model Y. youtu.be/pgvEnDkNUfg?...

submitted 32 days ago • 40 comments

Another Ukrainian drone attack on the Ryazan oil refinery, one of Russia’s largest. #explodey

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

A few years ago we started a foundation that sponsors shelter dogs with medical needs to make them more adoptable. We have done truly incredible things with your help and we hope to continue that here on Bluesky. Please go give @15outof10.org a follow! ❤️‍🩹

submitted 34 days ago • 39 comments

"Five current and former senior European officials briefed on the call said the conversation had gone very badly." www.ft.com/content/ace0...

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