Johnson’s refusal to seat Grijalva feels like a foreshadowing of this GOP plan to stay in power post-2026 regardless of the outcome of the election. This thread is about a well connected Oregon MAGA activist who just podcasted it out.

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

Great panel and conference! I know I appreciated it.Pleasure to meet you IRL.

Always Be Distracting.

all of this

100%

The whole speech is lies, fabrications and untruths. It’s an alternative universe. The upside down.

It’s Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It’s Constitutional Failure | Washington Monthly While Trump defies constitutional norms, Congress remains conspicuously silent and the Supreme Court has abdicated its responsibility.

“In our fractious polity, fresh insults to constitutional norms and settled practices of governance occur daily. That is why the phrase constitutional crisis no longer describes our situation. The Constitution has failed, and we no longer know which institution will rescue it.”
@jrakove.bsky.social

They are not left-handed.

Well said.

Chaos comes to us from the Greek for a “gaping void,�? a space prior to order and intent. Whether one feels safe with Pete Hegseth alone in his office surrounded by pictures of his wife in a pink dress depends on whether one fears the void more than one fears a Trump White House forcefully executing its plans. “Pete is playing secretary,�? a source says. “He’s not being secretary.�? In crisis — an unplanned evacuation, Israel bombing Iran, China moving on Taiwan — there will be no one with experience to lead. “For any sustained operations, we’re screwed. There’s nobody in the SecDef’s office at this point that has any … they’re not heavyweights. They don’t have the sophistication. They don’t have the experience.�? One source described a longtime Pentagon employee discussing the lack of readiness in the office, “close to tears,�? saying “the department is so fucked.�?

One of the things @kerryhowley.bsky.social describes people at DOD close to tears about is the possibility that Whiskey Pete will be in charge if, say, Israel were to attack Iran.

Just some exceptional timing for publication of this, I guess.

The global hegemony of Neil Diamond!

Do you think we will have free and fair elections in the 2026 midterms? I am not confident.

Isn’t this a Bill of Attainder?

Protection Racket USA

Musk’s SpaceX Could Secure Billions in New Contracts Under Trump Elon Musk’s role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies. Supporters say he has the best technology.

Voila, like we said on @pivotpod.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

/4 SO: this is a completely false description of fraud. What it is is laying the groundwork to belittle and demean and intimidate anyone who complaints about Social Security collapsing.

These people are absolute scum.

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Cry harder Elon!

“The End of US Democracy and the Implications for International Relations”
by
Benjamin E. Goldsmith - Professor in the School of Politics & International Relations, Australian National University

www.e-ir.info/pdf/107784

What about Canada?

Transgenic mice not transgender mice.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.

But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.

He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

It Was an Ambush Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

You knew this was coming.

There’s a recorded measles related death of a young child in red state Texas.

MAGA Chaos agent anti-vax fraudster RFK Jr lied by saying it’s not unusual and measles outbreaks happen all the time.

There hasn’t been a Measles death in the US in a decade. They want to kill us all.

The warm up phase.

After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.

"Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated."

Honestly, is there a more pathetic, contemptible collection of cowards & simps in the entire world?

This is is what Trump/Elon think they are doing.