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tf is going on?!!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Feb 28

The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $3.01 billion in arms & equipment sales to Israel

$2.04 billion in bombs
$675.7 million in bombs & weapon guidance kits
$295 million in bulldozers

Administration said "an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale," waiving congressional review

February 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Trump thinks Zelenskyy needs to be nicer to Putin, the criminal who invaded his country unprovoked and killed hundreds of thousands of people for no good reason. Incredible.

February 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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Annette Dittert

@annettedittert.bsky.social

Where are the Democrats? Obama, anyone? The Clintons? Anyone??

February 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM

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Georg Restle

@georgrestle.bsky.social

Putins deutsche Truppen marschieren.

AfD-Chef Chrupalla nennt Selenskyj auf X einen „Bettelpräsidenten“.

February 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit

@politicalbeauty.bsky.social

Wow, und schon folgt schriftlich, worum es Trump eigentlich ging: Amerika zieht seine Unterstützung zurück und hilft der angegriffenen Ukraine nicht länger.

A Statement from President Donald J. Trump
"We had a very meaningful meeting in the White House today.
Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. It's amazing what comes out through emotion, and I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don't want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace."

February 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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Natascha Strobl

@nataschastrobl.bsky.social

Die USA und Russland sind miteinander im Bund. Alle, die so naiv sind zu glauben, dass Trump eine Hoffnung für Frieden ist, sollten das anschauen. Man soll sich wirklich nicht in die Tasche lügen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?

VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

February 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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Johanna Wenckebach

@jowenckebach.bsky.social

Wir sollten auf gar keinen Fall denselben Fehler wie amerikanische Wähler*innen machen und glauben, eine "Protestwahl" kann schon keinen Schaden anrichten. Was für eine brutale Unterschätzung der Fragilität sozialer Errungenschaften sowie rechtsstaatlicher und demokratischer Institutionen.
#Trump

February 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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Kyle Clark

@kylec.bsky.social

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

February 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Neil Abrams

@neilabrams.bsky.social

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.

Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · Feb 16

"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"

Something something in advance

www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics

Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...

www.cnn.com

February 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Tyler, from the Internet

@tylerfromtheinternet.com

Don't drown to prove you know the tide is rising

✪ Holly Jolly Jonathan H. Gray ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · Feb 14

There is so much going on that I've given up trying to keep up, accepted that I cant keep up, and come to terms with "I'll learn about and deal with it when it comes my way because that's really all I can handle right now."

And sometimes that's enough.

February 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM

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Daily Taehyung

@dailytaehyung.bsky.social

Not today's official post, but dreaming that this will manifest into a collab someday.... #V #Taehyung #LadyGaga #BTS

Lady Gaga with a beautiful hairdo and a gorgeous light turquoise outfit, clearly enamoured of Taehyung w/his black hair, black suit, and beautiful smile omg she got all that. HE got all that.

February 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM

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Guido Kühn

@guido-kuehn.bsky.social

Der Moment, da der Nazi-Ermöglicher empört ausführt, dass ihm das Demonstrationsrecht zu weit geht, weil Menschen ihn in Menge daran erinnern, dass er gerade Nazis ermöglicht hat, ist der Moment, da freiheitsliebende Demokraten wissen: Dieser Mann darf niemals, unter keinen Umständen Kanzler werden.

Screenshot in welcher Friedrich Merz zu sehen ist, wie er ausführt, dass die spontanen Demonstrationen nach seinem AfD Vorstoß gegen sein Verständnis der Demonstrationsfreiheit gehen.

January 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Lessons to be learned:

1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power

German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses
Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the poll-leading Christian Democrats, pushed a series of measures tightening borders and accelerating deportations through Parliament this week. He did so with help from the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence agencies.

On Friday, the gambit ended in a crushing legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissent in his own party and jubilant claims of new legitimacy from the AfD, a chain reaction that could rattle Mr. Merz’s comfortable seat at the top of the polls.

Mr. Merz’s willingness to rely on support from the AfD, broke a taboo in German politics that had endured since the end of World War II.

January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Georg Restle

@georgrestle.bsky.social

Niemand in der CDU reiche der AfD die Hand, sagt Merz im Bundestag. Als sei nichts geschehen. Als habe es keinen Wort- und Tabubruch gegeben. Als habe die Union die Zustimmung der AfD nicht billigend in Kauf genommen.

January 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM

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Christoph Bautz

@christophbautz.bsky.social

Diese Worte von Michel Friedmann im @spiegel.de -Interview berühren mich, ja lassen mich fast schon beschämend zurück angesichts dessen, was die Merz-CDU hier macht.