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Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope. THIS is good trouble! Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.

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My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

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President Trump’s purge at the Pentagon is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally and absolutely loyal to him, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes. theatln.tc/3oq1fmSh

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Hegseth's racism is the story. @expressnews.com gets that. “C.Q. Brown isn’t chief of staff because he’s Black,” Rand said in 2020. “C.Q. Brown is chief of staff of the USAF because he is an incredible officer & leader.. and I would follow him into hell.” www.expressnews.com/news/article...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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1/ "The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer and addiction despite a federal judge’s order to release grant money."

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Here’s what is going on. When you start firing the military’s top lawyers, that means you are getting ready to order the military to do unlawful things. Trump replaces those JAGs with men who will justify any future unlawful and unethical actions that he wants the military to do.

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Climate change is the biggest crisis humanity faces in the 21st century and just because they are trying to eliminate all mentions of the word “climate“ doesn’t actually solve anything.

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““We did not elect him,” a man shouted. As the town hall reached its scheduled end, more constituents shouted questions about Musk’s access to taxpayer data and yelled “don’t lie to us””

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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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This article is a wild read. But it highlights the importance of sharks in the ecosystem, what happens without them, and the danger they are currently in. I'm glad to have made a picture book that has a shark-saving message, along with being an entertaining story www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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today in breaking laws no matter how obscure, ladies and gentlemen, the Goldwater-Nichols Act

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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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Either Trump or Kellogg is lying. We'll, of course, Trump is, but Kellogg is too, either to himself or Zelenskky. Trump will betray Ukraine because he's mad that Zelenskky didn't cave to Trump back in his first term, or because Putin ordered him to. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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"The cancellations listed come disproportionately from businesses run by women and people from minority groups." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Staffing the security apparatus and justice department with loyalists and purging non loyal elements is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. It’s not a “shake up”; it’s power consolidation.

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donorbox.org/support-the-... Please keep sharing. Please keep donating. Almost to 16k. 25K is the goal. Every month.

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So many wolves in so many hen houses

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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...

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Of course the person who was promoted because of their race in this exchange is actually Hegseth, whose only qualification beyond being a white male is bootlicking sycophancy.

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This is WSJ edit board’s second piece in a week raising escalating alarm about RFK Jr’s groundless & lethal anti-vax predilections and now policies (firing CDC vax experts) — and it pull punches in portraying him as no more & no less than a treacherous corrupt killer www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

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hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!

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who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

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Pam Bondi says she has the Epstein client files on her desk. She won’t release them though unless Trump’s name is scrubbed first.

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Join us this weekend!

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In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.

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In summation, a qualified Black man got fired and will be replaced with a white man who doesn’t meet the qualifications for the position.

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waited for a bit to listen to this because i thought it'd be brutal, and it is v brutal. what a loss. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Breaking News: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s crackdown on diversity programs, saying it violated freedom of speech protections.

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Trump's White bimbo Defense Secretary fires highly qualified, experienced, honored & combat tested Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, who is Black, without cause & replaces him with under qualified & under experienced retired officer, who is White. It's racism and it's weakening our military.

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Donald Trump fires General CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff https://www.ft.com/content/d0fc0acd-d022-48d1-94f0-e4192712786a

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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This is how it’s done.

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The Trump administration is ramping up plans to detain immigrants in the U.S. without legal permission at military sites across the country, including at Utah's Hill Air Force Base.

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www.businessinsider.com/russia-culti...

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General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, wasn't fired by Trump because he "supports woke policies." He was fired because he's a Black man in the nation's top uniformed military post.

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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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It's hard to call out specific affronts. But: Nauseating for Trump, Musk, unqualified Hegseth to target GEN CQ Brown. —Fighter squad command, multiple cmnd posts; —130 hrs combat-fighter, 3000 flying hrs; —Multiple grad degrees; —AF chief of staff, Chmn JCS www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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ProPublica has released another study related to the effects of abortion bans in the U.S., this time showing a spike in sepsis cases in Texas following the implementation of that state's "heartbeat" abortion ban in 2021.

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The FDIC protects your hard earn money in the bank and helps prevent another financial crash. Trump and Musk’s move to fire these workers is dangerous. I led Senate Democrats in pushing back, and now independent investigators are on the case.

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