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Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 9h ago

Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic

CNN@cnn.com · 9h ago

The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. https://cnn.it/4hFq6a6

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4w ago

The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 4w ago

If there's one thing Trump has usefully revealed it's that the gatekeepers in the media who supposedly had so much reverence for Support The Troops and Dead Soldiers etc when those things were being deployed to hurt Democrats were just liars and never cared about this even a little.

Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · 4w ago

I would never presume to know how a Gold Star family feels or what they should say. However if I were in one today, I'd be absolutely ripshit with Trump.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last mo.

it's telling that the NYT and WaPo writing up the President's insane rant in real time had harsh initial headlines, then later headlines softened and cleaned it up to "Trump's address makes untested claims" or whatever

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

Now @apnews.com has a deeply reported story confirming the recently-hired ICE officer who shot a man in Maine had serious mental health issues and a long history of violence against women. This comes after ICE slashed hiring standards and rushed some into the field before background checks cleared.

By JACK BROOK, MICHAEL R. SISAK, AMANDA SWINHART and CLAIRE GALOFARO Updated 7:59 PM EDT, July 16, 2026 Comments 115 AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press. David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat. Brouillette’s troubling past further challenges how thoroughly the Department of Homeland Security has vetted recruits as it went on a hiring spree to help carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. At least 10 people have died in encounters with immigration agents since Trump launched the crackdown after retaking office, including 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national who was shot and killed by Brouillette on Monday while in his car near his home in the coastal Maine city of Biddeford. DHS, which hasn’t released the name of the officer who killed Durán Guerrero, has said the “vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon.”
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

the Republican party is a terrorist organization with a large support base, and must be dealt with like other such groups: through a long and painful peace process that incorporates them back into the political system while hypocritically disclaiming their extreme elements + largely escaping justice

Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · last mo.

I don't think anyone has a plan for "what if 40% of the country is Like That forever" in part because there really isn't a good one

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last mo.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last mo.

It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last mo.

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last mo.

Whatever their supposed mission, ICE has become an army of paramilitary irregulars, tasked with perpetrating violence in the general direction of immigrants and anyone who defends them. That’s what the masks are about, they’re a weapon of terror. Secret police thugs, not accountable to anyone.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.