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American, Georgian, classical liberal. Believe in standing up to bullies and enemies at home and abroad. Ally to the transgender community 🏳️‍🌈
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Good response template here.

This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

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

Friday night Tequila tweet: Fuck Donald Trump & everyone else who stands with Putin. Fuck @elonmusk & everyone else who doesn’t know what Ukraine is fighting for. Trump & Musk would’ve sided with Great Britain during America’s fight for independence. Fuck them. Slava Ukraini.🇺🇦

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...

Sounds like he doesn’t know anything about computers if he said that

🚨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!

To be pretentious, I'd say masculine virtues are just virtues, and everything else is rules meant to uphold dated gender roles, but also the trend of the most metaphorically dickless dumpling dudes lecturing everyone about manhood is the least masculine thing imaginable. Bonus macho wisdom:

An idea we should all get behind

All the “moderate” (haha) Republicans draw straws one gets to vote no on each nominee. All nominees get confirmed but the “moderate” Republicans get to claim they are “independent”

"Moderate" Republicans vote for Trump Nominee A after A assures them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. "Moderate" Republicans say Nominee B assured them they won't do X. After confirmation, they immediately do X. Repeat with Nominees C, D, E, F, G, etc.

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

You just know this is true

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

I think this is right

“Some say this plane flipped over, but at this diner in rural Ohio folks aren’t so sure”

‘a prominent German politician told me: “That was a direct assault on European democracy.” A senior diplomat said: “It’s very clear now, Europe is alone.” When I asked him if he now regarded the US as an adversary, he replied: “Yes.”…’ on.ft.com/4b2uPNM

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

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.

If you live in New York State and think Gov. Kathy Hochul should remove the corrupt mayor of NYC, give her a call or send her a letter.

Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social can you be ANY weaker on Adams? Your interview with Nicole Wallace is a disgrace

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Hey world, please wake up and accept this horrible truth: Donald Trump works for Putin. Trump is on Putin’s side. He always has been. The President of the United States is on Putin’s side. And world, please know that so many of us in the United States apologize for this horrible truth. We truly do.

this man is 42 years old