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For those wanting facts versus mal-information from govt officials: Truman relieved MacArthur after he disobeyed several orders, 1 which almost led to World War III w/ China. Obama accepted McChrystal’s resignation when he took responsibility for disrespecting the president’s team to the press.

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

This is, again, a repeat of Elon's Twitter takeover. They made the same stupid demand.

submitted 3 hours ago • 25 comments

I wish the big resistance accounts would talk about this instead of posting memes and yelling at Hakeem Jeffries all day. But then they'd be helping solve the problem instead of making it worse.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The newsworthy information here is that he’s currently retired and formally unqualified for the job he was given.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

This is one of our central obstacles: the mainstream media largely do not believe Trump will do what he says he will do. They still think he's just being provocative

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Time for Chariots of Fire! #TCMParty #ChariotsOfFire

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Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social! "Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

submitted 10 hours ago • 288 comments

It isn’t about fraud; it’s never been about fraud or waste. It’s about wrecking the government. It’s about destroying the United States. We all need to face this simple obvious fact before it’s too late.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

@adamserwer.bsky.social nails it here--the real goals of the attack on DEI. Read and share. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 10 hours ago • 19 comments

Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

submitted 11 hours ago • 137 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 11 hours ago • 142 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 1 day ago • 158 comments

Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

submitted 10 hours ago • 52 comments

I shared this with friends who unlike me, aren't political junkies or history nerds. Figured others may have those in their circles. From 2018...still applies...more than ever. www.startribune.com/good-germans...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 14 hours ago • 625 comments

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

Oh, I like this!

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It’s been National Caregivers Day. Also, THE TV IS SO FUCKING LOUD I CANNOT STAND IT ANY LONGER. Also, hospice should provide anti-anxiety & antidepressants to caregivers.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

RE: Trump’s Firing of Air Force General C.Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff As commander-in-chief, Trump’s powers to fire or punish military officers are LIMITED BY LAW. www.brookings.edu/articles/doe...

submitted 22 hours ago • 63 comments

The world must unite to remove the Boer and the Antichrist.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Oh my god, if this works it would redeem the whole damn week.

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

Send Dems into rural America to talk about what Trump is doing. The Republicans are too scared and won’t show their faces…in the vacuum of messaging, there is power. Tell the folks who is hurting them. Point to the GOP. Be the foil to the shit that’s happening. Be the party of the people.

submitted 1 day ago • 172 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 1 day ago • 470 comments

Time for Born Yesterday! #TCMParty #BornYesterday

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Epitaph for a nation:

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I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 1 day ago • 336 comments

Fascinating dataviz on how narrative warfare targeting USAID is playing out in Belarusian Telegram channels, as Pro-Kremlin narratives co-opted by Trump administration get amplified in Belarus. It's all a feedback loop now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

One good test question if in doubt: does the “strange gesture” person also support (or advise) Germany’s AfD and groups with its same beliefs?

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This @nature.com piece on the devastating impact of the Trump administration's vindictive and reckless attack on science is chilling. And following the Project 2025 playbook there is still more to come. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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He tells us what he is doing. He's not "raising idea." He is running a TOTALITARIAN COUP. You say it "stokes alarm among critics." What about you, #BrokenPost? Where's your alarm? Trump again raises idea of running for an unconstitutional third term www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

One thing is clear in all this, white people cannot accept the fact that THEY fucked up this time and the numbers show it. Now they’re blaming Black people and Black politicians for what’s happening. Know this, just because we’re resting doesn’t mean we don’t fucking see you.

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“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

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