“Pete Hegseth spent millions to fly in all of our generals and admirals to rant about facial hair and brag about how many pull-ups he can do, and have Donald Trump sleepwalk through a list of partisan gripes.” – Retired Army Maj. General Paul D. Eaton

The new MAGA motto.

We were all taught that this was evil. And now we're told we can't even say we are against it.

Hmm, I wish there was a word that could easily describe someone like this... 🤔

Who knew our democracy could be sacrificed for...

"lovefest"

“We are watching the authoritarian playbook unfold at an intense pace, often making it hard to grasp how interconnected the antagonistic acts are…If they succeed at blocking free speech & silencing dissent, the ability to know what’s true & false will grow dimmer.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

FASCISM. KLEPTOCRACY. OLIGARCHY. I'm sure some think Liberals like myself have used these words a bit too… um, liberally. BUT, the warning signs are real. I tossed these cheat sheets together to highlight the patterns used throughout history to undermine democracies.

Tariff Canada: Smart! Tariff Mexico: Super smart! Smaller tariffs on China: Super-duper smart! Pause Canadian & Mexican tariffs: Smarter! Tariffs back on Canada: Smartest! Tariffs back on Mexico: Smartester! Pause Mexican but not Canadian tariffs: Smartest-er-est! Pause Canadian tariffs: F**g smart!

4.5 million views for an outright lie.

Murphy: "The destruction of our democracy is part of this story ... this is super unpopular, what they are doing. Nobody wants their healthcare to disappear ... so how do you get away with it? You try to destroy our democracy. You try to crush dissent. You threaten members of Congress with arrest."

Cartoon

There are some actionable steps in this post. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - oppose and be vocal about that opposition in as many ways as you can be. This is not the way. We don't want to be the state that got rid of a protected class.

Trickle is such a gross word. A trickle of sweat down your back.
 A trickle of pee down your leg.
 A trickle of stagnant water from a rusty pipe. The idea that anyone heard "trickle-down" and wasn’t immediately repulsed—just by the name, let alone the policy itself—is mind-boggling.

I will never not think of @ifycomedy.com, @vornietom.bsky.social, and @mikewtrapp.bsky.social every time I think of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (which obviously happens a LOT). @dropouttv.bsky.social @gamechangershow.bsky.social

LITMUS TEST Fact: Russia attacked Ukraine. If your "news" source is saying otherwise, or is bending over backwards to justify what the President claimed, it's not news - it's propaganda.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

100% accurate.

Ann Selzer about her Iowa poll: “We just didn't get the cooperation from those Trump voters that in hindsight, you know, could have perhaps been more telling,” “people who didn’t complete the call, but instead just yelled “Trump” and hung up the phone.” www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I’m pretty sure our president shouldn’t be a rapist, our DNI shouldn’t be on a TSA watchlist list and our head of counterintelligence should probably be able to pass a background check. Right?

I’m pretty sure that if some CEO got fired from his job & on his way out he told a mob of crazies to show up with zip ties, flag poles and tasers and to bash in the windows & smear poop on the walls, that he wouldn’t get hired back a few years later, but what the hell do I know.

big morning: Mike applied for a new job. #raygun #DOGE

The mental fog is heavy today.

The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile.

The name and acronym are much more accurate.

1/8: Folks, Hamilton warned us. He laid it out in the Federalist Papers, a system meant to block crooks, con men, and tyrants from the highest office. And yet, here we are, living in the man’s worst nightmare, courtesy of billionaires who turned democracy into their personal ATM.

Grok and awe.

I love sunflowers 🌻 🐝

Oooh that felt nice.

If you’re “strongly discouraging” the release of an ethics report, you’re on the wrong side of history. CC: Speaker Johnson

Democracy moves slow. Tyranny doesn’t. Buckle up.

Overheard today: A lot of people are complaining about the people trump is filling his cabinet with, but he's not filling a cabinet. He's filling a junk drawer. 😆

Building on the sky theme: - Air? I aired a post on BlueSky. - Breeze? I breezed a post on BlueSky. - Float? I floated a post on BlueSky. - Flutter? I fluttered a post on BlueSky.

Is the name Department of Government Efficiency supposed to be ironic?

In a tiny bright spot today, the House voted no on H.R. 9495! Barely.