buckeyenative01 - Distant Early Warning

This is everything

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.

A truly extraordinary moment.

We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.

Act like it.

The alarming fact is that we’re not even close to the bottom with this madman.

Fun, thats right near where a good chunk of family lives.

If bankrupting casinos didnt bother folks, nothing would.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Ok let's do it: "Can this be a solution?" A thread.

I was over on x dot com scoping out things to talk about on youtube dot com and across a unique and cunning plan for dealing with the strait of hormuz

We have a Senate minority leader, who supported the Iraq war in 2003, so that is part of the reason people hate everything, because he actually supports this war too, but is annoyed that trump is being "so inconsistent".

@schumer.senate.gov is the wrong leader at this time.

The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.

Ive got family who are active service and GWOT vets. Id really appreciate if a whole new generation of troops didnt get put through another debacle in the Middle East.

Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see

That ain't a risk worth taking.

Republicans Are No Longer Even Pretending to Care About Judicial Independence GOP lawmakers used to at least pay lip service to the importance of an independent judiciary. Then state courts started issuing rulings that GOP lawmakers do not like.

I had to read this several times to make sure I understood correctly: A bill in Missouri would make it so that if a judge releases a person charged with a crime on bail, and that person commits a felony, the *judge* would be charged with a felony for their decision to release that person

They probably knew this. Didn't Trump tell oil execs if they invested money in his 2024 campaign and he won, he'd repeal EPA regulations? No way theres not racketeering at hand.

Forgive my ignorance, whats the significance of Tuesday?

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Most of the media is demanding that everybody supports the war effort. Well, sod that. This is an illegal conflict, launched by a decrepit American to distract from his domestic problems, which has already killed hundreds of women and children. I didn’t back the Iraq war in 2003. Nor this one!

I can't say I delight in the implosion of the GOP. They have seen to it that there is little to take delight in at the moment. They voted to enable an evil 3 times, and now they complain about a male loneliness epidemic. A culture of accountability deflection is not appealing.

Laughing. For. Hours.

Obviously it's great to have Noem gone, but my husband sent me a social media post from the bad site in which someone characterized firing Noem and replacing her with Markwayne Mullin as being like shitting your pants and running home to change your shirt, and I can't stop laughing at the accuracy.

More people should really stop and take notice when the supposed opposition party is calling a war illegal and unconstitutional, but will not suggest consequences of any kind for starting it.

They're also subtly de-escalating the severity by pretending this was solely an issue of permission.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

Im equally intrigued and embarrassed...

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.