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Women Have Served in Combat Roles for a Decade. The Pentagon is Reopening the Debate Pete Hegseth has directed Pentagon leaders to review fitness, training standards which could adversely affect women in combat roles

I PROUDLY share this great article (I had a small contribution to)! Please share far and wide this AMAZING message! Women In Military Service can and always DO!

As the Pentagon reexamines women in combat, female veterans consider it a settled issue Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of combat physical standards. Women who've served in combat jobs say ten years of experience has proven they're up to the task.

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I’m very disappointed in Gayle King! The others I may have expected the frivolous notoriety and ego, but not her! VERY disappointed! What they did had NOTHING to do with making things better on earth! I raised the BS FLAG Gayle! Disappointed 😡

🔥Rep. Mikie Sherrill came in swinging: “You don’t give targeting information. You don’t give time. You put people in danger!” A Navy Vet and former Russian policy officer, she’s not mincing words—Tru... TikTok video by VoteVets

I’m with her!!

Our President Is A Global Embarrassment 2.28.25

I appreciate a correct headline: Our President Is A Global Embarrassment

Opinion | This Never Happened With an American President Before Trump’s behavior in the Oval Office with Zelensky was an unparalleled break with American foreign policy.

Tom Friedman: "This is a total perversion of U.S. foreign policy practiced by every president since World War I. My fellow Americans, we are in completely uncharted waters, led by a president, who — well, I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​"

The look of “I sold my soul to Satan”

Firing workers from US weather and oceans agency risks lives and the economy, former agency heads warn NOAA's 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.

The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”

This is the most horrific display of Pro Putin idiocy I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. Trump supporters YOU ARE CULPABLE!

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DOD advisory committees must prove ‘warrior ethos’ in new directive All active Defense Department advisory committees were given until Feb. 21 to send back a response justifying their existence.

All active Defense Department advisory committees were given until Feb. 21 to send back a response justifying their existence.

Trump Suddenly Slips in 3 Brutal New Polls—and Musk Looks Even Worse As several national polls offer bad news for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, a leading political scientist explains why conditions are ripe for Democrats to run harder against their authoritarian overreac...

Elon Musk is cratering in polls:

WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access

CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role

Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup.

On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this:
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A small government team at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, responsible for regulating autonomous cars—which Elon Musk claims are the future of Tesla—is being cut nearly in half by Musk. Conflict of interest?

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl You Are In Danger

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SHE AIN’T LYING!

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