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Texan by Birth. Californian by Choice! RN, RT,MA Critical Care/ER/Trauma/ Flight Nurse/Hospice/Educator Mom of 9. Cat Wrangler. Ecumenical Catholic. Rights Advocate/Protector True Blue Democrat ππ€ππ΄π΅ππ«π«π«No DMsπ«π«π«
βSteve Bannon on mass deportations to El Salvador: βIf there's some innocent gardeners in there? Hey, tough break for a swell guy.ββ 3/17/25 h/t @jvagle.me
www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...
JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"
"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"
βA Fistfight Overβ¦Trump at the Evangelical Version of Harvard *** At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.β 2/18/25
1/ www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk βcontrol of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texasβ & designate that land as βa military base or β¦ similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.β Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
Did Putin write this?
Brilliant. π π
And I thought they were all about transparency...
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Trump-Zelenskyy clash leaves Ukrainians reeling
https://www.ft.com/content/42219802-6d86-4a78-a4b8-e3cb72afd251
Orban calls on EU to launch peace talks with Moscow over Ukraine
https://www.ft.com/content/be7019a0-da82-436c-b7bd-3217bd7eacb9
Someone, no idea who, ( Tulsi) may be leaking information to Russia on weapons shipments to Ukraine. Countries need to stop giving the US intelligence information, they can not be trusted.
"I gave blood, sweat and tears to this country for 20 years.... I kind of feel like I was just thrown out like a piece of trash."
Alabama veteran Derek Copeland is one of the more than 10,000 federal workers fired by Trump and Musk.
This administration doesn't care how many lives it ruins.
Concrete steps to help Ukraine & manufacture missiles in Belfast. All is not lost. youtu.be/z8OADYqtSRo?...
How bad is this?
Let me count the ways
Also, and related, short of firing Powell (or trying, anyway) screwing with economic data would be just about the dumbest (and worst) thing to do
apnews.com/article/trum...
The rallying cry means, "Glory to Ukraine." cnn.it/3F36vPN
Iβm going to leave this right here. Also, Joe, thank you.
Read & share this remarkable π§΅ from @peterstefanovic.bsky.social, listing all the European leaders expressing support to President Zelensky.
Putinβs war on Ukraine is war on the whole free world. He has already seized the White Houseβfor now.
Stand with Zelensky & Ukraine, and stop Putin now!
Good to see Trump solving the war in one day.
What a fucking embarrassment to be Americanβ¦.
Bluesky, I leave you with the knowledge that our country is less safe than it was at 12 p.m. today.
Find your local peeps, and build your irl community!
#SheShed #Voices4Victory #DemocracyWarriors #wtpBLUE
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βFree world needs a new leaderβ, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row
The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said βthe free world needs a new leaderβ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
We are f**cked
Hot take: Social security is good actually
This was the only person speaking in the Oval Office today who placed America's long-standing interests ahead of getting some cheap attaboys from Internet trolls.
Today wasnβt a meetingβit was an Oval Office ambush, and it was planned.
Zelenskyy has thanked the U.S. and its president dozens of times. Everyone knows thatβincluding Trump. But gratitude was never what he wanted; he wanted a spectacle.
βThis is going to be great televisionβ - Donald Trump
Last night, Lindsey Graham spoke with Trump. Graham recalls Trump being βupbeatβ about the proposed βdealβ with Ukraine β before meeting with Zelenskyy. Of course he was βupbeat.β Extortion exhilarates Trump.