Trump’s speech to the generals and admirals: I don’t even know where to begin

Covid cases rising with new variants Nimbus and Stratus If you feel unwell with a bad throat and a temperature you may well have caught one of the new strains of Covid circulating this autumn. www.bbc.com/news/article...

To this day, I am still angry we made the kid from the Twilight Zone episode "It's A Good Life" the President of the United States. Not Bill Mumy. From all indications, I hear he's a good dude and a sci-fi legend. No, I'm talking about the character he played. He's... a good boy. A very good boy.

«In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found.»

The violence in the streets of America is literally coming from abuses of power by the federal government. Our government has been plundered using authoritarianism to hide their corruption. No one is examining the books, and scrutinizing the corrupt leaders in this government.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

I have trouble articulating precisely why, but something I really appreciate about the best of the Jim Henson era of Muppets is it's one of the few pieces of media that works for kids and adults and is never obviously aimed at either? And there's very little trying to go over kids' heads.

Reich is off base here, not premise wise, but on the case he builds. An effective case can be made for even advanced dementia; but, given that he *is* a fascist, showing how he acts like one isn't it (that is, him acting like a fascist means nothing since a Trump of sound mind would act the same).

Trump leaked this story because he wants to you hear it. Let’s be clear :: Trump wants you to blame a shutdown for shit he is planning to do anyhow. If dems cave and fund him, he will STILL wield executive power and slash government programs. He HAS BEEN doing that with the government open.

When I was at NIH and shutdowns loomed, it was discovered that the administration was planning to shut down PubMed. The head of NCBI called the powers that be and pointed out that this would threaten patient safety Who knows what will happen now Just in case, remember Euruope-PMC (europepmc.org )

I know it's 50 minutes long but it's absolutely worth the watch. All these people who are saying that Trump is an outlier so nothing to worry about when he is gone should pay attention to the framing posed when he starts the video.

the white nationalist meme account guy absolutely knew what he was doing when he cropped this screenshot, but it’s incredibly funny to imagine the very real possibility that elon musk doesn’t actually know what christian identity is. it doesn’t just mean people who identify as christians!

Rachel finally decided to look up what 'fascist' meant and she did not like what she learned.

America’s most farming-dependent counties backed Trump by an average of 78%, up from both 2016 & 2020, despite him previously instigating a trade war that caused higher prices for supplies & decreased exports. Soy farmers are projected to lose 16M tons of exports to China in the next 3 months alone.

The old man is not okay. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-pos...

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Abolish ICE. Now. www.newsweek.com/ice-detentio...

This is the same pathology applied to mass shooters and terrorists. This is the beginning of the move to force medical bodies to pathologize trans people as inherently prone to violence and dangerous.

The medbed thing is funny but maybe it’s bad that the press has no interest in evaluating whether the president has functioning reality-testing

CBS news as govt. mouthpiece. 1:02 «Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows the moment a gunman shot at detainees and agents who were in a van at a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday.» «31-year-old Miguel ángel García, a Mexican national was shot at least 8 times and is now on life support.»

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

THIS 👉

And yet military follows unambiguously illegal orders without a problem (blowing up boats in and/or around Venezuela's exclusive economic zone) even before any alleged forthcoming purge. This is something that we were told, with great confidence, would never happen by the same folk saying this.

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...

Hegseth fires general officers and JAGs, cracks down on dissenting views in military, orders killing civilians at sea without legal rationale, calls generals to Quantico to demand loyalty. Trump deploys troops to U.S. cities. "What are Trump and Hegseth up to? It's a mystery!"

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Yeah anyways this whole thing was a hoax and right-wingers are deleting their viral posts about it from earlier today. Completely made up. Rinse repeat with a new one tomorrow.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

2:30 «There's been a lot of random conversation about getting rid of some commands or combining them.» This is functionally a purge because you are delusional to think perceived loyalty to Trump above the Constitution & the UCMJ isn't going to be a decisive factor deciding who goes and who stays.

BREAKING: Supreme Court lets Trump unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally appropriated foreign aid money apparent 6-3 vote with liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social

Dems abandoning trans folks has now allowed for a million dollar ad buy for this disgusting ad by American Principles Project in NJ and VA casting trans people as school shooters and violent threats to children. It was never about fucking sports.

That’s exactly what RFK Jr.’s endgame is, but he knows he can’t just ban vaccines all at once. So he’s chipping away at access. The latest is that, as I predicted, he’s going after the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, plotting to bankrupt the system by adding autism as a compensable “injury.”

RFK Jr. Finally Gets Around to Bringing His War on Medical Science to Abortion.

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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I'd love it if a subject matter expert expanded on the entire context here as well as what the subtleties & implications of doing it one way or the other are. As a lay person, it seems like obeying in advance.

If imports of kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, and upholstered furniture can threaten national security, then it's hard to think of a product that could not.

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

Comey: My heart is broken for the Department of Justice. But I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent, so let's have a trial.

Excellent callback to _It's a Good LIfe_ from the third season of the original _Twilight Zone_, comparing Donald Trump (who is a very good boy) to Anthony Fremont (played by Bill Mumy).

They've lost the 9yos

24:20 «And I don't think that Trump is repeatable. I think he's an outlier. And I hope he's an outlier. And I think once he is gone, some sense of normalcy will return.» Oh, no! Don't do this. It is copium. It is the same American exceptionalism that got us here. It's burying our head in the sand.

Motherfuckers. And I don't even like Comey.

Good luck on finding a Grand Jury that will do your bidding, moron! P.S. I suppose she knows this and has to go through the motions if she wants to keep her job.

Apparently, Trump had problem pronouncing "acetaminophen". For those interested, here is the correct pronunciation using the IPA: /ɹəˈlis ði ˈɛpstiːn faɪlz/

Yesterday, Scott Bessent announced the US would bail out Javier Milei's Argentina. Today, China announced a huge soybean purchase from Argentina, extending its replacement of American crops for South American crops. www.reuters.com/world/china/...