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What she said for damn sake!!

Solar Panel Waste is Tiny—Coal & Gas Emit Hundreds Of Times Mass Per MWh cleantechnica.com/2025/04/19/s...

And Donald Trump is proving this assessment by his idiotic approach to our economy & his fight to defund national public education.

Perfection

I am being told that wearing an AR-15 rifle lapel pin is indicative of Tren de Aragua membership.

Turns out a notoriously sloppy drunk wasn’t the best choice for Secretary of Defense. So weird.

Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen. She has been on a govt salary for years. Something aint right

Check your kids’ devices to make sure they’re not in a Signal chat with Pete Hegseth. Talk to them about the dangers of sharing national security secrets online.

Among the awful here: He used his personal phone. What a sloppy mess: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

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Every single service member and veteran, if they’re being honest, will all tell you the exact same thing: We’d be immediately burned at the stake if we treated classified intel the way Pete Hegseth has treated it.

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.

Hegseth must go! Using his personal phone to share classified strike plans with his wife and brother.

*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

New: Pete Hegseth shared sensitive information about military strikes to another Signal group chat that included his wife and brother.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Hermelinda's transplanting tomato seedlings. She earns just over CA min. wage. It's seasonal work & she doesn't live nearby. Gas for 100+ mi round trip is expensive. It's the only option in the slow season as her family depends on her wages. #WeFeedYou

A third Hegseth official is out. But still not Hegseth himself? The lack of accountability and personal responsibility at the top is unprecedented. And no doubt there’s more chaos to come. And all this the day after the Pentagon announced the loss of two US servicemembers at the Mexican border.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture. That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.

The entire Pentagon defense technology team is resigning, putting US at huge risk of cyberattacks Source: TechRadar share.newsbreak.com/cnhy2yze

Apparently leaks are only OK in the Trump administration when they come from the defense secretary or national security adviser? I’m renewing my calls for a special counsel to investigate #Signalgate and for Trump to fire Hegseth and Waltz!

Think about this. These lap dog GOP lackeys were allowed in the prison, but they refused Senator Van Hollen. Outrageous.

Let's be clear ... #resist #bluecrew

I wonder how those concepts of a healthcare plan are coming.

The Supreme Court could simply admit that it has made a series of catastrophic mistakes including Citizens United, Shelby v. Holder, Dobbs, and—up there with Dred Scott as the most catastrophic in US history-the stupid immunity ruling. That would take some humility however, and they are infallible!

Finding it hilarious that people can’t agree as to what precisely the SC meant by the word “facilitate”; this even after several dictionaries were consulted. And yet these SOBs—as stupid as they are arrogant—not long ago claimed to fathom what the founders meant by every colon and semicolon.

AOC: Some of the Republicans whose districts we visited just warned their leadership that they’re not sure they can vote for Medicaid cuts now. We’ve got them on their back foot. But our job is not done. We will rally every corner of the U.S. We will not stop until they actually vote no.

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

Deportation is common, but a life prison sentence in a foreign country without due process is not. Trump has violated his oath to defend and protect our constitution. Maybe that's why he refused to put his hand on the Bible during his oath of office.

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

NEW: Chicago city council passes resolution calling on city Commissioner of Human Resources to exercise discretionary power not to hire any applicant convicted of "crime related to Jan 6, 2021 unlawful activities at the US Capitol, regardless of recent clemency or pardon status"

I am advocating for due process for Abrego Garcia.

How long before the Supreme Court finds that criminal contempt is an "official act" of the presidency and, therefore, shielded from legal reprisals?

Rights are endowed by the “Creator” All people are born with them wherever they’re born America was founded on this belief and has expanded rights as our nation evolved. What’s happening now is the opposite of what America has always been

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”