Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak emphasized that during the dispute with US President Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was right and did not make a single mistake.

Russia’s ‘3-day war’ is now 3 YEARS old—and they’re getting wrecked. 800,000 casualties, no tanks, no fleet… and now Trump is cutting Ukraine’s aid to throw Putin a lifeline. Sad! Read how Ukraine is WINNING despite the betrayals adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...

So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.

stolen from @rickpetree.bsky.social on the hellsite: @borowitzreport.bsky.social absolutely nails the absurdity of our moment www.borowitzreport.com/p/zelenskyy-...

This presser was a horror show. Ukraine will not have US support going forward, because Trump and Vance are completely lost. Europe will step-up and this war will continue. Trump blew this bigger than any foriegn policy folly in recent history.

Apropos

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Hegseth now says he doesn’t know who started the war between Ukraine and Russia. Senator Duckworth shows receipts that he does know but won’t admit it now.

Is this the finding out part?

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Sheer vandalism.

This would really be the moment for some BigLaw gestures of solidarity with Covington & Burling, no? If a vengeful president can strip security clearances from any lawyer he sees as assisting the opposition, can any national security lawyers afford to remain outside his orbit?

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

A seven-byline story from WaPo: “.. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits ..” @washingtonpost.com $TSLA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

“I’m the what?” - Amy Gleason

MSNBC just fired Rachel Maddow's show production crew. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Forget obsequious. It’s the clueless I worry about.

Well, that's not surprising. This fallout will continue to bottom out.

There is no version of what is happening now in Europe that makes America stronger, safer, more respected in the world. Trump is now and always been Russia First. His quislings like Hegseth and Rubio are traitors, and will be known in history that way.

If you haven't been to Auschwitz, go Bergen-Belsen or Buchenwald, go Go to the Japanese internment camp Manzanar There's only one reason, one single reason Trump is rounding up people & locking them away out of view And our country just sitting here, knowing it www.rawstory.com/why-trump-is...

We are back to the trump admin treating people seeking asylum like criminals & with inhumanity. I’m ashamed. So much for “give me your tired…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/w...

To be clear, the Vance/Musk intervention did not change the outcome. Still, the fact that it happened changes German and European politics forever

Musk had NO RIGHT to intervene in German elections. Shame on him & Vance & Trump. Unprecedented.

Because he’s the mutt’s mutt.

This proposed mineral deal with Ukraine is outright extortion. Trump isn’t offering protection for Ukraine and it will of course be rejected (as it should be). I imagine Trump will then blame Ukraine for not being willing to negotiate and walk away. He may also walk away from NATO at the same time

The US, Russia, and the richest man in the world who is busy carrying out a coup in our government, are coordinating a brutal shakedown of an ally whose very existence depends on our support. This is repulsive and people need to understand we’re only in the beginning of what is possible.

Just discovered that Don Bacon posted this last Friday.

Trump says he decides what the law is. Here’s Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison (1803): “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” Somebody in the Musk-Trump administration should read that decision.

Russia is at its weakest in years. Putin is in a precarious situation. They are attacking western interests around the world and murdering Europeans. Why is Rubio bending a knee and showing weakness?

Julius, my farfar (paternal grandfather) was part of that Norwegian resistance against the Nazis. His story + many others from that era are absolutely resonant now. The advantage we have today is better communications to organise (+ sabotage!) whatever the Putinist quislings are going to throw at us

(If we’ve learned anything since 2016, and I’m not sure all the right people have…) This will not age well.

Have you seen this? When Ukrainian hackers broke into the KGB archives.... I think this is important so we are aware of these tactics. Moms reporting on children, etc... www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kg... @11tulips.bsky.social @rickpetree.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @hcanderson.bsky.social

I was just thinking that I really need to revisit Popper.

I shake my head as people actually think DOGE has identified waste, fraud and abuse in 5 days. What they are doing is gutting programs they don't like according to Project 2025. They haven't done any analysis and don't even know the functions of the departments they are cutting. Musk is a phony.

I am with Zelenskyyon this one. Trump is playing for Team Autocracy now, and Europe must stand up for its own defense. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Mitch McConnell is no hero. He set all of this up. Every last thing going on right now starts with him.

Only speaking in generalities to preserve source confidentiality. But we hear a lot about DOGErs heading right for the personnel files at these offices they go to. Seeing increasing amounts of evidence that these files are being searched for details to create pretexts to fire people. But the ...

"Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion."

"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?

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Read the letter from Danielle Sassoon to Emil Bove about Eric Adams. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...

Manhattan’s U.S. attorney resigned just days after being ordered to drop the corruption case against New York City’s mayor. So did the two men who led the unit in DC to which DOJ sought to transfer the case. This is what public integrity looks like.

Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...