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“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

23 year old DOGE worker Luke Farritor used Ai to decipher some phrases in a Dead Sea scroll and fired 300 people who maintain the security of our nuclear weapons because he didn’t understand what they did.

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

What has Putin done to deserve “restoring relations” with the US? He’s an indicted war criminal who has started a war in Europe and who has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people. How is this in the US national interest?

the united states has become the largest source of geopolitical uncertainty in the world. it’s an extraordinary development.

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

Our colleagues at the @AP are the best in the business, total professionals and straight as they come. Since I started covering the White House in 1996, no president has punished a mainstay of the press pool to enforce his personal choice of what words they use in their stories.

Trump officials at the Pentagon invited far-right activist Jack Posobiec — a peddler of conspiracies — to participate in Pete Hegseth's first trip overseas. The move alarmed U.S. defense officials worried about the military being dragged into partisan warfare. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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...

'Unbelievable': Nicolle Wallace shares 'most stunning' report she's read since election: MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday revealed what she called "unbelievable" reporting on the plans of Emil Bove, calling the news "the most stunning thing I've read since the election." Wallace began her…

FLAG. The Associated Press says the Trump White House gave them an ultimatum: Align its editorial standards with Trump's executive order on the "Gulf of America" or be barred from an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon, an AP reporter was blocked from an executive order signing.

The Senate voted 52-46 to proceed toward Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation to become the director of national intelligence. Gabbard had faced bipartisan skepticism about her suitability to oversee the full roster of U.S. intelligence agencies. Live updates:

My senator seems like the only member of his chamber who is expressing the alarm and outrage that this moment requires (and doing a great job on Insta, also). Where is everyone else???

Pardoning cop beaters was a great thing for humanity. 🤬 Reporter: You pardoned people who assaulted first responders. Trump: No, I pardoned people who were assaulted by our government... What I did was a great thing for humanity.

If Musk is indeed an officer of the United States - Trump may be lying about that - then *he* can be impeached if/when the GOP lose the House.

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

But the Gaza moment reminds us: there is no filter in his head. So, things like this are just going to come out — one vomited bad idea after another... because nobody in his wretched hive of an administration is pushing back on him any longer. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence, has a history of cozying up to enemy dictators. She's repeated Russian propaganda regarding Ukraine and met with Syria's Assad, refusing to call him an enemy of the U.S. Capitol Hill switchboard 202-224-3121

Looks like Kash Patel lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee when he tried to distance himself from the J6 Prison Choir he promoted—a group of January 6 rioters that included violent offenders. GOP senators are backing as FBI chief a guy who hailed cop-beaters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8xx...

It's hard to believe the previous secretary of defense didn't even have a cable news show. youtu.be/AKDay2ZT0cc

“our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies. they are our allies. we should beware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the american flag." - ronald reagan

Between unprovoked and foolish trade wars, threatening our allies, eliminating foreign aid, gutting our civil service, preparing to weaken the intel community and FBI, placing inexperienced clowns in key nat sec positions, and supporting our enemies’s agenda, we are weaker by far today than on 1/19.

We Americans are perplexed too.

To continue this thread, note this WSJ piece from December that says Trump may abolish FDIC and instead have deposits insured by…the Treasury Dept. Meaning if there’s a run on the banks and you want your funds covered, you’ll need to go through Elon www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

This guy is now responsible for the safety of our planes

Dem leaders need to start holding national security press conferences explaining to Americans how Elon and Trump are dismantling agencies and seeking sensitive information on federal workers and all Americans. What Elon and co are doing will endanger everything from flying to attacks in U.S.

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Pete Buttigieg isn’t taking Trump’s shit today.

SCOOP: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has admitted to the US Senate that he has reached at least one settlement agreement in which he was accused of misconduct or inappropriate behavior. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years This is #tRumpsCrash

NEW: In a move similar to Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, refused to acknowledge former President Biden won the 2020 elections during his Senate confirmation hearing today.

This happened a week ago.

Former Secretary of Transportation--who was not on The Real World or Road Rules--weighs in on the President's efforts to blame the fatal air traffic accident on DEI.

Who but an enemy of the United States would nominate Tulsi Gabbard as Director of US National Intelligence? Concomitantly, all those who support this anti-American action should be considered enemies of the security of the US.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told Gen. Mark Milley, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that he is removing his security detail, revoking his security clearance, and ordering an inspector general inquiry into his record, the Pentagon said.

“Tulsi would look to whatever source of information made her out to be correct,” said a former aide. “It was annoying at the time; now being nominated for the top spy position in the country makes it dangerous.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

The conspiracy theorists will still have the Epstein story to chew on for the foreseeable future, at least. They just won’t be demanding the same levels of scrutiny. ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-sens-t...

He's not wrong. RFK Jr., is a whack job, and by all indications a terrible person.

Thank you ADL. This is what you have enabled. You tried to tame the snake that’s antisemitism rather than cutting off its head. Jews across the works are now being bitten.

Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation stated in an interview PRIOR to the election more than once "We're winning..in fact we've already won. We're in a second American revolution. And it will be bloodless unless the 'left' interferes" The architects of Project 2025 .

Wait till all the Trumpers call for their social security/medicaid/farm subsidy/veterans benefit checks and there’s no one there to answer the phone. Forget the price of eggs; these morons are tap-dancing barefoot on the third rail of American politics ….

This is a blatant effort to get career people to leave so Trump can replace them with loyalists. And, given his track record in his own business dealings, it’s not hard to imagine him looking for a way to renege once people are out.

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