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A news reports that Trump decided not to fire his National Security Advisor over the Signal Fuck-up because he had fired Michael Flynn, his first Security Advisor, right at the start of his first administration…
…and he did not want to feed the narrative that he promotes ‘chaos’
That’s really funny !!
Anyway…that narrative would be promoted by the fact the he fired more top
officials during his first Presidency that any other President in American history
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Facebook reminded me that on this day, March 29, ten years ago, I was in the village of Ulianivka, Mykolayiv region, southern Ukraine. I was a Senior Lieutenant and the deputy commander of the infantry battalion.
In 2014-2015, I was drafted by the Ukrainian government to repel the first Russian invasion of Donbas (unlike Volodymyr Zelensk…
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BREAKING: Trump tells NBC that he is committed to annexing Greenland and that a military option is not off the table.“
We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said.
He added that there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.”
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On March 27, a 30-year-old man with multiple IDs, including a Ukrainian passport from the occupied territories, attacked Americans and other tourists with a knife on the streets of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He had arrived in Amsterdam a day before the attack. This incident is believed to be a routine Moscow terror assignment in Europe. For…
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Important.
“Is Roberts’ statement criticizing Trump’s calls for impeachment a “leopards eating faces” moment? Or is it a placeholder signaling that Trump’s rhetoric against judges is not necessary or helpful because, by and large, the Roberts majority will rule for Trump upon “appellate review”? Is Roberts’ rebuke just another example of him—the same man Trump warmly thanked at the State of the Union (saying “I won’t forget it”)—trying to lower the political temperature as he finds ways to rule for Trump again?”
Everyone! It’s what we’re been looking for!
Take one hour and listen to or read Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s seminal speech Beyond Vietnam. It’s our answer to Project 2025!
It’s SO much more than a protest speech. It’s a vision for a more just society that never was realized. But we can pick up where he left off. It’s a gift to us it’s a blueprint for us to follow!
Share in my excitement! Network! Encourage everybody you know to listen to the audio (about 1 hour) and then do a close read of the…
It’s precisely the latter.
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So here’s the Trump administration position: it’s a state secret when planes took off with deportees, but not classified information at all when planes take off to drop bombs on a foreign country.
Three days ago Trump took away my non-existent security clearance…. At the same time his cabinet was texting top secret plans with a member of the media on board.
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There are fighting Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy, Elissa Slotkin, Jason Crow, Jamie Raskin, Dan Goldman, Seth Moulton, Ro Khanna and Ruben Gallego. This will be the spine of the opposition and the energy that reforms and renews America’s broken political system and leads the country out of this immense and growing disaster.