This is something I’ve been wondering about too. Crowd sourcing a question about Mike Pompeo’s service record. Appears he served 1985-1991 in Army after graduating #1 at West Point. Why resign at start or in middle of Gulf War and how common for WP top grad to leave only as Capt after 5 years? — …
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Open Thread: Motivation
Elizabeth Warren on how she stays motivated in the fight against the Trump administration “Whenever I feel tired or I think I've done enough, I’ll close my eyes and I will see Donald Trump getting sworn in to office and I'm BACK! Let’s FIGHT! Let’s GO!” pic.twitter.com/EHHL6Psm8u — ??????? ???????? ⚡️ (@Patrickesque) April 14, 2019 …
Our Long National Nightmare is Over! Now Go Outside and Play!
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1117401998247301126 Also, Jared Kushner can’t text with Muhamed bin Salman in violation of the National Records Act until this service outage ends. Open thread.
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Hey @aravosis! Check This Out!
Earlier today John Aravosis decided to rightly tear the bark off of Waleed Shahid: https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1117119802399756289 https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1117120439992639496 https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1117122974090440706 Since I don’t tweet, I thought I’d link to and reprise some of my takedown of Shaheed’s attempt to misrepresent Senator Feinstein’s actions back in February, which was fresh on the heels of his attempt to do the …
The Assassination of Congresswoman Omar Has Already Been Planned, Many Times Over, and One of The White Christian Men Who Have Planned Her Assassination Will Carry It Out
I wish that headline was hyperbole, but it isn’t. And I wish I didn’t have to write it, but somebody does. And I want to make it clear that it is unacceptable that there are several men, all of them white, who self describe themselves as “patriots” and good “Christians”, and unfortunately, probably a few …
Friday Night Open Thread: Dystopias, All the Way Down
We’re a kakistocracy now: Can we all just appreciate for a moment that the older sister of the sitting President of the United States just retired so as to avoid an inquiry into a decades-long tax fraud scheme she participated in *with the President* (who is still in office) https://t.co/0BCKPw0ZNF — Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April …
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The War on Blue America
The story about Trump’s proposed immigrant-dumping in so-called “sanctuary cities” broke last night. Unless a rogue drone snatches the clump of hair off Trump’s noggin, or Javanka are exposed as masterminds of a global kitten-pelt purveying ring, or “acting” WH Chief of Staff Mulvaney discards his skin suit to reveal himself as a razor-toothed alien …