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That would be, of course, illegal.
Trump on Commerce Department taking over Postal Service: "We're thinking about doing that. It'll be a form of a merger."
February 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
That would be, of course, illegal.
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A female admiral.
A Black general.
A Black general.
February 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A female admiral.
A Black general.
A Black general.
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What fucking ignorant moron at the Journal wrote this subhead
February 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
What fucking ignorant moron at the Journal wrote this subhead
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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and the vice chief of the Air Force.
Trump administration fires top US general and Navy chief in unprecedented purge of military leadership | CNN Politics
In an unprecedented purge of the military’s senior leadership Friday night, President Donald Trump fired the top US general just moments before his defense secretary fired the chief of the US Navy and...
www.cnn.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.
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I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.
February 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I'm about to drop a piece at The Atlantic on this Pentagon purge. As I warned, Trump is capturing Justice, Intelligence, the military. This is praetorianism, pure and simple.
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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.
February 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.
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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
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Trump’s purge is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally loyal to him.
Read @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Friday Night Massacre at the Pentagon
Trump’s purge started with his firing of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.
www.theatlantic.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Trump’s purge is a major step toward creating an officer corps personally loyal to him.
Read @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story.
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver.
This is what "merit" means to them.
apnews.com/article/trum...
February 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.
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Every senior officer serves at the pleasure of the President, but Trump and Hegseth’s firing of CJCS Chairman General Brown will reflect badly on the civilian leadership, not on the military.
February 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Every senior officer serves at the pleasure of the President, but Trump and Hegseth’s firing of CJCS Chairman General Brown will reflect badly on the civilian leadership, not on the military.
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Civil-rights lawyer here. In my business, this is called prima facie evidence of invidious race & gender discrimination. And the other chiefs—all white men—are comparators. The evidence in support of the discrimination claim includes Trump‘s own “DEI” statements admitting to discriminatory motive.
Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.
February 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Civil-rights lawyer here. In my business, this is called prima facie evidence of invidious race & gender discrimination. And the other chiefs—all white men—are comparators. The evidence in support of the discrimination claim includes Trump‘s own “DEI” statements admitting to discriminatory motive.
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BREAKING: Associated Press is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment.
This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back.
Well done AP👏
This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back.
Well done AP👏
February 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
BREAKING: Associated Press is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment.
This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back.
Well done AP👏
This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back.
Well done AP👏
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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
The Trump administration is shutting down EV chargers at all federal government buildings and is also expected to sell off the General Services Administration‘s (GSA) newly bought EVs.
more…
electrek.co
February 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.
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Here’s @jimacosta.bsky.social, absolutely right, on how other news orgs should be responding re the AP/White House mess
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
February 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Here’s @jimacosta.bsky.social, absolutely right, on how other news orgs should be responding re the AP/White House mess
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)
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The Trump administration has proposed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States be granted 50 percent ownership of Ukraine's rare earth minerals in exchange for its military support, according to a report by NBC News.
Trump asks Zelenskyy for half of Ukraine’s rare earths: NBC News
U.S. officials told NBC that handing over half of its valuable minerals would be a way for Kyiv to reimburse the U.S. for the billions of dollars in weapons and support.
www.politico.eu
February 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The Trump administration has proposed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United States be granted 50 percent ownership of Ukraine's rare earth minerals in exchange for its military support, according to a report by NBC News.
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WEMPLE: “.. Just as no one would have supposed .. that a wire service would be sidelined over compliance with ‘Gulf of America,’ how far off is the day when outlets must heed the renaming of the White House to ‘the Trump Mansion’?”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | This is a perfectly fine hill for the AP to die on
The wire service’s reporters have been barred from White House events. Next time, it could be you.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
WEMPLE: “.. Just as no one would have supposed .. that a wire service would be sidelined over compliance with ‘Gulf of America,’ how far off is the day when outlets must heed the renaming of the White House to ‘the Trump Mansion’?”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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I mean, turns out they were right
“On the day of the vote, several senior aides to Mr. Trump and people close to Mr. Hegseth said they thought Mr. Tillis was too weak to hold out.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...
As Trump Threatened a Primary, a G.O.P. Holdout on Hegseth Flipped
Before Senator Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, he worked with accusers to make the case against him in a bid to get G.O.P. leaders to scrap the vote altogether.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I mean, turns out they were right
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“[Panama’s President Mulino] said the migrants would eventually be transferred to their countries of origin on flights funded by the US.”
Call me cynical* but I kind of suspect that if the US were actually planning to pay for that they would have done it themselves.
*capable of pattern recognition
Call me cynical* but I kind of suspect that if the US were actually planning to pay for that they would have done it themselves.
*capable of pattern recognition
US deports 119 immigrants of varying nationalities to Panama
People from Afghanistan, Iran, China and other countries flown out as Trump’s deportation effort intensifies
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“[Panama’s President Mulino] said the migrants would eventually be transferred to their countries of origin on flights funded by the US.”
Call me cynical* but I kind of suspect that if the US were actually planning to pay for that they would have done it themselves.
*capable of pattern recognition
Call me cynical* but I kind of suspect that if the US were actually planning to pay for that they would have done it themselves.
*capable of pattern recognition
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So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time
Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste.
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...
February 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time
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If the biggest money man in the Democratic Party was a racist weirdo who was obsessed with impregnating women we would never hear the end of it
For those of you no longer on Twitter, another alleged secret child of Elon Musk's has just been revealed via the kid's mother, a blogger at the Babylon Bee and a Post Millennial contributor.
February 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
If the biggest money man in the Democratic Party was a racist weirdo who was obsessed with impregnating women we would never hear the end of it
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Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
February 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
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Look, I'm hardly one to defend DEI, but this is an incredibly poorly-reasoned article that bases its prescriptive argument on *incredibly* flimsy grounds. www.vox.com/politics/399...
February 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Look, I'm hardly one to defend DEI, but this is an incredibly poorly-reasoned article that bases its prescriptive argument on *incredibly* flimsy grounds. www.vox.com/politics/399...