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Fascinating - and frustrating - read. To change the name of the Department of Defense will mean changing all 700,000 seals, letterhead, signage, etc around the world. At a cost of potentially billions.
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POLITICO Pro: White House to rebrand Pentagon the Department of War
The name change would likely require an act of Congress, although the White House is looking for ways to avoid a vote.
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September 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Fascinating - and frustrating - read. To change the name of the Department of Defense will mean changing all 700,000 seals, letterhead, signage, etc around the world. At a cost of potentially billions.
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Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.
"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
The US military "conducted a lethal strike" against an alleged "drug vessel" in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
US military ‘conducted a lethal strike’ on alleged ‘drug vessel’ in southern Caribbean, Rubio says | CNN Politics
The United States “conducted a lethal strike” against an alleged “drug vessel” in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed.
"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
"Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
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looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
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He should have said "Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Lindsey Graham: "I think Israel has come to conclude that they can't achieve a goal of ending the war with Hamas that would be satisfactory to the safety of Israel, and they're going to do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin -- take the place by force, then start over again."
July 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
He should have said "Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
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I don’t know how to get people to understand this is only going to get worse. They are going to tank the economy.
A lot of people are going to lose their jobs and livelihoods.
A lot of people are going to lose their jobs and livelihoods.
June 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I don’t know how to get people to understand this is only going to get worse. They are going to tank the economy.
A lot of people are going to lose their jobs and livelihoods.
A lot of people are going to lose their jobs and livelihoods.
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AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this
May 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
AOC: When you wake up in the morning, you will realize that you voted to defund planned parenthood and take away health care from 13.7 million Americans and when this country wakes up there will be consequences to pay for this
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"Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human."
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
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May 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Autism doesn’t erase potential. It reshapes it. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s nonlinear. Always, it’s human."
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This.
"Ah-ha, sovereignty won. We are on the side of sovereignty" say team threatening sovereignty of Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland, while celebrating that the Kentucky Derby was won by a horse owned by the Emir of Dubai.
UPDATE: We live in hell
May 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This.
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UPDATE: We live in hell
May 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
UPDATE: We live in hell
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NEW from @accountablegop.bsky.social:
Republicans denounce federal government for targeting those who disagree with the administration.
“If we are going to respect the rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies.”
Republicans denounce federal government for targeting those who disagree with the administration.
“If we are going to respect the rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies.”
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
NEW from @accountablegop.bsky.social:
Republicans denounce federal government for targeting those who disagree with the administration.
“If we are going to respect the rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies.”
Republicans denounce federal government for targeting those who disagree with the administration.
“If we are going to respect the rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies.”
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us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
April 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years
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everyone needs to understand this
We do not have a free country in this moment. When they can nab someone off the street because they don't like what they say, they can nab anyone.
March 27, 2025 at 4:38 AM
everyone needs to understand this
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I’m not reposting that Kristi Noem video filmed in front of Venezuelan men crammed into a cell in the El Salvador concentration camp.
I’m disgusted. We have crossed a rubicon. Dehumanization like this only leads in one direction.
I’m disgusted. We have crossed a rubicon. Dehumanization like this only leads in one direction.
March 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I’m not reposting that Kristi Noem video filmed in front of Venezuelan men crammed into a cell in the El Salvador concentration camp.
I’m disgusted. We have crossed a rubicon. Dehumanization like this only leads in one direction.
I’m disgusted. We have crossed a rubicon. Dehumanization like this only leads in one direction.
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‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.
March 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.
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5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders:
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
5 former Secretaries of Defense call on Congress to exercise oversight responsibility on Trump-Hegseth firing of senior military leaders:
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
The "dismissals raise troubling questions about the administration’s desire to politicize the military and to remove legal constraints on the President’s power."
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The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.
Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems and locking out career employees.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
February 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.
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“put it on his fucking gravestone”
February 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
“put it on his fucking gravestone”
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Ding ding ding! Watch this. He’s laying it out.
My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us.
When Elon bought X, it became even sharper.
The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.
My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us.
When Elon bought X, it became even sharper.
The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.
Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign from the left…It's like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.
February 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ding ding ding! Watch this. He’s laying it out.
My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us.
When Elon bought X, it became even sharper.
The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.
My team at Stanford Internet Observatory documented this process meticulously, over & over again, in 2020. The R machine retaliated against us.
When Elon bought X, it became even sharper.
The rest of the political spectrum needs to get in the game.
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In an essay from 2017, Toni Morrison, who was born on this day, in 1931, recalled some lessons on work that she gleaned from her father. nyer.cm/1otRPRB
February 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
In an essay from 2017, Toni Morrison, who was born on this day, in 1931, recalled some lessons on work that she gleaned from her father. nyer.cm/1otRPRB
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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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The defining feature of @thirdactorg.bsky.social is...we've been around a while. And none of us have ever seen anything like this
February 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The defining feature of @thirdactorg.bsky.social is...we've been around a while. And none of us have ever seen anything like this