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Trump has diverted media attention from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to his fake "peace" process. In fact, American weakness enables Russian aggression as a new offensive looms. Useful corrective here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book. www.wsj.com/articles/mem...

submitted 8 hours ago • 37 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 7 hours ago • 372 comments

So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?

submitted 10 hours ago • 575 comments

Do you want your kids to ask why you cowered in fear when it all came apart? It’s time to step up. My latest post. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

At least one US president cares to denounce this attack.

submitted 16 hours ago • 530 comments

Damn… 🇺🇸|🇺🇦

submitted 16 hours ago • 49 comments

COLLINS: Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return Garcia? BUKELE: How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous TRUMP: These are sick people

submitted 16 hours ago • 1242 comments

I am embarrassed to be an American in 2025. Zelensky got more criticism for not wearing a suit by this man than Putin did for killing tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainian people, what a coward he is.

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 20 hours ago • 814 comments

The Martynenko family, father, mother and their son were killed today by russian racket 💔🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

submitted 1 day ago • 208 comments

Statement from Trump on Putin’s Palm Sunday Massacre missile attack that killed at least 34, including several children, and injured another 117 people:

submitted 1 day ago • 395 comments

The number of dead has risen to 34 and over 100 injured from Russia’s Palm Sunday terrorist attack in Ukraine.

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

"The prime minister’s reluctance to ever challenge the fallacious premises of Brexit raises doubts about the true scale of his ambition when it comes to the EU reset.# #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

submitted 1 day ago • 1208 comments

‘Fawning’ is a response where a person gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery in order to gain favor or advantage. AKA: ass-kisser, bootlicker, toady, suck-up brown-noser, etc.

submitted 2 days ago • 1651 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 615 comments

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

submitted 2 days ago • 466 comments

The Trump people claim to be fighting antisemitism, and the media often accept that framing. I believe, on the contrary, that these actions are antisemitic in intention and in execution. I explain in a short video: snyder.substack.com/p/fomenting-...

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

So weird all these extremists believe that achieving assassinations of Trump would ignite a race war in the US.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.

submitted 2 days ago • 87 comments

#Australia

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Nicky: “The core distinguishing belief of the contemporary Republican Party is that it’s extreme ideology is more important than the Constitution, the law, our national security & the well-being of the Am. people. It is the most dangerous movement in our hist. 🎥 Sarah Longwell Nicolle Wallace 2/4🧵”

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Ukraine’s defense production reaches $9 billion in 2024, set to grow further Ukraine has increased its cruise missile production eightfold in 2024 while developing 324 new weapons systems, the Ministry of Strategic Industries said euromaidanpress.com/2025/04/12/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

After the events of the last few weeks, we need to change our language. Can we stop saying Trump wants “peace”. He is a war focussed president, who is happy to increase US military operations in the Middle East and to see the war in Ukraine continue. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

"In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than they thought they could" Mark Carney, 2019 Jackson Hole gathering, quoting Dornbusch www.kansascityfed.org/documents/69...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Berlin Street Scene (1928) by Dörte Clara Wolff

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hi @mrjamesob.bsky.social in light of Trump's tariffs, Starmer should hold a snap referendum, just a week's notice, on whether we realign with the EU or pursue a deal with the US The 5% GDP growth with a Customs Unions would be a game changer for the Uak economy

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Robert Rinder, "The NHS satisfactory score is the lowest since records began" Stephen Kinnock, "When Labour left office in 2010 it was the highest since 1948, what we've seen is 14 years of Conservative neglect and failure" In fairness to Labour, he's not wrong

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Amazing that without even mentioning a name, EVERYONE knows exactly who it's referencing.

submitted 4 days ago • 1146 comments

This is what is now happening across Europe, courtesy of Trump: Everyone is gravitating towards each other and, in particular, towards the EU. I hope Starmer gets with the programme.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Leavitt says "trust in Trump" twice within 20 seconds

submitted 3 days ago • 331 comments

After Putin spent 3+ years killing innocent civilians in Ukraine, Trump’s envoy Witkoff has met with Putin to discuss lifting sanctions against Russia. WH - still silent.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Impressively nonsensical If that's the view in Downing Street, then you really shouldn't expect anything from the reset

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

If you are posting about migrants applying for visas, why would you use a stock photo of people arriving on small boats, clearly without visas? Come on guys. This is beneath you.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

fell for it again award

submitted 4 days ago • 482 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 4 days ago • 409 comments

the biggest financial crime of Trump's presidency. Tariff threats. Market chaos. Massive profits for the right people. This is a RICO case in a red hat.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments