Marie

Humans are their own asteroid.

@AuthorMJClifton My husband and I have a pact, no matter what time it is, we must wake the other to tell them the news. I'm a night owl and he's an early riser so we will only be blissfully unaware for a few hours tops if it happens in the dead of night. LOL

There will be phases to the celebration once we get the news

The initial burst will be epic. And it will wash over us in waves.

@QondiNtini OMG I have wanted this one for years!

KAMALA PLEASE!!!!!

It’s almost as if this war in Iran is being run by a drunken frat boy and a geriatric drug addict who wants the world to keep pretending he’s not a senile pedophile owned by Putin.

This is the waste, fraud and abuse.

It's Easter Weekend 🐰

OMG we laughed so hard at this last night. LOL

No lies were spoken here.

I agree.

Brian Cox woke up today and chose violence. 🤣

Yes!

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The incoming Democrat in 2029 will have to waste everyone's precious time tearing it back down. But the damage to the park will be long-term.

WHAT EVERYONE IS MISSING ABOUT TODD BLANCHE, TRUMP'S NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL REPLACING PAM BONDI Something that nobody is talking about concerning Todd Blanche replacing Pam Bondi as Attorney General, allegedly over her handling of the Epstein files, is the fact that Blanche is also oddly & curiously the head of the Library of Congress. "So what?" you say? Well, consider: ▪️As head of the Library of Congress, Blanche has access to & control over restricted presidential papers and other archive materials that would let him gatekeep or selectively release sensitive historical documents that could create political leverage, or cover-up wrongdoing. He has the power to write or rewrite the "history of the future" related to this administration. ▪️As head of the Library of Congress, he could quietly steer Copyright Office decisions on AI "Fair-Use" rules and digital deposits. Imagine subtle policy tweaks that let certain entities (government contractors? favored tech firms?) scrape vast troves of copyrighted material without backlash, while others get crushed. Or, he could arrange back-channel access to the Copyright Office's massive digital database—millions of unpublished or pre-release files that function like a pre-publication surveillance goldmine on tech, media, and innovation. Unnoticed by the public. It could shape the entire future of AI, crypto/NFT IP. ▪️He could influence the Congressional Research Service (CRS) to slant "neutral" reports that lawmakers rely on for literally all their bills—including those involving DOJ policy, surveillance, immigration, and investigations. The Public barely knows CRS exists—reports are often marked "for congressional use only" or buried in obscure portals. He could theoretically influence (or at least monitor) the research pipeline on national security, DOJ/FBI matters, surveillance laws, or Epstein-adjacent files. Want to soft-pedal a report that might embarrass the executive branch? Or ensure "friendly" framing on immigration enforcement or crypto policy? It's the perfect backdoor into legislative thinking without anyone screaming "executive over-reach." These powers, combined with his ongoing DOJ role as Attorney General, open the door to cronyistic favors for Trump, Trump's backers, and questionable cross-branch coordination between the legislative & executive branches that most Americans would never notice, or just be altogether invisible to the public eye. Am I the only one not comfortable with this arrangement? cc: @dezzie_rezzie

All this anti-DEI rhetoric was created to make it easier to fire Black people without cause.

It's the primary reason my mother never got married again. She did not trust men.

"American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings." No one ever talks about this but the use of stimulant drugs including dextroamphetamine and modafinil among ruling class elites is a huge part of why US foreign policy is so violent and insane.

MAHA going well I see

Never gonna leave this app

It's my theme song.