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Trump, Vance & others either have forgotten or never knew that Zelensky signed a ceasefire agreement with Putin in 2019. Three years later, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. So, signing another ceasefire with no security guarantees feels like suicide for Ukrainians.

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Executive orders are not laws. Letter to santa. Note from tooth fairy. Egg from Easter bunny. Not law

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Extraordinary quote from the German president about Trump/Vance's ambush of Zelensky: "I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...

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Hard right parties are growing across Europe at the expense of major parties. Not easily explained by immigrant levels: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

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I want each and every European head of state, foreign and defense minister, on this platform. What the [redacted] are they still doing at X, supporting fascist Musk and his ruz agenda? @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @kajakallas.bsky.social @donald-tusk.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu

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What we learned yesterday: nothing we didn’t know, if we were paying attention. What we’ll learn this weekend: whether European leaders have been paying attention. (A 🧵) /1

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An article in which some very smart Americanists disagree with a comparativist (it me) over whether we are in a constitutional crisis www.deseret.com/politics/202...

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Trump’s desire to be seen as the one to “broker peace” comes at all costs, even if that includes the mineral deal. For me, that was the key source of the tension in yesterday’s Oval Office debacle

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We’ll be able to trace it all to this disgraceful moment, this day of historic shame for the United States. We’ve changed teams.

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If anyone wants to learn more about #Zelenskyy, one of the best ways to do so is to watch him speak. His body language and vocal tone convey volumes more than just text. I have subtitled 200+ interviews and speeches to make them publicly accessible to English-speaking supporters. #Zelensky #Ukraine

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I honestly don't know how long he lasts, especially because Vance seems determined to deliver Zelenskyy to Putin. But as @jilldlawrence.bsky.social explains, he has had the most improbable rise of any world leader. And one of the very few who can even be mentioned in the same breath as Lincoln.

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Well, as America implodes from within, it’d be a great time for the EU to finally do official Eurobonds. It’d likely be very attractive as a safe haven given the destruction of US hegemony & spillover to US T-bills. Bonus: Eurobonds can finance a desperately needed European security build up! 🇪🇺💶 ‼️

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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Grateful to @profsaunders.bsky.social for writing so sharply on this truly historic moment. goodauthority.org/news/trump-a...

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"as with the war, Zelensky didn’t start this Oval Office exchange. Was he supposed to tolerate an extended public denigration of the Ukrainian people, who have been fighting a war for survival for three years?” — WSJ edit board Gift link: www.wsj.com/opinion/puti...

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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

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Putin invaded Ukraine because he wants to wipe that sovereign, democratic country off the map. He said so. The moral clarity is absolute: you support the victim of aggression and condemn the dictator. Doing the opposite makes you part of the problem, not the solution.

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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If King Charles III defeats Trump in individual combat, the US becomes part of the UK again

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Okay... we feel like we say this every week but a lot of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)

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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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The Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset update has just been published. It contains parliamentary recorded votes in the Dutch House of Representatives between 1922 and 2024, bringing together various sources of parliamentary voting behaviour. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

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Great, detailed breakdown of the Musk takeover of government. *Amy Gleason, the official DOGE administrator, had worked as chief product officer in one of the companies of Brad Smith, who helped Musk plan DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

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Waving at mainstream parties accommodating far right issues. "Populist attitudes further moderate these perceptions, as voters with such views are typically more sceptical of parties' motives, limiting the impact of party behaviour on perceived commitment primarily to non-populist individuals."

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With everything else happening, one might have missed that Austria has a new government coalition - and it’s not with the far right after all! More on what the three (😬) parties agreed on, with regard to EU matters, by Paul Schmidt 👇

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5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders: The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."

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People to deserve to know when a hurricane is coming toward them and deserve to not die from the flu and deserve to have an egg sandwich sometimes

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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Just an amazing photo. (📸 Pool, via AP)

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“India is home to 1.4 billion people but around a billion lack money to spend on any discretionary goods or services, a new report, external estimates.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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ALSO: If you're a researcher and you want to dig into the Pravda network yourself, we are providing a database you can play around with- check it out on our website: www.americansunlight.org/updates/new-... ☀️

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This story has brought our community together to support this lovely family from Turkey who owns a local restaurant. They offer food to the homeless and those w/little $. They are kind and generous. Yesterday ICE detained them…and people are PISSED. share.inquirer.com/gKqFM7

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Breaking News: Three mainstream political parties in Austria have agreed to form a government that excludes the far-right Freedom Party.

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The 'Fair and Reciprocal Tariffs' may be Trump’s most damaging economic proposal yet. The EU must take a firm stance to dissuade him. 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 New insight by @aslak.bsky.social Read here: https://buff.ly/4ifTsZB

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NEW: White House orders agencies to prepare for large-scale firings

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I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

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I miss DEI

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Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."

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The billionaire fired hundreds of FAA employees. Now, the agency is testing Starlink to help manage U.S. airspace.

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What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

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Was talking to a fellow Associate Professor at CUNY this morning about writing a book post tenure. It's hard & not your imagination. Not your fault--it's structural. Here's what you can do. www.annaolaw.com/blog/why-the...

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FT Exclusive: Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand. www.ft.com/content/2dfa...

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