Cole B.
@jediwinetrick.bsky.social
Huge nerd. Yooper. Attorney. Husband. Vet. Horror films. Crazy cat & dog dad. Sometimes funny. My opinions are mine.
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“These cuts are killing Veterans. Veterans will die.” – MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton, at yesterday's SVAC shadow hearing
He even offered to advise DOGE. They ignored him.
Now they’re gutting care and shutting Veterans out.
It’s a knife in the back of everyone who ever wore the uniform.
He even offered to advise DOGE. They ignored him.
Now they’re gutting care and shutting Veterans out.
It’s a knife in the back of everyone who ever wore the uniform.
April 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“These cuts are killing Veterans. Veterans will die.” – MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton, at yesterday's SVAC shadow hearing
He even offered to advise DOGE. They ignored him.
Now they’re gutting care and shutting Veterans out.
It’s a knife in the back of everyone who ever wore the uniform.
He even offered to advise DOGE. They ignored him.
Now they’re gutting care and shutting Veterans out.
It’s a knife in the back of everyone who ever wore the uniform.
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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Trump sent a teenager in the US legally to a gulag for being Venezuelan www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador
Eighteen-year-old Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his ...
www.texasmonthly.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Trump sent a teenager in the US legally to a gulag for being Venezuelan www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."
3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."
This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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"Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right."
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
www.thebulwark.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right."
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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It’s good news in abortion rights when a state stops persecuting a young woman who miscarried a wanted pregnancy.
Georgia reluctantly dropped charges of “abandoning a dead body” because it had no basis in GA law.
Yay.
From @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Georgia reluctantly dropped charges of “abandoning a dead body” because it had no basis in GA law.
Yay.
From @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
BREAKING: Georgia Drops Miscarriage Charges
National backlash pushes prosecutors to drop
open.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It’s good news in abortion rights when a state stops persecuting a young woman who miscarried a wanted pregnancy.
Georgia reluctantly dropped charges of “abandoning a dead body” because it had no basis in GA law.
Yay.
From @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Georgia reluctantly dropped charges of “abandoning a dead body” because it had no basis in GA law.
Yay.
From @jessicavalenti.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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DOW DROPS
🔽 2,231.99 points
#Trumpcession is not a reset. It's a man-made economic disaster
Even Fox News, WSJ, Ben Shapiro, CNBC taking heads are all setting their hair on fire
🔽 2,231.99 points
#Trumpcession is not a reset. It's a man-made economic disaster
Even Fox News, WSJ, Ben Shapiro, CNBC taking heads are all setting their hair on fire
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
DOW DROPS
🔽 2,231.99 points
#Trumpcession is not a reset. It's a man-made economic disaster
Even Fox News, WSJ, Ben Shapiro, CNBC taking heads are all setting their hair on fire
🔽 2,231.99 points
#Trumpcession is not a reset. It's a man-made economic disaster
Even Fox News, WSJ, Ben Shapiro, CNBC taking heads are all setting their hair on fire
Embracing poverty is patriotism, says a literal Russian-paid propagandist.
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Embracing poverty is patriotism, says a literal Russian-paid propagandist.
Republicans in North Carolina lost so they threw a fit, flipped the table over, and demanded a do-over.
NEW: A North Carolina appeals court effectively disenfranchised over 60k voters in ruling against Justice Allison Riggs' (D) victory in the state Supreme Court race.
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Riggs, who plans to appeal, calls the battle “a fight for the very soul of democracy.”
From: @jaknutson.bsky.social
Allison Riggs: 'This is a fight for the very soul of democracy'
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Republicans in North Carolina lost so they threw a fit, flipped the table over, and demanded a do-over.
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Donald Trump elected not to attend the dignified transfer of 4 fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The soldiers died in Lithuania during a training exercise.
Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied.
The…
Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied.
The…
April 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Donald Trump elected not to attend the dignified transfer of 4 fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The soldiers died in Lithuania during a training exercise.
Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied.
The…
Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied.
The…
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Oh, fantastic—Rubio says ‘economies aren’t crashing, markets are crashing.’ What a relief!
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Oh, fantastic—Rubio says ‘economies aren’t crashing, markets are crashing.’ What a relief!
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On the left: Hegseth's message.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
March 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On the left: Hegseth's message.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.
This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.
They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
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"they’ve agreed to let the govt dictate how they allocate their charitable legal services. This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook First Amendment violation. The govt is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific political initiatives"
March 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"they’ve agreed to let the govt dictate how they allocate their charitable legal services. This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook First Amendment violation. The govt is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific political initiatives"
You know that scene in “Love Actually” where Hugh Grant stands up to the bullying, piggish U.S. President during a televised event and is treated like a patriotic hero by the UK people and British press?
Yeah, that was Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday.
#SlavaUkraini
Yeah, that was Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday.
#SlavaUkraini
March 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You know that scene in “Love Actually” where Hugh Grant stands up to the bullying, piggish U.S. President during a televised event and is treated like a patriotic hero by the UK people and British press?
Yeah, that was Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday.
#SlavaUkraini
Yeah, that was Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday.
#SlavaUkraini
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🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
February 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot.
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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The people who can't stop calling Democrats "socialists" want to send out $5K government checks to every American.
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Trump says he'll consider DOGE dividend checks. Economists say such payments are unlikely.
President Trump said his administration is considering dividend checks based on savings found by DOGE. Economists are skeptical.
www.cbsnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The people who can't stop calling Democrats "socialists" want to send out $5K government checks to every American.
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One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!
February 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!
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This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
February 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Wow! German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius SLAMS JD Vance's speech as undemocratic and calls it "not acceptable."
“Here in Germany, we fight for your right to disagree against us.”
He’s 100% right!
“Here in Germany, we fight for your right to disagree against us.”
He’s 100% right!
February 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Wow! German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius SLAMS JD Vance's speech as undemocratic and calls it "not acceptable."
“Here in Germany, we fight for your right to disagree against us.”
He’s 100% right!
“Here in Germany, we fight for your right to disagree against us.”
He’s 100% right!
He loves his snow so much! #dogsofBlueSky #doglife
February 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
He loves his snow so much! #dogsofBlueSky #doglife
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Just disgusting.
Some background…
“A U.S. Military Base school was given a directive in preparation for Sec.ofDef. Hegseth visit, to remove anything promoting Black History Month. Anything construed as DEl or "woke".”
#Stuggart
“A U.S. Military Base school was given a directive in preparation for Sec.ofDef. Hegseth visit, to remove anything promoting Black History Month. Anything construed as DEl or "woke".”
#Stuggart
February 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Just disgusting.
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.