JulieB.

Animal Advocate and proud Never Trumper 🇺🇸

[JulieB. @Crossposter_JB]

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[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

"The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor ... there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump."

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[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Navy Sailor Doris Miller. Known for his heroic actions at Pearl Harbor, he carried wounded crew members to safety and shot down Japanese planes before later dying in combat.

Pete Hegseth is considering renaming an Aircraft Carrier after Donald Trump instead of Miller.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Pete Hegseth forces the editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes to resign and replaces him with a loyal minion for breaking the story of sailors throwing themselves off the USS Abraham Lincoln!

The publisher of Stars and Stripes is walking away after more than 30 years at the storied military newspaper as Pete Hegseth's Pentagon moves to exert more control over a publication generations of American service members have trusted for independent news.

Max Lederer, who has served as publisher for nearly two decades, announced his retirement after the Pentagon installed an active-duty Navy public affairs officer as his deputy without even consulting him.

Lederer made clear this was no ordinary retirement. “It has become clear that my philosophy of leadership, and my understanding of the value and mission of Stars and Stripes, differ in fundamental ways from the direction the leadership of the Department of Defense has for the organization,” he wrote to staff.

That “direction” has been increasingly obvious since Hegseth took over the Pentagon. His Defense Department has derided Stars and Stripes as “woke,” announced plans to overhaul the publication, and fired its independent ombudsman (who is now suing the Pentagon and alleges she was retaliated against for criticizing its attempts to control the paper's editorial content).

Now active-duty Capt. William Urban has been placed directly in the newspaper's senior leadership, which members of the Stars and Stripes advisory board say threatens the separation that has allowed the government-funded newspaper to report independently on the Pentagon for decades.

“How does someone with zero experience in a global news organization walk into a senior-level role at Stars and Stripes?” asked advisory board member and newspaper editor Bill Church. “We should all worry about the future of Stripes.”

Three Democratic senators are worried enough that they've demanded Hegseth explain Urban's role and whether he will have any influence over editorial operations.

And here's why this matters right now: Stars and Stripes has continued doing exactly the kind of journalism an independent military newspaper is supposed to do.
It has reported critically on the mental health crisis and risk of self-harm among sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, even as Hegseth has attacked reporting about conditions aboard the carrier as misrepresenting what's happening.

There are plenty of traditions that survive long after their usefulness has disappeared, but the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes isn't one of them. Through it, the three million people who serve in and work for the Defense Department have a trusted source of news that isn't controlled by the same people who command them.

Hegseth has shown little interest in leading the Pentagon through the institutional restraints, professional expertise and hard-won consensus that traditionally govern an organization of nearly three million people.

He wants to impose his will on it, and an independent newspaper capable of telling those people things their boss doesn't want them to hear plainly doesn't fit that model.

Some traditions are there for a reason. This is one worth fighting for.

[VoteVets @votevets]

Nancy Lacore rose from helicopter pilot to three-star admiral commanding 60,000 sailors. Then Pete Hegseth fired her without cause or explanation.
Lacore’s military career may have been cut short, but she’s not done serving. That’s why she's running to flip South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, and she's doing it the same way she treated every mission in uniform: tune out the noise and get it done.

[JulieB. @Crossposter_JB]

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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Bill O’Reilly loses it over John Ossoff’s comment about Natalie Harp, saying he’d rather vote for Putin than the Georgia Democrat:

“You don’t get lower than that. This is the lowest you go.”

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True 💩

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨INSANITY: Trump will host an IndyCar race down Pennsylvania Avenue, with cars hitting nearly 200 MPH.

It will require significant roadwork costing MILLIONS while Americans struggle. EVERY flight at Reagan National will be halted for THREE HOURS.

Are you f*cking kidding me?!

[JulieB. @Crossposter_JB]

@LindseyGrahamSC is rolling in his grave~ the @SCGOP can figure this out.

They are worried.. do not kid yourself.

@DarlineGrahamSC @LeaderJohnThune @MacFarlaneNews @RonScott719 @NancyMace

[Acyn @Acyn]

Darline Graham: I tripped up on one question last night, regarding Taiwan. I don't speak politician. I was just honest. Of course, Taiwan is our friend. But I think people in South Carolina are more worried about boys in girls sports.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: GET HIM! Minnesota hits MAGA Governor Greg Abbott with a massive lawsuit after Texas refused to extradite an ICE officer accused of shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis earlier this year.

This is EXACTLY how you fight fire with fire...

“Governor Abbott is trying to shield Castro from being held accountable for these serious charges by refusing to extradite him to Minnesota,” stated Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Christian Castro was charged with four counts of second-degree assault with a deadly weapon for the nonfatal shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis during Operation Metro Surge. He was also hit with a count of falsely reporting a crime. Prosecutors assert that Castro was chasing after immigrant Alfredo Aljorna when Aljorna ran into his home. Castro allegedly fired his gun through the front door, striking Sosa-Celis, Aljorna's roommate.

Aljorna and Sosa-Celis were originally charged with crimes after Castro falsely claimed that he fired his weapon because he was being attacked. Those charges were dropped when police video revealed the lie.

Castro was arrested by Texas Rangers in May but rather than transfer him back to Minnesota to face justice as requested by Governor Tim Walz, Texas has kept him locked up in a local jail — a clear attempt by Abbott to turn this into a culture war battle. Republicans are so radically pro-ICE that he's worried that extraditing an agent, even one accused of heinous crimes, will enrage his base. Once again, we see that Republicans are the pro-crime party as long as those crimes are carried out by their political allies.

Ellison filed this new lawsuit in Texas federal court and slammed Abbott's refusal to sign the extradition order—

"Now, Governor Abbott is trying to shield Castro from being held accountable for these serious charges by refusing to extradite him to Minnesota," Ellison said. "Abbott's refusal to extradite Castro is unconstitutional and violates federal law and Texas law. I will not stand for that, so I'm taking Abbott to court. Christian Castro will stand trial in Minnesota."

Enough is enough. There is no legitimate legal reason for Texas to withhold this prisoner. It's high time that he faced his day in court so that the American people can see that ICE agents are not above the law!

Please ❤️ and share to demand the extradition!

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: Trump’s pick to fill Lindsey Graham’s seat in the U.S. Senate just gave the dumbest answer to a foreign policy question we’ve ever heard.

You have to see it to believe it.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Greg Abbott helped create the Texas data center gold rush with massive tax breaks. Now, during an election, he suddenly wants to act concerned.

Gina Hinojosa calls bullshit:

“Greg Abbott is messaging different, but his actions are the same. He’s basically auditing himself… Everybody knows that come November 4th, the day after the election, he’ll sing a new song.”

Abbott can’t campaign against the consequences of his own policies.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Another Jon Ossoff moment from Atlanta not getting enough attention came when he addressed Trump’s remaining supporters DIRECTLY:

“He promised to lower prices on day one. You remember that? … I want the president’s remaining supporters to hear this because it was all a lie.”

Then he laid out the betrayal:

“Under Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever to stock your fridge… to power your home… to make a cup of coffee, to buy school supplies for your kid, or a tractor for your farm.”

And then Ossoff went for the throat:

“They made you pay more for everything and took us to war on lies and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world’s most famous pedophile while the crook president… and his crook family raked in billions.”

His conclusion was fucking devastating:

“They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.”

[JulieB. @Crossposter_JB]

@politvidchannel Can we watch?

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Yes "that's our president" 💔 🇺🇸 💔

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

TRUMP: UKRAINE STARTED A WAR WITH RUSSIA WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE OF SUCCESS.
April 14, 2025

Is he actually an idiot?

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[JulieB. @Crossposter_JB]

Passports with @realDonaldTrump image did not sell in limited DC release, so now are going nation-wide.

That may ve that may be the default.. looking for a way around it.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The Semiquincentennial Donald J Trump $1 dollar coin featuring his likeness will be released by the U.S mint on September 2, 2026 in rolls & bags with pricing set above face value. How is this okay? Should he have a coin of his own with his likeness on it?

[Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 @KwikWarren]

This madness needs to end.