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"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Ted Cruz's former intern and organizer for the largest conservative youth summit in Texas has just confirmed he voted for James Talarico.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...

The Final Battle for America’s Democracy newrepublic.com/article/2151... via @newrepublic.com

#Germany #AfD #Trump #Musk #Nazis German cartoon depicting Trump and Musk celebrating AfD's victory

“Only AfD can save Germany!”

"The far-right AFD Party got a major win in Germany's election on Sunday, leading some to suggest Elon Musk's support for the party played a role in its success" Suggest? The wealthiest person the planet, a bonafide sociopath, has shown us he's also a proud Nazi.

Russia has discovered a new purpose for drones, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu writes: “Instead of avoiding civilians, Russian operators can now target them, as if they were playing a video game”:

7/16/26, Alex Wagner on Deadline White House suggested that hegseth should use his testosterone test on todd Blanche & Jay Clayton cabinet nominees facing intense scrutiny for their perceived deference to the trump & struggles to answer baseline questions regarding the 2020 election KUDOS TO ALEX👍👍

“It pains me as an American to say this because as an American I’ve been used to countries that love us, hate us, criticize us. I am not used to being an American when the reaction of other nations is to pity us, and that feels a little uncomfortable.”—Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

And related to this -- there once was a period when you could actually be seen as *too* openly racist for Republicans. Now they're all worried they're not being racist enough, that they're leaving themselves open to a primary challenge by a literal Klansman campaigning in a hood.

It should be a #FrontPage story that POTUS called for pulling licenses of NBC & ABC for not collaborating with him. Trump-aligned networks CBS/Fox (Ellison and Murdoch) collaborated by knowingly broadcasting POTUS’ speech known in advance to contain lies. Credit to NBC and ABC execs.

Don’t forget that Lindsey Graham played a key role in Trump’s effort to delegitimize the Russia investigation and dismiss the Trump-Russia scandal as a hoax and witch hunt, thus serving as a useful idiot for Putin. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans knew who Trump was. This video makes that clear. They flipped because Trump has kompromat on them. Some left office rather than do what Lindsey Graham and others have done. Remember Paul Ryan? Sure don't hear a peep outta him anymore. www.facebook.com/reel/6206534...

President Trump slammed New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman after she questioned his physical and cognitive fitness during an appearance on MS Now, warning that she will “pay the price.” thehill.com/homenews/596...

"Trump went on the Sunday show circuit to exploit the death of his friend to promote a voter suppression bill that would enable Trump to consolidate power for himself... Perhaps he could have at least waited until Graham was in the ground before propping up his corpse for his own benefit."

*sarcasm

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Read this. It’s a big deal. www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/m...

So who is actually in charge in the US? trump swaggers in and claims he is "da boss" and then the ejaculator hegseth shrieks EU is incompetent. Asking for Ukraine.

"War has instead done what it usually does: empowered the powerful, rallied the faithful, and allowed an apparatus of repression to present its imperatives in terms of national security" Read Laura Secor on the abandonment of the Iranian people www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The beaches of Normandy were stormed to liberate Europe from people like Hegseth.

It is amazing to watch Hegseth shit his pants at Normandy, while he knows deep down that what the Allies saved Europe from then, was racist trash like him

About these rumors! Is it true that there will be a cage fight between Joe Rogan and Pete Hegseth? And what’s this about Lee Greenwood singing his famous lines “proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free” from inside that cage, S. Miller's idea to hype the ICE Detention policies??? 🧐

WATCH — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social : “Trump entered office worth $2.3 billion and is now worth $6.5 billion… Decisions are made based on what's good for the president's own companies, not Americans… for example — why did the Saudis invest $2 BILLION in Kushner’s companies?”

The US and it's peer group of nutty climate deniers: Russia, Iran and Israel.

I've been to Nashville, and if you like music, it's a blast. But if they are doing this crap, we should boycott Tennessee and not spend our tourist money there. The same goes for Louisiana and Florida. They rely heavily on tourism. We need a healthy GOP to maintain our democracy. They are failing.

As long as people like Marsha Blackburn, Andy Ogles and corrupt legislators like Camron Sexton remain in office, I will continue to boycott the state of Tennessee. Join me in canceling travel plans for conventions & conferences. Sorry Nashville. Love you, but not going to spend my money there…

We should all boycott Tennessee. Cancel that trip to Nashville. Stop buying Jack Daniels. Boycott FedEx, Autozone, and Dollar General.

The U.S. has spent billions to lose a war that enriches its oligarchs, impoverishes the citizenry, sabotages its alliances, and strengthens its enemies. Empires have risen and failed before, but to my knowledge no state has ever chosen to kill its own power. snyder.substack.com/p/on-superpo...

"You cannot celebrate European civilization while simultaneously attacking the legal and political order invented here, or while openly seeking to undermine the institutions that protect pluralism and dissent" An answer to Vance and Rubio: www.erstestiftung.org/en/a-speech-...

Many reasons a shallow blood-lust militarist like Hegseth would fear a figure like Mark Kelly. Imagine the nightmares the MAGA ORCS, Project 2025 White Christian nationalists, and the megalomaniacal techno-oligarchs have for someone who exudes dignity, political morality, and non-divisiveness.

He was at the scene of the crime in FL in 2000, and changed the course of history. He is now unleashed to lock in White Privilege and Minority rule. Striking down the Voting rights act is equivalent to Dred Scott and will result in civil unrest in red states that may lead to violence.

The painful history the US (mainly African Americans) went through to secure the Voting Rights Act set back 60 years. Roberts' explanation EMPTY! The Rightist Court knows that DE JURE (ruling) protects and expands DE FACTO) (institutional racism). SCOTUS brings back Reconstruction 2.0 + JIM CROW.

While US Military assets were being significantly damaged Hegseth was showing Trump and the media visuals of US bombing Iranian assets. The American public was kept in the dark while the Hegseth-Pentagon "news" featured rah-rah war-video humor porn. www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/w...

The man with the nuclear codes

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

A bombshell new report reveals that top military officials have kept Trump out of the room during Iran war operations because they fear his erratic behavior will put troops in harm’s way. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I don't know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week.

Indeed. The perfect stand-in for the post-Trump forces behind Project 2025 and the smash and break politics of the cabal you note.

So much for the Thiel-lap dog and his conversion (sic) to Catholicism. Vance is too sucked in to the techno-oligarch $$$ to hide his moral vacuousness and his increasingly obvious fraudulence. From "hillbilly elegy" to cosplay Alter Boy. What a lost puppy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...