@missile742.bsky.social
Retired USAF Space and Missile officer, current DoD civil servant. Cat dad (6), gamer, beer and bourbon lover. Red Sox and Pats. My opinions are my own.
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Gift article. New from
Tom Nichols.
President Trump acts like a sadistic superhero. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Tom Nichols.
President Trump acts like a sadistic superhero. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
President Homelander
Donald Trump believes he can do whatever he wants—and his followers are determined to prove him right.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Gift article. New from
Tom Nichols.
President Trump acts like a sadistic superhero. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Tom Nichols.
President Trump acts like a sadistic superhero. @radiofreetom.bsky.social @ericowens.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Page One in Scotland.
July 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Page One in Scotland.
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Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
June 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Wait... is this the best meme ever made?
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Who could have thought that making a wildly unqualified, drunken bigot who championed war criminals and thinks the key to 21st century warfare is pushups the Secretary of Defense would go poorly, with mismanagement of the Pentagon?
‘There Is a Complete Meltdown in the Building’: Pentagon Reportedly in ‘Chaos’ as Hegseth Loses Four Staffers in One Day
“Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.”
www.mediaite.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Who could have thought that making a wildly unqualified, drunken bigot who championed war criminals and thinks the key to 21st century warfare is pushups the Secretary of Defense would go poorly, with mismanagement of the Pentagon?
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Allowing a government to decide who violated the law without due process is an invitation to tyranny. This is basic, basic Founding Fathers stuff.
Indiana Rep Spartz (R): “You violated the law, you are not entitled to due process.”
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
Dangerously ignorant. 🇺🇸
March 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Allowing a government to decide who violated the law without due process is an invitation to tyranny. This is basic, basic Founding Fathers stuff.
Unfit, not qualified
March 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Unfit, not qualified
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Yesterday, Gabbard testified: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.”
So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
March 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Yesterday, Gabbard testified: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.”
So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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We know where the fentanyl is. It’s in the area around Vancouver and Winnipeg and east, west, south and north somewhat.
March 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We know where the fentanyl is. It’s in the area around Vancouver and Winnipeg and east, west, south and north somewhat.
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“Trump is a flimflam man who will promise anything to anybody and count on the suckers forgetting tomorrow what he said yesterday,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. “His Cabinet officers, however, are gradually revealing the true cost of the Eat Less scam”:
The Trump-Tariff Advice: Eat Less
The policy’s real message is “Tax my voters; enrich my donors.”
www.theatlantic.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“Trump is a flimflam man who will promise anything to anybody and count on the suckers forgetting tomorrow what he said yesterday,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. “His Cabinet officers, however, are gradually revealing the true cost of the Eat Less scam”:
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1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
March 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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I know I say this a lot, but I hope we are done—finally done—with accepting the GOP’s efforts to equate its “tough on crime” stance as meaning it actually want to ensure that laws are obeyed.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
here's video of AG Pam Bondi claiming on Fox last night that the Trump administration "absolutely" will keep doing deportation flights even in the face of court orders telling them to stop
March 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I know I say this a lot, but I hope we are done—finally done—with accepting the GOP’s efforts to equate its “tough on crime” stance as meaning it actually want to ensure that laws are obeyed.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
It’s about social control—enforcement as a means of regulating disliked out groups.
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If the White House doesn’t like a federal judge’s ruling they should appeal it, not ignore it. Absent a valid justification, the government officials responsible should be held in contempt.
Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights
"This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we're going to win."
www.axios.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If the White House doesn’t like a federal judge’s ruling they should appeal it, not ignore it. Absent a valid justification, the government officials responsible should be held in contempt.
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Disaster. Killing the IRS is killing the source of legal revenue to fund our government. Compliance will evaporate. Confidence in fairness collapse. Trump is going to break the American government.
"the plan to shrink IRS staff by up to 50% would — very conservatively — lead to a $400 billion increase in uncollected taxes over the next decade. It could easily mean more than $2 trillion in losses..."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | DOGE says it’s saving $100 billion. It’s about to lose a lot more.
Cuts to the IRS will backfire by giving tax evaders a free pass.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Disaster. Killing the IRS is killing the source of legal revenue to fund our government. Compliance will evaporate. Confidence in fairness collapse. Trump is going to break the American government.
Common ground found
February 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Common ground found
10000 Pinocchios?
The Mad King has entered the chat
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "The water comes down from the northwest parts of Canada, I guess, but the Pacific Northwest. And it comes down by millions and millions of barrels a day and uh, I opened it up. It wasn't that easy to do. But I opened it up and it's pouring down."
February 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
10000 Pinocchios?
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Trump has launched a brand-new assault on the rule of law: Trying to illegally fire the Chair of the Federal Election Commission (#FEC).
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
February 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Trump has launched a brand-new assault on the rule of law: Trying to illegally fire the Chair of the Federal Election Commission (#FEC).
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inhumane. disgusting. Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
inhumane. disgusting. Abandoned in the Middle of Clinical Trials, Because of a Trump Order
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Gets at core of Trumps thinking. Make best deal available even if screws long time allies
February 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Gets at core of Trumps thinking. Make best deal available even if screws long time allies
Putin’s useful stooge hiring lackeys who love Russia
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Putin’s useful stooge hiring lackeys who love Russia
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@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
www.wired.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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I have never heard of a more DEI hire than a drunken, National Guard domestic abuser being elevated to run the entire military...
January 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I have never heard of a more DEI hire than a drunken, National Guard domestic abuser being elevated to run the entire military...