As Ukrainians mark three years of all out war with #Russia, two very different voices weigh in on the country’s future. First, Latvia’s Foreign Minister, Baiba Braže, joins Ian in New York to advocate for Ukraine's autonomy. Then to Moscow with former Russian colonel and former Carnegie Moscow Center director, Dmitri Trenin, who provides the Russian perspective.
..."Their scheme — which they’ve been advancing in small increments for 44 years — is brilliantly simple: break the agency’s ability to respond to taxpayers, causing people to have to wait on the phone or travel for hours to stand in line for hours. As complaints mount, Republicans will then point to the “broken Social Security Administration” an...
Updated: Trusted Sources: For Fact-Based #Journalism
..."Downtown Nasty Women Social Group (DNWSG) has created “Trusted Sources,” a fact-based news source because we believe legacy media has failed the pro-democracy movement. We live in a time where misinformation spreads faster than the truth, so reliable new sources are more critical than ever. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oVeL62BzEnw4pAeUkveY-AcqNg8n4hX3cMoUcNeVYYw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0#heading=h.aq134cnsz7o6 ... “Trusted Sources” is a live document, and we will continue adding sources and media categ"...
We Are All Precariat Now Understanding the current situation, plus what we can do about it Daniel #Pinchbeck
..."Bolsen proposes that Trump is the appointed salesman for the decline of American global power, overseeing an intentionally engineered collapse of our economy and government. ... Trump’s role is to mask this systemic unraveling with populist rhetoric while enabling the true power holders — the transnational fi”...
..."yesterday two top security officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) tried to stop people associated with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing classified information they did not have security clearance to see. The Trump administration put the officials on leave, and the DOGE team gained access to the information.
Vittoria Elliott of Wired has identified those associated with Musk’s takeover as six.”...
..."federal prosecutors were withdrawn from a criminal investigation of Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) for election fraud; Ogles recently filed a House resolution to enable Trump to run for a third term and another supporting Trump’s designs on Greenland. On Wednesday, federal prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss an election fraud case against former representative Jeffrey Fortenberry (R-NE). Trump called Fortenberry’s case an illustration o.”...
Happiness – Captivatingly fleeting, unexpected as coming upon a gorgeous serenity; so in love with this moment. Vital we know, we must hold awareness, “It’s possible!” This bliss experience. More than possible, a commonality, even in response to simple stimuli, gentle pleasure despite pervasive pestilence, terror, boredom, defeat. I want this for you, my close associate: to feel your presence a joyful beam; or how could I be vicariously happy?