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USAID Kept My Troops Safe in Afghanistan If not for American aid, we would have faced more enemies and won fewer friends.

"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.

US Sec of Defense Pete Hegseth sits in a blue suit at NATO HQ in Brussels reading a statement.

“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”

US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.

Everything changed today.

To all who commemorate legacy media's decline, happy one month anniversary of the Washington Post telling us that Pam Bondi should be confirmed as Attorney General.

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations

Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION

Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment

The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top

COLLINS: Trump fashions himself this master negotiator. We did hear from Hegseth saying NATO membership is not realistic for Ukraine and neither is returning to pre-2014 borders. Aren't they giving away bargaining chips?


LEAVITT: I haven't talked to the president about Ukraine's NATO membership

COLLINS: Are there any preconditions has that Trump has that Putin must do before he goes and meets with him? Withdrawing some forces, anything like that?

LEAVITT: Not that I'm aware of

Pressed to provide evidence of fraud that Musk has discovered, Leavitt waves around "screenshots of contracts" that go "against the president's policies" (going against Trump's policies is not fraud)

So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten:
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally

Van Hollen: "I would love to see them put up DOGE and Project 2025 for a vote in the US Congress. I predict it would go down. It's very unpopular, which is why they are using these illegal means... Trump knew this was unpopular on the campaign trail... now he's got Elon Musk doing his dirty work"

Raskin: "The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk ... "

Among other things, what a terrible fucking negotiator

The US has made many stupendous errors in the Middle East and has committed some great crimes. But this would surpass them all.

Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza.

"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

BREAKING

On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders

On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

Today, President Trump called our enemy, Russia, before calling our ally, Ukraine.

Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense, ruled out a future for Ukraine in NATO and a restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over its own lands.

👇 In addition to never wanting to hear Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins being called "moderates" ever again, I never want to hear a single word about national security or foreign policy from Tom Cotton taken seriously by major media outlets or supposedly serious journalists ever again:

The real-world impact here is that the USA relies on intelligence sharing with a number of allies, the most critical being under the Five Eyes pact. I can't help but think they will be loath to share significant intelligence with the USA for fear their sources will be compromised.

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Evgeny Popov says Trump is doing Russia's job

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing.
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE

Wowwwww. Hudson Valley / Westchester County is usually pretty purple. This local race for County Executive was hard fought. Democrats are coming back strong there and everywhere, from upstate NY to Minnesota to Iowa.
Keep fighting. Take it all back.

This is very good news.

Donald Trump illegally fired 19 inspectors general.

The law requires notice to Congress and a case-by-case justification. It is not optional.

Congress must convene a bipartisan hearing to examine these unlawful acts and how they can be remedied. Immediately.

This obscure law is one reason Trump's agenda keeps losing in court Lawsuits challenging Trump policies raise big constitutional questions, but they also rely on a law that requires the government to follow the correct procedures when changing course.

Protect this law at all costs !

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...