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"The term DEI, frequently invoked by the Trump administration, functions as a smoke screen" read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the real goals of the 'anti-DEI' rhetoric www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 16 hours ago • 31 comments

"However grievous the other depredations, they are, at least in theory, reversible. Abandoning world leadership is not." ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social on America's heel turn: www.thebulwark.com/p/america-jo...

submitted 15 hours ago • 17 comments

What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

submitted 1 day ago • 635 comments

Pretty sure it means “We’re breaking contracts, illegally freezing payments. If anyone complains, we’ll point to this, and when we get sued, we’ll show it to a judge, who should laugh it out of court, but by then you’ll be out of work and burdened by legal fees, and we’ll ignore rulings anyway.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

It is insanely obvious that Elon Musk is illegally exercising the powers of a principal officer of the United States in violation of the appointments clause

submitted 18 hours ago • 36 comments

Trump tried a seizure of power in 2021. It didn't work, because he relied only on a violent mob. The military and FBI stayed loyal to the Constitution. This time, with approval of the Republican Senate, Trump has installed anti-constitutional putschists at FBI, DoD, and Pentagon

submitted 18 hours ago • 68 comments

Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Nuclear non-proliferation is dead. Every country that believed in it is now reconsidering.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

primary the absolute fuck out of this asshat

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.

submitted 22 hours ago • 256 comments

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 2598 comments

Please please please goad Musk into flying on one of his totally safe rockets.

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

Does winning have a terminal velocity?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Remember when having a really old president and questioning his mental acuity was front page news everyday for months?

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

what would a foreign adversary do differently as part of a coordinated attack

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

⚡️🇩🇪🇺🇸 German Foreign Minister Baerbock threatens the U.S. with a severing of ties over Trump’s remarks on Zelensky and Ukraine. "We will increase pressure on the Americans to make them realize they have a lot to lose if they stop supporting Europe's liberal democracies," Baerbock stated.

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Replacing all the JAGs seems…not good.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Beyond betrayal.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Superb piece by my friend @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social about supporting foreign criticism of Trump's America. It's not unpatriotic of us to feel this way. It's a rejection of fascism and an endorsement of the need for freedom around the world.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

The Daily Beast: What is this Elon Salute what can it mean French Nazis: too Nazi for us

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Trump’s envoy is the only person in the administration to praise Zelensky in recent days.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

I can’t just sit by and pretend I’m not seeing what I’m seeing So, like, the Nazis are in charge now huh? I literally just watched multiple WWII documentaries over the past few months. It’s not funny, it’s not a joke. Like WTF. Grandparents & ancestors who fought this rolling in their graves now

submitted 2 days ago • 112 comments

Dear MAGA. Remember how you had to ignore the evidence of your eyes and go along with Trump's fantasy that January 6 was a peaceful protest? Well, now you have to do that again with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The new "truth" is that Ukraine started the war. Are you up for this?

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

"Frederick Douglass is the very best that this nation has produced. The cancelation of this parade in his honor [reflects] a deep animus toward anything that detracts from a white-centered view of American history. Yes, racism." open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

NEW: @saletan.bsky.social talks the dangers of having all guardrails off with VP JD Vance and Attorney General Pam Bondi also in key positions to help Donald Trump destroy democracy: www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-r...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

This is an absolute fucking disaster. Teenaged cybercriminals with physical access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Kash Patel's confirmation by 51 Republicans is an appallingly dangerous act. Who believes what he told them in his hearings? “There will be no retributive actions taken by any FBI should I be confirmed as the FBI director," he said. And, “There should be no politics in the FBI.” Tough days ahead.

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

"It has been only four weeks since Trump took the oath of office, and I wonder whether casual voters or even those who truly despised Biden have taken onboard what they’ve done." It's so normal to vote for the other guy - but not this time. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

"Europe’s politicians are beginning to grasp how profoundly their world has changed: They must now deal with an America that is at best skeptical and at worst hostile to the old world they represent." “The transatlantic alliance is over" a European diplomat observed.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Financial Times reports that the Trumpified US delegation is objecting to phrase "Russian aggression" in G7 statements about Ukraine www.ft.com/content/7380... Trump never tires of doing favors for Putin, big and little

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

i do not know how some people in this country live with themselves

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Just a reminder how stupid and naive the people in charge of the US are.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

"Just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres." www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

“The Trump years have made so many right-wing people worse. [It] has been a long, slow, corrosive education in vice: from giving themselves permission to rationalize away Trump’s cruelty, to realizing—almost to their own surprise—how much they liked the taste.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-cruelt...

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 4 days ago • 1520 comments

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

AfD seems stuck in polling in Germany at 20%. German voters are more pro-democracy than current U.S. leaders.

submitted 4 days ago • 101 comments

Trump proved conclusively last night with his deranged statements that he is an enemy and menace to our friends and allies around the world, and the best thing that ever happened to our adversaries and corrupt dictators. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

submitted 4 days ago • 332 comments

The head of food safety is resigning because he thinks that Trump's layoffs make his work impossible. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 8 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 4 days ago • 2 comments

Brazil charges former president Jair Bolsonaro with attempting to lead a coup after he lost the 2022 election. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 91 comments

English-language report on this horrific tragedy: www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

I hope people understand what we are seeing here. 1) Trump and Putin are preparing a common plan to dictate to Ukraine. 2) Ukraine will surprise them (at least Trump) by refusing. 3) The War will continue. 4) The role of Europe will be decisive.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments