This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.

Greensboro, NC 19 April 2025

Trump’s planes = Hitler’s trains

Under Hegseth, the Naval Academy removed books (Maya Angelou out, Mein Kampf in🤔) — then canceled a speech by Ryan Holiday who was going to talk about the importance of reading uncomfortable ideas.

Where’s the “free speech” Crowd on all this? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

2. There are 2 (TWO) transgender girls in Maine. 😡

“Fear & apathy are the death of democracy” ~ Daniel Berulis

…in case you hadn’t noticed.

Marco Rubio is using THOUGHT POLICE tactics to deport of Mahmoud Kahlil. 🤬

Absolutely brutal

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy.

But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

Dear world..

I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

Inside the White House, officials discussed whether to order the planes to turn around. On advice from a team of administration lawyers, the administration pressed ahead. • "There was a discussion about how far the judge's ruling can go under the circumstances and over international waters and, on advice of counsel, we proceeded with deporting these thugs," the senior official said. • "They were already outside of US airspace. We believe the order is not applicable," a second senior administration official told Axios.

Ignoring a court order on the grounds that “ah-ah-ah, the law doesn’t apply once you get to international waters!!” is absolutely sanctionable. 8th grade-ass lawyering. Completely unserious.

For over 80 years, Voice of America delivered news to countries—many under authoritarian rule—where reliable information was scarce. Now, those broadcasts, once a vital tool for promoting democracy and transparency, are fading away.

Elon Musk’s staffers have been granted access to a sensitive child support database by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The data access was approved by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite resistance from career employees within the department. Sorry, we tried…

250%.

Signed, TrumPutin

look, you imbeciles: the Enola Gay wasn’t called that because it was a boy plane that was really into other boy planes. the plane was named after Enola Gay Tibbets — the mother of Col. Paul Tibbets, its pilot. I suppose if dear old Enola wanted a plane named after her, she should have had the decency to be named Enola Incredibly Straight Tibbets.

another chunk from today's thing —
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this week in stupid: March 8 edition Enola goes gay, measles — hooray!, and so much more...

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: March 8 edition" — let’s look back at the dumbest fucking shit that happened.
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just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.

Secession. What they're describing is secession.

www.wired.com/story/startu...

fuck this guy. at the end of the day, what else is there to say about a deteriorating dictator-wanna-be who tarted himself up like a rodeo clown and spent a coma-inducing 98 minutes bragging about tanking the economy, praising himself for imaginary accomplishments, threatening to invade our allies, boasting about hollowing out government, and blithering incoherently about transgender mice?

another chunk from today's post —
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We are working on launching an ALT DOGE website. It will soon feature a team page listing all of Elon’s staffers, our own wall of receipts (tracking the money he’s taking from America), and a section to help Americans keep tabs on the false claims on Doge’s website—which now exceed 52%.

Trump is labeling certain expenses as “FRAUD,” despite most of his claims being completely false—for example, they have even called cancer funding fraud. USAID and EPA employees are being individually targeted for allocating funds—funds they were directly instructed to allocate.