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OBEY NO ILLEGAL ORDERS
Here for the #Cats | I swore an oath to the Constitution. Full Stop.

"I once thought opportunities were ever arising, but now, older, I realize how thinly the door to destiny opens, how quickly it shuts." -- Every Rising Sun
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concerning the spineless Jim "Gym" Jordan holding hearings about why the January 6th INSURRECTION investigation included (tiny) subpoenas of certain political figures' phone records: Smith told the committee that the phone records “were lawfully subpoenaed and were relevant to complete a comprehensive” investigation. He continued: “January 6 was an attack on the structure of our democracy in which over 100 heroic law enforcement officers were assaulted. Over 160 individuals later pled guilty to assaulting police officers that day. Exploiting that violence, President Trump and his associates tried to call Members of Congress in furtherance of their criminal scheme, urging them to further delay certification of the 2020 election.” “I didn’t choose those Members,” Smith said, “President Trump did.”
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Not just *any* BULLSH*T but the "We Don't Care About ANYTHING other than LINING OUR POCKETS ReTHUGlican BULLSHIT"
About Mike Johnson saying the ReTHUGlicans were trying to find a solution to their heartless killing of ACA subsidies, while LINING the POCKETS OF THE RICH at a pace of a least 10X what ACA subsidies cost to protect MILLIONS of Americans... Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) told reporters "This is absolute bullsh*t." F#CK the RETHUGLICANS ... VOTE THEM ALL OUT. HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE. SEND HAGUESETH AND DONNIE AND THE DOOKIE SATAN TO JAIL.
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1...
“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve got to want it bad, ‘cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say: You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as a land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now, show me that. Defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-15-2025
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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No 💩💩💩 Sherlock... ReTHUGlican ASSHOLES $350 B vs $4 TRILLION.... to protect millions versus thousands....
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-11-2025 Jake Sherman, John Bresnahan, and Laura Weiss of Punchbowl News reported today that Johnson has said he will keep the fight over healthcare going into next year. They note that no Republican “thinks it’s a good idea for the [Republicans] to be talking about health care—their worst issue—during an election year.” Democrats are likely to emphasize that the cost for extending the ACA premium tax credits—which benefit everyday Americans and which the Republicans did not extend in their One Big Beautiful Bill Act—would be about $350 billion over ten years. The cost for extending the 2017 tax cuts, which overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy and corporations and which they did extend, will be more than $4 trillion over the same time period.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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An "administration" (TURD REICH) full of INCOMPETENT TWATS -- It's TWATS ALL THE WAY UP THE PYRAMID
Sheer incompetence all the way up the ladder... Trump’s defense secretary, already in trouble for sharing classified information about a strike on Yemen’s Houthis over a non-secure messaging app on which a reporter had been included, is tangled up in a war crime. Today, libertarian conservative writer George Will noted in the Washington Post: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.” Will went on to refer to the Trump administration as a “moral slum.”
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Jail Miller! No, DEPORT him. Jail Hegseth! Jail the Orange Clown.
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees have announced they intend to conduct “vigorous oversight” and “gather a full accounting” of the operation. The two committees referred to the Department of Defense by that name, rather than by the “Department of War” rebrand Hegseth and Trump have pushed. Today former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously “considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both,” and called for “anyone who issues or follows such orders [to] be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.” The Former JAGs Working Group organized in February 2025 after Hegseth purged JAGs from the Army and Air Force and systematically dismantled the military’s legal guardrails. “Had those guardrails been in place,” they wrote, “we are confident they would have prevented these crimes.” JAIL SATAN (STEPHEN MILLER). JAIL THE DRUNK (HEGSETH) JAIL THE PEDO-IN-CHIEF.
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2... THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember. [...] In 1861, Americans went to war to keep a cabal from taking control of the government and turning it into an oligarchy. The fight against that rebellion seemed at first to be too much for the nation to survive. But Americans rallied and threw their hearts into the cause on the battlefields even as they continued to work on the home front for a government that defended democracy and equality before the law. And in 1865, at least, they won. Happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Again, F#ck the Orange Clown and his incompetent drunk Master of Warz..
Attacking Kelly appeals to Trump’s base, but it was impetuous. As law professor John Pfaff noted: “There’s clearly no adult in the room to say ‘wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran [for office] after his wife was a victim of political violence.’” On social media, a post circulated showing a picture of Kelly in his dress uniform juxtaposed with a photograph of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth guzzling from a bottle; the caption compared Kelly’s “shirt covered with medals” with Hegseth’s “shirt covered with booze.” Kelly punched back. He posted on Facebook: “When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired—which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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No EFFING Kings!!! F$ck the 🍊🤡 F#ck the Drunken Sociopath Hegseth too.
After the judge’s decision, Comey posted a video saying that while the case mattered to him personally, “it matters most because a message has to be sent that the president of the United States cannot use the Department of Justice to target his political enemies. I don’t care what your politics are. You have to see that as fundamentally un-American and a threat to the rule of law that keeps all of us free.” He called for Americans to “stand up and show the fools who would frighten us, who would divide us, that we’re made of stronger stuff, that we believe in the rule of law, that we believe in the importance of doing things by the law.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...and they didn't even have to try hard to play the seditious traitor to look like a fool... he does it to himself EVERY EFFING DAY.
[concerning the Ukraine/Russia "peace plan" that was WRITTEN BY THE RUSSIANS] Former Senate majority leader Mich McConnell (R-KY) said "Putin has spent the entire year trying to play president t***p for a fool. Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America's interests."
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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DISOBEY ILLEGAL ORDERS (see ALT TEXT)

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U.S. service members take an oath to uphold the Constitution. In addition, under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the U.S. Manual for Courts-Martial, service members must obey lawful orders and disobey unlawful orders. Unlawful orders are those that clearly violate the U.S. Constitution, international human rights standards or the Geneva Conventions. Service members who follow an illegal order can be held liable and court-martialed or subject to prosecution by international tribunals. Following orders from a superior is no defense.
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY 🍊🤡
RICO !!! RICO !!! RICO !!!
Trump’s attempts to distance himself from the horrors around Epstein will not be made easier by news reported yesterday by Robert Faturechi and Avi Asher-Schapiro of ProPublica that the Trump White House intervened to make Customs and Border Protection return the electronic devices they seized from accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan when they arrived in Florida earlier this year. The two have been accused of sex trafficking in Romania and the U.K.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...
“Anytime you’re feeling embarrassed, remember that Clay Higgins woke up this morning to the realization he was the only one in the whole *ss Congress who voted to defend pedophiles.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1... See ALT TEXT for full text of the address...
From the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text Gettysburg Address Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa. Nov. 19th 1863. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Many thanks to HCR for the reminder... See ALT TEXT here and in reply post for text of The Gettysburg Address...
Many thanks to Heather Cox Richardson for reminding us... https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2025 “It is for us the living,” Lincoln said, “to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.” He urged the men and women in the audience to “take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion” and to vow that “these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Now with ALT TEXT
First Panel: Wife: I'm reading a book about a great Viking warrior who sails the seas and raids castles! -- Me: That's ME!!! Second panel: Wife: Yes, if you were six feet five with the body of Thor and the handsomeness of the god Baldur! https://comicskingdom.com/hagar-the-horrible/2025-11-18
November 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Yes, because why would those unethical SOBs actually pay for any of the services we THOUGHT our insurance would cover?
First panel: It's that time when we sign up for our new HEALTH CARE PLAN for next year. Second panel:The BAD news: It doesn't pay for Doctor Visits, Hospitals, Procedures or Medicine. Last Panel: What DOES it pay for? CEO Bonuses. Unethical Sons of Bitches. THey should remember that most of us who have 401Ks and other investments are ALSO invested in their shitty-service companies, as well as PAYING CUSTOMERS. Ass Hats.
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Fire Herr Furor to the moon! Fire #BONDI. Just #FIREHER For her, Transparency means that Clearly SHE LIES
To Pam Bondi, "transparency" apparently means "clearly, she lies." Although the attorney general is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer and is supposed to be nonpartisan in protecting the rule of law, Bondi responded that the Department of Justice “will pursue this with urgency and integrity.”
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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It would be a good start. First the insurance bros. Then the tech bros. Then the "financiers." Then the legislators whose pockets were all lined with money by the others.
November 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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That is an affront to chickens who still have their heads or brains. #TheOppositeOfPROGRESS
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Down with the #TURD #REICH put 'em all in JAIL.
Today, former U.S. district judge Mark L. Wolf, who was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by President Ronald Reagan, explained that he resigned on Friday because he wanted the freedom to do “everything in my power to combat today’s existential threat to democracy and the rule of law.” Wolf called out Trump’s use of the Department of Justice to hurt his political opponents, his firing of inspectors general, the administration’s pay-to-play policies in which wealthy donors get government favors, the corruption of cryptocurrency, unconstitutional executive orders, and the threats against judges as Trump attacks the rule of law. “I resigned in order to speak out, support litigation, and work with other individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting the rule of law and American democracy,” Wolf wrote. “I also intend to advocate for the judges who cannot speak publicly for themselves.” Because Wolf took senior status in 2013 and his successor was appointed then, his resignation will not create a vacancy for Trump to fill.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Leave the "Intergalacti Freak Show" where #ReTHUGlicans are being held hostage to the #TURD #REICH --- Set your selves free and jail the 🍊🤡 and the band of #INCOMPETENTS
Today, on the floor of the Senate, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of the expiring premium tax credits and the establishment of a bipartisan committee to figure out how to revise the tax credits so they could continue past next year’s open enrollment period. This would have answered the short-term problems of the increasingly painful government shutdown and skyrocketing premiums and left the question of extending the premium tax credits to voters next year. If Republicans took the deal, the Democrats could claim they had negotiated an end to the shutdown that put into place the popular extensions of the premium tax credits and that called for next year’s midterm voters to decide if they wanted them extended further. But if Republicans rejected it, Democrats would be in the position of having offered a reasonable—even a popular—deal that Republicans refused because Trump insisted they must not negotiate. Such an outcome would make the Republicans own the ongoing shutdown. Republicans rejected the offer outright. Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) called it a “nonstarter” that “doesn’t even get close, and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called it “political terrorism.” The rejection put the Republicans in the awkward position of rejecting the reopening of the government because they are determined to kill a measure that is popular with three-quarters of the American people. After a closed-door Republican conference meeting, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters: “What we have here is an intergalactic freak show."
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5...
“And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do.” https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-5-2025
November 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Today, #HERRDRUMPH would lose if he had run for the county line. Maybe he should run for the border. #TEARDOWN the #TURD #REICH
Tonight, legal scholar John Pfaff wrote: “Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held [Republican] dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three [Republican] Uber drivers. Just everything.” [...] today voters resoundingly rejected Trump and Trumpism, and tomorrow, politics will be a whole different game.
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM