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Surrendering the Narrative: How U.S. Cuts to Soft Power Are Empowering Rivals - The Soufan Center On Friday, the United States House of Representatives passed a final vote approving President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut $9 billion from public broadcasting and foreign aid. Among the foreign aid ...

Once again we are receiving confirmation of what we already expected with Trump’s cuts to institutions that underpinned US #soft #power globally.

Welcome to “Emperor Nero’s” ( #Trump ) #USA, where its #decline on the world stage is accelerating and giving way to the #PRC. 👏

25.07.2025 09:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tinker Tailor Soldier MAGA Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are turning their agencies against their own staff.

The #threat from within, with #Gabbard controlled from #Moscow.

17.07.2025 11:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark are untenable. With serious security lapses, numerous reports of mistreatment by staff of detainees, complaints of persistent food shortages, and a troubling lack of transparency from facility administrators…

13.06.2025 20:34 👍 4500 🔁 1325 💬 225 📌 57

That’s it. That’s the Rubicon.
Rome has fallen, and if we do not act, all will be lost.
Every last democracy loving American better be out tomorrow for No Kings protests. I don’t care if you’re dem, republican, indie. If you love our flag, you will stop this madman & his regime.
#ProudBlue #OneV1

13.06.2025 12:11 👍 289 🔁 140 💬 10 📌 3

When they inevitably defend the way Senator Padilla was treated, keep in mind they’ll defend literally anything.

12.06.2025 19:49 👍 4061 🔁 827 💬 112 📌 37

Homeland Security can’t even bring itself to apologize.

12.06.2025 20:14 👍 10806 🔁 1453 💬 569 📌 99

The jackboots are itching at the opportunity to hurt civil, law-abiding protestors. This is what you get when you vote a convicted felon and a nazi for President.

11.06.2025 16:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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She was right.

09.06.2025 17:01 👍 18271 🔁 5305 💬 545 📌 322
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Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past

11.06.2025 01:44 👍 28374 🔁 7906 💬 730 📌 358
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Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of ...

Perfect sum-up of what Musk amounts to and how the Dems can best tackle the issue.

10.06.2025 13:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China

Interesting read.

07.06.2025 21:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Russia’s Military Apps Use West’s Open Infrastructure Russian developers are taking advantage of the West’s decentralised platforms for app development to make new military technology.

“The very platforms that uphold freedom of expression and civil innovation in the West and were critical for Ukraine’s survival in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion, are being weaponized by Russia to guide artillery, coordinate drone strikes, and transmit battlefield intelligence.”

07.06.2025 06:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Fatal Cost of Twisting Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's firing of top intelligence analysts sets a very bad precedent

Alarming new #policy promoted by the person who the Russians call “our girl in #Washington” that became DNI.

#Gabbard is knowingly hobbling intelligence capabilities and preparedness to cater to her immediate boss, #Trump and also to their handler in Moscow, #Putin.

21.05.2025 12:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elon Musk Is Doing Business With Actual Terrorists, Nonprofit Finds An investigation found that hundreds of paid subscribers to Elon Musk's X have terrorism links and many use paid X perks to push propaganda.

This surprises no one. We need to hold this criminal accountable for his wrongdoings.

20.05.2025 04:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

18.04.2025 23:08 👍 86391 🔁 20193 💬 1688 📌 724
Hegseth reveals more classified information to his wife

Hegseth reveals more classified information to his wife

Who needs Wikileaks when you have Pete Hegseth?

21.04.2025 09:09 👍 1387 🔁 231 💬 82 📌 21

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.

21.04.2025 00:01 👍 72715 🔁 14886 💬 1305 📌 469

It can be true that both tariffs are bad and denying due process is also bad

20.04.2025 19:07 👍 18692 🔁 2412 💬 288 📌 79

So the person I’m holding as my own personal hero and source of joy right now is the cranky old guy in the American flag baseball cap at the Chuck Grassley Iowa town hall bellowing in the best Cranky Old Guy voice “ARE YOU GONNA BRING THAT GUY BACK FROM EL SALVADOR”

Grassley: *demurs*

“WHY NOT”

21.04.2025 02:58 👍 938 🔁 133 💬 14 📌 4
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Ukraine is Winning. So Why is Donald Trump Trying to Help Russia? America Is quickly becoming the people we read about, and hated, in high school history.

Ukraine is beating Russia—sinking their fleet without a navy, killing 800,000+ invaders, and holding the line for 3 years.
Donald Trump wants to save Putin.
He won’t say Russia is the aggressor.
Let’s be clear: there’d be a cease-fire if Russia…stopped.

adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/ukraine-is...

18.04.2025 16:12 👍 8214 🔁 2174 💬 319 📌 106
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Top Hegseth Aide Warns Even Bigger Bombshells Are Coming John Ullyot, the Pentagon’s recently departed chief spokesman, published a lengthy op-ed Sunday criticizing Hegseth’s leadership.

The Pentagon’s recently departed chief spokesman has warned of more “bombshell stories” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that are set to leak over the next few weeks.

21.04.2025 02:58 👍 2879 🔁 913 💬 190 📌 110
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A President Above the Law Is a King What happens when legal restraint is treated as rebellion—and defiance of the courts becomes a patriotic act? We’re about to find out.

“They want a king. They want obedience. They want vengeance dressed as justice and autocracy disguised as competence. They want to bury the Constitution in the name of saving it—and they are dangerously close to succeeding.”

On point description of the illegal power grab perpetrated by Trump in US

21.04.2025 05:50 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Unfathomable abuse + corruption!

#Resist 💙🍀🌥️⛅🙏💕 fiftyfifty.one

21.04.2025 05:18 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0

Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.

20.04.2025 22:57 👍 50164 🔁 5787 💬 1720 📌 280
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The Golden Age Of Corruption

www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...

20.04.2025 12:11 👍 6078 🔁 2700 💬 130 📌 82

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

19.04.2025 23:35 👍 52108 🔁 11365 💬 788 📌 347

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

20.04.2025 01:30 👍 50701 🔁 8888 💬 453 📌 268
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Easter reminder: Don’t forget that the Republicans are just hypocritical pseudo-Christians with a superiority complex.

The world knows how stupid, conceited and arrogant they are. We know that there’s not even a fiber of Christian morality in their bodies and they’ll get their comeuppance soon.

20.04.2025 07:57 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
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Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣

20.04.2025 00:31 👍 33637 🔁 5285 💬 401 📌 194