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How now-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem felt about a president potentially federalizing the National Guard one year ago:

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All around us, there are people who are working to make the world a better place, who are kind and decent to other people, who have sane & empirically grounded worldviews. So why is the media world filled with profile after profile after profile of dipshit scumbags?

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Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

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From the AP: National Guard troops have begun arriving in Los Angeles on orders from President Donald Trump to stamp out protests. “Stamping out” is code violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.

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God, this smug fuck using his demure manner and soft looking glasses to try to whitewash the most vicious shredding of the founding principles of the country makes me madder than Trump doing the shredding, honestly.

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I just gonna go ahead and say that putting active duty United States Marines on the streets of an American city is, in fact, heavy handed.

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During the BLM protests the right successfully conditioned a lot of people to believe that when cops cause chaos, it’s the protesters’ fault for exercising their rights. And more generally that protesting injustice is a problem.

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The craven tyrant who demanded all this hardware for his birthday parade sent five other kids to fight and die in his place in Vietnam then referred to veterans as suckers and losers.

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they're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act. it's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful. it should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.

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So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

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When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

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I was just watching Kimmel talk about the last couple of weeks of Trump - posting Biden was a robot clone, being contacted by 50 cent about all the things Diddy said about him, the pardoning of corrupt celebs, the feud with Musk. Then I saw this and it’s hard to disagree. youtu.be/6i0pXO5i36s?...

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Kristi Noem in Feb 2024: If Biden federalizes the National Guard [to handle border issues], we’ve got a war on our hands.”l Kristi Noem in 2025 as DHS Secretary: …federalizing the National Guard.

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"Grampa, what was it like living during The Dumbest Time?"

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Can you imagine the tea party reaction if Obama had federalized the Texas national guard for domestic law enforcement? Not one of those fucking cowards will speak out against this.

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It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

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The speed in which we have decayed into an open oligarchic kleptocracy is astounding

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Imagine a British accent on NPR saying “On Friday, regime security forces fired riot suppression ordinance at nonviolent demonstrators protesting the detention of a prominent labor leader in a populous western region.”

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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

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But keep telling us how they care about the debt and efficiency. This colossal waste will stand as a historic monument to his malignant narcissism.

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Cutting federal funding to cancer research to pay for an endless line of tanks filing past the Washington monument.

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How efficient

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It's as if he's on drugs.

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we have to stop forecasting weather because Harold is afraid of hard disks

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Holy smokes Leon wins it in OT! #LetsGoOilers What a game!

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Sometimes it’s nice to know that every single sport at every level is marred by extremely confusing and controversial officiating

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Can't believe we're right back here a year later for round 2. Should be a good series. Start strong and finish the job. #LetsGoOilers

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Three comments here: yes, Columbia gained nothing by appeasement; BUT this isn’t a move to celebrate. Federal input like this to accreditation agencies— which are independent— isn’t how things are supposed to work. Remember the admin wants to co-opt accreditation— this is a step in that direction.

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The correlation between being insecure and ostentatiously trying to present yourself as tough remains incredibly strong. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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There's still basically no evidence for Musk "stepping away" from politics besides his own claims, yet the Times keeps repeating the lie to help him - sometime contradicting their own reporters. Don't print lies in the newspaper.

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To give you an idea of the kind of research and care that went into the creation of this list, it initially included Swinomish County in WA which does not exist.

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Whenever someone talks about a “sensible center” in regards to a civil right it feels instructive to apply that argument to past struggles what was the “sensible center” position for Jim Crow? for women’s right to vote?

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Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, Donald Trump is publicly supporting a conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was actually killed in 2020 and replaced by a robot clone. Just a heads up in case you know of anyone who might be interested in investigating the cognitive deterioration of the commander-in-chief.

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The MAHA report appears to be almost identical to a 2023 document put out by “Children’s Health Defense,” the antivaxx front that RFK Jr. used to pay himself >$20K/wk for spreading disinformation. It appears AI was used to make the tone more official sounding & add citations, many of which are fake.

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"Grampa, what was it like living during The Dumbest Time?"

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headline construction masterclass

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If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

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This picture is so good (via Pacers)

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