DEMOCRACY-ISH: The Texas Primaries, The War on Iran, and Kristi Noem Of It All

From Texas Precincts to Tehran’s Borders—How a Governance of Greed and Extremism is Igniting a Global Powder Keg

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Trump is once again fighting wokeness this afternoon

Trump's face is drooping and his eyes are closed

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

Trump: "I have to go back and look at the war"

RAJU: Would you consider it a war?

REP. MIKE FLOOD: It’s a significant military operation

Stephen Miller: "What you're seeing right now is a military under President Trump's leadership that's not fighting politically correct"

Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

There are much bigger issues at stake here than making anyone “look bad”. Sad this Administration can’t comprehend this.

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

In his press conference today, Pete Hegseth "used the deaths of U.S. military personnel to air his own grievances with the press," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

“Missing files
Aren’t in Iran”

“There’s no Somali folks in the Epstein Files”

Welp

Donald Trump increases the defense budget last year from $874 billion to $1 trillion. He says he wants $1.5 trillion this year. Now he wants $50 billion more for his Iran War. Every Democrat should be screaming about the military budget, not cutting deals to keep raising it.

Cricket was the name of the puppy that Kristi Noem murdered.

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

NASA unveils dazzling new images of the ‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’ The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture a dying star in stunning new detail

The space-based telescopes Hubble and Euclid combined forces to capture a dying star in stunning new detail

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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YouTube video by Governor Wes Moore Marylanders deserve a refund.

Trump’s illegal tariffs cost Maryland’s businesses and consumers up to an estimated $4 billion.

Marylanders deserve a refund from the Trump-Vance Administration.

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AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

War With Iran? A Blood Moon on Purim? For Some Christian Influencers, That Can Mean Only One Thing: The End Times On Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump ordered the start of...

So if you want to understand the end-times theology Weinstein is alleging was promoted to troops by their commanders, read this piece I published this morning at @talkingpointsmemo.com:

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NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

Ansari: "The DOJ was caught red handed withholding explosive and credible FBI witness interviews of a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor. Shouldn't we hold hearings on that? Shouldn't Pam Bondi be here, forced to testify about why she's violating the law?"

If I was a Democrat with a few million dollars to spare, I’d spend the next two months running ads in the TX Republican Primary to make the eventual nominee unpalatable to the other candidate’s voters.

It’s time we start doing to them what they do to us.

Hate war but enjoy maga on maga Internet conflicts

I hate war but I love this