The US does virtually nothing for Ukraine - some intelligence & some arms Europe pays for.
Trump is a full-fledged supporter of Putin & not entitled to any voice on Ukraine.
Ukraine & Europe should just ignore the Kremlin proposal that Trump embraces as his.

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Senior Russian officials are very clear that the purported "peace plan" that Putin dictated to Trump is only a means of destroying the Ukrainian armed forces to pave the way for the final conquest of Ukraine. And nothing in the plan provides any meaningful outside guarantees. Shameful.

Crucial summary from someone who bravely served our country. We don't need the shame of our own Munich.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism.

OK
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A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you are talking about real money.

they were buying politicians long before Citizens United. The rich won't be as stupid as we want them to be. They did not need CU, it was just a convenience

Breathtaking substitution here: giving people money does not make them "informed consumers": it makes them consumers who are much more vulnerable to exploitation precisely because of their lack of information. Simply assuming information on something this complex and critical is jaw-dropping.

Someone who would never have been chosen for a senior leadership role in a normal Congress.

The equivalent of going skydiving with your little brother's bookbag instead of a parachute. Olympic level incompetence.

Any “peace plan” that calls for Ukraine to disarm is an obvious attempt to prepare the ground for the next stage of Russia’s invasion. There is no other conceivable reason to weaken Ukraine’s defenses. Nobody can seriously suggest Moscow views Ukraine as a military threat

The truth hurts.

If you compare their "work" when they were on their extended Epsteincation with the work they did this spring and summer passing Trump's megabill, I cannot disagree that they do better "work" when they are not here.

When a head of lettuce goes bad, it often just dissolves itself for the most part. The proper analogy for this Government must be something that stays physically intact but malodorous and useless for a long time.

Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview

It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org

For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

We should not rule out people with sincere beliefs with which we disagree. But we absolutely should rule out people whose direction swings wildly like a weathervane. A few conversions are plausible, but repeated opportunism makes a candidate both untrustworthy and often unelectable.

They do that all the time. Capital gains tax cuts are always said to gain money due to realizations; they never admit to any revenue losses. Plus dynamic effects (which only go one way, of course). And anti-immigrant policies are said to create jobs despite making some businesses unviable.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.

Unprecedentedly corrupt.

THIS. Teenage victims have a completely different set of prejudices to deal with. Trust me, I know. Grooming is probably the least understood aspect of child abuse.

As NATO is so aggressive, we have moved our border guards from where NATO *is* on our Estonian border, and sent them to die in Ukraine, where NATO *is not*

Seeing this picture, I can't help wondering if President Trump does not know how things turned out for the mythological King Midas. The golden touch actually was not a good thing. The story seeks to cut through our superficiality, but that's a tall order when it comes to him.

There's always Bolsonaro!

Sometimes you have an experience like this and years later see the man thanked for his mentorship by another man in the preface to the latter’s book, and it really burns

The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.

A lot of the (often quite powerful!) guys emailing Epstein were asking him for dating advice, which seems to suggest that they saw his own sex life as aspirational.

They got accidentally placed in the notebook of ideas on replacing the ACA. But not to worry: it will all be sorted by Infrastructure Week.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.