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Tonight, a post that is longer than usual. But a Judge in Boston issued a 1st Amendment decision that is incredibly important (& long), and we trace his reasoning and some startling conclusions he committed to paper. I hope you’ll stick with me and read to the end. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

It’s still insane and disturbing to me that our troops went from being led by decorated 4-star Generals to a small disrespectful trashy idiotic Fox Propagandist rapist drunkard who installed a makeup area for himself at the Pentagon. Makes me sick every time I think about it.

🚨 THE TRUMP SHUTDOWN HAS OFFICIALLY BEGUN

The government is officially shut down. Make no mistake: Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. This is THEIR shutdown. They had every tool to govern and chose chaos instead. The American people are the ones paying the price.

Trump is a billionaire who is trying to take your health care away by pitting you against brown people who are not even eligible for ACA subsidies. He wants vulnerable white people fighting vulnerable brown people, so that no one pays attention to the billionaire trying to consolidate power.

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

Imagine being generals and admirals and being lectured to by a National Guard major who is known to be a drunk, a sexual assaulted and wears and Nazi tattoo. How do any of them have any respect for that incompetent? Not to mention Private Bone Spurs who expected to be greeted with applause.

That sound of silence was each reflecting on their past and future choices as dedicated servants to the nation. Not a moment of joy.

The generals saw it for themselves. In person. Up close. They now have some soul searching to do about their duties to the constitution and the law. They can’t say the truth was twisted or reframed. It was in their faces. #generals

The self-pronounced Secretary of War just told our civilian controlled top military leaders they can expect to be ordered to violate the Constitution, the thing they swore an oath to serve and protect. Don't let that get lost in this shutdown talk. Stay Woke. This is an important moment historically

No, but I did observe a rather obese Commander-in-Chief. Did Pete Hegseth chastise him?

Dear #ActiveMilitary Brave #ServiceMen and #ServiceWomen Selfless, reasoned, calm, courageous #Leaders, from #FiveStarGenerals down to #SecondLieutenants.. Please, #WeThePeople beg you to remember your #Oath is to #TheConstitution NOT a #realityTV #Felon with #BoneSpurs & a piss-drunk #CosPlayMarine

Are they? I hope so. Some of them are following illegal orders to kill civilians in international waters.

I spent 46 years serving the Army. This bullshit is not what I served for. Kegsbreath is not only a disgrace, he’s a clear and present danger to democracy and national security.

You have to hand it to the generals. Unlike so many other people in this country, they know how to conduct themselves in public. They know they are supposed to be apolitical. So they greeted Trump's political speech with silence. And you could have heard a medal drop when Pete Hegseth finished.

"CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss" is the exact same deal as "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth"

"What's the new mission? Simple, no more fat soldiers.” - Pete Hegseth The Commander In Chief:

Pete Hegseth and Trump told military leaders they want U.S. cities treated as combat training grounds. As if that wasn’t disturbing enough, Ted Cruz said the quiet part out loud: “Democrats need to stop attacking pedophiles.” This is today’s GOP.

You can tell the shutdown isn't a real emergency because Ted Cruz is still in the country.

Called Nazis for a reason - Funding of nation wide prisons - Alligator Alcatraz - Ignoring 9-0 ruling by supreme court - Using ICE agents to detain people entirely by skin color - Deploying national guard to suppress protestors - Importing South African Afrikaners of aparhied SA ... Ect... ect...

A point that needs to be made explicitly: Jimmy Kimmel faced down Donald Trump and won. Period. “Trump can talk tough, puff out his chest and act like he’s an unstoppable force. But he’s not. Money talks. The masses talk, and they matter.” My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Today’s dangerous speech showed it. SignalGate showed it. Nearly every action he’s taken in this office has shown it. Pete Hegseth is wildly unqualified and should resign.

Both Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are absolute lunatics, but we need to take their words seriously. These are not the ramblings of madmen with no influence. They are coming from those in power. They are calling some Americans the enemy and declaring war on them. This is urgent.

We probably won't ever get to see Donald Trump in prison, but Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth have a lot of years left in them

Whoa, whoa. There hasn't been a criminal investigation yet, so law enforcement should follow established procedure: deport her to El Salvador and *then* figure out whether she did crimes.

I listened to it and it created three emotions: fear, boredom and frustration. This is typical old man wandering speak. It frightened me that a man who's brain is this out of whack is in charge of stuff and declaring war on the typical things old men are scared of - inner city youths & change.

NYT did use it as a headline for one of their real-time updates. It's crazy that Republicans support him using Americans as military target practice.

"Trump’s revelation that he had told Mr. Hegseth to use American cities where he has deployed troops as “training grounds” for the military." Why am I not seeing headlines and posts reporting that we are now under martial law?

Laying the groundwork for deployment of ICE and troops outside polling places in swing districts in the midterms. Desensitizing us now so that we dont fight back at the polls. It's the frog boiling strategy. This is all a ploy to either declare martial law or to cancel the midterms.

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Drunken frat boy thinking he can lead the military. Those generals are probably even more disgusted than we are.

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

I expect that my law firm will intervene to fight against the Department of Justice in two more lawsuits today. We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.💪🗳️⚖️

Peeps💙Oh My Gawd , this dude is sending a clear message to Mike Johnson ! My mouth is dropped to the floor right now , Sukhi Sukhi now 🤣🤣 Take a listen 👇🏼 #DemVoice1 #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

What FEMA funding?! I live in Los Angeles and Trump denied disaster relief from fires that happened 8 months ago because he doesn’t like our governor or voters. Mike Johnson can kiss my hairy ass if he thinks we’re all gullible enough to fall for his bullshit.

After catching bits of Trump's speech today. The top brass should remove everyone in the regime. The VP, all of Cabinet, all advisers especially Stephen Miller, Mike Johnson & all his cronies & allies, the majority of SCOTUS. Essentially a political purge to excise the cancer. It's called a COUP.

Ok. I’m starting to wonder if Mike Johnson is in them files…

To the 22 million Americans who will see their health insurance premiums spike if Republicans get their way on this shutdown: Trump, Mike Johnson and Republicans in Congress say that you are all “illegal aliens”.

BELOW: House Speaker Mike Johnson displays a level of joyous exuberance that Republicans only experience when voting to take healthcare away from old people.

So today Pete Hegseth and Trump basically laid the foundation for Martial Law within the US ? Is that right?

“The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, 1959 Vonnegut wrote about Dunning-Kruger effect literally 40 years before they proved it in the lab.

clearly absolutly bonkers speech by Pete Hegseth, coming out in favor of war crimes. BUT: it's not like the US military/gov has been a shining example of the Geneva Convention in the past. most of your (modern) presidents could already be considered war criminals. and most of the world knows it.