Barb822

Retired, proud gramma to 8, Florida Democrat, for equal rights and freedom for all.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Thomas Massie is an absolute legend. He's the only man on Capitol Hill with the integrity and moral fortitude stand up and name the Epstein paedophiles and demand that justice is done.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Took them three minutes to figure out they had to pick up the receiver first, but nonetheless they did pretty well at the end. I love this.

[David Pakman Show @davidpakmanshow]

Not exactly the picture they try to sell

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A lesson for not only Norah O'Donnell, but the entire legacy media who continue to allow Trump to lie and gaslight the American people. For fuck's sake, enough is ENOUGH! Call the bullying sociopath out on his bullshit. Either be fearless, or pick another profession.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump is a draft dodger who mocks soldiers who fought, bragging that cruising New York City for sex and avoiding STDs was his own Vietnam.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

The US Navy fired on and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship today.
That's not blockade enforcement. That's a kinetic act on a sovereign vessel.
Anyone still calling this a "limited operation" isn't paying attention.
#HoldFast

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

It should be a MUCH bigger story that trump said the US can't take care of daycare, Medicare or Medicaid because we're too busy fighting wars.

Are. You. F*cking. Kidding. Me?

[Ruairí Ó Cléirigh 🇮🇪🇺🇸 @RedKingRuairi75]

Even the Lemon was speechless.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mockler: I'm so sick of the president of the United States spending valuable time attacking random celebrities. When Mueller died, he celebrated it. He's honestly morally inferior the way he celebrates these deaths. I'm a young dude who's always looking for moral clarity from our leadership

Moynihan: Don't look to DC for moral clarity

Mockler: I could have looked up to Obama and actually learned patience. I could have looked up to Obama and learned gratitude. If I look to Trump, I don't even know what I learn from that. Bully everyone around you. Isolate your allies, be an absolute asshole to anyone who interacts with you. What's the lesson that I'm supposed to take from this guy?

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

Rubio: Imagine if Iran funded the well-being of its people, rather than its military

Trump, two days later: We can’t fund daycare or Medicaid, we need more money for our military

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Can we get this shared 10,000 times?

"War crimes don't hide sex crimes!"

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

🔥 New Lincoln Project video just dropped.

Our troops are being killed & Trump doesn’t care. He’s a draft-dodging criminal & coward.

Please share. �

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

“I feel frozen, scared, and angry.”

Wesley Powers, a U.S. Navy veteran, was attacked with a chemical agent and detained by ICE. Listen to his story.

[Barb822 @bquick726]

@AZ_Brittney 🙋‍♀️

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has been fired!

Raise your hand and Repost if you support this! ✋

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

My Message to Republican Lawmakers

You built this.
Not the voters.
Not the media.
YOU.

You saw the instability. You saw the narcissism. You saw the appetite for chaos. And...instead of containing it, you harnessed it. You fed it. You rode it. You told yourselves you could control it.

You created a political Frankenstein...and...now you’re shocked that the monster doesn’t take orders.

For a decade, you have watched as he scorched institutions...smeared allies...embraced authoritarians... and turned the presidency...into a grievance machine with nuclear codes.

You knew better. Many of you said so privately. Yet publicly? Silence. Applause. Fundraising emails.

You traded constitutional principle for short-term power. You surrendered oversight for party unity. You let fear of primaries outweigh fear for the republic.

And now?

Now you watch death overseas...instability abroad... corrosion at home...and...you still hesitate. You still calculate. You still ask what the base will tolerate.

Leadership...is not about surviving the next news cycle. It is about protecting the system...when it is inconvenient to do so.

You cannot claim surprise. You cannot claim helplessness. You had votes. You had hearings. You had leverage. You had moments...countless moments...to draw a line.

Instead...you normalized what should have disqualified.

History will not remember your press releases. It will remember whether you defended the guardrails or dismantled them.

YOU built this.

The question...now...is whether you finally dare to contain it...or...whether you will stand there again...hands clasped...pretending the fire wasn’t lit by you in the first place.

Clearly, I jest.
You’re all cowards.
You’re all gutless punks.

You are walking, talking examples of a corrupt political system...one that protects itself...and only itself.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Student to J.D. Vance: When did you decide there were “too many immigrants,” and why sell us a dream? We spent our youth here..., paid what you asked, followed your path. How can you say we don’t belong... and remove people here rightfully? (October 2025)

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

My statement on today’s deposition.