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Jaime Harrison

@jaimeharrison.bsky.social

And I say this from experience: I know the challenges that come with that choice. I know the obstacles, the accusations, the attempts to break & dehumanize you. I still wear the scars.

But to every candidate stepping up:
Keep pushing. Keep fighting. Keep overcoming.
Democracy needs you.

December 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM

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Asha Rangappa

@asharangappa.bsky.social

Aaaaaand…this is exactly why the six lawmakers needed to remind servicemembers about not obeying unlawful orders (this will get driven home when Hegseth gets a pardon but no one else does)

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d

NYT:
Five officials told us that Hegseth had nothing to do with the second strike

Washpost (which broke the story 2 days ago):
“This is ‘protect Pete’ bullshit,”
and
“It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.”

At the White House on Monday, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, read a statement that said Mr. Hegseth had authorized the Special Operations commander overseeing the attack, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, “to conduct these kinetic strikes.”

She said that Admiral Bradley had “worked well within his authority and the law directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated.”

According to five U.S. officials, who spoke separately and on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter that is under investigation, Mr. Hegseth, ahead of the Sept. 2 attack, ordered a strike that would kill the people on the boat and destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.

But, each official said, Mr. Hegseth’s directive did not specifically address what should happen if a first missile turned out not to fully accomplish all of those things. And, the officials said, his order was not a response to surveillance footage showing that at least two people on the boat survived the first blast.

Admiral Bradley ordered the initial missile strike and then several follow-up strikes that killed the initial survivors and sank the disabled boat. As that operation unfolded, they said, Mr. Hegseth did not give any further orders to him.

Her scripted remarks at a news briefing elicited a furious backlash within the Defense Department, where officials described feeling angry at the uncertainty over whether Hegseth would take responsibility for his alleged role in the operation — or leave the military and civilian staff under him to face the consequences.

“This is ‘protect Pete’ bulls---,” one military official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations, told The Post.

Leavitt’s statement “left it up to interpretation” who was responsible for the second strike that killed the two survivors, a separate military official said, imploring the White House to provide clarity on the issue.

One official said of Leavitt’s statement, “It’s throwing us, the service members, under the bus.” Another person said some of Hegseth’s top civilian staff appeared deeply alarmed about the revelations and were contemplating whether to leave the administration.

December 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM

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Kids Can Press

@kidscanpress.bsky.social

December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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Jess Piper

@piperformissouri.bsky.social

I’ve been working against school vouchers for a decade. I’ve also been watching what has happened in other states.

Missouri is following the Arizona voucher plan.

Arizona blew a $1 billion hole in their state budget last year because tax money was diverted to private religious schools.

December 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Joe Walsh

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

Dear Senator Cassidy,

“We” didn’t. WE didn’t pardon anyone. HE did. The President of the United States pardoned him. Come on Bill, say his name. Who’s our president? Say his name.

Best,

Your Former Congressional Colleague

December 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM

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Kurt Bardella

@kurtbardella.bsky.social

#republicans like to talk about the shooters but not about the #guns … you can deploy all the military troops you want but the real crime problem in America begins and ends with guns!

December 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM

Steven Hunnell

@saahunnell.bsky.social

@profanity.accountant let’s go.

November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM

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Tom Nichols

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth is right: Mark Kelly shouldn't be a senator.

He should take Hegseth's job and be SECDEF.

I'll be on MSNOW at 4pm to talk more about it.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job

He should be secretary of defense.

www.theatlantic.com

November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Scott Aaron Rogers

@hoosleft.us

You hate to see these Indiana Republicans getting swatted, but they shoulda known damn well when they got on the Trump train that it stopped at this station. The man is a stochastic terr0r!st.

#Trump #Redistricting #INGOP #Gerrymandering #SWAT #IndianaPolitics

November 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Rachel Bitecofer

@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social

I want y’all to fully appreciate how a similar mass psychosis event- Hitler- played out at its end bc the power of self delusion is so much stronger than we ever knew.

Plz RP this 🧵

November 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM

Steven Hunnell

@saahunnell.bsky.social

@whitehousehistory.bsky.social you let that sonofabitch destroy American history for a fucking vanity project.

October 24, 2025 at 3:05 AM

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American Atheists

@atheists.org

No Gods, No Kings, No Petty Tyrants. Not today, not ever.

#NoKings

October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM

Steven Hunnell

@saahunnell.bsky.social

It’s definitely an “America First” when you’re trying to end foreign wars by starting wars in your own country.

The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · Oct 5

Pretty sure you can't win the Nobel Peace Prize if you make California invade Oregon

October 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Steven Hunnell

@saahunnell.bsky.social

@jessicatarlov.bsky.social just listened to your podcast with Andrew Bates. As an Atheist, after seeing republicans weapons religion and now you actually think people like me really want to hear about your faith. I assure you this will turn off a lot of my fellow heathens.

September 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Steven Hunnell

@saahunnell.bsky.social

I just read an article that purports to say that the movie Walking Tall (1973) was not based on actual accounts of Buford Pusser. abcnews.go.com/US/famed-she.... I’m shook.