I don't believe people outside of the military understand how significant this is. He is willing to lose his entire future over this. That's bravery like we haven't seen in a long time.
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In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
#DemsUnited
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BREAKING: HELL YES! Vietnam veterans hit Trump with a massive lawsuit to stop his hideous and “disrespectful” Triumph Arch from being erected in D.C.
They didn't mince words about that draft-dodging coward...
"We know how authoritarian dictatorships work. There's no rule of law, there's no consent of the governed, and there's monuments for the leaders there," said veteran and retired diplomat Jon Gundersen.
"I think what we're doing is being loyal to the country. And loyalty can be measured in different ways," Gundersen added. He's suing the Trump administration along with veterans Shaun Byrnes and Michael Lemmon. Their lawsuit is joined by the ethics watchdog group Public Citizen.
The arch, which Trump has admitted is being built to honor himself, is slated to go up between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, our country's most hallowed resting place. At over twice the size of the Lincoln Memorial, the 250-foot-tall eye sore would cut off a clear view between the memorial and cemetery — inserting Trump's ego smack dab in the middle of our national soul.
"It's more about the duty I feel towards my colleagues and friends who did not come home to stand up against this project, regardless of who's in charge," said Byrnes. "I think it's just disrespectful to those that I served with who didn't come back, and then, of course, to all those who are lying in Arlington National Cemetery."
He explained that he has always hoped to be buried at Arlington when he dies but if Trump's arch goes up he'll be forced to "reconsider" his options.
The lawsuit argues that not only is Trump's vanity project arch illegal because he failed to obtain congressional approval, but it's also a disastrous design decision because it disrupts the intended sightline between the cemetery, which lies on land seized from Robert E. Lee, and the Lincoln Memorial, which was erected in the wake of the Civil War.
Tellingly, the administration has yet to unveil a price tag for the arch. While Trump previously claimed that it would be fund by private donations (meaning corrupt pay-to-play bribes) he also said the same thing about his ballroom and is now seeking $1 billion to build that.
“Even if you took private donations, is that how we want to build monuments?” said Gundersen. “To the oligarchs who give money for favors?"
More to the point, what "triumph" is Trump celebrating? His Iran War is a world-historic debacle that will almost certainly end with Iran in direct control of the Strait Hormuz, cementing themselves as a preeminent world power. On the domestic front, it has been one defeat after another for the United States. Trump gutted Medicaid, destroyed our education and scientific research systems, and devastated our economy with harebrained tariffs and costly military adventurism overseas.
The only Trump-related triumph will belong to the American people when we finally kick him and his entire party out of power.
Please ❤️ and share if you oppose Trump's arch!
Jamie Raskin is visibly shaken after reading the unredacted #EpsteinFiles
"Donald Trump's name is all over these files...I saw a reference today to a 9yr old girl".
Don't ever stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles. #Trump
Trump never has money for healthcare or VA staff or anything to actually make Americans’ lives better — but somehow found $1.8 billion to reward his allies with your tax dollars. That's corruption, plain and simple.
BREAKING: Bari Weiss left REELING after Anderson Cooper takes a brutal parting shot at her MAGA-fied CBS News on his way out!
Departing CBS star reporter Anderson Cooper just delivered one of the most subtle and elegant middle fingers in television history.
In his final appearance on 60 Minutes, the legendary anchor made it crystal clear how he feels about the direction Bari Weiss has taken CBS News:
“I hope 60 Minutes remains 60 Minutes… I think the independence of 60 Minutes has been critical.”
Between the lines, Cooper speaking truth to power: stop turning this once-great show into another arm of the growing de-facto pro-Trump state media that already consists of Fox, Newsmax, OAN, and the like.
Sources say Weiss was “furious” and “blindsided” by Cooper’s comments.
Apparently she wasn’t given a heads-up, and it stung even more because what she really wanted to do was give the bankable Cooper a bigger role at the network, only for him to give her the big oh-hell-no.
The “anti-woke” queen Weiss was installed as editor-in-chief with zero television news experience and has presided over a string of scandals, declining ratings, and growing internal chaos. Under her watch, 60 Minutes segments have been spiked or softened to avoid offending Trumpworld, while viewership continues to bleed buckets.
Cooper’s departure is just the latest sign that real journalists are bailing on CBS as it gets remade in the image of The Free Press and MAGA sensibilities. Weiss’s tenure has been defined by controversy, declining trust, and the overwhelming sense that the network is more interested in pleasing one man in hopes of making more billions, than serving the public.
The contrast between Weiss and Cooper is manifest. Cooper leaves the sinking ship with dignity and his impeccable reputation intact. Weiss is left in the empty room, ranting at the heavens that her offer of tainted fame and fortune wasn’t enough to retain the ratings magnet.
CBS has devolved from a legendary news organization into a billionaire’s plaything, willing to throw its standards out the window to suck up to the loathsome Trump in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Well, played, Mr. Cooper. Best of luck in finding a new platform that appreciates your ethical standards as much as your reportorial skills. See less
Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who will miss Colbert's razor sharp humor and humanity, and knows that comedians are often the last line of defense against authoritarian BS.
A heartfelt f*ck you to CBS for surrendering to trump's hurt feelings.
Here's how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy
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NEW: Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, Ariana Debose, Harvey Guillen, Alan Cumming, Sally Field, Yvette Nicole Brown, Connie Britton, Brad Whitfield, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen ahead of Stephen Colbert's final show tonight: "We’re going to carry forward the torch Stephen held so high."
New video shows a message in chalk outside of Stephen Colbert's final show as CBS washes it away:
"Thank you Stephen, and fuck you CBS and Donald Trump."