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Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

The Nation Cannot Afford Silent Generals Trump’s loyalty tests, purges, and domestic deployments demand a collective response from retired military leaders.

Why are the nation’s retired military leaders silent in the face of Trump’s abject politicization of the military?

Brian O’Neill on the need for the condemnation of Trump’s loyalty tests, purges, and domestic deployments

Philadelphia’s District Attorney Larry Krasner has suggested an effective playbook—

We should arrest rogue ICE agents at the state level, which would shield them from a presidential pardon.

This is the kind of hardline approach we need from our Democratic leaders.

The Big Ugly Bill throws millions off Medicaid and SNAP, gives ICE more money than most militaries, and makes the wealth Fascism On The Fourth | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

The Big Ugly Bill throws millions off Medicaid and SNAP, gives ICE more money than most militaries, and makes the wealthiest households in America even richer.

Heather and I break it all down on today's Klatch. https://youtu.be/Yc4xl3nz_Ac?si=nj70FlizV909V1Y6

pretty weird how there's always billion dollars just lying around whenever ICE needs concentration camps but there's never any money when children need healthcare or a simple school lunch. oh well just one of those things I guess

GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a J6 protester and loyal MAGA cult member, reacted with "YES!" to the news that “17 million people just lost health care,” “18 million kids just lost school meals,” and “3 million Americans just lost food assistance.”

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worth remembering that when Trump announced a travel ban in 2017, people literally went to airports to protest. Eight years later, Trump announces a new one and it's not even front page news.

We're the frogs and the water is getting awfully hot.

🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin:

- Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela
- Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard
- Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.

Reminder: 526 days until Midterms (Nov 6, 2026). Remember how YOUR politician voted!
- Dems Pass GOP CR
- GOP votes against Veterans, Teachers, Disabled, Social Security, Medicaid, Immigrants, & Ukraine
- GOP enriches billionaires
- Trump tariffs, Qatar bribes, crypto bribes, & stock manipulation

How do we make this happen?

Meltdown on Truth Social in 3, 2, 1...

The current budget bill is an atrocity and out-of-touch leaders like Chuck Schumer laid the groundwork by voting for the CR.

Appeasement and complicity do not work. When you bend the knee, they’ll break your leg.

Where's the oppression here?

How true is this?????

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

I recall years ago, when I worked in Law Enforcement there was a DOJ standing order that if you accepted a gift of any kind including a meal, tickets to a game or anything of value you will be charged with accepting a bribe and will be prosecuted vigorously, but accepting $400M is now O-F..king-K.

Don’t forget, Chauvin’s state crimes can’t be pardoned - and that’s the longer of the two sentences. Also don’t forget the people who support that murderer.

Politico Joe on Substack Our Veterans Deserve Better…

Please share this far and wide. More people need to know about this. As a veteran myself, this is going to hurt a lot of people including veterans that Trump specifically campaign on protecting. He lied.

substack.com/@politicojoe...

Trump’s VA secretary struggles to defend the administration’s plan for mass layoffs Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins had an opportunity to sell Congress on the idea of mass layoffs at the VA. It did not go well.

In testy exchanges with multiple members of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Secretary Doug Collins said that his agency was looking into potentially cutting another 70,500 nonessential positions in a move that would make the agency more efficient.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Don't mess with WWII veterans!

Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.

Pete Hegseth just ordered the installation of a makeup studio at the Pentagon for him to prepare for his television appearances, which will cost thousands of taxpayer dollars to build.

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…

Imagine if Republicans cared half as much about protecting kids from gun violence as they do about protecting Teslas from protesters.