This is the only explanation I can come up with for their repeated assertion that the US military went "woke" starting right after World War II.

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ... But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

The Republic held elections through a Civil War & two World Wars, so describe a ‘perceived crisis’ that 47 could manufacture to circumvent the Constitution. If the Supreme Court ‘reinterprets’ the Constitution for 47, we will all have to confront that final destructive act, & decide how to respond.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

The only ‘rebellion’ happening here, to state the obvious, is by the executive branch of the federal government against the Constitution. These people need to cope and seethe.

Cmon boy show us the power of the "United Stated Federal Government"

The government has effectively been shut down for months as Trump has destroyed checks and balances, usurped the power of the purse from Congress, and unleashed an authoritarian nightmare throughout the country. Why would any Democrat vote for any continuing resolution that allows this to continue?

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

Republicans absolutely control what Vought is going to do. And Dems need to make it clear that they own it. And let me take an opportunity to say Thune is a piece of 💩 and always has been.

Yup, the financial payoff from Qatar to the Trump family must really be something! By the way, shouldn’t Congress have something to say about this? And I suspect there might be a coalition of Reaganite hawks and skeptical-of-force doves that could defeat it.

My thoughts on the Quantico meeting

Anyone with critical thinking skills or a memory of past shutdowns should be aware that this isn’t how it works. The president doesn’t gain new powers because Congress hasn’t sent over the money for the executive branch.

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them..." U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section III

Impeach and remove.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

If we still had anything resembling a functioning Constitution, he would be impeached by lunchtime & convicted & removed from office by the close of business today.

If there isn't a rapid and vast rejection of this by every level of civil society, the consequences will be counted in dead neighbors.

Trump summoned the top American military officers stationed around the world to VA to tell them that the enemy they should be primarily concerned with now is American citizens.

Trump declares war on Americans: "Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Deploying US troops against US citizens in American cities isn’t just unprecedented and unconstitutional – it’s UNAMERICAN. Every freedom-loving American Patriot, regardless of their political party, must speak up NOW.

Huge credit to our stone-faced senior officers.

Donald Trump is an anti-constitutional president who finds new ways every day to violate his oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States" Here, he tells military leaders they will play a major role in fighting the "war from within" in American cities Unconscionable

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Just FYI: Portland as a war zone is horseshit, and deploying federal troops is horseshit.

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

Trump's UN speech was his most embarrassing showing since the "DON'T TAKE TYLENOL" one

my armchair psychological diagnosis is that the drive to accumulate as much wealth as possible eats away at the drive for self-improvement or the internal desire to cultivate any skills or tastes. these people build huge mounds of treasure and then essentially just sit around looking at it, empty.

Our economic freedoms and civil rights are under attack right now. Over the coming months and years, we're all going to need to work even harder to protect the gains we've made. We need to answer the call to leadership like the tradeswomen of NABTU have.

A big reason why we're in the mess we're in is bc for years we have been told that we need to treat Trump voters like innocent little children who dont mean it instead of adults who made an active choice w their vote to be shitty while telling themselves theyd never face any consequences from that

Violence is never justice. I condemn it without caveat. But condemning an act of violence does not mean canonizing the person who was killed. Compassion for the family does not mean sainthood for the father. Mourning does not mean whitewashing the movement he built. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

It’s not a crime to be in this country as an undocumented person. It’s a civil violation. But you know what is a crime? Taking a bribe from undercover agents in exchange for the promise of government contracts WHEN YOU’RE THE FCKING BORDER CZAR.

In 1978, my sociology professor predicted we would witness an internal political assault against our democracy and laws. This was 1/6, a failed Coup that continues in play out to date. We have until the Midterms to end this criminal cabal that's operating under unconstitutional Executive Orders.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

We are simultaneously selling US citizenship to the highest bidder and extorting companies that need to hire anyone else. Great.

I said this earlier this year, but just to reiterate: highly recommend taking the time to read an annotated U.S. Constitution and Thomas Paine's Common Sense. We've all read them before, but the refresher is way more edifying than you'd think — especially ahead of the 250th anniversary of the US.

Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do. And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.

While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

Van Hollen: "We shouldn't have to be here today. The First Amendment is crystal clear — the government may not use its power to squash political dissent. But that is what President Trump has been doing...using government power to crack down on dissent and go after his critics."

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

Re Kimmel, it's important that Disney has left itself an out--it is a "suspension," not a cancellation or firing. What happens in the next two days--reaction within the company but also in the press, in the industry, in Washington, among consumers, and on social media--may affect how this plays out.

This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.