Gene Collier

NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

Please we're so tired of winning sir.

“Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.”

That’s what the President of the United States is saying to the American people.

He won’t be hurt by a retaliatory attack or high gas prices. But you will — and that’s a sacrifice he’s willing to make.

Shohei Ohtani’s 117.1 mph double was the second-hardest hit ball across the last 2 WBCs, behind only:

3/11/23 118.7 mph double…also by Ohtani

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

A budget is a moral document.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Wow did something happen in the US in January 2025?

This looks like a correct statement, except that first part. We have never learned. Vietnam didn't keep us out of Afghanistan, Afghanistan didn't keep us out of Iraq, and Iraq didn't keep us out of Iran. We never learn.

Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

🧵Rubio asked the press to disseminate widely a phone number for Americans stuck in the Middle East to call. The media outlets did. Now @jonathankarl.bsky.social reports that calling the number just tells you, via recorded message, there is NO help.

Get your boots off the table!

LIEU: Did Amalia commit a crime?

NOEM: She did not. She's with her family

LIEU: The reason she's with her family is because she almost died in ICE detention until folks brought a lawsuit forcing her release

It Was Nice While It Lasted Bondi and company have torched the DOJ’s reputation for integrity.

"For generations, whatever one thought of DOJ’s arguments, the baseline assumption held: the Department acted in good faith and would follow the courts’ rulings. That assumption has given way, displaced by a sustained pattern of noncompliance and escalating confrontation with the courts."

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

Trump's been intense and paranoid since about 1951.

This is the energy I was looking for in this hearing. This might be the greatest clip of a Senate hearing in history. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Oh she wouldn't.

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

Thank God Congress isn't alive to see what's been happening in the United States

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

No shit Your Honor.

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic Within You Without You (Remastered 2009)

Today would have been George Harrison’s 83rd birthday.

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Jumping the V — and Screwing the Public When all three branches align against the public’s right to know.

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A former ICE attorney says he was given secret instructions that contradict written constitutional guidance. Not in the manual.Not in writing. Just… verbally.
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