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Burkburnett to the Bronx to Buffalo. Preserve democracy. Patriot. Retired microelectronics engineer. Grandmother. USAF Brat.
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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 hours ago • 292 comments

Funny how you don’t hear a peep from Vance et al about free speech in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other illiberal US allies.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

This is in fact a real picture and it will work nicely in the ads next year about the military families devastated by Elon's illegal firings.

submitted 1 day ago • 260 comments

Always stand up to a bully

submitted 22 hours ago • 937 comments

Reduced staffing is likely to drive IRS agents AWAY from auditing the top 1% since their returns tend to be VERY complicated and steer them towards auditing more lower and middle class filers as our taxes skyrocket. IOW, more audits for me and less for thee.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Congratulations, Canada 🤝

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

We recruit individuals and we retain families. Cutting a major source of military spouse employment and injecting politics into the senior ranks is going to lead to a huge loss of mid-grade talent. This is all absolutely devastating to national security. www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

share of americans who believe the wealthy have too much influence on the trump administration: 71% -reuters/ipsos

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Classic con structure: the big returns are coming!

submitted 2 days ago • 470 comments

He's trying to convince Trump to burn down everything else NASA is doing -- ISS, Moon, science missions -- to get taxpayers behind his Mars dream. Hard to see betting it all on Mars this fits with goals of the "cis-lunar spacepower" advocates and competing in the neighborhood with China

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

this week’s economist, on point

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Hegseth orders military to prepare for 40% budget cut over next five years. I’m all for reducing excessive and wasteful defense spending, but not in a way that threatens national security and alliances. And I have zero confidence in the Trump circus doing anything right.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

when the most powerful country in the world pivots to law of the jungle, it quickly becomes law of the land.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

NYT right emphasis & tone on Trump trying to help Russia beat Ukraine: -All lead stories -Calls out GOP abandoning supposed principles -Says Trump's up-is-down lie "rewriting history" -Reminds of Russia atrocities And I can't help but note: They really can cover bad things as bad when they want to

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

@glennkessler.bsky.social fact checks Trump’s offensive falsehoods about Ukraine. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The U.S. president has now chosen to throw America to Putin’s side and is more than willing to see this war end on Russian terms. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1214 comments

spotted on the european side of the internet:

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

If only we had a secretary of state, secretary of defense, national security advisor, and White House chief of staff who were competent and courageous enough to not only push back against this treacherous nonsense but prevent a disinformation-driven commander in chief from ever saying such things.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments