Barry pandel
@billpandel.bsky.social
Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; National Finance Chair of Draft Biden; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Dad of two wonderful kids. Duke alum. Proud liberal.
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I’m sick and tired of Trump taking Putin’s side at every opportunity, at the expense of America’s longtime allies in Europe. “America First” my ass — Traitor Trump is all about putting Moscow first!!
March 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m sick and tired of Trump taking Putin’s side at every opportunity, at the expense of America’s longtime allies in Europe. “America First” my ass — Traitor Trump is all about putting Moscow first!!
The West is at a “crossroads in history,” Britain’s Prime Minister Starmer told European leaders at a key summit in London, as the continent sought to wrestle control of negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war away from the US and present a united front amid a meltdown between Kyiv and Washington.
Europe seeks to take control of Ukraine negotiations, after Zelensky’s nightmare Trump visit sparks panic | CNN
The West is at a “crossroads in history,” Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer told European leaders at a pivotal summit in London on Sunday, as the continent sought to wrestle control of negotiation...
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March 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The West is at a “crossroads in history,” Britain’s Prime Minister Starmer told European leaders at a key summit in London, as the continent sought to wrestle control of negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war away from the US and present a united front amid a meltdown between Kyiv and Washington.
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This fucking guy
March 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
This fucking guy
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Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world.
March 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Here is some truth: Putin invaded Ukraine. NATO is the most successful military alliance in history. Since 1945, American leadership has ensured freedom and security for ourselves and millions of others around the world.
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Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.
March 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.
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🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying.
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
March 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
🚨 BREAKING: This is beyond outrageous. Elon Musk, his cranky mother Maye, and one of his young kids were chauffeured in Air Force One and Marine One—straight to the White House, where they’re apparently staying.
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
WTF is going on? It goes without saying, this is not normal. 🙄
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Read this by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: “Russia does not care whether there is war or peace — it seeks the destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. It will gleefully pocket every concession from the Trump administration and then continue fighting.” on.ft.com/4bn2uSs
Negotiations over Ukraine are missing a human dimension
Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else. But we demand real peace
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March 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Read this by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: “Russia does not care whether there is war or peace — it seeks the destruction of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. It will gleefully pocket every concession from the Trump administration and then continue fighting.” on.ft.com/4bn2uSs
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Former East German Stasi officer and close Putin ally Matthias Warnig, who is under US and UK sanctions, is touting plans for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany to be reopened with U.S. backing and investors (per Financial Times reporting)
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Putin ally ‘wants to restart Nord Stream 2 with US backing’
The pipeline was damaged in an apparent act of sabotage in 2022.
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March 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Former East German Stasi officer and close Putin ally Matthias Warnig, who is under US and UK sanctions, is touting plans for the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany to be reopened with U.S. backing and investors (per Financial Times reporting)
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Cartoon by David Sipress.
March 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Cartoon by David Sipress.
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Ukrainian forces have punched deep holes into Russian defenses in Toretsk and re-entered into large part of the city. They have already entered the ruins of the city center.
March 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Ukrainian forces have punched deep holes into Russian defenses in Toretsk and re-entered into large part of the city. They have already entered the ruins of the city center.
Per @repcasar.bsky.social on another platform:
“A guy who makes $8 million a day off the government thinks seniors getting $65 a day they worked their whole lives to earn is a ‘ponzi scheme.’
Protect Social Security. Fire Elon Musk.”
“A guy who makes $8 million a day off the government thinks seniors getting $65 a day they worked their whole lives to earn is a ‘ponzi scheme.’
Protect Social Security. Fire Elon Musk.”
March 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Per @repcasar.bsky.social on another platform:
“A guy who makes $8 million a day off the government thinks seniors getting $65 a day they worked their whole lives to earn is a ‘ponzi scheme.’
Protect Social Security. Fire Elon Musk.”
“A guy who makes $8 million a day off the government thinks seniors getting $65 a day they worked their whole lives to earn is a ‘ponzi scheme.’
Protect Social Security. Fire Elon Musk.”
Europe has no false illusions about the terrible danger posed by Trump.
March 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Europe has no false illusions about the terrible danger posed by Trump.
Who else is seeing empty egg shelves at your local grocery store? This is my neighborhood store in Orlando. 🥚
January 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Who else is seeing empty egg shelves at your local grocery store? This is my neighborhood store in Orlando. 🥚
When we adopted our new puppy last month, maybe we should have also adopted some chickens. 🐓 🥚
January 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
When we adopted our new puppy last month, maybe we should have also adopted some chickens. 🐓 🥚
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BREAKING: A set of nonprofits and a small business organization sue OMB over Monday's grants/loans "pause," seeking a temporary restraining order. The groups are represented by @democracyforward.bsky.social.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
BREAKING: A set of nonprofits and a small business organization sue OMB over Monday's grants/loans "pause," seeking a temporary restraining order. The groups are represented by @democracyforward.bsky.social.
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Here is Caroline Kennedy absolutely coming for RFK Jr, a "predator" whose behavior, she says, would leave both her father and his "disgusted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLx...
Caroline Kennedy reads her letter to Senators denouncing her “predator” cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
YouTube video by The Golden Circle
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January 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here is Caroline Kennedy absolutely coming for RFK Jr, a "predator" whose behavior, she says, would leave both her father and his "disgusted." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLLx...
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When Democrats lose, they concede. When Republicans lose, they make false claims of fraud.
REPORTER: Will you insist on voter ID as a condition for disaster aid for California?
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been lamenting the lack of voter security there for some time. We were deeply concerned in this last election cycle and we saw 3 of our seats frankly slip away from us in California.
MIKE JOHNSON: We have been lamenting the lack of voter security there for some time. We were deeply concerned in this last election cycle and we saw 3 of our seats frankly slip away from us in California.
January 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
When Democrats lose, they concede. When Republicans lose, they make false claims of fraud.
Take my advice and sell your stock in Target NOW.
January 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Take my advice and sell your stock in Target NOW.
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Wrote about a Supreme Court case that could start a nationwide rollback on birth control rights. Braidwood v. Becerra is nominally about insurance coverage, but as we witnessed with abortion, making reproductive healthcare less accessible is a stepping stone to bans. My first in @democracydocket.com
The Supreme Court Could Gut Access to Birth Control This Year
Opinion | With Trump back in the Oval Office, access to contraception is, sadly, not something that people can bank on anymore.
www.democracydocket.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Wrote about a Supreme Court case that could start a nationwide rollback on birth control rights. Braidwood v. Becerra is nominally about insurance coverage, but as we witnessed with abortion, making reproductive healthcare less accessible is a stepping stone to bans. My first in @democracydocket.com
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We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.
January 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
We need to pay attention to this now before it’s too late.
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The Trump administration ordered former staff members for as many as 17 fired IGs to immediately arrange for the return of work laptops, phones, parking decals, ID cards — even as questions remained over whether President Trump broke the law @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
Fired Inspectors General Raise Alarms as Trump Administration Moves to Finalize Purge
The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of “a never-ending cycle of politicization.”
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January 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Trump administration ordered former staff members for as many as 17 fired IGs to immediately arrange for the return of work laptops, phones, parking decals, ID cards — even as questions remained over whether President Trump broke the law @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...
The U.S. Air Force will resume teaching about the nation's first Black pilots and the women pilots of World War II. This followed widespread public outcry over their earlier decision to stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen and the WASPs.
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U.S. Air Force resumes teaching about Tuskegee Airmen and WASP following outcry over DEI review
The U.S. Air Force will resume teaching about the nation's first Black pilots, and the women pilots of World War II. The Air Force paused that part of its basic training curriculum last week pending a...
www.tpr.org
January 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The U.S. Air Force will resume teaching about the nation's first Black pilots and the women pilots of World War II. This followed widespread public outcry over their earlier decision to stop teaching about the Tuskegee Airmen and the WASPs.
www.tpr.org/military-vet...
www.tpr.org/military-vet...
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NEW: After enormous public backlash, Air Force officials are now insisting that recruits will indeed learn about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Air Force Service Pilots.
The Air Force had previously taken steps to comply with Trump’s executive order targeting Diversity,…
The Air Force had previously taken steps to comply with Trump’s executive order targeting Diversity,…
The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes…
January 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
NEW: After enormous public backlash, Air Force officials are now insisting that recruits will indeed learn about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Air Force Service Pilots.
The Air Force had previously taken steps to comply with Trump’s executive order targeting Diversity,…
The Air Force had previously taken steps to comply with Trump’s executive order targeting Diversity,…
As a result of Trump’s incredibly counterproductive tariffs, Americans will soon be paying SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER prices for a wide range of consumer goods. This will truly devastate the US economy.
The fact that Trump is too stupid
and stubborn to realize this speaks volumes about his incompetence.
The fact that Trump is too stupid
and stubborn to realize this speaks volumes about his incompetence.
January 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
As a result of Trump’s incredibly counterproductive tariffs, Americans will soon be paying SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER prices for a wide range of consumer goods. This will truly devastate the US economy.
The fact that Trump is too stupid
and stubborn to realize this speaks volumes about his incompetence.
The fact that Trump is too stupid
and stubborn to realize this speaks volumes about his incompetence.