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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 14h

The Texas National Guard is a beer league softball team with guns. I thought Hegseth only wanted lethal warfighters.

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1d

It's like watching BABYLON BERLIN except fast forwarding through everything except the parts where Nazis have meetings or beat people up.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody spends more time fantasizing about recreating Berlin in the late 20's and early 30's than Stephen Miller - which is so weird on so many levels.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI: I wrote about how when a QAnon acolyte killed his wife and shot his daughter, one of my serial trolls claimed that he was also a victim and that it was my fault.

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My Troll Collection #5: The One Where I Helped Murder Someone | Mike Rothschild

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 4d

Back the Blue turned into "cops are antifa, actually" so quickly I barely noticed.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

welcome to the Resistance, psychotically violent fascists who tear gas children

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 4d

Finally, my hard work pays off!

Spam email offering me membership in the Illuminati.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI: I wrote about how when a QAnon acolyte killed his wife and shot his daughter, one of my serial trolls claimed that he was also a victim and that it was my fault.

www.patreon.com/posts/my-tro...

My Troll Collection #5: The One Where I Helped Murder Someone | Mike Rothschild

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 4d

"Dad likes to post videos of things that aren't real and pretend they are" is usually followed by an earnest discussion of whether it's time to put dad in a memory care ward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Q: You just said this is an unenviable choice, this is an unfortunate consequences. But the president posted a video likening Vought to the grim reaper. So which is it?

LEAVITT: Look, the president likes to have a little fun every now and then and I think both things can be true

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: I continue my journey through years of harassment and stalking with a piece for paid subscribers about how one of my most prolific trolls accused me of murder. This one gets very weird and very sad.

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My Troll Collection #5: The One Where I Helped Murder Someone | Mike Rothschild

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social

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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: I continue my journey through years of harassment and stalking with a piece for paid subscribers about how one of my most prolific trolls accused me of murder. This one gets very weird and very sad.

www.patreon.com/posts/140230...

My Troll Collection #5: The One Where I Helped Murder Someone | Mike Rothschild

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 7d

The GOP controls the White House and both houses of Congress. They are a fundamentally unserious party concerned with worshipping Trump, being on TV, and getting social media clicks for pushing culture war nonsense. They failed, and it's not the job of Dems to bail them out. Shut it down.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 7d

They present themselves as alpha dog prayer warriors fighting the final battle against evil, while also being utterly terrified of everything.

Joel Siegel @joelsiegel.bsky.social · 7d

Rep. Lisa McClain, on CNN, praising President Trump for deploying the National Guard to Washington:

"My daughter could actually ride the Metro for the first time since she has been in DC."

[Her daughter is 22]

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 7d

The GOP controls the White House and both houses of Congress. They are a fundamentally unserious party concerned with worshipping Trump, being on TV, and getting social media clicks for pushing culture war nonsense. They failed, and it's not the job of Dems to bail them out. Shut it down.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 7d

I'm choosing to live in a world where every single officer who was at this meeting gets back to their base and immediately starts drawing up contingency plans for how to push back when Trump orders Civil War 2 to begin.

Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 8d

If you've got a few dollars to spare, I'd love to have your support on Patreon. I've been documenting rebuilding from the Eaton Fire, and more recently, doing a subscribers-only series on the trolls who have spent years stalking me.

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My Troll Collection, #1: The DARVO Deception | Mike Rothschild

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8d

Pete Hegseth thinks he's Patton, but because he's a doofus who doesn't know anything about his job, he thinks he Patton from the movie, rather than actual Patton in the war, and also he's neither of those guys, he's supposed to be Henry L. Stimson (who, unlike Hegseth, managed to get past Major).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 8d

Getting your military to shoot American citizens by rambling insane nonsense at them for two hours is a bold strategy. I can't imagine it working out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 8d

I know there's a lot going on, but the next time Trump takes questions, I hope someone asks why he shared - and deleted - an AI slop video touting "medbed hospitals" that will instantly cure illnesses. Did he think it was funny? Or real? Did he think it was a speech he'd given?

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 8d

Real Americans dig coal, drive trucks, and know how to pronounce "Abraham."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "In addition to negotiating the Abraaaham Accords -- I like to say it that way because the real people that's what they call, Abraaham. I would say 'Abraham.' But it's so much nicer when you say 'Abraaham.'"

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 8d

If you've got a few dollars to spare, I'd love to have your support on Patreon. I've been documenting rebuilding from the Eaton Fire, and more recently, doing a subscribers-only series on the trolls who have spent years stalking me.

www.patreon.com/posts/my-tro...

My Troll Collection, #1: The DARVO Deception | Mike Rothschild

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 9d

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 10d

Real people have suffered because of the medbeds theory. It's insane, but it's not a joke.

www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/u...

Racked by Pain and Enraptured by a Right-Wing Miracle Cure (Published 2024)

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