Sean-SPSG-LocaMahe
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"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...
USAID Kept My Troops Safe in Afghanistan
If not for American aid, we would have faced more enemies and won fewer friends.
www.thebulwark.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...
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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65
Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?
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We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.
Karoline Leavitt: "The real constitutional crisis is taking place within our judicial branch."
February 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
We can’t say this enough: When people in Trump‘s orbit deliberately lie about how our constitutional democracy works, they violate the oaths they take to uphold the law. & they violate the trust the American people place in them.
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Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.
February 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion.
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“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”
US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.
Everything changed today.
US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.
Everything changed today.
February 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”
US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.
Everything changed today.
US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025.
Everything changed today.
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To all who commemorate legacy media's decline, happy one month anniversary of the Washington Post telling us that Pam Bondi should be confirmed as Attorney General.
Don't get fooled again. Support independent, pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com
Don't get fooled again. Support independent, pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
To all who commemorate legacy media's decline, happy one month anniversary of the Washington Post telling us that Pam Bondi should be confirmed as Attorney General.
Don't get fooled again. Support independent, pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com
Don't get fooled again. Support independent, pro-democracy media. www.democracydocket.com
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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
February 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/
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Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
February 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION
Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment
The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top
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COLLINS: Trump fashions himself this master negotiator. We did hear from Hegseth saying NATO membership is not realistic for Ukraine and neither is returning to pre-2014 borders. Aren't they giving away bargaining chips?
LEAVITT: I haven't talked to the president about Ukraine's NATO membership
LEAVITT: I haven't talked to the president about Ukraine's NATO membership
February 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
COLLINS: Trump fashions himself this master negotiator. We did hear from Hegseth saying NATO membership is not realistic for Ukraine and neither is returning to pre-2014 borders. Aren't they giving away bargaining chips?
LEAVITT: I haven't talked to the president about Ukraine's NATO membership
LEAVITT: I haven't talked to the president about Ukraine's NATO membership
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COLLINS: Are there any preconditions has that Trump has that Putin must do before he goes and meets with him? Withdrawing some forces, anything like that?
LEAVITT: Not that I'm aware of
LEAVITT: Not that I'm aware of
February 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
COLLINS: Are there any preconditions has that Trump has that Putin must do before he goes and meets with him? Withdrawing some forces, anything like that?
LEAVITT: Not that I'm aware of
LEAVITT: Not that I'm aware of
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Pressed to provide evidence of fraud that Musk has discovered, Leavitt waves around "screenshots of contracts" that go "against the president's policies" (going against Trump's policies is not fraud)
February 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Pressed to provide evidence of fraud that Musk has discovered, Leavitt waves around "screenshots of contracts" that go "against the president's policies" (going against Trump's policies is not fraud)
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So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten:
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten:
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
- a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI
- the release of a crime boss
- Hegseth ceding Crimea to them
- Trump offering a WH visit
- The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally
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Van Hollen: "I would love to see them put up DOGE and Project 2025 for a vote in the US Congress. I predict it would go down. It's very unpopular, which is why they are using these illegal means... Trump knew this was unpopular on the campaign trail... now he's got Elon Musk doing his dirty work"
February 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Van Hollen: "I would love to see them put up DOGE and Project 2025 for a vote in the US Congress. I predict it would go down. It's very unpopular, which is why they are using these illegal means... Trump knew this was unpopular on the campaign trail... now he's got Elon Musk doing his dirty work"
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Raskin: "The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk ... "
February 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Raskin: "The wrecking ball of rightwing authoritarianism is swinging right through Congress and coming directly at the freedoms of the press and the people. The self-appointed CEO of this operation is the unelected bureaucrat and aspiring techno-dictator, Elon Musk ... "
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Among other things, what a terrible fucking negotiator
Hegseth: "We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective ... the US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement."
February 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Among other things, what a terrible fucking negotiator
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The US has made many stupendous errors in the Middle East and has committed some great crimes. But this would surpass them all.
Trump on Gaza: "We're gonna have it. And we're gonna keep it ... nobody is gonna question it ... we'll have lots of good things built there, including hotels."
February 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The US has made many stupendous errors in the Middle East and has committed some great crimes. But this would surpass them all.
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Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
Trump on Gaza: "We're gonna have it. And we're gonna keep it ... nobody is gonna question it ... we'll have lots of good things built there, including hotels."
February 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oh sure, "nobody is gonna question" an American plan to seize Gaza.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
"Let bygones be bygones," that's the motto of the Middle East.
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BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
Okay what is going on here. Are the accounts at a private banking entity? Does the federal government have direct debit permission set up? So many questions as to how Treasury instructed this payment. (Via NY Post’s Craig McCarthy)
February 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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Today, President Trump called our enemy, Russia, before calling our ally, Ukraine.
Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense, ruled out a future for Ukraine in NATO and a restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over its own lands.
Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense, ruled out a future for Ukraine in NATO and a restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over its own lands.
February 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Today, President Trump called our enemy, Russia, before calling our ally, Ukraine.
Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense, ruled out a future for Ukraine in NATO and a restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over its own lands.
Meanwhile, his Secretary of Defense, ruled out a future for Ukraine in NATO and a restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over its own lands.
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👇 In addition to never wanting to hear Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins being called "moderates" ever again, I never want to hear a single word about national security or foreign policy from Tom Cotton taken seriously by major media outlets or supposedly serious journalists ever again:
I will never get over all the very serious national security knowers in the Senate who just voted to confirm Grayzone Kim Philby www.npr.org/2025/02/12/n...
Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as director of national intelligence, overcoming skepticism
The former lawmaker faced questions about her level of experience and past comments about autocratic leaders, but ultimately the Senate confirmed her on Wednesday afternoon.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
👇 In addition to never wanting to hear Lisa Murkowski or Susan Collins being called "moderates" ever again, I never want to hear a single word about national security or foreign policy from Tom Cotton taken seriously by major media outlets or supposedly serious journalists ever again:
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The real-world impact here is that the USA relies on intelligence sharing with a number of allies, the most critical being under the Five Eyes pact. I can't help but think they will be loath to share significant intelligence with the USA for fear their sources will be compromised.
February 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The real-world impact here is that the USA relies on intelligence sharing with a number of allies, the most critical being under the Five Eyes pact. I can't help but think they will be loath to share significant intelligence with the USA for fear their sources will be compromised.
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Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing.
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
Evgeny Popov says Trump is doing Russia's job
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
youtu.be
February 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing.
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE
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Wowwwww. Hudson Valley / Westchester County is usually pretty purple. This local race for County Executive was hard fought. Democrats are coming back strong there and everywhere, from upstate NY to Minnesota to Iowa.
Keep fighting. Take it all back.
Keep fighting. Take it all back.
February 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Wowwwww. Hudson Valley / Westchester County is usually pretty purple. This local race for County Executive was hard fought. Democrats are coming back strong there and everywhere, from upstate NY to Minnesota to Iowa.
Keep fighting. Take it all back.
Keep fighting. Take it all back.
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This is very good news.
February 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This is very good news.