DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.
In this video, Jamelle is talking about Hegseth's speech but it applies perfectly to the video above, a montage of literal performances of masculinity
It is a profound tragedy that thousands of people will suffer and die for this pathetic individual’s bruised ego. Words can’t even begin to describe how deeply messed up and sad this is.
We are right there with you - marathon, not a sprint. Protect yourself 💙 I really appreciated this @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social piece:
open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...
This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.
Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"
MAGA Unreality vs the World
The U.S. government is in the hands of people who are fully detached from reality. That is a major weakness for the regime – but also a source of further radicalization.
My new piece:
It's infuriating and frankly disrespectful to call our modern-day Gestapo, aka ICE, "law enforcement officers." They're nothing of the sort. Real law enforcement protects (or should protect) people. ICE terrorizes them.
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"
Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.
DOJ #CoverUp
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#TrumpEpsteinFiles
Ossoff: "The president owes Americans a real explanation. 2am posts on Truth Social just aren't good enough when you're sending Americans into combat. He was dancing at his beach club the same night he ordered air crews to launch into combat & hours before our service members endured missile salvos"
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.
How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.
As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular.
So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!
Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..
Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.
This shit is so unbelievably deranged. One can only hope that we, as a species, somehow and despite our worst efforts make it to a point sometime in the future when our descendants can look back at us and be aghast at how aggressively stupid we were to let this all happen.
I generally try hard not to indulge in any kind of doomerism. But this shit… betting on war, betting on death - all fully legal and pushed down our throats by our tech elite overlords… It’s just so fucking infuriating.
The worst people on the planet are determining the trajectory of our species.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Chris Murphy: "We need to stand up for the American citizens that ICE is murdering, the kids they're terrorizing. They should stop this illegal war and they should stop ICE from terrorizing our communities. We should demand they do both things."
It would be great to see reporters interview experts who could talk about how killing leaders creates power vacuums immediately filled by violence.
All solidarity with the people of Iran, against both your so-called “leadership” and ours.
an oil pastel of a pink flower with layered petals, smaller yellow flowers around the brown center. you can see some shaded leaves and a navy background
little flower
This aged well. Note the author.
i'm so angry and heartbroken. scores of elementary schoolers murdered. little girls who should be skipping rope and singing songs and drawing pictures and reading books and learning arithmetic. but they won't now, because they're dead.
