Stardust615

Lover of sports, politics, and all things Ireland...not necessarily in that order; supporter of human rights, voting rights, civil rights

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Federal Judge Leonie Brinkema has blocked Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund to pay January 6th insurrectionists.

RETWEET to thank Judge Brinkema for standing up for our democracy!

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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@AnnieForTruth @GrandmaGruff

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@AnnieForTruth @GrandmaGruff

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NFL Reporter Confirms Bill Belichick UNC Fate as Strong Replacment CandidateAvailable https://t.co/G9y6obImkY via @es_sportsnews

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

🚨 THIS IS TRAGIC

US Marine Corps Colonel and combat veteran, Doug Krugman, "resigned from the military because of Trump," after 24 years of service.

He wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post stating, and I quote:
"United States military officers take an oath to defend the Constitution without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. I swore or repeated that oath under five presidents, starting with former president Bill Clinton. I risked my life for it, serving as an infantry officer in two wars. I watched Marines die for it."

"No commander in chief is perfect. President Clinton’s moral failures are well known. President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq might be one of the worst errors in U.S. history. All recent presidents share responsibility for our failure in Afghanistan. I continued to serve despite all that because I believed the Constitution brought the country more success than failure, and I believed our presidents took their oaths to it seriously."

"With President Trump, I no longer believe that. During his first term, his actions became increasingly difficult for me to justify, culminating with the Jan. 6 attack on Congress as it tried to execute its duties. I hoped he had learned from those errors, but it only took a few days of his second term for me to realize he had not. I could not swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution."

"Worse than immorality, however, has been President Trump’s willingness to disregard the law and Constitution to achieve his goals. When asked in May about the Fifth Amendment requirements for due process and if he needed to uphold the Constitution as president, the first words out of his mouth were "'I don’t know.'"

"Instead of trying to work within the Constitution, or to amend it, President Trump is testing how far he can ignore it. If voters and legislators cannot close the gaps in our laws to clarify the limits to presidential power, those who serve our government will continue to struggle. The next president — of either party — may continue us down this path toward collapse."

"I voluntarily gave up my rank as the president suggested, but the future of our country is more important than any individual’s career, wealth or power. I have no regrets about my decision. I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind and the freedom to speak in defense of our country."

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

#TrumpShutdownBadForUS

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Federal Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee: “ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence…In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

RETWEET to thank Judge Young for standing up for our democracy!

[Stardust615 @Stardust6151]

@OlenaRohoza YES!

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@LauraLoomer This. Is. Insane.

[The Dens 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @FoxBrambleFarm]

So many people still don't realize how many protests are erupting across the country. The sheer number of them should be national news, but instead we rely on local papers and the stories of the protesters themselves to document them. Here are a few from this week. 🧵
New York

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@MammothNationUS Yup, standing up under fire... https://t.co/MDkc4A8iDK

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Here is @JBKSchlossberg explaining why the United States needs to support Ukraine. For those who don't realize it, Putin has never been our friend.
#DemsUnited #DemVoice1

[Robert Zubrin @robert_zubrin]

NYT conservative columnist Bret Stephens hit it right on the head with this.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Alexander Vindman: Lindsey Graham is an absolute coward. Trump didn’t sound strong—he was attacking an ally when he didn’t need to. All Zelenskyy said was that Trump couldn’t trust Putin. That was it. That’s how the argument started. And JD Vance—he looked like an absolute clown. I don’t understand why Trump let Vance blow up his deal. The deal was there.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

No one asked him in 1942 @WhiteHouse to say thank you. No one told him that he had no cards. No one made fun of his outfit. Back then, everyone knew we were on the side of freedom and against tyranny. Today, those lines tragically are blurred.