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Glorious to see the Governor of Maine bravely stand up to big bully Trump. He’s about to find out the LGBTQ2SIA+ community won’t be intimidated or cowed. We all stand with trans!

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Trump and Musk are systematically gutting the federal bureaucracy, starting with new blood and no doubt working up the chain. Decades of quiet effort to re-orient the government towards kindness and justice looks set to be undone. I’m left distraught to watch it unfold in real time.

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Apt Observer column from Simon Tisdale regarding Trump’s abysmal betrayal of Ukraine and NATO. It is straight up appeasement. Bowing to Putin’s slavering Slav hordes, he essentially agreed to all of the dictator’s demands before negotiations even begin! Some genius deal maker, Drumph.

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Robert Kagan, Victoria Nuland, Anne Applebaum, Steven Levitsky, Larry Diamond, Carl Gershman, Allen Weinstein, Rachel Kleinfeld… I think we can guess why the anti-semites in MAGA were so happy to see the NED gutted. Goodbye democracy promotion from now on.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The arrogance of Trump attempting to unilaterally end the slaughter in Ukraine without EU input and while Ukrainian support for more bloodshed is yet strong astounds me.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Here it comes, as predicted. Alliteration-crazy RFK jr. has announced a new commission dedicated to undermining public confidence in the Covid vaccine and boosters. That’s not going to stop me from protecting my health against free-floating viruses.

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So V. Putin, Lucifer incarnate, has released a record of his conversation with Trump that almost word for word matches the American account, something that never happens as a rule. That means our worst fears have been confirmed. Trump is Putin’s kept lackey. (Watch DJT now scream ‘rapprochement’!)

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Well, it looks like Putin’s fratricidal gamble has paid off, according to the Guardian. Medvedev described Europe as a “frigid spinster” after Trump broke protocol and spoke directly with Putin, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy bypassed. All that money and materiel sacrificed only for Trump to do a rug pull.

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Well, goodbye Ukraine, lost to Russia’s ravenous maw. Trump is preparing to throw in the towel even as NATO has successfully bled dry our long-time adversary. It’s sickens me to witness his truckling to an unprovoked aggressor. All those brave men sacrificed for nothing.

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So Trump’s unhinged scheme to repatriate the $500 billion dollars poured into Ukraine to deter Russian aggression involves fleecing Burisma of all its assets. One oligarch stealing from another or a slippery attempt to go after Hunter Biden again, and through him, his father? I have concerns.

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How is it far-right media vultures are allowed to persecute Senator Warren about her personal wealth while they fanboy Elon Musk?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

As Guardian writer Zoe Williams writes, it’s a fantasy and demonstrably untrue that USAID was anything but an agency exclusively tasked with dispensing financial and material assistance to those in need. A few thousand for a trans opera in Ireland, an LGBTQ2SIA+comic book in Peru, is irrelevant.

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Laughable. X reactionaries are now spinning a yarn Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was aware of the assassination attempt on Trump last July or even had a hand in planning it according to some phantom whistleblower. Where do they come up with these whoppers?

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Right-wing media has gone mad, insisting to its deluded viewers that USAID was some kind of sinister $40 billion operation that covertly undermined governments around the world while under the guise of providing assistance. It’s ridiculous and meretricious.

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40% of FBI agents were focused on the J6 attempted coup? So what? It should have been 80%. Maybe then we wouldn’t be looking at the unconstitutional overthrow of American democracy by MAGA!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The bloodbath continues. Now the national archives head has been lopped off. They effaced the USAID title from the building’s lintel. Department of Education staffers were locked out of their offices. It’s a horror show in Washington now.

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Reliable news organizations like Politico, the New York Times, essentially every mainstream outlet in America, is under attack by Musk and his Musketeers. They’ve released data that purports to show these media concerns received payments from USAID, the implication being they’re corrupt. Vile.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Get ready for the spin from Bondi’s office that having thousands of FBI agents hunting down J6 rioters and insurrectionists was a partisan campaign against MAGA. White nationalism for the win.

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A rumor traveling around MAGA world claims the USAID $250 million Afghan road building project was actually a CIA money-laundering front. These people are utterly delusional.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What is happening? Now the CIA is taking itself out? I don’t understand. Is this some plot Putin dreamed up and sold to Drumph?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Now Musk and his myrmidons are dismantling USAID claiming it’s some kind of clandestine, deep state money-laundering operation. Where do they come up with these fantasies?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Worrying Franklin Foer piece in the Atlantic. He argues Trump and his DOGE minions intend to hollow out the federal bureaucracy by “crushing” those civil servants dedicated to “studious neutrality.” He wants state organs stuffed with flunkies who do his bidding, legal or not. We’re all in danger.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Reactionary X-ers are peddling misinformation the helicopter pilot responsible for the recent incident at Reagan National Airport was a trans person bitter about Trump’s anti-trans stance wrt the military. They have no decency.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Why does it feel like MAGA is rolling up the Ws? It’s so dispiriting there are days I don’t want to even check reliable news. What is to be done?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting theory going around that “political grief” could be responsible for the skyrocketing bouts of long Covid hospitals are seeing. The stress of seeing MAGA policies being implemented on a daily basis is affecting the public’s health. This is bad.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

All social progress will be undone. Hate won.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t believe it. The orange-haired fascist is tearing down reality. The DOJ, HHS, NIH: all knee-capped by these Visigoths. Beam me up, Scotty. Everything I believed in is being torpedoed.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Any time I see an American flag flying from a house, I feel afraid. It’s like I know the people inside support Trump, so they want to harm me. Four more years of this?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Time to learn the Horst Wessel song. Pure fascism is on the menu.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If you’re really nice, everyone else will be really nice. It’s that simple.

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Poor special council Jack Smith. He moved mountains trying to bring scoundrel and scofflaw Trump to justice. I thank him for his amazing service.

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