Shoot first, create legal justifications later.
West Point grad. Retired FBI special agent. Sick of politics. I mostly talk about sports. Hockey, lacrosse & football fanatic--especially all the Colorado teams. Go Army! Beat Navy!
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Shoot first, create legal justifications later.
That's a logical assumption. A go-fast boat loaded with drugs doesn't need a crew of 11 weighing it down, too.
We have to stop rewarding and normalizing ignorance.
Good.
In fairness, the social media intern who wrote this probably just entirely forgot his boss voted to allow the Trumps to do this.
Deja vu from 2001 when the same thing was going on at the state health department.
In all seriousness, I predict there will be a concerted effort to not just ban vaccine requirements nationwide, but to ban all actual vaccines.
I am kidding, btw. I often forget everything on social media is to be taken literally despite the intended level of sarcasm.
The antichrist is real and loose on the earth. I'm reduced to the supernatural being the only logical explanation for what's happening.
It's true, and Lankford knows it. Source: DJT's very own CDC www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-s...
Well, that answers that question. bsky.app/profile/heat...
Is it federal law enforcement "intervention," which can mean a lot of things, or is it the deployment of military units to those cities, because that's a whole different ball game? Intervention can mean shifting resources around and targeting certain criminal activity, not hands-on policing.
Dems: "Americans want politicians who will work on kitchen table issues." Trump: "Imma move Space Command to Alabama!"
Colorado Springs is one of the most conservative enclaves in Colorado. Moving space command from there to Alabama isn't going to punish liberals the way MAGA thinks. Plus space command was put there for a reason. A lot of the infrastructure piggybacks off of NORAD. Cost to move to AL will be huge.
I agree with you. I know he can't do it, but he also can't deploy the National Guard/military for domestic law enforcement as Judge Bryer just ruled, but he did it in L.A. anyway. Trump does a lot of things he's not allowed to do legally, but he does them and then dares others to stop him.
I predict an EO banning voting by mail and mandatory ID -or- He's placing himself in charge of the AP College Football poll and he, and he alone, will determine the Top 25.
I predict mandatory voter ID and a ban on voting by mail.
❗️Want to hear self-proclaimed “Christian Nationalists” say the quiet parts out loud? Here’s your chance. Tulsa’s GOP has got you covered with a 6-week course. 👀 #oklahoma
If a few health professionals say something you don't like, all said it and we should destroy the CDC. If a few students say something you don't like, all higher ed said it and we should end academic freedom. If the president and his party does something, that's one guy spouting off, let it go.
First the came for IHOP, and I said nothing because who eats at IHOP? Then they came for Waffle House, and I said nothing because I do not go there sober. Then they came for Cracker Barrel...
Trump (and Melania) alive and well on the golf course today. Suck on that shitlibs!
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
Modern scams have become a high profit, low risk proposition. Grifters really don't need people to hand them shoeboxes full of cash anymore. They just need a podcast or a Youtube channel and the algorithms will do the rest.
Dabo Swinney and Clemson have no room to complain right now. None.
The rules governing a catch in football are the dumbest in all of sport and I include golf in that.
nothing like a saturday of labor day weekend newsdump, but no time like the present: I wrote a book, and it’s available for pre-purchase! linktr.ee/artbutmakeit...
Yes. Stop excluding people because they don't meet your ideological purity test.
Ohio State transfer portal > Texas transfer portal
This is Anhelina, two years old, celebrating her birthday. Anhelina and her mom, 24-year-old Nadiia, were killed by Russia in #Kyiv on August 28.
Gonna miss you Coach Corso. Godspeed.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Hoo. Coach Prime and CU with some of the worst clock management I've ever seen.
Leaving it up to the kicker has never been the best course of action for Army football. Gonna be a very long season.
Personally I think Army Football is struggling because they got rid of Woke
I wrote for the @nytimes.com about the administration’s abandonment of statistics and data in favor of information as an instrument of raw control
It's an outstanding piece! Thanks for taking the time to write it.
All I was able to do was enter my DOB. CVS said I wasn't eligible at that point. There was no option to enter pre-existing conditions, high-risk factors, etc. Just denied with no explanation as to why. I'm going to go ask them why today.
Apparently, if I start smoking, I can get it. Half tempted to walk into my CVS, grabbing a pack of Marlboros and slamming it on the pharmacy counter, and yelling, "Give me the damn shot!"
Never smoked in my life and you can check my cycling stats on Strava.
Just tried to schedule one at the CVS where I've gotten it every year it's been out. I was told I'm not eligible.
The NFL Lite season officially starts for me tonight. Let's see if Mike Gundy keeps his job...or acts like he even cares if he keeps his job. #GoPokes
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media
Happy Birthday!
Courage and fear are both contagious
I agree, but recent polling puts support for many of the more odious things we're seeing at around 40%. That doesn't indicate there's any rebuke or new vision coming anytime soon.
Pay attention to what’s going on at the CDC tonight. It’s the agency charged with reducing the spread of disease and several of its scientists say their work is in danger.
I dealt with some pretty bad people in my career, but I don't think I've ever seen a single person present as big a threat to public safety as this guy. He's a sociopath.
"I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health."
Here in the U.S., I bet 'Acceptable' would be 40% at minimum.
It's going to be funny watching all the people who hate the idea of grand juries flip.
I get the feeling not many people on Bluesky served in the military.
Let's check in on the stock market today... Oh.
Just out of curiosity, how many of Trump's appointees helping to facilitate the crackdown in D.C. right now did you vote to confirm?
These are the same people who say they know more about things like vaccines than actual experts in the field.
The canard you can indict a ham sandwich was always B.S. If there's evidence of a crime presented by competent investigators and prosecutors, you'll get an indictment. If there's no evidence, and/or the investigators and prosecutors are incompetent, you get no bill...three of them in this instance
I completely agree we're already there and think the hair-splitting over definitions and the "It's not authoritarianism because *I* haven't been locked up!" arguments happening on social media now are so silly and counterproductive.
You shouldn't have to kiss a dictator's ass to exercise the basic tenets of your form of government and the rights granted by the Constitution. Even hypothetically.
Are we really treating the potential deployment of American soldiers to crackdown on U.S. citizens in an American city as some normal god damned thing now??? Really?
I've sat through enough plea hearings to know that would come up and any decent judge would reject the plea.
"Critics?"
Which November?
I found the cause of the crash.
The evidence is clear. Not just from Trump, but from those around him. All the people pretending it isn't a even a possibility are exceptionally naive and doing all of us a disservice. Yes, it is illegal. Yes, we should plan for normal elections but there better be contingency plans, as well.
i am far from an alarmist but i have been operating under this assumption since he won. it’s why i thought that he should have been asked, at some point, whether he intended to leave office on january 20, 2029.
You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
I didn't believe there was any way that quote could be in the story for a second. No way any self-respecting journalist could write that. Boy, was I wrong.
If this is about a book Bolton wrote years ago, I can't see what fresh probable cause would be available to justify a warrant.
I'm just curious how it is that Dems can only steal elections when Trump is in office but couldn't seem to manage it when Obama and Biden were in office.
if you can't sell the american public on the idea that federal troops in the streets is fundamentally unacceptable then you have no business being in politics. and if you do not forcibly believe this at your core such that you can't shut up about it, that goes double for you
I really thought there would at least be protests or some kind of fight before American democracy collapsed so completely. Boy was I wrong.
Your daily reminder that the war he said would NEVER have happened if he were president was happening when he was president and still is.
As the already voluminous evidence showing these people never intend to relinquish power grows, elected Dems figure if they just repeat the phrase "kitchen table issues" and do nothing else, they'll win the midterms and normality will be restored. They're just whistling past America's graveyard.
"There is a despicable purge underway of senior FBI officials, all of whom have risen in their careers as nonpartisan, and who have been targeted for vindictive, political purposes," said Mark Zaid, a whistleblower attorney who represents a number of federal workers dismissed under President Trump.
Can confirm. Also: Why do you need to wear spurs on a plane and how does that make it through TSA?
The Democrats unwillingness/inability to fight became very apparent when they allowed McConnell to steal a SCOTUS seat without so much as a whimper. I predict Republicans will steal the mid terms next year and the Democrats' response will be to "tread cautiously." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
The only thing that *should* happen for the war in Ukraine to end is for Russia to leave Ukraine.
This is exactly what will happen, and we damn well better have a plan for dealing with it.
If I here one more person call this weak little man "leader," I might puke.
The cost of living in Trump's America under feckless and cowardly Democratic inaction is way too high. We deserve better.
Folks, if you are dumb enough to post threats like this, expect to get hit with charges.
I heard Conor Lamb say he thinks Joe Biden is the reason approval for Democrats is at an all-time low. I think it's because Conor Lamb and Dems are completely absent and complicit in what's happening with that absence.
Imagine the incompetence we don't see.
My own view is that it was *really* smart of D.C. to wait for the Trump admin. to overplay its hand before suing. It's one thing to invoke the emergency police support provision of the Home Rule Act in specific cases; it's something else entirely to claim it allows the feds to *take over* the MPD.
❌FALSE❌ OKC Police want you to stop sharing that bogus online claim about a serial k1ller cutting the faces off his victims. It’s untrue. (I’m looking at you, local ‘mom’ facebook groups.)
I mean, it's pretty obvious we are where we are because people were mean to Robert Bork (This week's outrage, if you've been spared), but Ross attempts to engage in a little more nuanced thinking. Lots of good stuff here that's worth your time, IMHO. rossbrown06.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
This Substack post from my West Point classmate, is very long (I'm still working my way through it) but interesting. He attempts to examine many of the causes of how we got to where we are today instead of employing the typical social media method of assigning a single cause to complex issues.
Maybe a Joshua Chamberlain will emerge. Who am I kidding?
They sent 20 people to this guy's house to arrest him? That's moronic.
Honestly, I'm starting to wonder how much of all this began as two random dudes from Reddit.
"If these data survive..."
I wouldn't be surprised to see more FBI and other federal agents sent TDY to D.C. from red states (Because there is no crime in places like Memphis or St. Louis) fairly soon.
ask yourself if he would be saying this if PPI came in way cooler than expected Hint: he would not
not to go all woke-mob here, but in my opinion any company making money off of sexual/romantic conversations with children should be immediately shutdown and sold for parts and every executive should be in jail
Had a supervisor who yelled at us if we wore a suit. Of course the ASAC yelled at us for not wearing a suit.
I want to know why someone is wearing their "evidence response team" shirt.
My first reaction was "WHOA!" But it's not *that* Judge Ho. Still, this ruling is important and correct IMO.
Why do you hate me? 😉