Applebaum: Putin has presented a fake image of Russia to the world. He talks about leading a traditional society
In reality, divorce is very high, abortion is common, very few Russians go to church and less than 5% have ever read a Bible. It's not a traditional culture at all 1/
@JayinKyiv I wonder if any stolen Ukrainian kids look out at the plumes of dark smoke and feel a sense of slight justice for the families they lost, and a sense of pride? I hope so. 🇺🇦
It’s the most destructive and weak American foreign policy in history:
- Surrendering to Taliban
- Surrendering to Iran
- Bending knee to Russia
- Bending knee to China
- Attacking NATO & weakening alliances
- Pretending to end 8 wars & world thinking you lost the 1 you started
Elon Musk donated $277 million to elect Trump.
Trump let him gut the IRS.
Elon’s SpaceX took a $1.9 billion tax break that they believed wouldn’t be allowed if the IRS audited them.
Your reminder that billionaire and corporate PAC donations are bribes.
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#DrFauci has committed his life to learning & serving. As a scientist & physician, his knowledge & insights evolved as new evidence & data were revealed—& he has, above all, endeavored to ensure the well-being of the people of our nation. Thank you, forever, to this Brooklyn boy.
Senate lawmakers voted to freeze Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's travel budget unless the Pentagon answers for an Iranian school bombing and Caribbean boat strikes, Politico reported.
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Elon Musk’s so‑called “Department of Government Efficiency” cut an effective screwworm monitoring program to “save” about $15 million a year — and within a year we’re staring down a screwworm crisis the USDA now expects to cost over a billion dollars to contain. That’s not efficiency, that’s sabotage.
Now we have confirmed screwworm cases in U.S. livestock and pets for the first time in about 60 years, and USDA is scrambling to rebuild capacity, rushing sterile fly facilities in Mexico and Texas and throwing more than a billion dollars at a problem we already knew how to prevent. This is what happens when you put a billionaire with no public‑health background and no respect for science in charge of hunting for cuts: he doesn’t see safeguards, he sees “inconvenient” line items that get in the way of his ideology and his bottom line.
And let’s be clear: DOGE was never just about “efficiency.” Trump’s order gave Musk’s operation sweeping access to federal data systems under the guise of streamlining government, with reports that DOGE‑linked operatives reached into sensitive databases at agencies like Social Security, OPM, Treasury, and Education. They were perfectly willing to ignore privacy protections that have been on the books for 50 years — but when it came to a relatively tiny $15 million program that protected ranchers, rural communities, and the broader economy, suddenly that’s where they “tightened belts.”
This isn’t fiscal conservatism, it’s deliberate cruelty dressed up as cost‑cutting. The programs they kill are always the same ones: the ones that regulate corporate power, protect ordinary people, or quietly prevent the next catastrophe. And when the crisis hits — when cattle and goats in Texas and pets in New Mexico start turning up with a parasite we supposedly eradicated generations ago — they point fingers at anyone but themselves.