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In 2022, russians killed the mayor of Motyzhyn village, Olha Sukhenko, her husband and son. Before being kidnapped, she was evacuating village residents, delivering food and medicine. Their bodies were found in a mass grave after the liberation of the Kyiv region. russian occupation is not peace.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

When I wrote that I was voting for Harris, two of the factors that pushed me from voting third party to voting Harris were Trump's attacks on the rule of law and his reckless position on Ukraine. Harris was right on those issues, and Trump was very wrong. Feeling pretty vindicated right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

Not even six hours apart.

submitted 5 days ago • 1199 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as allude to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2109 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 7 days ago • 536 comments

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

submitted 7 days ago • 290 comments

Still thinking how Pete Hegseth's entire rationale for being secdef was to get the military to do less touchy-feely stuff and be more lethal and war-capable, and yet at his first big-boy multilateral the talking point is "Roll back Russian territorial aggression? Protect Europe? We can't do that!"

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

If you’re a republican Senator who votes for Tulsi Gabbard, I don’t ever want to hear a goddamn word out of your mouth about national security ever again.

submitted 12 days ago • 218 comments

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

submitted 13 days ago • 384 comments

It's literally impossible to run the National Weather Service without talking to foreign partners. For example, the National Hurricane Center in Miami shares data with other nations in the Caribbean constantly to forecast storms. Everyone benefits. Weather doesn't stop at the borders.

submitted 17 days ago • 140 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2838 comments

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

submitted 21 days ago • 975 comments

If each Treasury payee is a separate record, and there are, say, 68,000,000 social security payees (as is estimated), then at $5000 per violation, it seems like Elon could be penalized $340 billion if he unlawfully accessed their Treasury records...

submitted 20 days ago • 235 comments

📌To what passes for Democratic leadership right now ... Say this often and everywhere: "A NAZI-LOVING BILLIONAIRE DOES NOT BELONG INSIDE OUR GOVERNMENT OR ANYWHERE NEAR OUR MONEY." -Thanks

submitted 20 days ago • 44 comments

Republicans want to turn this country into a fascist theocracy. As Democrats, we must put aside our differences and work with them to help achieve this reality.

submitted 21 days ago • 63 comments

🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.

submitted 22 days ago • 2389 comments

Ouch. The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board just called Trump's new trade war "The Dumbest Trade War in History"

submitted 21 days ago • 541 comments

This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

submitted 24 days ago • 26 comments

Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.

submitted 26 days ago • 884 comments

"Jesus’ parents were also obliged to flee from their country and seek refuge in Egypt, to save the life of their Child: the Messiah, the Son of God was a refugee." Pope Benedict XVI. Angelus, January 16, 2011 Image: "Our Lady of the Journey" by @KLICONS

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen having dinner in her home with PMs of Sweden and Norway and president of Finland: "Denmark is not alone." They are our best firewall against the bullying fascism of Trump. Bet the bookcases are Billy. h/t Thomas Lauritzen www.facebook.com/share/p/1DPE...

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

Kudos to the AFP photographer who got this angle. Elon Musk yesterday at the rally of the German Far Right party, AfD. (📸 AFP)

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Moments after defending Trump's pardons of rioters who assaulted police by saying the president has the pardon authority, Mike Johnson says Congress will investigate Joe Biden's pardons

submitted 31 days ago • 677 comments

The odious idiot Megan McArdle defends Musk's Hitler salute, likens it to a minister's raised arm in benediction, and says we shouldn't call evil evil. #BrokenPost

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: "House Republicans are celebrating pardons issued to a bloodthirsty mob that violently assaulted police officers on January 6, 2021. What happened to backing the Blue?"

submitted 32 days ago • 59 comments

This is gold.

submitted 33 days ago • 927 comments

I'd like to think we can all agree that if you were so dangerous that your wife needed a safe word to alert others she needed rescuing, you really shouldn't be in charge of the world's largest military....or anything ever. my g*d. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Trump rescinded Biden's Executive Order to lower prescription drug costs for Americans, which will be devastating for tens of millions of people. We need to stay focused on issues like that—not on the shiny, offensive distractions like Elon's weird salute.

submitted 32 days ago • 138 comments

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

submitted 32 days ago • 399 comments

Elon Musk’s Nazi salute got almost as much coverage as anything else yesterday. Some defended him, saying it was “a Roman salute.” Yeah, sure, and the Hakenkreuz (swastika) was an ancient Indian religious symbol.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." Written right there in the Constitution. The President cannot change that with the stroke of a pen.

submitted 33 days ago • 2245 comments

youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?...

submitted 33 days ago • 264 comments