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Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

submitted 5 hours ago • 899 comments

I’m sure people are going to trot out a host of bad faith arguments for the firings, but “historically, presidents do whatever they want” does not hold up

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

That he's comfortable with? Sure, I guess. Maybe to be comfortable, he should issue an order stating all flag officers must be white men over 6' tall with blonde hair and blue eyes? Would that also be disappointing? FFS, treating everything he does as normal will end up killing our democracy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 18 hours ago • 48 comments

Thank you to everyone who has replied. I needed this. Going to bed with a smile, even if it's a melancholy one.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump fired General C.Q. Brown because of the color of his skin. You know it. I know it. Everyone else knows it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm still kind of freaked out, but in an effort to not have a stroke tonight, let's talk about less insane things. What are some movies that have made you cry? Interstellar gets me every damn time. The Patriot when his daughter finally talks to him. Green Mile - I'm tired, Boss.

submitted 19 hours ago • 17 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 20 hours ago • 310 comments

This one hits close to home. Unlike some of my peers, I have no desire to be rid of the NRC. I think having federal inspectors at every plant goes a long way towards getting the public to accept nuclear plants. When a plant can't meet standards, it must be shut down & Trump can't make that optional.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 20 hours ago • 113 comments

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

submitted 21 hours ago • 415 comments

I think we’re officially in a new era of American civil-military relations (and not the good kind)

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

If you want the military to do your bidding, regardless of ethics or service history or anything else, one of the most important things you need to do is remove the service lawyers who will tell combatant commanders what's legal and what's not.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

They are gearing up to do war crimes and don't want any JAGs doing their sworn duty of talking back when the war crimes are proposed.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

I don't even know what to say at this point. This is classic authoritarianism. Consolidate control & fire anyone who might have a reason to not follow your orders, legal or otherwise.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 23 hours ago • 944 comments

It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine threatened legal action after President Trump said he would withhold funding to her state unless she complied with his executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports. Read more: nyti.ms/3F2nn9a

submitted 1 day ago • 433 comments

In today's edition of there are no good billionaires, Mark tries to explain why it is ok for the US to extort mineral rights from a country currently fighting to exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

uhhhhhh nope don't like that one bit

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Dark mode anyone?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

And, of course, as with all of the other obviously illegal & unconstitutional things, he will get away with it until & unless the people who swore oaths to country & Constitution in the Article I and Article III institutions stop violating those oaths.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

any mutuals up for the Maplewood MN protest on Saturday morning?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments