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Rick Petree

@rickpetree.bsky.social
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Battered but unbowed. "The truth will stand when the world won’t.” American democracy/politics; IR (E-W, Turkey/ MENA, CEE/FSU); Energy Transition; global economics. @UniofOxford @HarvGSAS @HarvLawSchool (Ed., @HarvLRev)

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Nordic Viking 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇫🇮🇳🇴🇮🇸🇸🇪-🇺🇦🇬🇪 @fightallfascism.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak emphasized that during the dispute with US President Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was right and did not make a single mistake.
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"We will not apologize." Podoliak spoke about the conflict in the White House — online.ua
Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podoliak emphasized that during the dispute with US President Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was right and did not make a sing...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/03/2025
Russia’s ‘3-day war’ is now 3 YEARS old—and they’re getting wrecked. 800,000 casualties, no tanks, no fleet… and now Trump is cutting Ukraine’s aid to throw Putin a lifeline. Sad! Read how Ukraine is WINNING despite the betrayals adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lif...
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Trump's Lifeline to Putin: Cutting Ukraine's Aid Amid Russia's Collapse
Marco Rubio, Michael Waltz, and their ilk will spend the rest of their lives avoiding Ukrainians for fear of being spit on
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
So, if I’m reading this correctly, Congress appropriated a bunch of funds for specific purposes. Musk will be throwing that out the window and disregarding the law they enacted. But individual legislators can call a hotline and beg for their pet projects to be spared. That’s how we’re doing it now.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 28/02/2025
stolen from @rickpetree.bsky.social on the hellsite: @borowitzreport.bsky.social absolutely nails the absurdity of our moment www.borowitzreport.com/p/zelenskyy-...
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Zelenskyy Meets With Russian Agent
“It was important to communicate with someone who speaks for Putin," the Ukrainian said.
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This presser was a horror show. Ukraine will not have US support going forward, because Trump and Vance are completely lost. Europe will step-up and this war will continue. Trump blew this bigger than any foriegn policy folly in recent history.
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hegseth now says he doesn’t know who started the war between Ukraine and Russia. Senator Duckworth shows receipts that he does know but won’t admit it now.
Hegseth standing next to a screen with a map of Ukraine and the chyron says,  “Breaking News Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” Fox News.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Is this the finding out part?
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Who Is the Anonymous Data Expert Telling Elon Which Cuts to Make?
Conservatives cite her account to spread misinformation about federal agencies. DataRepublican has worked at a tech firm that’s battled the CFPB.
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Rick Petree @rickpetree.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Sheer vandalism.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This would really be the moment for some BigLaw gestures of solidarity with Covington & Burling, no? If a vengeful president can strip security clearances from any lawyer he sees as assisting the opposition, can any national security lawyers afford to remain outside his orbit?
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Trump Takes Aim at Law Firm Aiding Jack Smith
The move, signed by President Trump on Thursday, is a major escalation of his promise to pursue perceived foes.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/02/2025
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A seven-byline story from WaPo: “.. Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits ..” @washingtonpost.com $TSLA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/02/2025
“I’m the what?” - Amy Gleason
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
MSNBC just fired Rachel Maddow's show production crew. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Rachel Maddow staff to be let go as part of MSNBC overhaul
News comes as leading network star criticizes management for decision to cancel shows hosted by non-white anchors
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GhostBHR @benhrome.com · 24/02/2025
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Rick Petree @rickpetree.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Forget obsequious. It’s the clueless I worry about.
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Well, that's not surprising. This fallout will continue to bottom out.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
There is no version of what is happening now in Europe that makes America stronger, safer, more respected in the world. Trump is now and always been Russia First. His quislings like Hegseth and Rubio are traitors, and will be known in history that way.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If you haven't been to Auschwitz, go Bergen-Belsen or Buchenwald, go Go to the Japanese internment camp Manzanar There's only one reason, one single reason Trump is rounding up people & locking them away out of view And our country just sitting here, knowing it www.rawstory.com/why-trump-is...
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Why Trump is detaining migrants out of sight and out of mind in Guantánamo Bay
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for immigrants, particularly the non-white variety from south of our border. His statements that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of our co...
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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
We are back to the trump admin treating people seeking asylum like criminals & with inhumanity. I’m ashamed. So much for “give me your tired…” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/w...
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No Exit
About 300 migrants from all around the world were deported from the United States to Panama. There, they were trapped in a hotel, facing a choice of whether to return to places they had fled.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/02/2025
To be clear, the Vance/Musk intervention did not change the outcome. Still, the fact that it happened changes German and European politics forever
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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Musk had NO RIGHT to intervene in German elections. Shame on him & Vance & Trump. Unprecedented.
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Rick Petree @rickpetree.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Because he’s the mutt’s mutt.
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Bill Browder @billbrowder.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This proposed mineral deal with Ukraine is outright extortion. Trump isn’t offering protection for Ukraine and it will of course be rejected (as it should be). I imagine Trump will then blame Ukraine for not being willing to negotiate and walk away. He may also walk away from NATO at the same time
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The US, Russia, and the richest man in the world who is busy carrying out a coup in our government, are coordinating a brutal shakedown of an ally whose very existence depends on our support. This is repulsive and people need to understand we’re only in the beginning of what is possible.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Just discovered that Don Bacon posted this last Friday.
A tweet from GOP Congressman Don Bacon, with a picture of Neville Chamberlain, warning that "you can't appease a dictator bent on conquest."
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House Judiciary Dems @democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 19/02/2025
Trump says he decides what the law is. Here’s Chief Justice John Marshall in Marbury v. Madison (1803): “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” Somebody in the Musk-Trump administration should read that decision.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Russia is at its weakest in years. Putin is in a precarious situation. They are attacking western interests around the world and murdering Europeans. Why is Rubio bending a knee and showing weakness?
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Signe Johansen @signesjohansen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Julius, my farfar (paternal grandfather) was part of that Norwegian resistance against the Nazis. His story + many others from that era are absolutely resonant now. The advantage we have today is better communications to organise (+ sabotage!) whatever the Putinist quislings are going to throw at us
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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
(If we’ve learned anything since 2016, and I’m not sure all the right people have…) This will not age well.
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Have you seen this? When Ukrainian hackers broke into the KGB archives.... I think this is important so we are aware of these tactics. Moms reporting on children, etc... www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kg... @11tulips.bsky.social @rickpetree.bsky.social @beachpebblegirl.bsky.social @hcanderson.bsky.social
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'So Much Grief': Opening Ukraine's Soviet-Era KGB Archives
Since Ukraine opened its Soviet-era KGB archives in 2015, the public has been able to dig into the files and uncover many dark secrets of the past. But for some, the harsh revelations have been too mu...
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Marc Edward Hoffman @mehoffman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I was just thinking that I really need to revisit Popper.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I shake my head as people actually think DOGE has identified waste, fraud and abuse in 5 days. What they are doing is gutting programs they don't like according to Project 2025. They haven't done any analysis and don't even know the functions of the departments they are cutting. Musk is a phony.
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Michael Fletcher @mefletcher54.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I am with Zelenskyyon this one. Trump is playing for Team Autocracy now, and Europe must stand up for its own defense. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Zelenskyy calls for European army as Germany hits back at US over Vance tirade – Europe live
Olaf Scholz says Germany ‘will not accept’ people who ‘intervene in our democracy’ after US vice-president’s speech in Munich
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Mitch McConnell is no hero. He set all of this up. Every last thing going on right now starts with him.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Only speaking in generalities to preserve source confidentiality. But we hear a lot about DOGErs heading right for the personnel files at these offices they go to. Seeing increasing amounts of evidence that these files are being searched for details to create pretexts to fire people. But the ...
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Rick Petree @rickpetree.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion."
1 I attended a meeting on January 31, 2025, with Mr. Bove, Adams's counsel, and members ofmy office. Adams's attorneys repeatedly urged what amounted to a quid pro quo, indicating that
Adams would be in a position to assist with the Department's enforcement priorities only if the indictment were dismissed. Mr. Bove admonished a member of my team who took notes during that meeting and directed the collection of those notes at the meeting's conclusion.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...
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Crossing a line
Borders between one kind of life and another
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This former US Atty supports the courage of Danielle Sassoon, the acting US Atty in SDNY, who put service ahead of self & refused to let politics interfere with prosecutions. True American hero. Thank you for your service, Danielle. You are the best of us. Who's with me?
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/02/2025
Read the letter from Danielle Sassoon to Emil Bove about Eric Adams. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sassoo...
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The Sassoon Letter to Pam Bondi is the Kind of Courage we Need
We found an unlikely FBI hero in Brian Driscoll, now we have Danielle Sassoon at the Department of Justice
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Manhattan’s U.S. attorney resigned just days after being ordered to drop the corruption case against New York City’s mayor. So did the two men who led the unit in DC to which DOJ sought to transfer the case. This is what public integrity looks like.
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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
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Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/02/2025
READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
Dear Attorney General Bondi:
On February 10, 2025, I received a memorandum from acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, directing me to dismiss the indictment against Mayor Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, which would require leave of court. I do not repeat here the evidence against Adams that proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed federal crimes; Mr. Bove rightly has never called into question that the case team conducted this investigation with integrity and that the charges against Adams are serious and supported by fact and law. Mr. Bove's memo, however, which directs me to dismiss an indictment returned by a duly constituted grand jury for reasons having nothing to do with the strength of the case, raises serious concerns that render the contemplated dismissal inconsistent with my ability and duty to prosecute federal crimes without fear or favor and to advance good-faith arguments before the courts.
When I took my oath of office three weeks ago, I vowed to well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I was about to enter. In carrying out that responsibility, I am guided by, among other things, the Principles of Federal Prosecution set forth in the Justice Manual and your recent memoranda instructing attorneys for the Department of Justice to make only good-faith arguments and not to use the criminal enforcement authority of the United States to achieve political objectives or other improper aims. I am also guided by the values that have defined my over ten years of public service. You and I have yet to meet, let alone discuss this case. But as you may know, I clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. Both men instilled in me a sense of duty to contribute to the public good and uphold the rule of law, and a commitment to reasoned and thorough analysis. I have always considered it my o…
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