imagine your reaction if you were told a decade ago that in 2025 Mitch McConnell would be the only Senate Republican willing to stand up to a Putinist takeover of the US intelligence agencies

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.
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@karaswisher.bsky.social says that when media accepts Elon Musk's framing around his governement takeover, he wins the battle on Out Front with @erinburnett.bsky.social on CNN

Parents and grandparents want their kids to do better than they did. How's that going to happen? Education. This isn't possible if Trump closes the Department of Education.

It's absolutely outrageous that they want to take money away from our kids to give it to billionaires.

The strength of our democracy depends on a system of checks and balances. We cannot allow Donald Trump’s unrestrained attacks on this system and on our rights to go without pushback.