“Are we okay with there no longer being any type of shared morality amongst us as Americans that trumps our political affiliations?
… I’m not, and deep down in your heart, I have to believe you’re not okay with it either.”
Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.
My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.
Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.
If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed.
https://t.co/nTYlhmqnZd
Your reminders:
Trump fired the ethics watchdog who oversaw conflicts of interest and corruption in the executive branch.
Trump eliminated the team who investigates and prosecutes crypto fraud, before holding a contest to see who could bribe him the most by buying his meme coin
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
All right folks, we’ve done it. 1000+ pages of the Big Beautiful Bill simplified down to 40, with links, explanations, pictures, and all the secret tidbits they hoped you’d miss. Please share!
✏️This, along with all of my articles, is paywall-free
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Young people just starting your careers:
When you meet with colleagues, and especially if they are senior to you:
- Bring something with which to take notes (pad & pen, tablet, whatever)
- Write down everything you are asked to do
- After the meeting, go & do each & every one of those things, to the best of your ability
The above will put you ahead of ~90% of your peers.
This guy went to jail for screwing over nurses and doctors at his nursing homes—taking $10 million from their paychecks to buy a yacht.
His mom goes to a $1 million per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, and now he’s pardoned.
These are the people Trump looks after. Not you.
By the way, try to explain how "accepted $1 million dollars in exchange for pardoning a tax criminal" isn't the very archetype of impeachable behavior.
He's auctioning the powers of his office to protect criminals. If this is okay, what ISN'T okay?
I need your help. For having the audacity to say this bill does NOT repeal the green new deal, but DOES increase the deficit and debt substantially, I was threatened by Trump today. Can you contribute to my reelection at this link? https://t.co/AgJY01IWPL
Stephen Miller says the White House is looking into suspending habeas corpus, which protects people from unlawful detentions: "A lot of it depends on whether the courts do the right thing or not."
Two stories, same day, I’m sure totally unrelated…
(left) NYT: UAE pours $2 billion into Trump crypto coins
(right) Bloomberg: Trump White House may ease restrictions on selling AI chips to UAE