Rozenia Stanford

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

To reiterate: this wasn't done even at the height of the civil rights era and massive resistance, when no doubt the bulk of those state's Guard units were themselves racists and segregationists. But they weren't treated as disloyal. There was no notion they would refuse the president's orders.

In none of these cases, when the federal government was openly and with good reason using military force, did Eisenhower or JFK or LBJ say "ok, we're sending the Vermont National Guard to Mississippi to handle this." That would have been understood as insane, it wasn't even considered.

Completely out of control

If I recall correctly, there was even an ad saying “Obama Cares” at the time.

To the Senator’s comms team: We already know the answer to this. What we don’t know is WHAT YOU’RE DOING ABOUT IT.

Where is the Dem leadership? He also called for their/our elimination today and there’s crickets.

Or the opposite, unfortunately

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.

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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Exactly. This is a formality.

I'm not going to be generous. It's just backwards.

This is bigger than healthcare though. Where’s the commentary on the state of our democracy?

I’m absolutely dreading how the media will fail us again on this.

A civil war started by him. Period.

Yep. Can’t be an absolute flop like the parade.

That won’t work with their vision of white bro military forces

“There’s been no fight”

It's like this guy watched a bunch of war movies and internalized that the abusive drill sargeant was actually the Good Guy.

Have you ever seen someone crave so much adoration? Pathetic.

And embarrassing. If you want to be an asshole, at least be an intelligent one.

The headline here is “Hegseth announces changes that will protect domestic abusers in the military.” Even though this is incontestably true, no news organization will use this headline, because telling the truth is deemed impermissible if the truth hurts the right too much

Yes, this is what a dictator says.

Unfortunately, nearly everyone is publicly falling in line. That’s not likely to happen.

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.

🎯 This is no different than their military parade

One can only hope

They have me longing for 2017-2020 Nancy Pelosi. This is pathetic.

Here’s the thing: rights ultimately protect all of us or none of us. Freedom exists for all of us or none of us.

The urge to carve off communities one-by-one — a little off the trans flank here, a little off the Black side there — leads down a road to freedom being demolished for all of us.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

And JD Vance.