Georgia*Peach

Wife to an awesome Army retiree, mom of 4 fearless, amazing girls....
Unapologetically outspoken so follow at your own risk ✌
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[Georgia*Peach @JawjaP]

I have 4 daughters. THIS x4 💔😭
#RoeVWade #RoeVsWade

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

I have no insight into the facts of this situation, but “CLAIM: (outline a claim)/FACT: (outline facts that don’t address the claim just laid out)” is not generally how fact checks work.

[Andrew Bates @AndrewBatesNC]

Things are not going according to plan, @SecRubio

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Reminder: there is no domestic or intl legal basis for the murders that Trump ordered (and Rubio backed) in the Caribbean. No war. No authorization. Apparently many innocent fishermen killed. Sanctioning the ICC won't make that crime disappear after they leave power.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

if you think the International Criminal Court is a threat to you... you might just be a war criminal

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey look what i found!

[The Space Coast Rocket @CoastRocket]

WE COUNT THE ENEMIES WE KILL. WE RARELY COUNT THE ONES WE CREATE.

Nidal Hasan was a patient on my floor in the surgical trauma ICU at Brooke Army Medical Center.

I wasn't there when he arrived. I had just left for my deployment to Mosul, Iraq. But the nurses and doctors who cared for him were my peers and my friends, and I know exactly what that required of them, because every one of us had done some version of it before. Before anyone tells me what strength looks like, understand what that work demands.

I have cared for a drunk driver who wiped out an entire family and landed in our ICU himself. I have cared for gang members who shot up a block while children were stepping off a school bus, then ended up on our unit with bullets of their own. I have kept alive people who murdered their own families and failed at taking their own lives. And in Iraq, I saved the lives of the very enemy fighters who had just tried to kill us and miraculously survived our response.

Every one of those patients got our best. Not because we felt anything for them, but because of who we were. You set aside anger, grief, prejudice and every personal feeling you have, because a life in front of you is a life in front of you. That's the oath. That's the duty.

So when Hasan came through those doors, my colleagues did what we had always done. They preserved the life of a man who murdered thirteen people and would have killed them too, given the chance. He killed those men and women in one of the very same buildings many Soldier's like myself have been in when I was stationed at Fort Hood.
He is alive today because they did their jobs. That was not sentiment. It was a hard, tangible expression of the values this country claims to stand for. Our principles had to mean something even when the person benefiting from them had violated everything we believed in.

Now the Pentagon plans to livestream his execution by firing squad on Dec. 3, and our leaders apparently believe turning his death into a public spectacle will demonstrate American strength. I think it demonstrates how little they understand the enemy they claim to be fighting. We kept Nidal Hasan alive, now our leaders want to make him a martyr.

Hasan walked into Fort Hood expecting to die. He believed his death would be rewarded. At his trial, he called no witnesses and offered no defense, and his own court-appointed lawyers worried he was seeking execution. He failed at martyrdom once. Now we're about to hand it to him, in high definition, for every extremist with an internet connection to replay, manipulate and celebrate.
We supply the footage. They supply the meaning.
Long after the politicians finish congratulating themselves, that video will still exist. Their moment of bravado becomes somebody else's recruiting material for decades. And this failure to think past the immediate display of power reaches far beyond one execution. We count the enemies we kill. We rarely count the enemies we create.

Look at the school in Minab, Iran, where multiple investigations attributed the strike that killed more than 100 children and their teachers to us. You cannot bury people's children beneath the rubble of their classrooms and expect a speech about American intentions to decide how they remember you. No denial brings those children home. No claim of good intentions makes their parents forget whose weapons killed them.
If those were our children, we would remember for the rest of our lives. We would demand accountability. Many of us would want vengeance. We would tell their stories to the next generation. We know this because we did exactly that after September 11.

Why do we imagine other people love their children less, grieve less deeply, or remember less clearly?

We have developed a horrifying talent for creating more terrorists than we will ever stop. We inflict suffering, evade responsibility, and then act as though the anger that follows came out of nowhere.

Think back to the first time you saw one of those al Qaeda videos of an American being beheaded. Remember the sickness in your stomach. Remember the rage. Remember thinking that only savages would film a killing and send it out for the world to watch. Now ask yourself what the rest of the world will see when the camera is ours.
Terrorist organizations stage executions for the cameras. Authoritarian regimes make death a public spectacle to feed fear and rage. Watching our own leaders reach for those same tools should force us to confront how much of ourselves we are surrendering in the name of defeating them.

The line separating us from the people we condemn has to live in our conduct. A flag cannot hold it for us. Neither can a uniform, a title, or a declaration that we are the good guys.
On that ICU floor, on a bloody street in Mosul, and in trauma bays across this country, people like my colleagues hold that line every day under circumstances most will never face. They keep monsters alive because their duty and their humanity are bigger than their hatred of what those monsters have done.

Execute him if that's the sentence. But do it the way a confident nation does; quietly, lawfully, and without giving him the stage he always wanted. Let him be forgotten.

I expect our leaders to show at least as much discipline as the nurses who had to care for him.
They keep telling us they are defending what makes America different. Every day, they make that difference harder to see.

Robert W. Burns III is the editor and publisher of The Space Coast Rocket, an Army veteran and a retired trauma nurse. The views expressed in this column are his own.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

The American taxpayers are paying for this. They don’t have money for healthcare or food safety, but they have money to traumatize people in our name.

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

The last public execution in the US was in 1936. We’ve never broadcast one.

We didn’t even do this to the Nazis sentenced to death at Nuremberg.

It is widely seen as violating international human rights standards, except by a few outliers like Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.

[Sarah Matthews @SarahAMatthews1]

Cassidy Hutchinson had her entire career ahead of her and she was willing to sacrifice it to do what so few in Washington are willing to do: tell the truth.

She has shown more courage, patriotism, and integrity than the Republican politicians who had far more power, far less to lose, and still chose to remain silent.

She is an American hero and this shameless witch hunt against her is nothing more than a vindictive waste of time and taxpayer resources.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

So just to be clear, we all paid for those campaign ads when the government said there was no money for health care or rural hospitals

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Between this and his “midterm surprise,” the time to prepare for him to try to steal an election is now.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Women’s rights.
Healthcare costs.
Housing affordability.
Grocery prices.
Trump’s tariffs.
Social Security.
Medicare and Medicaid.
Education.
Climate change.
Workers’ rights.
Gun violence.
Immigration reform.
Voting rights.
Corruption.
The national debt.
Income inequality.
Infrastructure.
Democracy and the rule of law.
Childcare costs.
Probably why Republicans think the entire country runs on the price displayed at a gas station.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

if you think allowing other people to marry the person of their choice curtails your "religious liberty," you're a religious fanatic who does not belong in government.

[Acyn @Acyn]

FOX: In your home state only 25% of fourth graders can read proficiently… So, why should we think the government will do a great job with healthcare?

El-Sayed: Those public schools are deeply under funded we pattern it based on property tax and property value. We have a great military because we choose to invest in it. Imagine we chose to invest in healthcare. I love America, I believe in American exceptionalism. The idea we have mediocre healthcare system when we are the richest country in the world, that is a choice we make…

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Exactly.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump.

We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.

[Amy Martz @amyjo80]

I don’t give a fuck what Sam Altman declares. Why are we just letting these tech bros make these decisions for us? When did we all decide we don’t have any agency?

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

“Made some bad personal decisions.” Like securities fraud, outright theft, sucking in millions on a public salary, protecting multiple pedophiles and sex offenders. What a snake.