Peter Montgomery

Ready for more talk about Trump's anointing?

Pete Hegseth's religion is central to how he thinks about war.

Devastating reporting. Like RFK Jr., Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth is reshaping his department to indiscriminately kill tons and tons of children.

A major throughline of the Trump administration.

Satisfying to see @davidjbier.bsky.social absolutely dogwalk Sen. Kennedy here.

Kennedy is so far gone he doesn’t even seem to realize the “Blue-ski” posts he’s reading are the consensus view of most Americans and not some Marxist smoking gun or something.

This is the same level of stupidity and ignorance that is currently judging exhibits at the Smithsonian and National Park Service.

Hey, it's the "most transparent" administration ever breaking the law to hide information about its mass surveillance technologies, then lying about their lawbreaking.

Live Nation Settlement Spurs Chaos in Court - The American Prospect The deal contains a fairly useless set of conditions. More than two dozen states vow to continue fighting.

"“This is a story about the DOJ during the Trump administration, a story of deep corruption where no staff attorney, no staff economist, no witness, and no juror can tell what is going to happen because it’s all decided in some smoke-filled back room.”" prospect.org/2026/03/09/l...

This is such a classic dictator trope — forcing subordinates to copy your style — that I thought it couldn’t possibly be real. Think Mao Zedong and the “Mao Suit,” or Saddam Hussein and “The Mustache", or Joseph Stalin and the “Generalissimo” outfit.

What Does it Mean that Trump is Promoting a ‘Prophecy’ About His Rise to Power?

From @petemontdc.com and @peoplefor.bsky.social, charismatic Christians are super excited about Trump sharing prophecies about him on Truth Social

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Call You This Liberty? "Once a mask is involved, people understand it as a sign of weakness. That the government has something to hide."

"Let not the friends of succession sing to me their siren song of peace and good will until they can stop my ears to the screams and groans of the dying victims at Memphis" - Thaddeus Stevens www.liberalcurrents.com/call-you-thi...

An ad for National Review magazine features a photo of Donald Trump standing at a lectern on Air Force One. Text reads: Others posture. America leads. Join NRPLUS for serious analysis on the events shaping our world.

I gotta say, this ad does not scream "serious analysis" to me

War is the force that gives Pete Hegseth meaning YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

if pete hegseth doesn't do war crimes he can't shoot youtu.be/EJjkdEOnC_M

G7 nations to hold emergency meeting on oil as stock markets sink Chancellor Rachel Reeves will join talks amid reports that oil reserves could be released to lower prices.

War is bad for people

War is bad for the water, air, soil, plants, and animals

War is bad for the economy

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Vance, 9/28/24:

When your boss is pushing you to goose those numbers at all costs silly things like "following the law" and "making sure someone has access to live-preserving medication" just get in the way.

Imagine being a US service member - or a member of a military family - in harm’s way right now thanks to Trump, and watching him refuse to answer a reporter's question about Russia helping Iran kill Americans because they dared to ask during a college sports roundtable on the sixth day of the war.

America First apparently doesn't include taking care of Americans overseas

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Who will tell Trump’s he’s not God’s anointed? – Baptist News Global I am not saying Trump ever was God’s anointed — I’m saying at least 84% of evangelicals believe Trump was anointed by God to be president.

"Who will tell Trump he's not God's anointed?"

Religious-right leaders have been telling him for years that he's on a mission from God. For a narcissist like Trump, that's gasoline on a raging dumpster fire.

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More love, please!

Always worthwhile to read Sarah Posner analysis of the US Christian Right. Also, here's a bit from the folks who see Trump and his war as fulfillment of prophecy:

Himes on war powers: "That is not a debate that the Republicans want to have, because a year ago they turned the Congress into the Russian Duma. We don't have a Congress today. We have a majority party in the House and Senate that's going to do exactly what Donald Trump tells them to do."

Dana Perino bragged about the Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner pretending they were negotiating with Iran while the Pentagon planned an attack. Witkoff is part of the Ukraine/Russia negotiations .Kushner is part of the plan to rebuild Gaza. Who would trust them after this?

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Love @jamestalarico.bsky.social framing here both for Texas and national moment.

Much of what MAGA does is flagrantly illegal. Some of it is legal.

All of it is corrupt.

Opinion | ‘I See Him as a Pretty Thoroughgoing Illiberal at This Stage’

"If you are inclined to jettison liberalism and join the forces of Trumpism because you are eager to crush people whom you imagine to be demonic, you ought to consider that perhaps, without knowing or intending it, you are not serving God at all. You are working for the other guy." bit.ly/3OOY8fB

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody.

This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration.

This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

But we're not at war, right?

Trump's Unauthorized Strikes on Iran Take America's Imperial Presidency to New Heights Khamenei's departure is nothing to mourn but regime change might require more than air strikes

“In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not to the executive...[T]he trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man."
-- James Madison
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He's not the only one following this playbook...