Here I am this morning in the Washington Post on the Trump Administration's defiance of an "apportionment transparency" law Congress passed to rein in abuses like the first-term Ukraine shakedown. wapo.st/3FXgjey
Very clear the USA needs everyone to speak up & denounce authoritarianism - yes that includes CEOs who have been playing a cowardly hedge game with fascism.
Protests this week on Sat 5 April. There will be one near you.
Everyone has a voice. Make it be heard.
The Economist is very mad
You don’t say ….
Politico: The figures who represented the Trump administration in secret talks with political opponents of Zelensky were:
Donald Trump Jr.,
Jared Kushner,
Tucker Carlson,
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.
All are on the record as anti-Ukrainian.
“The Golden Age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”
-Donald Trump, January 20, 2025.
You think it’s an accident Tesla sales are down almost 80% in Germany? They know what his salute meant.
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
The Economist: "THEY TALKED by phone for over two hours, but Vladimir Putin left Donald Trump with almost nothing to show for it—a slap in the face that only a man possessed of unbounded chutzpah could pretend was a win."
Read this declaration. A professional soccer player has been imprisoned in El Salvador and forced into hard labor on the basis of soccer-related tattoos and a single, innocent hand gesture.
This is why the administration is withholding due process. It knows its targets could prove their innocence.
Basically, the far right accurately identified the weak point in liberal democracy: mainstream media institutions that were collapsing and therefore easy to purchase or pressure, combined with a public that got most of its information from an almost totally unstructured info ecosystem.
An unknown new air defense system with R-73 aircraft missiles in service with the Third Assault Brigade of Ukraine. mil.in.ua/uk/news/tret...
I've been screaming it for years: the right in Canada is headed down an American-style path on almost every issue because the right-wing media plays that tune, and the right-wing pretend media plays that tune. It's headed in one direction, and we have never had a clearer view of where that leads.
Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.
Russia's long range bomber fleet is the other Achilles Heel in Putin's war machine, an inherited and irreplaceable tool of terror.
Now, Ukraine is going after it.
kyivinsider.com/ukrainian-fo...
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An article telling the story of Jackie Robinson's Army career is no longer is accessible on the Department of Defense's website.
Asked Josiah Gray and Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro League Baseball Museum, for their thoughts.
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Kirsty Coventry's election as the first female president of the IOC may seem like a positive step for the organisation, but she is very much the establishment's choice, with Thomas Bach lobbying hard for her (against the rules, it should be said).
Do not expect reform or change.
This is the story that Karoline Leavitt said probably wasn’t accurate when it was first reported by Reuters because she said they aren’t reliable.
The only thing that separates this from Hitler’s claims about reparations is that Hitler actually had facts on his side (which is why the Allied forces committed to the Marshall Plan after WWII ended)
The end goal remains the same though - stoke fear and hatred to justify unnecessary violence/war
We told you it would happen. Trump and Musk are abandoning our veterans because they've never cared about the men and women who serve.
NEW! France says russian strikes on Ukraine infrastructure 'show gap between words and actions'
“Unlike russia, Ukraine accepted the proposal for an immediate, complete, and unconditional ceasefire put forward by the U.S,” French foreign ministry spox Christophe Lemoine says
The Trump administration has stopped the tracking of thousands of abducted Ukrainian children in Russia and Belarus. And a US lawmaker says in a letter to Sec. Marco Rubio that US officials or contractors might have deleted a database on the children. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u...
One close Trump adviser simply says that the president’s ultimate leverage against certain judges who try to stand in the way of his agenda is that the judiciary does not command an army, while the president of the United States does.
💥/1. Very impressive video of attacks by Ukrainian FPV drones launched from sea drones deep in the Russian rear. By the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main rival detained by Turkish police
www.ft.com/content/c1a2b2fb-aede-42...
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, along with around 100 other people, prosecutors said.
This is a difficult time for my trolls. They've spent 1119 days saying Ukraine should accept unconditional ceasefire. Now they have, we violated it anyway.
