lesliefairchilds.bsky.social
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Lost in some of the outrage over this is that Trump's pick is LITERALLY unqualified. The law says a Chairman has to have been a vice chair, a service chief or held a combatant command. Caine hasn't done any of those and I don't think he was even the senior service general at a combatant command.
February 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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February 23, 2025
February 23, 2025
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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You don’t say.

Despite DOGE, Trump's agenda calls for adding trillions of dollars to U.S debt www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
Despite DOGE, Trump's agenda calls for adding trillions of dollars to U.S debt
Budget experts say Trump’s tax and spending priorities would increase red ink, even as he boasts of balancing the budget. “I don’t think their rhetoric matches reality,” says one.
www.nbcnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Fuck him. He is selling us out and breaking America from the inside. All for the benefit of our biggest adversary Russia.

I wonder how much of the data DOGE is stealing is going there.
February 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Today in @democrats-judiciary.house.gov I played a little game with Donald Trump's lies on immigration: Rhetoric or Reality? Let's all play along!
Rhetoric or Reality? Exposing MAGA Lies on Immigration
YouTube video by Rep. Jasmine Crockett
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Courage. Conviction. With Trump and Vance sitting right there in her service.

https://buff.ly/40oIsly
January 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.
January 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Sagan was a prophet.
January 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM