Courts have been clear: the First Amendment protects criticism of military operations, criticism of the president, anti-war speech, whistleblowing, and protests, even the loud, uncomfortable ones. You cannot jail people for political disagreement, no matter how much a president might wish otherwise.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

An opportunity for Democrats to stand up for immigrants, Muslims and "the woke" following Trump and MAGA's obscene anti immigrant hate over the past 3 days. Hope they all step up like Senator Kelly did.

Embarrassed That’s the best description of my response for America’s action under Trump. Just completely, shamefully embarrassed by America - in every arena that Trump has influenced. He is an embarrassment.

President Obama served food at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving. The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal. How far we’ve fallen.

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.

I would call Pete Hegseth a war criminal, but we aren’t at war. He’s just a mass murderer.

Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?

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Only the administration that invented "concept of a plan" could come up with "permanent pause."

When asked about the death of a W. Virginia National Guardsman, the President of the United States bragged about his electoral margin in her state. When asked about the shooter, he called the reporter a stupid person. Please stop holding quarter for anyone supporting this monstrous piece of shit.

20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.

You really have to wonder....

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

While the right lose their goddamn minds about a lone wolf doing something horrendous in DC today, let’s not forget that last week in the White House they all gushed over a genocidal, journalist murdering tyrant whose country financed 9/11.

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell. Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

This is what happens when we’re governed by stupid people who think life is a reality show.

National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.

Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice. 📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber. Prosecute her and everyone involved.

No contract, no coffee. We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.

Pete Hegseth is not the "secretary of war" just because he keeps using the term, any more than the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America or Donald Trump is a great American. Saying so don't make it so.

First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

Bro it’s a goddamn miracle we survived 2025 (I mean, there is still time) so in 2026 it should be FUCK IT, WE BALL.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone. Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work. Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.

I stand with Arizona Senator / Captain Kelly the Hero, Astronaut & Family Man A man that can wear his military medals proudly A man who stood beside his wife during her hard path to recovery after her assignation attempt A drunk national guard guy & a man that refused to serve are unfit

“Facebook accounts for 59 to 65 percent of online trafficking recruitment in federal cases. For children specifically, 65 percent. Meta platforms generated 85 percent of all child sexual abuse material reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2022.” GET OFF META!

„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences. It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.

"what is a venezuela" rises to second position in Google searches, right behind "what is felching"

Will be interesting to see who Trump invades first: Our long-hated adversary Venezuela or our long-hated adversary Greenland.

Venezuela is a made up distraction and a testing ground for illegal orders. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

After all that, turns out DOGE itself IS the waste, fraud and abuse. Who'da thought?! 🤷🤦🖕 via Aaron Parnas: "Reuters has confirmed that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was quietly shut down eight months early after reports showed it had wasted more than $21.7 billion, 1/2

Just Being Honest To Taco Belles Face ?.......

This young man has it exactly right.

Zohran has done more for America in 3 weeks than Chuck Schumer has done his entire career.

"...denial is the glue holding MAGA together." - Michael Cohen @michaelcohen212.bsky.social 👏👏👏 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

The sitting president is a stochastic terrorist. That is what he is and and has always been. Had any other president called for the execution of his political rivals, it would have ended his presidency. But it is the nature of the GOP to trample every norm and boundary in defense of their Great

In related news, the claim ‘the Tooth Fairy does not actually take lost baby teeth from under pillows’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that magical beings are secretly thieving teeth in the dead of night…” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

"The Washington Post editorial board opposed releasing the Epstein files—calling them lacking in public interest despite not having reviewed them—and praised Rep. Clay Higgins for being the sole vote against disclosure." (via Aaron Parnas) Lacking in public interest? Are you sure, #Wapo? 🥴 GTFOH

Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message. /1

any historian able to tell me what stage of democracy it is in when the leader is saying “off with their heads”

To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?