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Eric Lee

@saintgimp

Software engineer, science enthusiast, long-distance hiker trash. Reluctantly monitoring the attempted destruction of democracy.

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The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled

09.03.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 464 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

This is a great point. The scared branch of the "are Republicans all evil or are they just scared?" debate gets a whole leg up with Trump's Megashoegate.

11.03.2026 13:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Record low confidence in the Supreme Court now translates into social license to grow the court later.

11.03.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really wish that the people who voted for Trump because they did not see all this coming would take the next logical step to "what did the people who *did* see it coming do differently?" and switch up their information sources.

Continuing to vote without doing so is citizenship malpractice.

10.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

This is an unusual level of loyalty, to refuse to go even on deep background but freely give up the name off the record. Also shows that despite all the bluster, the Trump people trust the mainstream media's ethics.

11.03.2026 14:27 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

They've learned nothing and they intend to learn nothing.

11.03.2026 14:31 πŸ‘ 318 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 1

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could β€œbomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

11.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 3839 πŸ” 795 πŸ’¬ 158 πŸ“Œ 192

do they just not put the parable of the sheep and goats in evangelical bibles?

11.03.2026 06:50 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Dude quotes literal scripture in modern vernacular and Senate Republicans post it as outrage bait. lolsob.

11.03.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kristi Noem's $220M Horseback Riding Ad Dwarfed the Budgets of These 2026 Oscar Nominees Outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem used $220 million in taxpayer money to create a minute-long anti-immigration ad. That's more than the combined production and marketing budgets of nearly every 2026 ...

Noem's one-minute $220 million ad cost more than nearly every film nominated for Best Picture at the upcoming 2026 Academy Awards:

* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners
* Bugonia
* Hamnet
* Train Dreams
* Sentimental Value
* The Secret Agent

11.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 322 πŸ” 164 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 25
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The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

11.03.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 4532 πŸ” 757 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 230

So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.

Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.

And sorry, butβ€”these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?

11.03.2026 01:16 πŸ‘ 1474 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 27
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πŸ‘€ ICE deported two U.S. citizen children with their mother to Guatemala, even though she had apparently elected to leave them with their grandmother in Florida.

The govt is now arranging their return under court order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

11.03.2026 05:18 πŸ‘ 2620 πŸ” 1081 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 41

I already apologized to Lucas for thinking the prequel plot [where everybody enthusiastically gives up their freedom to give an obviously evil man more power to protect them from a trivial threat] was unrealistic, now this…

11.03.2026 07:18 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

10.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 16349 πŸ” 4501 πŸ’¬ 137 πŸ“Œ 285
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RFK Jr.'s MAHA Allies Call to Eliminate All Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Inside the MAHA movement’s Washington meetup.

This is RFK, Jr.'s MAHA Institute's recent meeting in D.C.

Slide presentation titles:
β€œThe Polio Fraud” and β€œThe flu shot has given 1,900,000 Americans Alzheimer’s,” and β€œVACCINES ARE GREATEST SCAM IN MEDICAL HISTORY.” (capitals, theirs)

www.notus.org/health-scien...

11.03.2026 03:23 πŸ‘ 368 πŸ” 165 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 61

Why on earth are you guys trying to save the GOP’s bacon in an election year? They control everything! Let them figure it out! Just fucking criticize them!

11.03.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 538 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 6

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - β€œWhen your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

11.03.2026 00:40 πŸ‘ 10359 πŸ” 2581 πŸ’¬ 166 πŸ“Œ 50

not only is this war likely a crime against international law, but it is also extremely extremely strategically stupid. at no point has anyone actually put forth any strategic aims that they've not walked back in the next day

11.03.2026 01:22 πŸ‘ 373 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8
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Told y’all Elon’s DOGE team weren’t data analysts.

They were hackers!

A whistleblower says a DOGE engineer stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, including personal information on hundreds of millions of Americans.

People need to go to prison for this shit.

11.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 2437 πŸ” 1137 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 69

"how many carrier battle groups are you moving into position first to defend the Strait of Hormuz? Is the answer 'all of them' because if it's not you need a new plan"

11.03.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 297 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Also if you had said "hey we're gonna bomb Iran" to any of the thousands of former or current sailors who have transited the Strait, down to a damn Boatswain's Mate we all would have said "what's the plan for the Strait of Hormuz?"

11.03.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 494 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

I cannot stress enough how narrow the channel is in the Strait and the fact that like. Two guys with a bass boat, a shoulder mounted rocket launcher, and a decent sense of determination could hold the thing for long enough for 6 more bass boats with 12 more guys to show up and fuck up your day.

11.03.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 430 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

...any of the thousands of US Navy members current and former who have transited the Strait of Hormuz while Iran trolled the ship for shits and giggles can describe for you at least 3 ways they can close the Strait without attending any briefing.

11.03.2026 02:49 πŸ‘ 1023 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 16

If I were this much of a fuckup I would simply not start wars with countries that were minding their own damn business, and launch myself into the sun instead

11.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 506 πŸ” 50 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement β€” way more tolerance for civilian harm.

11.03.2026 01:39 πŸ‘ 5596 πŸ” 1947 πŸ’¬ 325 πŸ“Œ 114

That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.

11.03.2026 05:02 πŸ‘ 315 πŸ” 108 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6
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Nuclear experts undercut White House claims about Iran reactor at heart of case for war The Trump administration sent negotiators without nuclear expertise to lead talks on Iran’s enrichment program. Now, its public case for war centers on a facility that experts say cannot do what offic...

This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology

www.ms.now/news/trump-i...

11.03.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 2607 πŸ” 1075 πŸ’¬ 169 πŸ“Œ 103

What does this war of aggression have anything to do with β€œour freedom”?

11.03.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 1194 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 4

The problem with this β€œsacrifice for our freedom” language is that the Trump administration cannot articulate a single half-plausible reason it did this, didn’t bother to explain to the public it was starting a war in the first place, and has changed its explanation for why three times in a week.

11.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 2177 πŸ” 398 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 18