Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pete-...

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Pope Leo XIV tweets: “Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

Chump's Never Had A Plan,Other Than To Enrich Himself, And Family Of Criminals......

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

Voting for these goons is like hiring a mechanic who thinks you should be riding a horse.

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

If you held a charisma-off tournament among Vance, the members of Trump's cabinet, and the House and Senate GOP leadership, Vance would be out by the second round.

Like it just really is shocking the contrast between his attitude of sneering condescension and the reality of him as an utterly hapless buffoon.

The U.S. takeaway from Hungary is that Democrats need to run a guy named John American.

But no, Hungarians have now made it more than clear that there is hope. The problems will be resolved, the key is to hold on to one of the greatest achievements in history -- the Western democratic civilization -- and not foolishly surrender it to the jackals falsely promising mountains of gold.

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

I would read a content analysis of the way the Times. WAPO, CNN, Jake Tapper etc... covered Biden leaving Afghanistan compared to this absolute debacle of the War on Iran by Trump.

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

"open the fuckin' strait" was just on sunday. fuck this addled dementia case and fuck everyone who is still enabling him.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

No one cares, but I'm stewing over how Trump effectively distanced himself from the filth of the GOP brand by running against the forever wars of W. and the Medicare/Medicaid cuts of Romney/Ryan. And now he's just the most basic bitch Republican carried by the worst dry drunks and neo-Nazis alive.

Three Hundred Habeas Cases in Which the Government Has Defied Court Orders www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thre...

Both Roberts and Gorsuch sound intensely skeptical of the Trump administration's arguments against birthright citizenship. The three liberals have already opposed Trump's executive order. So if this holds, there's five votes against Trump right there.

Liberals say it's a tragedy that delusional billionaires now control our democracy. They're wrong—it's a tragedy that delusional billionaires now control our republic.

So they don’t need a $200 billion supplemental?

all the economy needsto kickstart it is 6 masked dudes punching a grandmother in back of the head at the departure gate

seems like someone on tee vee would get great ratings by repeatedly saying “that’s not true” to trump officials’ faces but i guess billionaire owners don’t like that

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The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

🇪🇸🇺🇦 Spain allocates a billion for weapons to Ukraine "Spanish government and the entire society believe that Ukraine should become part of the EU. I want to present to you new support measures from Spain. First of all, a billion euros for 2026 for military support," said Sanchez.

I feel betrayed by Trump. But if Democrats keep using terms like “unhoused” and “Latinx” I will have no choice but for a vote for him for the fourth time in 2028.

🔥 Zelensky intrigued with a statement about sea drones "We are developing more stable drones that can operate longer and more effectively at sea. Soon and not in the distant future we will have systems capable of operating even in ocean conditions," the president noted.

🇩🇪👀🇺🇸 German Foreign Minister Wadephul: Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz is not possible. If the American Armed Forces are not able to secure this militarily, then European forces will most likely not be able to do so either.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Zelensky: In a trilateral format with Starmer and Rutte, we discussed joint weapons production and coordination in this direction to strengthen Ukraine and all of Europe. It is important to continue strengthening our air defense and ensuring it has a sufficient number of missiles.

Please see my essay “Oligarchical Corridor” where I try to conceptualize all this. snyder.substack.com/p/the-oligar... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

mafia tactics from a mafia org

heh heh, gettem George

This NYT article focuses on the theatrics of a judge tossing a DOJ official from his courtroom for speaking without permission, but the transcript reveals much worse govt wrongdoing: DOJ cut a plea deal w/ a child sex abuse material (CSAM) defendant before the FBI finished searching his devices ...

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

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But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.

The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit

The GOP lost their minds over a single mom getting a couple hundred dollars a month for groceries. Now we’re blowing up billions with no clear objective and they shrug. I never want to hear another lecture about a mom buying her kid a birthday cake while the world’s on fire again

A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center. Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000. Her daughter turned down $22,224,000. www.lex18.com/news/coverin...

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

Caolan interviewing Zelenskyy www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYa7...

from these citations, I take it—the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of itself

I understand that there are a lot of folks on the left who instinctively recoil from religious language, and with good reason given its use by the right. But please listen to this, and focus on how he's trying to realign "Christian values" so they align with and advance progressive policy goals.

The war on Iran is unfolding alongside a wave of mass layoffs in the US. These are not separate crises. They are two sides of the same offensive by the ruling class against the working class.

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

Tragedy and farce, at the same time.

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%