The Army is the Republican party's Army.
The Marines are the Republican party's Marines.
The Navy is the Republican party's Navy.
They don't defend us. They defend billionaires and scum like ICE.
They are traitors to America.
They have proved that they are partisan.
What will the Air Force do to top them? SHOOT US? BOMB US? STRAFE OUR HOMES? ATTACK US WITH DRONES? WILL THAT PLEASE YOUR DICTATOR?
Friday, June 6, 2025
Russian weapons plant hit by drones in Tambov Oblast, media reports attacks across country — Ukraine strikes Russian missile base in Bryansk Oblast, damages Iskander launchers — Russia’s Engels oil refinery ablaze after reported drone attack in Saratov Oblast — [vlog/video] Without justice, war will come back, veteran reporter says … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/friday-june-6-2025/
The latest apparent political installation in the #intelligence community #InspectorGeneral’s office comes amid broader concerns about the #independence of government watchdogs. #Trump purged most inspectors general at Cabinet-level agencies in January, & in recent weeks has nominated 6 new inspectors general, including 3 with clearly #partisan backgrounds.
❝#US 
to sell more #arms to #Taiwan 
: source❞
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“We’re messaging pretty hard [in Taipei] to the #opposition. Don’t get in the way of this. This isn’t a Taiwanese #partisan question. This is a Taiwanese #survival question,” one of the officials said.
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https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/05/31/2003837800
#美國
#武器
#台灣
#在野黨
#KMT
#國民黨
#TPP
#民眾黨
#黨派
#生存
If an independent #agency doesn't immediately buckle to the dictates of those in #power, then it is clearly *too* independent.
But, then, #partisan hacks and #autocrats always hate independence. #GAO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/gop-declares-war-on-gao-00369762
If in #America
there will be anti-#fascist #partisan #resistance
and the #dictatorship will be ended
remember
the first head on the pike to be displayed to the 'We the People"
must be that of #Stephen #Miller
(#Trump doesn't count for anything)
all the worst most cruel and extremist legislation come from
that Miller psychopathic piece of asocial shit .
Pro-Ukraine partisans #sabotage railway
#Ukraine's Atesh #partisan group set fire to relay cabinet at Russian railway track used by the #Russian #military
Operation was carried out in Russia’s #Smolensk Oblast, bordering #Belarus, to disrupt arms, equipment shipments to Russian forces
“Thanks for the courageous steps by our partisans, Russia faced serious disruption in timely deliveries of front-line supplies,” #Atesh said
https://kyivindependent.com/pro-ukraine-partisans-sabotage-railway-track-in-russias-smolensk-oblast/
How #Misinformation and #Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a #California Town
Residents of #Oakdale , Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/technology/news-misinformation-facebook-oakdale.html
The #Trump admin has handpicked which #news #media outlets can participate in the presidential #PressPool, & on Tues it eliminated a slot reserved for reporters from independent newswires.
In the briefing room, ofcls have made room for a new cohort of more #partisan attendees, like #RightWing podcasters, who ask less-adversarial questions than traditional #journalists.…
#FourthEstate #journalism #democracy #FreePress #propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/15/us/trump-white-house-briefing-room-new-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.AE8.4daW.lnrzNSfj8uO4&smid=url-share
The cases before #SCOTUS involve Gwynne Wilcox of the National #Labor Relation Board #NLRB, which oversees laws protecting #workers’ rights, & Cathy A. Harris of the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, which protects federal govt workers from #partisan practices — as well as a 90-year-old court #precedent the #Trump admin is seeking to overturn.
Powerful and sad — "... a story about America, this vast country that has the word 'united' in its name. 'E pluribus unum' – out of many, one – is the principle that formed this nation. But today, the U.S. is a divided country, completely at odds on fundamental issues. A place where the president and his supporters are in a hostile faceoff against those who did not vote for him. Where vengeance has been prioritized over cooperation."
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trumps-america-a-family-rent-asunder-a-f49420e1-8404-4c0d-80af-457218e818c0#ref=rss
#partisan #US #UnitedStates #USpol
Atesh partisans sabotage railway line in Russia’s Smolensk Oblast
#Atesh #partisan group #sabotaged #railway line in #Russia's #Smolensk Oblast, disrupting the transport of #military #cargo toward #Bryansk & #Kursk Oblast
A transformer cabinet on the railway was destroyed , causing logistical delays for front line Russian forces
“We will keep striking targets in Russia and passing intelligence to the Ukrainian Defense Forces”
"Become a partisan, not partisan. The noun, not the adjective."
#JoanMastodon #TTJ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_(military)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtil,_di_nakht_iz_oysgeshternt
"Still the night and full of starlight,
And the frost burned on the land;
Do you still remember how I taught you
To hold a revolver in your hand?
A girl. a sheepskin and a beret.
In her hands she holds a gun,
A girl with her face as smooth as velvet
Keeps watch of the enemy’s caravan.
An aim, a shot right on the target,
Her small pistol had reached its mark,
An auto filled high with ammunition
Her shot had stopped it in the dark.
At dawn she crept out of the woodland,
With snowy garlands in her hair.
Encouraged by her little victory
For our future freer heirs."
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/1442/
“It would be ironic, to say the least, & inimical to the ends furthered by the #statute if the #SpecialCounsel himself could be chilled in his work by fear of arbitrary or #partisan removal,” the judge added.
Dellinger said in an emailed statement that he was grateful to see the court “confirm the importance & legality of the job protections #Congress afforded my position.”
Science must remain free from political control.Russians Are Massively Destroying Their Vehicles Near Pokrovsk
https://charter97.org/en/news/2025/2/16/630005/
#charter97org
#WarOfAggression #Europa
#Ukraine #Armee #Pokrovsk
#Frontline #war #Russia #Ukraine
#WarCriminal #Atesh #partisan
#occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни
"These #partisan #witchhunts and #firings need to stop. Congress creates independent agencies and insulates #civilservants from partisan firings for a reason.
If this week’s actions become the new normal—and #partisanship becomes the only criteria for holding a position in a #federalagency—then our financial markets will be more volatile, our consumer products more hazardous, our skies more dangerous, and our civil liberties and constitutional rights less secure."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/06/trump-oversight-board-firing-security
#Instagram et #Facebook ont été pris en flagrant #délit de #suppression de liens menant vers leur concurrent #Pixelfed
Ceci est donc un #appel #partisan #massif à l'utilisation de #Pixelfed en lieu et place d' #Instagram et #Facebook, et même de #TikTok
@finkd @elonmusk
On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.
Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.
We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender.
Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.
The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.
Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.
Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.
“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.
But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.
Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.
In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.
