The Make-A-Wish Presidency

“TWELVE MEN ON THE FIELD GODDAMMIT! WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!”

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Hey Indiana didn't do the worst thing possible for once

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland.

How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president.

www.propublica.org/article/port...

‘China Is the Engine’ Driving Nations Away From Fossil Fuels, Report Says

Clean energy is cheap energy.

While China’s massive investments are driving down the price of solar and wind by up to 90 percent, the Trump administration is killing federal clean energy support and pushing fossil fuels instead, costing America jobs, leadership, and money.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

It’s very very important that whatever happens, you not think about this.

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020 A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway Conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, becoming another victim of America’s epidemic ...

Here’s a lot of the stuff about Charlie Kirk that the right is now currently engaged in a nationwide witch hunt to suppress. Share it, repeat it, don’t let evil win.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.

“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”

By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

You can understand the problem in America right now with just two numbers. Yesterday we learned Trump has made $5 billion for himself while kicking 17 million Americans off health care.

This describes where we're at:

"It is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest, that all the good qualities of this government are founded; but its defective and imperfect construction puts it in their power to perpetrate the worst of mischiefs, should they be bad men[.]"

"This is unacceptable": Former CDC directors condemn RFK's upheaval The nine directors have collectively spent more than 100 years working at the CDC.

Nine former CDC directors basically said RFK Jr is a threat to public health.

As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.

Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser

Los Angeles, CA Mayor Karen Bass

Chicago, IL Mayor Brandon Johnson

Baltimore, MD Mayor Brandon Scott

Just want to point out something I haven’t seen a single news outlet point out in spite of its obviousness.

Trump is taking over DC. He has sent federal troops to LA. He is on the record saying Chicago will be next, & that he also has his eye on Baltimore.

His racism could hardly be more obvious.

Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo

dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/was-it-som...

As the family of one of the most prominent survivors, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, we are outraged. The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history. This travesty of justice entirely invalidates the experiences of the many brave survivors who put their safety, security, and lives on the line to ensure her conviction, including our sister By moving convicted felon Maxwell to a minimum security, country club prison, the DOJ sends a disturbing message that child sex trafficking is acceptable and will be rewarded. The Department of Justice serves the people of the United States. We continue to call upon the DOJ to do its job by investigating and holding accountable the many rich and powerful people who enabled Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.

Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...

Everybody remembers that Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison because she was CONVICTED by a jury of child sex trafficking, right? Just checking.

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

Trump complains that ‘woke’ Smithsonian focuses on ‘how bad slavery was’ The president’s campaign against the Smithsonian Institution was already indefensible. With new false and weird claims, it’s suddenly even worse.

Just when it seemed Trump’s offensive against the Smithsonian couldn’t get more ridiculous, he started whining today about its museums focusing on “how bad Slavery was.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump: "When you go to a voting booth, and you do it the right way, and you go to a state that runs it properly, you go in -- they even asked me, they asked me for my license plate. I said, 'I don't know if I have it.' They said, 'Sir, you have to have it.' I was very impressed actually."

DIVISIVE CONCEPTS: ideas Republicans don’t like, designated as second class so they can be banned in violation of 1A’s freedom of speech

SINCERELY HELD BELIEFS: religious dictates Republicans like, designated as special so they can be imposed in violation of 1A’s separation of church and state

it's not cities they're scared of -- it's life. cities are just the stand-in.

wut

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

NEWS: Annie Farmer, an Epstein survivor who testified against Ghislaine Maxwell, just revealed on CNN that she wrote a letter with her concerns to Deputy AG Blanche — and received no response.

She says neither she nor other survivors have heard a word from the DOJ.