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Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

submitted 11 hours ago • 274 comments

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Morning from Kyiv! What can I say about this night? russians attacked Ukraine with 267 drones. It was a very loud night. At the same time, trump is sure he will end the war next week. Of course 😂 Everyone believes. I need a #warcoffee

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Rep McCormick (Roswell—safe red) can’t gaslight his constituents—but they need to wake up. He won’t do a damn thing to stop Trump. A woman asks about Trump declaring himself “king” & what he will do to stop him. His smugness is off the charts. This is the guy who said hungry kids should get jobs.

submitted 18 hours ago • 462 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1320 comments

Members of the military are supposed to be loyal to the Constitution, not the president. Changing that seems to have been the point of the Friday Night Massacre. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 11 hours ago • 441 comments

If members of Congress—like Rep. Grothman —are this clueless about what the man who is dismantling our government is saying and promising, they don’t deserve to keep their jobs! This woman is in his face, begging him to wake TF up—and he just walks off. Pathetic.

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Have you figured out what's going in yet? breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

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“What merit means to them” General Brown’s record, which Hegseth questioned for obvious reasons: www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

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When people cheer Mangione, watch for tons of pearl-clutching about norms from people who absolutely reject and ignore both norms and actual laws. They seek to impose standards they don’t follow. They’d never apply those norms and standards to Trumpism.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 1 day ago • 802 comments

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

submitted 1 day ago • 2170 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1161 comments

He will not criticize Putin.

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Friday is the deadline for NBC News to vacate its Pentagon office. On September 11, 2001, NBC News was the first news outlet to report on the terrorist attack against the Pentagon because its reporter, Jim Miklaszewski, was inside NBC's offices there. thedesk.net/2025/02/pent...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 1527 comments

Yo DOGE, Found your waste! 👇🏼

submitted 2 days ago • 885 comments

People need to understand this: Trump did not leave office willingly the first time. If his health holds up, he will not leave office willingly this time. He is not joking about serving more than two terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 1019 comments

This will especially hurt rural folks

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21 February 1869 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Alida Elisabeth Polak, was born in Leeuwarden. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

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"We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within." Nikita Khrushchev

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 3 days ago • 556 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2184 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1217 comments

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 3 days ago • 476 comments

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless. /1

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

🤬 inhumane prick www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

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Oh, wow. Also, we know Covid causes ACE/ACE2 balance disruption and (tech term coming) fucks up a whole lot of function. This goes a long way in explaining why the placenta gets so messed up in Covid pregnancies.

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It's not in spite of these indicators, it's because of them. Affluence and ennui are powerful drivers of modern authoritatianism.

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