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Being Putin’s stooge won’t win Trump a peace prize. The Order of Lenin, though, is in the bag | Simon Tisdall The strange warmth between the leaders has sent a chill globally at the prospect of a troika of authoritarian states

Being Putin’s stooge won’t win Trump a peace prize. The Order of Lenin, though, is in the bag | Simon Tisdall

Let’s go!

We might have to start doing this here in TrumpFuckingStan, and soon.

Trump loves having things named after him, so here we go:

TrumpFlation
TrumpTaxIncreases
TrumpCession
TrumpPression
TrumpDogeBags
TrumpPandemic

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AOC is the only elected official who walks into Congress like it’s a battlefield, armed with facts, common sense, and zero patience for BS.

Fearless, sharp, and always ten steps ahead—exactly what politics needs.

And that’s why they are terrified of her!

#AOC #QueenEnergy #FightBack

Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today - makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The Adolescent Style in American Politics The version of manhood placed on display by Trump and his aides is the one imagined by teenage boys.

I'm glad someone finally pointed out that the new "masculine energy" is extremely fucking childish. Grow up. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Missing sources from Africa, Asia, and most of the Americas... But it's a good start, thanks.

Share ‘far and wide’…👇

Pass. It. On ✨

The analogy is precise. And the White House response was nasty and disingenuous. This will be a major test of the courts – I think that they will pass it; but it is fundamental. I’ll have an article up on this at @thenewrepublic.bsky.social shortly plus a longer Substack on @talkingfeds.bsky.social

Had a conversation with a non political person whose buddy works for the forest service and was 10 months into his job supplying hard to reach parts of a national forest and was fired. The guy talking to me was like “I don’t really think my buddy’s $50,000 salary is gonna balance the budget.”

Musk and DOGE underwater with some voters in recent polling In several recent national polls, more respondents disapproved of Musk than approved of him.

It is possible that many people are actually not pleased with venality and nihilism.

Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.

1/2 An important victory for federal probationary workers. This one not in the courts.

Office of Special Counsel: "The probationary terminations at issue in this matter appear to have been effectuated in a manner inconsistent with federal personnel laws."

YouTube video by Danielle Moodie Turn Your TV OFF! | democracyish LIVE

@daniellemoodie.bsky.social and I talk about Rebecca Kutler and MSNBC's purge/silencing of people of color and progressives. I spill some tea about how the whole "contributor" gig works at cable news. Give us a watch. Sadly, we predicted Ayman & Katie would get cut.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHUn...

U.S. Clashes With European Allies at the U.N. Over Ukraine (Gift Article) The United States voted against a resolution, backed by most of Europe, demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine — a deep fissure between allies, and a sharp shift in American policy.

The US voted *with* Russia against the UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine and demanding a withdrawal.

Utter betrayal of country, allies, and principles.

I work in data. There is no hidden data that Elon needs to crack the code to get. If they have access to the data, they will see it all. These algorithms he's building into the system are not helping every day Americans. Whatever he is doing, it's with malicious intent.

NEW: Macron has to interrupt Trump and correct a lie about Europe’s contribution.

TRUMP: “Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back."

MACRON: “No. We provided real money. To be clear.”

Trump clearly not used to get fact-checked live.

We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys.

We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

Leaders: Patriot Front's hate has 'no place' in Iowa after white supremacists' march Leaders from across the political spectrum condemned Patriot Front, after the white supremacist group marched Saturday in Des Moines' East Village.

Let's juxtapose that my Iowa hometown canceled an African American Read-In because administrators believed it ran afoul of Trump's anti-diversity e.o. and the state's "divisive concepts" law. A few days later white supremacists freely marched in the capitol. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Every time I think thing can’t get worse, the appointees can’t get worse, Trump says ‘hold my beer.’

I am stunned, even by Trump standards, that Dan Bongino, a man even Fox got rid of, is now the new deputy director of the FBI.

We are so effed.

The first text I got from a "famous" person after I went public about January 6th, was @joyannreid.bsky.social Joy didn't want an interview, a statement or even a soundbyte...Joy simply said, Harry i want to be your friend and I'm here for you. She's as real as they come and I'm so thankful for her

Weird how the Times didn’t feel the need to note that all this happened after Trump’s FCC chair notified Comcast that the company was under investigation for “promoting DEI” as they were trying to spin off MSNBC

To be fair, maybe the writer didn’t know all this

Oh, wait…

Breaking: Bingo Bongo Boasts Boffo Bureau Bunking. By and By: Busting Blacks, Bothering Babes, Boosting Brutality, Breaking Boundaries, Befriending Bigots. Bazinga!

After asking questions and making remarks about Medicaid, Teresa Borrenpohl was told to leave a town hall in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

After Borrenpohl refused to leave, men tried to carry her out, then forced her to the ground.

Clear violations of her constitutional & civil rights!

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