Bild: “Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is said to have completely misunderstood some of the Russians’ statements and misinterpreted them as a concession from Putin. He had misunderstood a ‘peaceful withdrawal’ of the...
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2/ Ukrainians from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia demanded by Russia as an offer of the ‘peaceful withdrawal’ of the Russians from these regions.”
Said a Ukrainian official: “Witkoff doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
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3/ Daily Beast: Trump envoy’s embarrassing gaffe could blow back on president.
President dumbass and his dumbass diplomats.
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Dictators love elections. They just hate free and fair elections
Russian President Vladimir Putin spends more than $1 billion to create the illusion that his citizens have the ability to elect their own leaders. With electronic voting and an accessible three-day in-person... 1/5
2/ voting period, voter turnout is always high. And Putin always wins in a landslide. What better way to legitimize his illegitimate grip on power?
Putin claims to have won 88% of the vote in his last election. Earlier this week, Trump insisted that his...
3/ approval rating is above 70%.
In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds elections. So does Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Throughout history, there have been countless examples of citizens turning out for elections that are fated to crown a king.
Jessica Valenti: Texas Republicans are hellbent on punishing abortion patients and anyone who helps them—and this week they’re pushing sweeping legislation that does both.
On its face, Senate Bill 2880 is already extreme: It expands Texas’s ‘bounty hunter’ law, letting...
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2/ private citizens file $100,000 lawsuits against anyone who manufactures abortion pills, brings them into the state, or “provides” them to patients—language so vague it could mean almost anything. It also hands the Attorney General power to sue on behalf of fetuses, and...
3/ even allows lawsuits against lawyers and judges who might intervene.
The idea is to strip patients of every kind of support, leaving women isolated, afraid, and unable to ask their community for help. And that’s just what Republicans admit the bill would do.
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Charlie Sykes: “Maybe we missed the exact moment it happened. But last week, it was obvious that we have long since passed the tipping point. We’re not slouching toward it, or waiting for some imaginary redline to be crossed. After years of warning about threats to...
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2/ democracy, the rule of law, norms, corruption, toxic narcissism, it was all right there. Live in the Oval Office…”
“Last week, Trump imposed trillions of dollars in tariffs, suspended them, and exempted companies who paid him tribute, all without any input from a...
3/ Congress that surrendered its powers to him with barely a whimper.”
“Indeed, that’s the point. There is no process. No strategy. No check. No balance. Just the arbitrary whimsy and malice of the one man, who knows that he can never be held accountable for the shit storm...
RFK Jr.: Health and Human Services Cuts: Life Support: Over 7,000 workers at the Dept. of Health and Human Services were laid off and entire divisions eliminated yesterday morning in what one fired staffer called a “bloodbath.”
Breakdown: Of the thousands of positions...
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2/ impacted, 2,400 were from the CDC, 1,200 the NIH, and 3,500 the FDA. Multiple staffers told Rolling Stone that the cuts were made without regard for institutional knowledge. In total, about 24% of HHS has been let go.
Decimation: Entire teams were eliminated. The team...
3/ working to prevent intimate partner violence; the Freedom of Information Act office; two branches in the Division of Reproductive Health; the team creating contraception guidelines; the Division of Environmental Health and Science Practice, which...
Musk’s Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie
We can now be depressingly confident that their mass cuts are killing people and hurting red-state businesses.
It has a dry, bureaucratic name, but Ready to Use Therapeutic Food has functioned...
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2/ for over a decade as a lifeline for countless starving children around the globe. Manufactured in the US and distributed by the USAID, it’s a paste made of peanuts, milk, and vitamins that alleviates a form of acute malnutrition known as “severe wasting.”
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3/ Now the Trump administration has officially terminated a number of current contracts struck by USAID for this lifesaving nutrition, contracts that had called for the paste to be delivered to hundreds of thousands of children, most in Africa, according...
Jonathan Last: “I woke up in the small hours Sat. morning. Couldn’t sleep. Checked the news and saw Trump had launched his own memecoin. I don't usually dabble in crypto, but I poked around the $TRUMP website to see how hard it...
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2/ would be for, say, a working-class, middle-aged guy in rural America to figure out how to purchase the token. The answer was: very easy. Anyone with a 5th grade education and a debit card can buy $TRUMP coins in about five minutes.”
“I looked at the clock. In a few hours...
3/ $TRUMP memecoin would be all over Fox & Friends—at which point a million slow-witted cultists would be alerted to this fabulous new investment vehicle. So I threw some money into the coin and waited. A few hours later this meaningless, valueless token took off.”
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