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[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

Congress has not worked enough days in 2026 to qualify for SNAP, just in case you were curious who was actually sponging off our tax dollars.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

We’ve only had 72 days in session this year.

Under Republican leadership, this is the laziest & least effective Congress in American history.

[Mogul Mc @MonteMFMogul]

@ChrisDJackson @JoeBiden @DrBiden

[TheChefTrevor @TheChefTrevor]

@ChrisDJackson @JoJoFromJerz @JoeBiden @DrBiden He’s scum. Piggy is not a real
President. He’s a poser hiding from prison.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is an extraordinary passage. Trump’s disinhibition causes him to say he would give himself the Medal of Honor—in front of 15 actual recipients. He briefly realizes this is disgusting and tries to claim it was “sarcastic.” Then he reaffirms it wasn’t a joke.

These are classic symptoms of frontotemporal dementia: disinhibition, inappropriate behaviors in public settings, disordered thoughts, lowered salience (what matters), lack of judgement.

Read this. He is psychotic. There is no bottom.

“And of course we're privileged to have with us 15 of the 65 living recipients of the congressional Medal of Honor.

You know, I've never said this. I told you a long time ago, I think I really want to say one for myself. I can congressional Medal of Honor and I've studied it.

I will give it to myself. I have no problem, but I'm not allowed to. Can you believe it? The one thing I'm not allowed to do. I would give myself, so would make it instead of 15 would have 16. But I'm not allowed to do that.

Now you know the sad part about saying that to all of that, look at all that fake news back there. But the sad part is that they'll now go and they'll say, "Donald Trump wanted the congressional Medal of Honor." You don't say that I kid.

One thing in the world of politics, you can't be sarcastic. You can't have any fun. You can't do anything that you think is cute because it is so tonight the story will be the Donald Trump wants the congressional Medal of Honor for himself.

So, I'm only kidding, I guess. Actually, I'm not kidding. I would like to, I can think of no other thing.

We have the civilian version, which is the presidential Medal of freedom. That's, I don't know, it's a very, very powerful thing. But when I see the recipients of the congressional Medal of those that are living many or dead, they died in battle.

Some of the battles I read, inscriptions of what took place in the level of bravery is incredible. The nice part about the presidential Medal of Honor is that people are in good health, in other words, they get it because they want it sports or they want it something.

But they don't have to get shot. And then I don't have to go through the trauma that you people have gone through because what you've gone through is incredible. The bravery inspires us all.”

[Ian L Richardson @ianrich15813274]

It's very revealing that 4 of the 5 living US Presidents are at the 9/11 memorial ceremony right now. Of course, the missing one is the sitting one. Whatever Trump claims are the reasons for his absence, the brutal truth is the old narcissist can't face not being the only centre of attention. He is a thoroughly depraved & despicable man, the worst of America, on a day we remember some of the very best who died that day.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

This morning, an explosive report from The Washington Post’s Alex Horton and Tara Copp is shaping up to be the most devastating blow to Pete Hegseth’s leadership during his tenure as Trump’s Secretary of Defense — and arguably the most embarrassing pushback against a SecDef in decades.

Two weeks ago—only just being revealed now—four top military commanders gave “non-concurs” on Hegseth extending operations in the War in Iran, their reasoning outlined in the Aug. 14th edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), a classified briefing typically presented twice a month to the SecDef by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Think of the SDOB as a blunt summary of U.S. military operations worldwide: here are the assets we have, here are the places our units are currently deployed, this is our trajectory in line with national security priorities, here are our recommendations relating to the SecDef’s orders, etc.

In this particular edition of the SDOB, the heads of U.S. European Command, U.S. Pacific Command, and U.S. Southern Command—along with the Chief of Naval Operations—each offered a “non-concur” in response to Hegseth’s plan to extend forces in the War in Iran.

Army and Air Force officials reportedly “concurred” with Hegseth’s strategy but expressed significant concerns regarding the challenges.

Their collective reasoning amounts to the operation being “unsustainable” and degrading force readiness in other parts of the world and basically putting our military in a globally weaker position for potential wars in the future.

As Ms. Copp and Mr. Horton correctly highlighted in their reporting, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Daryl Caudle, offered the most immediately concerning feedback: quite simply that the U.S. Navy cannot sustain force readiness at the current level in the Iran operation.

That’s basically the bus driver turning their head around an hour into a road trip and pointing out that we can’t do this on a quarter tank of gas. Oh, and one or two tires might be flat. Oh, and no there’s no spare available.

To be clear, it’s not highly unusual for a military commander to give a “non-concur” in an SDOB that’s backed up with a reasonable assessment.

The SDOB is intended to be an avenue through which top military commanders can disagree with the SecDef’s grand strategy and/or offer honest feedback, but in current practice—in this Pentagon and under this president—mere disagreement, even in a classified setting, is obviously quite risky.

Several generals and admirals have been fired or forced into early retirement in the past year over their private disagreements with Trump and Hegseth.

In August of 2025, Hegseth fired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, then head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, when LTG Kruse produced a preliminary intelligence assessment that contradicted Trump and Hegseth, claiming their missile strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities that June had only set back the regime’s nuclear program “by months” and had not “completely obliterated” them as Trump and Hegseth had told the American public.

Last October, Admiral Alvin Holsey, then-head of U.S. Southern Command, was reportedly forced out when he clashed with Hegseth over operations in Latin America and the growing concern over the legality of the Pentagon’s strikes on civilian boats.

Hegseth then forced out Gen. George Randy—the widely-respected Army Chief of Staff—this past April, supposedly over the general’s refusal to shut down an investigation into the unauthorized and highly controversial helicopter flyby of Kid Rock’s property in Tennessee.

These aren’t including the wider purge of generals and admirals during Hegseth’s time leading the Pentagon, mostly based on anti-DEI reasoning: U.S. Air Force General (and then-Chairman of the JCS) Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, Jr. in February of 2025; U.S. Navy Admiral (and then-Chief of Naval of Operations) Lisa Franchetti the same month; U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Lisa Fagan (and then-Commandant) early in the admin — and the list goes on and on.

Nearly all of them were removed early in their tenures, most with no clear reasoning given for their removals.

The first 19 months of Trump 2.0 have been characterized by what seems to be an ongoing, blatant campaign of intimidation to keep senior brass in the Pentagon toeing the line and not pushing back against administration officials.

That’s partly what makes this morning’s story all the more jarring.

While it’s not necessarily a red flag or particularly unusual for a senior military officer to disagree respectfully in these classified briefings—even before Trump’s time—there’s simply no precedent for the range of disagreement that was registered across military branches in the Aug. 14th SDOB.

If any of the defense secretaries under Presidents Biden, Obama, or Bush had gotten this degree and range of pushback from top uniformed personnel, there would be immediate congressional hearings, calls for resignations, and talks of impeachment.

In this especially heightened environment of censorship and browbeating within the current culture of the Pentagon, four of the most senior military officers serving at the highest levels of our national security apparatus made it clear to Hegseth, in no uncertain terms, that they disagree with his strategy regarding Iran, which, after the sluggish economy, has grown into the most potent weakness Trump has with the American people.

Only 31 percent approved of Trump’s handling of Iran in a Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier this week, down from 34 percent at the start of this month and 37 percent back in February, a shift that is blamed on a growing number of Republican voters turning against the operation.

Moreover, someone had to leak the information contained in this classified briefing and did so knowing that it would further confirm the extraordinary weakness the Trump administration has exhibited in its apparently dead-on-arrival “negotiations” with the Iranian regime to end the war.

In political circles in D.C., across party lines, it is the consensus perception that the War in Iran has already been lost.

Nothing has been accomplished in service to the range of dubiously-claimed objectives sloppily laid out by Trump, but worse than that, the Iranian regime is in a stronger position than it was this past February when the operation was launched.

Nothing has gone right. Traditional allies of the U.S. have been openly critical of the operation and resistant—if not directly opposed—to assisting in it. The Pentagon has been besieged by reports on everything from depleted weapons stockpiles to service members enduring intolerable living conditions, most notably on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

The Strait of Hormuz—the shipping lane for trade in the region, critical for commerce and security around the globe—has been completely closed or partially closed for the past six months.

Despite Trump’s claims that commercial vessels are getting through, he fails to mention that shipping is down more than 90 percent from its usual traffic, which will soon compound the economic consequences already being felt globally and certainly here in the United States.

On top of that, the Iranian regime is more extremist now and far less conducive to cooperating with the U.S. government in a way that would be beneficial to our own interests, notably national security and preventing the development of Iranian nuclear weapons.

This leak emerging from the Pentagon will significantly weaken the already anemic position of the Trump administration in negotiating at least some kind of face-saving resolution to what is clearly the most embarrassing foreign policy venture in recent memory, even more so than Iraq.

In six months, Trump and Hegseth have managed to diminish our military readiness, weaken our economy, alienate our allies, strengthen the Iranian regime, and get civilians and service members needlessly killed — all without any concessions that would justify the operation in the first place.

It has been enormously costly, egregiously humiliating, and wholly without gain.

In light of all this, perhaps the cordial lack of confidence in Hegseth expressed by our senior military leaders is being rather kind on their part.
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[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

John Morales, a meteorologist and hurricane specialist with NBC6 in South Florida, was reporting on an upcoming storm when he suddenly shifted gears, right in the middle of the broadcast.

Morales explains that in his 34 years of presenting the weather, he’s always been able to confidently tell his viewers when a hurricane might hit, or when it might turn away. He’s always been able to stand behind his data, modeling, and forecast in order to help protect the people of South Florida.

“I am here to tell you that I am not sure I can do that this year.”

Why? “Because of the cuts, the gutting, the sledgehammer attack on science in general.”

Morales then pulled up a graphic instead of his usual weather map. It laid out some stark realities about severe understaffing of the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Between brutal layoffs, employees accepting the recent DOGE buyout, and straight-up resignations, the agencies responsible for collecting weather data have lost hundreds and hundreds of valuable experts.

He also explained that due to federal government budget cuts, there’s been a sizable decrease in weather balloon launches across the country. Weather balloons are instruments that take crucial measurements of the upper atmosphere and send data that helps with forecasting. With less data available and lower-quality data, Morales says that “the quality of forecasts is becoming degraded.”

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

When Donald Trump asks a journalist, “Who are you with?” the answer should always be “The American people.” Every network. Every outlet. Every single fucking time.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

There’s a part of Jon Ossoff’s Atlanta rally everyone missed, and it may have been the most powerful moment of the entire night.

“I’ve got two little girls at home. Eva’s four and Lila’s one… But this isn’t the world I want to leave them.”

Then he put America’s broken priorities into one devastating sentence:

“We’ve amassed enough firepower to end the world a thousand times over, but we can’t summon the will to guarantee health care and pre-K.”

And then came the line every parent will feel in their bones:

“When Eva’s old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I’m determined to answer truthfully…

THAT I DIDN’T.”

🔥🔥🔥

This is the entire damn fight.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We have so completely destroyed Iran’s entire military that our “president” had to sneak out of Turkey in a food truck.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG!

This should be a national scandal.

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to jump overboard as the aircraft carrier’s deployment in the Middle East stretches months beyond what their families originally expected.

Think about how desperate conditions have to become for American service members, people trained to endure enormous physical and psychological stress, to reach that point.

The roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the Lincoln have reportedly endured food and water shortages, poor-quality rations, shortages of basic hygiene products, broken toilets, mold and mildew in showers, intermittent hot water, disrupted mail service and brutally long workdays with little meaningful time off.

The ship has spent extraordinary stretches at sea without the regular port calls that normally allow crews to get off the vessel, rest, resupply and simply experience something resembling normal life for a few days.

These men and women volunteered to serve the United States. They understood that military service could mean sacrifice, danger and months away from their families.

They did not volunteer to be treated as disposable.

If conditions aboard one of the most powerful and expensive warships on Earth have deteriorated to the point where sailors are reportedly trying to throw themselves into the ocean, then something has gone catastrophically wrong.

Our service members deserve better than this.

And somebody in leadership needs to answer for how it was ever allowed to get this bad.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Do you think a person who would send a plane with decoy press that was targeted to assassinate him, would also take a bullet in Butler and then Rise up with his fist in the air yelling fight fight fight?

I didn’t think so.

[gjones🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 @gjonesbooks]

@joncoopertweets None

[The_Batman20 @The_Batman21]

@RonFilipkowski

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

FUN FACT: If you're complaining about the "Deep State" when you're in complete control of:

- The House
- The Senate
- The White House
- The Supreme Court
- The Dept. of Justice

... you sound like a fucking idiot.
YOU ARE THE DEEP STATE, DUMMY.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOOM! TRUTH ALWAYS WANTS TO BE FOUND: This patriot climbed the crate, grabbed the mic, and swore the oath: "Nothing but the truth — so help me God."

Then he torched the whole game.

GOP governor. GOP legislature. GOP supermajority in both chambers. Alabama — Republican-run top to bottom — leads the nation in starving children. Counties with zero pediatric beds. Hospitals boarded up and dark.

Their solution? Cut SNAP. Cut Medicaid. Then point at brown skin in the city and scream "enemy."

That's not governance. That's a carnival act. Right-wing carnies invent monsters so they can pick your pocket while you're looking the other way.

Misled republicans still blaming Democrats?

Congratulations — you just earned an A in Conservative Gaslighting and an F in Reality.
REMEMBER BEFORE YOU VOTE!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protests in Albania are escalating, with demonstrators now calling for the resignation of the entire government amid growing anger over the proposed Kushner-Ivanka Trump development project.

What began as opposition to a luxury development is rapidly turning into a broader political crisis.