Basil Seggos 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Trump’s Devastating Plan for Ukraine The White House is giving Putin permission to try again.

Trump has approved a 28-point plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. “The deeply troubling details now circulating show what Trump wants: to help the Russian president,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues, “and to weaken Ukraine, perhaps fatally.”

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

What a disgrace

UPDATE: At least two children, ages 8 and 10, were shot and killed and at least 17 more people, including 14 children, were wounded during a back-to-school mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

Schools & churches should be sanctuaries of safety for children, not where they go to die.

Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.

The Trump administration has halted work on an offshore wind farm that was almost completed, citing vague “national security” concerns with its construction #GreenSky

Welcoming this war criminal with a red carpet and smile. What a disgrace.

Awesome pic

Businesses Cancel $1.4 Billion In New Factories, Energy Projects in May as Congress Pushes Forward on Tax Increases | E2 Cancellations now total $15.5 billion since January; nearly 12,000 jobs lost GOP districts see $9 billion in investments; 10,000 jobs disappear due to cancelled or delayed projects so far $444 million...

"The latest cancellations – including battery, electric vehicle and solar panel factories in West Virginia, New York, Alabama, Arizona and Washington – mean $15.5 billion in new factories and electricity projects have been cancelled since January 1."

$15.5B, 12,000 new jobs -- wiped out. For what?

Knicks!!!

Marriott’s CEO said it straight: “We welcome all… we create opportunities for all… that’s who we are as a company.”

He went back to his hotel to find 40K emails from Marriott associates worldwide saying “thank you.”

Plenty of CEOs talk. Capuano showed up.

Marriott still has my business.

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

NYT page one:

@nytimes.com

😡😡😡

Is this the “peace” russia keeps talking about?

An American flag flies above a street in Vilnius as police outriders surround hearses transporting the bodies of the US servicemen. 100s of locals are seen lining the street.

Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil.

As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.

(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Screenshot of the stock market in decline.

5 TRILLION $ up in smoke

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

Trump-Musk Scandal on Ukrainian Kids Stolen by Russia Just Got Darker Data vital to tracking these abducted Ukrainian children may have suddenly disappeared. A bipartisan group of House members wants to know: Who did this, and why?

Horrifying: After the contract tracking Ukrainian children abducted by Russia was terminated, the underlying evidence of these potential war crimes seems to be missing, a bipartisan group of Reps just charged in letter to Rubio. Two GOPers signed.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/1929...

Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge Robinson trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II.

Baseball great, Jackie Robinson, also served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army. This week his military history was removed from the Department of Defense’s website as part of Trump wiping out DEI.

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My favorite ski area. Blew out a knee there once. Will be heading back.

Unbelievable. Absolutely disgraceful behavior from Trump and Vance.

This is insane. EPA is already stretched nearly to the breaking point, with staffing levels largely flat over the decades, and yet now with exponentially more responsibility. A cut of “up to 65%” would flat-out endanger America’s environment and public health. 🚨

YouTube video by Righteous Media MSNBC: 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE - FEBRUARY 19, 2025 - DOGE HITS THE PENTAGON

Elon Musk is now focused on the Pentagon. And after cuts to the 9/11 Health Program & VA, now they’re coming hard at the Defense Dept. And completely betraying Ukraine & America’s global integrity.

I dialed in for #11thHour on #MSNBC with my buddy, @stephruhle.bsky.social

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Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

🚨 SCOOP: DOGE is seeking personal taxpayer data at IRS, sources tell me. 🚨

Trump admin is pushing IRS to agree to an MOU that would give DOGE access to granular data on every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country.

🔴 Russia attacked the New Safe Confinement of the 4th reactor unit of the Chornobyl NPP overnight, causing significant damage.

Russia is showing a total disregard for nuclear safety, continuing the pattern of negligence seen during the Chornobyl accident in 1986.

Love that Brady hasn’t gotten over the Giants ‘07 Super Bowl win

At the Deathbed, by Edvard Munch, 1895