Add to this the garbage circulating today from RFK Jr telling refuted Kremlin myths about the Maidan revolution and USAID in Ukraine. People don't spontaneously arrive at conspiracy theories. There's no factual basis for them and we know where they started.
Clearly it was unfair of me to compare the GOP to United Russia for obsequiously forfeiting parliamentary power to a rampaging wannabe dictator and his oligarchs. There were still a few voices of conscience in the Russian Duma!
Zelenskyy about possible security guarantees after the war:
"Give us back our nuclear weapons; give us missile systems; partners, help us finance a million-strong army, transfer your contingent to those parts of our country where we want the situation to be stable, so that people can be at ease."
For people who were going to retire anyway, this is a gift: The USG retirement process is slow, takes months. Now they get to collect the pay they were going to get anyway, and stay home (or even take another job). Any federal worker could have told them, but 🤷♂️
Today's pod: @anneapplebaum! On the lawless Trump Admin, everything Elon, the view from Europe, the twilight of American values based diplomacy, Tulsi's confirmation, Ukrainian rare-earth-minerals, Polish totalitarianism, and more. Enjoy!
https://t.co/aYL3jFqye1
The Trump led US is withdrawing from the UN human rights council (UNHRC). After Israel committed Genocide in Gaza, Trump and a bipartisan group of US reps and senators have moved forward to attack human rights & international law. This move helps Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, and other dictatorships. 1/
We fully expect to be suspended as well, follow us on B*Sky where resistance is taking shape.
Protest organizing and information isn't suppressed by Trump's Nazis there and there is a pretty wide moderation net to keep MAGA / Musk trolls in check.
https://t.co/OEjOmkGsKw
Barak Obama Gives George Soros Full Access To Every American's SS Numbers, Tax Info.
Full Conversation: https://t.co/4wM4BSIwYD
Resist: https://t.co/iyuIwuQsnU Voting History.
#GeorgeSoros#Obama
The Dept of Education provides crucial funding for low-income public schools — eliminating it would result in the loss of 6% of teachers’ jobs nationwide.
(This chart is from my Sept article on Project 2025, which Trump disavowed during the campaign and is now largely adopting)
Let's be abundantly clear here: The situation in the House Republican Conference is quite dire at this point.
There are those in the leadership and rank and file who wonder if they can ever pass a budget through the budget committee. And if they do, it will get ripped apart by the Senate.
What happens if the Senate moves first?
All in AM this morning.
Just finished taping the pod with @anneapplebaum and if you are wondering how that went, I have already purchased a book about how intellectuals rationalize totalitarianism in mid-century Poland.
NEWS: Funding is shut off for some Head Start programs is Washington State and potentially elsewhere.
Joel Ryan with Washington State Head Start told me "programs are not getting the money. It feels like a rolling blackout".
Two sisters came to the city of Izyum to the passport office to apply for documents, just when a russian Iskander-M missile hit nearby.
The elder, Angelina, was pregnant.
After the terrible shelling, Angelina's husband's mother survived the family. The woman saw only black smoke and fire from the explosion, and when the soot settled, she found her dead daughters.