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every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
every single thing hegseth says in public reveals a bottomless pit of insecurity
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
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NEW: A Fort Worth church is offering a $100 online academy that aims to train conservative Christians to run for office.
At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office
A Fort Worth church’s candidate training program is the “next stage” of a religion-driven political movement, which has more latitude now that the IRS has allowed religious leaders to endorse candidat...
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: A Fort Worth church is offering a $100 online academy that aims to train conservative Christians to run for office.
At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
At the core of the program is the idea that there's no separation between what happens within the church and in the government.
w/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Still upset about no power of the purse language. You truly do hate to see it. The Trump admin undertook the most expansive set of illegal budgetary actions of any president in history, and broadcast as loudly as possible they’d keep doing it, and nothing. Budgetary lawlessness.
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Citing a Trump order about “restoring biological truth,” the VA is making it more difficult for male veterans with breast cancer to get their care covered by the government.
The disease is deadlier than for women and “notably higher among veterans,” research shows.
By @ericumansky.bsky.social
The disease is deadlier than for women and “notably higher among veterans,” research shows.
By @ericumansky.bsky.social
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Citing a Trump order about “restoring biological truth,” the VA is making it more difficult for male veterans with breast cancer to get their care covered by the government.
The disease is deadlier than for women and “notably higher among veterans,” research shows.
By @ericumansky.bsky.social
The disease is deadlier than for women and “notably higher among veterans,” research shows.
By @ericumansky.bsky.social
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A 38-year-old man who has been protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program for the past 12 years was detained by ICE earlier this month, with the agency citing his social media posts as the reason for terminating his DACA status. https://cnn.it/48RlYiY
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A 38-year-old man who has been protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program for the past 12 years was detained by ICE earlier this month, with the agency citing his social media posts as the reason for terminating his DACA status. https://cnn.it/48RlYiY
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I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I obtained ~dozens of hours~ of previously unreported recordings of Russ Vought's briefings from 2021 to 2024.
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Want to hear the recordings yourself? Watch @propublica.org's
new mini-documentary about Vought 👇
THE SHADOW PRESIDENT www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
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Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.
The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.
The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.
September 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.
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It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”
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A Social Security Administration official responsible for overseeing the agency’s data access resigned from his role on Friday, days after submitting a whistleblower complaint.
Social Security whistleblower quits after saying Americans’ data was compromised
Social Security’s chief data officer left after he said the DOGE staff had uploaded personal information for more than 300 million people to the digital cloud.
wapo.st
August 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A Social Security Administration official responsible for overseeing the agency’s data access resigned from his role on Friday, days after submitting a whistleblower complaint.
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Surrounded by mountains, the band plays its biggest hits at 8,000 feet. n.pr/4fXv7rL
The All-American Rejects: Field Recordings x Aspen Ideas Festival
Surrounded by mountains, the band plays its biggest hits at 8,000 feet.
n.pr
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Surrounded by mountains, the band plays its biggest hits at 8,000 feet. n.pr/4fXv7rL
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I’ve come to realize that the entire MAHA movement is just grown ass adults tricking themselves into thinking that junk food is healthy because a random dye was removed.
July 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I’ve come to realize that the entire MAHA movement is just grown ass adults tricking themselves into thinking that junk food is healthy because a random dye was removed.
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Deliberately starving people and shooting them when they seek aid is an industrial and systemic approach to mass murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders
Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 85 Palestinians have been killed while trying to reach food on the deadliest day yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war
www.washingtonpost.com
July 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Deliberately starving people and shooting them when they seek aid is an industrial and systemic approach to mass murder.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.
Community radio stations are collateral damage as Congress cuts NPR funding
Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.
n.pr
July 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.
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They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke
July 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke
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They don’t know what’s in the legislation they just voted for
July 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
They don’t know what’s in the legislation they just voted for
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Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
www.tpr.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Monstrous:
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."
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If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.
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lol Barrett saying this about a black woman and acting like the 14th amendment doesn't exist is just absolutely insane racism
Woah. Fierce cut-down of the junior justice by the next-most-junior justice.
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
Barrett giving Jackson the back of her hand:
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
lol Barrett saying this about a black woman and acting like the 14th amendment doesn't exist is just absolutely insane racism