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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.

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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

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Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

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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)

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A practical suggestion: if you're in any kind of job where you may be asked or told to do things you can't ethically or legally do, figure out now what your line is, and what you'll do if it happens. Don't be the boiling frog.

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What's so incredibly telling about these kinds of authoritarians-but-from-the-left folks is that they're desperate for anyone else to perform authoritarianism on their behalf, without them needing to take any action to support it or make it happen. It's wishcasting combined with LARPing.

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Only one?!

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The IQ Paradox, identified by renowned poster the Mountain Goats, states that doofuses who actually take IQ seriously and use it as a metric of anything are dumb as Hell

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Cake out here with the heaters

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Americans seem to think the only models for authoritarian states are Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and they don't even understand those. They think it's not real oppression until people are disappeared into prison camps or shot in basements.

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It’s the illegal parking jackpot: A Cybertruck, idling with nobody inside, in front of a fire hydrant, with a paper license plate that expired 10 days ago.

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments

The dumbest boy

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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...

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Why would you list two options that both end in a dictatorship collapsing and leaving the country worse off than it was before in many ways, to say nothing of the millions dead

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when I was younger I thought the subplot of Ender’s Game in which Ender’s siblings shitpost themselves into running the world was the least realistic part of the book I am coming around to the idea that it was by far the most realistic

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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

submitted 15 hours ago • 1758 comments

The office of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was created with a fixed four-year term that does not coincide with a presidential term. In the 75 years the office has existed, no chairman has been removed. Removing a chairman without cause is as authoritarian as it gets.

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Down 29.6% over the past 60 days

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one of the people being laid off from all this DOGE chicanery is someone I've known for 13+ years who has been a federal government employee for two decades, in two different federal departments, and he is so incredibly angry

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Thanks Trump!

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IT'S OPEN BORDERS CHAOS!!!111!!!

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The people in control of this country are racist AF & it's wrong & it will always BE WRONG. There's no debate, no 'reach across some aisle,' IT'S WRONG, fcking period. If it's your way, your way is WRONG. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Unironically, these letters are a good example of how we’re ruled by evil men now. It would have cost them nothing to be at least slightly sympathetic. “Hey man, we know this is rough, but we have to tighten our belts and…” They instead deliberately made them as cruel as possible.

submitted 19 hours ago • 12 comments

Given how disbursed it is you could literally do it with machines of the order of complexity of what they had 100 years ago Elon is just really really really dumb

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It makes even less sense when you realize that each voting machine is doing its own tallying and then reporting the vote tally/trail at the end of day, this isn't a live thing, it's a glorified adding machine, it was and still is often done with purely mechanical processes.

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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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Oh good, CodePink hasn't stopped their ratfucking pro-fascist efforts.

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And the GOP wants to ban mRNA vaccines 🤯

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A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country. The Republican budget will force everyone - especially Congress and the White House - to make plain whether they are prepared to harm the rest of us in order to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest.

submitted 18 hours ago • 644 comments

there used to be a genus of water cooler workplace acquaintance who in small talk could only relate what they were hearing about to some other thing they’d heard about which didn’t actually pertain. a dire and daily situation much to be rued. that person grew up to become social media at large

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can't wait for us to have effective cancer treatments for pancreatic and colon cancer but they're banned in the us because they're vaccinations

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JPMORGAN: “.. the term ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ has appeared in more than 20 New York Times articles in the last two days alone. This attention level gives the impression that spending cuts, either realized or imminent, are dramatic. The reality so far is more mundane.”

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when people try to parse eg a Nazi salute with “he was referring to / ironic reference” nonsense think of sex. let’s say you and I fuck, but my engagement is ironic — I’m doing it because I’m making reference to a previous discussion about fucking. are you less fucked now? me neither

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Todays hero

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So let me get this straight - Being supportive of a 2 state solution, advocating for an end to the war, being against Trump's insane suggestion to displace millions of Gazans is hating on Palestinians? If anything, I'm more pro Palestinian than the Jill Stein "fReE pAlEsTiNe" performative clowns.

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Good thing Trump wants to ban them

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Choose your fighter

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👇👇👇💯💯💯

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Thanks Trump!

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Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

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