Undivided@bsky

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

WH tries to throw Adm. Bradley under the boat. Won’t work.

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.”

To be fair, Trump and Hegseth are more Klink than Rommel

Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.

Hot off the keyboard and gifted:

Hegseth has to go.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) speaks on the legality, and military and moral aspects of the September 2 boat strikes.

@markhertling.bsky.social

... And a military that fails to investigate serious allegations of unlawful conduct invites tragedy—strategic, moral, and human."

... Because a military that abandons its legal and ethical foundations does not protect a nation—it endangers it. A military that trades the Constitution for personal loyalty ceases to be American. ...

"When senior leaders disparage legal oversight, sideline JAG officers, impede the ability of the press to report, or treat accountability as the enemy, they do more than risk unlawful action. They weaken the moral foundation that makes our military credible in the eyes of the American people...

@markhertling.bsky.social: “When you're talking about striking against someone who's wounded and clinging to debris…Deliberately targeting such a person isn't a tactical decision, it's a war crime by the Geneva Convention, the laws of land warfare, and the U.N. Charter.”

Nancy Mace’s campaign consultant resigns, says she had been disloyal to Trump and has teamed up with Rand Paul, and he urges Trump not to endorse her for SC governor.

This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

If the US can do whatever it wants to whomever it wants with no regard for human rights, the Geneva Convention, US law, the UCMJ, or international law, then we are no different than Vladimir Putin and Russia, who I suppose was the role model for Trump foreign policy doctrine.

Junior is melting down tonight about the special election tomorrow in TN, which should be a cakewalk for Republicans. But it isn’t, thanks to his dad’s unpopularity.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs The wholesaler is the latest company to sue a federal agency over the president's signature economic policy.

Trump hates Costco and their customers. www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

Is it possible there might actually be a tiny bit of congressional oversight now? I refuse to believe it until it happens.

He’s not going to dispel the reports that he’s drunk all the time with this clip. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I assume she means everyone who isn’t white.

If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

Trump: Pete said it didn’t happen. He said he has nothing to do with that. I wouldn’t agree with that.

Leavitt: It happened. It was ordered by Admiral Bradley. But it was justified.

Hegseth: We stand by Bradley & the decision he made entirely on his own without our knowledge.

Wow, Bongo attacks NY Post reporter Miranda Divine for her story about Kash. Kash and Bongo are being thrown under the bus by people close to Trump. Maybe they are just too dense to read the writing on the wall. People in Trump World are done with them. Days are numbered.

Vote these spineless cowards out of their majorities so we can actually have some oversight on this serial criminality.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 261. 12/1/25 … Karoline Leavitt gave a bizarre press conference today where she directly contradicted Trump’s statement last night about the illegal double-strike attack which executed two survivors of an initial ...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 261. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Commander Clueless Strikes Again Hegseth’s ego-driven “leadership” proves dangerous, absurd, and illegal, forcing Washington to confront the man treating national security like a reckless stunt.

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Country does not want a war with Venezuela. Somebody stop these people.

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