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We are not at war with Venezuela, yet. The boats are civilian craft. The U.S. criminal code does not maintain a death penalty for drug smuggling. Due process is required before conviction or sentence.

All of the 80 people killed thus far are wanton murders slain under illegal orders. All of them.

And forget the infant car seats, just put them in a reclining baby seat on the floorboard.

U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Planning Takes On New Significance

The USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test

Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."

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Pete Hegseth bears responsibility for THIS

(hat tip @natashabertrand.bsky.social)

DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If Trump didn't post nonsense and conspiracies over 400 times last night maybe he'd have the STAMINA to stay awake during a televised cabinet hearing instead of falling asleep like a weak, tired, cankled man near death.

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

Seconded. That last line hits hard.

The president is such a bumbling idiot he thinks tweeting out the word "hereby" a couple times on his white supremacist social media site is the same thing as making an actual law.

The only story here is the one about a mentally diminished, increasingly erratic president who thinks he's a king.

Tweet of the day. It is quite something when Trump's go to architect comes to him and says Sir, what you're describing is gauche, tacky and monstrous.

Trump has done so many worse things that tear down the East Wing of the White House but each time I'm reminded of it I revert to WTAF fuck mode and think he !!!!demolished the East Wing of the White House!!!

Trump’s latest truth social message is more evidence that he has become more unstable than ever before

A lot of memories... My late father worked there many years in PR. Here is a very faded photo of him on an offshore rig. The stickers are from some sort of promo in the 1960s. I'll bet there aren't a whole lot of them left intact! I remember handing them out to elementary school classmates.

Hence my cancellation. And no matter how many times they tell me to resubscribe for $29 a year, I'm not doing it.

I went twice today, on the first trip I bought Biofreeze and hash browns (for my daughter) and some corn dogs (for me), and on the second trip I got an apple pie I was asked to bring for tomorrow.

I'd feel so stupid if I deemed something an "anti-woke screed" without reading it, & then learned was no such thing.

But my approach has always been if I don't like someone & don't want to read them, then I don't. But I also don't describe what they said. Because I don't know what they said.

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

Happy Birthday! @bradlovett.bsky.social #AT40

Aaaaaggghhhh! 😱

Look away! Look away!

At your AMA I asked if you had a Class of '79 song ... This was my h.s. Class of '79 song, overwhelmingly winning the vote even though it was from our junior high years. And I still love it, too. #AT40

Do you think it still looks like that or did Trump decide it needed gilting?

Not all of the ACA subsidies are slated to go away; just the enhanced ones from the Biden administration. Have you checked what an ACA policy would cost you? If you are not extremely above eligibility for expanded Medicaid, you may be able to get a policy you can afford on the ACA exchanges.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

What was your Class Song in 1979, if you had one?

Back when @radiofreetom.bsky.social first started posting to Bluesky I set up a notification so I wouldn't miss his posts, since I wasn't here that often myself. I don't really need it now since my feed is pretty much all him, lol.

This is malpractice or malfeasance to an extent that could result in someone being disbarred. The grand jury never saw the final indictment? I've never even heard of such a thing. It strains the imagination.

So, 1 of 2 ppl I have post notifications for is @radiofreetom.bsky.social (other is personal.) After not opening Bluesky since yesterday evening I had 25 notifications this a.m. I hoped Tom was weighing in on Epstein files vote, and he was, and I feel less worried about files being tampered with.

You just have to wonder, do elected Republicans EVER get tired of Trump threatening them the second they do something he disagrees with? Do they ever feel like soulless cowards when they remain silent while he does it to others? Is holding onto their office worth the debasement?

"It is striking that both New York and Seattle have elected mayors who are unafraid to use the word socialism ... an encouraging development, one that suggests we could be heading not for the civil war some have predicted but instead for another great era of (long overdue) American reform."

POS liar.