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1/ Important insights from OBrien's weekend update. Some excerps👇 "Wars are hardly ever won by the forces on hand when they start. They are almost always won by the forces that are generated during the fighting..." #Russia #Ukraine #US #Europe

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

"Days before masked [ICE] agents detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to deport her, the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

⚡️Trump lashed out after Zelensky's CBS interview, demanding 60 Minutes be stripped of its license. In a Truth Social post, he didn’t name Zelensky but slammed the segment as “fake” and CBS as “liars.” The interview covered stalled U.S. aid and Trump’s trust in Putin.

submitted 6 hours ago • 71 comments

8.5 million people lost their lives, their homes... 8.5 million emigrated. These are just those who left the country. Their lives were destroyed, Zelensky said. Europe, do you have 8.5 million excuses for your shameful failure?

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

One of the most powerful forces in politics is the urge to destroy that from which you are excluded. This is why, in the highly unequal US, support for Trump holds up even as he trashes everything that makes a good society. Equality is key to preventing fascism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 7 hours ago • 53 comments

Must read 🙏⬇️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

Most dictators don’t rule despite the people—they rule because enough people support them. Propaganda, fear, and grievance don’t just silence dissent—they mobilize consent—whether it's based on reality or not.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Trump thinks bribery, corruption, crypto scams, and money laundering should all be legal, so of course he doesn't want to prosecute this kind of thing.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

When you pick a fight with the whole world, it incentivizes the whole world to team up against you.

submitted 7 hours ago • 15 comments

Bring back Kilmar Abrego García... NOW. 🧵(1 of 6)

submitted 19 hours ago • 262 comments

When it comes to targeting immigrants, the administration wants as many numbers as it can get and for those numbers to be as big as possible. They don’t care if the numbers are inflated, quite the opposite. They don’t care about potential value; they care about the immediate value of The Numbers.

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

A BILLION dollars, in about ninety days, for doing no work

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Why would the President meet with (and allow into the country) a head of state who refuses to return a person sent to their custody in error?

submitted 12 hours ago • 130 comments

The key point is that they have to be listed and disclosed to Congress, with others, on a monthly basis. The timing of that obligation is faster, and broader than the obligation to publish (from which some agreements and nonbindings are exempted). That also requires a description of legal authority.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Because Trump is on Putin’s side, these are words Trump will never say.👇

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

I CAN FEEL THE COMMIES IN THE AIR TONIGHT OH LAWD

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

"why is president trump lying about his weight? what else is he hiding?" literally writes itself, but the press is more interested in getting access to the next cruel kids party and doing blow off an Alabama sorority girl than actually serving the national interest

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Once again, the entire reason we’re here now, in 2025, is because we totally failed as a nation to send a lot of very senior Republican officials to jail for a very long time for the massive constitutional crimes committed during Iran-Contra, the entire GWB administration, & Trump I.

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

A functional White House Press Corp would be all over this, but I'm fully prepared to be disappointed again.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

This appears to be a serious act of terror towards Jewish & Democratic Governor & his family.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Very happy that @aaup.bsky.social and its chapters are bringing these lawsuits. Absolutely shameful that universities and their highly paid leaders are not stepping up to do so themselves.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said on Sunday he is worried that the turmoil resulting from Trump’s tariff and economic policies will threaten the global economy. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/13/b...

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

No one should trust Elon, and we all need to eliminate any dependency on any of his companies. Especially one as important as Starlink.

submitted 14 hours ago • 10 comments

There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 21 hours ago • 171 comments

Earlier this week, the White House added the names and Social Security numbers of thousands of living, breathing people to the SSA’s Death Master File, which is used to track when a person has died and should stop receiving government benefits. newrepublic.com/post/193900/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

"The potential for catastrophe cannot be dismissed as hysterical fearmongering. It will indeed come to pass, if the court adheres to the letter of the so-called “unitary executive” theory long treasured by right-wing legal academics and pundits." newrepublic.com/article/1938...

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

Putin was chuckling to himself today, obviously disconcerting to everyone around him, but one brave person asked him what was was amusing him so, and Putin said: Just thinking of child cancer researchers in US spending their days putting screws into back of $3,000 iPhones, and he laughed.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

NEW: A second filing today from the DOJ tells Judge Xinis that in their view, since Mr. Abrego is in Bukele's custody, she can't order them to do anything further to bring him back since that's not what "facilitate" means. They also say the deal with Bukele is classified and/or a state secret.

submitted 17 hours ago • 216 comments

Sooner rather than later, judges are going to have to hold Trump admin officials in contempt, tell the marshals to jail them, and bring the constitutional crisis to a head. If we have to put millions on the streets of DC to stop a total dictatorship, better now than after it entrenches further.

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

Right wingers love to be like “pshaw you think batteries can supply power for a power grid during the hot summer night” not knowing that batteries are literally doing that right now

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I'll bet you $5 the wife trained the dog to do it. 😈

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

With Elon Musk admitting to Trump's Cabinet that the $1 trillion in government savings he had promised will be closer to $150 billion, an 85% reduction, fans of DOGE are quickly losing faith. Even the $150 billion promise may be a pie-in-the-sky boast. Shocking.🙄 www.rawstory.com/doge-failures/

submitted 19 hours ago • 65 comments

Let me clarify, bc there are a lot of other facts that are important too. These all take Trump at his claimed word, to want to combat fraud, antisemitism, and China--that's what right wingers claim they're getting w/Trump. Only Trump has failed them all.

submitted 20 hours ago • 9 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 20 hours ago • 219 comments