People ask if Pete Hegseth just quoted Quentin Tarantino's version of Bible Viewers noticed familiar "Pulp Fiction" language in a prayer Pete Hegseth recited at the Pentagon, which he said is a tradition.

One embarrassment after another…

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Looky at what I encountered on Llano Avenue in the Lower Greenville area of East Dallas: The Confederate Stars and Bars fluttering alongside Old Glory. I’m sure it’s a mere expression of history and culture, nothing at all to do with racism and white supremacy. 🤔
#Texas

In 1990, a bipartisan Congress passed historic bills. Then it cracked apart. 36 years ago, a Republican president and Democratic lawmakers produced monumental laws. Now, a broken Congress has enabled Trump to undo key parts of that legacy.

Excellent article. Reminds me of why I’m so proud to have worked for the good President Bush.

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Trump signs a new executive order on voting. Experts say he lacks the authority Trump's executive order seeks to create lists of U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in each state and instruct the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to verified voters.

Executive order, my ass. Let's call it what really is: a diktat, the definition of which is a decree imposed by someone in power without popular consent. It's un-American and shouldn't be tolerated. Impeach and remove him.

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Interesting how the Virginia flag has become a symbol of the resistance to MAGA. This was Dallas on Saturday. Sic semper tyrannis, y’all!

#NoKingsDay

Opinion | Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran

I agree with this former Marine officer.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

Opinion | Start a Band, Even if You’re Terrible

As a former band guy, I say: Great essay!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

#Dallas #NoKingsDay

They misspelled editorial writer

U.N. Says It’s in Danger of Financial Collapse Because of Unpaid Dues

USA = nihilist, deadbeat.

Pay back dues. Now.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

No institution is perfect. In quitting, in abandoning efforts to build a more perfect WHO, the United States is making Americans and the world less safe. I pray that a future government will correct this heinous error.

During my seven years with the body in Geneva, Washington and the Western Pacific, I witnessed the good that it accomplishes for humankind. I am enormously proud of that service.

Under President Trump and the Republican Congress, the USA is sealing itself off from the world brick by brick by brick. Its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, the global public health arm of the United Nations, is particularly foolish and shortsighted.

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Yes, It’s Fascism Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

Recommended

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Is Trump saying that he’s going to introduce penguins to #Greenland after he takes over?

What an embarrassment

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

Listen to Applebaum.

At long last, Congress must do its duty. Now.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.

Listen to Nichols.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Pentagon Tells 1,500 Troops to Prepare for Possible Deployment to Minnesota

Is their real destination Greenland? Actually, these troops shouldn’t be sent to Minnesota or Greenland!

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

I never thought that this old cartoon from Russia’s war against Ukraine could be applied to the USA… 😢

#Greenland

Opinion | Something Is Rotten in the State of America

Something Is Rotten in the State of America www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

Border Patrol's use of deadly force criticized in report An independent review of U.S. Border Patrol shootings criticizes the agency for 'lack of diligence' in its investigations and suggests that agents' tactics sometimes create a pretext to open fire.

In certain law enforcement circles, deliberately stepping in the path of cars to justify shooting at the drivers is apparently a longstanding thing.

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Europe should prepare for Greenland’s annexation and end of NATO: Experts US and Russian ideologies would be in alignment, leaving Europe as an island of liberalism, according to analysts.

Yes, a US invasion of Greenland would mean the end of NATO. But what would really bother Americans would be the likely end of visa-free travel to Europe. Their privileged access revoked, Americans would have to apply to enter. I can already hear the caterwauling.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People

Latin America already trades more with Europe than it does with the USA. Same with China.

By what logic then does Trump claim it as a USA zone of influence?

Fearless prediction: Most of Latin America will successfully resist Trump’s attempts to dominate.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It is.

Agree.

Trump’s Venezuela move pushes the limits of ‘America First’ Once a critic of entanglements abroad, Trump now appears willing to embrace regime change as a tool of American influence, risking a backlash from his MAGA base.

Don’t they know? America First means whatever the f*ck Trump says it means.

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