Trump executive order Jan. 20: "Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society." Trump Pentagon order May 9: All military commands shall purge books about racism and sexism "incompatible" with its mission by May 21. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u... - ThreadSky

peterbakernyt.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Trump executive order Jan. 20: "Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society."

Trump Pentagon order May 9: All military commands shall purge books about racism and sexism "incompatible" with its mission by May 21.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/politics/pentagon-hegseth-dei-library-books.html

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coffeequeen1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Peter, almost seems like they're trying to erase America's past (and present) history. Is this a good thing?

midnight-ninja.bsky.social•4 days ago

Make it make sense.

vgtw.bsky.social•3 days ago

Has any of them heard about self-contradiction? Lying?

wolfggurl50.bsky.social•4 days ago

T* wld not recognize an amendment if it were shoved up his...well...

It's as if America said, "we loved Donald's covid thing. Maybe we can get it going again".

rpcastro.bsky.social•4 days ago

A Bright Shining Lie: Pete Hegseth and America during Trump

johnjnj1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Guess the logical conclusion is that iTrump regime thinks it best not to be a free society and will move to make it less free day by day, minute by minute, and even second by second.

margotsibley25.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hey! Crackdown on cyber security breaches and National Security cracks. Dumb, dopey Trump.

kimonm.bsky.social•4 days ago

Free speech allowed only for those preferred by this admistration.

whatwouldyousay.bsky.social•4 days ago

How drunk is Kegseth right now

sanker7.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hypocritical assholes

oldskier.bsky.social•4 days ago

As if nobody knew the GOP are expert HYPOCRITES!

Free speech to the GOP an MAGA is "Anything the RIGHT SAYS is Correct; any thing DEI, WOKE, or Critical of the RIGHT is WRONG! and ILLEGAL!

msmilack75.bsky.social•1 day ago

how much longer will we be forced to tolerate the presence of Hegseth?

graphmangraphics.com•4 days ago

I guess the mission is racism & misogyny.
Fascism is here and now.

juliedevereaux.bsky.social•4 days ago

What exactly is its “mission”?

manysoulswithin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dems, @ACLU, MSNBC, and whomever else that needs to, should press this in courts. He's set up his own catch-22,but the EO is a signed order.
Oh, the delicious irony of making him abide by his own order.

ravenna321.bsky.social•4 days ago

Going backwards at the speed of light

wbaker14.bsky.social•4 days ago

Every day. Every hour we slip further and further into a dictatorship.

antiss.bsky.social•4 days ago

It us super scary.

popeleoxiv.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nothing says ‘liberty’ quite like banning books about inequality while quoting yourself on the importance of free speech. The irony is so thick, even the incense won’t clear it.

juliedevereaux.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sage…useless

starbuckler.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just like the hypocrisy of the founders when they said all men should be free. They didn’t say white men because it was understood.

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