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Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

submitted 15 hours ago • 2267 comments

And here is Politico misleading its readers about Putin’s rejection of the ceasefire plan… as Russian missiles rain on Ukraine right at this moment.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

submitted 3 days ago • 2114 comments

So it’s over then, works for me

submitted 5 days ago • 361 comments

"I decide who is a Jew"

submitted 6 days ago • 202 comments

I keep wondering if they’ll ever hit something so obviously preposterous that even their hopelessly brainwormed base will refuse to swallow it. You know, something like “Canada is the enemy now.”

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submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

GOOD MORNING FELLOW CITIZENS OF TRUMPMERICA! Today, Beloved Leader faced down the WAR DOGS of The Venomous Canadian Globalist State and DECLARED HIS WONDROUS TARIFFS UPON THEM! Celebrate, citizens! He has GLORIOUSLY RAISED the costs of their goods and soon the Hockey Loving Filth will be ours.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.

submitted 9 days ago • 324 comments

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God kvinnedag, folkens!

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Partisanship is a hell of a drug

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

The idea of a democratic western bloc facing an axis of authoritarianism was always an fantasy. But these numbers are really surprisingly stark.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

submitted 14 days ago • 1100 comments

Hvilken «plan»?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This German tourist has been held by CBP for over a month in inhumane conditions, unable to speak to friends or family, on suspicion she intended to work during her stay in the US.

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Also worth noting that the public consistently overestimates spending for some of these things, such as foreign aid. If you tell them what percentage is actually spend, they tend to adjust their opinions.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Worth tracking these data closely.

submitted 16 days ago • 45 comments

Back in December, we wrote about the rise of a crypto-economic nationalism. We see some of its ramifications beginning to take place as the Trump administration goes into cryptobro-techno-oligarchy mode.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Hva hadde utfallet av folkeavstemningen om EU i 94 blitt hvis vi hadde visst at det ble dannet for å "screw the USA"?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

God oppsummering. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Tyske nyvalgte høyre: "My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA. I never thought I would have to say something like this on a television program. But after Donald Trump's statements last week ....

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty clear that America's richest people got together in a room some time over the last 5 years & decided that Americans have gotten uppity -- demanding better wages & working conditions, asking for humane corporate policy & an end to racism -- and that they needed to be put in their place.

submitted 20 days ago • 59 comments

Dette bør man kjøre Høyre på jevnt og trutt fram mot valget. Har de mot til å ta et prinsipielt standpunkt mot autokratisk kleptokrati?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Høyre forsvarer sitt internasjonale partisamarbeid med det radikaliserte og ekstreme republikanske partiet under Trump, og vil ikke jobbe for å få dem ekskludert. Dette er altså et parti som jobber for å demontere amerikansk demokrati, snakker mye om å invadere andre land, og forfølger minoriteter.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

submitted 21 days ago • 1076 comments

We wrote about the 21 USDS staffers who are resigning, and it appears this is the response from the Trump admin. It begs the questions: If these workers were fully remote, were they not just expressing themselves in their own homes? What happened to the right to free expression?

submitted 21 days ago • 102 comments

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Above is what happened to AfD’s support after Musk zoomed in to their rally, below is what happened to the Left’s—if you’re wondering about his ability to play global puppet master.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

This remains the defining tweet of the Trump era

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

Akkurat som alt annet med moderne ytre høyre. Det er «ironisk». Helt til det ikke er det lenger.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

If this is true, EU needs to publish the details of the ultimatum immediately. Keeping it secret only insulates Trump from Senate backlash. Release the info.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 26 days ago • 3456 comments

NYT right emphasis & tone on Trump trying to help Russia beat Ukraine: -All lead stories -Calls out GOP abandoning supposed principles -Says Trump's up-is-down lie "rewriting history" -Reminds of Russia atrocities And I can't help but note: They really can cover bad things as bad when they want to

submitted 26 days ago • 11 comments

Two Ukrainian oppositional leaders: Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko (both hate Zelensky and hate each other) have publicly supported Zelensky, said his term prolongation is legit until the end of the war, and said elections are impossible now. Listen to Ukrainian opposition.

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

Herein lies a big difference between Brazil, where the rule of law still exists, and the US, where the Roberts Court decided to officially shred it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments