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Steve Bannon on mass deportations to El Salvador: "If there's some innocent gardeners in there? Hey, tough break for a swell guy."

“Steve Bannon on mass deportations to El Salvador: ‘If there's some innocent gardeners in there? Hey, tough break for a swell guy.’” 3/17/25 h/t @jvagle.me
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JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"

"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

A Fistfight Over Donald Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.

“A Fistfight Over…Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard *** At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.” 2/18/25
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Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

Did Putin write this?

Brilliant. 👏 😂

And I thought they were all about transparency...

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Trump-Zelenskyy clash leaves Ukrainians reeling Frontline fighters, citizens and politicians fear Kyiv faces most perilous phase of war since early weeks of Moscow’s full-scale invasion

Trump-Zelenskyy clash leaves Ukrainians reeling

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Orban calls on EU to launch peace talks with Moscow over Ukraine Hungarian prime minister tells EU Council president Costa that he will oppose any bloc-wide agreement

Orban calls on EU to launch peace talks with Moscow over Ukraine

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Someone, no idea who, ( Tulsi) may be leaking information to Russia on weapons shipments to Ukraine. Countries need to stop giving the US intelligence information, they can not be trusted.

A military vet and a scientist were securing America's food system. Trump fired them More than 10,000 federal employees who had yet to complete their probationary periods have been fired by the Trump administration, including those who work to protect American agriculture.

"I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years.... I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash."

Alabama veteran Derek Copeland is one of the more than 10,000 federal workers fired by Trump and Musk.

This administration doesn't care how many lives it ruins.

Starmer says, 'Coalition of the willing' will defend deal in Ukraine and guarantee peace YouTube video by The Times and The Sunday Times

Concrete steps to help Ukraine & manufacture missiles in Belfast. All is not lost. youtu.be/z8OADYqtSRo?...

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

How bad is this?

Let me count the ways

Also, and related, short of firing Powell (or trying, anyway) screwing with economic data would be just about the dumbest (and worst) thing to do

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The rallying cry means, "Glory to Ukraine." cnn.it/3F36vPN

I’m going to leave this right here. Also, Joe, thank you.

Read & share this remarkable 🧵 from @peterstefanovic.bsky.social, listing all the European leaders expressing support to President Zelensky.

Putin’s war on Ukraine is war on the whole free world. He has already seized the White House—for now.

Stand with Zelensky & Ukraine, and stop Putin now!

Good to see Trump solving the war in one day.

What a fucking embarrassment to be American….

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

Bluesky, I leave you with the knowledge that our country is less safe than it was at 12 p.m. today.

Find your local peeps, and build your irl community!

#SheShed #Voices4Victory #DemocracyWarriors #wtpBLUE

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‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row
The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge

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We are f**cked

Hot take: Social security is good actually

This was the only person speaking in the Oval Office today who placed America's long-standing interests ahead of getting some cheap attaboys from Internet trolls.

Today wasn’t a meeting—it was an Oval Office ambush, and it was planned.

Zelenskyy has thanked the U.S. and its president dozens of times. Everyone knows that—including Trump. But gratitude was never what he wanted; he wanted a spectacle.

“This is going to be great television” - Donald Trump

Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.

Nailed it

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Last night, Lindsey Graham spoke with Trump. Graham recalls Trump being “upbeat” about the proposed “deal” with Ukraine — before meeting with Zelenskyy. Of course he was “upbeat.” Extortion exhilarates Trump.