And many of the gates to the installation that would normally be open on a weekday are closed because it's a federal holiday and they're on reduced staffing. See what it looks like tomorrow after 9:00AM Local.
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And many of the gates to the installation that would normally be open on a weekday are closed because it's a federal holiday and they're on reduced staffing. See what it looks like tomorrow after 9:00AM Local.
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Three Days of Gary. A Gary too far. Regarding Henry and Gary. Top Gun: Gary
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
I'm my little corner, it's a daily thing.
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
I don't remember.
or at least tried. But she was waivering on running for reelction that last time, and everybody was like "hope the old bat dies" and so on. The time to start managing your older politician's graceful exit is about a year ago. The next best time is tomorrow morning.
I've been saying for 10 years that state parties needed to learn the art of helping people to a graceful exit. They could have named a state office building after Dianne Feinstein, did a bunch of speeches about how great she'd been for California, and how much we all love her, and helped her retire.
Well, the old Walter Reed was in Washington NE. It's where I did my clinicals in Surgical Tech school. It was a straight shot up 16th or 13th. They shut it down and built a new hospital at Bethesda, MD on the Naval Medical Center and made it a Joint Base.
When I was an Infantryman, we'd watch war movies and just roll our eyes. Those guys are too close together. Hand and arm signals ALWAYS work right. Claymores and other explosives don't look like that. Bullets don't work that way. And on and on and on.
I think people are just finding a way to vent their... hopes and dreams. I say to myself at least weekly: He's a 79-year-old morbidly obese man with apparent dementia and congestive heart failure (the ankles). He'll die soon enough. They gotta bury him somewhere. And I gotta shit at least daily.
when I was a surgical tech stationed in Germany, we'd get tapes sent to us by our loved ones back home with current shows on them, and we used to sit around during lunch break watching ER and talk about everything they did wrong and how many patients they killed or paralyzed or contaminated.
I could see why they'd do that. Reduced force on the holiday.
A Senator or two.
Mamdani is doing it right. Help these old guys out the door and thank them for their decades of service and leadership, and make it easy for them to go, and make the transition to the next person clean.
they might close the roads in the immediate vicinity of the hospital as a security measure. I'd want to control terrain within 500 meters of the facility, 360 degrees and keep surveillance on everything within 1000 meters on the side where the President's suite is.
But Google Maps shows it being a 30 minute drive (probably closer to 15 if the roads are closed and you're hauling ass) so I would assume they'd chopper him over as you suggested. This is all idle spitballing, but a boy can hope, can't he?
They have vehicles with equipment ready to go at the White House. I don't know how long it takes to get Marine One there from Andrews. Also, Secret Service could just close the roads in the immediate vicinity of the hospital as a security measure even after flying him in. I honestly don't know.
And nobody cares, or at least nobody cares enough to do anything.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
the press corpse in this country is so desperate to not report what's happening right in front of everybody that one has to wonder if they're in on it.
"Do we really want to live in a country where troop presences substitute for actual governance, and civic problems are met with military deployments?"
Thank you on this labor day!!
It means the streets that are normally open in the vicinity of WRNMMC have been closed. People are speculating that the Secret Service ordered them closed so that they can get Trump to the hospital if his health degrades.
S-1 didn't care as long as we brought our own paper.
We'd go into the defense, Squad Ldr would plot our positions and fields of fire, and we'd start digging, and he'd both pull security and D&M.
You have NO idea. I used to volunteer for 24-hr duty at Battalion HQ, because S-1 had the cool copier that could copy four pages of a book and then print them 1/4 size fully legible on a single sheet of A4 paper. 8 pages of a D&D book on one page. Much easier for playing D&D in the field.
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every year, on Labor Day, I like to re-share this conversation I had with @erikloomis.bsky.social for VICE in 2018 about his excellent book "A History of America in Ten Strikes." Screenshot/excerpt below. Full Q&A here: www.vice.com/en/article/b...
Has anyone seen Trump’s hair lately? Why’s he suddenly always wearing a hat indoors?
But Max Baucus of Montana was instrumental in removing a public option in early stages of the negotiation and writing, which he said later was a mistake.
He was as well (as I look at his Wikipedia entry) but he used his position to get extra Medicare money for Nebraska, which was derisively referred to as the "Cornhusker Kickback". Events conspired to move the bill to reconciliation, and with him no longer necessary, the kickback was deleted.
but "they don't agree with me, therefore they are oppressing me" is not limited to the radical centrist/right wing.
Did he actually play a round? Maybe visit the driving range? Because that picture looks like any physical exertion would finish him off.
Him and Max Baucus, I thought.
The game is going to be played whether you're at the table or not. It seems to me that you'd have a better chance of winning a couple rounds if you're at the table. And that doesn't require compromising your values. Political parties work through participation. But you do you.
I'm not actually arguing with you, but I suppose I could if you really need me to.
I'm sure we'll have an incident at one of the three stores, and then they'll add it.
this needs to be all over the news and all over pretty much everything.
Donald Trump is the most ruthlessly antilabor president since before the Great Depression. If the labor movement does not fight harder than it has since he regained the presidency, its future will be dire, Erik Loomis writes.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
All of this.
And I get that, and I'd not judge someone for making that decision based on their own calculus. But then do not come back complaining that nobody listens to you after you said you'd never vote for the candidate.
It's not specifically forbidden.
Well, OK.
I really like the M&P. It fits my bear paws better than the 1911, but I'm wanting to get a decent 1911 as well. I'm going to purchase a suppressor for this one.
9mm, 1 round at 20 yards. I think I'll frame this one
That's why I'm all over the place.
6th mag, 15 yds. Pull from holster fire 2 rounds rapid fire.
5th magazine 15 yds. Pull from holster, fire 2 rounds rapid fire.
Range day. It's been 2 months. First up .45ACP
Show me where I ever said any of those things. You can't because I never have. The only thing I've ever said was that a person who declares they will never support. A candidate should not expect that candidate to reach out to them. Engage with what I actually said and not what you need to have said.
Not since the rise of the PACs and the superpacs have the parties actually had that kind of power.
It is interesting and a little hilarious that you think the party at national level has that kind of power. Neither political party has had that kind of power since the 1970s.
So he is somebody who should, theoretically at least, know better. That actually makes it worse.
And it applies. No less than it applies to the candidate. We're newsome to be the candidate. The party would be wasting money going after people who won't vote for him. The party does not pick candidates. The party supports candidates picked by the primary process.
That's what the primary process is for. We don't select candidates in smoke-filled rooms. The Democratic Party does not select the candidate. Democrats select the candidate.
Who the fuck is Tom Bartlett?
Counterpoint: we need MORE 'roided out body-builder cats, not fewer.
LOL right, they may "re-examine their deployments" that they're doing because Orange Hitler wants to occupy big cities run by Democrats.
“.. Memphis, after all, has long been one of the most dangerous cities in the country, with a murder rate about twice as high as the nation’s capital ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
I don't know what the tipping point will be or when we can bring it into being, but I rest with absolute certainty today knowing that the bosses & billionaires need us desperately, that we remain infinitely powerful, & that their wildest fantasies pine for a world that will never exist.
Labor creates both the world of goods & services in which we are enmeshed, & also the communities that purchase & give meaning to this landscape of commodities. Without Labor, none of this exists.
Despite the devastating legacy of white supremacist & predatory fantasies we confront, there is no future, even for capital, apart from Labor.
As we witness new & expanded forms of labor theft & wagelessness in AI & fascist repression, it is more important than ever that we understand that all social, economic, & cultural value is produced by Labor.
Instead of playing on liars' terms, start from the premise that their BS is BS, and build from there. I'm not claiming I know exactly how to do this, nor that there's one way to do it, but in general, this is the sort of thing I have in mind. At minimum, will get attention and prompt defensiveness.
No, I don't think that'll solve everything. In fact, I think "that won't solve everything" is a very bad, way too common reason to not do something. I think treating obvious lies as lies, and serial bad faith as bad faith, would be better on its own. Waste less time, focus more on the real problem.
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
Yeah what if people found out who the Feds were who are arresting people? Anyway, here’s a photo *from ICE’s own website* showing clearly visible Feds taking notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman into custody 1/ www.ice.gov/news/release...
We're not allowed to strike, by law. Also, today is a paid holiday anyway.
The National Guardners
So he's alive. More or less. He looks like hell. Anyway...
As legitimate questions about Trump's health proliferate, so will misinformation from blueanon grifters. People on this site should be vigilant.
*blasts Some Chumbawumba at the bbq* 'tis the season!
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
I'm a civil servant. The very definition of institution. We can't even protect ourselves.
No, I don't. And I've never said anything like that. But if you choose to not ever vote for a candidate for whatever reason, part of that is accepting that they're not going to talk to you. Please address what I actually said.
A vast gulf exists between Trump’s authoritarian aspirations and rightwing propaganda about his omnipotence on the one hand - and the realities of a complex modern state and society on the other. And in that space, politics continues, possibilities to resist and push back very much still exist.
Being lawless does not make Trump omnipotent – nor can he just snap his fingers and make all his authoritarian desires a reality. America is in an acutely dangerous situation. But obscuring those distinctions is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
Trump only abides by contracts with the rich. Wall Street will celebrate this action. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...
Many people think life preservers preserve lives. Others disagree! P.S. Trump didn't write this. P.P.S. I for one won't mind Bobby Kennedy Jr. to rip himself apart.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I remember seeing him on the news in the US.
They never could write for him. He's impossible to write for.
What's really going on is that the press corpse got their preferred candidate.
And nothing to apologize for.
You all have every right to be skittish, and sounding the alarm. One party has declared war on you for simply being who you are, and the other party, with notable exceptions, has not stood up for you adequately, if at all.
"I'll never vote for you, no matter what" is not expressing "qualms".
It's never been my argument. My position has for years been "when somebody says that a candidate can't get their vote no matter what, that person should not then be surprised when the candidate takes them at their word and stops engaging with them." That's how I ended up in this conversation.
