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Extremely valuable 🧵 setting the record straight on numerous persistent falsehoods about Ukraine. Particularly galling that we have $20 billion to cover corrupt far-right Milei's economic mismanagement in Argentina but not one dime to help democratic Ukraine save the West.
Trump has no right to pose any demands on Ukraine:
1. He instantly stopped ALL financial and arms aid to Ukraine. US republicans continue to lie that the US is financing Ukraine & giving it arms. Stop lying!
2. Trump has repeatedly lied that the US has given $350 bn to Ukraine.
1. He instantly stopped ALL financial and arms aid to Ukraine. US republicans continue to lie that the US is financing Ukraine & giving it arms. Stop lying!
2. Trump has repeatedly lied that the US has given $350 bn to Ukraine.
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Extremely valuable 🧵 setting the record straight on numerous persistent falsehoods about Ukraine. Particularly galling that we have $20 billion to cover corrupt far-right Milei's economic mismanagement in Argentina but not one dime to help democratic Ukraine save the West.
Seems to me the Truth keeps showing up with a tow tag in our fair town.
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Seems to me the Truth keeps showing up with a tow tag in our fair town.
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Only Ukraine's victory will end the war. Western democracies should be united to defeat russian fascist aggression.
The war wish-list (falsely presented as a "U.S. peace plan") is the agenda of the rashists in Moscow. If adopted in any form it guarantees global war will ensue.
The war wish-list (falsely presented as a "U.S. peace plan") is the agenda of the rashists in Moscow. If adopted in any form it guarantees global war will ensue.
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Only Ukraine's victory will end the war. Western democracies should be united to defeat russian fascist aggression.
The war wish-list (falsely presented as a "U.S. peace plan") is the agenda of the rashists in Moscow. If adopted in any form it guarantees global war will ensue.
The war wish-list (falsely presented as a "U.S. peace plan") is the agenda of the rashists in Moscow. If adopted in any form it guarantees global war will ensue.
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The US does virtually nothing for Ukraine - some intelligence & some arms Europe pays for.
Trump is a full-fledged supporter of Putin & not entitled to any voice on Ukraine.
Ukraine & Europe should just ignore the Kremlin proposal that Trump embraces as his.
Trump is a full-fledged supporter of Putin & not entitled to any voice on Ukraine.
Ukraine & Europe should just ignore the Kremlin proposal that Trump embraces as his.
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The US does virtually nothing for Ukraine - some intelligence & some arms Europe pays for.
Trump is a full-fledged supporter of Putin & not entitled to any voice on Ukraine.
Ukraine & Europe should just ignore the Kremlin proposal that Trump embraces as his.
Trump is a full-fledged supporter of Putin & not entitled to any voice on Ukraine.
Ukraine & Europe should just ignore the Kremlin proposal that Trump embraces as his.
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Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Senior Russian officials are very clear that the purported "peace plan" that Putin dictated to Trump is only a means of destroying the Ukrainian armed forces to pave the way for the final conquest of Ukraine. And nothing in the plan provides any meaningful outside guarantees. Shameful.
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Senior Russian officials are very clear that the purported "peace plan" that Putin dictated to Trump is only a means of destroying the Ukrainian armed forces to pave the way for the final conquest of Ukraine. And nothing in the plan provides any meaningful outside guarantees. Shameful.
Crucial summary from someone who bravely served our country. We don't need the shame of our own Munich.
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are.
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Crucial summary from someone who bravely served our country. We don't need the shame of our own Munich.
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But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism.
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
But we are supposed to believe that the administration’s attack on higher education is about fighting anti-semitism.
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
OK
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
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they were buying politicians long before Citizens United. The rich won't be as stupid as we want them to be. They did not need CU, it was just a convenience
A big cause is the Roberts Courts’ Citizens United which makes it legal for the uber-wealthy to buy politicians. For decades the mainstream media normalized the extremism of Republican appointees and normalized their chipping away at our democracy. The Bushes appointed Thomas, Alito and Roberts.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
they were buying politicians long before Citizens United. The rich won't be as stupid as we want them to be. They did not need CU, it was just a convenience
Breathtaking substitution here: giving people money does not make them "informed consumers": it makes them consumers who are much more vulnerable to exploitation precisely because of their lack of information. Simply assuming information on something this complex and critical is jaw-dropping.
Cassidy: "The president is proposing that we take the $26b that would be going to insurance companies if we just do an extension and give it directly to the American people in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase healthcare on their own terms. That makes them an informed consumer."
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Breathtaking substitution here: giving people money does not make them "informed consumers": it makes them consumers who are much more vulnerable to exploitation precisely because of their lack of information. Simply assuming information on something this complex and critical is jaw-dropping.
The equivalent of going skydiving with your little brother's bookbag instead of a parachute. Olympic level incompetence.
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The equivalent of going skydiving with your little brother's bookbag instead of a parachute. Olympic level incompetence.
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Any “peace plan” that calls for Ukraine to disarm is an obvious attempt to prepare the ground for the next stage of Russia’s invasion. There is no other conceivable reason to weaken Ukraine’s defenses. Nobody can seriously suggest Moscow views Ukraine as a military threat
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Any “peace plan” that calls for Ukraine to disarm is an obvious attempt to prepare the ground for the next stage of Russia’s invasion. There is no other conceivable reason to weaken Ukraine’s defenses. Nobody can seriously suggest Moscow views Ukraine as a military threat
The truth hurts.
Based on how John Thune continues to legislatively rebuke Mike Johnson on one issue after another, it seems pretty clear that he thinks MAGA Mike is feckless and incompetent and is just going to ignore him and do what he wants.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The truth hurts.
If you compare their "work" when they were on their extended Epsteincation with the work they did this spring and summer passing Trump's megabill, I cannot disagree that they do better "work" when they are not here.
Mike Johnson says House Republicans “did some of the best work of their careers” when they stayed home for the duration of the government shutdown.
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
If you compare their "work" when they were on their extended Epsteincation with the work they did this spring and summer passing Trump's megabill, I cannot disagree that they do better "work" when they are not here.
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It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
Trump Defends Tucker Carlson After Nick Fuentes Interview
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's remarkable that the number of news analyses/pundit takes that the Democrats are too extreme--out of touch, too focused on divisive cultural issues, too beholden to progressive orthodoxy--far exceeds the articles on the Trump/GOP's connections to the far right. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...
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The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The fact that @harvard.edu's Larry Summers is teaching three courses this semester while Texas A&M Professor Melissa McCoul was fired tells you all you need to know about what "gender ideology" is allowed and which is not. @aaup.org
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For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For thirty years I worked in the post-Soviet successor states in Central Asia and observed over and over again precisely the cycle that Bill Kristol describes. Corruption leads to authoritarianism, directly. The path is utterly predictable.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
We should not rule out people with sincere beliefs with which we disagree. But we absolutely should rule out people whose direction swings wildly like a weathervane. A few conversions are plausible, but repeated opportunism makes a candidate both untrustworthy and often unelectable.
AOC has a better shot at 2028 than Newsom does, that prick already threw in his lot with the rightwing podcasters and the transphobes.
Reactionary centrists can whine about "purity tests," but fact is Dem contenders now must have spine & principles. Candidates without that will struggle in 2028.
Reactionary centrists can whine about "purity tests," but fact is Dem contenders now must have spine & principles. Candidates without that will struggle in 2028.
2028 watch: The most effective ad for Prop 50 came not from Gavin Newsom. It came from AOC.
-Super PAC Future Forward found that Ocasio-Cortez's direct-to-camera ad did better than ads featuring Newsom — Prop 50's chief cheerleader — and Barack Obama.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/a...
-Super PAC Future Forward found that Ocasio-Cortez's direct-to-camera ad did better than ads featuring Newsom — Prop 50's chief cheerleader — and Barack Obama.
www.axios.com/2025/11/16/a...
November 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
We should not rule out people with sincere beliefs with which we disagree. But we absolutely should rule out people whose direction swings wildly like a weathervane. A few conversions are plausible, but repeated opportunism makes a candidate both untrustworthy and often unelectable.
They do that all the time. Capital gains tax cuts are always said to gain money due to realizations; they never admit to any revenue losses. Plus dynamic effects (which only go one way, of course). And anti-immigrant policies are said to create jobs despite making some businesses unviable.
They really are going with immaculate asymmetry of tariffs, which didn't raise prices when they were imposed but will cut them when they're withdrawn.
KARL: Tariffs have been removed from some food items. How soon do we expect prices on those goods will go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
HASSETT: The prices for those goods weren't necessarily going up just because of tariffs
KARL: So they might not go down?
November 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
They do that all the time. Capital gains tax cuts are always said to gain money due to realizations; they never admit to any revenue losses. Plus dynamic effects (which only go one way, of course). And anti-immigrant policies are said to create jobs despite making some businesses unviable.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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THIS. Teenage victims have a completely different set of prejudices to deal with. Trust me, I know. Grooming is probably the least understood aspect of child abuse.
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
THIS. Teenage victims have a completely different set of prejudices to deal with. Trust me, I know. Grooming is probably the least understood aspect of child abuse.
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As NATO is so aggressive, we have moved our border guards from where NATO *is* on our Estonian border, and sent them to die in Ukraine, where NATO *is not*
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
As NATO is so aggressive, we have moved our border guards from where NATO *is* on our Estonian border, and sent them to die in Ukraine, where NATO *is not*
Seeing this picture, I can't help wondering if President Trump does not know how things turned out for the mythological King Midas. The golden touch actually was not a good thing. The story seeks to cut through our superficiality, but that's a tall order when it comes to him.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Seeing this picture, I can't help wondering if President Trump does not know how things turned out for the mythological King Midas. The golden touch actually was not a good thing. The story seeks to cut through our superficiality, but that's a tall order when it comes to him.
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Sometimes you have an experience like this and years later see the man thanked for his mentorship by another man in the preface to the latter’s book, and it really burns
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sometimes you have an experience like this and years later see the man thanked for his mentorship by another man in the preface to the latter’s book, and it really burns