Originally published at: Pentagon Purges Will Continue Until Morale Approves
Black and Female Officers Targeted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the elevation of seven Army officers to the rank of two-star general, the NYT reports, as part of his ongoing mission to destroy the military’s merit-based promotion system and replace it with a politicized system based on personal loyalty and fealty to MAGA ideology:…
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Morning!
Another thing that is definitely not Trump’s fault.
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Everyone else sees Lake Ontario with its “original name”. It is its name. It doesn’t have a ‘new’ name.
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The fuckwits running our government.
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Is there a typo in the headline? Don’t you mean “until morale improves”? The use of “Approves” feels like a typo to me. Or maybe I just don’t understand the reference.
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Looks like a typo to me.
Welcome to the comment threads!
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“Legacy impacts that do not reverse with temperature—continued sea-level rise, species extinctions, ecosystem regime shifts, permafrost carbon feedbacks and the displacement of communities—mean the post-peak stage inherits the full burden of what preceded it.”
Our posterity will have every right to utterly loathe us. We knew and we failed to work collectively to prevent the damage, and only time will tell if we can prevent the worst of the worst outcomes. Meanwhile, we’re still under the thumb of more-or-less naked fossil fuel fascism.
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It’s their way.
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Quote of the Day
“It’s been a year of murders. The Trump administration has normalized murder. It’s absolutely criminal.”—an unidentified defense official, on the one-year anniversary of the start of the lawless high seas campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats that has killed 227 civilians in 65 attacks
In my opinion, this quote is worth reading again.
It’s sick. What Trump is doing is sick.
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I have always maintained there are a lot of stupid people in this country. A lot, but I am surprised at the concentration of stupid and venal in the Trump administration. Talk about “not too bright”. Like nothing I’ve seen before. Fuckwits is the word.
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The Financial Times has an exclusive story about Russia assisting Iran with developing supersonic cruise missiles, yet we insisted on welcoming the Russians to the G20 summit in North Carolina. It’s like if FDR invited Hitler to Warm Springs in 1942 and complained that Churchill was wrecking the shipping industry by wasting too many liberty ships.
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This was mentioned on Morning Joe this morning as well as the rest of the G20 being pissed off that Trump invited Russia.
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Seen on Bluesky
If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas.
~ Bill McKibben
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Everybody hates Americans now…Thai cops are locking up the sex workers ahead of the Abe Lincoln visit.
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I was hoping the culture at Apple might change after Tim Apple departed. He morphed from a man who squeezed suppliers to a Drumpf sycophant all in the name of making more money. Just another soulless millionaire it turns out.
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I guess that’s another thing we can’t let happen.
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Old enough to remember when Trump promised to solve this war on day 1. And isn’t there another war you’re forgetting there, Scotty?
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Time for a sing-a-long (vid)!
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One might begin to think that Hegseth is an ignorant bigot, but that would be pure speculation. Every single member of this “administration” is either unqualified or a complete idiot. Starting at the top…the fish does rot from the head. 86 47
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