David
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Utter 🐂 💩 disgrace
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
Gen. Charles Brown, a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q., is to be replaced by a retired 3-star Air Force general, John Caine, who endeared himself to the president when they met in Iraq six years ago
tRump fires woman & blacks, and MAGA applauds
Mein Fuhrer !!!
Gen. Charles Brown, a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q., is to be replaced by a retired 3-star Air Force general, John Caine, who endeared himself to the president when they met in Iraq six years ago
tRump fires woman & blacks, and MAGA applauds
Mein Fuhrer !!!
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. reflects the president’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues and has lost sight of its combat role.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Utter 🐂 💩 disgrace
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BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine.
DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.
DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.
February 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine.
DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.
DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.
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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
February 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?
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Worth noting that McConnell refusing to whip votes to convict Trump at his impeachment trial (or vote himself to convict) is *why* we’re now in a position where a trade war with our allies could happen. If McConnell is looking for the person at fault, he might want to consult a mirror.
Mitch McConnell: Tariffs "will drive the cost of everything up. In other words, it will be paid for by American consumers. I mean, why would you want to get in a fight with your allies over this?"
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Worth noting that McConnell refusing to whip votes to convict Trump at his impeachment trial (or vote himself to convict) is *why* we’re now in a position where a trade war with our allies could happen. If McConnell is looking for the person at fault, he might want to consult a mirror.
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼
Call your Senators, Republican or Democrat. Their offices need to feel this chaos too!
Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator.
From Indivisible:
Call your Senators, Republican or Democrat. Their offices need to feel this chaos too!
Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator.
From Indivisible:
January 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼
Call your Senators, Republican or Democrat. Their offices need to feel this chaos too!
Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator.
From Indivisible:
Call your Senators, Republican or Democrat. Their offices need to feel this chaos too!
Call the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senator.
From Indivisible:
Stop letting him say he has a mandate. It's just not true, but it will become true if no one challenges.
January 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Stop letting him say he has a mandate. It's just not true, but it will become true if no one challenges.
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Elon Musk biographer here.
The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now.
Publicly. Daily.
The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now.
Publicly. Daily.
The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
Opinion | The missing context from the Elon Musk salute
We can’t have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Elon Musk biographer here.
The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now.
Publicly. Daily.
The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now.
Publicly. Daily.
The Post either knows this or should not be in business.
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Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
January 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Donald Trump nominated Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel because he wants to show Republicans that he is the boss. That he can strip them of their dignity by making them support terrible nominees.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
Senate Republicans may be in the majority, but Trump controls them. That is the story.
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ENGRAVE THIS ON A PLAQUE
January 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
ENGRAVE THIS ON A PLAQUE
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to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
January 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
to recap:
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
— Trump was *for* the TikTok ban
— which the GOP Congress passed
— and the GOP Supreme Court upheld
— and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway
— so that Trump could "save" it
— and the media fell for it
we really do live in the dumbest fucking country
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People not elected to government should not have the power to reshape the government, especially people whose obscene wealth depends on the government functioning a certain way.
This is not a hot take.
It's just plain common sense.
This is not a hot take.
It's just plain common sense.
December 7, 2024 at 8:04 PM
People not elected to government should not have the power to reshape the government, especially people whose obscene wealth depends on the government functioning a certain way.
This is not a hot take.
It's just plain common sense.
This is not a hot take.
It's just plain common sense.
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I guess I must’ve misunderstood what “super clear” meant.
December 6, 2024 at 7:30 PM
I guess I must’ve misunderstood what “super clear” meant.
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Released my memoir this year. “It’s Hard For Me to Live with Me”. It became a New York Times Bestseller. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Ha...
December 6, 2024 at 5:30 AM
Released my memoir this year. “It’s Hard For Me to Live with Me”. It became a New York Times Bestseller. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Ha...
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This is so worth reading, even if you don't follow basketball, it's absolutely gripping. Also you should follow basketball, it's awesome.
Released my memoir this year. “It’s Hard For Me to Live with Me”. It became a New York Times Bestseller. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Its-Ha...
December 6, 2024 at 5:45 AM
This is so worth reading, even if you don't follow basketball, it's absolutely gripping. Also you should follow basketball, it's awesome.
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Beware of the people who spent the last several years mocking Hunter Biden’s addiction issues who are now virtue signaling about Pete Hegseth’s alcohol issues.
December 5, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Beware of the people who spent the last several years mocking Hunter Biden’s addiction issues who are now virtue signaling about Pete Hegseth’s alcohol issues.
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Send to all Veterans, active Military personnel & their families:
This is not hyperbole
2 UN-elected billionaires + the dumbest MOC plan to cut $120 BILLION in Veteran's Care
If you voted GOP:
Is that OK with you?
Now what will you tell the veterans in your life?
Watch:
youtube.com/shorts/ghMAa...
This is not hyperbole
2 UN-elected billionaires + the dumbest MOC plan to cut $120 BILLION in Veteran's Care
If you voted GOP:
Is that OK with you?
Now what will you tell the veterans in your life?
Watch:
youtube.com/shorts/ghMAa...
December 5, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Send to all Veterans, active Military personnel & their families:
This is not hyperbole
2 UN-elected billionaires + the dumbest MOC plan to cut $120 BILLION in Veteran's Care
If you voted GOP:
Is that OK with you?
Now what will you tell the veterans in your life?
Watch:
youtube.com/shorts/ghMAa...
This is not hyperbole
2 UN-elected billionaires + the dumbest MOC plan to cut $120 BILLION in Veteran's Care
If you voted GOP:
Is that OK with you?
Now what will you tell the veterans in your life?
Watch:
youtube.com/shorts/ghMAa...
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There aren’t enough people in America who understand that many of the transgender issues are scapegoat issues. It’s rather frightening because it’s exceedingly effective!
December 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM
There aren’t enough people in America who understand that many of the transgender issues are scapegoat issues. It’s rather frightening because it’s exceedingly effective!
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“We only publish opinions our billionaire owner likes, and only after making sure they don’t contain anything the regime-aligned plutocrats might find objectionable” sounds dystopian - only it’s not an imagined future or alternative reality, it’s where we are.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
Scoop: After the LA Times published a piece about Elon Musk that carried a headline owner Patrick Soon-Shiong didn't like, a new rule was implemented: Prior to publishing opinion stories, headlines must be emailed to Soon-Shiong, where he can then choose to weigh in. www.status.news/p/los-angele...
The Times They Are A-Changin’
Staffers at the Los Angeles Times described to Status a demoralized publication depleted of its spirit in which employees are "confused," "offended," and "frustrated."
www.status.news
December 5, 2024 at 3:04 PM
“We only publish opinions our billionaire owner likes, and only after making sure they don’t contain anything the regime-aligned plutocrats might find objectionable” sounds dystopian - only it’s not an imagined future or alternative reality, it’s where we are.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
Quite the “fourth estate” we have.
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one of the things that the South Korean crisis has brought into sharp focus is how American elites are cowards.
even America's most "progressive" (read: not really progressive) cable news network is responding to authoritarianism by becoming even more feckless
David Frum Accuses MSNBC Of Giving Into Fear Of Trump After Mika Brzezinski Apologizes On-Air For His Comment
“I write these words very aware that I’m probably saying goodbye forever to a television platform that I enjoy and from which I have benefited"
www.mediaite.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:10 PM
one of the things that the South Korean crisis has brought into sharp focus is how American elites are cowards.
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I think we all know...
Here's a curious one: As recently as Tuesday, Lindsey Graham told journalists that the recent reporting on Hegseth has been “very disturbing,” adding that the allegations will be “difficult” to overcome.
One day later, he brushed off the allegations.
What changed between Tuesday and Wednesday?
One day later, he brushed off the allegations.
What changed between Tuesday and Wednesday?
Graham: The allegations against Hegseth are all anonymous sources. I’m not going to make any decision based on an anonymous source. If you are not willing to raise your hand under oath to make the accusation, it doesn't count.
December 5, 2024 at 3:18 PM
I think we all know...
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The incoming Trump administration is not sending their best. They’re sending people with big problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re rapists. They’re alcoholics. They’re criminals. And some, I assume, are good people 🤷🏽♀️
December 5, 2024 at 2:45 AM
The incoming Trump administration is not sending their best. They’re sending people with big problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re rapists. They’re alcoholics. They’re criminals. And some, I assume, are good people 🤷🏽♀️
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MONTHS AFTER Joe said he would not pardon Hunter, Trump won the election & appointed a man as FBI Director who has spent the last 4 years on every right-wing podcast ranting that he was going to go after Hunter. Obsessed with him. Were you aware of that, critics? Not relevant?
December 2, 2024 at 5:39 PM
MONTHS AFTER Joe said he would not pardon Hunter, Trump won the election & appointed a man as FBI Director who has spent the last 4 years on every right-wing podcast ranting that he was going to go after Hunter. Obsessed with him. Were you aware of that, critics? Not relevant?