Macron open to extending France’s nuclear umbrella to European allies as US reconsiders Ukraine funding

Macron open to extending France’s nuclear umbrella to European allies as US reconsiders Ukraine funding
French president says he will debate offer at European summit to be attended by Ukraine's president Zelenskyy...

No I didn't watch the State of the Union address. 

I don't speak Russian. - Bobbie Oliver

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Russia bombards Ukraine as Trump touts peace prospects to Congress
• Trump officials say US paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine but signal it may not last long after fiery meeting
• European far-right Trump allies issue rare criticism over Ukraine
• Russia 'will never agree' to European peacekeepers in Ukraine, Lukashenko says
• Israel warns Hamas to return remaining Gaza hostages or face 'hell'

Imagine being this proud of this much fucking stupid. - JoJoFromJerz

SCOTUS Gives USAID Some Help, Sorta.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday reined in some of the Trump administration's sweeping effort to eliminate foreign aid that has been authorized by Congress.

In an order, the justices left in place a lower court order that so far has only required the Trump administration to pay contractors for foreign aid work that has already been completed — roughly $2 billion.

Hegseth Offers to Buy All American Liquor Boycotted by Canada. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Republicans move to censure Democrat Al Green after he disrupted Trump's address
• As Republicans thunderously applauded and Democrats walked out in droves, Trump’s Congress speech showcased the US divide
• 'Elon Musk Never Wears a Suit': Fox's Peter Doocy Questions Trump Press Secretary About Anger Over Zelensky's Outfit
• WH Spox Karoline Leavitt Torches Dems and Media Over Trump Speech Reactions: 'Most Shameful Moment in the History of Presidential Addresses'
• CNN’s Jake Tapper Interrupts Fact-Check to Defend Trump Claim From Joint Address: ‘That Part Is Fair'
• Trump administration prepares to sell off hundreds of federal buildings
• He voted for Trump. Now Trump may kill the business he bet his life savings on.

Hey Donold, if everyone is born perfect the way 'God made them' then why do you wear so much orange bronzer? 

Answer that you lying prick! - godpod

GOP: Free Speech For Me But Not For Thee! Charge The Fool With Assault.

A lawmaker holds a 'This is not normal' sign as Trump enters, before it is snatched from her hands

Democrat Melanie Stansbury, representative from New Mexico, was seen holding up the sign as Trump was greeting delegates upon arrival in the Congress chamber.

Seconds later, Republican Lance Gooden, representative from Texas, yanked it out of her hands, sending the sign flying up and falling to the ground.

NEW: The National Cancer Institute will be a no-show this year at the the annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research, per internal NIH/NCI guidance dated March 4th, 2025. - Josh Marshall

They went from "we will lower egg prices on Day 1" to "build your own chicken coop" without blinking an eye. - Feminist News

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Rock The Voter News

• Sen. Elissa Slotkin says more unites Americans than divides after Trump's speech
• Oregon Democrats walk out as Trump says ‘America is back’ in joint address
• James Carville Theorizes Trump 'Hates' America and Thinks It's a 'Terrible Country with Terrible People'
• 'F**k You For Making Me Watch That!' Jan. 6 Cop Torches Trump Speech to Laughing Jim Acosta

Saying "America is back" while the stock market is crumbling, unemployment is rising, the costs of living is increasing, veterans are getting fired and democracy is falling...Trump what is America back from? - Amisha Cross

Kentucky Voted For Trump. Blowback's A B-tch.
The Kentucky Distillers’ Association on Tuesday issued a message warning that the latest suite of tariffs placed on Mexican and Canadian goods will have an “unjust” effect on the bourbon industry. The announcement came hours after President Donald Trump followed through on his much-discussed 25% tariff plan, one that has already resulted in the removal of American alcohol from thousands of liquor store shelves across Canada.

The First Felon was raging about millions for transgender mice. Except it’s transgenic mice. Mice altered genetically so their tissue reacts to pathogens like humans to research cures.

This is what happens when stupid people are in charge. - The Politburo of Teabilly Mockery

Godspeed, Rep. Sylvester Turner

A newly elected Texas congressman with just two months on the job has died — hours after President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday night. He was 70.

Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Democrat who served as mayor of Houston from 2016-2024, was elected to Congress in November to fill the seat left vacant following the death of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

Trump Warns of Increase in Transgender Mice Since Haitians Ate All the Cats. - Andy Borowitz

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He brought the price of the stock market down.

Maybe eggs and milk are next.

Business/Tech News

• Fired Federal Workers Tell MSNBC They Are Still Confused Why They Don't Have Jobs After Watching Trump Speech
• Wall Street banks say markets are flashing rising recession risk
• Trump held call with GM, Ford CEOs on potential tariff delay
• Lutnick says Trump could decide on Canada, Mexico relief today

Mexico President:   "US Customs and Border Protection data show that 80% of those arrested for fentanyl trafficking at US ports of entry were US citizens"

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. 

All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else. - Pete Buttigieg 

The Chinese Play The Long Game, It's In Their Genes. Trump May Want To Rethink Those Tariffs.

The Chinese Embassy in the United States warned on Tuesday that it was willing to fight “a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war” until the end after President Donald Trump imposed new tariffs on Chinese imports.

After an additional 10% tariff came into effect on Chinese goods, Tuesday, the Chinese embassy in the U.S. warned, “If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.”

Tesla sales are down 76% in Germany in one year.

Germans understood the assignment. - Art Candee

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Odd News

• Unburied treasure: Rover researchers find unexpected minerals on Mars that hint at possibility of ancient life
• NASA And Nokia Launch First Mobile Network On The Moon
• 1.5 million-year-old bone tools crafted by human ancestors in Tanzania are oldest of their kind
• One moment, calm waters. The next, a 900-pound dolphin landed on their boat
• Model behaviour: India's anti-cruelty robot elephants

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The Valley of Dreams, New Mexico. It sort of has a Salvador Dali feel about it.

Peace.

Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Says Veterans Fired from Federal Government Are Perhaps 'Not Fit to Have a Job at This Moment'

Trump Lawyer Alina Habba Says Veterans Fired from Federal Government Are Perhaps 'Not Fit to Have a Job at This Moment'

Alina Habba, counselor to President Donald Trump, was asked about veterans who had been fired from the federal workforce and responded that perhaps they were “not fit to have a job at this moment.”

Trump's counselor, Alina Habba, said fired veterans are perhaps "not fit to have a job." This is the same Trump who called us "suckers" and "losers." The disrespect never stops. - commondefense

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• JD Vance Claims He Tried to 'Defuse' Tense Meeting Where He and Trump Berated Zelensky 'Nauseating': Fox News' Andy McCarthy Nukes Trump From Orbit Over 'Putin Infatuation,' Torches 'Insidious' Vance
• Europe reacts with outrage to Vance insult
• Gabbard: Zelensky’s ‘immediate escalation’ during White House meeting created ‘huge rift’ in relationship
• Justin Trudeau Calls Out Trump for Starting 'Very Dumb' Trade War With Canada While 'Appeasing' 'Lying, Murderous' Putin
• Canadian Sports Fans Booing U.S. National Anthem Are 'Booing a Policy Designed to Hurt Us,' Justin Trudeau Says
• White House Press Secretary Says Trump Scolding Zelensky Was 'Refreshing' 

"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence."

- George Orwell 

"They Have Great Earth." - Trump

The United States and Ukraine will sign a minerals deal after all, Reuters reported Tuesday, a stunning reversal after last week’s disastrous Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Plastered Pete has decreed we will no longer monitor Russia for potential cybersecurity threats.

Because this is what surrender looks like. - The Politburo of Teabilly Mockery

If you think standing by our allies is expensive, wait until you see the cost of abandoning them.

Republican Shenanigans

• No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans
• Republican Senator Calls on Trump Administration To Prosecute AOC: 'Seems Like She's Violating the Law'
• Sean Hannity Pleaded With Trump to Stop Slamming Fox News to Get Relationship 'Back to Normal': Report
• GOP Leader Suggests Elon Musk Take a Step Back at DOGE in Gentle Rebuke on CNN: ‘Hand It Off’
• Trump Agriculture Boss Says Cash-Strapped Americans Can Raise Their Own Chickens to Save on Eggs
• Tuberville, Britt vow to fight after trans athletes bill fails to clear hurdle in Senate
• Melania Trump goes to Capitol Hill for roundtable on punishing revenge porn

France called, they want the Statue of Liberty back and their french fries, too.

Well Zelenskyy, Put The Ball In Trump's Court.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared his gratitude to the United States and President Donald Trump on Tuesday in an apparent effort to mend fences after Friday’s rancorous meeting between the two leaders in the Oval Office.

In a statement posted to X, Zelensky opened by saying, “I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace” and declared “Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible.”

“Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians,” Zelensky said. “My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.”

US taxpayers have given $40 billion in total to Elon Musk’s companies and he hasn’t said ‘Thank you’ once.- Feminist News

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Rock The Voter News

• Tim Walz offers to host events in districts where GOP refuse to hold town halls
• Senate Democrats press Trump administration on assistance to farmers
• DeLauro rejects one-year stopgap spending bill backed by Republicans: ‘Nonstarter’
• Karine Jean-Pierre Decries Trump Team Taking Control of Press Pool: 'What We're Looking At Is State TV!'

People cheering for English as the official language when over half still don't know the difference between their, they’re, and there is crazy. - Americans Against The Republican Party

After years of exporting democracy we now have a shortage of it. - Andy Borowitz

When History Repeats Itself...

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow drew a direct comparison between a 1940s Minnesota senator who was secretly on Adolf Hitler's payroll and pushing pro-Nazi policies to the MAGA embrace of pro-Russia policies.

Maddow began her eponymous show Monday night with a history lesson, noting that shortly after President Franklin D. Roosevelt urged lawmakers to push back against a surging Nazi Germany with $7 billion, Sen. Ernest Lundeen gave a "national speech on the radio in which he demanded that England should say thank you to us."

Putin Scolds Trump: "I Got You Elected And You Haven't Said Thank You Once." - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• Stocks wipe out entire post-election rally as tariffs bite
• Lachlan Murdoch Says Fox News Is Now Fifth Broadcast Network
• Pete Hegseth Reverses Course — Now Orders Dept. of Defense Staff to Respond to Elon Musk’s Email Demanding They Justify Their Jobs
• Trump’s Tariffs Against Canada, Mexico, and China Kick In Today. How the Countries Have Responded.

It seems the stock market doesn’t view tariffs as the most beautiful word in the dictionary. - Tom Griffey

I wonder if this is true.

Canada Is PO'd But With A Smile.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford offered an apology to the American people as he threatened to cut off electricity exports to the United States and use other “tools” to combat President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on Canada.

Ford joined CNN’s John Berman on Tuesday after publicly saying he would cut off exports to the U.S. “with a smile on my face.” Ford argued Canadians are “livid” and “have to retaliate.”

 King Charles Downgrades Trump Visit To Lunch With Prince Andrew. - Andy Borowitz

8 billionaire bros have hoarded more wealth than 4 billion people.

But sure, it's the mom buying her kid a birthday cake with food stamps that's the problem.

If you’re thinking of vacationing in the US, for your own safety please don’t.

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Odd News

• ‘Moon Dust on Our Boots’: Texas Company’s Blue Ghost Lands on Lunar Surface
•  SpaceX loses a Falcon 9 booster and scrubs a Starship
• Mice experiment as step to create mammoth-like elephants
• Toddler playing with old cellphone calls 911 for 'emergency doughnuts'
• Vengeful Florida woman vandalizes wrong car

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 Wild Burro Trail in Lake Pleasant Regional Park, Arizona.

Peace.

The ATM ate my debit card

 That happened on Friday and the bank was closed for a holiday. Their customer service phone never answered all weekend. So, I was chauffeured to the bank, an hour away, this morning. When I arrived there were two lines totaling around 75 people. My daughter, the chauffeur, explained the situation to the entrance guard and used my status as an elder to bypass the 75 people and enter the bank. Dear God, there was another 75 inside the bank, seated. At this point I wanted to cry, but didn't.

 The guard led me to a row of seats with 5 people ahead of me. 45 minutes later I saw the teller and told her what happened. She verified me, then, she grabbed a stack of of around 50 debit cards and started looking through them. She looked again and again. My card wasn't there. I didn't become a Karen. I thanked her and left, misty eyed.

 I found my daughter outside with Taco (I couldn't leave him home alone with the cone) and she said that the bank has removed all, I repeat all, the ATMs at the bank. There were 7 ATMs there on Friday.

 The good news is we went to Burger King and ate whoppers. No misty eyes there.

 The ATMs are not good down here. I have had over a dozen problems in a decade. Overcharges, double charges, several card grabs, etc. If you visit here it's better to not use the ATMs. Charges at stores, hotels, etc...are fine but their ATMs are not reliable.

 My bank is sending me a new card and cancelled the eaten one.

 That whole ordeal was around 6 hours in horrible heat, so today's edition will be some memes for you to peruse.

 Mea culpa. Naw, the bank needs to give me and you a mea culpa.

Well, lookee here, there's Elon, his son and his mother using Marine One to land at the White House. 

That full length chinchilla coat is to die for and some of us very well might.

Giant Sequoias in California. They look like giant animal paws. Thanks, Mother Nature.

Peace.