It really didn’t hit me that Generals of the US Military, who were stationed, ALL OVER THE WORLD, had to come back to the United States for this mess.
Those Generals swore an oath to the UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. They better remember that.
The Generals were silent.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Trump to a room of generals: “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before. Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973017725380296921
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Trump opens with a threat to the generals in the room:“I’ve never walked into a room so silent before … Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose.”
8:40 AM · Sep 30, 2025
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1973020044444545363s
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Trump to top military officials: “I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our military. Because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973029115704865020
To wit, the Governor Responds:
Governor JB Pritzker
@govpritzker.illinois.gov
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To Donald Trump:Stop using military troops and ICE to invade and disrupt American cities.
Stop calling your political opponents “enemies” of the US.
Stop attacking the 1st Amendment.
Our troops and our nation deserve better than you acting as a petty tyrant.
https://bsky.app/profile/govpritzker.illinois.gov/post/3m22s65fblc2e
Governor JB Pritzker
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People of Illinois, we need your help.Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/govpritzker.illinois.gov/post/3lzzj5hkd5s2l
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Top generals were gather from around the world and Trump is talking about President Biden and the autopen (which Trump also uses).
9:00 AM · Sep 30, 2025
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1973025124619293174
From The Guardian:
At an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department”.
Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise.
“We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military – national guard, but military – because we’re going into Chicago very soon, that’s a big city with an incompetent governor,” Trump said, attacking JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor.
Trump went on to describe soldiers he had seen in media accounts who had been spit upon who “want to knock the hell out of a person, but he’s not allowed to do anything … I say: ‘They spit, we hit’. Is that OK? I think so, they spit – it’s a new thing – ‘They spit, we hit’”. Trump said that immigration enforcement agents, facing people throwing bricks at their vehicles, should retaliate. “I say it here, you can get out of that car and you do whatever the hell you want to do”.
He also defended the navy’s sinking of Venezuelan boats, rather than attempting to interdict suspected drug runners as required by international law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. “Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” he claimed without evidence.
Trump’s speech was packed with campaign references to his electoral victory and the perceived shortcomings of his political adversaries. The assemblage of uniformed officers sat stonefaced, expressionless and inscrutable with few smiles. Trump’s attacks on Joe Biden were met with silence. Some of his lines elicited polite ripples of laughter.
Sarah Taber
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This farm bailout situation is so breathtakingly foolish, it’s hard to know where to start.
The US farm sector has been so insulated from the consequences of its own actions for so long. Is it even capable of learning from its mistakes at this point?
https://bsky.app/profile/sarahtaber.bsky.social/post/3lzxejaj7pk2r
GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i don’t think farmers have really accounted for the extreme negative polarization that may occur in a different direction if red state farmers get bailed out while blue states get starved of federal funds
https://bsky.app/profile/golikehellmachine.com/post/3m25waslan22n
Yonah Freemark
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It’s becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?
https://bsky.app/profile/yonahfreemark.com/post/3m25qalzyc225
GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE
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an entire agricultural sector voted for it’s own annihilation, even if he somehow scrapes some bribes together to bail them out now, soybean exports are probably permanently dead now
October 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/golikehellmachine.com/post/3m25vijl4c22n
Jenny Sampson 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
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Thune could pass the CR without Dems today. They suspended the filibuster to ram through a boatload of rightwing judges just a few weeks ago and they could do that again for this. He has the power to avoid all of this. Fact is the GOP and Trump want this shutdown. Russ Vought is giddy about it
October 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3m27x3pq75s2r
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Leavitt: “Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position. And if they don’t want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It’s very simple.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973752721040605598
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
🚨A dangerous moment for America. If the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run checks — they would be sued into oblivion. It’s beyond unconstitutional. Yet DHS is laughing about it!
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1973720716462968850
Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight, pulling men, women and children from their apartments, some of them naked. Agents approached or entered nearly every apartment and US citizens were among those detained for hours. https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
Magdi Jacobs
@magi_jay
Republicans honestly look a bit weak and scared to me right now. More than I expected them to. Because we give them the “all powerful” treatment. Maybe we should comment more on how they look weak and scared? Those are the vibes I’m getting.
Terry Lee Watkins Jr. 王瑞民💜💙
@TerryWatkinsJr1
People, the media pundit class is against us. We must realize this.
They copy Republican talking points. They attack our leadership when their trying to negotiate. They attack it when they say no deal.
We dont have a messaging problem. We have a vile punditry.
They never learn their lesson
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) posted at 9:43 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal.
I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t.
Watch all the way through. https://t.co/lS70UUQ84U
(https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1973579467441496406?t=GIVFcm-Xrt_EzcUud24W7w&s=03)
Nancy French (@NancyAFrench) posted at 2:55 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
ICE agents have killed another person since invading Chicago.
They say the man severely injured them ,but they had no cameras to corroborate.
Chicago police cams tell a different story.
https://t.co/5tqczrda80
(https://x.com/NancyAFrench/status/1973476916104667634?t=DROth66aEi0qBStZwqmHWQ&s=03)
Tim (@trouble_man90) posted at 7:17 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
Biden accomplished about 40% of the Green New Deal, he hid it in the Inflation Reduction Act. A legislative masterclass.
Yall next time we get a legislative genius handed to us on a silver platter, let’s try not to stab him in the back ok???
(https://x.com/trouble_man90/status/1973542753549295845?t=af_U8nTylSx0hW3SR9dXKQ&s=03)
Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) posted at 1:14 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
BREAKING: Russ Vought just cancelled $8 billion dollars in climate funding to the following states:
CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA. https://t.co/BOKiOkJUcX
(https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1973451481794916576?s=03)
Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) posted at 4:19 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him
I just want to remind everyone that Biden never sought political retribution for states that didn’t vote for him. In fact, they overwhelmingly benefited from his policies.
(https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1973497967232557551?s=03)
She is on point.
The goal is to get rid of Black Men and All Women from the Military.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ARJgjg/
uh huh
uh huh
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 1:14 PM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate.
Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1973451579056615771?t=BVw6VGwkSHYaHss-Exu_GA&s=03)
David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier) posted at 11:43 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a “criminal,” but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents…. https://t.co/9nsvz6bjX4
(https://x.com/David_J_Bier/status/1973428659395633667?t=OUAjHph_h6AY-c9tuD21RQ&s=03)
Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) posted at 10:00 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
The ACA has been around for over a decade. If undocumented immigrants were collecting subsidies, you’d have seen MAGA lawsuits stacked higher than Trump hats made in China.
(https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1973221515358511252?t=heV0dNzQHECm5AmHNUWuTQ&s=03)
Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) posted at 4:05 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
Senator Murkowski was the deciding vote to block the release the Epstein files. Before casting that vote, she never declared her connections to Ghislaine Maxwell, her husband Scott Borgerson and a wealthy donor who owns an Alaska newspaper. https://t.co/G7AVvsWtpx
(https://x.com/tarapalmeri/status/1973132041953612129?t=-K0EylZJMnO_yNGa68Vl_g&s=03)
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 9:09 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
How can you negotiate with Republicans in Congress to fund the government when as soon as you reach an agreement you know that Trump’s OMB director will just withhold the funds? https://t.co/v2YVu9F1Rg
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1973389921264996730?t=pO9RKbMqriTV9CLmClhQeQ&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 11:17 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
After the Trump administration sought to privately email some crucial spreadsheets instead of filing them on the public docket, a judge scolds:
“We have no secrets here. The government needs to file everything publicly and needs to do so now.” https://t.co/77PNuHZEDP https://t.co/i2CJjmbBPS
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1973422056290263531?t=Y_Y8CgUz7gK-JJynQ5cPwQ&s=03)
umichvoter 🏳️🌈 (@umichvoter) posted at 7:14 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
Jack Ciattarelli’s Lt Gov nominee on tonight’s debate:
“All taxes are on the table…but not for millionaires” https://t.co/J1t0jAHa0q
(https://x.com/umichvoter/status/1973179746239525297?t=kJiFLDRIgkfaP92lefqldQ&s=03)
Mike Murphy (@murphymike) posted at 5:32 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
This Getty shot from @axios today tells the full story of the incredibly insulting, and juvenile Trump and Hegseth show today in front of a clearly embarrassed U.S. military leadership. A helluva lot of medals of valor in that room, and not the kind you get for fake bone spurs. https://t.co/laOXZjwjKt
(https://x.com/murphymike/status/1973154083696681113?t=KMxeeZand4eEXmbDxT7UCw&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 11:58 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
Lawrence: One of the examples you’ve put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson’s Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.
Boyle: Ironically, Mike Johnson has one of the largest medicaid populations of any district nationwide. But I do want to stress that, yes, this is dramatic and will be awful if you’re on medicaid, will be awful if you’re on one of the Obamacare exchanges, will be awful if you’re on medicare. But it’s actually the health care of all of us, regardless of how you obtain it. Because even for those of us who might not be on one of those programs I just mentioned, premiums are set to rise. And by a dramatic amount, literally beginning in a matter of hours. So that is what is at stake. That is why we have a sense of urgency. That is why we can’t wait three months or six months or nine months.
https://t.co/SGy5TzD01Q
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1973251222812639352?t=F4vB2v5qTNL-wxONLqNH7Q&s=03)
Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) posted at 11:43 AM on Wed, Oct 01, 2025:
BREAKING: Congressman Jamie Raskin moments ago, regarding Republicans shutting down the Government and avoiding the release of the Epstein files:
“They all said they wanted the Epstein files released, and then they had 1000 FBI agents working around the clock, and guess what they saw. Donald Trump’s name apparently all over the files and they came back and said ‘nothing to see here, we’re gonna sweep it under the rug. Call off the talking points everybody. Now we want to cover up the Epstein files.’ We’re not going to allow them to do that!”
https://t.co/k5aqUwQGOs
(https://x.com/EdKrassen/status/1973428447968989278?t=W8hsVOqlVlH1WbSfX3lDCA&s=03)
Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) posted at 5:29 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
“Health care for illegal aliens” is the new “immigrants are eating cats and dogs in Springfield.”
The Republican playbook is simple: make up a baseless lie, repeat it every chance you get, hope and pray that everyone blames Democrats for the crises you created.
(https://x.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1973153155950190744?t=En2WkREqAmT6O7Z3GA5CHQ&s=03)
Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) posted at 8:01 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
I asked Trump’s former OMB director @MickMulvaney to simply acknowledge it’s a lie that undocumented immigrants get ACA subsidies (they don’t), and he ended the interview rather than answer the question.
“Would you agree that not a single dime of ACA subsidies goes toward undocumented immigrants?”
“Listen, we don’t do this on this show… I’m not gonna do this anymore.”
https://t.co/BjAQmB8hVG
(https://x.com/briantylercohen/status/1973191553360543846?t=v8FVcel6EbICCykq30FOOQ&s=03)
Chris Sommerfeldt
@C_Sommerfeldt
Mayor Adams’ office now confirms he used to date his “sports czar,” Jasmine Ray, before tapping her for the $161K-a-year City Hall post in late 2022.
Ray resigned Friday before revealing she’s publishing a book about her “hidden relationship” with Adams.
https://x.com/C_Sommerfeldt/status/1973123084552118724
The Supreme Court allowed Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her post pending oral arguments in January on whether President Donald Trump has legal cause to fire her.
The court’s move is a blow to Trump, who has repeatedly and unsuccessfully asked federal courts to allow him to terminate Cook from the Fed’s Board of Governors without delay.
Spencer Hakimian
@SpencerHakimian
Q: You’ve alluded to the interest the reshoring of manufacturing that Trump’s tariff regime is doing, but reports say that we’ve lost to 80,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office.
Lutnick: Well, that can’t be true.
https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1973134052958855632
and this is AFTER they are cooking the books:
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
CNBC: “Very disappointing. It was a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in negative 32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August was revised down sharply, the month now showing negative 3,000 compared to the initial read of positive 54,000 … the labor market is softening.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1973389752477876343
Aaron Rupar
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Hegseth: “We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains … no more walking on eggshells.”
this comment was written on another blog in response to this:
This will basically set back every attempt, no matter how limited the effect, we’ve undertaken to deal with sexual harassment, assault, and rape over the past decade or so. As well as every effort the military has made to combat racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, etc. What Hegseth is doing is setting the conditions for fratricide – usually non-lethal, but sometimes lethal – where the worst Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines are empowered to prey on each other. Sexual harassment, assault, and rape is going to increase. Attacks on personnel who are or are perceived to be LGBTQ too. We’re going to see increased injuries and other problems (re)emerge within basic training. Suicides are going to go up. All of which will make the US military weaker, less effective, and less lethal.
Aaron Rupar
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Hegseth: “You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That’s why today, at my direction, we’re making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records.”
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊