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This. Everyone keeps saying Russia gained the most from Friday’s Oval Office spat—but the real power shift is toward Beijing. China remains the only nation that has advanced a tangible roadmap toward peace since the war began. Watch as they take the gauntlet in future negotiations.

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How would a random Russian news agency reporter sneak into the White House?

submitted 3 days ago • 1553 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

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I don’t think Sec. Rubio could sink any further into the floor.

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On 2/14, US VP Vance dismissed concerns over Romanian election interference,“If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with.” This narrative presented in Munich is far from reality.

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PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 7 days ago • 5200 comments

Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Eric Adams and the Trump DOJ swear there was no deal. But in a little-noticed letter, his lawyers promise the mayor's full cooperation on "remov[ing] undocumented immigrants" — as long as there's no case hanging over this head. NEW from me at @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

1/So, the guy who is supposedly fighting waste & corruption in government just got a $400 mil contract with that same government he’s supposedly overseeing for his trucks that get, let’s just say less than stellar reviews www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Five ex-Treasury secretaries warn Elon Musk's DOGE poses a threat to democracy. Robert E. Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew and Janet L. Yellen say DOGE may violate the Constitution if it attempts to halt payments already appropriated by Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 29 comments

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

submitted 27 days ago • 248 comments

This is a high-stakes gamble with seemingly little planning regarding the goals and proper execution. One has to wonder: does the risk outweigh the potential rewards? How exactly does the President plan to dismantle these attacks without appearing weak on the global stage to real adversaries?

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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A former CIA officer asks a legitimate, and deadly serious, question: Have Russian operatives paid any Republican officials? Published April 12, 2024:

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The report is damning, but what stands out most is that Rep. Gaetz was allegedly procuring marijuana from his Capitol Hill office. It raises the question: was Rep. Gaetz ever under the influence while on the floor of Congress?

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After more than a decade of civil war the regime of Bashar al-Assad has fallen. It will be interesting to see how Russia responds to maintain strategic ports in eastern Syria.

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This example perfectly illustrates the growing wealth inequality that is tearing apart the fabric of America.

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