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Important, thought-provoking thread.

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You don't fire Judge Advocates General unless you plan on issuing unlawful orders. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

submitted 6 hours ago • 169 comments

Trump being accused of being a Russian asset would probably land differently if there was ever an example of a time he acted like he wasn’t a Russian asset.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

Timothy Snyder is a Cassandra and I hope he’s right again because this time it’s hopeful.

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This! We have an ignorant population because media decided to entertain rather than enlighten.

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Rep. Jason Crow: “The purge of senior officers at DOD is deeply troubling, but purging JAG officers worries me the most. “JAG officers interpret law for our commanders. They help determine what's lawful and constitutional. “Replacing these military lawyers with Trump loyalists is so dangerous.”

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 788 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 1 day ago • 756 comments

O. M. G.

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So it begins at SSA.

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I wonder what would happen if @wyden.senate.gov @murray.senate.gov asked GAO to investigate whether DOGE's "receipts" claiming savings amounts to fraud. Honestly, it's the only fraud found so far. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Who is surprised? They aren’t really looking for savings, they want to create a better environment for businesses at the expense of citizens and the environment.

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“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

submitted 3 days ago • 474 comments

Donald Trump is a Russian asset; it no longer matters if it’s witting or unwitting. He routinely spreads disinformation that originates in the Kremlin and the FSB, and does it to hurt America and our friends. If you support Trump, you have—morally speaking—betrayed your country.

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Chris Murphy: "My prediction is that if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave."

submitted 3 days ago • 738 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

A dictatorship that kills people from democracies if they say something inconvenient hosting another dictatorship that does the same and a country run by a wannabe dictator who wants people jailed for saying anything inconvenient gathered to decide the fate of a democracy that wasn’t even invited?

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Jesus wept.

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This judge is a hero.

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There is a reason we have kept all this personal data about YOU compartmentalized, and run by extremely boring and fastidious bureaucrats who seek neither fame nor fortune. Because you are not going to enjoy the alternative.

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