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mm-jj-nn.bsky.social
but mom, I don't want to share this tent with the military-industrial complex!
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
zapperfan7.bsky.social
💙 Sophie Socket ♠️

Question for the flag shaggers:

Are you ok with Trump saying we didn’t contribute in Afghanistan (tell that to the 427 British families who lost a son or daughter) and that they won WW2 for us?

Are you ok with a foreign sex offender disparaging our military like this?

Waiting.
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
ohseafarer.bsky.social
the military cosplay just reminded me Jamelle Bouie has a fantastic breakdown of one of MAGA's core motivations: massive gender anxiety youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
Everything is Gender
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
gingergh0st.bsky.social
sza at a Vans meet up in Paris

military jacket, fish/swordfish vans 🎖️🐠🐟

January 22, 2026
sza arriving at vans meet up. she’s wearing a red military jacket, camo pants, fish vans with a red bag. she is waving at the crowd as she walks into the building 4 pic collage of sza holding her fish van in her left hand. she is smiling at the crowd in all pics a pic of sza’s swordfish/fish vans close up
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
lorimz.bsky.social
HELLFIRE IN LOS ANGELES AS IN MAUI. In both Cases Blazes near Military Bases which Use Directed Energy Weapons
gospanews.net/en/2025/01/1...
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
ajsdecepida.bsky.social
What DeVega Omits or Treats Too Loosely Constraints and counter-forces. The column underplays the immediate legal and administrative constraints on cancelling federal elections, which matters because overstating the feasible worst case can backfire (audience fatigue, disbelief, “boy who cried wolf”). Time’s reporting is clear that federal law does not allow a president to postpone or cancel congressional elections.1 Precision about Supreme Court risk. Saying the Court is “poised to gut” the Voting Rights Act is emotionally legible, but analytically imprecise. Reuters’ framing is that the Court has already weakened key provisions and is now targeting additional protections, with major Section 2 consequences at stake. That’s still alarming — just more exact.7 Evidence for “millions of votes” claims. The piece asserts that suppression efforts “cost the Democrats millions of votes” and “potentially the 2024 election” without providing a methodology, range, or citation. That’s a big empirical claim and, as written, it reads like a rhetorical flourish rather than an audited estimate. Practical Indicators for Monitoring (Concrete, Falsifiable) To make the audit actionable, specify in advance what would count as confirming or falsifying the subversion thesis ahead of the Nov-2026 midterms. The indicators below are measurable and tied to corroborated reporting: Redistricting acceleration: additional states attempt mid-decade remaps, especially through special sessions or litigation fast-tracks.2 Ballot acceptance rules: postmark/receipt standards tighten, Postal Service handling changes, or litigation spikes around late-arriving mail ballots.8 Federal-state election security breakdown: election officials publicly disengage from, or are cut off by, federal election-security support channels (CISA/EI-ISAC) and reporting shows operational impacts.6 Emergency-powers normalization: repeated threats or actual invocations connected to protests, especially in election-adjacent periods, and especially where rhetoric targets specific jurisdictions.4 Voting-rights jurisprudence: Supreme Court rulings that materially narrow Section 2 enforcement or increase the difficulty of proving vote dilution or discriminatory effects.7 Interim Assessment Treat DeVega’s piece as a persuasive warning whose best-supported components are real and current (midterm-cancellation rhetoric; redistricting fights; Minnesota Insurrection Act threats; deterioration of federal election-security partnerships). Where it overreaches is when it implies that election cancellation is a straightforward play or that “pre-deciding” outcomes is already a closed system. The stronger, evidence-based concern is a layered strategy of structural advantage + administrative friction + intimidation + post-election contestation — enough to degrade legitimacy and potentially swing close outcomes, even while elections still formally occur.1,2,4,6 Citations: 1 “White House Insists Trump Is ‘Joking’ About Canceling Midterm Elections” — Time (published 2026) — https://time.com/7346834/trump-canceling-midterm-elections-joking-white-house/ 2 “What to know about the state gerrymandering battle kick-started by Trump” — The Washington Post (AP, 12-Jan-2026) — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/12/redistricting-congress-gerrymandering-trump/6552cd5a-efca-11f0-a4dc-effc74cb25af_story.html 3 “Republicans ask US Supreme Court to block California voting map” — Reuters (20-Jan-2026) — https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republicans-ask-us-supreme-court-block-california-voting-map-2026-01-20/ 4 “Trump threatens to use military over Minnesota anti-ICE protests” — Reuters (15-Jan-2026) — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act-minnesota-2026-01-15/ 5 “Renee Macklin Good shot and killed by ICE agent, eyewitnesses say she posed ‘no threat’” — MPR News (07-Jan-2026) — https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/07/shooting-south-minneapolis-ice-agents-federal-operation 6 “Election officials say trust with CISA is broken” — VoteBeat (15-Jan-2026) — https://www.votebeat.org/2026/01/15/cisa-election-security-trust-broken-trump-chris-krebs-denise-merrill/ 7 “Voting Rights Act faces a near-death experience at US Supreme Court” — Reuters (20-Oct-2025) — https://www.reuters.com/world/us/voting-rights-act-faces-near-death-experience-us-supreme-court-2025-10-18/ 8 “Thousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy” — The Washington Post (03-Jan-2026) — https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/03/elections-mail-ballots-post-office/ 9 “Project 2025 Would Fuel the Assault on Election Officials” — Brennan Center for Justice (16-Aug-2024) — https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/project-2025-would-fuel-assault-election-officials
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
ajsdecepida.bsky.social
🔃 {𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… ⤵
{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… Interim Assessment DeVega’s Salon column is an overtly rhetorical warning (it is labelled “commentary”), but several of its concrete predicates are independently corroborated: Trump publicly floated the idea that the country “shouldn’t even have an election” in 2026 and the White House defended it as a “joke”; there is an active, unusual push for mid-decade congressional redistricting in multiple states connected to Trump’s pressure campaign; Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota amid protests after the killing of Renée Nicole Macklin Good by an ICE agent; and credible election-security reporting indicates federal-state election-security partnerships are under strain. Where the column is weakest is in places it slides from documented actions and proposals into broad claims of inevitability (e.g., that midterms can be cancelled or suspended in “blue states”) without fully engaging the legal and practical barriers to doing so. What is Solidly Documented Versus What is Extrapolation Documented or well-sourced elements in the piece “Cancel the midterms” rhetoric. Trump’s “we shouldn’t even have an election” remark is widely reported as coming from a Reuters interview, and the White House press secretary publicly framed it as facetious. Time’s write-up is explicit that federal law does not leave room for a president to postpone or cancel congressional elections.1 Mid-decade redistricting pressure and follow-through. An Associated Press overview describes Trump “kick-start [ing]” an unusual mid-decade redistricting push and lists several states that approved new maps, alongside political and legal resistance in others.2 A separate Reuters report (on California) situates these fights in a broader national escalation and notes the Court’s current posture on partisan versus racial gerrymandering and Voting Rights Act claims.3 Insurrection Act threats amid Minnesota unrest. Reuters reported Trump threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota after protests following the ICE shooting of Renée Nicole Macklin Good, placing the “military deployment” talk in a specific factual context rather than as a free-floating hypothetical.4 The Renée Nicole Macklin Good killing and resulting protests. Minnesota Public Radio reported the killing on 07-Jan-2026 and described it as an ICE agent shooting an “observer,” citing eyewitness accounts; later coverage (including major outlets) describes the shooting as a national flashpoint.5 Election-security partnerships and CISA. VoteBeat reports that state and local election officials say trust with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has eroded early in Trump’s second term, weakening a key channel of federal support for election security.6 Voting Rights Act vulnerability. Reuters has separately framed the Voting Rights Act as facing a “near-death experience” at the Supreme Court, reinforcing DeVega’s point that voting-rights litigation risk is not speculative.7 Extrapolations and soft spots “Suspend/cancel elections via Insurrection Act” as a direct mechanism. The column’s scenario —manufacture unrest, invoke the Insurrection Act, then suspend elections— does not grapple with the baseline point that congressional election timing is set by federal statute and administered state-by-state; even sympathetic legal theories would collide with immediate litigation, state resistance, and congressional/judicial counter-moves. The stronger, evidence-based risk is not literal cancellation but selective disruption: intimidation, administrative chaos, aggressive policing posture, and post-election contestation that can shift turnout, ballot acceptance, or certification battles. Time’s reporting underlines the legal constraint on outright cancellation.1 “Outcome decided before ballots are counted” as a literal claim. That phrasing is persuasive writing, not a proven causal model. The empirically defensible version is narrower: rule changes (districts, registration, ballot acceptance rules, election policing) can bias outcomes and increase the odds of disputes and partisan certification fights. A More Rigorous Threat Model (How “Hijack” Can Work Without Outright Cancellation) DeVega’s core intuition fits a known pattern in comparative politics: competitive systems can be skewed without formally ending elections. The relevant mechanisms (some hinted at in the column, some underdeveloped) look like this: Map-based seat engineering (structural). Mid-decade redistricting can reallocate marginal seats and force resource diversion (money/time) even before any ballots are cast. AP’s account shows this is already a live fight, not a theoretical one.2 Ballot access and ballot acceptance friction (administrative). Shifts in postmark/receipt rules and voter registration requirements can create discardable ballot classes, especially where voters rely on mail or face documentation hurdles. The Washington Post has reported on Postal Service postmark policy changes that could jeopardize ballots arriving after Election Day.8 Policing posture and “fraud monitoring” as turnout suppression (behavioural). The Minnesota case illustrates how federal enforcement conflict can escalate quickly into large-scale protests and a rhetoric of emergency powers. Even without cancelling elections, visible deployments and “monitoring” can chill turnout and disrupt normal election operations — especially in targeted jurisdictions. Reuters’ reporting anchors this risk in an actual federal-state confrontation.4 Institutional sabotage and entrenchment (governance). DeVega quotes Barbara F. Walter on the tactic of binding a future House through last-minute rules, budgets, and appointments. The column doesn’t provide the underlying essay, but the general logic is standard: entrenchment works by raising the cost and time required to reverse policy or staffing. (This is a plausible warning, but the piece would be stronger if it named the specific vehicles —regulations, OMB apportionment choices, DoJ policy memos, etc.— rather than leaving it as atmosphere.) Weaponized enforcement and selective prosecution (legal/political). Here, the column gestures at the idea (prosecution of opponents; election-denial staffing). For readers who want more than assertion, the best move is to track: what DoJ says it will prioritize, what “election integrity” units are ordered to do, and whether election administrators face increased criminal exposure. Project 2025-era proposals to shift election-related enforcement into more punitive channels have been analysed by the Brennan Center, which treats this as a foreseeable pressure point on election officials.9
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
irish-seanchai.bsky.social
Remember when had the brass balls to accept a Purple Heart from a wounded US military veteran then brag about it?
www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
Trump: 'I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier'
“I said to him, is that like the real one or is that a copy?” the Republican nominee said moments after taking the stage at a local high school.
www.politico.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
murphykbrown.bsky.social
youtu.be/HWjG7lvUCdg?...
What an ignorant asshole, after being told the US is the only country to invoke NATO article 5 and many allies lost troops he doubles down on FOX with more lies.
The first casualties in Afghanistan were Canadians shot by friendly fire by the US incompetent military
'Is this the worst thing Trump has ever done?' James O'Brien
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
ginsengity.bsky.social
"What next? Like-minded democratic nations need to stand together, big, middle or small. We should preserve the principle that military or economic force must not determine the fate of free nations. We should not admire brutal strength."
January 23, 2026 at 3:55 PM
cecallihelper.bsky.social
US "House rejected a Democratic-backed resolution Thursday that would have prevented President Donald Trump from sending U.S. military forces to #Venezuela after a tied vote on the legislation fell just short of the majority needed for passage" kslnewsradio.com/national-new... War Powers #law
House Republicans barely defeat Venezuela war powers resolution to check Trump’s military actions - KSLNewsRadio
A tied vote on the legislation fell just short of the majority needed for passage. Democrats forced the vote on the war powers resolution to direct the president to remove U.S. troops from the South A...
kslnewsradio.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
barrjess.bsky.social
And yet so many military back him
January 23, 2026 at 3:55 PM
jettrack.bsky.social
Plane Alert!

Mexico Military Surveillance (ANX-1210)

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#adsb #JetTrack
January 23, 2026 at 3:55 PM
clarencejohnson.bsky.social
I would vote for any Dem candidate who made a convincing case that they were going to stop all military aide to Israel and cooperate with the ICC prosecutions. Is that too high of a bar?
January 23, 2026 at 3:55 PM
ristox.bsky.social
Business deals with russia, oh please. When their orange daddy is out of office, lame duck and they don't have the U.S. military backing them. What do you think will happen their deals, just guess.
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
mossadwarrior.bsky.social
Trump's personal level of ego crushing insignificance is caused by,
in order-
women (esp. named Nancy)
black women
accomplished black women
men of color
gays
men
men of accomplishment
military men of accomplishment
anyone with an education
and balls
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
snugglegoth.bsky.social
British troops fought battles side by side with our US military brothers and sisters in Afghanistan & Iraq. The RAF still flying missions over Syria against Isis positions along with US & Allied airforces.
British troops were in Afghanistan from start to finish - despite what Trump says
Despite Donald Trump's comments over troops from NATO countries in Afghanistan, it was British troops who were there alongside the US until the end.
news.sky.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
rogera.bsky.social
'At the same time, a food crisis was fabricated and then morphed into a humanitarian crisis, using the slogan ‘man-made’ to blame President Nicolás Maduro and justify a military intervention disguised as humanitarian aid in the name of the international community.'
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
scottnover.bsky.social
New: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he will introduce legislation to further codify Stars and Stripes' editorial independence from the Pentagon to ensure that the military newspaper is "safeguarded from political influence and interference." @liamjscott.bsky.social
Inside the effort to shield Stars and Stripes from Pentagon control
The Pentagon criticized the military newspaper as “woke.” Now the outlet’s leaders — and some members of Congress — are trying to assert its independence.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:54 PM
anxietyhulk.bsky.social
I would appreciate this way more than the thanks. Even before I realized how horrific the US military is, the thanks always made me deeply uncomfortable.
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
debbiereads.bsky.social
I was wondering that. Can't seem to find Farage's statement anywhere.
I expect Yaxley-Lennon is all over the hellsite, opposing Trump and supporting bereaved UK military families and wounded veterans, too.
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
vaforestdweller.bsky.social
Not sure about these yet but you could be right . . .
👉 Suspending the midterms
👉 Declaring martial law
👉 Ignoring the Supreme Court
👉 Ordering the US military to shoot and kill protesters
👉 Constructing large scale concentration camps for US citizens
January 23, 2026 at 3:52 PM
okc405.bsky.social
Border Patrol Chief Bovino throws a Nazi salute is all duded up in military-style attire.

THIS is what we're up against. Nazis every damn one of them.
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM
democracymatters.bsky.social
Hegseth: Trump Will Install New Military Attorneys Who Won’t Be ‘Roadblocks to Anything’
January 23, 2026 at 3:53 PM