Luis Margoles

Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches.
I'll recruit my army from the orphanages.

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

Mess Attendant Second Class Doris “Dorie” Miller awoke at 6 am. His first duty was to collect the crew’s laundry from deep in the hold of his ship. Miller was a big man, a gentle giant standing 6 foot 4 inches tall and weighing over 200 pounds. Very few of his fellow sailors made fun of his first name. Nobody ever did it twice.
Miller had been at work for nearly two hours when a violent shudder hurled him against the steel bulkhead. The USS West Virginia was under attack.
It was December 7th, 1941.
Over the course of that distant and chaotic morning, Miller helped move his captain to safety, commandeered a deck mounted anti-aircraft machine gun and, by the reckoning of some crew members, shot down between four and six Japanese aircraft. He also helped move crew members to safety at great personal risk. Miller saved many lives that day.
In the reflective aftermath of battle, while the Navy counted their dead, they also counted their heroes. Mess Attendant Miller was recognised as one of America’s first heroes of World War II. They awarded him the Navy Cross and a promotion.
He should have received the Medal of Honour.
The Frigate USS Miller (FF-1091) was later named for him. The planned aircraft carrier USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) is about to be.
Or is it?
CNN reports that three high-level sources inside the Trump orbit say that Trump wants that ship named for himself. Ominously, the ship’s name has recently been rebranded by its hull classification number CVN-81 only, and the name USS Miller has been scrubbed from the official record.
Of course that’s what Trump wants. Miller was a black man, and the draft-dodging, racist creep knows his bigoted base won’t begrudge him stealing the name of the new carrier from an African American for himself. As long as the hero it was named for wasn’t white.
I am tired of that child-raping, lying douchebag carving out stolen honours for himself. A White House ballroom for a man with no balls, an arch for an arch criminal, the Peace Prize for a piece of shit, the chiseller’s name chiselled into the Kennedy Centre — all that is bad enough.
But there is no place for a craven, whiny, tantrum-throwing man-child on the hull of an American aircraft carrier. None.
Nearly two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Doris Miller died in battle defending his country. He was 24. He was buried with full honours. A granite marker was dedicated to his life and heroism in his hometown of Waco, Texas.
Draft-dodging Trump and the monsters who serve him have earned no such dedications, no statues, no official praise, nothing but contempt — and prison. One day history will assign them the villainy they deserve, and their names will, like the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, forever live in infamy.
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[Greg Olear @gregolear]

Sigh.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Absolutely shameful comments from @SecDuffy. He has never served a day. The Canadians have been allies and sent their troops to Afghanistan to fight and die by our sides. While Sean Duffy was getting drunk on reality TV Canadian service members were in the fight with us. He owes them an apology but he’s too arrogant to ever feel shame.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

On 9/11, after US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge.
https://t.co/gw5avajjoe

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Yes -- if Lindsay is found "not guilty by reason of mental illness or mental defect," she would immediately return to a state-controlled psychiatric facility. A hearing would then be held within 40 days to evaluate her mental status; if deemed mentally ill, she would be confined for another six months. Hearings to renew her civil commitment would then be held once a year. To remain committed, a finding would only need be made that she is "mentally ill." Which means she could easily remain confined in perpetuity.

I know it's boring to read stuff, but you can find the relevant Massachusetts statute here: https://t.co/s6D9WoJthv

People act like Lindsay would prance right out of the courthouse and giddily proclaim "FREEDOM"! Which is just so stupid. (And anyway, she couldn't prance -- she's paralyzed from the waist down, if you weren't aware, because she jumped out of a friggin' window and shattered her lower spine.)

[Luis Margoles @LuisMargol]

@AmX_ZaxTr That's true -- no CEO on the planet has done this even once in the last, oh, let's say 80 years. #AdolfMadoff did it (at least) twice.

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

FBI files found on a document sharing website highlight contain “allegations of sexual abuse committed by Donald Trump” against a 13- to 15-year-old victim, according to a reportpublished Saturday.

New York-based writer Amy Gabrielle appeared to have uncovered an online archive containing some of the sought-after FBI files.

Jane Doe 4 was interviewed several times and thought to be credible. The DOJ claimed these notes were held back because they were duplicates when it appears they were not.

[Cucker Tarlson @sloppy_steaks]

*taps the sign*

[Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim]

Full version: "Trump's main advantage in conducting foreign policy is that he is liberated from taboos and willing to experiment, to find out just how much leverage the United States can bring to bear. But whatever benefit could hypothetically come from Trump's flexibility has been overwhelmed by his extreme deficit of strategic empathy. He simply seems unable to understand and accept how things look to other countries and what positions they can and cannot accept. He is obsessed with applying coercion, and sometimes flattery, to bend others to his will, but oblivious to their strategic goals and domestic politics. As a result, he keeps flailing and failing."

[Luis Margoles @LuisMargol]

Not all heroes wear capes, but these folks absolutely deserve to.

[Benn Jordan @bennjordan]

Flock takes their privacy very seriously.

But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.

Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.

[Luis Margoles @LuisMargol]

"You are disgusting human beings. You should be ashamed of yourselves."

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

These women are American heroes and constitutionally righteous.

They exposed plainclothes ICE agents, condemned their actions, filmed them, and followed them into the parking lot. All 100% legal.

PAXIS confirms that criticizing government agents is not obstruction. Recording them is not a crime. Peaceful protest does not become illegal because agents find it uncomfortable, or because crying babies on the internet don’t like it.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY helps immigrants and allies understand their rights, record safely, preserve evidence, and hold government agents accountable.

PAXIS is free. Help keep it that way: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

Know your rights. Record safely. Demand names, badges, warrants, reports, and accountability.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

"For instance, with Leslie Wexner; he's the billionaire who resides in Ohio...Pam Bondi, when I pointed out to her that she had redacted his name from the files she said, 'Well his name appears thousands of times in the files,' I said yes...but in the ONE instance, where it appears in an FBI document, listing him as a CO-CONSPIRATOR IN A CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING RING...HIS NAME HAS BEEN REDACTED; in the only ONE place where it implicates him...you REDACTED IT."

Thomas Massie, speaking to Tucker Carlson, on Tucker's Podcast.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

It’s socialism unless Trump does it; it’s a forever war unless Trump does it; it’s an Epstein cover-up unless Trump does it; it’s a RINO selling out pro-lifers unless Trump does it; it’s appeasing America’s enemies unless Trump does it; it’s putting other countries’ interests ahead of America’s unless Trump does it; it’s exploding the national debt unless Trump does it; it’s abusing office to enrich one’s family unless Trump does it; it’s dangerously inflammatory speech unless Trump does it; it’s an attack on the free press unless Trump does it; it’s lawfare unless Trump does it; it’s a threat to the constitution unless Trump does it; it’s a sure sign of senility unless Trump does it; it’s blasphemy unless Trump does it; it's manifestly incompetent governing unless Trump does it (in which case it was vandals, or Biden's or Obama's fault); it's shameless partisan hackery unless Trump's followers do it; it's… and it’s TDS and fake news if you call attention to this daily gaslighting.

If even now you somehow still don't see that this is a deranged and utterly unprincipled personality cult, that's because you're part of it.

[Luis Margoles @LuisMargol]

@SenatorCollins Re-elect Maine's eternally furrowed brow!

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The face of the GOP is Max Miller.
The message of the GOP, per John Cornyn, is: “There’s nothing we can do to rein in the president.”
The rationalization of the GOP, per Bill Cassidy, is: "He'd only appoint someone worse."
The mantra of the GOP, is: money, corruption, pardon.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This guy built a squirrel city with over 1,000 homes, complete with cameras to capture what they get up to

including hugging and “kissing” their loved ones in the privacy of their own homes.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💯💯💯🎯🎯

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

🚨 Brevard County’s 2025 Deputy of the Year, Michael Fultz, has resigned from the sheriff’s office after images of him placing a gun in his ex-girlfriend’s mouth, pointing it at the back of her head, and appearing to perform a “Nazi salute” have surfaced.

They hire the best 💩