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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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Watch this clip, folks 👇 Does Bannon sound like he's joking about Trump becoming dictator for life? Because he isn't.

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House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries compares the party's challenge to baseball and says "don't swing at every pitch." But it's more like a hockey game where the other team is checking hard, and the refs aren't calling anything. So listen to Gretzky: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

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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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No, the goal is not to "get the AP back in its rightful place" in the White House, it's to keep freedom of the press despite an abusive White House attacking it. Or at least it should be. You're in "hang together or hang separately" territory and you're pleading behind the scenes with the hangman.

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Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who agrees with General Milley that Americans do not owe our allegiance to a King, Queen, or a wannabe dictator. We owe our allegiance to the Constitution. Fuck the nonsense trump says about being a king.

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The Confederacy thought that. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan did too. As have others. But despite them disproving it, the belief persists. It’s important to self-conception. Putin’s Russia thought that too, and was badly wrong, but got rescued by US voters throwing away liberal democracy instead.

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Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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I think Alzheimer’s is bad, and we should work on prevention, treatments and ideally cures. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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Correct. He’s not capable of playing multidimensional chess. Or chess. Or checkers. Or tic-tac-toe. As one of his aides put it during Shit Show I, “he’s just eating the pieces” on the board. Nothing he does is strategic. He’s purely guided by narcissistic, sociopathic impulses at all times.

submitted 2 days ago • 1267 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 2 days ago • 1886 comments

I’m so sick of people saying this shit, especially elected officials. He’s the president. Declaring himself a king after issuing an order just the day before that says he’s the final authority on all laws isn’t a goddamn distraction.

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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 530 comments

Time to stop pretending what's happening isn't real.

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

Making America Great Again

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Republicans had no problem confirming an anti-vaxxer for HHS or a man with credible sexual assault allegations to run the Pentagon—but a Labor Secretary who supported unions is a bridge too far? Take note, everyone who claims Republicans are the party that supports working folks.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

What the actual fuck?! America, it’s time to rise. When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty!

submitted 2 days ago • 2653 comments

Oh yeah, they should rush this plane out as quickly as possible. Drop the security clearances, ignore the boring safety checks, get parts as cheaply as possible & rush rush rush the work, even if it means the engineers are badly sleep deprived. Do whatever it takes to get Mr. Trump his plane now!

submitted 2 days ago • 163 comments

Now this, I can co-sign.

submitted 2 days ago • 190 comments

Fuck Putin. Fuck trump. I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇸.

submitted 2 days ago • 550 comments

Perhaps the question now before the public may, in its consequences, afford melancholy proofs of the effects of this despicable frailty, or rather detestable vice, in the human character. A. Hamilton Federalist 70.

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When I say the Trump admin is dismantling Constitutional democracy, I usually get replies that it was always unfair. Electoral College, gerrymandering, Bush v. Gore, etc. This is next level. Don't blur that. I don't want to pick on anyone, and think most are well-intentioned, but you're not helping.

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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

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Trump: I order that the sky is orange MAGA: sky is orange, libs Musk: sky is orange 🤣🤣 Executive branch: sky is orange now DOJ: sky is orange Judge Reyes: sky is blue actually DOJ: oh no

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 2 days ago • 1519 comments

Another way this feels similar to COVID — the disaster is already unfolding but the people in charge seem to think it’ll only impact “blue” areas.

submitted 3 days ago • 217 comments

This is the so-called Law & Order. 🙄

submitted 3 days ago • 621 comments

I just heard...about 5 minutes ago...Rachel Maddow said that Trump has announced he is going to INCINERATE $500 MILLION dollars of COVID-19 tests...that taxpayers have ALREADY paid for. Something needs to happen...fast. This is bullshit that cannot continue. This. Cannot. Continue.

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