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Natasha It’s very simple #DontAbandonUkraine

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This is NOT GOOD

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

Authoritarian leader cult alert

Why is the Trump administration encouraging foreign interference in US politics?

Lawfare is live with @sranderson.bsky.social, @annabower.bsky.social and @rparloff.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_jr...

Gov. Mills of Maine reminds us how to stand up to bullies.

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Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. He lied. 2 out of every 5 births in this country are covered by Medicaid.... Don't Cut My Medicaid

A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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Causing "global catastophe" will be judged one day as crimes against humanity. A reckoning will come. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.

Governor Mills doesn’t suffer fools lightly, and it appears she has even less tolerance for bullies. (And as a former attorney general, she knows what she’s talking about.)

It’s 5 p.m. on Friday, which means it’s time to ask WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE????????????????????????

The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I am the administrator of DOGE I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE

I’m telling you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, please watch this. This is the energy. Not egg prices and book tours and strongly worded letters. It’s time to take the gloves off.

Read the real stories about what USAID cuts mean, not the Musk propaganda www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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.

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Remember when America had friends? Like a month ago?

The 'find out' phase is here.

Thank you Democracy Docket for putting this handy Trump Accountability tracker together that gets updated each week!

When are we going to start those WH drug tests? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Meanwhile, “Russia believes it is in conflict with what it calls ‘the collective West,’ and is acting accordingly, up to and including threatening us with nuclear attack and building up its military” from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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Bullshit. Social security is it's own fund. Hands off of it, loser!

"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking life­saving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

It's the “These Are the Days that Never End’ Edition! On Rational Security, @sranderson.bsky.social, @tylermcbrien.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @clairemeynial.bsky.social talked over the week's big national security news, including VP Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference.

Trump administration is planning to use polygraphs to assess federal employee loyalty. There are ways to manipulate polygraph results, and we will provide guidance to coalition members. Polygraph results are not admissible in court due to their potential for false positives and negatives.

On Lawfare Daily, @nkorpett.bsky.social spoke to Chris Mirasola about the legal issues surrounding President Trump's plan to house migrants at Guantanamo Bay, the administration's strategy, and what it all means for Trump's unconventional use of the military.

This is who is in charge of our govt due to the Trump Musk coup

February 20, 2025

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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