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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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Can we please, just for a moment, reflect on the President Un-Elect gleefully wielding a chainsaw. Can we also just reflect on what we would say if some shadow president was running around with a chainsaw in some other country? We’d have thoughts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/22/n...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 1 day ago • 599 comments

Trump is a goddamn traitor to America. Any congressional Republican who supports him — or is afraid to stand up to him — is just as much of a traitor as Trump.

submitted 22 hours ago • 363 comments

Why did Hegseth just fire every top military branch lawyer? What did they refuse to sign off on? A Pulitzer awaits the reporters and outlet who can tell the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 664 comments

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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Friday Night Massacre in the Military open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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For those at the back…

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Make it make sense! 🤦🏻‍♀️

submitted 21 hours ago • 230 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 20 hours ago • 392 comments

This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

submitted 15 hours ago • 350 comments

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1247 comments

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2681 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

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In Memoriam Congressman John Lewis 2/21/1940-7/17/2020 Honoring the little boy from Troy who dared to dream of freedom and equality for all and believed all things were possible if you got in good trouble. There is no need to miss our precious hero because he lives in each ballot we cast. 🧵1/2

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With over ten years of service spanning five administrations, Amy Paris was dismissed on February 14, a casualty of tRump’s mass firings. “They said it was performance,” she explained. “I have clear proof I was one of the top performers in the entire federal government.” 19thnews.org/2025/02/amy-...

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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

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h/t @crampell.bsky.social

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

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THIS. (Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social)

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren has invited Elon Musk to testify at an informal hearing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau next week. "Musk has said that he is trying to kill the agency — he should have the courage to show up in public and answer questions." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 2 days ago • 1909 comments

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 2183 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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"The layoffs come in the middle of tax filing season. Former IRS officials warned that losing such a large number of employees could disrupt Americans’ ability to easily file taxes this year, even if the layoffs are not supposed to affect those deemed 'critical'...” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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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 3 days ago • 1216 comments

If you were REALLY looking for corruption, you wouldn't be firing independent inspector generals and using your DOJ to force a corruption case against a Democratic Mayor in NYC to be dismissed.

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This afternoon, the top FDA food official responsible for overseeing America's food safety and inspections resigned from the federal government.

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🚨OH HELL NO! ‘DOGE appears to have busted their way into the Social Security Administration, forcing the resignation of the acting commissioner, Michelle King, when she resisted their demands to give DOGE access to Agency’s most sensitive government records’. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

submitted 5 days ago • 543 comments

We don't talk enough about what a huge source of misinformation Google is, particularly for young men, via its ownership of YouTube.

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American planes are crashing almost every day and the Secretary of Transportation is visiting the Daytona 500 and tweeting at Pete Buttigieg.

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue “I’D JUST LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE GIVE A DAMN”… ~Michael Steele

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 8 days ago • 2697 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 8 days ago • 6089 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

If one person were tasked with destroying our country from within, this is exactly what the fuck it would look like.

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

Elizabeth isn’t hiding. She’s leading from the front:

submitted 8 days ago • 477 comments

Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?

submitted 8 days ago • 2780 comments

Trump is is giving Elon Musk $400M to build a bullet proof Tesla while also defunding school lunches and meals on wheels. Cool dude, huh?

submitted 9 days ago • 392 comments