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Southern lawyer. Blue dot in a formerly independent but now very red state. Could be a textualist or originalist if the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amends are included. Profanity = Art (& a 2d Language). Aldo Raine did nothing wrong.
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Elon Musk is paid TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to be the CEO of Tesla. What did Elon get done last week for Tesla?

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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 6 hours ago • 958 comments

Who'd be surprised if "the book Elon thinks you should read" turned out to be Mein Kampf?

submitted 2 hours ago • 23 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 1 day ago • 963 comments

Here it is! Our full 25 minute interview with former NFL punter Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social about his decision to tell off his MAGA city council - mic drop after mic dop - and then get arrested following an an act of civil disobedience. youtu.be/Pprrm6TYmZU

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Listen to this episode. If there is a canary in the coalmine for what is really going on in the dismantling of US government, it's the CFPB which not only doesn't "waste" tax dollars, but exposes actual fraud, including in the very people who are trying to shut it down.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library was forced to cancel events featuring authors of books on civil rights, climate change, and homelessness after the Trump administration fired the National Archivist. The National Archives oversees programming at 13 presidential libraries.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 9 hours ago • 37 comments

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KEEP PUSHING! If they won’t do a town hall DEMAND ONE

submitted 7 hours ago • 332 comments

How many of my academic friends saw this? Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 7 hours ago • 68 comments

If Glenn Kessler accuses you of being misleading, it means you’re winning

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Eight books you are forbidden from reading @theeconomistevents.bsky.social www.economist.com/the-economis...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

The writers room has really outdone itself this time.

submitted 23 hours ago • 26 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 952 comments

It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Here it comes. The #TrumpDepression

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

#Krasnov

submitted 1 day ago • 351 comments

If you don’t think Trump is taking over the US Mail to do away with mail-in voting, you haven’t been paying attention.

submitted 23 hours ago • 254 comments

Much media coverage: These Pentagon moves are unusual but Trump's within his rights and wants supporters of his America First agenda. The truth: How is removing the JAGs relevant to any agenda? New, Hegseth-selected JAGs are needed for total loyalty to Trump and finding all his orders lawful.

submitted 9 hours ago • 45 comments

Accurate

submitted 21 hours ago • 84 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 9 hours ago • 1126 comments

Mac Loftin @christiancentury.bsky.social is telling it like it is. Taxpayer-funded antichrist is right here right now exactly as Jesus Jones said it would be. www.christiancentury.org/features/van...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

“She didn't say that. And if she did, she didn’t mean it. And if she did mean it, you didn’t understand. And if you did, it’s not a big deal. And if it is, others have said worse.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 184 comments

The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

submitted 12 hours ago • 68 comments

“I’m in West Virginia — My insulin went from $6 to $80”

submitted 1 day ago • 527 comments

Doing this right before firing three top military leaders is so deranged. Source at DoD told me, “Disdain for Hegseth is a near-universal feeling even among the Trumpiest in the office.“

submitted 20 hours ago • 90 comments

Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

submitted 23 hours ago • 849 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 18 hours ago • 556 comments

⚡️US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters. The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communications.

submitted 17 hours ago • 450 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 21 hours ago • 453 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 20 hours ago • 571 comments

The poster child for white male mediocrity, Pete Hegseth, is firing qualified Black men and women from the military.

submitted 21 hours ago • 767 comments

Heroin addict and roadkill enthusiast, RFK Jr. kills flu shot campaigns and cancels a major vaccination conference.

submitted 20 hours ago • 962 comments

Finnish MEP Mika Aaltola reports that the Trump led US has given Europe three weeks to agree on terms for Ukraine’s surrender to Russia. "Trump prioritizes Russia’s security concerns now and in the future. Let them own their mess. We have three weeks to grow up." www.kyivpost.com/post/47574

submitted 1 day ago • 202 comments

👇🏽

submitted 20 hours ago • 317 comments

Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.

submitted 21 hours ago • 124 comments

Russian fascists have now been torturing and raping Ukrainian women for years. Good job by the cowards of the West. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

Marco Rubio has instructed USAID to claim this is all a lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Rarely has so much ignorance & ahistorical BS been crammed into a single tweet. I know JD Vance & Donald Trump are busy surrendering to a KGB butcher, abandoning the cause of freedom, & destroying the security of America & her allies, but they'd do well to spend some time actually studying history.

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments