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Ukrainian American political and cultural analyst. Community organizer, media commentator, borshch maker - https://linktr.ee/tufkaa 📍NYC 📺 appearances: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyPUMOvEaOi5vPnkOeBenLkKntDYOgPp&si=GljarRtPBR1XoVEi
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⚡Zelenskyy arrived to meet with the British Prime Minister, who greeted him with a hug t.me/Tsaplienko/6...

lol DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Measles in Texas update. 124 cases as of today. Growth is still... not linear.

House GOP proposed cuts: Agriculture: $230B Education & Workforce: $330B Energy & Commerce: $880B (Medicaid etc) Oversight & Government Reform: $50B Transportation & Infrastructure: $10B Increases: Armed Services: $100B Homeland Security: $90B Judiciary: $110B Ways & Means: $4.5 TRILLION (tax cuts)

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announces that the White House Correspondents' Association will no longer choose the pool reporter. "Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team."

ICYMI yesterday took a look at how new SEC guidance has caused and is causing confusion for some of the largest asset managers www.pionline.com/esg/sec-guid...

Very tough day yesterday, with the US siding with Russia against Ukraine. But at least all of those people who told us for three years that Ukraine was just a US proxy will now admit they were wrong (no?)

#BREAKING Amazon MGM Studios takes creative control of James Bond franchise: statement

Zelensky said he decided to postpone his visit to Saudi Arabia planned for Wednesday after the U.S.-Russian summit in Riyadh. Zelensky said he didn’t want to create a “false impression of negotations” by visiting Saudi Arabia tomorrow-Axios

A list of events and shows canceled at the Kennedy Center www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

Overall #SNL50 went a little long but loved it. Highs and lows like the show’s always had. Mulaney musical probably the overall highlight but I’ll always love Drunk Uncle -Matt

The Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special.

#6 Choose 20 plays/musicals that have stayed with you or influenced you. One show per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster. #TheatreSky

I repeat…

The Gulf of Steve Martin. 😂 #snl50

Do you think they picked Sabrina Carpenter to duet w Paul Simon on #SNL50 cause they make each other look normal sized?

We knew the #SNL50 cast would be stacked but actually seeing so many people in that first sketch was insane. We’re in for a ride tonight.

I wrote about how the bloom came off The White Lotus.

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It's so weird that it's just now hitting me how totally awesome this night is. Seriously. I've known it was coming for a good year but I've been watching SNL for almost twenty years and I can't even imagine what it's like for those who were there from the get-go -Matt #SNL50

For the young bucks, the SNL Concert was basically nostalgia porn for everyone above the age of 40. We grew up with all this. Amazing they got all of em on a stage. #SNL50

Alice Weidel referred to Germany’s Holocaust Remembrance as a “guilt cult” less than two weeks ago. Shame on the Vice President for meeting with her.

The unanimous conclusion of @chrussiaeurasia.bsky.social authors is that the only outcome in Ukraine that can safeguard the security of Europe is a convincing Ukrainian victory. Western military support to Kyiv should be redoubled before it is too late.

We do not deserve Brandi Carlisle. She’s too wonderful for this universe in so many ways #SNL50 #SNL50Concert

The Culps doing Britney, Doechii, and Kendrick is everything that I didn’t know I needed and MORE #SNL50 #SNL50Concert

Robyn Byrne is just perfect. Dancing On My Own is woefully underrated #SNL50

Robyn and David Byrne's matching outfits 😍 #SNL

Pedro Pascal recording Robyn singing Dancing On My Own in the most trans flag-colored lighting is queer rights #snl50

I am not naive, but never in my life did I think I would read “Afrikaner refugees” on an executive order by a US President.

Trump issuing an executive order to resettle Afrikaner refugees in the US is about as obvious as you can get, honestly.

The US is now suspending support to South Africa and allowing resettlement and "refugee" status only for white south Africans ("Afrikaner"). This is so blatantly racist. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A new edict from President Musk. “Afrikaner refugees.” What an absolute perversion.

May of 2020. This is what Elmo's team didn't wipe out of what I wrote about him on Xitter.

BREAKING: The Treasury Department has installed DOGE ally Tom Krause as fiscal assistant secretary, placing the Musk ally in a powerful position over the nation's +$5 trillion payment network Musk continues to demand unilateral cessation of payments www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Our review of 'An Unexpected Valentine' is out now! 🎧 all platforms 📺 @PhiloTV - Philo.tv/DTH

Marco Rubio's new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.

State Department Appointee Shilled for America’s Enemies, Called NATO ‘Greater Threat’ Than Chinese Communist Party www.mediaite.com/news/top-tru...

Darren Beattie, the new head of public diplomacy at State, spent January 6 telling various black people — including Tim Scott — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA” www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...

Semafor: Rubio will appoint Darren Beattie, a speechwriter in Trump’s first term, acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, two people briefed on the plans said…Beattie was fired from the WH in 2018 after attending a conference with white nationalists. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

Darren Beattie?? It's like they're deliberately seeking the worst people in the world to staff up

This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.