She definitely knows she's looking at herself - no peeking behind or batting. Just st lying there admiring herself. As well she should.♥️😸

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth issued a series of new directives that will make it harder for women to serve in combat and easier for personnel to engage in hazing and bullying without repercussions. Hegseth wants a gang of thugs, not a modern army. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pete Hegseth is the enemy within.

Leia can't help admiring herself!

The mere fact that Pete Hegseth thinks he's qualified to run the U.S. military and thinks he is in someway superior to U.S. Generals should, in and of itself, be disqualifying.

Just a few short hours to fund the government, and House Republicans aren't even in town—they're on vacation. Republicans don't care. Republicans and Trump are shutting down the government rather than working with Democrats to fix the health care crisis THEY created.

11/ And finally Trump and Hegseth's speeches today, an effort to transform the military into an American Waffen SS for use against the "enemy within." x.com/DavidNorthWS...

After watching Hegseth's and Trump's speeches today, I have to wonder. Does Trump want to trigger mass resignations among the top officers in the United States military? If so, why? This is not an insignificant question.

'I found my mouth open': Retired general lays waste to 'insulting' Trump military speech Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling had nothing good to say about Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speeches www.rawstory.com/trump-quanti...

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling had nothing good to say about Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speeches before the Pentagon's senior leadership on Tuesday — and hammered them both for talking down to the troops.

“Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated,” Brad Lander wrote. “Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was ‘beneath the men and women of ICE.’ This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.”

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Our so-called president is posting fake videos as propaganda. Trump is a racist liar suffering from dementia.

My disagreement w/Erickson is he said or implied they weren't Christian. Orthodox and Coptic are different from Western counterparts, but certainly Christian. After all,there have been deep divisions in W Christian churches especially since 16th C. (Can't find his original post.)

it was a big deal too bc the Byz Emp was seen as the continuation after Rome's "fall" in 476.Until 1100 or so,the papacy was the force to be reckoned w/in West, but the Patriarch of Constantinople was very important in E. Also,Theotokos (Mary) was huge in E while cult only began to grow in W c.1100.

It's about the West adding "the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father AND THE SON." Best book on it is A. Edw. Siecienski, The Filioque: History of a Doctrinal Controversy. It doesn't seem important to many modern people but in the M.A., people felt salvation depended on issues like this

It was huge in causing Schism between E & W churches, especially parts "eternally begotten of the Father, created not made, one in being with the Father." I taught a 2-1/2 hr seminar on how it broke the relationship (w/mutual excommunications in 1054) so I can't begin to explain it in a few words.

I hope Hegseth supplied all the military leaders who have to listen to Trump's lies and nonsense a flask.

Moron is the first word that comes to mind hearing Hegseth. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Their slogan may as well be Make America White Again.

And it worked under Stalin till Gorbachev.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Erasing history.

Why are the president of the red states of America and republicans dead set against the ACA. They just don't want less fortunate people to have healthcare. www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

The saints have left us again! So more Aristophanes accurately describing the US government today: "Politics, these days, is no occupation for an educated, a man of character. Ignorance and total lousiness are better." (Knights)

1888! Definitely wasn't the Spanish Armada!😱🫣

OTD 1588 Jack the Ripper struck again in "Double Event" in East End.Almost caught in the possibly opportunistic murder of Liz Stride in Dutfield Yard he moved quickly to Mitre Square,where he murdered Catherine Eddowes.Sensationalust press heightened fear & sent letter signed JtR,giving him a name.

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A bit of good news. Hurray for Moldova!!

Penitentials, I hope? They're so much fun!

The Pro-EU party crushed the pro-Putin party in Moldova’s elections. The people there want no part of your designs on their freedoms, Vladimir.

BTW is McQ juss an absoloot unit nowe or wut? Abowt 8.5 munts old. #catsofbluesky

Official portrait.

Leia's showing off her devil-may- care attitude.

John Oliver Torches Israel’s Netanyahu for 30 Minutes Straight: ‘This F*cking Guy!’

John Oliver digs up an old clip of Benjamin Netanyahu bragging that, "I know what America is. America is something that can be easily pushed… the world won't say anything.'" #BlueCrew

Agree With Governor Newsom......