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Recovering writer, blue since birth, mother of 3, cat/dog/ferret/horse mom, Sick of this Sh*t.
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Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas
Trump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."
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So the destruction of Bahrain simultaneously damaged the machinery for moving food, fuel, ordnance and supplies and removed one of the mechanisms for keeping several thousand sailors functional over a prolonged deployment....
USS Abraham Lincoln, politicized intelligence, 24,500+ cyclospora cases, and a $533 million artillery factory that produced zero usable shells. Sometimes what looks like bureaucratic friction is actually the machinery that makes institutions competent. #uspolitics open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
I have seen this in local police department for years. They all have buzz haircuts, they all wear tactical gear all of the time, they have armored vehicles. Our police departments are starting to look like mini military organizations, and it screams of the same attitude that this article describes.
Agents dress for the war they want. They march into town in the costume of a foreign invasion.
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Compare this to Obama, who demanded detailed briefings and a risk assessment / COA analysis with every decision he made. You simply can’t distill complex foreign policy issues into a one pager and expect good outcomes.
There was a rule when I was in Trump's first term: if a memo had a staple in it, it was too long for him to read. Life-or-death decisions were cut to one page. Or a half-page. Or less. Bold fonts. BIG pictures. When you’re wondering why everything’s a mess, remember that.
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This is not the first attack on nuclear facilities. NATO needs to take action on behalf of everyone on the continent. Radiation doesn’t stay within country borders.
A Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7, Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.
@angrystaffer.bsky.social when Felon47 finally kicks the bucket, how strongly are the MAGA cultists going to back Vance?
It cannot be overstated how bad this is. This is textbook authoritarianism. This is another of our rights being stripped away.
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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Democrats didn’t blink. Yesterday the GOP caved — zero dollars for ICE. This is what winning looks like 🔥
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"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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