Fact check: Russia was removed from the G8 for invading Ukraine

— Andrea Chalupa (@andreachalupa.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T16:40:40.550Z

Russia did not invade Ukraine in 2022 because the G8 kicked Russia out.The G8 kicked out Russia in 2014 *in response* to Russia forcefully taking Crimea from Ukraine.The timing and rationale is well documented. It's not in dispute. It's just that the US president is a Russian-sympathetic liar.

— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T15:58:53.729Z

The G8 became the G7 after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and was suspended from the group.Stephen Harper was the prime minister of Canada in 2014.

— Robson Fletcher (@robsonfletcher.com) 2025-06-16T15:57:24.337Z

“I hope you do not think I am going soft on Trump if I tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed the entire parade,” Max Boot writes. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202…

— Washington Post Opinions (@postopinions.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T03:05:28.533Z

It’s still a poor use of federal funds. Let’s see if Trump really reimburses DC for any damage to the streets.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T03:12:56.216Z

“The State Department plans to create an ‘Office of Remigration’ … , a department official told Axios *** In Europe, the concept of remigration calls for the mass deportation or coerced repatriation of non-white immigrants & their European-born descendants.” 5/30/25 1/ http://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/s…

— Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) 2025-07-01T05:16:03.761Z

Glad that @gregsargent.bsky.social isn't letting the "remigration" issue slip through the cracks. Pay attention, y'all.

— Karen Attiah (@karenattiah.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T14:56:20.459Z

You may not have heard about the concept of remigration and Trump’s affinity for it and there’s a reason why:

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T11:33:05.359Z

Short thread on remigration, along with the link to which I referred above:2/

— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T23:10:43.920Z

I joined 8,000 environmental leaders to push back on Trump's “Big, Ugly Betrayal."The GOP plan raises taxes on energy, increases costs for families and businesses, and kills hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs to give tax breaks to billionaires.We won't stop fighting back.

— Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) 2025-06-13T22:20:43.165Z

What did you do? Write another letter?

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T22:21:40.352Z

A "strongly worded" letter. Get it right. 😂

— "I DISSENT" (@getinformed23.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T22:22:39.080Z

http://www.instagram.com/p/DI_vVl3NXH…

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T03:27:05.483Z

It’s not just Mike Lee — Bernie Moreno is pretending that a registered Republican evangelical anti-abortion Trump voter who assassinated a Democrat and had more on his hit list is a representative of “the extreme left”

— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T19:56:10.662Z

It's impressive how the Republicans like Mike Lee who cape as the most "principled, moral, and historically informed" of the bunch turn out to be the most shameless, lying propagandists.

— Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T18:01:46.819Z

What we know about the Minnesota shooting suspect: cnn.it/4l03ZcK

— CNN (@cnn.com) 2025-06-15T02:48:36.313Z

Elon Musk blames Melissa Hortman’s murder on “the far left”

— Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) 2025-06-14T19:35:41.613Z

After the murders in Minnesota, Tim Walz called for "grace and compassion and vision and compromise and decency." Some Republicans chose a far uglier course.Take the increasingly unhinged Sen. Mike Lee, for example. http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo…

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-06-16T15:59:22.764Z

MAGA knows the killer was one of their own. They lie and say he was a Democrat because the truth makes them look bad. It’s not about facts. It’s about poison. Lie fast, lie loud, and count on people to forget the correction. It doesn’t matter if it’s true. What matters is how it feels to their base.

— Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 (@jasondogwood.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T12:15:02.193Z

You may wonder why Don Jr. and a few Republicans in Congress are calling Boelter a leftist when people close to him say he was a Trump and InfoWars fan. #Misinformation is most effective when it is early. It gets harder to convince someone to change their mind as time goes on.

— Joseph Menn (@joemenn.bsky.social) 2025-06-16T20:13:46.534Z

SMITH: Is it policy of the DoD that we need to be prepared to take Greenland by force if necessary?HEGSETH: The American people would want the Pentagon to have plans for any particular contingencyS: I don't think the American people elected Trump because they were hoping we'd invade Greenland

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-12T14:50:16.479Z

A cap from Greenland: "Make America Go Away"

— 🌻Allan🌻Nielsen🌻 (@rocketerfella.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T17:21:49.445Z

holy shit — GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-12T15:15:12.202Z

"The third possible reason for Donald Trump’s obsession with Greenland is that it looks really big on the map."Second edition of my new coumn for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social concerns Greenlandwww.thenewworld.co.uk/jonn-elledge…

— Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T11:10:07.117Z

I asked the Interior Secretary FOUR times in the span of a minute to confirm how many park superintendents have left. No answer. Reports indicate there are nearly 100 sites across the U.S. with vacancies — and the agency’s reckless approach is creating dire consequences.

— Rep. Joe Neguse (@neguse.house.gov) 2025-06-13T22:23:14.408Z

The Department of the Interior is requiring the National Park Service to post signage nationwide by June 13, asking visitors for feedback on any information they feel misrepresents American history.

— NPR (@npr.org) 2025-06-11T13:47:46.124916Z

Amidst all the other shit, don't forget that these MAGA fucks are also erasing the history of this country in order to quite literally whitewash it. Check this out: censoring national parks and telling the public to whine if something makes them sad.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T23:05:56.357Z

The National Parks are in Donald's crosshairs now. It began with logging National Forests and now extends to eliminating National Monuments. Nothing is sacred.

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T15:06:29.329Z

So…in 2011 the Justice Department confessed error to the Supreme Court that it had misrepresented the factual basis underlying the rationale presented to the Court to justify Japanese internment. As in, that is the official position of the U.S. government. Are they going to retract that, too?

— Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T03:37:38.072Z

The effects of the public lands sale provision in the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill could have irreversible impacts on Grand Teton National Park. New today from our Big Sky editor @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social http://www.sfgate.com/national-par…

— Anabel Sosa (@asos.bsky.social) 2025-06-20T18:49:42.902Z

A truly great country knows its full history — this is strength. Denying that history is weakness and weakens that nation going forward.A president who erases our history attacks our strength.op: kyleclark9news

— Cory Booker (@corybooker.com) 2025-06-23T22:23:45.089Z

! "Nearly half of voters (47 percent) think federal funding for Medicaid should increase, 40 percent think it should stay about the same, and 10 percent think federal funding for Medicaid should decrease." poll.qu.edu/poll-release…

— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T23:31:00.788Z

A new Quinippiac poll shows that a majority of Americans are opposed to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.Almost half of all voters think Medicaid funding should be increased, not decreased.https://trib.al/whpLGfS

— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) 2025-06-12T17:19:24.661120Z

A new Quinnipiac University poll found that just 10% of Americans support cutting Medicaid.But last month, nearly every House Republican voted for the largest Medicaid cut in American history.

— Rep. Jerry Nadler (@nadler.house.gov) 2025-06-11T18:51:24.459Z

Slashing Medicaid is DEEPLY unpopular, but Republicans are willing to do it to give tax breaks to the richest of the rich. #SaveMedicaidKillTheBill

— Dani M. ❌👑 (@danielleloveswords.bsky.social) 2025-06-13T19:02:30.456Z