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THIS is not the United States that I love. How is the separation of a two year old child from her parents into several foster homes over a year acceptable? Neither parent was given due process. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/wor…

Courtesy of @OccupyDemocrats BREAKING: UGH! NPR discovers that the Trump administration hung over a THOUSAND Navy sailors and their families out to dry after evacuating them from Trump’s illegal war and giving them NOTHING when they got back! NPR reports that over 1,500 sailors, their families, and pets have been evacuated from Bahrain after the Trump administration launched a war against Iran without doing the slightest bit of preparation for any possible consequences, like missiles being fired at US bases. "They had to leave in a hurry, many taking only a backpack with clothes. "They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack. You've got to go,'" said Derrick Johnson, commander of American Legion Post 327 in Norfolk, VA. “They came with no uniforms, nothing. The three we met first, they came with the clothes on their back, what they could fit in that backpack." Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration made no preparations for their arrival, either, forcing the local community to hold donation drives for basic necessities like hygiene products. "The base was asking for donations of toiletries and different things for the sailors coming back, because they were coming back with nothing.” The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society has handed out $1 million to roughly 2,000 sailors and their families since the evacuations began, said the group's chief operations officer Dawn Cutler, a retired rear admiral. "I saw one gal — she had a 2-week-old and a 2-year-old and a dog in a crate and a suitcase. So she was just at the moment, you know, looking to get out of danger, get to someplace safe. And now we're at the point where families are back and they're starting to ask the question: 'Well, what's next? Will we go back?'" said chief operations officer Dawn Cutler of the NMCRS. NPR reports that “the money [raised] is mainly to pay for essentials and to provide bridge loans so families can pay basic living expenses while they wait for the government to reimburse them, which can take months.” That’s the Trump administration in a nutshell. Put Americans in danger for no reason, upend their entire lives because they didn’t bother doing any preparations, and then do absolutely nothing for them when they get back. THEY. DON’T. CARE. ABOUT. OUR. TROOPS.

@BlackwoodBrief @CorruptedLiars Why hasn’t this been reported by mainstream media? Where did The Intercept get this information?

🚨🚨🚨According to The Intercept, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was implicated in a cover-up of a massive attack that killed or wounded approximately 750 American soldiers. Hegseth is facing pressure to resign, and it is said he may face prosecution.

@Mayoisspicyy @BadrobotLinda Actually, that works for me.

Donald Trump would die on Easter just to steal the spotlight from Jesus.

@BY1959 @Wipapa5 😆😆😆😆👍👍👍👍💙💙💙💙

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.

@LibrarianNo5 @adgirlMM 🤮

@adgirlMM Fantasizing about his daughter's body.

If Trump did in fact perish, here is a list of things he would be remembered for. 1. January 6th 2. The Epstein files 3. "The Big Lie" 4. DOGE 5. Demolishing the East Wing 6. Destroying millions of acres of protected lands and ocean waters 7. Destroying the Republican party 8. Destroying American alliances 9. Siding with Putin over American intelligence 10. Admiring Kim Jong Un What else?

@adgirlMM Calling our brave service members “suckers and losers.” Staging a false flag assassination attempt His nonstop grift

@BorisTrump6 I will be more than happy to join you in a joyful toast at the appropriate time. Cannot wait!

I just put a bottle of champagne in the fridge. Hoping I can drink it at breakfast.

@Vertex_am021 So cute and very entertaining. Great Saturday fun. Thanks.

Luck or skill?

@HQNewsNow What an asshole 😑

@HQNewsNow @throbbingvicar

@HQNewsNow @ShePersisted001 Trump the personal enemy of veterans, farmers, women, children, minorities, anyone but the white wealthy American.

@HQNewsNow @BeadingfanNancy Trump doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself and the rich!

@HQNewsNow @DianneCallaha16 Trump has no respect for veterans and current members of our military. He denigrates them every opportunity he gets. Now he making them homeless. Every citizen of every party should vote against every politician who supports Trump’s vicious action in ending this lifeline.

The Trump administration has abruptly ended a Veterans Affairs home loan safety net, causing 10,000 veterans and their families to lose their homes: "When you lose your home, your house, nothing else matters... We didn't know that the foreclosure sale went through until somebody knocked on the front door."

@WORLDINTEL24 @RpsAgainstTrump Fat chance. Trump has no bargaining chip. Iran has one of our pilots. It now holds all the cards. Trump lost.

President Donald Trump issued a final warning via Truth Social, stating that his ten-day ultimatum to the Iranian government will expire in exactly 48 hours. The deadline is set for Monday, April 6, 2026, at approximately 9:00 PM ET. The President first issued this deadline during a primetime address on March 27, 2026. He demanded that the "New Regime" in Tehran fulfill several "non-negotiable" requirements or face a catastrophic military escalation Iran must accept the U.S. 15-point peace plan in its entirety. Strait of Hormuz Immediate and unconditional reopening of the waterway to all international shipping, including U.S. and Israeli vessels. Nuclear Dismantlement Verification of the destruction of all remaining enrichment centrifuges. The return of all Western detainees and any captured military personnel, including the missing weapon systems officer from the F-15E Strike Eagle downed on April 3.

BREAKING: Trump says Iran has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or “all Hell will reign down on them.”

@RpsAgainstTrump @ResisterDean The impotent schoolyard bully isn’t impressing anyone with his imbecilic social media threats. He is no Zelensky who is turning the tide in Russia’s war with intelligence, ingenuity & stealth. All that Trump has accomplished are the death and injury to American soldiers & pilots.

BREAKING: Here is what some active-duty Marines are calling Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon — and it doesn’t make him look good. Pete Hegseth wanted to be called the "Secretary of War," instead of Secretary of Defense. Now, his own troops have a different title in mind. Rep. Seth Moulton — a Marine combat veteran who actually served in Iraq, unlike the Fox News host currently running the Pentagon — dropped a bombshell this week that should stop every American cold: "I know active-duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth's department as the Department of War Crimes." These aren’t former officials, nor political opponents. These are active-duty Marines, the people Hegseth commands. These are the people who have watched him operate up close. They are calling their own department the Department of War Crimes — and according to Moulton, they're doing it because of what they've been ordered to do. The nickname is a savage mashup of Hegseth's own self-aggrandizing rebrand of the Department of Defense as the "Department of War" — because nothing says serious military leadership like cosplay branding — and the growing mountain of evidence that his tenure has been defined by actions that legal experts are calling war crimes. The list is staggering: Airstrikes in Yemen that allegedly hit residential buildings, killing at least 224 civilians. Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities of questionable legality under both domestic and international law. An alleged no-survivors attack order issued against vessels in the Caribbean. A lightning invasion of Venezuela launched without congressional authorization. And now Trump's announced intention to target Iranian civilian energy infrastructure — the same playbook, Moulton noted pointedly, that the United States spent years condemning Vladimir Putin for using in Ukraine. "It's meant to hurt civilians," Moulton said. "This is the same stuff we criticized Vladimir Putin for doing in Ukraine." Over a thousand civilians have been killed in the Iran war. More than a hundred of them were children, killed when a missile — believed to be American — struck a school. Hegseth's spokesperson responded to questions about war crimes by quoting the man himself: "They target civilians. We do not, and I can tell you this administration and this Pentagon focuses on that very, very closely." A school full of children would beg to differ. If they could. And "Department of War Crimes" isn't even the only nickname Hegseth has earned in the building. Pentagon staffers have also taken to calling him "Dumb McNamara" — a reference to Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who sent tens of thousands of Americans to die in a war he privately knew was unwinnable. The comparison is not a compliment. McNamara, for all his catastrophic failures, was at least regarded as intellectually serious. Hegseth, the Fox & Friends Weekend host who needed a Vice Presidential tiebreaker to get confirmed, is regarded as having McNamara's appetite for escalation without the analytical credentials. Same body count. Fewer brain cells. This is the man running America's military. This is the man who has fired over a dozen decorated generals and replaced them with loyalists and personal aides. This is the man whose troops — the ones actually carrying out his orders — have given his department a name that should haunt every single person who confirmed him. Please like and share this post if you believe "Department of War Crimes" should never be how America's military is described accurately — and certainly not by its own Marines.

Reminder that ICE is still detaining a disabled double amputee named Rodney Taylor. He was grabbed in Jan 2025. Denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors. Put in solitary. His health is rapidly declining. Make noise for Rodney.

BREAKING: 23 Democratic states and D.C. hit Trump with a MASSIVE lawsuit over his blatantly unconstitutional order to restrict mail-in voting ahead of the midterm elections. This is EXACTLY what we've all been waiting for... “The President wants to control your vote. He wants to tell the Postal Service what ballots they can accept and when. But this is patently unconstitutional,” stated Washington Attorney General Nick Brown. “And come November, despite the president’s lawless threats, we’ll once again use that power to protect our democracy.” The suit outlines how the Constitution clearly invests the states with the primary authority when it comes to how elections are administered. It's beyond the president's powers to circumvent Congress and directly, unilaterally change federal election procedures in such a fashion. “The Court should declare the specified provisions of the EO(Executive Order) unlawful and void and order corresponding preliminary and permanent relief,” the lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, states. It further states that Trump's order would create a new paradigm in which we allow the White House to "amend and dictate election law by fiat based on the President's whims" and argues that the order "violates bedrock principles of federalism and separation of powers." Trump's executive order, signed earlier this week, directs the U.S. Postal Service to only send ballots to eligible voters named on a list provided by Homeland Security, with assistance from the Social Security Administration. Not only that, but the order threatens to withhold federal funds from states that refuse to comply. This vaguely described and largely opaque screening process would be designed solely to make it harder for Americans to vote, thus depressing turnout and helping Republicans in elections despite their cratering popularity. The suit is led by the attorneys general of California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Washington. They're joined by the attorneys general of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is also party to the suit. “Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, and no president has the power to rewrite the rules on his own,” stated New York Attorney General Letitia James. “This executive order is yet another attempt to disenfranchise voters and sow distrust in our electoral system as we head into the next election cycle.” This entire voter suppression effort is rendered patently absurd by the fact that Donald Trump himself just cast a mail-in ballot last month for a Florida special election. As always with this fascist, it's one set of rules for him and more restrictive ones for the rest of us. Please ❤️ and share if you support the lawsuit!

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