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M.A. in International Relations specializing in Economics & B.A. in Poli Sci - Political Nerd - Opinions are my own - RTs are NOT endorsements. I love dogs & science. And I am thankful for civil servants. SF<>SD<>NJ
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· May 24
Joyce, I thought I considered every 🦇 💩 crazy idea that this administration could possibly do, but forgot about the children having control of our nukes! 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
The feeling every day Trump
Is President and Congress allows him to be a dictator.
Is President and Congress allows him to be a dictator.
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3/3 Link to Judge Cobb's decision overturning the president's deployment of the DC Guard to fight crime and use of out of states Guard forces:
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
3/3 Link to Judge Cobb's decision overturning the president's deployment of the DC Guard to fight crime and use of out of states Guard forces:
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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2/3 What Judge Cobb wrote dovetails with Daniel Dale's fact check.
Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act
Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act
Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has made a series of inaccurate claims in recent days about the Insurrection Act, the old law he has mused about invoking to deploy troops to some US cities.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
2/3 What Judge Cobb wrote dovetails with Daniel Dale's fact check.
Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act
Fact check: Trump’s false claims about the Insurrection Act
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Judge Cobb's strong signal:
"The President wields a powerful tool under Title 10 and the Insurrection Act. ... That expansive Title 10 authority, however, is limited by equally strong restraints."
(President Trump has wrongly claimed "no more court cases" if he were to invoke the Act.)
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"The President wields a powerful tool under Title 10 and the Insurrection Act. ... That expansive Title 10 authority, however, is limited by equally strong restraints."
(President Trump has wrongly claimed "no more court cases" if he were to invoke the Act.)
1/3
Judge halts Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in DC | CNN
CNN’s Erin Burnett talks to Ryan Goodman, former Special Counsel at the Dept. of Defense, about a federal judge ordering President Trump to immediately end his DC national guard deployment.
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Judge Cobb's strong signal:
"The President wields a powerful tool under Title 10 and the Insurrection Act. ... That expansive Title 10 authority, however, is limited by equally strong restraints."
(President Trump has wrongly claimed "no more court cases" if he were to invoke the Act.)
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"The President wields a powerful tool under Title 10 and the Insurrection Act. ... That expansive Title 10 authority, however, is limited by equally strong restraints."
(President Trump has wrongly claimed "no more court cases" if he were to invoke the Act.)
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"I got a hug from Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. "Cue the pigs flying. Hell may not yet have frozen over but on an overcast November morning in Donald Trump’s besieged capital there were moments when it seemed like it might have." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye
On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging.
www.newyorker.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
"I got a hug from Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral," writes @sbg1.bsky.social. "Cue the pigs flying. Hell may not yet have frozen over but on an overcast November morning in Donald Trump’s besieged capital there were moments when it seemed like it might have." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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The service was moving, touching, and inspiring. It was beautiful, magnificent, and perfect, even apart from the fact they were not there. (3/3)
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The service was moving, touching, and inspiring. It was beautiful, magnificent, and perfect, even apart from the fact they were not there. (3/3)
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… and about a man whose life and example teach others about those things.
So the president and vice president would not have enjoyed it. It would have confused and confounded them; not only would they not have understood it, it likely would have offended them. (2/3)
So the president and vice president would not have enjoyed it. It would have confused and confounded them; not only would they not have understood it, it likely would have offended them. (2/3)
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
… and about a man whose life and example teach others about those things.
So the president and vice president would not have enjoyed it. It would have confused and confounded them; not only would they not have understood it, it likely would have offended them. (2/3)
So the president and vice president would not have enjoyed it. It would have confused and confounded them; not only would they not have understood it, it likely would have offended them. (2/3)
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The president and vice president shouldn't be upset about having missed the service. The service was not political, and they weren't in any way mentioned, as it was not about them in any way. It was about duty and honor and integrity and decency and love, … (1/3)
Trump, Vance not invited to Thursday funeral for former VP Dick Cheney www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5n...
Trump, Vance not invited to Thursday funeral for former VP Dick Cheney
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The president and vice president shouldn't be upset about having missed the service. The service was not political, and they weren't in any way mentioned, as it was not about them in any way. It was about duty and honor and integrity and decency and love, … (1/3)
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Annual wage growth was 3.79% y/y in Sep, down 0.04% m/m
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Annual wage growth was 3.79% y/y in Sep, down 0.04% m/m
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"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"He knew the bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans. For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all."
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Good point. The clearly extrajudicial killings indicate that the men and women of SOUTHCOM and likely SOCOM apparently need some remedial training on the necessity of refusing illegal orders.
The jury is still out on the rest of the US military, but so far, the USM is getting a failing grade. /1
The jury is still out on the rest of the US military, but so far, the USM is getting a failing grade. /1
To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
November 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Good point. The clearly extrajudicial killings indicate that the men and women of SOUTHCOM and likely SOCOM apparently need some remedial training on the necessity of refusing illegal orders.
The jury is still out on the rest of the US military, but so far, the USM is getting a failing grade. /1
The jury is still out on the rest of the US military, but so far, the USM is getting a failing grade. /1
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NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
November 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
NEW: This is one hell of an opening paragraph from Jim Comey's attorneys in his motion to get the grand jury materials in the case against him.
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Old dude thinks waving his arms around is dancing!
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Old dude thinks waving his arms around is dancing!
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Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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People dress comfortably for air travel because
a. they're going to be in a small space for several hours
b. they don't want to set off metal detectors
c. they want to be able to take their shoes off easily
a. they're going to be in a small space for several hours
b. they don't want to set off metal detectors
c. they want to be able to take their shoes off easily
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
People dress comfortably for air travel because
a. they're going to be in a small space for several hours
b. they don't want to set off metal detectors
c. they want to be able to take their shoes off easily
a. they're going to be in a small space for several hours
b. they don't want to set off metal detectors
c. they want to be able to take their shoes off easily
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Why yes! The solution to air travel issues is for people to... dress up!
(Notice he's not even wearing a tie).
These people are fucking morons.
(Notice he's not even wearing a tie).
These people are fucking morons.
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Why yes! The solution to air travel issues is for people to... dress up!
(Notice he's not even wearing a tie).
These people are fucking morons.
(Notice he's not even wearing a tie).
These people are fucking morons.
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Bro, we just want the planes to take off and land, on the agreed-upon schedule, can you focus on that?
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Bro, we just want the planes to take off and land, on the agreed-upon schedule, can you focus on that?
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Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
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Ja.
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Ja.
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BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If anybody needed more evidence of how politics have changed in America: Rachel Maddow is at Dick Cheney's funeral
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Michael Fanone has been fighting back against Donald Trump since January 6, 2021. Today, that means demanding transparency for Americans and accountability for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Michael Fanone has been fighting back against Donald Trump since January 6, 2021. Today, that means demanding transparency for Americans and accountability for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
Want to join the fight? Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
Want to join the fight? Follow us at @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social