Sen. Ruben Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Reagan appointee

fun timing: my new article today is about a Norms Respecter claiming to be "worried" about "democracy" ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

I reference this early in The Originalism Trap's chapter on elections bc it perfectly illustrates the dynamic we're still dealing with today as some white people thought no education was preferable to integrated schools, some white people think no democracy is preferable to an integrated electorate

Much like I refuse to call the gulf of Mexico anything else, I refuse to identify this regime and whatever it is with America or American. Until further notice #DystopianRegime it shall be. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

New: Last night in the Senate, Ted Cruz blocked a bill that would have prevented data brokers from selling personal data on anyone in the United States, and not just federal lawmakers and government officials.

🚨The Russian asset in the White House & his regime just visually catalogued every single flag officer in our military, and televised it across the globe. If that does not raise massive alarm bells for you, then you are woefully fucking stupid.

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard. www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

Senior military leaders are, overall, very smart Nearly all are broadly experienced, around the world. They have spent their careers in orgs more representative of the whole US than most corps, law firms, finance firms, univs, media orgs. They have learned to judge character. And honesty.

On April 8, 2025, Secretary Rubio appeared on Triggered with Don, Jr. [32] 32 'Triggered with Don. Jr.' is a video podcast hosted by Donald Trump Jr., the President’s eldest son.

I’d have gone with “you’re not a dictator, bitch” but for Jeffries not bad. Telling that rhe reporters find this funny.

Pete Hegseth-a man whom only his mother could love Or, maybe not You are an abuser..that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats” “It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out”

Democrats are in full attendance, while Republicans are nowhere to be found. At least one side is working for us.

🚨 BREAKING: Republicans have shut down the government. They don’t want us to have healthcare. 💥 And they’re terrified of @adelitaforcongress having the power to release the Epstein files. 🧨 This is just a political game to them and American people will SUFFER! newrepublic.com/post/201142/...

Flood social media with this information!

"You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego." - Penelope Hegseth, Pete's mother

John Roberts was part of the 3-judge panel presiding over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld while actively interviewing for a seat on the Supreme Court. He didn't recuse himself, didn't inform Hamdan's lawyers, and ruled in the Bush admin's favor the day before he interviewed with Bush himself.

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

MORE: Per multiple sources, employees at Commerce have received essentially the exact same message, with the same blame for Democrats. Not sure if it is being used in every agency or what.

NEW: Per multiple sources, HHS employees received a message 20 minutes ago saying that Trump opposes a gov shutdown. "Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the US Senate due to unrelated policy demands." One source called it "the most overtly political message" yet.

shorter Hegseth: you're free to do war crimes as long as you're not fat, not female and not a person of color.

The complete spinelessness of Chuck Schumer attracts wonder from around the world

Your White House medical team today.

In my view, few people in the legal profession need to shut the fuck up quite as much as Anthony Kennedy

They don't look like they signed up for this.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

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Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

Well… the whole world can now see that the emperor is naked. How embarrassing.

Two days after Kirk’s murder, the Texas House speaker and lieutenant governor announced a select committee on Civil Discourse & Freedom of Speech in Higher Education, an Orwellian title for a body to ostensibly oversee the implementation of two recently enacted laws policing speech.

If this deeply degrading, wasteful and dangerous stunt proved anything, it’s that the best thing Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace. Immediately.

Trump Audibly Counting Non-White Generals

BREAKING: Judge William Young finds that Noem, Rubio, DHS, and State "deliberately" sought to restrict non-citizens' First Amendment rights. "'No law' means 'no law.' The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction ...." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I hope the DNC is listening, because here is something very important: you don’t need to hire a bunch of high dollar consultants for “messaging.” Talk to voters about prices and why they are so high. My MAGA mom just told my stepdad that prices are high because of Trump‘s tariffs.

U.S. Corporate media ignores that man who waged deadly attack on a Mormon church was a Trump supporter. This fact is important given Trump and Stephen Miller are seeking to blame Democrats for all violence to label Dem party a terrorist group. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/us-corpora...

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The language is stunning, but it's also one of the most clear-eyed and comprehensive statements I've seen from ANYBODY involved in government thus far as to the nature of the constitutional revolution that we are currently undergoing.

it's genuinely somewhat absurd that a literal 85 year old Reagan appointee feels more mad about this than Senator Fetterman

So, is the Secretary of Defe...er...War required now to do pullups as men are required? Or does he still get to do it underhand with kicks like a weak little girl? bsky.app/profile/bc60...

Ty Cobb: "The simple theme is rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection... America needs to learn from the mistakes that we've had. And one of the biggest mistakes that America ever had was reelecting President Trump"

No surprise The GOP is trying to rebrand nazis as 'misunderstood' and as Drumpf said 'Hitler did some good things...' The party that got medals from the NSDAP in the 1930s for friendship with the Reich has never given up it's love of fascism...

This precisely. 100%. 10/10. No notes. bsky.app/profile/atru...