Doug Linney @DougLInney

Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them...

Other countries might be defined by blood, territory or language. America has always been creedal, an ideal of liberty turned into a state. Its critics back-handedly recognise as much. The reason that anti-Americanism is a force in world affairs (unlike anti-Algerianism or anti-Armenianism or anti-Albanianism) is that America’s enemies acknowledge that it stands for something. That something is the package represented by personal autonomy, limited government, constitutional rule, regular elections and private enterprise – in a word, freedom. A bias towards freedom has, until now, characterised US foreign policy. A people habituated to liberty immediately saw what was wrong with Nazism and Communism. Which is why current US foreign policy is so shocking to pro-Americans. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is one of those rare occasions when we can clearly identify the aggressor. Vladimir Putin sought to annex a neighbour that offered him no threat – a neighbour that had given up its nuclear weapons in return for a promise that its sovereignty would be respected within its existing borders. Who guaranteed that promise? Britain, the United States and (never forget) Russia. Donald Trump is backing a belligerent dictatorship against a beleaguered democracy. Putin is the one leader he never disparages. He threatens annexation against Denmark, muses about handing away British territory, wages economic war on Canada. But not Russia. Never Russia. Now Trump is buying diesel from Russia, potash from Belarus, minerals from China – all because he doesn’t want to buy them from Canada, which has stood at America’s side in war after war. American friends, can you not see what this is doing, not just to America’s standing, but to the free world which your fathers have built since 1941? Trump is bringing down the international system from which the US has been the chief beneficiary. And for what? To drink liberal tears? God help us.

Last month, a bipartisan group of Senators struck an ill-conceived "deal" to give Trump extra tariff power in legislation that was sold as a bill to sanction Russia over its brutal war on Ukraine. Like most things that come out of the Senate, it was built on a jam-the-House strategy designed to prevent any changes. Some of us rejected this terrible deal, warning that Trump would never crack down on Russia and that this would just be a naked giveaway of more tariff power for Trump to abuse. Sorry to say we told you so, but Jeeze Senators, how can such smart people be so goddamned gullible? Fresh from this experience, we'll soon consider the latest jam-the-House special: the bipartisan "deal" between Senators and Trump on permitting reform. Let's do better. nytimes.com/2026/10/10/wor…

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

The President of the United States has announced, with obvious pride, that he phoned Vladimir Putin and asked him for fuel. He calls it a great success. It is the richest country on earth going cap in hand to the man who bombs Ukrainian cities every night, because diesel became expensive before an election. For four years Europe paid more for its energy, housed millions of refugees and emptied its arsenals so that Putin would not be rewarded. Washington has now concluded that all of it matters less than a cheaper tank for a truck in Ohio, and has told Ukraine to stop hitting the refineries that pay for the war. This used to be the country others measured themselves against. Its remaining admirers are in Moscow and Pyongyang, and it has become exactly the kind of shithole it used to sneer at.

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society. We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

6 days ago

Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

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This literally makes me want to throw up. Hegseth is from the Dark Ages.

Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson

6 days ago

Never in history has normalizing public executions been a good sign for a republic. We are in deep, deep trouble.

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I wrote my book No Prophets to educate and raise awareness about a very real and growing threat to our democracy: Christian nationalism. In the six weeks since the book's release, I have been across the country speaking with thousands of Americans of all faith perspectives about how to stop this dangerous movement. Our founders were very clear in drawing a line of separation between church and state - a critical firewall against religious tyranny that Christian nationalists seek to destroy. It's not just the high profile power players like Mike Johnson and Pete Hegseth. Christian nationalist extremists are entrenched at the highest levels of government, as I reveal in the book. The good news is, come this November, there is something we can do about it: exercise our right to vote and elect a Congress that will stand up to these fanatics and their theocratic agenda.

We need to be ready for whatever comes down. Meanwhile we need to win it big time

kyama @kyamawebb23

a week ago

Here's what's going to happen. Trump loses the midterms. He declares massive voting fraud, calls supporters to attack immediately. GOP refuses to accept results. FBI seizes ballots and voting machines within days. Results stall for weeks. Republican officials cancel results in

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This is what we have allowed our country to become, America. Don't look away, VOTE against Republicans on November 3, 2026. vote.org

Pete Hegseth’s conception of religious freedom seems to begin and end with his own Christian Nationalist worldview. Now he’s creating an Office of Religious Affairs that reports directly to him, giving him even more power to inject his personal religious beliefs into the Pentagon. Hegseth seems determined to drag us down his dystopic road to Gilead, but the Pentagon is not his pulpit and our servicemembers are not his congregation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

2 weeks ago

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"

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This is after he took Obama and Biden’s pictures down.

Jacqueline Alemany @JaxAlemany

2 weeks ago

White House's Palm Room doors now lined with photos of Trump standing alongside Putin & Xi:

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If "communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history" and he wants to root it out of America, then why is he hanging pictures of communist authoritarians in gilded frames in the White House?

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Testosterone testing and the armor of God. What could go wrong?

Acyn @Acyn

2 weeks ago

Hegseth: We’re placing spiritual health at the same level as physical health. Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God. Because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual. God is good. Evil is not. And America's military must

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While I can’t muster any sympathy for their “leopards ate my face” routine, I will nonetheless welcome their voice in calling for the end of lawless ICE crackdowns

Texas Cattle Feeders Association @txcattlefeeders

3 weeks ago

A joint statement from Texas Cattle Feeders Association, Kansas Livestock Association and Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association regarding the ongoing ICE operations in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas: “The Kansas Livestock Association, Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association and Texas Cattle

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An American hero. Please retweet if you agree

A Ruling That Can Only Be Described as Pure Evil On Tuesday, in an unsigned emergency order that reads like a permission slip for suffering, the far-right Roberts Supreme Court cleared the way for third-country deportations. Immigrants can now be dumped in countries they have never lived in — places the U.S. itself has accused of torture and abuse — without a real chance to object. The order lets the sadistic authoritarian Trump administration restart its Nazi-inspired rapid-removal machine: people shipped to Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, and other dumping grounds, often with little notice and no meaningful hearing. The destination is not their home. The risk is persecution, torture, and death. The Court did not bother to explain itself. The three liberal justices dissented. This is not a technical stay. It is a green light for a policy whose whole design is to terrorize people by sending them somewhere worse than the place they fled. If cruelty were not the point, they would not need the midnight order.

@RpsAgainstTrump Yeah this guy is the expert on what passes for intelligence.

@EdKrassen Guess who’s coming to the next state dinner?