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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

submitted 6 hours ago • 197 comments

“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”

submitted 6 hours ago • 185 comments

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 6 hours ago • 211 comments

Part of the lesson here is that Trumpists, like many bullies, don’t handle it well if you stand up to them rather than caving. If Trump or Vance or their supporters had any character this petulant display and Zelenskyy’s defiance would be humiliating to them.

submitted 7 hours ago • 207 comments

Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Special report: US government officials fear the administration’s hardline border stance + cuts to the state machinery will mean a “non-insignificant” number of people who legitimately acquire tickets for the World Cup will be refused visas altogether. www.nytimes.com/athletic/616...

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 11 hours ago • 111 comments

Among the more inhumane things Trump/Musk have done this week, DOGE cut off food, water, & fuel to the US embassy in South Sudan. They are living on what power the generator can provide. The country has no potable water & there's a cholera outbreak in the country. These Americans are in real danger.

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

NEW: Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a D.C. townhouse that is the center of an evangelical pastor’s secretive influence campaign — and the home is owned by a major GOP donor. www.propublica.org/article/mike... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

submitted 10 hours ago • 63 comments

JFC. Like, literally, USAID was the counter to the Belt and Road Initiative, and removing it has opened up all sorts of opportunities for China to harm the US.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

another day at @wired.com, this time, @jakelahut.writes.news has a major scoop on elon musk’s “sherpas” in washington who are helping him reach his ambitions

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

submitted 1 day ago • 593 comments

"It’s worse than you think because the people running the government seem to have no higher mission than to watch it burn." From genius @brbarrett.bsky.social who cuts through all of the DOGE chaos better than any other person on the planet. www.wired.com/story/doge-w...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 1 day ago • 707 comments

Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” efforts by the USAID to prevent the spread of Ebola — but Musk insisted that the initiative was quickly restored USAID officials said that Musk was wrong: USAID’s Ebola prevention efforts have been largely halted

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

Elon Musk is now presiding over the cabinet meeting. They're not beating the co-president allegations. (And co-president might be putting it charitably for Trump.)

submitted 2 days ago • 1206 comments

The Social Security Administration is looking to fire tens of thousands of workers, including many people who staff the field offices all around the country that help people access their benefits. prospect.org/health/socia...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Musk: I should say we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make a mistake we'll fix it quickly. So for example with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled briefly was Ebola prevention.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

Use criminal contempt to start putting the bureaucrats in jail. One day of confinement for each hour the law is not followed

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), which has worked to identify groups of pregnant people and infants at higher risk of health complications since 1988, was quietly shut down following Trump's inauguration. www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Luke Farritor is not “letting them die”, he is actively breaking the law and withholding life saving meds from the most vulnerable. He is actively killing people on Musk’s orders. This is a death squad. We won’t forget his face or his crimes. #vlakplas #doge #warcrimes

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

Zero Democratic votes for the Republican budget made to cut programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Reject being the minority, embrace being the opposition!

submitted 3 days ago • 192 comments

News: Judge Ali granted a motion to enforce his TRO compelling the Trump admin to unfreeze foreign assistance spending. The govt must pay all invoices and letters of credit drawdown requests by 11:59 pm tomorrow (Weds) and provide any directives related to compliance with his TRO by noon tomorrow.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

NEW: DOGE quietly deletes the five largest spending cuts it had been celebrating last week. All of them contained errors that wildly over-inflated how much had been saved. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

New campaign from @friendsofusaid.bsky.social 📣DOGE has STIFFED millions of our vendors and partners worldwide for hundreds of millions in unpaid bills! American taxpayers are NOT DEADBEATS. Share YOUR story on overdue #USAID payments and unpaid invoices! Email stories to [email protected]

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Big Balls has veto power over No Balls.

submitted 3 days ago • 162 comments

BIG: DC Metro Police decided they had sufficient evidence to arrest sitting GOP Congressman and sent warrant request to USATTY's office. Acting USATTY Martin, who's been explicitly acting as Trump's personal attorney, ignored it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-b...

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

Can confirm that pediatricians in Texas are scrambling. In the absence of any serious federal or state health guidance, they’re relying on group texts and private social channels to coordinate.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 4 days ago • 2161 comments

The man who sicced the black-shirted thugs on this woman is Sheriff Bob Norris. The man jeering, "Look at this little girl over here...We've got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here... Your voice is meaningless right now...I can talk over all of you" is "voice actor" Ed Bejarana.

submitted 5 days ago • 35 comments

You GUYYYYSSSSSSS The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

Rep. Nick Begich (R-Alaska) told constituents that there was nothing he could do to stop DOGE layoffs affecting people in his state. Says said he found out about budget cuts impacting Alaska "on Twitter" and "had no idea these things were going on" in advance. popular.info/p/freshman-c...

submitted 5 days ago • 534 comments

Musk has tweeted more than 220 times in last 24 hrs. That's not counting the replies.

submitted 5 days ago • 441 comments

Trump: I'm hearing so much about eggs, figure something out fast. We inherited all of the problems. A few months down the road, we won’t be able to say it’s so much us. But the big things we can blame other people for

submitted 7 days ago • 298 comments

Somehow the reasons for fetterman’s staff all quitting are infinitely worse than what I imagined. Incredible.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Republican rep getting shouted down by his own constituents at a townhall in a deep red R+30 district is something.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

UPDATE: Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

This is incredible reporting that must shock the conscience of each and every one of us.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

The video is a bit confusing but the rear car has modified his vehicle to project the anti elon, anti cybertruck images onto every cybertruck he sees

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments