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#US Stops Flow of Arms to #Ukraine

#Military financing has been stopped, & officials are meeting to consider suspending other types of assistance

The #Trump admin has stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine & is considering freezing weapons shipments from US stockpiles, moves that threaten Kyiv’s ability to fight at a critical time in its battle against #Russia….

The financing was halted in recent weeks amid the admin’s freeze on #ForeignAid.

#geopolitics
https://archive.is/2025.03.03-212159/https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-hitting-brakes-on-flow-of-arms-to-ukraine-980a71d1

Awww. 😢😢 #RIP Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 82.

https://apnews.com/article/dolly-parton-husband-carl-dean-dies-2b17ba0e44bcb864a3800bc17afdedeb?taid=67c648700119c30001f804d4&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

The National Weather Service ‘is not wasteful,’ says Oregon state climatologist amid rampant federal job cuts - Ashland News - Community-Supported, NonProfit News https://ashland.news/the-national-weather-service-is-not-wasteful-says-oregon-state-climatologist-amid-rampant-federal-job-cuts/

Fox News reports the White House is freezing all aid to Ukraine.

"It is a grave error to view Trump, Putin, Musk, or the others merely as grifters — or greedy, or motivated by profits, or only wanting to benefit from government contracts. Theirs is a bid to remake the world; they want power and the chance to impose their worldview onto everyone else. Second, they don't think money (in the form of fiat currency) is real."

#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #ChristianNationalists
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I posted this on the bluesky and people found it useful there:

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

Great news from "Pioneering CERN" (the lab that has spawned so many great things including the World Wide Web): It's pushing open scientific research that doesn't enrich a few journal publishers and rip off everyone else. This enhances science and research for all of us.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00183-3

As part of #Musk’s govt-slashing crusade under #DOGE, last week the #SSA notified workers it would undergo “significant workforce reductions” as part of an “agency-wide organizational restructuring.” While one anonymous source in the agency told the AP that the agency could cut up to 50% of its workforce, SSA has denied this, saying that it had “set a staffing target of 50k, down from the current level of approximately 57k employees.”

#Trump #SocialSecurity #USpol #law #benefits #retirement

A deal has been struck between the Utah State Legislature and the judicial branch over bills taking aim at the courts: https://www.fox13now.com/news/politics/deal-struck-on-controversial-bills-aimed-at-utah-judiciary #utpol #Utah

Trump Is About to Hide DOGE’s True Costs From the Entire Country

Trump’s commerce secretary is preparing to mess with the country’s economic statistics.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192216/trump-lutnick-economic-statistics-gdp-doge

"The #Trump administration might exclude #government spending from gross domestic product reports to cover up upcoming poor #economic reports, and to hide the true scope of #DOGE cuts.... [which] could have a negative impact on the #economy."

#Musk #Coup #Economics #GDP #Trump #GOP #Corruption #USPol #News #US