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Protect Democracy. Security and Risk. Public Health Preparedness. Former Lieutenant Commander, USN. Character Zero.
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Oh so the people there are free to go?

KAINE: When you called the Gregg family to tell them that their dad's name was no longer gonna be on the base, what was their reaction? HEGSETH: The Army notified them K: You didn't call any of the families. I've spoken with them. They were called by the press. That's how they learned about this

Rolando and Anthony Lavielle found out the hard way what happens when you show up in tactical gear and impersonating ICE to intimidate rally goers in Miami. #FAFO #AhoraSoyPeor 😂

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Eric Adams, current NYC mayor who is also running for reelection, was smoking cigars at Gracie Mansion with an antisemitic streamer days ago outlets obsessed with attacking Mamdani barely covered it the ADL that smeared Hasan for his pro-Palestine streams haven't said a word

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

SLOTKIN: Have you given the order to be able to shoot at unarmed protesters in any way? HEGSETH: What is that based on? SLOTKIN: It is based on Trump giving that order to your predecessor, who I give a lot of credit to bc he didn't accept the order. He has more guts & balls than you

deleted here, still up on X, a complete coward. a man that should be leading no one and, in fact, is leading no one.

ICE is cocking assault rifles and pointing them at civilians. This happened in Pico Rivera this morning.

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

The United States govt. now has the personality of its leader — which is to say it behaves as a malignant narcissist. It will do terrible things that provoke emotion and reaction, and it will then compound that cruelty by criminalizing the emotion and reaction. Autocracy is born of pathocracy.

political cartoon from trump’s first presidency:

the F1 movie but there's a whip crack every time there's a new shot

Good question.

this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.

so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES

"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

democratic leaders are operating like the mike lee thing is just a slip up by one guy instead of how the entire movement thinks. im tired of it. this is who they are. theyve been like this for decades. whether its goldwater opposing civil rights, reagan attacking welfare recipients or wmds

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

Breaking News: Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor, calling him a “visionary” leader.

Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant. Guess the country.

New York City’s comptroller Brad Lander, who is running for mayor, was detained Tuesday by ICE while observing immigration hearings in Manhattan, according to his campaign. wapo.st/4eccEXs

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

Mike Lee is the way he is because there are zero consequences for being a lying sack of shit

saying that someone “no longer has any legal interests” because they’re dead is the sort of claim you might wanna run by a lawyer before publishing in The Atlantic

So the President of the United States is going to start a wireless business. Another totally normal, totally ethical, not at all obviously fucked-up crooked grift by a convicted felon.

This is an absolute betrayal of promises made by Congress to protect the people who protected American soldiers. A betrayal by people who think American greatness is based on half-assed military parades rather than being a credible ally to those that risked their lives for America.

People like when you unapologetically stand for something, specifically the working class. This shouldn't be seen as some super lefty position, and we shouldn't need a poll to tell us it either.

really bad look for Schumer and Jeffries that they spent Saturday at a billionaire’s wedding in the Hamptons rather than linking arms at No Kings marches like real opposition leaders www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

🚨BREAKING: In a huge win for public health and democracy, a federal court ruled that the NIH’s ideological purge of life-saving research grants is unlawful. Today, the rule of law prevailed — and science, once again, belongs to everyone.

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

"Gulf of Mexico"

we're getting cucked by Canada this is humiliating

Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave." The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

Trumpism is a terrorist movement and Trump's brand is violence. These are facts.

ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.

This has brought me mad tears of laughter this morning 🤣😂😭