In this powerful monologue, Joe Scarborough proves that Trump and his cronies acting as cheerleaders for putin are no different from the Nazi sympathisers of the 1930s. It’s a chilling, crystal-clear wake-up call about what happens when leaders trade American democracy for a dictator's favour. Joe Scarborough: “… just peeling what putin has had a collection of useful idiots across America do now for the past five years. I really I really don't say this often in American politics. but when you're defending vladimir putin, an ex KGB agent who is committing war crimes by the day, I'm not sure how you sleep at night. And this phenomenon though, has historical parallels. It was 89 years ago this month in October 1937, that the former king of England walked up the steps of Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat in Bavaria. The Duke of Windsor had given up the throne less than a year earlier, but he toured German factories, inspected the SS and was photographed greeting the Führer. Time Magazine reported that Hitler gave the Duke a Nazi salute as they parted and Edward returned that Nazi salute. Later he told friends that Britain shouldn't fight Hitler, the war should not start. Winston Churchill had to actually send him to the Bahamas to keep him away from his new friend in Berlin. But the Duke wasn't alone, just like Donald Trump isn't alone. Here at home, Charles Lindbergh, an American hero who accepted the medal of freedom from Hermann Goering in 1938, went on to lead America First. And in a 1941 speech in Des Moines, he blamed Jews and the British for pushing America toward war. Even FDR's US Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, predicted democracy is finished in England. His appeasement and his lack of moral alarm cost Kennedy his job. In Britain, aristocrats like the Astors and Lord Halifax thought Hitler was a man they could do business with. Does that sound familiar? Sounded so respectable, trade, stability, money, peace in our time. History remembers them now as morally vacuous opportunists who looked at a tyrant who was devouring his neighbours, the only thing they saw, a business partner. The parallels with Trump are too on point. Now on Friday, Donald Trump got on the phone with vladimir putin who always plays him when they get on the phone and what happened? He lifted sanctions on the Russian diesel deal, he did it three weeks after Republicans had forced him to sign a Russia sanctions bill in honour of Lindsey Graham. The White House says his gift to putin will lower prices at the pump, but it won't. The first shipment is only about 2.2 million barrels and America burns through more than that every day. It's not going to lower gas prices in America. But it will help putin kill innocence in Ukraine, a country Trump has always hated. Trump's four billion dollar gift to the man he kowtows to every day will buy missiles, drones, and glide bombs that will keep terrorising and killing Ukrainians who are fighting for their country's freedom and their children's lives and yes, our freedom. A bipartisan group of senators including Susan Collins wrote in a statement Sunday that the United States should not provide putin with a financial lifeline while Russia continues to kill Ukrainian civilians. But Trump's aping of putin’s talking points, they just keep getting worse. With this weak president attacking Ukrainian freedom fighters and perversely calling for new leadership in Kyiv. We do need new leadership, Mr. President, but not in Ukraine. Donald, I've known you a long time and I know you don't read history, so let me tell you how this story ends. The Duke of Windsor ended up a footnote, a cautionary tale in a fancy suit forever assigned to the dustbin of British history. And your time to finally do the right thing in Ukraine, Mr. President, it's running out. Stop bowing down to putin. And start doing your job. 1/2

OSSOFF: I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that they will grow up with artificial friends and teachers in a society where the sick die not because there's no cure, but because they have no money—where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousandfold but we still refuse to guarantee healthcare for every citizen.  When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen. I'm determined to answer truthfully that I didn't.

Blue Avengers Assemble! Move over Tony Stark, the Georgia Senate race just dropped its latest hero. Following his heated remarks earlier this week, Jon Ossoff is taking on "the most incompetent group to ever ascend to high office." This is the political crossover hero we needed and didn’t know we deserved.

The left and the right keep fighting centrists like me. They expect us to shut up and pick a side. I can't do that. Can you? Share what you believe or where you differ from my list. This is what I believe in: Economic & Social Core • Healthcare for all • Living wages (raise the minimum) • Access to food and basic housing as a national baseline • Pro-choice • Gay marriage • Climate response • Taxing the rich • Closing corporate tax loopholes and eliminating offshore tax havens • Cutting government subsidies for highly profitable industries (e.g., oil) • Stopping corporate exploitation of basic needs (housing, food, and energy) America First Principles • Strict, limited immigration (heavily vetted system) • Limiting corporate work visas to protect American workers • Clean energy initiatives, including Green + Nuclear • Funding critical infrastructure (roads, bridges, power grids, hospitals, and emergency services) • Cutting foreign aid until we take care of our own • Ending toxic foreign entanglements and the funding of military occupations Core Principles • Personal freedom to live how you want (unless your actions infringe on the rights of others) • The 2nd Amendment (with thorough background checks and cooling-off periods) • Absolute religious freedom for all individuals • Zero government overreach (no mass surveillance, no compelled or restricted speech) • Keeping the Bible and identity politics out of public schools • Revamping public education (banning classroom smartphones and backing teachers over toxic student/parent behavior) • Stopping US funding and involvement in the Israel-Middle East conflicts • Cutting defense bloat (by about $1 trillion from the proposed 2027 budget) • The need for non-partisan media (we need a modern-day Cronkite) Not left. Not right. I call it like I see it.

The coordinated efforts of Trump, Musk, and Putin are perfectly clear. Trump and Musk are doing absolutely everything they can to make life as difficult as possible for Ukrainian troops and civilians. Meanwhile, Putin continues to bomb Ukraine relentlessly and kill Ukrainians.