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Navy Veteran, husband of Melody, father of Nathan and Nicholas. I’ve burned out so many times that they call me refried Dan.
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"These guys don't give a f**k about free speech--they care about THEIR speech." Jon Stewart on the right's free speech crusade

What you have to understand about Pete Hegseth copying and pasting war plans into Signal is that it almost certainly means he’s got classified documents on his personal UNSECURE devices. Signal isn't on a secure device...are our war plans on his personal devices? @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social

"Mr. Trump and his advisers have ushered the country into a new era of post-truth politics, where facts are contested and fictions used to pursue policy goals." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.

An absolutely riveting and dangerous piece of journalism just dropped today about the inner workings of the Trump administration. Seriously , you must read this!!! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I love this video so much. Dis-ability is less about our physical differences &more about the ways we incorporate inclusive design, structural&behavioral, to allow different-abilities to function &thrive together. I believe ASL (or your country’s SL) should be a required language class in school.

After veterans protested last week at the Ohio Statehouse, a spokesman for President Trump is saying that tens of thousands of proposed staff cuts to Veterans Affairs won't hurt Ohio vets. However, he didn't specify how the reforms would work.

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

“It makes it very hard to imagine a leader ‘meeting the moment’ if they don't believe the moment is here,” says Chris Hayes on Chuck Schumer saying democracy is not at stake—yet.

Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will result in people dying. Cutting medical research and funding will result in people dying. Cutting foreign aid, FEMA and NOAA will result in people dying. A few cars on fire is considered violence, but somehow the rest isn’t.

@barbmcquade.bsky.social Do the courts have jurisdiction to review and/or overturn a pardon? Assuming that the DoJ says that Biden didn’t sign the pardon or was aware of them (unlikely at best), does a court or SCOTUS have any authority here? www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...