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@mac-va.bsky.social

Veteran,Substitute Teacher/Aide Wife, Mother, Sister and a MaineCoon mom, love dogs too! Enjoys,🏖️📚☕️🚴‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️

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In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

Liz Neeley@lizneeley.bsky.social

Four more top #CDC officials have submitted their resignation in the past few hours - Debra Houry (chief medical officer), Demere Daskalakis (director of NCIRD), Daniel Jernigan (director of NCEZID) + Jen Layden (director of OPHDST) www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... It is horrifying

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"Inside CISA, vital support staff are gone, international partnerships have been strained, and workers are afraid to discuss threats to democracy that they’re now prohibited from countering" New @ericjgeller.com reporting on the purge at the US cyber defense agency

wired.com‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s PurgeEmployees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.

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Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid

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I wrote about how Trump is destroying American democracy, along with eight crucial lessons about how to counteract it, drawing on my 14 years of studying brave pro-democracy opposition movements in authoritarian regimes across the globe. We’re in serious trouble, but there’s still hope.

forkingpaths.coIs American democracy doomed?How to understand the concept of "competitive authoritarianism" and why it's crucial to push back now to avoid it.

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NEW: Elon Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, spending millions to install bought-and-paid-for MAGA extremist Brad Schimel. Today, @WisDems launches a campaign to punch back: The People v. Musk.🧵

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USA promised to defend Afghans if they helped us against Taliban—then Trump backed out USA Promised to help Kurdish allies in Syria—then Trump backed out USA promised to defend Ukraine if it gave up its nukes—now Trump is backing out Trump has further turned the world against us. We are not safer

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BREAKING: Europe is holding an emergency summit to handle the negotiations in Ukraine, Elon Musk is calling for the United States to leave NATO and the UN, Republicans continue to be protested at town halls. All the news from overnight! Subscribe if you can. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

open.substack.comEurope Holds An Emergency Summit As Elon Musk Asks To Leave NATO And The UN | Morning RundownEurope is holding an emergency summit to handle the negotiations in Ukraine, Elon Musk is calling for the United States to leave NATO and the UN, Republicans continue to be protested at town halls.

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Kelly: “Our European allies are looking at this and thinking, what just happened? What happened to the United States of America that used to be the leader of the free world?”

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The cheese stands alone

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Exactly! Vance disrespected PRESIDENT Zelensky and then it went downhill from there…

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

I pray for 🇺🇦 Ukraine. What happened today was embarrassing for our country, a country that I have trouble recognizing.Vance is ignorant of facts that led to the war and he stoked the flames in this meeting. Then the real estate guy had to jump in b/c he wasn’t getting his ego stoked….a sad day💔

Fred Guttenberg@fredguttenberg.bsky.social

I am embarrassed today to be an American. As long as the useful idiot remains in the White House, I suspect that feeling will persist.

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Zelenskyy on if Ukraine can hold off Russia without continued US support: "It will be difficult for us. That's why I'm here."

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"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP

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Where are all the MAGA supporters who claim to care about human trafficking?

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

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The elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Musk and Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

Trump welcomes rapists, human traffickers back to Florida. 🤬

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Trump freed 1,500 criminals on his first day in office. Now he just helped Andrew Tate, who is charged with rape and human trafficking. What happened to “law and order”?

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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

nytimes.comAndrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.

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“Trump’s transactional diplomacy sends a message to allies that the United States cannot be trusted to help its friends or honor its obligations. And it tells his adversaries that he is willing to give up long-term strategic interests for short-term wins…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

nytimes.comTrump’s Ukraine Mineral Deal Is Seen as ‘Protection Racket’ DiplomacyThe United States wants to be paid in exchange for helping the country fend off an invader.

I thought they were going to go after the criminals…no, they are going after the children! Agree with Joyce, evil! But watch, how many rich criminals, oligarchs, buy their way into our country with the “Gold” card.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social

This is evil. Pure evil.