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Small business owner. USN retired. Alum of USNA’s best class. Go Navy, Beat Army! Sometimes photographer. Big reader. Pretty decent cook. Mainah. Nevah Trumpah.
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First they came for the innocent man deported to a Salvadoran gulag on an “administrative error” they falsely claim they’re powerless to reverse, flouting court orders even from the Supreme Court — and I spoke out, because I know how the damn poem ends.

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Great leaders are constant readers. We cannot be afraid of books with which we don't agree. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Life comes at you ... at exactly the rate it promised to come at you during its 4-year re-election campaign where it told you exactly what it planned to do literally thousands of times.

submitted 14 days ago • 110 comments

Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 145 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 20 days ago • 112 comments

Donald Trump (2016): “In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information.”

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

If the constitution is still in operation, Trump's executive order abolishing the Department of Education is just a suggestion. If Trump can abolish the Department of Education with an executive order, then the constitution is just a suggestion.

submitted 27 days ago • 55 comments

This goes so far beyond politics. I'm just morally disgusted to be living in a country that is behaving like this.

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 30 days ago • 613 comments

I'm sure Trump doesn't know Schmitt. But many around him proudly do. And there are two key concepts to Schmitt: all politics is friend-enemy distinction and "sovereign is he who decides on the exception" i.e. the power to suspend laws, both vested in the singular leader who has the power to decide.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Pro tip for Democrats: if Trump is congratulating you, you fucked up.

submitted 34 days ago • 484 comments

“when you turn America into a vast extortion machine, you will get some short-term wins as weaker powers bend to your gangsterism, but you will burn the relationships, at home and abroad, that are actually the source of America’s long-term might.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI. THE INSIDE STORY:

submitted 34 days ago • 125 comments

It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.

submitted 37 days ago • 610 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 38 days ago • 249 comments

Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.

submitted 40 days ago • 156 comments

One of the problems, IMO, w/both Dems in Congress and the pundits screaming at them rather than the fascists is they still think fixing Trump is abt winning an election. That's a luxurious thought but wildly wrong-headed. Problem is winning enough non-, swing-, and GOP voters to halt things now.

submitted 43 days ago • 65 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 46 days ago • 2036 comments

"Londoners keep dying because Churchill refuses to make peace. If he stopped asking for aid and stopped insulting Hitler, the bombs would stop falling." — Elon Musk, 1940 (probably)

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

submitted 46 days ago • 1024 comments