Hegseth is wrecking the US military. The serial drunkard, sexual assaulter, tv personality, and incompetent, incapable military leader has lost the Daily Mail. archive.ph/GkuKZ

Vance loves the Catholic Church of the Crusades, the Inquisition, Magdalene Laundries, and Indian boarding schools. He can only be at odds with the Church as it now, under Leo (and Francis, before him). Social justice and peace, along with empathy and compassion for all, are things JD despises.

I’ve been around the army for 53 years. Never been more pessimistic about the health of the institution — it’s likely to get much worse over the next 34 months. Rebuilding the norms and ethics of the profession is going to take a generation+.

At least 60% of Republicans are on board with the idea of armed, masked goons dragging sick and injured patients out of emergency rooms and doctor's offices or nabbing and cuffing them before they even have a chance to get the care they need. Disgusting.

That we have to endure even another minute of this disgraceful man in office is to the shame of every single member of Congress. That they are not screaming for impeachment is utterly humiliating for the United States.

Trump gave a speech arguing for war in Iran 33 days into the war in Iran because his polls are at the lowest point of his presidency and 70% of voters oppose a ground invasion

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43 million American live in poverty. This includes millions of working poor. Many millions of other Americans flirt with poverty on a daily basis. Poverty infects every aspect of our society. Poverty is visible to everyone everyday. So there's that. www.census.gov/library/publ...

Watching this excellent coverage of the Artemis 2 mission makes me think of differences between NASA, which is owned by the people, and SpaceX, which is owned by fascist Nazi fanboy. For instance...

I will vote for whomever is at the top of the D ticket in 28. But Gavin Newsom shouldn't be that candidate. He is a tool of the billionaires who created and own him and are destroying this nation. He would be better than Vance or any R. But he still wouldn't be right for the nation.

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The Trump crime spree has just destroyed the U.S. Forest Service and delivered it to the exploiters and developers to sell off for parts Epic corruption

Former official sues the NFL for discrimination and harassment in a bombshell civil complaint Robin DeLorenzo, relegated after the 2024 season, alleges "discrimination, humiliation, and retaliation"

If these crews flew their Apaches to Colts Neck, New Jersey to salute Bruce Springsteen, this would have ended very differently, with courts-martial all around and drunk Pete Hegseth pledging to send the crews to Leavenworth.

Very dark and dangerous. Remember Trump reinstated those discharged because they disobeyed COVID vaccination orders. The message is break military discipline, proactively do illegal things, and, without any orders, do what you think will make Trump happy. Trump has your back.

Pope Leo tonight: “I'm told that President Trump stated that he would like to end the war. Hopefully he's looking for an 'off-ramp.” Hopefully he's looking for a way to decrease the amount of violence, bombing, which would be a significant contribution to removing the hatred that's being created.

Karoline with Waddle.

Hypocrite shaming must be done. That some dude enjoys cross-dressing isn't newsworthy. But when that dude is a MAGA Republican married to one of the most toxic, prominent, hateful, Trump worshiping MAGAs in the country, then it is news. MAGA is hypocrisy. archive.ph/qpE47

Trump will go down in history as the only president to sustain a combat related loss of an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft. The arrogance and stupidity that brought about this historic, embarrassing loss is staggering.

The president is a deranged, sick in the head maniac. The world is already a dangerous, difficult place. But until this madman is safely behind bars, his mouth secured with a ball gag, the world will remain even more dangerous and more chaotic than humanity can long endure.

Twitter is now a compromised agent of chaos, used solely to spew hate lies and misinformation to those whose brains are not fully formed nor functioning.

LOL. MAGA rag in an uproar because construction of a long planned homeless shelter will proceed despite hundreds of protesters. Never mind the millions of protesters Trump thumbs his nose at to advance his Nazi agenda. No group has less self-awareness than Trump supporters.

So it's not enough that Trump is wasting US blood and treasure on behalf of Israel. Now, the Gulf oil states want US Marines, soldiers, and airmen to die for them (and their oil riches), as well. Trump has turned the US armed services into a mercenary force for hire to Middle Eastern dictators.

Genuinely stupid people control the levers of power. Can the USA survive the stupidity that swept the stupidest Americans into The White House and gave them control of Congress and the Supreme Court? It's an open question. When it comes to pure destructive power, stupidity has a quality all its own.

Wild horses in the Utah desert are a tonic for one's psyche.

For Trump and Hegseth, this is what victory looks like.

In between his golf outings and trips to Mar-a-Lago Trump is planning to sacrifice the lives young Americans to satisfy his unsatisfiable and pathologically deranged ego. The Republican Party is with him every step of the way.

The situation in the Gulf region is almost certainly far worse than is being reported. Not only is there no press freedom, there is no freedom for tourists and private citizens to even casually document the plainly visible and dire results of Trump's catastrophic and idiotic war.

This is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf.

You realize there’s no off ramp, right?

If Trump pardons Hegseth, then the next Democratic president has an obligation to ship Pete off to the Hague. As for General Caine, and the other top brass who have organized this debacle, they all need to be court-martialed and sentenced to hard time at Leavenworth.

I find it annoying how people are not interrogating what exactly No Kings is and why. It’s treated as this spontaneous act of resistance and not a billionaire funded event?

Trump is a psychopath, a malignant narcissist, or both. He has developed a taste for murder. He enjoys killing his enemies the way a mob boss relishes bumping off his rivals. Of course, Trump is hooked on war porn.

It's not well known that, in most ways that truly mattered, the US Constitution vested far more power in the president than in King George III. The Constitution created a president far more powerful than the king it dethroned. Trump lays bear the possibly fatal mistakes of the founders and framers.

"...[T]hese camera systems have created a mass location tracking infrastructure knitted together by artificial intelligence."

The late Queen's favorite son was a vile lowlife, a sexual abuser of underage girls, a grifter, and a friend to a sex trafficker. Yet Andrew was the Queen's favorite. Perversely, what distressed Elizabeth were the very "commoner" doings of her grandson and the woman of color he chose to marry.

One gets the strong impression Trump is more distressed by his close friend Tiger's car crash and DUI arrest than by the deaths and injuries he has visited upon American service men and women because of his idiotic, brutal war.

How Putin is plotting to bleed Trump dry in Iran trib.al/J2zf7vw

The next Democratic president must conduct a thorough review of officers who will have risen to the top during Hegseth's reign. There's an excellent chance any officer who excels under The leadership of a white nationalist idiot is also an idiot who favors unwokeness over competency.

Pedophilia is intertwined with Quiverful, Dominionism, and the Evangelical Christianity of Hegseth, Johnson and the GOP. In their world the Bible is an infallible instruction manual. In the Biblical world, 12 and 13-year-old girls were required to be sexually available and ready to procreate.

No doubt Trump is getting a piece of this Russian mob hospice fraud operation. He's been wrapped up with the Russian mob for decades. wapo.st/3O1Jvp9

Trump wants a "mission accomplished" moment. He doesn't seem to know that W had his moment only after sending 250,000 soldiers and Marines into Iraq. And even so, It wasn't mission accomplished. The war dragged on until 2008. Trump can end the war today. But the Iranians won't volunteer to lose.

Democrats must learn from this. Biden missed the opportunity to recall Flynn to active duty for purposes of a court martial. Michael Flynn is possibly the highest ranking traitor ever to infiltrate the US military. He is now wealthy and feee; his treachery having paid off handsomely.

Schumer and Senate Democrats are preparing to betray America. These idiots think ICE can be fixed by requiring warrants and banning masks. They see the anger against Trump building. But they see that anger as a means to secure their positions of power and prestige instead of toppling a tyrant.

Even a merely half-way functioning democracy would adjust course after being repeatedly rebuked by voters. But the US is run by an abusive authoritarian. Trump will push harder for the SAVE Act and further ready ICE to disrupt elections. The GOP can't face the voters without suffering defeat.

Semafor is where scoops live.

War criminals Trump and Netenyahu must be stopped - if the US senators don’t want the world economies to crash they need to tell Trump his murderous clown show is over- and Netenyahu doesn’t get another nickel. He must face justice for his crimes

When "pro-business" meets white supremacy, white supremacy always wins.

What is preventing Schumer and other Democratic senators from removing Fetterman from his committee assignments? His brain damage, among other things, has turned him into a full-blown Republican. Democrats need to show us what they will do with a majority, if they get one. Start with house cleaning.