(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraineβs sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemns Trump's 'unjustified' 25% tariffs and says retaliatory tariffs on $155 billion of American goods will take effect at 12:01 AM EST if the U.S. moves forward tonight.
"History will remember this dayβ when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
There really is a Bible story for pretty much everything - when Israel asked for a king:
"He will take 1/10th of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day."
History doesnβt repeat itself, but it often rhymesβ¦
Unreal.
NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.
So glad we are living in the βfree speechβ timeline
On Abraham Lincoln's 216th birthday, it's worth listening to this important warning he gave us back in 1838. Does any of this sound familiar to you?
www.youtube.com/shorts/s2WcV...
Just last week someone told me Trump would never shut down USAID because it buys so much US grain and I said, "I wonder if he knows that"
EJ Screen is gone. Removing access to environmental justice data doesnβt mean environmental injustices no longer exist.
Anne what is a good place to start understanding Orbanβs Hungry and KaczyΕskiβs Poland?
Same was true in Poland
I desperately need a bookmarks tab in Bluesky
I know youβre going to tell me that Iβm an idiot but I really am surprised that my former friends who became Musk fans arenβt waking up to reality right now.
The Trump administration has stripped the status of 600,000 Venezuelans who obeyed the law, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. Itβs not intellectually superior. Itβs the virus theyβre trying to infect us with. NO
i think this should be factored into how states, counties, localities and hospitals respond to these executive orders. "we will investigate you if you teach DEI." okay, with what agents, specifically? with what state capacity?
I am having trouble regulating my moods because everything is simultaneously so terrifying and so stupid.
Well said, Pete Buttigieg
too dumb to actually do anything, too smart not to be filled with existential dread
Thank you for your work. I hope to follow you wherever you go next.
This is almost such an obvious point, it feels slightly crazy to point it out, but a politician winning a national election does not mean that the criticisms of that politician were wrong. Nixon and Bush both go reelected and everything their most unsparing critics said about them was right.
Glad to hear. Competency on their part is a scary thought
Everything that Trump said and did today -- all of it -- was entirely predictable based on his campaign, character, and first term in office. If you're surprised, you were either misinformed or not informed enough.
We deserve everything that's about to come our way. Buckle up.
Here I am doom scrolling at 4 AM again.
I need to figure out how to do this 4 years differently than the last time.
Exactly why @bsky.app is so important. Engaging on this platform is important. As is growing this platform.
Which one of these men joins Tom Anderson and MySoace in the annals of history first ?
Their greed is our opportunity.
Kleptocracy?
