There are a bunch of pages on the internet giving code to expand shortened URLs, but none of the ones I tried seem to work.

I suspect this might be because it’s changed over time….but this seems to work…atm!

((Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing –Uri 'https://bit.ly/3D0xStd').baseresponse).RequestMessage.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri

Correctly gives:

https://newsthump.com/2025/02/16/master-negotiator-donald-trump-to-end-ukraine-war-by-simply-giving-russia-everything-it-wants/
A person is pointing at a map labeled "Greater Russia" and "Russia" with a headline about Donald Trump ending the Ukraine war.