General Mark Milley: "We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator."

"We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator." General Mark Milley

Retired Army Lt. General Mark Hertling on Pete Hegseth's embarrassing remarks today: "Once again I’m reminded, trust is gained in drops and lost in buckets."

The commander-in-chief is not ok. read @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

“I’m sure you’re all wondering why I’ve called you here. It’s for a very serious matter … [unveils photo] No one’s leaving until I find out who wrote ‘pete is a poopyhead’ in the pentagon men’s room.”

1/ While everyone is focused on Comey, Trump did this today. How many more of us will be targeted? How many rounded up? How many designated terrorists and prosecuted before those who remain on the sidelines finally open their eyes to what’s happening? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

Why would Democrats agree to any budget deal when all of it can be overturned by executive fiat?

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

More than 1800 detainees who were interned in Trump's shuttered Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp have now disappeared without a trace. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump: 'We are so broke 15 million people need to lose their health insurance.' Also Trump: www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...

Imagine the response if a Dem Administration removed every top general and admiral from every US military post all around the world (including conflict zones), in order to force them to attend a big in-person meeting in DC (with a former cable news co-host). www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“We are here to represent those who did not come to Mass today because they are in fear...” www.commonwealmagazine.org/chicago-ice-...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Now if Disney/Hulu really wanted customers to return they would make a big ass donation to PBS!

Kimmel is restored. Huge Boycott was about to launch. Welcome the Anti-Fascist Turning Point!

Wait wut www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Bondi makes distinction between "free speech" and "hate speech"--DOJ will go after the latter. Hmmm... she seems oblivious to hate speech spoken by her Boss... How puzzling... Trump hates democrats: “I hate them…”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxvy...

Peter Thiel famously wrote, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Freedom is techno-oligarchy uber alles. Thiel's money has his puppet: JD Vance. Thinking past Trump, Vance is carrying out Thiel's authoritarian ideology. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

David Frum: Leveraging Violence as a Tool of Power open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."

Real hero Jon Green : www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-gr...

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Since January 20, Russian air raids in Ukraine have intensified dramatically

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk. What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

NATO has invoked Article 4 after Russian drones violated Polish airspace which is the required precursor to invoking Article 5. Trump's weakness with Putin has brought us closer to WWIII than we have ever been before.

Charlie Kirk advocated for killing gay people Implied that Black airline pilots weren’t qualified because they were DEI hires Terrorized teachers by establishing a “professor watchlist” He had the right to espouse these viewpoints and should never have been murdered But this is who he was

Charlie Kirk was NOT a hero. He was one of the root causes of the disease riddling the body of the United States. He deserves absolutely ZERO sympathy nor the honour of having the flag fly at half staff. There are more deserving humans, like the children killed in mass shootings.

Trump Cabinet Meeting that @cnn.com Praising, Defending and supporting no matter if Trump Rape, Kill, Burn and hide their bodies and their family bodies, they still kissing and defending What he is doing with N.G. on DC and USA, Fuck CNN and Trump they are the Problem in USA!

Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?

Sloppy, careless, toxic DOGE unfairly targeted an Afghan who was working with the US, and now his family are in Taliban prisons www.propublica.org/article/doge...

How often do you think Trump calls Putin?

"THE ART OF THE KNEEL" TRUMP: "You have to agree to a ceasefire or there will be sanctions." PUTIN: "No ceasefire." TRUMP: "OK." PUTIN: "And no sanctions." TRUMP: "OK." PUTIN: "We're done. Thanks for the red carpet and photo ops."

Thoughts from Germany: 1) The US exited the UN Human Rights Council in Feb 2025 and discredited the council since. That's what countries do who intent to violate human rights (on its own citizens). 2) The US partners with countries violating human rights (see Israel, El Salvador).

ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

On an otherwise dark day, for some reason this made me laugh

Long-Term KGB Soviet Union/Kremlin Operative and Real Estate/Golf Course Cart Rider/Reality TV Host/Multiple Bankruptcy businessman meet to discuss some of the most crucial foreign policy issues of the day. Hope this doesn't harm Ukraine, Europe, and the US. But what could go wrong?

CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER itching for authoritarianism. Trump's WDC “a model” for other cities. OBVIOUS! Trump is probing the broadened use of military intervention into civil society in any way he can. Is he laying out the coup conditions to close down the Mid-Terms if his polls remain bad???

Tariff Major Backfire – Several US allies consider cancelling purchase of F-35’s from US-Lockheed. www.politico.eu/article/swit....

Trump’s view of Democracy and the Constitution clarified in 2 WDC cases: (1) Thousands off ginned-up MAGA thugs storm and assault the US Capitol-Trump just watches and praises; (2) DOGE “Big Balls” techno-frat boy gets assaulted-Trump calls out Nat Guard and suggest US Military. RESIST FASCISM!

Beware of Trump creating a totally uncalled for military crisis--like sending US troops into Latin America re: cartels. As Trump falls in the polls, tariffs backfire, kidnapping immigrants, Epstein scandal deepens, etc., Trump will seek a major distraction. Stupidity merges with danger...

CLARITY! DOJ now stand for Dictatorship Over Justice. It must be understood: The United States has lost the Department of Justice to authoritarianism. There is no basis for viewing the DOJ as independent from the Trump Regime. It now an internal colonial tool of Trump/Project 2025 autocracy.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Wishful thinking. So, in keeping with Trump's form of political intelligence, he sends a real estate-lawyer (Witkoff) to deal with the deep state Neo-Soviet/KGB regime? Another example of Trump's cabinet Ship of Fools. The Putin Cabal will continue to punk Trump and his foreign policy?

Trump vs Murdoch. The issue: Murdoch's rise from manipulating tabloid journalism, which morphed into FOX NEWS, is largely responsive for creating Trumpism. Trump's presidency is unthinkable without FOX. So now Murdoch-family is going to deal with the MONSTER it created? Both tumors need removal