“Freedom”.
Freedom to be incapacitated by illness when they are needed to defend their country, their units and their own lives.
Are they going to also abolish the deployment requirements for Anthrax, Yellow fever, Typhoid Fever, Hep A & B… etc etc??
If you watch anything today, make it be this clip of @bencollins.bsky.social talking about what real strength is:
A rather menacing tweet from Russia's Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna.
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
More serious thoughts on this in this thread
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I am proud that Democracy Docket was among the few news outlets covering these critical meetings.
Here are four big takeaways you need to know. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/4-b...
The Alt-text! 🤣
It’s absolutely outrageous that U.S. journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been jailed in Kuwait for six weeks for reposting publicly available, verifiable information.
The @state-department.bsky.social should leave no stone unturned until he is safely back home.
#FreeAhmed
3/ ...by engaging in vile antisemitism, harassment, or other illegal behavior.”
For co-signing an OpEd that broke no law
This - from a regime making up laws, 'values' and whether or not the First Amendment applies based on who's speaking & has a big chunk of its base that's rife with antisemitism.
2/ “Rümeysa Öztürk chose not to abide by those simple conditions, and as a result left the United States — something the Administration sought to accomplish from the beginning... We will continue to seek the deportation of any foreign student who abuses their opportunity to study in America...
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🧵 1/ And even getting their way, the regime doubles down on anti-constitution, anti-1A authoritarianism. DOJ:
“attending elite colleges and universities in the United States is a privilege afforded to foreign students who respect our values and follow our laws.”
Keep your eyes on the ball, America, even as they try to hide it.
It’ll be coming around later, aimed squarely at your head.
This is inexcusable - a result of this regime’s incompetent civilian leaders, like Hegseth. They’ve either fired everyone who knew how to do supply logistics or they overruled the advice of whomever was left. The service members get this, while Trump gets McDonalds Door-Dashed to the White House.
Your Daily Reminder that No one has Ever been held accountable for #TrumpEpsteinFiles and We Won’t Let This Go 🤷🏽♀️
Where are the reports? They’re all in your little pickled brain.
This is inexcusable - a result of this regime’s incompetent civilian leaders, like Hegseth. They’ve either fired everyone who knew how to do supply logistics or they overruled the advice of whomever was left. The service members get this, while Trump gets McDonalds Door-Dashed to the White House.
NEW: 14 months after @wired.com's @telliotter.bsky.social first revealed the young technologists of DOGE, the impacts of this "chaotic" Musk-inspired effort continue to reverberate across the US government. Tori reports: www.wired.com/story/where-...
Thrice married Paula White blowing into the microphone with her magic powers. Comedy gold.
SENIOR ISRAELI OFFICIAL: TRUMP PUSHED THIS CEASEFIRE THROUGH - AXIOS REPORTER
Israel cabinet has not held a vote on the ceasefire at all - I24 News
No! I’m shocked.
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
-- Abraham Lincoln, who died #OTD 1865
On this day, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.
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This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.
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👍 100% Besides the prices (bad enough)…. A caviar burger?? FFS
“$649 to get in, $20 for a beer, $17 for coffee and $150 for a caviar burger.”
