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Getting more than the usual flow of insane emails this morning, so i guess The Atlantic really has the juice.

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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 9 hours ago • 111 comments

This is so cruel and dangerous

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Last night, russia launched a record 267 Shahed drones in an attack on Ukraine. Does that look like a war that will end in a week?

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump and Musk, between them, have 18 children (that we know about) with 7 women. Family values, GOP-style.

submitted 10 hours ago • 163 comments

What I Accomplished Last Week: 5 Bullet Points for My Boss 1. Pondered the great question of our time (“Who is the administrator of DOGE?????”) 2. Read some court filings that did not reveal the DOGE administrator’s identity 3. Asked Elon Musk to tell me who the administrator of DOGE is (no reply)

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

Usefully sober fact sheet on Ukraine. Please share with those who need it. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 18 hours ago • 78 comments

This is what a leader looks like 🔥🔥 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Geroyam Slava 🇺🇦 #SheShed

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"In a further sign of the UK government’s resolve, it will announce on Sunday that it will impose the largest package of sanctions against Moscow since the conflict began." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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"Putin and Xi must be delighted. As Washington alienates its allies and squanders 80 years of international credibility, Trump is helping Russia and China achieve their explicit mission of replacing the United States as the world’s preeminent superpower. GIFT ARTICLE wapo.st/4bdfJos

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How to decrease gov efficiency? Trump ends leadership program and ends true meritocracy. "The two-year, full-time fellowship brings recent graduate students into agencies across the government with pay, benefits, training and mentorship. Gift article. wapo.st/3D3kwMJ

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Oh my God if this is true

submitted 3 days ago • 853 comments

Trump managed to get John Bolton and Bernie Sanders to agree on foreign policy. Pretty incredible achievement.

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Is everybody feeling safer now? New hires at the Pentagon and FEMA employees are being fired.

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Every aspect of the Rubio-Lavrov talks in Riyadh is bad. Negotiating over the head of Ukraine indicates a sellout. Excluding the Europeans reveals indifference to Ukraine's future economic reconstruction (since the Europeans will pay the largest share).

submitted 5 days ago • 81 comments

Now Social Security is rife with fraud and sensitive personal data is being accessed to cut payments. A gift article. wapo.st/4k4k69G

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Physically incapable of taking responsibility for his own actions.

submitted 5 days ago • 745 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 5 days ago • 5972 comments

Oh my, oh my — I did not have Kathy Hochul on my list of potential anti-fascist heroes. Lousy governor, but if she steps up like it seems she may…

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇 statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

A Black man with 13 kids by six different women wouldn’t be allowed near the White House much less allowed to run the shadow government.

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

🚨 Gov. Hochul says she's meeting with "key leaders" in Manhattan tomorrow to discuss the prospect removing Mayor Adams after four deputy mayors resigned. "If they feel unable to serve in City Hall at this time, that raises serious questions about the long-term future of this Mayoral administration"

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Fact check: nearly 70 percent of US money for Ukraine actually went to US defense industry to replenish the stocks of OLD stuff that went to Ukraine to use. Much of which we would have paid to destroy as their lifespan expired.

submitted 7 days ago • 658 comments

In the post-truth world, something needs to be repeated constantly: russian occupation is not peace, it is a death camp. More than 440 graves were found in the forest of Izyum in 2022 after its liberation.

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American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

@wsj.com thinks the Sec. of HHS should stop his decades-long, profit making business of spreading of doubt and confusion about vaccines. The risk of putting a known vaccine skeptic in charge of vaccines should have been on the front page before he was confirmed. #RFKjr www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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WSJ: “The Tennessee Man” (from Maryville) thinks the pardons should apply to his murder plot also. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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The Richest Man in the World Says We Can't Afford Any More Cures for Cancer talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

submitted 5 days ago • 127 comments

Apparently, our dying by respiratory infection or cancer isn’t quick enough for them so they’re firing air traffic control staff?

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Area free speech absolutist says journalists he doesnt like should face a “long prison sentence”

submitted 6 days ago • 262 comments

Musk is acting like he runs the U.S. government—but the Constitution does not allow an unelected super-president We’re taking him & DOGE to court to impose consequences I’ll discuss tonight at 6PM ET on @msnbc.com w/ @jonathancapehart.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 250 comments

We are letting go of Ukraine. Europe needs to respond.

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Western reporting suggests that the United States intends to ease sanctions on Belarus. Russia uses Belarus as a staging ground for its military against Ukraine and NATO and as a critical tool in its sanctions evasion schemes. (1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar021625

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