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“All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.” “I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.”
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In Ukraine, Putin's forces have committed mass murder, mass torture, mass rape, and mass kidnapping. Have Trump & Co. ever criticized Putin and the Kremlin? Or do they save all their scorn for Zelensky and the Ukrainians? Our leadership is guilty of moral idiocy.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

A frustration, and a curiosity: Many Americans have no problem acknowledging the atrocities committed by Hamas -- and yet are oblivious to, or in denial about, the atrocities committed by Putin's Russia. Should be the subject of a thoughtful and unflinching article.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Trump Fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs The nominee to replace Gen. CQ Brown, the first black officer, to serve as the Pentagon’s senior military post, is a retired Air Force general... NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COLIN POWELL. This is the frigging WSj

submitted 22 hours ago • 35 comments

"This is a vast project of enforced re-education by a colonial power that wants to wipe away history as though clearing a computer disk, and reprogram a population through barrages of propaganda at the barrel of a gun" From @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, on occupied Ukraine econ.st/41CVD4d

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

submitted 2 hours ago • 29 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 20 hours ago • 200 comments

Obviously “Russia Russia Russia” was not a hoax.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Take Russia's frozen assets now (written in December 2023, now even more urgent) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

“Attitudes to gender, decisions on taxation and migration, are debated…They should not transform conservatives into anti-democratic far rightists. And yet the leaders and intellectuals of the modern conservative movement have become extremism’s useful idiots.” nickcohen.substack.com/p/why-conser...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

The rotund Commander-In-Chief

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Elon Musk destroyed TWITTER, now he and his boss(?) are trying to destroy America and replace it with a corrupt, authoritarian oligarchy, just like Russia!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5074 comments

PSA: If you’re going to go around referring to yourself as the “king” of America you sure as fuck don’t get to call a democratically elected foreign leader a “dictator.”

submitted 2 days ago • 280 comments

Even a five year old is smarter than all of them combined!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Oh nothing to see here — just the United States of America aligning itself with Russia and against Europe. This is fine. Totally fine.

submitted 2 days ago • 418 comments

Perhaps he is(?)…

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Putin is not popular

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 921 comments

Can we also keep in mind that while Zelenskyy like Churchill 1940-45 postponed elections, Trump in peacetime tried to overturn by violence an election he lost - and has since pardoned all the co-conspirators in his attempted coup?

submitted 3 days ago • 88 comments

I have all respect for the office of the presidency, none for the current occupant of it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

“The people who represent the nation that has committed these war crimes are sitting across the table from Rubio with the hope of relief from devastating sanctions and an end to a conflict they started, all the while continuing to inflict suffering on Ukraine.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Telling the Ukrainians they shouldn’t have started the war is some real high-level assholery.

submitted 3 days ago • 347 comments

Neville Chamberlain, to do him justice, never amplified under his own byline Hitler's propaganda against the Czechs

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

The impending Trump sell-out of Ukraine has no basis in any genuine US interest. Pro-Trump foreign-policy "realism" (so called) is a corrupt exercise in confecting excuses for a disgrace and disaster based entirely on the shadowy and sinister Trump-Putin connection.

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

He has the knowledge and the instincts for his job; but he’s an inveterate coward living in fear of Trump and his base.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

All the things that conservatives taught me long ago about deterrence and appeasement and freedom and tyranny, especially of the expansionist kind -- I can't unlearn them. It's too late. Plus, I think they are true.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

President Reagan's strategy on the Cold War: "We win, they lose.” President Trump's strategy today: The dictators win, we lose.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

It was painful enough to watch Donald’s earlier press conference…

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

My take on Rubio when he was first nominated: 1. He’s qualified 2. He’s so subservient to Trump that he has in the past taken positions he knows to be wrong (if so ordered) and would do so as Sec. of State. That estimation is being borne out.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The chortling sounds you hear throughout the DC metro area are from people who’ve worked in the executive branch in previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican, after hearing Chuck Grassley (!) say the Senate is powerless when it comes to personnel matters.

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Tomorrow in the NYT: Nothing emphasizes the elderly and out-of-touch character of Democratic Party leadership than their reluctance to allow a new generation of white nationalist 19-year-olds to have access to everyone's tax records

submitted 5 days ago • 139 comments

these guys are the biggest babies in the world

submitted 5 days ago • 1753 comments

Sadly, they’ll continue to act like whimpering cowards in fear of an orange clown and a rube hardcore base.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

But now, I don’t think his boss can read higher than the elementary school level…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

submitted 6 days ago • 2109 comments

Nothing to see here

submitted 6 days ago • 121 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

submitted 7 days ago • 2927 comments

So much for academic freedom at an accredited university

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

Ukraine was asked for half of its mineral reserves, in exchange for nothing on.ft.com/4hW1x5y

submitted 7 days ago • 136 comments

Vance was awful at Munich, and made clear the terrible truth that the Trump administration is on the side of the autocrats not the democracies. But some courageous and principled lawyers at SDNY and DOJ show there's still cause for hope here in the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB9m...

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.

submitted 7 days ago • 178 comments

Justice Dept lawyers are showing other public servants, members of Congress and the public - not to mention quivering media moguls - what it means to be a citizen of a democracy. You do not bend the knee nor kiss the ring of tyrants.

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

Trump eggs reach a record high, $5/dozen. apnews.com/article/egg-...

submitted 8 days ago • 54 comments

And the Trump tariffs will add to it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Kash Patel "lied to senators while under oath in a confirmation hearing, as if they were a troublemaking toddler telling their parents they didn’t drop the cake, hoping no one noticed their face was covered in chocolate icing. But that seems to be what Patel did." www.thebulwark.com/p/fool-me-tw...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

When so many others kissed the ring, Danielle Sassoon and her colleagues stood athwart Trumpism and shouted: Not on my damn watch. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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