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Trump fires Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown and the remaining three service Chiefs of Staff. He is seeking officers who will ignore their sworn oaths to the Constitution they took on their commissioning and become loyal only to him.

DOG-Es can’t add very well.

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Trump expected to sign executive order banning trans women from women’s sports

From peace on earth and no more wars to inserting US troops into the longest and most vexing modern conflict in the Middle East.🤔

Members of Congress were just denied entry to the Department of Treasury. This is a 5 alarm fire.

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today. It's the little things. Microdose hope.

This story is on A22

In terms of how empires fall stories turning the whole thing over to a ketamine addled tech baron and a band of incel teens is probably one of the most pathetic options

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...

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I just keep journaling every day. It’s really important to me to have evidence of dates, times, things that Ive seen, who did what, what is happening. All of this can fall apart and be deleted. But there has to be evidence. Writing matters and there has to be evidence of what happened

Spent two weeks (between clouds) taking a total of 12 hours of integrated images on the Orion Nebula with a #seestar S50 and processed in #PixInsight Orion is stunningly beautiful.

Who else agrees with Jamie Raskin? 💙 🔥 ✅

Remember this?

andrew johnson was impeached for violation of the tenure of office act. in the scheme of things, was that a huge deal? not really. the actual issue was that johnson was trying to scuttle any attempt to reconstruct the former confederate states on an egalitarian basis and *that* was intolerable

I’ve read a lot of nonsense political novels, but I don’t think any of them imagined the afrikaner broederbond taking over the US Treasury.

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

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Judge Aileen Cannon suggested she was not inclined to allow the Justice Department to share special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case with Congress – at least for now.

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Hegseth Strips Milley's Clearance: 'Undermining Chain of Command' Source: Newsweek

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