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“This Week in Democracy: Week 5 – The 'King' Purges His Generals” Read and share the latest from Zeteo's project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term:

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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1249 comments

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

submitted 6 days ago • 609 comments

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 7 days ago • 2782 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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submitted 7 days ago • 299 comments

Europe can’t rely on the strength of the transatlantic relationship to help contain Russia’s threat – it must lead from the front and be the true force of support that Ukraine needs. Not just for Ukraine’s sake, but for a free and sovereign Europe.

submitted 8 days ago • 2400 comments

The mood in Ukraine is a mix of disillusionment with the US and “we told you so” feeling as Europe finally wakes up after three years and starts taking war preparations seriously.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 10 days ago • 806 comments

That's the entire Medicaid Budget. 😒

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

He literally wrote the words "God bless the people of Russia" today. A nation that illegally invaded sovereign Ukraine. Has raped children, men, women, elderly Ukrainians. Has destroyed whole towns. Has tortured & mutilated POWs. Stolen thousands of children. Has pillaged Ukraine's cultural sites.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Mitch McConnell voting no on terrible cabinet picks because he doesn’t have to run for reelection is all the proof you need that we must have term limits. You shouldn’t only have a spine because you don’t have to run again. We are breeding chicken shit power hungry electeds.

submitted 10 days ago • 838 comments

1/This may truly blowup #KashPatel nomination On left: Patel Testimony: "I'm not aware" of purge inside DOJ/FBI and "don't know what's going on." On right: Whistleblowers tell Senate that Patel was directing the purge! Contemporaneous note: “KP wants movement at FBI, reciprocal actions for DOJ”

submitted 11 days ago • 637 comments

Murphy: "This isn't hyperbole to say we are staying the death of democracy in the eyes right now. The centerpiece of our democracy is we observe court rulings."

submitted 12 days ago • 219 comments

👇🏽🤔 💰

submitted 12 days ago • 243 comments

This might come in handy 👇👇👇

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

I don't know how to be more clear. Stop listening to people who are telling us to "pick our battles." This is the fucking battle. It's here now. Each one of these acts is an attack in that battle. Either get in the fight or get the fuck out of our way.

submitted 13 days ago • 269 comments

Baby elephant asking for treats🐘

submitted 13 days ago • 122 comments

your reminder that planes didn't start crashing until after Donny Convict fired the entire Airline Safety Committee and the Space Nazi forced the head of the FAA to quit and didn't replace him

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

The tipping point? Which way will they fall? And take the rest of the free world

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

‼️AUTHORITARIAN PP STRIKES AGAIN‼️ PP promises to build a military base in Nunavut without talking to the premier first. vm.tiktok.com/ZMkGdbYYP/

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

youtu.be/4iqiz0KHuJo?...

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submitted 13 days ago • 1110 comments

A fake billionaire is letting a fake genius destroy America because a bunch of fake patriots are too stupid, too entitled and too hateful to understand the difference between what is fake news and what is fact.

submitted 15 days ago • 529 comments

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 1018 comments

URGENT: The special general elections for Florida’s 1st & 6th Congressional Districts are on APRIL 1, 2025. If we flip these seats, we can STOP Project 2025. No excuses!

submitted 17 days ago • 280 comments

While capt chaos distracts with absurdity, the bigger threat is working dbl time youtu.be/mVtacdg1PX8?...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Fun day surfing in tge cold

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submitted 86 days ago • 82 comments

Democracy dies in silence

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

🇨🇦WAKE UP, CANADA🇨🇦 He made it harder for 150,000 of Canada's most vulnerable citizens to vote.

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

Labour disruptions continue across Canada. Full video: youtu.be/U43AkYKL5L8

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

🇨🇦WAKE UP, CANADA🇨🇦 We should be asking ourselves why Pierre Poilievre is so quiet about India assassinating people on Canadian soil.

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

We are being conned on a mass scale. “A digital marketing firm abroad ran two of the largest anti-vax, pro-trucker groups, feeding disinformation into the movement while posing as grassroots supporters. Foreign propaganda is threatening our democracy.” cultmtl.com/2024/10/why-...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

🚨WATCH: #NewBrunswick town mayor on #PierrePoilievre banning #CPC MPs from promoting federal housing funds in their ridings. "To hold us hostage for their own partisan games is, well, it's disgusting, really." - Alan Brown, Mayor of Butternut Valley, New Brunswick #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

submitted 100 days ago • 16 comments

Somehow, Harper returned What The Hell, Canada? Strikes, Scams, Scandals, and More! youtu.be/U43AkYKL5L8

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

Imagine taunting the democratically elected president of a nation that has been brutally invaded by Russia, which has bombed civilian sites killing thousands, occupied territory, and kidnapped children. Elon Musk, have you no decency?

submitted 98 days ago • 234 comments

submitted 99 days ago • 15 comments

Trump names Chris Wright, head of a Denver-based oilfield service company who has disputed the role of climate change in causing extreme weather, to head the Energy Department.

submitted 98 days ago • 470 comments

To President Biden and all elected Democrats: Stop playing by rules that no longer exist. At this point, it's not just spinelessness, it's complicity.

submitted 99 days ago • 1409 comments

For the evening crowd, my @xtramagazine.bsky.social column: From Higgs to Trump, what did this fall’s elections teach Canadians? #canqueer #cdnpoli

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments