Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with hate. We will not succumb to the ravings of a venomous president who wants us to hate each other. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-bigot-in-the-oval

Just a friendly reminder that THIS is what we're dealing with. Don't get scared. Don't get angry... GET. MOTHER. FUCKING. EVEN.

You know Trump has told everyone that works for him That he will pardon them No matter what crimes they commit Including murder

Rep. Mike Turner on the double strike to comply with Hegseth's orders: "If that occurred, that would be very serious and I agree that would be an illegal act…This is completely outside of anything that has been discussed with Congress and there is an ongoing investigation."

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Backlash is good. www.thebulwark.com/p/backlash-b...

Never forget that people were killed so that Donald Trump could fake an assassination attempt

Walz: "As far as demonizing our Somali community ... they bring the diversity and energy to a place like Minnesota."

Mark Kelly: "We have a president who doesn't understand the Constitution, who installed an unqualified secretary of defense. I cannot think of a secretary of defense in the history of our country that is less qualified than Pete Hegseth. He should've been fired after Signal-gate."

Trump’s golf habit has already cost American taxpayers nearly $71 million since his return to the Oval Office in January, and is expected to total more than $300 million by the time his second term ends.

Mark Kelly: "My concern is with the service members -- we're gonna put these individuals in a really tough place. They may find our down the road that they did something that's illegal. It's not fair to them. That's why need presidents and secretaries of defense who understand the Constitution"

WELKER: Did you defy the court's order Madam Secretary? KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds

Klobuchar: "What the president has done is taken a horrific crime that occurred in DC and went 2,400 miles away to Somali & somehow indicted an entire group of people, 80k of them in my state, as well as all naturalized citizens. This is what he does. He tries to make people hate each other."

BASH: He called your governor 'retarded' KLOBUCHAR: These words shouldn't even be repeated by anyone, much less a president of the United States

The problem with the President of the United States is not that he used the word “retard” in a tweet. The problem is that 77.3 million people voted for him knowing well what he was, is, and would be. No President of any party or religion or region or indeed intellect has been less fit for a vote.

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Bash: "Do you believe if there was a second strike to eliminate any survivors that it constitutes a war crime?" Mark Kelly: "It seems to." Bash: "If you received that order, would you have carried it out?" Mark Kelly: "No…Going after survivors in the water is unlawful."

GOP Rep SLAMS his own party "crooked as a dog's leg"

Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"

"No one's going to build a factory based on a tariff that's on on Monday, off on... Tuesday, the president's changed his mind by Wednesday, he gets hormonal by Thursday and someone says something nasty in the middle school cafeteria on Friday and they're back on again."

The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

Mark Kelly: "When I heard the secretary say that they're gonna pause immigration from third world countries, I take that as a message that they don't want brown people coming to the US. And I find that disturbing."

Pete HogsBreath Order To Kill Any Survivors On So Called Drug Boats, Would Be Illegal Under U.S. And International Laws.......

When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored? Started. Going.

I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

BTW, these recent stories/leaks against Hegseth and Kristi Noem came from within the White House and MAGA. The knives are out, folks.

How life changed in a rural town in Virginia that lost its sole health clinic after the passage of Trump’s megabill. The residents voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024, and now they’re suffering for it.

Kaine: "We had to pry with a crowbar after weeks and weeks out of the administration the supposed rationale for the strikes in international waters. It was very shoddy. It was not at all persuasive that these are legal actions ... It's time for Congress to rein in the president."

MAGA might still be on the Trump train, but Republicans in Congress see the writing on the wall. They know he’s weak, and that weakness gives them cover to finally distance themselves. A politician’s first unspoken instinct is self-preservation.

All we can say about this is: WTF? lnk.thebulwark.com/48p9ywR

“If the allegations against Hegseth are true, he must be held to account with his removal and criminal conviction.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Q: "A new WaPo report says that Secretary Hegseth called for everyone aboard the first suspected drug boat that was targeted to be killed when two people survived…with a follow-on strike." Sen. Tim Kaine: "If that reporting is true it…rises to the level of a war crime."

This guy is simultaneously stupid and insane.

As former Bush OLC leader Jack Goldsmith writes, the DOD manual prohibits killing shipwrecked enemies. If reporting is correct, killing helpless men clinging to boats was a war crime.  open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Mark Kelly says Pete Hegseth's reported double tap strike on a boat "seems to" be a war crime, and adds, "if what has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We are not Iraq"

Grateful to everyone I saw in Philadelphia and Cincinnati and to everyone who protested — and above all to those who organize day after day.

Indeed, it's a confession and admission of guilt to heinous crimes.

BREAKING: Republican-led House and Senate committees say they will amplify their scrutiny of the Pentagon after a WaPo report revealing that Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean several weeks ago.

“I’d like to smack that smirk off his face with a goddamn baseball bat” -Ghandi

They’re pulling out.

OH, it will be hilarious watching ICE Gestapo run in the snow when they can’t even run n keep up in good weather 🤣😂🤣. Cleveland protesting even when it’s cold n snowy ✊🏼 #ohio #iceout

This dude SAS really seems to think we’re all fools.

This only happens one way. Every person that loves our country that lives in Tennessee's 7th congressional district gets out, stands in line as long as it takes on Tuesday Dec. 2nd, and votes for Aftyn Behn. www.politicususa.com/p/democrats-...

He’s on the slippery slope of his sinking ship. 🍿

Please hurry up 🙏🏻 🤞🏻🤞🏻