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Invoking “faith” in #wartime, Pete #Hegseth breaks norms & worries critics
The #defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, & current & former leaders say his proselytizing violates the #Constitution & undermines troop cohesion.
#law #Trump #Republicans #FreedomOfReligion #Christianity #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #military #war #NationalSecurity #geopolitics
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Neither my ex nor our pal could answer - Well, our neighbor said that #Congress could pass "pointed #laws" to correct #SCOTUS but that's not how it works.
#OurPutin #AnotherOrban #NoKings
#SteveBannon suggested #ICE agents’ presence in airports is a "test-run" ahead of the 2026 #midterms
The high-profile deployment of #Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents to airports has renewed support on the right & fear on the left about the possibility of ICE going to the polls in November.
#Trump #Republicans #law #ElectionLaw #ElectionInterference #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #StateSponsoredTerrorism #intimidation #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."
~ Martin Gelin
#Trump #Republicans #democracy #dictatorship #authoritarianism
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‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin GelinMartin Gelin (The Guardian)
"But anyway, my God, you know, deliberately being dumb is not good policy. Take care."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #Congress
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"They’re not confused. The administration and its allies are running multiple arguments at the same time, and the arguments don’t need to be consistent with each other. They just need to do the same job: keeping Congress out of the decision-making process and letting Trump do whatever the hell he wants."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #Congress
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readtpa.com/p/schrodingers-war
Schrödinger's War
They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
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Yes, according to the #Axios post he is (here's) most of the post:
"Why it matters: House #Speaker #MikeJohnson's (R-La.) two-vote majority just got even smaller.
👉 • #Kiley said he will still caucus with #Republicans for "administrative purposes" but noted that he's been a less-than-reliable vote for Johnson even as a #Republican👈.
[...]
👉The intrigue: Kiley stopped short of promising he'll be a reliable vote for Johnson.
"We also have video from Reuters. that shows the graves that are being dug for the nearly 200 victims of an airstrike that for sure, for sure, will be deemed a war crime. … So, that is your tax dollars at work. Bombing a school for girls. Killing nearly 200 little kids. Is that not a war crime?"
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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"We now have the faces and some of the names of the Iranian children who were killed in what apparently were double tap airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel. A clear war crime. Double tap means they hit it once and then as people tried to flee, they hit it again. And these are just six of the nearly 200 children who were killed as a result."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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WTFUS: Jasmine & Al Green OUT: World War III IN | The Joy Reid Show Live!
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live videoThe Joy Reid Show (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"We have to begin with the war of choice that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Iran. The conflict has now entered its fifth day and is rapidly spreading across the region, something anyone with even a minimal understanding of the Middle East could have predicted."
~ Mary Trump
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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"Trump and Israel’s disastrous decision to start an illegal war with Iran is now reverberating across the globe, spiking escalation, religious extremism, and threatening to embroil Europe and the Middle East."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Netanyahu #Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/wor…
World War Iran: How Trump and Israel Threaten Global Security
Trump and Israel's war has no exit strategy, no end game, no plan, so the world must burn and head towards a global conflict to satiate the desires of religious extremists, war hawks, and morons.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"Hegseth wants maximum lethality with minimum legality or no legality That’s a recipe for disaster. I don’t know if he’s too stupid. or too reckless to understand any of that. But Hegseth comes across like a 14-year-old punk trying to be a strong man.”
~ Glenn Kirschner
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm #PerformativeMasculinity #masculinity
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Glenn Kirschner on Trump's illegal war and war crimes!!
A recording from Dean Obeidallah's live videoDean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)
"And somebody called it on social media because I don't want to claim it. Somebody said, Like, look at the wargasms that these men are having right now. Called it a wargasm. And it's a thousand percent correct.
The hype that they have around murdering children, around turning cities into rubble is absolutely depraved. We need another word for depraved. It is sick and twisted."
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war #wargasm
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thelefthook.substack.com/p/dem…
DEMOCRACY-ISH: The Texas Primaries, The War on Iran, and Kristi Noem Of It All
From Texas Precincts to Tehran’s Borders—How a Governance of Greed and Extremism is Igniting a Global Powder KegTHE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
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"when a U.S. submarine sinks a foreign warship and sends it and more than 180 sailors to the bottom of the sea, when explosions topple buildings and civilians die in the fire and rubble, I thought, at least until today, that we could agree that we were waging war."
"Five days of bombs, over 1,000 dead, and they’re quibbling over the word
war.' ...
When you fire missiles and drop bombs and the leader of a foreign nation is killed, along with much of its top political leadership, when a girls’ school is hit by a bomb and more than 160 schoolgirls die, when six U.S. service men and women are killed,"
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Republicans #Hegseth #Iran #Israel #war
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Five days of bombs, over 1,000 dead, and they’re quibbling over the word “war.”
I have tried to avoid writing the following sentence for more than ten years, but the day is finally here:Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
Diana Butler Bass explains why Republicans are so frightened of James Talarico and the inroads he his making:
"The Trump Republican MAG crowd doesn't want competition to its understanding of who Jesus is and what it means to be a Christian in politics….
Don't let other people define your Jesus. You're going to have to get out there in the public square and say exactly who your Jesus is."
