Russia’s shrinking influence? More like shrinking brain policy. 1. Invade neighbors 2. Lose allies 3. Blame NATO 4. Repeat Now even the South Caucasus is over it. Good. Next step: Collapse (preferably without nukes). #FCKPutin #FixUSA #Putin #Russia

Sadly, I could post this every day and it would still be as true as it was four years ago February 24th.

"According to local media, for failure to use a litter box, the cat's paws were removed and it was hung on a tree and burned to death."

This old article about how the new NRA boss tortured a cat is telling a lot of what kind of people run that organisation: archive.is/xdmUL

ICE 🇺🇸 TRUMP Man, 37, shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis An immigration officer has shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, sparking further protests The death comes less than three weeks after 🇺🇸 citizen Renee Good was shot dead by ICE #ICE #Trump #ICECriminal www.bbc.com/news/live/cj...

🇺🇸 Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on 🇨🇦Canada If It Does China Deal #Trump threatened 🇨🇦 #Canada with 100% tariffs against all its exports to the US if it makes a trade deal with China, escalating tensions between the US and its northern neighbor. #US #Tariffs #Carney finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-t...

❗️Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy has shown how 🇺🇦Ukrainian power engineers continuously restore electricity after Russian strikes.

If the regime survives, it sends a clear signal to every bully - kill enough people and you stay in power.“ This haunting warning should resonate to everyone. This is a global war against autocracy, and Russia as well as the Iranian mullah regime are the main enemies in this struggle.

The yesterday’s words by Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy in regards to Iran were one of the highlights of his speech.

The cover of Germany’s Der Spiegel reads: “Donald, enough!” It looks like a meme.

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Americans should pay more attention to the Right’s alliance making & alliance breaking globally. The future of freedom depends on it. (An example of US self-obsession is liberals’ kneejerk praise for P.M. Carney cozying up to China, as if what matters is the anti-Trump part, not the pro-China part)

💡❌ In Kyiv, 800,000 subscribers without electricity due to emergency power outages, - Shmyhal "Unfortunately, constant enemy attacks do not allow us to stabilize the situation. The energy system does not have time to recover. The power shortage persists," his statement said.

Eh, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland have land borders, while America and Türkiye have sea borders. All NATO members. None attacked by Russia. Ukraine, Georgia, and Chechnya (twice), not in NATO, have been attacked by Russia. Donnie and Viktor had same history teacher.

🇭🇺 Orbán: I don't rule out that the Russians have all kinds of territorial ambitions. We can't see into anyone's head. And it's useless to try to see into the heads of people trained in the KGB; that just doesn't work.

I tried, but it turns out I can’t take a day’s break from watching this catastrophe of an administration unfold. Minnesotans may be used to it but these are Arctic temperatures they’re out protesting in. I lived there decades ago. Protests weren’t really a thing. Sometimes change is good.

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

The letter is real. Here it is.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Since I hate to open this administration’s PDFs I’ll take your word for it. The new National Defense Strategy doesn’t mention Taiwan. I’ve said from 2022 on that an administration that sells out Ukraine will sell out Taiwan. The China hawks in the GOP are full of shit.

We’ve walked backwards in time

Oh, the NDS finally dropped: media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/...

At multiple points in this doc they say “this is not isolationism” guess we hit a nerve with the cheese

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

More than 1,000 troops from NATO allies died alongside American servicemembers in Afghanistan. The only time Article V has ever been invoked was after 9/11, and NATO came to our aid without hesitation. To minimize the sacrifice of our allies' fallen heroes is disgusting.

The only times I’ve used A.I. is to identify species, but usually I get varying answers. A.I. does, however, show me a place to start. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper%...

Trump's comments that NATO troops "stayed a little back, little off the front lines.” are utterly shameful - 40,000 Aussies served in Afghanistan, 41 were killed & 100's were injured - & they didn't get 'daddy' to get a doctor's certificate! #aussieveterans #nato Picture :Australian WarMemorial

'You cannot rewrite history': Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne rebuffs Trump's claims about allies in Afghanistan #Canada Hundreds of NATO soldiers, including 158 Canadians, died during the Afghan war www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

NATO countries served “on the frontlines” in Afghanistan, despite Trump’s lies to the contrary. You know who never served a day in the military, let alone “on the frontlines?” Trump and every member of his immediate and extended family.

Classic.

PM Starmer: Putin being on a board of peace - he is waging war on a European country and as we sit here, they're raining down bombs on #Ukraine. it's minus 20, 60% of the energy in Kiev is gone and people are having to put tents up in their living rooms to keep warm.

He hasn't blown up a "drug boat" since he got there oil.....

Damage that cannot be undone remains damaged. We threaten allies. We leak secrets to Russia. We cannot be trusted because our President cannot be trusted. But hey, every day we didn't see the Epstein files is a win for the GOP.

This didn’t start when politicians ceded their lawful representative powers to a greedy wannabe dictator. It started long ago when they prioritized the greedy over the needs of their constituents. But that won’t change until American voters change.

Newsom: "He's an invasive species, Donald Trump. He took over the Republican Party. Lindsey Graham -- I mean, speaking of the kneepads. I'm sorry. This is tough stuff. I don't recognize these people any longer. You think what I'm saying about Trump is tough? How about what Graham said about Trump."

Newsom: "I'm not naive about the corruption & graft at a scale we've never seen in history. I'm not naive about folks writing billion dollars checks to Witkoff & Kushner. I'm not naive about the fact Trump made $1.5b+ in the last 12 months personally. How in the hell are we putting up with this?

Lie. They're signed by ICE officers. Not administrative law judges. bsky.app/profile/reic...

BALINT: Do you believe that President Trump's DOJ will find some way to indict you? JACK SMITH: I believe they will do everything in their power to do that because they've been ordered to by the president

Ossoff: "POTUS called for this man [Mark Kelly] to be hanged. A combat veteran, naval aviator, astronaut, senator. He demanded his execution bc he stated a principle enshrined in uniform code of military justice. If we become numb to that we lose sight of how extraordinary our obligations are."

Ossoff on Kelly: "It's an effort to intimidate veterans across the country from speaking out. It represents an even deeper threat to our civil liberties. So I just want to thank this man for his courage & continuing to speak truth to power even when threatened by authorities who want to silence him"

"The farmers have been with me all three terms" -- Trump just claimed on Air Force One that he's on his third term so, uh, he might be joking about a fourth one

Trump: "RECORD NUMBERS ALL OVER THE PLACE! SHOULD I TRY FOR A FOURTH TERM?"

It was never about immigration. It was about immigration to his voters but they were never his concern. Trump had other plans. He still has other plans, for them.

@jaketapper.bsky.social Can you write a book about this, please?

The U.S. officially exits the World Health Organization. I know we are beyond asking why the Regime does the awful things they do because the answer is always greed, hatefulness or stupidity but sometimes I just can’t help wondering WTF is wrong with these people. abcnews.go.com/Health/us-of...

🇺🇦❗️Russia did not win this war, will not win now and will not do so in the future, — Zelensky ⚡️ Budanov, Umerov, Kyslytsia, Arakhamia, Hnatov will go to the meeting in the UAE from Ukraine tomorrow, — Zelensky

Zelenskyy: “Last year, here in Davos, I ended my speech by saying Europe needs to know how to defend itself… A year has passed, and nothing has changed. I am forced to say the same words again."

Regardless of whether you agree with it, the law that would have banned TikTok — passed by the Congress, signed into law by the President at the time, and unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court — has been ignored for the past year. This headline is absurd.

TikTok's sale is official. Take a look at one of its new owners, MGX, a state-backed Abu Dhabi fund. me, for @forbes.com in Oct.

The people who bought CBS and lurched it into rightwing shit just bought TikTok (a major source of news) and trying to purchase CNN... They're attempting to consolidate the news to favor the right even more... Ellison was a part of the 2020 coup attempt... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...