Conservative white women always think they are going to fare well with misogynistic men.

One way to slow down Trump officials would be for Democrats to collectively start saying they'll ignore any future pardons. Could they do this legally? Who knows. Would they? Maybe not this group of leaders. But the threat itself has value in that it would give pause to those doing the worst stuff.

You and your Senate colleagues believing that Pam Bondi "gave up her integrity" to remain in her position is a big part of why we're here

"More than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure since May of last year, when the Trump administration shut down a key safety net in the VA home loan program . . . Another 90,000 vets are heading toward foreclosure." The White House is *creating* more homeless vets than they're housing.

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

If Biden delivered such a rambling, slurring performance, people would solemnly demand that he resign and never run for office again

I feel like this is illegal. Congress creates and shutters federal agencies, not the president.

I can't imagine going to a fancy college to get a degree in journalism & then writing puff pieces on a DC bar where MAGA staffers working for a regime that puts kids in gulags, sics masked agents on citizens & launches unnecessary wars & try to pay 4 it by gutting healthcare - bump and grind.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Anything less than a 9-0 unambiguous affirmation of birthright citizenship as settled law that cannot be changed except by Amendment is properly understood as an assault by those Justices on the foundation of American values, law, and government. To even humor this shows the institution has failed.

You’ve got to be able to hold a few different thoughts in your head simultaneously! À la @dorfonlaw.bsky.social (1) this had to play out this way (2) Trump will lose this time (3) they’re shifting the Overton window (4) we’re bolstering the same institution that’s going to be our undoing.

Will US surface Navy be indefinitely excluded from the Gulf now that Iran controls the Strait? US appears to have removed all its warships from inside Gulf in advance of this war. Will they ever go back in, or is Naval Support Activity Bahrain done as a base for 5th Fleet?

People wonder why voters don’t believe Democrats when they say in November that republicans are a threat — it’s shit like that why

One of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen the Clintons, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris ever do is attend Trumps inauguration. They fucking sat there looking like idiots while he talked shit about them and the party they all led.

“Welcome home”

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

gotta share The Tweet again

This is good

The fact that Barron Trump is nowhere near this fills me with incandescent rage

Anyone ever read From Here to Eternity? About 80 pages in and not feeling it. Interested in any opinions, but particularly those of veterans.

I know Dave Gardner. Tremendous leader, smart. Last week I was working w/a Brigade staff at NTC. The chaplain and JAG had previously worked for Gardner. One said he routinely texts those who once worked for him just to check in. He’s authentic and highly respected.

Major General Gardner, Eagle 6, has just had his authority undermined by Hegseth. Every shitbird, Blue Falcon, & ambulatory disciplinary case in the 101st now knows they can get away with anything provided they can turn it into content for Hegseth.

My company just had our lowest sales for the month of March since 2019, the second year we were in business. Unless you sell gasoline or other necessities, it is *wild* to be in business right now. You own government is deliberately and unnecessarily destroying the economy.

Genuinely the kind of shit that kills modern militaries

In all this, I continue to be shocked, daily, at how unserious our political opposition leadership has behaved in the face of an actual attempted fascist takeover of the United States

We’re going to need to arrest a lot of people if we want to impose adult supervision on the military before this is all over.

Does anything sum up modern Republicanism more than the insistence and expectation of “No investigation. No punishment. Carry on, patriots.”

There is nothing in the world that matters to him more than his ballroom right now.

I don't disagree and don't want to victim-blame, BUT Bluesky also provides many tools to mitigate these pile-ons. Every time the mob has come for me here, a few detached quotes, half a dozen blocks and limiting replies to followers and followees has shut it down quickly. Then I move on.

1. This is a positive development 2. Hegseth will reverse it

Now that she's no longer in the Cabinet, Noem needs a blameless way out of her marriage so she can move in with Lewandowski. Strong possibility she leaked this herself.

it's come to this ... on its 250th anniversary, America is now begging the Royal Navy to help out.

For being an "obsolete" aircraft, I sure have seen a lot of A-10 combat videos the last couple of weeks

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

"The Strait of Hormuz has always been closed." — George Orwell

Cointerpoint: The candidate who says, "My sole purpose in running for office is to disempower, impoverish and/or imprison the corrupt Trump crime family and their enablers" is the best candidate.

This is why we need to understand racial capitalism. The economy and profit is not more important than their commitment to white supremacy.

SBA guarantees close to 100,000 loans/year to small businesses. Immigrants own businesses at a higher rate than native-born U.S. residents. "any business that’s even partly owned by a permanent legal resident with a green card is no longer eligible for the loans" this is war on American small biz

I would not board a NASA spaceship during this administration

Sure, because he's willing to impoverish Americans after emptying the Treasury to enrich himself, his family and friends. Of course, he never did the reading and seems unaware of what historically comes next.

"Part of me believes it might be helpful to know what kind of place our country is and whether or not Trump was right, back in 2016, when he confidently assured Americans that, if elected, our soldiers would commit war crimes if he ordered them to."

This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.

Read this whole thread from the top

1. I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.

This is called “strategic defeat.” You have ended up in a worse position than before you began, with your adversary, while battered, emerging in a stronger position than before.

the leaks keep coming from inside targeting Hagueseth. Similar to leaks that kept coming targeting Noem before she was booted out of DHS. the knives are out.

Jesus christ

"the secretary of defense did insider trading on a war he was about to start" what the fuck are we doing here, honestly

They literally did the meme, but for Iran