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Where George Washington would disagree with Pete Hegseth about fitness for command and what makes a warrior Washington’s ‘warrior ethos’ was grounded in decency, temperance and the capacity to act with courage without surrendering to rage. That ideal built an army – and in time, a republic.

If George Washington heard Pete Hegseth’s concept of a warrior, he’d probably raise an eyebrow, according to an American history professor.

For Washington, real strength came from self-control and being morally grounded.
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Ryazan Oil Refinery🔥

Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!

I DON’T KNOW that there’s ever been a more feckless, cowardly squeaker of the house than Mike Johnson.

ICE/DHS, FBI, and local police on horseback, along with a secret police force in black tactical gear, were witnessed violently confronting the relatives of individuals abducted during a raid at a "Family Day" rodeo in Idaho. Among those who have gone missing are children and U.S. citizens.

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The utter devastation of The We The People’s White House, Before and After:

📌 He is on chocolate Crack 🐥

'No CEO Is Worth a Trillion-Dollar Pay Package': Unions Target Outrageous Elon Musk Tesla Deal | Common Dreams Unions and progressive groups launched the "Take Back Tesla" campaign, urging shareholders to reject Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package, arguing that the "outrageous" proposal rewards destructive beh...

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The world’s richest man “has wiped billions off of Tesla’s share value, trashed the company’s reputation, and driven millions of its customers away,” one campaigner said, urging shareholders to reject his pay plan.

🚨🚨🚨ICE agents have criminal backgrounds including domestic violence and battery. Many have not had any background checks or fingerprints taken. Well, this is 100% consistent with what we are seeing on the streets of America.

Hey Look, Sending Corrupt Former Presidents To Prison Is Fun And Easy, Oui, Oui! Au revoir, Sarkozy.

Hey Look, Sending Corrupt Former Presidents To Prison Is Fun And Easy, Oui, Oui!
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Health insurance costs jumped for workers & employers in 2025.

This will get worse if the GOP refuses to extend ACA subsidies.

Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.

Still not sure we need Medicare for All?

Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…

We just adopted our 19th sanctions package.

It targets Russian banks, crypto exchanges, entities in India and China, among others.

The EU is curbing Russian diplomats’ movements to counter the attempts of destabilisation.

It is increasingly harder for Putin to fund this war.

Mike Johnson has not heard anything about the entire East Wing being demolished and cannot speak to that.

Not sure having your brand associated with destroying the White House is the best look

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

#releasethefiles

Truth Matters (@politicsusa46) When I find myself in times of trouble mother Mary comes to me and says, ‘What does @Robert L Arnold think about this?’ 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdvmjMqR/

I really wish I could sit down, and have a beer with this guy.

Breaking it down to trump’s “entire political existence is just a real estate scam dressed up as nationalism” is but a wee part of every on point observation he makes.

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Elon Musk spent $291M electing Trump.

In exchange, Trump allowed him to gut the federal agencies investigating and regulating his companies.

Now he’s building a robot army that he wants to control with little oversight.

This should terrify you.

No Kings means no oligarchs too

Nothing says "accountability" like another record-busting lobbying year for Big Tech — CEOs and lobbyists are spending millions to drown out the people calling for change.

Column | The hidden way using a rewards card can cost you more Starbucks tracked my every purchase — then gave me fewer deals. It’s called surveillance pricing.

"Starbucks tracked my every purchase — then gave me fewer deals. It’s called surveillance pricing," writes @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social . "My loyalty was working against me."

Big Tech Buying Influence, Threatening Nonprofits, and … Summoning the Antichrist? This week in The Dispatch we’re covering Big Tech’s no-holds-barred lobbying campaign that secured a last-minute veto of the nation’s strongest kids’ AI safety bill, OpenAI’s legal intimidation campaign, and Palantir CEO Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the Antichrist.

📬 INBOX ALERT: This week in The Dispatch we cover Big Tech’s no-holds-barred lobbying blitz that killed the nation’s strongest kids’ AI safety bill, OpenAI’s legal intimidation campaign, and Peter Thiel’s bizarre obsession with the Antichrist.
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ICE boosts weapons spending 700% A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

Here is the source - which used government docs for their reporting: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.