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Liberal. Grandma. Former Navy wife. Sober. Freaking out lately. Oh, and fuck pediatric leukemia. And…the staffer answering the phone for my Republican Congressman Tom McClintock is very disrespectful- it would be a shame if he got more calls 202-225-2511
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🔥🔥MUST READ: Senator Jack Reed, a former Army Paratrooper: “A clear message is being sent to military leaders: Failure to demonstrate personal and political loyalty to Trump could result in retribution.” MORE: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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I think Elon Musk's DOGE tells a very American story of how older sociopaths with money recruit smart young people to inexperienced to know the kinds of harms they'll cause and sends them out to steal everything in sight. Smith Barney used to call it making money the 'old fashioned way.' Right?

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Amen to that.

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very cool discourse on the Army subreddit rn

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

Trump’s purge is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally loyal to him. Read @radiofreetom.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

submitted 23 hours ago • 36 comments

AP sues Trump, stocks crash, consumer confidence plummets, Trump fires the ICE director over poor deportation numbers, GOP has horrible fundraising numbers, and more. Catch up on today's news!

submitted 1 day ago • 148 comments

It's weird how everyone in the world knows a Nazi salute when we see it, with the notable exception of journalists and their editors.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 19 hours ago • 320 comments

When Trump names unqualified loyalist Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and purges our top military leaders, it raises rational fears that he wants a military willing to train its guns on American citizens upon his orders.

submitted 18 hours ago • 30 comments

“We have an obligation to resist kings, we have an obligation to resist oligarchs.”

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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.

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holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

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www.ajc.com/politics/mcc...

submitted 19 hours ago • 25 comments

He wants his military to say "yes sir" when he tells them to shoot protestors... www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1...

submitted 21 hours ago • 15 comments

I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.

submitted 19 hours ago • 198 comments

Call to Action: Protest against Trump and fascism. Los Angeles, California. February 22 at 12PM "Your voice matters" #3E #USProtest #ProtestCA #Feb22

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

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REP. RICH McCORMICK: When you talk about presidential power, I remember having the same discussion with Republicans when Biden was elected TOWN HALL CROWD: *Noooooooooooo!*

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Promoting an 0-9 to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is insane - Trump is going to have to promote him to four star AND waive the legal requirements to even hold the position Dan Caine had a distinguished career, but he’s never been a vice chair, combatant commander or service chief

submitted 20 hours ago • 132 comments

Hitler destroyed German democracy in 53 days. We are on day 30. The purge of the military and FBI has commenced. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, *and* full explanations of their chains of command.

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A small museum says all but one sponsor of a Girls in STEM event backed out, fearing retaliation from the Trump administration over "DEI." Evan Kruegel reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1n...

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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.

submitted 20 hours ago • 155 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 20 hours ago • 411 comments

So let's get this straight: The U.S. and Elon are now extorting Ukraine and threatening to turn off their Starlink Internet access unless they give their critical rare earth minerals to the United States? Staggering levels of corruption.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1140 comments

ARE THERE NO REPUBLICANS WITH A FUCKING SPINE?

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