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Former U.S. Marine from the East End of Long Island, New York. I use a nom de guerre to maintain my anonymity in an area where everyone knows everybody else. I am a good faith debater and consider all points of view. I focus on NatSec issues.
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It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

The losses expected by cuts in the IRS are more than twice the annual compensation to all federal workers. Trump is cutting important services to the American people and making us pay for it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

News: Bridget Brink, the United States Ambassador to Ukraine, plans to resign from her post in Kyiv earlier than planned, according to three people familiar with her decision. Those people told me Brink’s decision is in part over differences in policy between her and Trump, and in part personal.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

This is fucking outrageous. Few people in the cybersecurity community more respected, or trusted, than Krebs. cyberscoop.com/trump-chris-...

China just announced 84% tariffs on the US. There is no winner in a global trade war. This isn’t a negotiation, it’s an economic pissing contest that is going to ruin the economies of several nations if people don’t get their shit together.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

This. And it’s something I think about every day. This alone should be enough reason to get every American on the streets.

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At some point you run out of words. www.yahoo.com/news/nationa...

Detailed article quoting 🇬🇧 UK defence sources on 🇷🇺 Russia's undersea warfare, surveillance and maritime sabotage activities near Britain. Some highlights: a 🧵 1) 🇷🇺 Russian ASW sensors suspected of attempting to spy on the UK’s nuclear submarines have been found hidden in the seas around Britain.

Trump’s Tariffs would be held illegal if the Constitution’s separation of powers were taken seriously. Hell, they’d be struck down by Trump’s Supreme Court if its Major Questions Doctrine and its commitments to original meaning and textualism were consistently applied to Article I and IEEPA. 🔥

This is a very big deal. Trump is systematically dismantling the protections against foreign (e.g. Russian) interference in our elections.

Via New York Times: “The DOJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department — less than 24 hours after defending the gov’t in federal court.”

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

Hands Off Protest Boston! April 5, 2025 Boston Common

The progression is an inevitable beclowning.

This is one of those days I regret not still being on Twitter (X). I would love to see what the “I only vote my taxes” crowd is saying today.