Don’t Give Up The Ship

Imagine being a 79 year old man and having all your minions have a tantrum on your behalf because you didn’t win a prize you thought you should just automatically get because someone you are really jealous of got it first.

New poll: Public confidence in CDC for vaccine advice tumbles

Data: 62% of Americans disapprove of how RFKJ handles 💉 policy

Interpretation: 62% of Americans possess a survival instinct

Photo captured by Jim Watson.

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

To stop Trump’s authoritarianism, his opponents must understand and wield power Karen Attiah, a victim of Trumpist purge at the Washington Post, discusses how liberals and progressives can get their groove back

This one featuring @karenattiah.bsky.social discusses how the broader center-to-left has failed to understand power, at both personal and organizational levels.

We have to seek power and use it in order to protect our beliefs.

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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2017 TRUMP: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

2025 TRUMP: “Thank you, Qatar, for my free $400,000,000 personal jet!”

TRUMP, a few months later: “I'm letting Qatar be the first foreign nation to build a military base on US soil.”

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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

⚡️Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero.

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities."

Mother fucker! The House has been in session only 15 days since July.

Its October!

GOP are loser slackers! Imagine if you only showed up to your job 15 days in 4 months.
They get 175k a year in salary.

#GOPShutdown

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

Peter Thiel is the Lex Luthor of our universe.

The Qatari Airbase deal is going to be a harsh lesson to Donald on the downside of stoking the fires of xenophobia and hatred of Muslims with MAGA bigots.

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

Trump is using our tax dollars to buy Argentine pesos to bail out the country's failing libertarian economy.

My friend Rohit Chopra explains how this will hurt struggling Americans here at home.

PRO TIP: If you want the Nobel Peace Prize, you might not wanna kidnap fathers, zip-tie kids, shoot priests, rip moms from carpool lines, and terrorize entire otherwise peaceful cities.

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Oh yeah, and release the Epstein files.

Many have noticed a pattern that on the days Russia attacks Ukraine the worse, Donald Trump goes on social media and thanks Putin. This has happened repeatdly.

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

For the record, undocumented people CANNOT sign up for federal programs!

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I think Ed makes a pretty strong point here about Lindsey Halligan: She hasn't been lawfully appointed under 28 U.S.C. § 546, and as he also points out, his view is supported by a 1986 OLC opinion written by some guy named … {checks notes} … Samuel A. Alito. (1/3)

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you heard the leader of another nation threatening to unleash the military against his perceived political enemies, what would you call it?

Thinking about the IED that blew up me and my buddies

Thinking about the ones who didn't make it home

Watching a draft dodger and a talk-show host lecture generals about duty

If the military is used to kill those deemed a “domestic enemy” by a POTUS, that is in fact the military acting against Constitutional principles. That would make the military an enemy of the US Constitution. Both sides want military to take out “domestic enemies.” Military needs to stay apolitical.