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A draft deal between the United States and Ukraine over rare earth minerals and other natural resources is “not the one President Zelensky would accept,” according to a source familiar with the negotiations. bit.ly/4i9dXHr

submitted 3 hours ago • 97 comments

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.

submitted 3 hours ago • 341 comments

The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat roles, as it struggles with growing manpower issues, according to videos and testimony obtained by CNN: bit.ly/3Xg5Fp1

submitted 3 hours ago • 68 comments

"U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters."

submitted 13 hours ago • 140 comments

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: We’re cyber fucked: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 13 hours ago • 87 comments

Valuing diversity is not a crime Installing white men in every position of power is not a meritocracy

submitted 13 hours ago • 52 comments

If you look at all the firings across the government over the last two weeks it's frequently been taken as a given that any black or woman official or officer is either a DEI hire or supports DEI and is summarily fired on that basis. Seems like the same model here.

submitted 13 hours ago • 80 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 13 hours ago • 631 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

submitted 15 hours ago • 132 comments

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

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

History rhymes encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

submitted 19 hours ago • 6 comments

Donald Trump — The House resolution "implements my FULL America First Agenda, EVERYTHING, not just parts of it." The House plan slashes $880 billion from Medicaid—TRUMP OWNS THIS!!! Democrats need to speak out now—LOUDLY. Don’t Cut My Medicaid 📢

submitted 15 hours ago • 157 comments

huh wonder why a racist nepobaby would fire an accomplished Black man

submitted 15 hours ago • 63 comments

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 15 hours ago • 68 comments

Starting to think the right’s mEmE KiNg WhO LeGaLiZeD CoMedY is actually just a whiny little bitch with a fragile ego.

submitted 16 hours ago • 649 comments

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 16 hours ago • 69 comments

If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

submitted 16 hours ago • 225 comments

Distressing... Alzheimer’s research center named after Missouri's Roy Blunt is facing Trump cuts www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Reducing federal dollars for Medicaid expansion could cut millions from the rolls missouriindependent.com/briefs/reduc...

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Trump told Hannity: "I don't care."

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

Trump’s betrayal of Americans: He promised not to cut Medicaid—now he’s backing a House plan that slashes $880 billion from it. All to fund $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich. He doesn’t care if families drown in debt, as long as he & his billionaire buddies get richer. Don’t Cut My Medicaid!

submitted 17 hours ago • 237 comments

Actions have consequences www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/i...

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

The Pentagon announced that it plans to ultimately fire five to eight percent of the military’s approximately 950,000 civilian employees, with an initial tranche of 5,400 probationary workers who don’t have “mission-critical” roles expected to be terminated next week.

submitted 17 hours ago • 81 comments

NEW: The Supreme Court allows Hampton Dellinger to continue serving as Special Counsel, for now, but holds the case in abeyance until the restraining order expires on Feb. 26. A win for Dellinger and a loss for Trump. But this is not the end of the case. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

swear to god if this were a movie script the studio would send notes back saying "tone it down, no one's gonna buy this"

submitted 17 hours ago • 78 comments

This is really something

submitted 1 day ago • 1761 comments

A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

submitted 17 hours ago • 19 comments

White House rolls out new "precision" branding to explain how now they're only going to fire people who actually really really need to be fired. Meanwhile the mass firings continue unabated. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/preci...

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Lucky for him, he still has the treasury to rob.

submitted 17 hours ago • 176 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 17 hours ago • 26 comments

Raskin: "So who is leading DOGE? Is it the young man who calls himself Big Balls? Is it the racist on the night crew who's proud of the fact he was a racist before all of his friends were racist, and says we should legitimize Indian hate?"

submitted 19 hours ago • 42 comments

in a world of harrison butkes, be a chris kluwe

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

Raskin: "It's becoming obvious to the American people that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are not opponents of corruption, they are agents of corruption."

submitted 19 hours ago • 156 comments

Marco Rubio has instructed USAID to claim this is all a lie.

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

When the leader of France’s far-right party—founded by an actual Nazi sympathizer—thinks CPAC is too racist for him, you know the GOP has fully gone off the deep end.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Have you noticed an uptick in threats coming out of the Trump administration this week? We did! Check out this week’s issue of The Democracy Index by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for @contrariannews.org. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

Good luck finding people who want to be child genital inspectors in a state with this level of personal gun ownership bsky.app/profile/orii...

submitted 19 hours ago • 57 comments

Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for DC, without holding the Trump administration in contempt for continuing to freeze aid, wrote that theTRO doesn’t “permit it to continue suspending duly appropriated foreign aid “ with new, post-hoc rationalizations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 19 hours ago • 40 comments

BREAKING: Judge Nichols has rejected further relief for USAID workers and has dissolved his restraining order on the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the agency. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 20 hours ago • 78 comments

the “computer expert” who owns X — where hundreds of millions of posts are sent a day — thinks computers can only do a few things at a time

submitted 20 hours ago • 129 comments