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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

submitted 2 hours ago • 76 comments

Pouring one out for all thousands of white journalists who are trying to figure out how to continue to frame each of these as a strange, mysterious and inexplicable body spasms shorn of any context or meaning

submitted 2 hours ago • 15 comments

This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Internalize that the United States as we understood it on January 19, 2025 is gone. We are in the midst of rewriting the rules and reconstructing society right now and must adjust accordingly. There is no going back, so we must imagine and think forward

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

🇪🇺Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Costa, 🇨🇦Canadian PM Trudeau, 🇱🇹Lithuanian and 🇱🇻Latvian Presidents, 🇪🇪Estonian PM and 🇪🇸Spanish PM arrived in Kyiv! A meeting of the leaders will take place, at which they will discuss peace, security guarantees and the future of collective security.

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

It was the whole, "I listen to them at 2x+ speed" thing that we should've seen as a harbinger. Absolute antisocial behavior.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention

submitted 7 hours ago • 84 comments

This is the way to view the German election.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

submitted 12 hours ago • 130 comments

Sample call scripts and language for messages to Congress on Trump's military purges here. (I'm not wild about these, so let me know if you have feedback/suggestions)

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

submitted 10 hours ago • 61 comments

A month ago, the idea that the new German chancellor would talk about "independence from the US" would have been unbelievable

submitted 13 hours ago • 230 comments

Note how most of the audience sits and watches approvingly.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

submitted 13 hours ago • 355 comments

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

submitted 21 hours ago • 233 comments

Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Sunday for a meeting with President Donald Trump as the United States continues to push a deal for access to his country’s minerals.

submitted 15 hours ago • 51 comments

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

submitted 17 hours ago • 39 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 17 hours ago • 441 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 225 comments

United States support for Ukraine was never about securing mineral rights. Or providing security for money. It was about democracy and sovereignty. And a willingness to defend our allies and oppose our enemies. Trump is betraying Ukraine, but also our values. Our history and our legacy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 326 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 17 hours ago • 934 comments

Trump tried a seizure of power in 2021. It didn't work, because he relied only on a violent mob. The military and FBI stayed loyal to the Constitution. This time, with approval of the Republican Senate, Trump has installed anti-constitutional putschists at FBI, DoD, and Pentagon

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

Post WW1 Germany fell into Nazism because of hyperinflation and economic chaos, America fell into it because of record low unemployment and folks liking to “do their own research.”

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

Trump trying to muscle Zelensky with the same outrageously corrupt protection-racketeer’s demand as in the 2019 call that brought about his first impeachment: I would like you to do us a favor www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 608 comments

Never in my most pessimistic moments did I expect the response to modern biotechnology saving countless lives in a pandemic to be a powerful elite captured by a conspiracy theory and dismantling our defenses against the next one out of some misguided notion of revenge

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

submitted 1 day ago • 306 comments

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

submitted 1 day ago • 641 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2115 comments

I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments