@vickybaum.bsky.social
Reposted
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Reposted
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.
Release the transcript.
Reposted
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Reposted
Reposted
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Reposted
This week on The Focus Group Pod I talk to @thebulwark.com's in-house policy wonk @citizencohn.bsky.social about the Big Beautiful Bill.
Be sure to listen for a deep dive on the negative consequences of the bill and what it means for the Republican Party. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-count...
Be sure to listen for a deep dive on the negative consequences of the bill and what it means for the Republican Party. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-count...
'This Country is Effed' (with Jonathan Cohn)
Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is moving through Congress, and you may be surprised by some former Trump voters' reactions.
www.thebulwark.com
June 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This week on The Focus Group Pod I talk to @thebulwark.com's in-house policy wonk @citizencohn.bsky.social about the Big Beautiful Bill.
Be sure to listen for a deep dive on the negative consequences of the bill and what it means for the Republican Party. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-count...
Be sure to listen for a deep dive on the negative consequences of the bill and what it means for the Republican Party. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-count...
Reposted
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
Reposted
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
Reposted
Let these observations of Fiona Hill sink in, please! This is happening and get just a little worse every day!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAYYEg/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAYYEg/
The United States is "definitely on a path towards full-on state repression". Fiona Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US National Security Council during the first Trump pr...
TikTok video by Channel 4 News
www.tiktok.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Let these observations of Fiona Hill sink in, please! This is happening and get just a little worse every day!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAYYEg/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAYYEg/
Reposted
The Israeli entrepreneur Shalev Hulio gained notoriety for designing Pegasus, the spyware used by governments to hack journalists and dissidents. Today, he is selling a new AI cyber security tool to European states and corporations. His secret asset? Austria’s former leader Sebastian Kurz. [Thread]
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The Israeli entrepreneur Shalev Hulio gained notoriety for designing Pegasus, the spyware used by governments to hack journalists and dissidents. Today, he is selling a new AI cyber security tool to European states and corporations. His secret asset? Austria’s former leader Sebastian Kurz. [Thread]
Reposted
What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary?
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Hungarian Model
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary?
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Poverty and corruption
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Reposted
Heute den bitteren aber treffenden Kommentar von @afelia.bsky.social gehört, dass immer nur die Minderheit aufsteht und wir sehen, wie Unternehmen das Knie beugen vor einer autoritären Macht. Irrational gehofft, sie möge Unrecht haben. Und dann lese ich in der FAZ, wie Weltkonzerne wie Novartis 🔽
March 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Heute den bitteren aber treffenden Kommentar von @afelia.bsky.social gehört, dass immer nur die Minderheit aufsteht und wir sehen, wie Unternehmen das Knie beugen vor einer autoritären Macht. Irrational gehofft, sie möge Unrecht haben. Und dann lese ich in der FAZ, wie Weltkonzerne wie Novartis 🔽
Reposted
In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Reposted
Most of the Cabinet and Trump’s senior national security team were coordinating strikes on Yemen in a *signal chat* and nobody noticed they accidentally added a reporter.
Really unbelievable shit here.
But her emails, right?
Really unbelievable shit here.
But her emails, right?
March 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Most of the Cabinet and Trump’s senior national security team were coordinating strikes on Yemen in a *signal chat* and nobody noticed they accidentally added a reporter.
Really unbelievable shit here.
But her emails, right?
Really unbelievable shit here.
But her emails, right?
Reposted
The Lancet has the luxury of being UK based, but I would welcome a similar statement from @nejm.org, @jama.com, @cidjournal.bsky.social, and others 🤷🏻♂️
"Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing"
@thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@thelancet.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
February 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Lancet has the luxury of being UK based, but I would welcome a similar statement from @nejm.org, @jama.com, @cidjournal.bsky.social, and others 🤷🏻♂️
Reposted
Oh.
Now Elon Musk is going to have control over our aviation system.
Bro can't even keep Twitter from regularly going down.
They're doing everything they can to make flying less safe.
Now Elon Musk is going to have control over our aviation system.
Bro can't even keep Twitter from regularly going down.
They're doing everything they can to make flying less safe.
February 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Oh.
Now Elon Musk is going to have control over our aviation system.
Bro can't even keep Twitter from regularly going down.
They're doing everything they can to make flying less safe.
Now Elon Musk is going to have control over our aviation system.
Bro can't even keep Twitter from regularly going down.
They're doing everything they can to make flying less safe.
Reposted
I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data
Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no.
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics
Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...
edition.cnn.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data
Reposted
This is all so incredibly stupid. Just utterly nuts. Bizarre.
But don’t let that obscure the fact that we are in the midst of a staggering assault on constitutional government. Staggering.
But don’t let that obscure the fact that we are in the midst of a staggering assault on constitutional government. Staggering.
This story is bananas.
"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."
"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is all so incredibly stupid. Just utterly nuts. Bizarre.
But don’t let that obscure the fact that we are in the midst of a staggering assault on constitutional government. Staggering.
But don’t let that obscure the fact that we are in the midst of a staggering assault on constitutional government. Staggering.
Reposted
I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Reposted
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
I spent inauguration week in Greenland
I spent inauguration week in Greenland
Watching Trump From the Future State of Greenland
Nothing is normal in Nuuk these days.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
I spent inauguration week in Greenland
I spent inauguration week in Greenland
Reposted
The stark asymmetry between the two sides, the foolishness of clinging to “norms” in the abstract when they so clearly produce an outcome that is substantively harmful, the inability and/or unwillingness of Democratic leaders to find an adequate response to the authoritarian threat… it’s all there!
January 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The stark asymmetry between the two sides, the foolishness of clinging to “norms” in the abstract when they so clearly produce an outcome that is substantively harmful, the inability and/or unwillingness of Democratic leaders to find an adequate response to the authoritarian threat… it’s all there!
Reposted
For years, Europe has worried about Russia and China. Now it faces a very different challenge: Fending off overt efforts by Musk and Trump’s MAGA movement to seize territory, oust elected leaders and empower far-right causes and parties. Katrin Bennhold www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/w...
A New Age of American Interference in Europe
Elon Musk and MAGA are already disrupting the status quo, and Europe seems ill-prepared.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For years, Europe has worried about Russia and China. Now it faces a very different challenge: Fending off overt efforts by Musk and Trump’s MAGA movement to seize territory, oust elected leaders and empower far-right causes and parties. Katrin Bennhold www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/w...