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Next to China, Russia is probably the greatest security threat to the United States. And yet, under the Trump administration, “‘U.S. Cyber Command has been ordered to “stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.’” You can draw your own conclusions. As for myself when I saw the headline I thought I’d gone to The Onion website instead.

Source: Gizmodo

It appears that the U.S. no longer considers Russia a significant cyber threat, according to multiple new reports on a drastic policy reversal that has taken hold under the new Trump administration.

The cybersecurity outlet The Record originally reported that under Trump’s new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Cyber Command has been ordered to “stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” The outlet cites three anonymous sources who are familiar with the matter. The order reportedly does not apply to the National Security Agency.

The policy shift represents a complete 180-degree turn from America’s posture over the past decade, which has consistently considered Russia one of the top cybersecurity threats. Credible reporting and government investigations have shown that Russia has hacked into U.S. systems countless times.

The Guardian reported, rather ominously:

A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.

The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed”.

“Russia and China are our biggest adversaries. With all the cuts being made to different agencies, a lot of cybersecurity personnel have been fired. Our systems are not going to be protected and our adversaries know this,” the person said.

The person added: “People are saying Russia is winning. Putin is on the inside now.”

Yes, inside the Oval Office.

Someone who knows a thing or two about Russian interference and Russian assets tweeted this:

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White House Press Secretary Karoline faced backlash from Fox News host Howard Kurtz after she defended President Donald Trump’s recent ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.

During his Sunday morning Media Buzz program, the Fox News host described Zelensky as “irritating” but added: “It also seemed like President Trump lost his temper.”

“I would disagree with that,” Leavitt replied. “I think what happened in the Oval Office, I was there, was unfortunately President Zelensky came in with a mindset not wanting to negotiate peace.”

“President Zelensky was also antagonistic, and frankly, he was rude,” she continued. “He picked a fight with the Vice President of the United States. He repeatedly interrupted President Trump, and so what President Trump did was stood strong for America, defended his Vice President, but most importantly, defended the American people who, after three years of funding this brutal war, are sick and tired of footing the bill.”

“It was clear President Zelensky wasn’t in the mindset to negotiate that just yet.”

Kurz pushed back: “President kicked him out without the expected agreement about rare minerals, and President Zelensky kept saying he needed security agreements, security because Vladimir Putin had a long history of breaking agreements, so wasn’t that a reasonable point for him to make?”

“Well, that’s not what this meeting was about, and President Zelensky was told that ahead of time,” Leavitt said despite also claiming the Ukrainian president was not ready to negotiate. “This meeting was about signing an economic partnership between the United States of America and Ukraine.”

“His country’s at war!” Kurtz exclaimed.

“Well, our teams are engaged in active negotiations, and nobody wants to end that war more than President Trump,” Leavitt asserted.

“Yeah, I would just say a ceasefire might leave all the Russian land gains intact,” Kurtz observed. “I’ve never seen anything like it, would have happened behind closed doors. So why hold the meeting in front of the cameras?”

“Because President Trump is the most transparent president in history, and as he said, it was great for the cameras to be in there,” Leavitt insisted.

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Oregon Democrat U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is doing precisely what all Democrats should do for Donald Krasnov Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night. While some Democrats are not boycotting Donald’s address to a joint session of Congress, they are inviting former federal workers to the speech as a way to protest the mass firings and funding cuts by Trump/DOGE/Musk, according to the New York Times.

Words escape me to say how ridiculously pathetic that is. At least Wyden is getting it right by skipping the cringe-fest. Instead, he will hold a town hall at 6 p.m. PT on Tuesday, which will be streamed on Facebook. Republican town halls have been littered with angry crowds over the firings and cuts to our safety nets while the co-presidents open the floodgates to corruption in our country.

For folks asking if I’m going to attend Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday: no. Instead, I’m choosing to hear directly from Oregonians and will be hosting an open-to-all town hall on Facebook live. The event will be streamed here: https://t.co/AjvUvJjj1j

— Ron Wyden (@RonWyden) March 2, 2025

To the Democrats planning to attend the attention-starved co-president’s State of the Union address, walk the fuck out of it in unison. That would take brass ovaries, and balls. Fight this shit. Or be like Wyden, and hold town halls.

Every disastrous thing that’s happening right now is on the Republicans, and their shit stain of a president. They control all branches. Democrats should hold town halls in Republican areas, too.

Donald danced while Americans were dying from COVID, and he’s dancing again with his co-president after firing hard working Americans.

🚨 NEW: While world leaders work to defend democracy, Trump is on another taxpayer-funded trip to Florida—dancing with Elon Musk, who just had another child he’s ignoring.

It’s all so freaking embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/Wb3mXNdv3a

— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) March 2, 2025

Democrats need to call this shit out. Don’t normalize his repugnant behavior by attending his State of the Union address.

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Elon Musk, the co-president of the United States wants the US to leave NATO and the UN.

He retweeted this from his X platform.

I agree https://t.co/ZhjBXCTQfp

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2025

Musk is the worst thing that’s happened to this country.

X formally known as Twitter has turned into a cesspool of White Supremacy and pro MAGA cultists. Since President Zelenskyy was berated by Trump and JD Vance, it’s being filled with anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia propaganda.

It’s embarrassing.

NATO has been the greatest alliance United States has ever been part of.

I won’t even begin to discuss the UN with these assholes.

Where are the John Birchers? They lived on promoting the Red scare conspiracies. Now that it might be happening, they are silent.

Stick to rockets and stay out of our lives, Elon.

HuffPo reports:

NATO and the U.N. did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Martin Paasi, a member of the Finnish parliament, responded to Musk’s post, writing, “I don’t think anyone will trust the US government for the next few decades.”

How can anyone around the world trust the Trump administration?

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Speaker Mike Johnson tried to double talk his way past Elon Musk’s clearly going after Social Security on Meet The Press earlier today.

I sent this out to BlueSky earlier:

The only dishonest scheme within Social Security is being perpetrated by Elon Musk and his enablers.

WELKER: So, you say there won’t be any cuts to entitlements, but on Friday, Elon Musk, who President Trump has of course put in charge of making cuts all across the government, called Social Security quote, the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.

Mr. Speaker, is that a sign that Social Security is Elon Musk’s next target?

JOHNSON: No, well, I’ve met with Elon about this multiple times. We meet late into the night in his office and we’ve looked at that.

What he’s finding with his algorithms crawling through the data of Social Security system is enormous amounts of fraud, waste, and abuse.

WELKER: So it’s a target. It is a target.

JOHNSON: We need to target that. The American people want us to.

No, no, Kristen, do not, don’t put words in my mouth.

What I am saying is we have a moral responsibility to ensure that those programs are conducted in a way that does not allow for this massive fraud and abuse.

When is a target not a target?

If Musk is running a “algorithm” in Social Security, then he has targeted Social Security.

Stop spouting off lies to coverup Musk’s criminal and illegal actions.

Johnson continued with more lies.

JOHNSON: And that’s what he is finding. He’s finding, for example, that one Social Security number can be assigned to dozens or maybe hundreds of people so that every time there’s a check distribution, it goes to all those different addresses.

There was no safeguard in the existing software, the Social Security, to prevent that from happening. That is outrageous.

And when these examples are presented to the American people, they’re going to be on the side of Doge and Elon, President Trump and the Republicans in Congress.

And we look forward to cleaning that up.

Let’s see his evidence. However, that fuck face twat should not be given access to sensitive data like Social Security.

WELKER: It’s worth noting the Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog found that less than one percent of benefit payments were improper. I do want to get to my final question, though, which is about the shutdown.

JOHNSON: Don’t believe it.

Don’t believe it.

Where is all this waste and fraud? We don’t believe you, Mr. Johnson. Get your South African multimillionaire out of our government.

Musk has never shown us any fraud, waste or abuse. He has been caught lying about his findings and admits he will make mistakes. If his software is so foolproof, why is it making mistakes?

When Johnson says they’ve found enormous amounts, you can bet it’s a lie.

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This is not the time for Democratic breast-beating and self-blame. This is when Democrats should be talking about the destructiveness of what Republicans are doing.

That’s why I question whether Democrats should focus on developing a Project 2029, even one that’s less self-critical:

Apart from the fact that this is wildly ambitious and would be extremely difficult to enact, it takes the focus off the sheer destructiveness of what Republicans are doing now. Republicans are burning America to the ground. We have to focus on making certain that every American sees them pouring gasoline on the foundations and lighting a match. When it’s impossible to get help with Social Security problems, when people in the Plains states stop getting tornado warnings, when vaccines aren’t available for newly rampant diseases, Democrats need to point out who’s to blame. Pre-January 20 government might not have been perfect, but Democrats need to say that it was a hell of a lot better than the DOGEified government we have now.

Excerpted from No More Mister Nice Blog. Read the full post here.

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France and Britain are proposing a partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine that would cover air, sea and energy infrastructure attacks but not include ground fighting, French President Emmanuel Macron and his foreign minister said. Via Reuters:

The comments came amid a flurry of European diplomacy designed to shore up Western support for Ukraine following an acrimonious meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Friday.

“Such a truce on air, sea and energy infrastructure would allow us to determine whether Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting in good faith when he commits to a truce. And that’s when real peace negotiations could start,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday.

Under the Anglo-French proposal, European ground troops would only be deployed to Ukraine in a second phase, Macron said in an interview published in Le Figaro late on Sunday.

“There will be no European troops on Ukrainian soil in the coming weeks,” Le Figaro quoted Macron as saying as he flew to London for a meeting of European leaders, convened by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to advance efforts at drawing up a Ukraine peace plan.