EdJarring

Pete Hegseth: The Short Course 13 Steps to National Destruction

"1. Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, has no qualifications for the job. He has never run a large organization and has no national security expertise."

Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

Perhaps more of the legacy media should have pushed back on his lies at the time. @democracydocket.com did.

BREAKING: H5N1 bird flu virus was detected in a retail sample of raw milk in CA

The NYT reports that the virus has spread to 500 herds in 15 states.

Meanwhile, Trump’s nominee for HHS, RFK Jr., drinks raw milk & recently criticized the FDA over its “aggressive suppression” of raw milk

God help us

Tammy Duckworth on Tulsi Gabbard: "I think she's compromised ... Russian controlled media called her a Russian asset."

Pete Hegseth: The Short Course 13 Steps to National Destruction

"2. Hegseth has zero notion of which other countries might threaten America or how. In his books this is simply not a subject, beyond a few clichés."

Essay: "Pete Hegseth: 13 Steps to National Destruction"
snyder.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...

This is a real team effort, fellow patriots. 🇺🇸

NBC News: The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies targeting trans people on his first day in office, including a new federal definition of sex as binary and assigned at birth.

The American people did not elect Trump and the GOP to focus on genitals and culture wars. They wanted cheaper rent, groceries and gas. Which Republicans will fail to deliver.

This is now at least five Donald Trump nominees who are named in the Project 2025 manuscript.

Russell Vought and Brendan Carr authored chapters. Tom Homan, John Ratcliffe and Pete Hoekstra are listed as contributors.

Post by Eric Feigl-Ding: How do right wing MAGA folks feel about Trump naming George Soros’s hedge fund’s chief investment officer as the new Treasury Secretary nominee?

You really can’t make this up. Scott Bessent was in fact Soros’s protégé! MAGA’s gonna need a new antisemitic conspiracy…

MAGA keeps saying the war in Ukraine needs to end, and I agree, but I never hear them say the easiest way for it to end - which is Putin stopping his war of aggression, which he can easily do anytime he wants. No, according to them, the US and Ukraine is to blame for the war.

I’m old enough to remember there was some lady (I think she was like Black and Indian or something) who told us he was gonna do this and it would be bad

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AG nom Pam Bondi...

-Didn't investigate Trump University for fraud as Florida AG after receiving a $25k donation from a Trump nonprofit

-Served as lobbyist for massive corporations

-Was part of Trump's impeachment defense team

She's a walking, talking conflict of interest.

How we can meet the challenges of authoritarianism This is not our first rodeo with authoritarianism. Americans have collectively risen to seemingly impossible challenges in the past, and we can again.

Important set of resources here
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...

This is exactly right. Trump’s big advantage is that he’s playing tic-tac-toe without a pencil but somehow convinces people he’s multiverse time-travel chess.

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

If you want to keep guns out of schools, keep Republicans out of office.

BREAKING: Matt Gaetz withdrew as Attorney
General just 45 minutes after CNN called to ask him about a SECOND sexual encounter with his alleged victim.

The woman who claims she had sex with him when she was a minor told the Ethics Committee that she actually had two sexual encounters with him.

Do you honestly think Donald Trump will cut taxes for the middle class and make billionaires pay their fair share, or crack down on price gouging and call on corporations to pass savings on to consumers?

Now that Matt Gaetz has announced he won't be returning to Congress, he'll have a lot of free time on his hands. We need to put Florida high schools and playgrounds on high alert.

Trump has, by far, more criminal past than all his nominees combined...

There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back.

I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.

Conor McGregor loses civil sexual assault case, latest in string of incidents Conor McGregor, the former two-division UFC champion, hasn’t fought in four years.

A jury in Ireland decided Friday that UFC star Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in Dublin in 2018 and must pay nearly $260,000 in damages in a civil case.

Re Pam Bondi and the $25,000 she reportedly solicited from Trump. Even assuming there was no quid pro quo, who takes $$$ sent by a person under investigation or immediately after you close an investigation into that person? What does that say about ethics and judgment?

Everything involving Trump is corrupt.

Casting the First Stone Handmaid Fails, 2/3

There is some comedy around men explaining the plot of The Handmaid's Tale to its author, in response to her tweet. But this also reveals the tragedy beneath – of misunderstandings that point to the moral and therefore political vulnerability of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/casting-th...

And someone agrees!

Wait, so you’re telling me that Trump and Vance repeatedly LIED to all of America during the campaign? I’m gobsmacked.