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At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.
In “every Trump accusation is a confession,” it says a lot about the current Pentagon that simply starting the longstanding, unambiguous, and nonpartisan rule “don’t obey illegal orders” sets Hegseth off on a spiral of “hey, don’t talk about our illegal orders!”
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.”
@cwarzel.bsky.social
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I still can't believe that the man who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy; who explained to camera how hard his cognitive screening test for Alzheimers was; who encouraged the assassination of his own vice president is still legally at liberty, let alone being president of the United States.
Jair Bolsonaro convicted and imprisoned for doing in Brasília the same thing Donald Trump did in Washington. After 35 years of practicing law in Brazil, I find it hard to believe that the Brazilian judiciary has managed to be better than the American judiciary.😂😂😂😂
Even as the cases against James Comey and Letitia James are dismissed in a stunning display of prosecutorial ineptitude
The Pentagon opens a case against Senator Mark Kelly-for reminding our troops of their duty to follow the Constitution
The dystopian fascism of Trump’s DOJ on full display
This is honestly what I've been stuck on all day, in addition to the absurd level of weakness it exposes.
This is the "weird," but in their use of the office.
Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.
You're not gonna believe this but @cbsnews.com appears to not have a story about some of the largest mass protests in American history anywhere on its main page.
“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
Wow.
this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
“The source told CBS News that [Kash Patel and Dan Bongino] asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.” The leadership of the FBI is now in the hands of infantile psychopaths.
Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk Maureen Dowd By Maureen Dowd April 30, 2016
Trump declares drug cartels operating in Caribbean unlawful combatants
Never forget.
This is a very good column by Peggy Noonan in weekend WSJ.
(No sarcasm.)
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Patel reportedly fired one of his agents for refusing to arrange a “perp walk” for former FBI Director James Comey.
Where are those "free speech warriors" who misleadingly insisted Biden was censoring people now that the Trump admin is openly doing so?
If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...
Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...
New reporting from CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister: "ABC hopes to bring Jimmy Kimmel back, but temperature needs to be taken down under FCC threats"
free speech for me, but not for thee
What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.
This is not something that could happen in the U.S.
It is actually *happening*
Here’s the deal. Regardless of what Kimmel said, ABC made this decision only in response to an overt threat from the government. That’s not how America is supposed to work.
The government isn’t supposed to control who gets to talk.
Never stop the ridicule for one second.
