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1) Why is the Navy even there? The USCG has blue water cutters and does drug interdiction all the time. It’s part of their job. 2) Congress needs to hold hearings and demand their evidence. 3) The ICC needs to indict Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, the service chiefs, and command officers for murder.
Why is the Navy even there? The USCG has blue water cutters and does drug interdiction all the time. It’s part of their job.
Children - lots of them - will end up dead or profoundly disabled. www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/h...
And why is the Navy even there? The USCG has blue water cutters and does drug interdiction all the time.
If NOLA law enforcement needs the help of the LA national guard, why wouldn’t the governor just call them in? This doesn’t need federal aid.
Huh
That was my first thought. The second was to check on the statute of limitations for the PCA. There is none. The officers who don’t push back on these orders need to be reminded of that.
Someone needs to remind him that “Just following orders” is not a defense; he has agency and needs to use it.
Does that also mean he’s going to recreate the Department of the Navy, too?
Dearest Martha, Our brave boys from Peoria met and drove off a regiment of those damned Texicans which tried to invade our fair state. We thrashed them pretty good and sent them packing. Now we wait to see if they have the stomach to try another time.
Gets us used to military tribunals
IDK, sounds kind of like some moral hazard brewing.
Ssamjang and chopped kimchi
Yes. Missing from the conversation for months has been shadow pricing by domestic producers.
Readily available and published in JAMA
30 cases of voter fraud annually, and the GOP passes 104 voter suppression laws. 47,000 gun deaths a year, and the GOP does absolutely NOTHING.
Weekend at Donnie's
From the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer, the collect for Labor Day
Is this bad? It sounds like it might be bad.
This is a rousing appreciation of Studs Terkel for Labor Day. His book Working, as he wrote, is "above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us" (1/2)
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Rigorous
Happy Labor Day, workers. youtu.be/pl9kcJ6RRmU?...
They deserve the Landscaping Service Cross
WSJ has been pretty good lately and it looks like the Atlantic might be stepping up to fill the void. For long-form investigative Pro Publica has been stellar.
IDK, seems like kind of an overstatement.
Wut?
This is what Trump does all the time: stiff his contractors and workers.
lol at the dipshit putting the Guard on consecutive 29 day orders to stiff them on deployment benefits because it always ends well for autocrats who screw over their praetorians
Still ethnic cleansing no matter how they try and sanitize it
Not as good as this thebrickbible-206843.square.site/product/the-...
If it keeps wealthy old men from running that’s great
there are a few ways to make sense of it: eugenics and using disease to cull the population has a long fascist history, but also the idea that nothing *actually* matters beyond controlling a narrative is a core trump belief, so telling people we are healthier than ever is the same as being healthy
Is this ominous? It seems ominous.
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
Reagan invaded Grenada; GHW Bush invaded Panama; Trump wants Venezuelan.
So they really are a basketful of deplorables.
A good case for age-gating judges and federal officeholders
"The mainstream press is still in self-flagellation mode over how they purportedly 'ignored' Biden’s decline. (In reality, they never stopped talking about.) But this soul-searching is apparently only backward looking and exclusive to Democratic presidents." — @playtyperguy.com
Good thing we’ve got all those E3 landscaping specialists.
There is no constitutional right to not be offended, or to not have your beliefs challenged, or to be spared exposure to inconvenient facts.
How does that convert to defcon levels?
Why? Because fuck ‘em. They’re expensive. Let them die.
Can we get a journalism ethic that we don’t interview minor survivors of mass shootings? They are survivors where their friends are dead; they haven’t had a chance to process their experience and are vulnerable. Leave them alone.
If they thought tank treads were hard on the pavement wait until they drag a CG up Pennsylvania Avenue.
President Trump has signed an executive order that requires federal buildings in Washington to maintain a classical style of Greco-Roman architecture associated with the marble columns and austere hallways of the Supreme Court and U.S. Capitol.
If you thought tank treads were bad for the pavement wait until they drag a CG down Pennsylvania Avenue.
This is obscene thehill.com/policy/defen...
And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?" And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have I done?"
Stalin's Russia; Mao's China; Saddam's Iraq; Kim's North Korea
Missing from the list are caregivers to high risk individuals
Missing from list are caregivers to high risk individuals
Missing from the list are caregivers to high risk individuals
Pseudoscientific gibberish
Highly skilled warfighters
President Trump, just after solving America’s Cracker Barrel logo crisis, promises to “definitely find out!!!” why a late night host’s contract, Seth Myers, will be extended. No word yet on dealing with Ukraine, Israel, Epstein, or the rapidly rising US inflation & unemployment! :(
The Trump administration is running Russian-style active measures…in Greenland www.bbc.com/news/article...
Important warning from Chris Purdy of @chamberlainvets.bsky.social: "What this does is it retools both the National Guard and some federal agencies into a new type of law enforcement arm.”
US accused of conducting hostile campaign designed to destabilize Denmark, a close democratic ally amp.dw.com/en/denmark-s...
Trump doing this "bad Jew"="Palestinian" bit over and over again is a form of priming. It establishes a frame that draws on both antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism at the same time.. His audience can then start blending those antisemitic and anti-Arab narratives into a conspiracy smoothie
Warfighters
Not true
The look on his face suggests someone is under the table blowing him.
So important for understanding America what went wrong
Wish I had the lube concession at these meetings
I mean, sure, Kennedy and Hegseth, but there are others?
So the cabinet members and their friends and acquaintances are known to buy drugs on the street?
They want Americans to die.
There should be a shareholder suit brought against INTEL.
The head of the US Marshall’s Office, a strong man with tears in his eyes, “Sir, it would be my great pleasure to publicly fellate you.”
Trump: "China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world's magnets. Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, 'let's all do magnets.' There were many other ways that the world could have gone ... we're heavily into the world of magnets now."
Trump: "We're not going to hurt anybody on Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security....Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, we're going to protect it." Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act just cut Medicaid...
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
Another goalpost, moved. Revoking diplomatic visas over trade disputes is next.
No connection to reality
No filters.
Trump says he’s going to allow 600,000 students from China to come to the US because he has a great relationship with President Xi and it’s very important to allow them to study here. Which is the opposite of what they’ve been saying for months.
This EO directing DOJ to prosecute flag desecrators is a (performative) direct assault on the First Amendment and anyone who doesn’t frame it that way is a liar.
Delusional
A major obstacle for folks attempting to defend democracy is that a perfectly accurate description of what Trump is attempting sounds like hysterical conspiracy theorizing to a lot of people. We default to “c’mon, that can’t happen here”—which is exactly why it can.
He’s delusional. We have a delusional man with his finger on the nuclear trigger.
He’s delusional. We have a delusional man with a finger on the nuclear trigger.
A tragic double tap
Trump rambled about an imaginary governor named “Kristi Whitman,” appearing to confuse multiple officials as he signed executive orders.
thread!
"I’ve learned in my military career that disagreement, when voiced respectfully and appropriately, is not disrespect. In fact, it is a deeper form of respect." At the end of the day, yes men are dangerous. New from @markhertling.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
SCALIA: Now, why did the defendant’s actions here destroy the symbol? His actions would have been useless unless the flag was a very good symbol for what he intended to show contempt for. ... I think when somebody does that to the flag, the flag becomes even more a symbol of the country.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Collars get cats killed
Aside from anything else, it is a national emergency that the president of the United States has lost his mind.
Soviet arbitrage
How many hostile forces carrying carbines have they encountered so far?
Guessing the statute of limitations has run out on this.
The predicate for military in DC and I haven’t seen this on any news program
THE Ohio State and Yale should revoke his degrees.
Imagine for a moment if Biden or Harris made that response