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Zelensky: “Our people are free. To be honest, we’re fighting precisely for this…The legitimacy of comrade Putin is recognized only by comrade Putin himself. Only Putin elects Putin. Russians are the scenery, with only one performer on stage.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/w...

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You know, I grew up in Idaho, and if you had told me then that a couple decades later a not insignificant number of Americans would publicly be all “nazi symbols are just for lulz, Jews exaggerate the ‘WWII narrative’, maybe there are some good things about Nazis” — I wouldn’t have believed you

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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

We entering the most dangerous year in most of our lifetimes.

submitted 16 hours ago • 17 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 12 hours ago • 497 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 2364 comments

Correct. They bought nothing with their capitulation except disdain from their users.

submitted 20 hours ago • 37 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 125 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1164 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 14 hours ago • 131 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 15 hours ago • 1786 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 14 hours ago • 190 comments

A pundit tried to argue with @jamellebouie.net just yesterday that Trump isn’t trying to resegregate the bureaucracy. But this stuff would make Woodrow Wilson proud.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Here’s the hard truth: this country’s people are tired of subsidizing billionaires. Want your cars to sell? Do it without subsidies. Want to shoot rockets into space? Get by without govt contracts. Want to build a website? Build your own internet first. We are DONE with you.

submitted 13 hours ago • 75 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 15 hours ago • 411 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 202 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

This is how it’s done.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2514 comments

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submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 148 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 14 hours ago • 83 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1011 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 14 hours ago • 193 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 13 hours ago • 288 comments

In tribal groups, even bands of chimps, individuals who bully and only take, and openly violate group values, are exiled or killed. Somehow, we have some huge sociopaths who benefit from our civilization and respect for rule of law. Any other context and they’d never have gotten so far.

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man it's so rich to be told that leftists "warned libs about this" when the entire past year was libs screaming about how dangerous it was going to be to reelect trump and leftists replying "yeah i don't care"

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

submitted 17 hours ago • 171 comments

What a petty little bitch. It must be a requirement for the Trump DoJ.

submitted 16 hours ago • 75 comments

Editor Commentary: Who does this to other people? To doctors, nurses, farmers, teachers, professors, scientists, veterans, working families, people with disabilities, children with special needs, poor people? What twisted, unnatural men.

submitted 20 hours ago • 67 comments

Trump take insulin

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 21 hours ago • 884 comments

It’s journalistic malpractice — to the extent that’s a thing any more — to talk about this Ed Martin letter without clarifying that every expert, other than administration hacks, thinks that Garcia’s statement was not remotely plausibly a true threat. It’s simply ludicrous.

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Reminder that a month ago Politico did a puffy soft focus interview with Steve Bannon, who today literally threw up a Nazi salute at CPAC. Inexcusably terrible editorial judgment at the time and looks even worse now.

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Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

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Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

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Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

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Remember what the America we love stands for and fight for that. Don't let them take it from us.

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hey @mattyglesias.bsky.social, the piece that you link to here — my piece — does not say that “all DEI critics want to reimpose segregation” and i would appreciate it if you didn’t lie to your audience about what my work says.

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As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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Birthright citizenship 3: My letter to editor of NY Times on Barnett and Wurman’s misleading essay They’re not publishing it, so I’m self-publishing. Now y’all know what to do: shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/b...

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