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Evidently, the leader of the free world now is Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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"Show me you're grateful" said every abuser. #SlavaUkraini

submitted 9 hours ago • 13 comments

Calling all former presidents, we need your help.

submitted 6 hours ago • 139 comments

That was fast! Trump MIA as prices spike from coffee, to eggs, to gasoline Weekly jobless claims hit their highest point in nearly a year. @arimelber.bsky.social reports on Trump’s economy. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_nA...

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

He is l i t e r a l l y a Russian operative.

submitted 18 hours ago • 36 comments

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

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Release of 'Epstein Files' sparks MAGA anger and disappointment The White House made a big show of handing a bunch of conservative influencers binders labeled, "The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” But the whole stunt was a bust, @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_HV...

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Former Rep. @comstockb.bsky.social calls the bullying of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy by Trump and Vance “disgraceful” after Zelenskyy’s repeated displays of gratitude.

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

What you saw today was the Russian mob acting out of the Oval Office.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

submitted 21 hours ago • 291 comments

It's my understanding the current administration was humiliated by its betters today, an observation that will be evergreen for the next three years, ten months

submitted 1 day ago • 140 comments

Trump-Zelenskyy clash marks a defining turn away from U.S. defense of democracies www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 10 hours ago • 66 comments

Flu infections are the highest they’ve been in nearly 30 years, and flu deaths this winter have surpassed COVID deaths. In today’s episode, we dig into some viral trends. Listen here 🎧: https://buff.ly/3Qxzk9y

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

We love merit, don’t we folks?

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only the best. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

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1400 more firings at Veterans Affairs: "Officials said specifically that Veterans Crisis Line responders were not affected by the dismissals. But workers within the department said that support staff for the crisis line were among the workers let go..." www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 1239 comments

I’m encouraged by these town halls but I also remember very clearly how this happened in 2017 as well. Instead of responding to the complaints, they stopped doing them. www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpo...

submitted 8 days ago • 417 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 7 days ago • 1035 comments

The Supreme Court, in its first ruling on President Trump’s use of executive power during his second term, decided that he cannot, for now, dismiss the government lawyer leading the watchdog agency responsible for protecting whistle-blowers.

submitted 7 days ago • 125 comments

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

submitted 8 days ago • 726 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 1225 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 8 days ago • 761 comments

NEW: The Associated Press sued three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing freedom of speech in asking a federal judge to stop the 10-day blocking of its journalists.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 8 days ago • 756 comments

I never thought freedom for Ukraine could be extinguished at the hands of this generation of Republicans. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

submitted 7 days ago • 99 comments

The Pentagon will fire 5,400 civilian workers next week.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 381 comments

Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating DEI-related grants.

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www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

submitted 7 days ago • 441 comments

Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

submitted 15 days ago • 416 comments

Education Department employees on probation were abruptly dismissed without cause across the department this morning. Staff have been warned that more layoffs are coming.

submitted 16 days ago • 332 comments

U.S. Forest Service will fire roughly 3,400 federal employees.

submitted 15 days ago • 508 comments

Heartbreaking news… Tonight, many of our friends were let go, and tomorrow, even more will follow. Word is that all probationary employees at NPS will be let go. 😭

submitted 15 days ago • 1961 comments

uhhh kinda feels like maybe they should publish those birds flu studies? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 16 days ago • 578 comments

oh no do tariffs cause inflation?

submitted 17 days ago • 112 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 17 days ago • 336 comments

in.benzinga.com/startups/25/...

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Lawrence: “The most powerless image of a president of the United States ever created by a camera.” @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com comments on Elon Musk’s influence on Trump after their joint appearance in the Oval Office. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7s0...

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments

Surprise! newrepublic.com/post/191402/...

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

Me: idk, I feel like the Samuel L. Jackson bits were maybe too heavyhanded, we don’t need the subtext spelled out for us, the audience is smarter than that Me after reading several insane takes about the halftime show: I think maybe the Samuel L. Jackson bits were not heavyhanded enough

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Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed. Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly. Yet another reason he must be rejected.

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"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.' A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

submitted 18 days ago • 267 comments

White House officials bristle as the courts throttle parts of Trump's agenda www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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