[The Presidential Medal of Freedom is] the highest award you can get as a civilian. It’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor. But [the] civilian version, it’s actually much better because everyone [who] gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they’re soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets or they’re dead.”
~ trump as he bestowed the Medal to one of his rich donors

"I like people who were not captured."

"losers" & "suckers"

My grandfather fought the Nazis.

His children and grandchildren turned around and voted for them.

Happy Veterans Day, America...

@InUnfunky well those one issue abstaining or Green Party voters really showed those Dems.

The first rule of hurt your own causes club is don’t acknowledge you’ve hurt your own causes. Deflect, blame someone else, or move into fantasy and say “the reaction against Trump will bring about THEE revolution.” And yes, I say all tactics deployed on the Twitter in 2015/2016.

Dolts. Well meaning dolts. Well meaning dolts are nonetheless still dolts.

Screenshot any message you receive as evidence including any emai addresses
number codes, or phone # attached to the message. Write the sender info down, you need it. If you use 7226, to forward the message the carrier responds back asking you to reply with this information then confirms they received it.

My thanks to every Veteran for your service and dedication to democracy and our constitution.

And much gratitude to my husband for his 3yrs 5mos 47days on the flight deck drenched in toxic fuel. He’s paying a big price for it now.

Never forget Vets are dying every day from the service that was decades ago. ❤️🤍💙#VeteransDay

For consideration - while I'd argue that there's damage from Reagan that has never been undone, and we'd all agree that the media and social environment is very different, he does offer some things to ponder:
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/what-happens-next-maybe-what-happened

It’s not just the election. It’s broader than that. It’s that a permanent propaganda campaign has been supercharged in the last two years, in ways that weren’t even true when Fox News relentlessly tried to take down Hillary and her spouse in the 1990s. And that propaganda campaign has played a key role in leading people to distrust and eschew “reality,” including the reality that Joe Biden was better for the economy and Trump is unashamedly corrupt.

~ Emptywheel

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/10/two-elections-the-rules-were-that-you-guys-werent-going-to-fact-check/

Given that communication is rarely a solitary activity, monitoring migrants and foreign travelers inevitably involves surveilling Americans, too. #privacy

https://reason.com/2024/11/11/feds-use-border-security-to-justify-social-media-surveillance/

All the WWII pictures. The irony is thick. I thank all veterans for their service, and hope it was not in vain 🌺

The Republican controlled House fast tracks a bill that would make it easier for Der Trumpenführer to attack his perceived enemies by allowing non-profits, even those focused on domestic policies like abortion and the environment, to be designated as "terrorist supporting" organizations, with no clear definition of the term.

https://news.yahoo.com/house-fast-tracks-bill-trump-184431497.html

#politics

This statue appeared in a Philadelphia park yesterday...

Dear CoSo veterans, thinking of you. Knowing some of you have been through Hell and that can follow you home. Thinking of you watching your oath, your sense of patriotism and duty getting perverted in the political sphere.

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The law would not require officials to explain the reason for designating a group, nor does it require the Treasury Department to provide evidence.

“It basically empowers the Treasury secretary to target any group it wants to call them a terror supporter and block their ability to be a nonprofit,” “ They couldn’t get banks to service them, they won’t be able to get donations, and there’d be a black mark on the organization, even if it cleared its name.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/

@LnzyHou My job (yeah, I still work 1 day a week) is in psychiatry. Another small chunk of our patients are homeless. A friend of mine’s sister, until her most recent hospitalization was one. We’re going to see an explosion of homelessness, especially if the brain worm guy is in charge of health care.

❤️ 💙 💚 🖤 💛 🧡 💜
🌈 ✊🏼 ☮️ ✌️ 🕊️ 🌈

#politics

Of the many “reasons” they voted for #Trump, so many also believed he was not going to do all the horrible shit he promised he would. Because they’re ignorant of his restrainers in first term.
“He didn’t do that before…”

RZA
A Ballet Through Mud

#cosomusic #classical
https://youtu.be/-LZ_hQ_Xaho