The culture of fear and intimidation instilled at the Department of Defense all stemming from Pete Hegseth’s incompetence and insecurities. A never ending quest to hide the truth from the American people and hunt down anyone who lets the truth leak out.

The Midterms and 2028 are going to be a superslide into the hellscape of a 21st Century style dictatorship w lightning speed. Trump has given up on ending the Iran war, fixing the economy (he won’t back off his tariffs), helping downballot races. He will fight, cheat & steal to stay in power.

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.

WTF. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...

🗞️As a former Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes I can tell you it is the most important newspaper in the world because it exists to inform and protect our troops from people like the despicable Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump who do not believe they — or anybody for that matter — are owed the truth.

Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.

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www.politicususa.com/p/the-suprem... “If the conservative majority decides to drag its feet hearing the case, the ballroom might be finished before the Supreme Court issues another ruling.”

The Supreme Court Shows It’s Even More Corrupt Than Trump

The stay Chief Justice John Roberts issued, allowing Trump to temporarily resume his ballroom construction, showed that the Supreme Court majority is giving Trump’s corruption a run for its money.

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Wild hearing this Trump bootlicker rn on CNBC re the current state of US Manufacturing & the impact of TrumpTariffs. Not only same tired lines abt Trump’s 2017 & 25 tax cuts boosting jobs and things are GREAT but wait — AI DATA CENTERS will now solve our $40T national debt problem! #AIDataCenters

Great call, #NABJ. No penalty flag! Excellent piece by Jenice Armstrong. In Philly we’ve known Stephen A a long time. He’s achieved much & has more runway ahead, despite the times his pandering outruns his ability to reflect on what his mamma would say is the right thing. share.inquirer.com/lKjHxY

NABJ’s Thumbs Down Award should be a wake-up call for ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith | Jenice Armstrong

The star and executive producer of ESPN’s “First Take” promised a bold response, posting ominously on X that Christmas had arrived early. He wrote, “Now y’all started something.”

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Terrific analysis of the state of AI and Americans’ extreme antipathy towards it.

James Kinsale@jameskinsale.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Here’s the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life."

Another Trump TACO Tuesday, or is it? Maybe the markets may finally be tiring of the Orange Cypto Chicken’s feeble attempts at market manipulation, at the same time Trump himself seems increasingly disinterested in the impact of his actions on the world around him. finance.yahoo.com/markets/live...

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures stall after Trump pauses tariffs on Canada

Stocks continued to be under pressure after the S&P 500 fell for three days in a row.

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Trump “punishes” ally South Korea for not wanting to get involved in his foolish war with Iran, and rewards his “friend,” the murderous North Korean dictator, whose troops could soon be fighting again in Europe. America has fallen so very far, so very fast, under Trump.

In case you were wondering why Donald Trump has ordered Pete Hegseth to scale back war exercises with our “ally” South Korea against North Korea: As usual, it comes down to Donald being Putin’s pet monkey.

Calling North Korea "unthreatening and respectful" when they send missiles, shells, and troops to kill Ukrainians is a special kind of lunacy.

A narrowly educated and narrow-minded officer corps will help no one but an opponent. And for God's sake, enough with the incantation of "warfighter"; these fools brandish the term as if they believe it possesses some sort of amuletic power.

I haven’t been able to open a single discussion thread on Anthony Fauci. It’s a measure of how low as a society we’ve fallen, where a great man of science who helped save millions gets dragged in front of howling, jabbering ghouls. Next up, Jonas Salk? Christiaan Barnard? It’s madness. We are lost.

Normally, I would write about last night's shameful display of the legacy media fêting Donald Trump. But with only 101 days until the elections, they are a lost cause. If you want to stay informed about Trump's attacks and how we fight back, subscribe to Democracy Docket. demdock.com/4w6emld

Good night, dear friends. Zelenskyy warned of a possible massive Russian attack tonight or tomorrow. I’m going to sleep while I still can. 🇺🇦Please keep Ukraine in your thoughts and prayers.

Special moments in time you’ll never forget: Philly Peeps, where were YOU when you found out LeBron was coming to town? Let’s goooooo! #76ers

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Per Shams Charania, LeBron James is signing with the Philadelphia 76ers.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

BABE WAKE UP, NEW STOCK MANIPULATION FEE JUST DROPPED

"Call right now, and enjoy all the benefits of the President's market manipulation for one modest monthly bribe!"

I can’t stomach looking at the angry orange clown, but just listening to him and his loony singsong screed right now — what a fu#king pathetic dangerous weak madman. This is who Republicans at the highest levels support. I would trust 5 year olds more than those craven traitors #TrumpSpeech

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

The rapey energy coming off these guys is just palpable.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

Lindsey Graham died Friday & his sister has already been sworn in. Remember when Mike Johnson refused to seat Adelita Grijalva for 50 days after she was elected? That is what we are fighting for in the midterms, a return to democracy & fairness and to remove fascist Republicans.

Y’all will be happy to know that after what’s been a rough 3 months for most Americans (including using credit cards to buy groceries) the quarterly reports from investment banking and private equity are rolling in! Those Wealth Managers (at JP Morgan; Wells Fargo) are “wealthing” at record levels!

Darline Graham Nordone has no experience in the military, yet she will be voting on military budgets and weapons. She has no experience with diplomacy, yet she will be voting on our treaties. She has no experience with government, yet she will be voting on ours. We are a nation run by amateurs.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo ago

BREAKING: South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has officially appointed Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, to serve the remainder of Graham’s U.S. Senate term. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Christopher Aluka Berry

Republicans constantly say they don’t like DEI because it means that people are given jobs for which they don’t have enough qualifications. They then turn around and make Darline Graham Nordone a senator, a woman whose only qualification for the job is being the sister of a dead senator. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fortunate for Lindsey Graham that literally the only people in the world that respected him are the editors of Corporate Media.

The tone deafness of many pundits & politicians-yes, looking at you,Dems, extolling the virtues of the horrid little man Lindsey Graham; virtues long dead, if they ever existed, are more pathetic, conciliatory projections of how *they* hope to be remembered vs anything resembling the ghastly Graham.

It’s a good day for Republicans who couldn’t stand Lindsey Graham to violently defend Lindsey Graham bc ppl are telling the truth about Lindsey Graham.