The conflict seems fairly far removed from us here in the US. — BitconnectCarlos

Washington DC and Moscow    = 7817 km (4857 mi)
Washington DC and Kyiv      = 7828 km (4864 mi)
Washington DC and Jerusalem = 9490 km (5897 mi)

(a) study the scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism; — ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN COMMISSION · The White House · Feb 13, 2025

In diplomacy you engage the sides, not leave them out and decide on yourself. And the attempts on war-profiteering are made by Trump. — ssu

Sides have been engaged, which is a far cry from what Europe and NATO has done. — NOS4A2

Ukraine wasn't invited.

No way. Trump and Musk tried to fire 300 nuclear officials—then realized they were the ones overseeing the U.S. nuclear arsenal and scrambled to rehire them?

You can’t make this level of incompetence up. These are the people who claim they’ll “restore order.” — Brian Allen · Feb 14, 2025

Already, the Post reports, candidates for national-security posts in the new administration are being asked whether they accept Trump’s false claim to have won the 2020 election. At least two candidates for higher positions at the FBI were also asked to state who the “real patriots” were on January 6, 2021.

In some government departments, minority employees have set up affinity groups, purely voluntary forums for conversation or social events. A number of government agencies are shutting these down; others are being disbanded by organizers who fear that membership lists will be used to target people.

Democracy has always contained the possibility of its own undoing, it just takes a majority vote of someone non- or anti-democratic. — Dec 27, 2023

You don’t think people wanted DOGE? — NOS4A2

So it doesn't make any difference to you if you live in a democracy or a dictatorship. It's the same thing either way. — frank

Canada, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, to join extended EU, and form defense alliance which includes Greenland (and California) — now the largest democratic cooperative around — hypothetical news headline

Every illegal alien has committed a crime. That’s a 100% crime rate. — NOS4A2

the president of the United States

Limiting anthropogenic warming remains the most sound strategy for avoiding the most severe heat events

South Asia and West Africa seem at most risk at the moment

Do peruse that article linked in the OP. — Wayfarer

Mr. Musk, who leads a cost-cutting initiative the administration calls the Department of Government Efficiency, boasted on Saturday that his willingness to work weekends was a “superpower” that gave him an advantage over his adversary. The adversary he was referring to was the federal work force.

Of all the fucked up things the US government [...] — Tzeentch

Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years. I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN! — Donald J. Trump · Feb 10, 2025

(Big Climate Change, like there is Big [...] — Agree-to-Disagree

Do you believe that all climate scientists are "knights in shining armour"? — Agree-to-Disagree

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a finite planet is either mad or an economist :D — whoever

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — paraphrasing Plato

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. — Aurelius

Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing. — Aurelius

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. — paraphrasing Burke

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. — Mill

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. — Wiesel

objectively an unmitigated trainwreck — Tzeentch

Good riddance! — NOS4A2