My great uncle served under Patton in Germany. Trump insults him and every person who's actually served in the military.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 23h ago

Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.

Trump boasts that he can lose a war more quickly than Vietnam-era presidents did.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump on Iran: "We're in there for 5 months, and if you look at Vietnam, they were in there for 20 years."

In a startling reversal of MAGA policy, Pete Hegseth announces his support of gender-affirming care: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

U.S. military will test service members’ testosterone levels, Pete Hegseth says

Hegseth said that service members 30 and older will undergo the annual screening and that people can choose whether to pursue testosterone replacement therapy.

nbcnews.com

Notice that the NYT uses the phrases "exaggerates claims" and "outlandish claims" instead of "lies". Mainstream media is still sanewashing the lying, crooked, senile autocrat in the White House.

Trump Exaggerates Claims About Election Vulnerabilities in Speech

President Trump drew selectively from documents his aides published online to insinuate that U.S. elections have been compromised for years and that government officials had suppressed the evidence.

nytimes.com

How is it a "win" if we're returning to the status quo - and worse than JCPOA?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Comer: "If we have inspectors going in there and that strait is open for business and oil is flowing, then I think it's very clear the United States will have won this conflict"

Being an American isn't about your ancestry or ethnicity. It's about fidelity to the meaning of this country - its revolutionary, threefold promise of political equality, economic opportunity, and personal liberty.

Does anyone else think it’s just a bit odd that Jay Clayton, the prosecutor put in charge of the Epstein investigation, the same one Pam Bondi pointed to over and over in her testimony released just last week, was just nominated by Trump to run the entire intelligence community?

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks.

n.pr

Bread and circuses. Except without the bread.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining people with sports. Government is supposed to protect and serve the people. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.” Bryce Mitchell (on the card, for now)

We *must* find ways to live our values while not cannibalizing our political goals. As a dialectical worldview, postmodernism makes that impossible—metamodernism lets one hold firm to values and be realistic about who people are while *still working to advance the cause of Hope*.

This would have made a hell of a drinking game.

Cult member says other members of cult must not challenge the leader of the cult.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Lindsey Graham on Sen. Cassidy's defeat: "If you try to destroy President Trump, you're gonna lose, because this is the party of Donald Trump"

In 1923, the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan was saying the same thing about immigrants that Republicans are saying today.

When you look at MAGA policy through the lens of, "What is the best way to destabilize the US and cripple international democracy so as to advance the goals of Putin's Russia?" then everything makes sense.

The complete lack of self-awareness that pervades our own vicious regime is startling.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Rubio: "You've got friends who have been shot in the head because they're out protesting, and it's heartbreaking to him to see these people are abused in this way and have no measures to take against their own government as a result of it. This is a vicious regime."

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

Every school needs a ballroom.

This should be the default setting for everyone responding to El Naranjo.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I think as with all things Trump I will wait and see what actually happens with Iran rather than all the things he claims are going to happen on Truth Social. Experience shows actual results never match his claims on pretty much everything.

BREAKING: Trump posts image of Judas kissing Jesus in Gethsemane.

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

Oli Hawkins@olihawkins.com · 4mo ago

I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country.

As a Christian who strives to live as Jesus taught - love your neighbor, love the stranger, love your enemy, speak truth to power - this Christofascism makes my blood boil.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Constitution forbids any “establishment of religion“ by our government. But Christian extremists are hijacking our political system and using our tax money to foist their beliefs on us. It’s an obnoxious assault on American values.

Seriously, could the NYT possibly make Christofascism sound more like a good time?

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Terrible take from the NYT: “Orban’s defeat is a setback for the global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump.” Is that what we’re calling Fascism these days? (Also, it started with Putin.)

Analysis | Faced with accusations of sexual assault, Eric Swalwell's political future may depend on whether he's willing to become a Republican.

Republican, Democrat, Independent, whatever. Our government is no place for harassment and predation.

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: Dems set to force a vote to expel Tony Gonzales next week in response to Luna's vote to expel Eric Swalwell, leadership aides tell @axios.com If these pass it could trigger a chain reaction, per sources, with votes targeting Cherfilus-McCormick + Mills. www.axios.com/2026/04/11/e...