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Irreverent Lefty. Truth teller. Californian. Romantic Realist. Granddaughter of Depression Era folks; I save chopsticks and wrapping paper. Not a hoarder.
Just say "yes".
Just say "yes".
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· Mar 7
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
verfassungsblog.de
“EVERY authoritarian, totalitarian and fascist regime in history eventually failed, thanks to the PEOPLE.”
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Did you ask him if his job was under threat if he failed to follow an illegal order? Did you ask him if he knows killing the shipwrecked is an illegal order? Did you ask him if he was promised clemency if he took the fall? What did he say? TELL US. Stop dancing around these questions.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Did you ask him if his job was under threat if he failed to follow an illegal order? Did you ask him if he knows killing the shipwrecked is an illegal order? Did you ask him if he was promised clemency if he took the fall? What did he say? TELL US. Stop dancing around these questions.
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A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
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“Louisiana’s top criminal justice official has warned New Orleans’ police chief she risks breaking state and federal laws if her officers don’t actively support ongoing federal immigration enforcement efforts in the city.”
Murrill: NOPD is breaking laws if it doesn’t ‘fully cooperate’ with ICE, Border Patrol • Louisiana Illuminator
Louisiana’s top criminal justice official has warned New Orleans’ police chief she risks breaking state and federal laws if her officers don’t actively support ongoing federal immigration enforcement ...
lailluminator.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
“Louisiana’s top criminal justice official has warned New Orleans’ police chief she risks breaking state and federal laws if her officers don’t actively support ongoing federal immigration enforcement efforts in the city.”
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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This is murder.
Hegseth needs to be removed and prosecuted, along with Bradley.
Hegseth needs to be removed and prosecuted, along with Bradley.
December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is murder.
Hegseth needs to be removed and prosecuted, along with Bradley.
Hegseth needs to be removed and prosecuted, along with Bradley.
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Why do I have to exhaustively cover Trump via complex curatorial journalism when columnists at the WSJ get to write sentences like "Olivia Nuzzi is the kind of entertaining, possibly unstable character you might come to regret bumming a cigarette from late at night in a college dorm"?
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Why do I have to exhaustively cover Trump via complex curatorial journalism when columnists at the WSJ get to write sentences like "Olivia Nuzzi is the kind of entertaining, possibly unstable character you might come to regret bumming a cigarette from late at night in a college dorm"?
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Still wondering about that spackle on Trump's hand and the permanent bruise and the weird MRIs?
Oh look, it's a treatment for early stage Alzheimer's requiring IV infusions every two weeks plus regular MRIs to make sure there's no bleeding in the brain as a side effect.
www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...
Oh look, it's a treatment for early stage Alzheimer's requiring IV infusions every two weeks plus regular MRIs to make sure there's no bleeding in the brain as a side effect.
www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...
Lecanemab Approved for Treatment of Early Alzheimer’s | alz.org
Lecanemab (Leqembi™) has received accelerated approval as a treatment for early Alzheimer’s from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
www.alz.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Still wondering about that spackle on Trump's hand and the permanent bruise and the weird MRIs?
Oh look, it's a treatment for early stage Alzheimer's requiring IV infusions every two weeks plus regular MRIs to make sure there's no bleeding in the brain as a side effect.
www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...
Oh look, it's a treatment for early stage Alzheimer's requiring IV infusions every two weeks plus regular MRIs to make sure there's no bleeding in the brain as a side effect.
www.alz.org/alzheimers-d...
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Whatever, you know what keeps tyrants out of power? Voting.
32% voted for him
31% voted for her
37% didn't give a fck
That's why we are here (that and Mitch McConnell abdicating his duty in the second impeachment).
Oh...and 16/5% of Z's and M's moved to him in 2024 as well as 20% of Latinos.
32% voted for him
31% voted for her
37% didn't give a fck
That's why we are here (that and Mitch McConnell abdicating his duty in the second impeachment).
Oh...and 16/5% of Z's and M's moved to him in 2024 as well as 20% of Latinos.
December 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Whatever, you know what keeps tyrants out of power? Voting.
32% voted for him
31% voted for her
37% didn't give a fck
That's why we are here (that and Mitch McConnell abdicating his duty in the second impeachment).
Oh...and 16/5% of Z's and M's moved to him in 2024 as well as 20% of Latinos.
32% voted for him
31% voted for her
37% didn't give a fck
That's why we are here (that and Mitch McConnell abdicating his duty in the second impeachment).
Oh...and 16/5% of Z's and M's moved to him in 2024 as well as 20% of Latinos.
Disgusting vermin. I believe Kegsbreath will end his days in a jail cell. The idea comforts me.
The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Disgusting vermin. I believe Kegsbreath will end his days in a jail cell. The idea comforts me.
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Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern Pacific, as questions mount over the legality of the attacks.
Video of the new strike was posted on social media by the US southern command, based in Florida, with a statement saying that, at the direction of Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, “Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in international waters operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
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Breaking: Election advocates demand recount in TN
Ten thousand votes suddenly appearing.
www.narativ.org/p/breaking-e...
Ten thousand votes suddenly appearing.
www.narativ.org/p/breaking-e...
BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee
They’re questioning how 31,000 additional votes appeared with 99.4% votes counted - and that's not all.
www.narativ.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Breaking: Election advocates demand recount in TN
Ten thousand votes suddenly appearing.
www.narativ.org/p/breaking-e...
Ten thousand votes suddenly appearing.
www.narativ.org/p/breaking-e...
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This tells us that nobody, not a single of the men in that room stood for basic morality and ethics and said, "This would be murder. And we don't murder people."
This isn't complicated - and any military officer knows that murdering prisoners or the non-combatant defenseless is a crime.
This isn't complicated - and any military officer knows that murdering prisoners or the non-combatant defenseless is a crime.
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
This tells us that nobody, not a single of the men in that room stood for basic morality and ethics and said, "This would be murder. And we don't murder people."
This isn't complicated - and any military officer knows that murdering prisoners or the non-combatant defenseless is a crime.
This isn't complicated - and any military officer knows that murdering prisoners or the non-combatant defenseless is a crime.
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Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Military leaders sat in an office for 42 minutes watching two men on the verge of drowning mid-ocean, clinging to wreckage, with no aid or ability to call for help. They sat there deciding whether to execute them, and then they did it.
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WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
WALZ: “.. Donald Trump’s calling our Somali neighbors ‘garbage’ and calling the state of Minnesota a ‘hellhole’. I’m assuming it’s unprecedented for a United States President. .. We’ve got little children going to school today, their president called them ‘garbage’.”
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Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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My fucking God
These MFERs are raping us while the GQP
Says....YES
YES
YES
Please continue 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
These MFERs are raping us while the GQP
Says....YES
YES
YES
Please continue 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
December 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My fucking God
These MFERs are raping us while the GQP
Says....YES
YES
YES
Please continue 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
These MFERs are raping us while the GQP
Says....YES
YES
YES
Please continue 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
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Unearthed 2016 video: Pete Hegseth straight up says US troops will not follow ‘unlawful orders’ from the commander-in-chief, and there have to be consequences for ‘abject war crimes’.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Unearthed 2016 video: Pete Hegseth straight up says US troops will not follow ‘unlawful orders’ from the commander-in-chief, and there have to be consequences for ‘abject war crimes’.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
Guess it suddenly gets blurry when it’s Trump issuing the unlawful orders.
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Trump gives people permission to become the worst versions of themselves. Once again attacking Congresswoman Ilhan Omar calling her “garbage” along with other Somali immigrants.
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump gives people permission to become the worst versions of themselves. Once again attacking Congresswoman Ilhan Omar calling her “garbage” along with other Somali immigrants.
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“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
WATCH: The Veteran Who ICE Abducted — and Is Fighting Back
Here’s how we’re counter-programming DHS’s propaganda ads.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
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We didn’t hit it twice
We did hit it twice and that’s legal
The Admiral did it
We didn’t see them
I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
We did hit it twice and that’s legal
The Admiral did it
We didn’t see them
I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We didn’t hit it twice
We did hit it twice and that’s legal
The Admiral did it
We didn’t see them
I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
We did hit it twice and that’s legal
The Admiral did it
We didn’t see them
I’m in the fog of war and you’re not even though I am right where you are
Brilliant.
Governor Newsom releases his advanced imaging results...
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Brilliant.
What the?
"The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, whose names have been redacted, accuse Trump and others of operating an “eight-year trafficking and exploitation venture that began in 2018 [that] has continued and escalated under the current Trump administration,”
🔥🔥🔥
#Pinks
www.rawstory.com/trump-267436...
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#Pinks
www.rawstory.com/trump-267436...
Trump slapped with massive lawsuit alleging 'Epstein-identical' trafficking operation
President Donald Trump has been slapped with a $310 million lawsuit alleging that the president engaged in a “trafficking venture” that was “identical in every material respect” to the sex-trafficking...
www.rawstory.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What the?
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RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
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Three things to note…
1. Trump was up late posting over 160 times in one hour on his sad little Truth Social platform last night.
2. He took an MRI and didn’t know what it was for.
3. This man has the nuclear launch codes.
1. Trump was up late posting over 160 times in one hour on his sad little Truth Social platform last night.
2. He took an MRI and didn’t know what it was for.
3. This man has the nuclear launch codes.
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Three things to note…
1. Trump was up late posting over 160 times in one hour on his sad little Truth Social platform last night.
2. He took an MRI and didn’t know what it was for.
3. This man has the nuclear launch codes.
1. Trump was up late posting over 160 times in one hour on his sad little Truth Social platform last night.
2. He took an MRI and didn’t know what it was for.
3. This man has the nuclear launch codes.
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This is a very good practical example of why military officers should not carry out illegal orders.
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is a very good practical example of why military officers should not carry out illegal orders.