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Franklin the Turtle publisher slams Hegseth for ‘violent’ boat strike post

Pete Hegseth regarding 2 Sept. 2025 boat strike in Caribbean: "I watched it live". Confessing to a war crime.

On Eve of Illegal Venezuelan Invasion, Pete Hegsesth Utterly Destroys His Ability to Lead It - emptywheel Pete Hegseth has squandered what shreds of credibility he had in recent weeks.

On Eve of Illegal Venezuelan Invasion, Pete Hegsesth Utterly Destroys His Ability to Lead It

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This is in no way a war. Even the regime lawyers say that.

"....then this is simply like every other strike that is killed now over 80 people, simply a criminal act of murder."

Classic Sadistic Personality Disorder – taking joy-pleasure in other people's suffering, pain, torture, and death. And sadism *never* exists in isolation – it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).

Every single elected leader in the country should be reiterating this same message. Hegseth is pathological. He's a danger to every single person on the planet. He must be fired immediately & put on trial. He will be convicted. If Trump pardons him, the next POTUS can still send him to The Hague.

“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/

Trump reposts Alex Jones conspiracy theory about Michelle Obama using Biden’s autopen

The president is a lunatic

Who else AGREES with Pat?! 🤚

"Reasonable" what now?

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.

Costco files suit against the government, saying the Trump tariffs are unlawful. The company wants a refund.

Others that have already filed suit: Revlon, eyeglass maker EssilorLuxottica, Kawasaki, Bumble Bee, Yokohama Tire and many smaller firms.

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And in case you were wondering about Byrne’s lawyer, it’s Stephanie Lambert, who had a warrant out for her arrest after Dana Nessel charged her with stealing voter data in Michigan in 2020 to help Trump steal the election. She was picked up when she showed up in court in a different Byrne case.

This is insane, but a fun side note: former Overstock CEO and Maria Butina honeypot victim Patrick Byrne as been MIA (after his lawyer was arrested) in a defamation suit brought against him by Hunter Biden. A judge found him in default and Biden has filed a $33.3M default judgement request.

This stuff is wildly unpopular. Real Folkz don't say disgustingly awful things like this. The policies are the polar opposite of abundance. But Ezra Douthglesias & company are totally silent, conspicuously not demanding <anything> of Republicans like they do constantly of Democrats. Why is that? 🤷‍♂️

I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.

this is exactly why Mark Kelly et al did that spot telling military and intelligence officers they can refuse illegal orders — there's no way Hegseth or Trump will EVER accept blame for them

The day after right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination, Patel reportedly refused to disembark from the FBI jet in Utah without an FBI raid jacket. Agents working on the Kirk case were sent scrambling to find one, and when they did, it was a female jacket. He reportedly threw a fit when he saw the sleeves were missing Velcro patches. Patel refused to leave the plane until he got the missing patches, which ended up being taken off the jackets of actual SWAT team members.

Armando Iannucci eat your heart out.

Jeffries says Johnson ‘tanked’ Trump’s health care proposal Congress has just a few weeks left to reach a deal to avoid expiring Obamacare tax credits.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is accusing Speaker Mike Johnson of undermining a White House proposal to extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies for two years as Congress stares down a fast-approaching deadline to avoid massive premium hikes.

They deserve the backlash for being stupid enough to think the drunk Fox News host and co. weren’t going to throw them under the bus

The actual quote from the podcaster is even worse than Clark's summary here...

I never thought the leopards would eat *my* face, sobs admiral who committed war crimes for leopards.

To be clear, we're talking about a *literal* take-no-prisoners approach. This is not a metaphor. We're describing the Secretary of Defense in literal terms as a guy who is genuinely committed to doing war crimes

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...

Pastor Jorge Bautista was telling a Border Patrol agent "we come in peace" when the agent fired toxic powder at him, leaving him struggling to breathe.

“No one should be assaulted for being out there protesting,” he says.

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he’s worried that too many of them are fat—or women. Hegseth is unqualified and incompetent, and he should have been fired months ago. He is unlikely to resign, but Trump has a record of throwing people under the bus when they are no longer of use to him, and Hegseth is ripe for this treatment.

Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.

Tom Nichols: Hegseth is an unprofessional—and sometimes unstable—appointee who does not seem to comprehend the seriousness of the office he occupies, does not respect the senior officers who serve this country, and does not seem to care at all about the people of the US military, except that he's

Pete Hegseth, Moral Failure, and the Erosion of Military Legitimacy Congress needs to find out if any laws were broken and who is responsible.

NEW: "The American people can accept honest mistakes. They can accept fog-of-war judgment calls. What we as a nation should not accept is moral drift at the top of the chain of command." From @markhertling.bsky.social

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