WashPost: "Hegseth escalates war on leakers with lie detector tests and nondisclosure agreements. "The efforts are part of a wider strategy by the Trump administration and the Pentagon to ferret out officials deemed insufficiently loyal or who provide information to reporters." Any questions?

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We just arrived in war-ravaged Vancouver after visiting war-torn Alaska on our way to home in the Apocalyptic hellscape of North Carolina.

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The Supreme Court has once again ignored the Constitution and federal law and given Trump the ability to arbitrarily impound money Congress has appropriate. The SC is just as lawless as Trump.

The charges against Comey are not just about the president’s abuse of his power for personal retribution. They're a test of the Trump's future plans. Since Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump has spoken of plans to bring cases against people who give money to anti-Trump causes. --The Atlantic

CNN: "Fact Check: Vance, rewriting last week’s history, claims FCC chair just made a ‘joke’ about Kimmel." Rewriting history, a full-time job: So much needs to be erased.

Help clarify, show our convictions, point out the lies, and stymie their goals as much as we can- those of us that can and that have some extra privilege to step out of line to help others see /2

“If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail. And I’m really good at predicting things. They actually said during the campaign: Trump was right about everything. And I don’t say that in a braggadocious way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.” --Trump at UN

A paraphrase rather than a quote (see lower in the thread) but so true!

"What about Comey, Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, Leticia??? They're all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done...We can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility. "Show me the man and I'll find the crime." --Lavrentiy Beria, head of Stalin's Soviet secret police

"Going through the federal budget in search of areas to cut, I would maybe cut the budget line where we pay Tom Homan $50,000 in cash, consequence-free, to demonstrate that he is susceptible to bribes. I would cut that before the pediatric-cancer research, personally." --Alexandra Petri, Atlantic

Nothing Trump or his colleagues said seemed relevant to any segment of the autism community. The administration is just raising false hopes that they have the answers that the scientific community was hiding for the past three decades. --Dr. Tager-Flusberg, founder, Coalition of Autism Scientists.

"Biden was always a mean guy but never a smart guy... He was a stupid guy. But he was always a mean son-of-a-bitch. How's it working? It's not working out too well for him right now. So, when you start feeling sorry for him, remember he's a bad guy." --Trump, on the former president having cancer

Charlie’s death proves that to Trump even dying is open to exploitation. A man was killed, a family shattered, & yet the machine rolls on, louder, angrier, more determined than ever to trade in blood for power; because in MAGA’s world, even a grave can be a stage. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

FLORIDUH!!

Truth

One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.

PHOTO: Republicans searching unsuccessfully for the balls to stand up to Trump.

"Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the careers of five 'Aryan' actors by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that 'in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism..." --New York Times, Feb. 3, 1939

Charlie Kirk also said that several Black women, including Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson, "do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously.”

"What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's going to go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech." --ABC reporter to Trump "[I] should probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your heart." --Trump

This guy will now decide which jokes are appropriate.

This is so messed up.

Meanwhile, they are stealing us blind and ripped away our Healthcare and food assistance. Solid, good Christian men, my ass

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

“How did Dr. Monarez go from being a public health expert with unimpeachable scientific credentials into being a liar and untrustworthy in less than a month? Dr. Monarez was fired because she refused to act as a rubber stamp to implement Secretary Kennedy’s dangerous agenda.” --Bernie Sanders

"It’s hard to imagine that Trump cares whether or not his promises work out for the people who believed them, to say nothing of the nation at large. He already has what he wants: freedom from accountability for a lifetime of lawbreaking and an easy way to line his pockets." --Jamelle Bouie, NYT

The International Photography Awards 2024 Winning Photo Is Entitled: Horse’s Ass and Clydesdale

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

"Either we surrender to the demonic forces abolishing and demolishing our country, or we defeat them." --Trump, Nov. 5, 2024 "Violence and murder are the tragic consequences of demonizing those with whom you disagree." --Trump, last Wednesday #VoteBlue

"According to Trump and his toadying henchmen—Justa Dick Vance, Whiskey Pete Hegseth, and Stephen Miller aka Pee-Wee German—it is now a crime in America to make any comment about Charlie Kirk that does not compare him favorably with Gandhi." --Andy Borowitz #VoteBlue for free speech.