There were 20 Medals of Honor awarded for Wounded Knee. That’s more than were awarded for freaking D-Day (16). In case you think any of these medals handed out that Hegseth is so bent in protecting were anything more than genocide participation trophies.

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

As a lifetime Democrat, I resent armies of social media bots trying to manipulate me.

A president who is crashing the economy, destroying public health and terrorizing immigrants keeps slipping in the polls. He could: A) stop his bad behavior to stem the slide or B) try to crush free speech to cover up his failures. Right now, he’s choosing B.

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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Dear Executives, Please know the American people are going to turn your business upside down as soon as you bend the knee to this fascist regime. See what happened to Target? 40% loss in value and CEO fired. We’re doing that to Disney/ABC now, and you’ll be next 🙂. Sincerely, Your Customers

We are in a new McCarthy era, only an even more stupid one.

This.

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

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Hegseth dismantled the DOD office combatting Russian disinformation in March and Rubio did the same to the State Department in April. What a time to lower your shields!

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steadystate1.substack.com/p/steady-sta... TSS calls on Congress to investigate Loomer’s apparent influence over U.S. intel. An activist with no official government position, she has reportedly influenced the ousting of top U.S. officials and advocated for the revocation of security clearances.

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Yes. And brilliant.

Making war crimes great again.

Seen this morning on 14th & U.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order aimed at curbing the power of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops that he said Trump has threatened to deploy to Illinois.

Challenge all the nonsense, large and small. Anything less is complying in advance.

Spreading mulch was the national emergency?

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING Democrat Catelin Drey FLIPS Iowa SD-1 — a district Trump won by 11.5 points in 2024 — defeating Republican Christopher Prosch in a landslide special election and breaking the GOP supermajority.

No

The thing about dictators is, even if you're on the inside or on the same side...eventually it catches up to you. Look at the military insiders in North Korea Kim has had killed. They were privileged. They had privileged families. They thought this was an "other people problem," until it wasn't.

If you haven't read Chris Browning Ordinary Men and you are military, get on it.

Navy Reserve, Naval Special Warfare Leaders Removed from Command — USNI News news.usni.org/2025/08/22/n...

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Dismantling meritocracy and even-handed fairness. Moving from fair and consistent processes to (pew pew) shoot from the hip based on leader bias.

They still exist among us

“It’s a signal that identity, not ability or achievement, determines who stays in uniform and who gets a fair shot.” Forget about merit or achievement. The Trump-Hegseth military is all in for identity politics. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

If you live in Ohio, SC or WV you should be complaining to your governor nonstop about this.

Listen, you can’t break the Trump cult, but they are the minority. We need a sustained presence of Democrats in rural spaces to talk to their neighbors and run for office. Seats go uncontested for decades. Hate gerrymandering? Get Democrats on every ballot and every race. We have to run to win.

Can we send green shirt guy to all of sandwich guy’s hearings to remind us that this is a dystopian comedy?

Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.

Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

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Dedicated VA employees will work diligently to cover the gaps but the intentional dismantling will inevitably result in what the administration is looking for: multiple system failures. The “business plan” is for these hospitals to fail! As a user I favor strengthening direct care.

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The rally in D.C. to protest the Trump regime’s attempted takeover of the city has begun. Follow @freedcproject.bsky.social and learn more at bit.ly/free-dc-our-home.

“You cannot negotiate with people who say what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.” President John F. Kennedy

White M2A1 Half-Track

Same.

Do you know any of these 4 celebrities @charlotteclymer.bsky.social and can you get them to pool their money? Or pick another 4 celebrities, I’m fine with that because we must have independent news!

Show up if you can.

I’m back at the Texas capitol, one week after being arrested, to let these Republican frauds know their gerrymandering scam will FAIL Blue states will throw Republicans out of their seats without mercy Trump wanted this gerrymandering war, Democrats will FINISH IT

I wish that Oprah, MacKenzie Scott, Pink and LeBron James would go to @npr.org headquarters and buy it. They’d make a great management team. We must have access to credible news or we’re D-U-N done. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.