Pentagon total censure. Reporters must pledge to not use or seek any info include unclassified that wasn’t officially released. Comical. 26,000 with cell phones work in Pentagon. 1000 visitors a day. Total advance censure. Like North Korea.

A good piece for today.

taskandpurpose.com/news/trump-b... Hard to imagine what operational benefit regaining control of Bagram AFB gives the US. Securing and operating the base would be several thousand US military personnel. To what purpose?

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world. What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

So… Putin’s authorized Flack’s consider tac nuke strikes on Poland. They believe NATO nuclear retaliation is affordable. This is 90% sheer BS. The ignorance of an empty suit who doesn’t understand the possible near complete destruction of Russia. Irresponsible.

Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion." Here's the clip of his apology 👇

Hard to imagine. On air. A policy of murder? The constraints have been erased. Walking away from American values.

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

911 was a dreadful day of tragedy and loss…. and equal measure of courage and commitment. Law enforcement, intelligence, and the Armed Forces ( 60,000 KIA/WIA) struck at our enemies. Never forget.

The terrible murder of Charlie Kirk an indication of the intensifying political violence in America. Shameful.

Trump apparently on the verge of political unilateral intervention in Chicago with massive Federal law enforcement and possibly military formations. No coordination with state authorities. The face of a rolling suppression of American values.

In 1900, nearly 1 in 5 children in America died before age five. Vaccines changed that. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s lies are fueling a public health catastrophe. People will get sick. People will die. Science saves lives—misinformation kills.

The bipartisan Restore Trust in Congress Act is a necessary step to ban Members of Congress and their families from engaging in insider trading. It is time to pass this bill and make it clear to the American people that their elected officials put them first.

Speaking for us all:

Trump political stunt to rename DOD as Dept of War. Shallow belligerency. Simplistic. Another bizarre signal to the international community.

China just conducted the largest military display in history. Impressive cutting edge technology. The old peasant PLA is gone. Trump has destroyed our Pacific and NATO alliances and trust. Policy by adolescent whim. Tariffs killing our friends.

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xirts... This massive level of shooting violence in Chicago and other cities is shocking and destabilizing. Stupid to argue that down = good.

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."

Open planning to deny democratic elections. Some of it unlawful political warfare. Some of it like mail in ballots sheer stupidity.

I have never witnessed such groveling and obsequious behavior in my life. Trump ass kissing is nauseating. An American version of Kim Jong Un.

Health workers at the CDC and other agencies have urged Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr to stop spreading false information and harming public health. In an open letter to Kennedy and Congress, they called his statements "dangerous and deceitful." doi.org/10.1136/bmj...

What Pritzker Said open.substack.com/pub/charlies... — Essentially we are on the verge of becoming a police state selectively directed and enforced by Trump. This is sliding into a lawless regime. A government of gangsters. Congress has surrendered their powers to constrain the Executive.

This speech will go down in history as one of the most incredible push backs of this administration. We agree wholeheartedly Governor Pritzker.

“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker

www.threads.com/@corybooker/... — Rubio. Talent. Experience. Unprincipled. Hypocrisy. Lust for power. Shameless.

x.com/rpsagainsttr... — Trump—- the terror power of the state.

Because they don't exist. Again.. tRump has not made a single trade deal. Not one. Any deal made between countries must be written, signed, THEN ratified by both countries. In the US, that's Congress. None of that has happened. There are No Deals in place. This is just theater.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... — Chaos.

Diplomacy can only ratify battlefield realities. Trump openly supports Putin who has savaged Ukraine in aggressive war. He has publicly given Moscow the right to keep Ukraine land they hold. He has denied NATO future protection. Trump just wants a deal. Any deal.

Trump is a gift to Putin … a murderous gangster who has ruined Russia and savaged democratic Ukraine. Putin is an enemy of the free world. A threat to NATO. Trump is incoherent. Policy by whim. Values un- American.

apnews.com/live/donald-... — DC Crime down but still a serious concern to the Capital. National Guard not well suited to counter criminal activity. Surge of FBI/ATF agents poor use of investigators. Need to fill Court and prosecutor vacancies. Deal with youth crime.

‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o... —- Trump alienation of Canada with illegal threats of economic warfare or even military intervention are humiliating. Make no sense. Should be cause for removal from office.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... —-New lows. The NKVD. The thought police. The ultimate politicization of the US Armed Forces.

Ignorance. This will be costly in human lives.

x.com/twolfrecover... —- Tragic. Deaths by the tens of thousands.

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o... — Powerful warning. We are slipping into straight out Trump unconstrained rule by decree. Stupid moves. Our institutions being destroyed. Policy by babble. By whim.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development The denial of science. The avoidable future death of uncounted Americans. The luddites. Crack pot policy. ———— apnews.com/article/kenn...

Army Secretary Orders West Point to Pull Appointment of Former Biden Official www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u.... Jen Easterly brilliant Rhodes Scholar. Retired Army Colonel. National expert on cyber security. Worked in both Republican and Democrat Administrations. A vindictive paranoid decision.

Trump. A humiliation.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Half of this Oregon farmer’s cherry pickers is not showing up for work due fear of ICE detainment. 400 tons of bing cherries will not be picked. This is happening all across America. Our food supply will be severely impacted by the big bullshit bill that gives ICE $170 billion to detain migrants.

Trump is a darkly comical disaster. Lawless. Ignorant. A huge danger to our freedoms. Annex Canada by economic pressure or possible force? Seize Greenland with force? The Panama Canal? Turn Gaza into an American Club Med? Strip Americans of their citizenship? Congress must impeach.

If Russia attacks Poland… which is very unlikely… they will be destroyed by a European military response.

He would have been a fifth grader if he hadn’t been left back

wallstreetjournal-ny.newsmemory.com?publink=3d92... We are the definition of an irresponsible society.

No question there should be a triad approval authority to launch nuclear weapons. Eg. President, Sec Def, Speaker of the House. No question that our SLBM nuclear deterrence is completely credible even after suffering an enemy preemptive attack. I would also support “No First Use.”