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Say what you will about Bardella, he's certainly qualified to recognize a Sieg Heil. www.reuters.com/world/france...

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In the 30 years since 1994, Ukraine has to rely on IMF funds in all but ten years to stay afloat. If Kyiv signs this, its finances will be shot and it will have to pay more to raise money. It’s making the victim pay, it is an odious contract signed under duress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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Today we might ponder his words to diagnose the revival of another neat, plausible and boneheaded idea: ringing the planet with orbiting missiles to somehow make the U.S. safer. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

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A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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"Italian law enforcement is good at this stuff. Not a single one of 181 targeted for arrest managed to go on the lam before the crackdown "This raid was the biggest anti-mafia operation since the 1980s" - John Dickie @johndickie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump

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SCOOP: New Social Security chief was being investigated for leaking data to DOGE when Musk team tapped him. Sr officials placed him on paid leave while probing whether he may have violated privacy & tax laws, WaPo's Lisa Rein reports. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This is extortion of an ally: “The terms of the new proposal … call for Ukraine to relinquish half of its revenues from natural resources, including minerals, gas and oil, as well as earnings from ports and other infrastructure.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

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Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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AXIOS: “.. GOP lawmakers are getting roasted back home over President Trump's swift cuts and firings, as polls show signs his monthlong honeymoon could be wearing off.” www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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What happened to Republicans after this? www.npr.org/live-updates...

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With Assclown, Brainworm, and Nazi Nepo in charge I hope everyone has their Covid era masks ready 😓 Because we are apparently getting rid of all the scientists to help contain this allowing it to mutate like crazy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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"It is absurd to mindlessly decimate the workforce that has led the world in science over the past 75 years, and to willingly give up excellent scientists and talent," Beyer wrote. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

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The bigger question is why have Dem leaders refused to respond to the demands of their constituents who have been screaming for a month for party leaders to at least scream! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Voters, activists and even some governors, like Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, are growing exasperated with congressional Democrats’ restrained approach. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Trump military purge. Any Congressional Democrats telling themselves they can sit back and wait for Republicans to tank the midterms are delusional. We need full opposition mode, including supporting mass rallies and direct action. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Farage’s sycophantic, moronic attempt to justify Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine & Zelensky. Shall we ‘put it on the record’ that, although imperial troops were still fighting it, Japan wasn’t occupying parts of the UK or bombing it when elections were held? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Given that “Money, Lies, and God” was mostly written before the November 2024 election, the book reads as an eerily prescient guide to the phantasmagoria of our political moment. But it’s a measure of the upheavals of the last few weeks that even the book’s author, www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...

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Blood money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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“You better comply, you better comply, because otherwise you’re not getting any federal funding.” “See you in court,” the Governor shot back. “Good,” he said, and then added, “and enjoy your life after governor, because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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WTF - As part of a peace deal, #Putin may grant US companies rights to mineral deposits in the Ukrainian territories that are now under Russian control | WSJ That land isn’t his!!! www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

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CNN has obtained recordings of two cybersecurity executives in 2022 discussing whether to fire Edward Coristine, who leaked information to a competitor. Coristine, now 19, is one of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” workers with access to your private info in government databases. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

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As wildfires become more frequent and dangerous, Trump has repeatedly called on communities to clear forests of undergrowth, yet his slash and burn approach to federal agencies and programs has cut off funding meant for that exact purpose. By Claire Rush, Matthew Brown, and @cmegerian.bsky.social…

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Just another article on the Russian asset in America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

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1/ "The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money."

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About time...

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White unqualified DEI hire fires top Black general with 40 years of service. Anti-DEI is pro-white supremacy.

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Alt headline: Hegseth's racism on full display as he fires accomplished Black general, replaces him with unqualified white man. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

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They genuinely scare him. Good.

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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

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Wonderful time to create cuts in the federal workforce and hide outbreak data from the public. Only news reporting will let us know what's going on now.

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If you’re ever in public while high on ketamine, this DEA pamphlet suggests you might want want to wear sunglasses, even indoors. www.dea.gov/sites/defaul...

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Shit

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Trump draws strong support from farm states. But his enthusiasm for increasing taxes on all imported products could ignite a global trade war that boomerangs on American farmers, the principal targets of foreign retaliation in Trump’s first term.

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Mandate www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Trump's KGB Under Cover Codename ‘Krasnov’ KRAZNOFF in 1987 Donald Trump Was Recruited by the Soviet Union as an Agent of the USSR Intelligence asset.

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One step at a time , just like his first go round , Federal Courts tell him to go pound sand apnews.com/article/dei-...

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A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. apnews.com/article/dei-...

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USDA suspends scholarship program at historically Black colleges... https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usda-suspends-scholarship-program-historically-black-colleges-website-shows-2025-02-20/

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I told a friend that all this felon crap feels very much to me that these are efforts to privitize the government. He told me I was nutz-and, yes i am but i ain't stupid! Watch closely what's going on and who is doing it - oligarchs for profit! 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/h...

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Since the inauguration of President Trump, stocks in Europe and China are vastly outperforming the U.S. equity market. I will add the early optimism I heard from Wall Street people about Trump is gone as well. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/21/p...

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