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stolen from @rickpetree.bsky.social on the hellsite: @borowitzreport.bsky.social absolutely nails the absurdity of our moment www.borowitzreport.com/p/zelenskyy-...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This presser was a horror show. Ukraine will not have US support going forward, because Trump and Vance are completely lost. Europe will step-up and this war will continue. Trump blew this bigger than any foriegn policy folly in recent history.

submitted 2 days ago • 556 comments

Apropos

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 4 days ago • 119 comments

Hegseth now says he doesn’t know who started the war between Ukraine and Russia. Senator Duckworth shows receipts that he does know but won’t admit it now.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Is this the finding out part?

submitted 4 days ago • 602 comments

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 94 comments

Sheer vandalism.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

This would really be the moment for some BigLaw gestures of solidarity with Covington & Burling, no? If a vengeful president can strip security clearances from any lawyer he sees as assisting the opposition, can any national security lawyers afford to remain outside his orbit?

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

submitted 5 days ago • 9621 comments

A seven-byline story from WaPo: “.. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits ..” @washingtonpost.com $TSLA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

“I’m the what?” - Amy Gleason

submitted 5 days ago • 290 comments

MSNBC just fired Rachel Maddow's show production crew. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 172 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Forget obsequious. It’s the clueless I worry about.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Well, that's not surprising. This fallout will continue to bottom out.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

There is no version of what is happening now in Europe that makes America stronger, safer, more respected in the world. Trump is now and always been Russia First. His quislings like Hegseth and Rubio are traitors, and will be known in history that way.

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

If you haven't been to Auschwitz, go Bergen-Belsen or Buchenwald, go Go to the Japanese internment camp Manzanar There's only one reason, one single reason Trump is rounding up people & locking them away out of view And our country just sitting here, knowing it www.rawstory.com/why-trump-is...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

We are back to the trump admin treating people seeking asylum like criminals & with inhumanity. I’m ashamed. So much for “give me your tired…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

To be clear, the Vance/Musk intervention did not change the outcome. Still, the fact that it happened changes German and European politics forever

submitted 7 days ago • 57 comments

Musk had NO RIGHT to intervene in German elections. Shame on him & Vance & Trump. Unprecedented.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Because he’s the mutt’s mutt.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

This proposed mineral deal with Ukraine is outright extortion. Trump isn’t offering protection for Ukraine and it will of course be rejected (as it should be). I imagine Trump will then blame Ukraine for not being willing to negotiate and walk away. He may also walk away from NATO at the same time

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

The US, Russia, and the richest man in the world who is busy carrying out a coup in our government, are coordinating a brutal shakedown of an ally whose very existence depends on our support. This is repulsive and people need to understand we’re only in the beginning of what is possible.

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

Just discovered that Don Bacon posted this last Friday.

submitted 11 days ago • 272 comments

Trump says he decides what the law is. Here’s Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison (1803): “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” Somebody in the Musk-Trump administration should read that decision.

submitted 11 days ago • 40 comments

Russia is at its weakest in years. Putin is in a precarious situation. They are attacking western interests around the world and murdering Europeans. Why is Rubio bending a knee and showing weakness?

submitted 12 days ago • 605 comments

Julius, my farfar (paternal grandfather) was part of that Norwegian resistance against the Nazis. His story + many others from that era are absolutely resonant now. The advantage we have today is better communications to organise (+ sabotage!) whatever the Putinist quislings are going to throw at us

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

(If we’ve learned anything since 2016, and I’m not sure all the right people have…) This will not age well.

submitted 14 days ago • 92 comments

Have you seen this? When Ukrainian hackers broke into the KGB archives.... I think this is important so we are aware of these tactics. Moms reporting on children, etc... www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kg... @11tulips.bsky.social @rickpetree.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @hcanderson.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I was just thinking that I really need to revisit Popper.

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submitted 16 days ago • 952 comments

I shake my head as people actually think DOGE has identified waste, fraud and abuse in 5 days. What they are doing is gutting programs they don't like according to Project 2025. They haven't done any analysis and don't even know the functions of the departments they are cutting. Musk is a phony.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

I am with Zelenskyyon this one. Trump is playing for Team Autocracy now, and Europe must stand up for its own defense. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Mitch McConnell is no hero. He set all of this up. Every last thing going on right now starts with him.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Only speaking in generalities to preserve source confidentiality. But we hear a lot about DOGErs heading right for the personnel files at these offices they go to. Seeing increasing amounts of evidence that these files are being searched for details to create pretexts to fire people. But the ...

submitted 17 days ago • 65 comments

twitter.com/jillwinebank...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion."

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 90 comments

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

submitted 17 days ago • 267 comments

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