James Patrick Kelly

I'm retired from business, into swing dance, poetry, poodles, and home-made music. Goshdarnit, I'm a happy guy!

[James Patrick Kelly @JPatrickKelly]

@menzelmenzel86 @nytimes I had to resort to help to find it. I totally agree with the above comment.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HAIRY SITUATION — Hegseth’s beard war is a perfect symbol of Trump’s BROKEN Pentagon priorities.
As US-Iran tensions threatened to boil back over into open war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boarded a Navy ship with a mission. Not to assess military readiness. Not to check on troop morale amid international conflict.

He was there to look for BEARDS — and not the kind that closeted gay Republicans marry to hide their sexual orientation. No, it was that typical masculine expression of post-pubescent virility, facial hair...

And he found some.

CNN reports Hegseth left the ship so rattled by facial hair violations that Pentagon officials scrambled into emergency meetings, with political appointees demanding faster enforcement of grooming policies. "The push is to move faster," one Pentagon official wrote in an email, describing pressure to "revamp timelines" on Hegseth's beard crackdown.

Let that sink in. America has troops deployed from Iran to the Caribbean. The nation is grappling with the aftermath of a war that's cost every household at least $1,000. And the Secretary of Defense is treating stubble like a national security threat requiring urgent Pentagon-wide task forces.

"No more beardos," Hegseth declared to a room of top military officers last year, killing years of gradually loosening facial hair policy.

But this isn't just culture-war theater — it has real, discriminatory consequences. The policy disproportionately targets Black service members who suffer from pseudofolliculitis barbae, a painful medical condition where shaving causes hair to curl back into the skin. Under Hegseth's new rules, commanders can now discharge troops who need a shaving waiver after just one year of treatment — even though the military successfully managed this condition for over a decade.

Richard Brookshire of the Black Veterans Project didn't mince words: the policy "allows for an environment of hostility to our Black troops" and risks "getting rid of well-qualified, patriotic, lethal soldiers" — after taxpayers spent millions training them.

This is the same Hegseth who's brought Christian prayer services into the Pentagon, threatened the Boy Scouts over diversity policies, fired senior black and female officers, and cut military partnerships with Harvard and Yale for "leftist ideology."

America is at war. Pete Hegseth is hunting beards and pushing out Black service members over a treatable skin condition.

Priorities, indeed. Perhaps this hairy kerfuffle will lead Hegseth to hire and promote more female service members, for whom facial hair will be a moot point.
Please like and share if you see no reason why a Christo-fascist like Hegseth shouldn’t allow male service members to emulate the visage of a bearded Jesus Christ!

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Hunter Biden: “When it comes to Trump, it’s all about one thing: making money. How does he not understand he’s not gonna have a legacy? His only legacy will be remembered as the most corrupt person in the history of the US by far. Corrupt family”

[seanmack @seanmack1025]

If you think @realDonaldTrump is mentally incapacitated and unfit to be president like and repost. @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune @SenSchumer @RepJeffries

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Replacing Trump with JD Vance is like shitting your pants and changing your shirt

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE shoots protester in stomach with "less than lethal" bullets—had to be rushed to hospital.

Agent leans out of moving car to shoot with one hand—while driving with other.

Injures protester in abdomen at point blank range.

Car was not blocked—attack was completely unprovoked.

Video clearly shows every other ICE vehicle exiting the driveway unobstructed.

Protesters were just holding signs on the public sidewalk.

Incident occurred outside the Broadview ICE Processing Center in Illinois.

Person filming doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[James Patrick Kelly @JPatrickKelly]

@Wescott464348 Of course. Paul is genius and responsible for much of the pleasure of the 20th century. I love the man and I don’t even know him.

[James Patrick Kelly @JPatrickKelly]

@skiistiredasf @cooltxchick I know it was a long time ago when I took the SATs but several people in my graduate class from high school got 1600. Not that it’s not an achievement, I only got 1595.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Former Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown, who was fired by Pete Hegseth, calls out the Trump Admin for politicizing the military: “it is not the military's job to save the republic from political impasses.”

RETWEET If you stand with General Brown!

[Kasey Helton @KaseyHelton05]

My husband is busting his ass today in a steel mill in 90+ degree heat 60 hours a week all summer long and I’ll be at my job on July 4 at the hospital while you enjoy your holiday you starchy shirted jackass. Tell me we don’t work as hard as you.

[The Millennial Snowflake 🇵🇸 @Teh_Snowflake]

I’m going to keep reposting this until it sets in.

[Peter Morley @morethanmySLE]

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security.

Will you join me?🤚

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

This is my Stephen Miller hate group. Like and retweet to join.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's line to Ukrainian President Zelensky, "You don't have the cards," just got voted by presidential historians as the dumbest foreign policy quote of the 21st Century.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 PURGE MACHINE DESTROYED: A highly dangerous data-mining operation designed to quietly scrub legal citizens from the voter rolls was just caught breaking federal privacy laws and shut down cold by a judge. RT to expose the fraud & click to see: 👇 https://t.co/Jwhvx1ftzK

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”

[♱ katana ♱ @aspenkatana]

Class action immediately

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

776,134.

That is the exact number of children who have been stripped of their food assistance under the new Republican SNAP restrictions.

Make this number the only thing Republicans see today. Make it viral. #RepublicansStarveChildren

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I haven't gotten a clear answer on this yet: if Democrats cheat in every election, why do we have a Republican house, senate, and white house and SCOTUS?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “Donald Trump has referred to Democrats as: the enemy within, scum, terrorists, vermin, radical, lunatics, demonic, evil, fascist, marxist, communist, garbage, the enemy of the people, treasonous, animals, degenerates, Jew-haters, low-lives. He’s called us everything under the sun and by the way he’s been fucking wrong about all of it. The shit we say about you guys is true”