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How Much Humiliation Can JD Vance Take? nytimes.com/2026/04/07/opi… via @NYTOpinion

Pediatrician in South Carolina here. We could have done so much with that 35 million dollars: education, vaccines, healthy food, healthcare access. Instead, we spent it on an a measles outbreak that never needed to happen.

This is the part that keeps getting buried under the raw numbers. Hegseth spent months pressuring Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove four decorated colonels from the one-star promotion list. Two Black men. Two women. Driscoll refused, because their records demanded it. So Hegseth pulled their names himself… which legal experts say he likely had no authority to do. The defense secretary is supposed to approve or reject the entire list, precisely to prevent this kind of targeted discrimination. Then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George - the Army’s top officer - asked to meet with Hegseth to discuss the blocked promotions. Hegseth refused to meet. Refused to discuss his decisions at all. Then he fired George. Whose term wasn’t supposed to end until September 2027. Nine U.S. officials across all four branches confirmed the NBC reporting. “There is not a single service that has been immune,” one said. The officers’ attributes being cited for removal include past support for Covid vaccine mandates… and association with Mark Milley. The Pentagon’s response to every outlet that asked: “fake news.” They didn’t dispute a single name.

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation." RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

Holy shit, Marco Rubio would hate it if you retweeted

Trump’s kids buy into drone companies Trump cancels existing drone contracts Trump’s kids’ companies get military contracts Trump starts wars Trump’s kids’ try to sell their drones to the countries being attacked because of Trump’s wars 👉🏻 This is what corruption looks like.

The MMR vaccine has no aborted fetal tissue in it. This is the kind of nonsense that only a committed anti vaxxer like RFK Jr would say to scare people off one of the safest and most effective vaccines in history.

Police brutalize Black people while yelling “comply.” See how his hands were raised above his head as an officer kicked him in the back. That’s racism in action

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump just made clear the U.S. government won’t fund childcare services because we’re a big country that’s fighting wars. No wonder the American people don’t think he cares about them. Wow.

A federal judge ruled that Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS is unconstitutional. The First Amendment is clear: the government cannot cut off funding to a news organization simply because it dislikes their coverage. That is textbook viewpoint discrimination, and the court said so in no uncertain terms. But here is the hard truth. Republicans in Congress separately voted to strip public broadcasting of its funding, and that damage is real. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has kept local stations on the air for decades, is gone. Public media exists to serve the public, not the political whims of whoever holds power. Today’s ruling affirms that principle. Now we need Congress to act on it. I will keep pushing to restore what was taken, because an informed democracy depends on a free and independent press. wapo.st/4s25zhz

Let’s call this what it is, it’s not just hypocrisy, it’s moral fraud. Franklin Graham had no problem demonizing Barack Obama, a faithful husband, scandal-free, disciplined, educated, Black man, the very embodiment of the “bootstraps” gospel white evangelicals preach about, as some kind of threat, even suggesting that he was antichrist. Yet, the same Graham bows in reverence to Donald Trump, an adjudicated rapist, convicted felon, unrepentant racist, porn star banging, pathological liar, with a trail of infidelity, exploitation, documented racism, and associations with convicted child sex traffickers, and has the caucasity to call him “raised up by God.” That’s not discernment, that’s deception, dishonesty, and disregard for the sacred text he claims to believe. The standard didn’t change, the subject did. Obama’s integrity was dismissed because he was Black. Trump’s corruption is sanctified because he is white and politically useful. Graham isn’t applying scripture, he’s weaponizing it. He ignores sin when it serves power, then quotes the Bible to justify the very wickedness it condemns. That’s not Christianity, that’s idolatry of whiteness, wrapped in religious language and draped in a flag.  This is hypocrisy at its highest level: Calling evil good when it benefits you, and calling good evil when it threatens your power. And then having the audacity to say God said it.

The 12 year old girl this Pastor raped and assaulted will never be the same again. He stole her childhood. He abused her for years. He’s already out of jail and will do probation in a fancy lake house. He was also Trump’s former spiritual advisor.

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I can promise this: The Senate will not vote to leave NATO and abandon our allies just because Trump is upset they wouldn’t go along with his reckless war of choice.   Thank you to @SecRubio for sponsoring the bill in 2023 requiring a two thirds vote of the Senate to make sure clueless presidents couldn’t act on a whim.

Lots of talk, little substance from ⁦@POTUS⁩

Another sign of MAGA decline. And of course that reinforces Trumps status as a lame duck