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🟧🌊 ❄️💙🍷🌻Wife, mom, Nana to 5. Blue girl in a red state. No time for trolls. You will be blocked.

[Alex @dubsa98]

As someone who works with transgenic mouse models for cancer research, this is objectively one of the funniest things I’ve seen a real life politician post

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s crusade to purge women and people of color from our Armed Forces has never been subtle.

But today, a New York Times exposé revealed exactly how far he’s gone to dismantle the careers and achievements of our finest servicemen and women.

More than a dozen military insiders — both active duty and those already purged — spoke to the Times anonymously to unmask a horrific ongoing attack.

They detailed a process used by Hegseth and his team to halt senior officer advancements for reasons completely unrelated to merit, job performance, or fighting wars.

Hegseth’s efforts are part of a quest to advance his white-and-male centered worldview, facts, history, and actual service be damned.

In the absence of any such evidence, insiders confirmed that he has used his position to withhold promotions from qualified, decorated veterans. The Times cited several enraging examples:

• Last fall, Hegseth ordered Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll to remove two Black and two female officers from a 29-person promotion list. Driscoll repeatedly refused, citing their decades of exemplary service. In March, Hegseth bypassed him, removed their names, and sent the modified list to the White House.

• In total, Hegseth has removed 32 officers from Air Force and Navy one- and two-star promotion lists. He also pulled the only Black officer and the only female officer from a Marine Corps list, leaving their promotions in limbo.

• Vice Adm. Sara Joyner, a highly decorated three-star fighter pilot, saw her advancement stalled over a 2021 Navy recruiting ad where she said, "I’m not just a girl with a dream. I’m a sailor with one." Hegseth deemed the line a "big problem." Joyner has since retired.

• Rear Adm. Stephen D. Barnett was recommended for a promotion after successfully managing the aftermath of a massive Navy fuel spill in Hawaii. Hegseth blocked his advancement after Barnett participated in a Navy-sponsored Pride event back in 2018.

It is an outrage to watch a media personality whose greatest battles have been with hangovers intentionally harm the careers of people who risked everything to keep America safe. Hegseth’s actions are insult to all who have served and a risk to national security.

[Image: REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov]

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: President Obama breaks his silence after Trump signed the MOU surrender with Iran.

Obama says that under the JCPOA he negotiated, "Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons," and Trump pulling out of it "caused Iran to develop more nuclear capacity."

Obama questioned Trump's rationale for his war, saying we're likely worse off now:

"We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put an enormous strain on our military; a lot of people have died, and it feels like we are back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little worse off."

This MIC DROP from Obama is guaranteed to drive Trump NUTS.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Unreal.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Mike Johnson just told you the quiet part out loud: Republicans have a plan to gut Social Security next year.

They’re waiting until after the midterms so you can’t vote against it.

Make this the only issue that matters in November. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Fun fact: hydrogen peroxide is used as paint remover

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

you know this guy absolutely, positively knows this shit inside and out because he looks like the pooliest pool guy whoever pooled

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is not a surprise to anyone who works on military readiness. The fact that Hegseth thought that implementing a political agenda at the cost of readiness suggest that immediate impeachment would be appropriate since he won’t have the decency to resign.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Bahahaha omg man. WE ARE SO COOKED.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

It’s game on in Alabama, where two military veterans are challenging Senator “Coach” Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to run for governor because he’s not actually an Alabama resident. https://t.co/crAmHU2nhG

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

One of my favorite lines in the complaint: “At a meeting of the Shoals Republican Club on August 3, 2019, Tuberville candidly conceded that he ‘has property’ in Alabama but is not an ‘everyday resident of Alabama,’ describing himself as a ‘carpetbagger.’”

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package:

Overturn Citizens United
Ban corporate PACs and super PACs
Ban members of Congress from trading stocks

Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this corrupt system.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Now Trump says Iran deserves to have ballistic missiles because everyone else has them, we were going to run out of oil if he didn’t end the war, and you shouldn’t care about Iran because the stock market is at a record high.

Absolute clown show.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

$12 million. That's how much taxpayer money the Trump Administration spent to rehire the same federal workers they'd previously fired.

Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse – this Administration commits all three on a daily basis.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

New lawsuit just filed challenging Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to run for Governor in Alabama because he’s a … Florida man.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Holy shit this is bad.

Strait of Hormuz = free transit for 60 days, after that it’s up to Iran and Oman

Nothing on missiles.

All Iranian sanctions removed.

$300 billion to Iran on top of releasing all frozen funds.

We didn’t win a single point. Holy shit.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN montage of Trump bashing the JCPOA and releasing any money to Iran:

I would have never given him back the money. I would have said, the money is off the table. Let's start negotiating. And you know what? I would have won that negotiation

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Summary of the Iran deal:

Iran: we want 25 billion

Trump: get your shit together or we’re going to give you 150 billion!

Iran. …

Trump: you know what, make it $300 billion and we don’t even have to talk about your missiles or the proxies

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FOX: “We learned why the Iranians are eager to sign on to this deal — Iran will be able to start selling oil again on the global marketplace… and nobody is disputing they’ll have access to a $300 BILLION fund.”