Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."

A guess: this would leak anyway, especially something on this scale; and every single person in the Pentagon except Hegseth rightly thinks that this is insane and hopes publicity will make it not happen.

It’s wild to me that the Pentagon is just… fine with reporting that most of our senior military are going to be in the same location. Personal security nightmare.

The SecDef wants all service commanders and their senior enlisted advisors to come to Quantico on short notice. It’s difficult to understand why. My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/hegseth-qu...

Hegseth summoned top military commanders across the globe to a meeting next week in Virginia, but did not say what the meeting would be about.

Pete Hegseth is praising a story about h German generals being gathered to swear loyalty to Hitler as Hegseth prepares to gather all the generals in the US for a meeting. Not beating those nazi allegations.

So, Hegseth called all the flag officers to Quantico so he could peacock on stage and film it for his clips and Trump just big footed him and is showing up. It’s so on brand for this perpetual clown show of narcissists.

Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello Slams Hegseth Over Wounded Knee Medals Morello: “What the f*ck is wrong with these people” meidasnews.com/news/rage-ag...

Behold! The Warrior Ethos™ youtu.be/pMrVdFnjEjs?...

A meeting that could have been a Signal chat, tbh

Based on this. looks like a meeting that could have been an email.

And it will cost millions of dollars to fly 800+ flag officers & their assistants from all over the world back to Quantico, plus lodgings for everyone.

So, whole buncha generals and admirals with decades of combat experience are gonna get lectured by a FoxNews host on the “warrior ethos.”

Don't forget that he also wasted multiple days of their time and blew out their overbooked schedules by forcing them to travel. The brilliance never ends!

Putting them all in one place is also a major security risk.

I just wouldn’t piss off the military if I was an unpopular authoritarian

Imagine being summoned by this drunken TV twerp so he can condescend to them “eyeball-to-eyeball” about the “warrior ethos” for an hour. I wouldn’t even know how to measure the anger and contempt in that room. If they’re stranded there by the government shutdown, they should be allowed to coup.😂

WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We’re stuck with the most wasteful and clueless administration in history. Everyone should be concerned by the vulnerability Hegseth is creating with this move. And Trump seems dazed and confused. Watch every second of this.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons. snyder.substack.com/p/hegseth-pu...

How it started How it’s going @SenJoniErnst edition

Thou shalt worry less about Tylenol causing autism and more about Donold causing fascism.

Stop the scapegoating and start dealing with America’s real gun crisis. HOMEGROWN‼️

Can't we just get healthcare

Former FBI Deputy Director McCabe says he hasn't been contacted "at all" by the FBI about Comey and adds, "if my interactions with Comey was gonna be the basis of this entire prosecution, it's unbelievable that prosecutors wouldn't at least want to sit down and hear what I have to say about it."

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*

MIKE JOHNSON: We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone TAPPER: Does the rule of law apply to people who stormed the Capitol on January 6? JOHNSON: Apparently there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd TAPPER: They were sent there to do crowd control. It wasn't a false flag operation

Congressman wants Gavin Newsom arrested for terrorism because he called Stephen Miller a fascist. The hundreds of times Miller called Democrats fascist apparently doesn’t count for anything.

www.every.org/congregation... Please consider donating

The State of Illinois is closely monitoring the federal deployments in the Village of Broadview. Public safety is always my top priority, and the Illinois State Police remains in close communication with the Broadview Police Department to monitor and maintain public safety.

Clarence Thomas likens old rulings that protect our rights to trains driven by monkeys.

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

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This is SO important, but gets lost in the chaos of the day… she was FIRED for following the LAW 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

SAD!!

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results. So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

not true