Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump
By Haley Britzky, Pamela Brown
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar with internal discussions told CNN.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, the Navy announced that the Ford-class carrier would be called the USS Doris Miller, recognizing an enlisted sailor who helped defend US forces from Japan’s attack.
It’s unclear what the Navy is seeking to change the name of the carrier to, though two of the sources said there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor Trump. It would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting president.
Completely outrageous.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefenderThe U.S. Navy is in the process of renaming the the fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), named for Messman Second Class Doris Miller, an African American Sailor who received the Navy Cross for his heroic actions during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, according to an exclusive report by CNN.
Currently, it is unclear what the Navy is seeking to change the name of the carrier to, though two of the sources said there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Donald J. Trump. In what would be an unprecedented move to name an aircraft carrier after a sitting President of the United States.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2090699290436100560
Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticusDoris Miller was a hero who operated an anti-aircraft gun during Pearl Harbor despite having no training for it and then proceeded to rescue drowning sailors. He was going to be honored with an aircraft named after him, but now it’s going to be named after a president who carefully organized his life around avoiding military service and believes that those who serve are fools. The icing on the cake for Trump and Vance admin people is that Miller was black. Two birds with one stone: they get to rename a military vessel after a narcissistic and cowardly draft dodger while also undercutting the memorialization of a black service member. You can imagine how satisfied these people must be.
https://x.com/emeriticus/status/2090575280427430049
Morgan J. Freeman
@mjfreeFIRST HARVEY MILK.
NOW DORIE MILLER.
Milk served his country. Trump’s Pentagon erased his name from a Navy ship.
Dorie Miller fought at Pearl Harbor in a SEGREGATED Navy. He saved wounded sailors, grabbed a gun he’d never been trained to use and fought back.
He became the first Black American awarded the Navy Cross.
Now the Navy is stripping HIS name from an aircraft carrier — and replacing it with DONALD TRUMP’S.
The gay veteran erased.
The Black war hero erased and replace with draft-dodger Trump himself?
This isn’t “merit.”
It’s homophobic & racist erasure.
DORIE MILLER EARNED THAT SHIP.
TRUMP CAN KEEP HIS FUCKING NAME OFF IT.
https://x.com/mjfree/status/2090642204154880394
Colin Allred
@ColinAllredTXDorie Miller was a Texas son who ran toward danger at Pearl Harbor.
He carried wounded sailors to safety, helped his dying captain, then manned a gun he’d never been trained to use and fought back.
He became the first Black American awarded the Navy Cross. That is the kind of courage we should honor, not erase.
cnn.com/2026/08/20/pol…
https://x.com/ColinAllredTX/status/2090854303602728975
Dittie
@DittiePEDoris Miller had no gunnery training. He was a mess attendant — that’s all the Navy let Black sailors be in 1941. When the bombs hit Pearl Harbor, he ran toward the guns anyway, dragged wounded men to safety, and fought back until he ran out of ammo.
He was the first Black American ever awarded the Navy Cross.
Donald Trump got four draft deferments and a “bone spurs” diagnosis nobody can find a doctor’s name attributed to. He has never worn the uniform, never taken fire, never done a single thing that required courage. Ever.
The Navy named a future carrier after Miller in 2020 — first ever named for an enlisted sailor, first for a Black American. Now they’re reportedly considering stripping his name off it to put Trump’s on instead.
A coward’s name, on a hero’s ship. That should make everyone sick.
6:11 AM · Aug 21, 2026
https://x.com/DittiePE/status/2090758746255335653
Sophia A. Nelson
@IAmSophiaNelsonNo words.
He was one of the heroes at Pearl Harbor.
The Military was segregated.
He was awarded a few medals for his bravery that day. The first black man to be so in the Navy.
But sure, name it after Trump. A draft-dodging felon. Got it!
https://x.com/IAmSophiaNelson/status/2090570611273691619Sophia A. Nelson
@IAmSophiaNelsonDorie Miller was a bonafide WWII hero. The first black man in the segregated navy to be given the navy cross! Pete Hegseth always renames anything in honor of black or brown people. This cannot be who America is at 250?!! Disgraceful!
Senator Mark Kelly
Senate Democrats
@SenMarkKellyDorie Miller’s bravery at Pearl Harbor is legendary and resulted in him being awarded the Navy Cross. This aircraft carrier shouldn’t be renamed at all, let alone for Donald Trump, who has denigrated servicemembers like Dorie Miller who have paid the ultimate price.
https://x.com/SenMarkKelly/status/2090606008699588772
Mike Young
@micyoung75The Navy has already effectively stopped calling it the USS Doris Miller internally. CNN reports it is now referred to by its hull number, CVN-81, even though no rename has been announced. That looks less like deliberation than the name disappearing ahead of the paperwork.
Consider what is being displaced. This was to be the first carrier named for an enlisted sailor and the first named for a Black American, a Pearl Harbor hero who manned a gun he had never trained on and later died in combat. Trump’s name is reportedly among the replacements being discussed. Miller’s family was not even told.
https://x.com/micyoung75/status/2090593725994999899
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilsonSo the USS Doris Miller, our next aircraft carrier, will be renamed the USS Donald Trump.
I think not.
Add this to the list of everything we strip Trump’s name from when the day finally comes. This is a profound insult to service members, veterans, and African Americans.
cnn.com/2026/08/20/pol…
https://x.com/TheRickWilson/status/2090757825794310592
union moderate that support Dems, not socialists.
@reesetheone1This man won a navy cross for what he did during Pearl Harbor.
https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/2090580614495739982
Jamie Bonkiewicz
@JamieBonkiewiczTaking Dorie Miller’s name, a Navy sailor and Pearl Harbor hero, off an aircraft carrier and replacing it with Donald Trump’s is exactly as racist as you think it is.
https://x.com/JamieBonkiewicz/status/2090598252068384987
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Covie
@covie_93Stripping a Black war hero’s name from a ship to potentially replace it with the name of a 5x draft dodger is disgusting and disrespectful af.
8:44 PM · Aug 20, 2026
https://x.com/covie_93/status/2090616049892807118
The Field Negro
@NotMyMAGAuncleThe draft dodger wants his name on a aircraft carrier at the expense of a true African American war hero. MAGA is full of s**t.
https://x.com/NotMyMAGAuncle/status/2090758293152997606
LATEST ATTACK ON SMALL BUSINESSES
https://youtube.com/shorts/yVH6nLUJBcQ?si=1V6ZxyyH7ZlvDGKl
IChooseViolence
@ourhermitage
New U.S. CÉCRED trademark on August 20, 2026:
Electric hair styling irons;
Electric hair straightening irons;
Electric hair curling irons;
Electric irons;
Electric hand-held hair styling irons; Electric hair clippers;
Electric irons for styling hair;
Electric hair crimper;
Hair straightening irons;
Flat irons for hair , Red light therapy apparatus and instruments for use in treating the scalp and hair;
Microneedle dermal roller;
Scraping apparatus for gua sha therapy; Lasers for the cosmetic treatment of the scalp and hair.
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https://x.com/ourhermitage/status/2093335352333472047
Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
Trump‘s vision for this country was never about making America great. It was about the grift. It was about making the Trumps richer. Now, like cattlemen who are stunned he abandoned them, others are learning Trump’s “support“ was purely transactional & only lasted as long as it served him.
https://x.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/2093316818257527021
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Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
Jo Chase says many folks in her Kansas City care facility still want to vote, despite having mobility restraints that make it harder to get to the polls.
So when she learned of a GOP-led scheme seeking to limit mail and absentee voting, she channeled her anger to make a plan: demdock.com/4hU7mDV
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2093118908760805531
Fly Sistah 🪷
@Fly_Sistah
21h
The US government has been cheating Black farmers since the false promise of 40 acres & a mule. Leave it to the Trump administration to make things worse. Haynie is 1 of roughly 46,000 Black farmers just 1.4% of all American farmers, down from 14% in 1920.
newrepublic.com/article/213800…
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
My great-grandparents (born in the 1880s) & great-great grandparents (the generation born immediately after the Civil War) once owned land in Arkansas and Oklahoma, the generation is gone with the wind and those landholdings are no more. Forces like this are partially why.
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2093307339998990690
Booker G. Washington
@BookerGWash
I just want to say that Millennials elected and re-elected the first Black POTUS for consecutive terms, when we were the youth voting generation.
There’s no comparison.
11:29 AM · Aug 27, 2026
https://x.com/BookerGWash/status/2093013154296938972
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
This week, Tuskegee University honored several students who received FAA flight certifications with custom leather bomber jackets representing the legacy of the famed Tuskegee Airmen
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2093316031435411530
Bill
@Mobilized3213
Chapman’s Ice Cream has just done something EVERY Canadian should know.
The largest ice cream company in Canada used to source fruit and nuts from American suppliers — for some, for over 30 years. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products.
So, what did Chapman’s do?
📷 They called Italy.
📷 They called Spain.
📷 They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
And the vice president said it perfectly:
“Even if Trump wakes up smarter than yesterday, we’re about to sign long-term deals with other countries — and the American companies that supply them will have nothing but their eyes to cry for.”
Oh, and on top of ALL that? They’re COLDing their prices so that the average Canadian doesn’t have to spend a single cent more.
It’s a family business. No shareholders. Just the Chapman family saying: “The least we can do is make sure Canadians still have the means to buy ice cream.”
That’s what Canadian pride looks like.
Next time you’re at the grocery store — grab some Chapman’s.
Every scoop of ice cream is a vote for Canada.
https://x.com/Mobilized3213/status/2092641059742372016
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE crash into car during traffic stop—driver rushed to hospital with broken neck.
“When agents put a knee on his neck I heard something break,” brother said.
8 ICE vehicles surrounded car—when a 9th truck came crashing in—totaling the car.
Fractured his C5 & C7 vertebrae and split his head open requiring 29 stitches.
He had to be transferred to a hospital that specializes in spinal surgeries—but agents won’t let him talk to family even by phone.
Family is very concerned he will be transferred to a regular detention center—where he would die of medical neglect.
Óscar José Araujo Mejía is a 22 year old student at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
ICE issued a statement that he is an “illegal alien” from El Salvador who caused the accident by his own “reckless driving.”
His brother who witnessed the crash vehemently denies this accusation.
Incident occurred in Stevensville, Maryland.
Posting first full length credited English language video here to help raise awareness.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2093114372222492890
Janai Nelson
@JNelsonLDF
BREAKING: We just won an emergency request to block the US Postal Service from implementing a new rule that would give it an unprecedented and illegal gatekeeping role in determining who gets a mail-in ballot. A federal court said nope.
https://x.com/JNelsonLDF/status/2093179895786467613
Fav
@Favwontmiss
“No way you wrote a 5 page essay without AI”
Buddy, we wrote them by hand, in cursive, the day before it was due, without even reading the book.
12:24 AM · Aug 28, 2026
https://x.com/Favwontmiss/status/2093208126904266802
OUTRAGEOUS
Anna Kramer
@anna_c_kramer
SCOOP: Trump officials are pressuring the National Park Service to find a way to give a small piece of Yosemite to a private developer.
The land would be used for a road, to give the developer rare private access to the heart of the park.
https://x.com/anna_c_kramer/status/2093317593343905836
Chris Murphy 🟧
Senate Democrats
@ChrisMurphyCT
Good morning.
A reminder that Republicans in Congress have spent the last two years trying to pass a bill that would prevent states from regulating AI and data centers.
Whatever the big AI companies want, Republicans try their hardest to give them.
10:02 AM · Aug 27, 2026
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2092991169563172974
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
@OutFrontCNN
“I’m not a criminal”: CNN speaks with an asylum seeker who was arrested on a jetway as the Trump Administration ratchets up immigration operations at airports. The woman says she believed she was allowed to be in the U.S. and was on a work trip for her corporate job when she was arrested.
https://x.com/OutFrontCNN/status/2093139918239547714
Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️🌈🍉
@theBrianaMills
I don’t care what anyone says. I truly believe that being financially stable eliminates 90% of people’s stress.
7:45 PM · Aug 27, 2026
https://x.com/theBrianaMills/status/2093137950540464279
THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL US!!!!
HOW CAN WE THINK ANYTHING ELSE!!!!
Headquarters
@HQNewsNow
Trump announces he will eliminate regulations on beef processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks:
“I am authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly.”
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2093369689120407705
When I say…
WE NEED TO GIVE UP BEEF FOR THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE…..
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
NYT: Donald Trump is not planning to attend the ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks after being told he could not give a speech, as the annual ceremony has a longstanding policy barring politicians from giving remarks.
Trump’s team had made advance visits to the site and initially indicated to officials in New York and Washington that the president planned to attend.
Instead, Trump will attend a midterm political convention in Texas on September 9 and 10 before traveling to the Pentagon.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2093213163646816350
This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains.
— Tom Joscelyn (@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social) 2026-08-28T11:52:54.576Z
Old enough to remember when Joe Biden claiming Republicans want black people in chains was considered slanderous.
— Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast (@irhottakes.bsky.social) 2026-08-28T14:08:07.881Z
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
National Guard members are speaking out about their feelings of humiliation and frustration being involved in Trump’s yearlong federal takeover of D.C.
“I will say very frankly that the bad taste that this mission left in my mouth, it actually embarrasses me to be involved in any way.”
“I don’t want to think about the National Guard. I don’t want to necessarily discuss my affiliation with the National Guard. I don’t want to fulfill my normal National Guard duties just because of the abuses of the National Guard in this D.C. Mission.”
npr.org/2026/08/24/nx-…
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2092988193289212252
Aaron Blake
@AaronBlake
“A former staffer for Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) shared images in June and July on his X account of a swastika and one that depicts himself in Ku Klux Klan robes.”
He denies he’s a white supremacist but says, “I do think that the white race contributes more to the world.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/2092941909715013769
UH HUH
UH HUH
The Interior Department has reassigned around 30 of its most senior staffers to teams largely outside their areas of expertise, alarming lawmakers and federal government workers already worried about the Trump administration’s erosion of institutional knowledge at the agency.
“They want us all to leave and be replaced by more politicals,” this person said.
https://www.notus.org/agencies/interior-reassigns-dozens-senior-staff-experts
NOT OPTIMUS PRIME :(
Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor known for voicing Optimus Prime in the “Transformers” franchise, has died at 85
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3mu2zdtgmrc2m
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
@afalkhatib
Some people want to make a point; others want to make a difference. Gaza and the Palestinian issue have become a Trojan horse for domestic agendas that have nothing to do with the Middle East; a mere convenient vehicle to stoke fear, hatred, and antisemitic tropes, or to chase notoriety, without any concern for Palestinians or for serious discourse. Mark Ruffalo’s decision to invoke Gaza while opposing the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is a textbook example: collapsing unrelated issues, virtue signaling, and ignoring the real-world consequences of this kind of rhetoric.
https://x.com/afalkhatib/status/2092028536949211625
The Brief
Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the recovery of 163 missing children ranging from 2 months to 17 years old.
The statewide initiative rescued children across Florida, six other states, Puerto Rico and 12 foreign countries.
Law enforcement officers made three arrests during the multi-agency operation, with additional charges expected.
https://www.fox13news.com/news/163-missing-florida-kids-rescued-3-arrested-operation-statewide-shield
Brennan Center
@BrennanCenter
The Supreme Court’s overreliance on the shadow docket is an excellent metaphor for an institution that has both given itself immense new powers and refused to be held accountable for its abuse of those powers.
https://x.com/BrennanCenter/status/2092673501559763318
Scott Dworkin
@funder
In July the House passed a bill banning members of Congress from trading stocks.
Someone moved to make it cover the president too.
The committee killed it, 8 to 4.
Republicans wrote the rules and left Trump out on purpose.
Remember that in November.
#TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS
12:33 PM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/funder/status/2092666634943054212
theleahfiles
@leahfiles
If I were president and I wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.
I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country’s currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.
Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.
Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.
Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.
Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family’s company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.
Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.
Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.
Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for “stable” digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government’s debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.
Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.
I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.
And every single step I just described has already happened.
So what does that mean for you and I?
The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.
What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.
Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president’s family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.
You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.
The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn’t one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.
Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.
This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.
So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it.
Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet.
10:57 AM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/leahfiles/status/2092642632723788268
BLACK
YOU MEAN BLACK
TIME
@TIME
The Trump Administration has removed a painting by artist Kehinde Wiley, who notably painted former President Barack Obama’s official portrait, from one of its embassies over what officials called its “woke ideologies”
https://x.com/TIME/status/2092326255828025449
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
U.S. colleges are increasingly slashing their African American studies and related programs, citing low enrollment and limited funding, at a time when the federal government is exerting intense pressure to end racial diversity efforts.
https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/2092341289425519049
IT.WAS.NEVER.ABOUT.LEGAL.IMMIGRATION.
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
Trump has dealt another blow to legal immigration, ordering U.S. embassies and consulates to cancel visa appointments that have reached the interview stage.
https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/2092660852008645067
Marc E. Elias
@marceelias
I’m seeing some people ask why the Democratic Party and congressional leaders aren’t doing more to challenge Trump’s anti-voting executive order.
They were literally the first to seek a new injunction after SCOTUS ruled. I know, because I am their lawyer.
https://x.com/marceelias/status/2092622103665111522
Covie
@covie_93
The CIA Director went to Russia to beg for help with the denuclearization of Iran only for Iran and Russia to sign an agreement to build new nuclear power plants the next day.
https://x.com/covie_93/status/2092661661400182811
Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep
@RossKneeDeep
When the Democrats regain power, we need to burn this whole sh*tty Trump era to the ground. Take his name off of everything.
First by passing legislation about felons running for any federal, state or city office. Next, the people found in the Epstein Files who’ve committed crimes must be prosecuted (prison). Laws about Congress trading in the stock market.
One of the biggest things of all is to revamp the Supreme Court with term limits. I’m sure there are many more things that need to be changed.
But, first and foremost, the Democrats need to stop being so docile.
10:30 AM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/RossKneeDeep/status/2092635829982076980
What kind of nonsense is this?
Acyn
@Acyn
Darline Graham: Government run health care…. bad idea after bad idea. Annie Andrews backs it all. I have a different background. My parents worked long, hard hours. If that were sick, they had to get up and go to work. My mother passed away when I was 11 and my father just over a year later.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2092429209159581702
Dr. Annie Andrews
@AnnieAndrewsMD
Mrs. Graham Nordone says her family suffered and died without health care and apparently thinks yours should too.
Call me crazy, but as a doctor, I believe there are few responsibilities more fundamental to government than keeping its citizens healthy and safe. No family should have to suffer simply because generations before them did.
https://x.com/AnnieAndrewsMD/status/2092650843036078263
Longtime Black Man Here
@groove_sdc
Imagine wanting to see your community thrive and be unshackled by lynchings, mass federal firings and anti-DEI hysteria driving us out of academia and classrooms and some fuckboi calls you a CIA operative paid by Israel because …reasons.
Whew yall ain’t shit.
We see you tho.
11:09 AM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/2092645731161014330
Because, of course…
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
DOJ’s long-awaited antitrust trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster–the company that rips you off for concert tickets–was scheduled to begin on Monday, March 2
but on Friday, Feb. 27, Trump had a chat with Live Nation’s CEO
then he told DOJ to settle the case
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics…
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
· 3h
new reporting in WSJ revealed the extent of Trump’s personal involvement in the Live Nation-Ticketmaster case, and the company’s behind-the-scenes maneuvering to end the lawsuit by currying favor with him
this in turn reveals something else, i think
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics…
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
· 3h
for decades, GOP lawyers pushed the idea that presidents simply must be able to direct the work of agencies like DOJ
now, this ~unitary executive theory~ has given way to a personalist dictatorship that further entrenches corporate power at the public’s expense
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
· 3h
Trump’s directive to DOJ–and Live Nation’s embrace of ‘cozy up to Trump’ as a litigation strategy, for that matter–reflects the Justice Department’s abandonment of its once-prized independence, and with it, any semblance of DOJ’s responsibility to the public
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app
· 2h
oh I should mention the silver lining!
the Trump admin tried to bully states to join the settlement, too, but the vast majority said ‘screw that’ and continued on to trial without DOJ
a jury has since found the company liable for operating an illegal monopoly 😎
ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics…
https://bsky.app/profile/audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app/post/3mtyqpzwxq22t
Ihab Hassan
@IhabHassane
As a Palestinian living in the US, I realized from day one that far too many of those who claim to be “fighting for Palestinian freedom” in the West are nothing than grifters who exploit our suffering, turn our cause into a trend, and use Palestinian pain to build their own platforms, careers, and audiences.
And the moment Palestinians themselves challenge their narrative, criticize Hamas, reject authoritarianism, or refuse to fit neatly into their ideological worldview, suddenly our Palestinian voices are no longer welcome—or worse, we are smeared as traitors for daring to think and speak for ourselves.
Here’s what’s never been asked, seriously, inside this so-called “pro-Palestinian” movement: what do you actually stand for?
A democratic Palestine? Free speech? Political pluralism? Equal rights? A two-state solution, one state, peace — or just permanent war rebranded as “resistance”?
Do Palestinian lives matter when Palestinians are murdered, tortured, imprisoned, or silenced by Hamas? Do our freedoms matter when the oppressor isn’t Israel? Do Palestinians get to decide our own political future, or are Western activists going to decide it for us while shouting slogans thousands of miles away?
Palestine is not your revolutionary cosplay. Palestinians are not props for your ideological fantasies. And our suffering is not a career opportunity.
If your “solidarity” requires Palestinians to shut up whenever our experiences contradict your politics and narrative, then you are the one who should shut the fuck up.
7:32 PM · Aug 25, 2026
https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/2092409701849780491
just rotten
GOP Ls
@GOP__Ls
🚨 Republican candidate Rodney Creech wins primary despite being accused of sexual misconduct with his 15-year-old daughter.
https://x.com/GOP__Ls/status/2092341280953024963
FireFighterDev
@fire_starter457
U.S. farmers had it pretty good-
USAID & SNAP were buyers but were killed by Elon and Trump.
Cheap labor is being rounded up by ICE.
Fertilizer is stuck in the Strait of Hormuz.
Great trade deals were tariff’d.
Cheap beef is being imported from Argentina(?).
Farmers voted it all away for racism, xenophobia and 11 trans kids playing high school sports.🤦♂️
8:03 AM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/fire_starter457/status/2092598926478377411
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Chris Murphy 🟧
Senate Democrats
@ChrisMurphyCT
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops.
But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents.
I’m heading to Danbury.
11:18 AM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/2092647973612122291
Russ McSpadden
@PeccaryNotPig
BREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the
U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O’odham Nation.
https://x.com/PeccaryNotPig/status/2092511312798695842
truth
baby girl 🏳️🌈
@nikkyyy124
y’all don’t care about Palestine, you care about having a socially acceptable reason to punish people you already dislike. Palestine has become a Trojan horse for moral policing, and pretending every pile-on is genuine activism is exactly why this shit feels so performative.
https://x.com/nikkyyy124/status/2092507883510362436
Variety
@Variety
Carol Burnett pays tribute to her “Annie” co-star Tim Curry, sharing a clip of the pair from the beloved movie on Instagram:
“We had such a wonderful time working together on ‘Annie.’ Nobody could play lovable villains better than he could,” she wrote. “He was a dear friend. I was blessed to know him.”
variety.com/2026/film/news…
https://x.com/Variety/status/2092666400162897930
LOL
Covie
@covie_93
Darline Graham is the female Tommy Tuberville.
1:38 PM · Aug 26, 2026
https://x.com/covie_93/status/2092683147041177773
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2092633597559660701
UH HUH
UH HUH
El Jefe Gone Dark Security
@eljefe.social
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The absolutely shameful silence from NBA players over the bs from what one of their losers is doing over at the WNBA simply proves there are NO men of integrity left in the
@nba.com
I’d like to be proven wrong, but if they have a voice and I’m not hearing it.
1:47 PM · Aug 25, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/eljefe.social/post/3mtwi6tec7223
This is so sad and so depressing.
When CTE was first revealed, I began to step back from football. When I tell you that I grew up as a football fanatic…but, now….
Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
At least one in four of all the people who have played in the NFL might expect to end up with CTE, according to new data
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3mtvunvt7lk2z
TRUTH
Meidas_Charise Lee
@charise_lee
Farmers had it good, USAID, SNAP, cheap labor and fertilizer, great trade deals and they voted it all away for RACISM.
https://x.com/charise_lee/status/2092324076186661316
Mike Nellis
@MikeNellis
NEWS: Trump’s EPA just moved to strip the public’s right to even find out about a data center before the bulldozers show up — no notice, no comment period, nothing, all so Big Tech can rubber-stamp AI data centers next to people’s homes. Once again, Trump is deciding some communities don’t get to decide what’s best for their communities, their kids, and their health.
3:57 PM · Aug 25, 2026
https://x.com/MikeNellis/status/2092355725225763124
NR_Garrett
@NR_Garrett
They hate Karen Bass
They hate Hakeem Jefferies
They hate Jaime Harrison
They hate Kamala Harris
They hate Cory Booker
They hate Jim Clyburn
Notice a pattern?
3:04 PM · Aug 25, 2026
https://x.com/NR_Garrett/status/2092342386336657679
GET MAGA OUT OF THE W
@river_dusty
I told y’all that this trans panic is being focused on the WNBA because it’s dominated by Black WOMEN
This is about the reassertion of white supremacist conceptions of gender roles and “femininity”
https://x.com/river_dusty/status/2092300060448952423
UH HUH
UH HUH
LA-Tiere
@LuvLaTiere
Let me tell ya something many don’t want to accept.. A lot of White Leftists/DSA/Dems are just as HAPPY as MAGA that the VRA was cut & that Trump is targeting Black people.. Why? B/c a lot of them felt we were gaining too much power.. Look how they talk to/about Black people.
https://x.com/LuvLaTiere/status/2092283803146334328
Third Worldist Crisprtek
@CollapseAnime
BTW if the Argentinian beef is what Trump acquired it contains chloramphenicol, a powerful antibiotic that can cause aplastic anemia. Aplastic anemia destroys your bone marrow and basically gives you leukemia. I would avoid beef for the next 6 months+ if you’re American.
https://x.com/CollapseAnime/status/2092034236866056209
About Graham’s sister winning the GOP Senate primary.
Ronald Brownstein
@RonBrownstein
Another milestone in the conversion of American politics into a quasi-parliamentary system. No one could have watched that GOP debate & concluded Graham was remotely qualified, by historic standards, to serve in Senate. But the role now is just to provide a vote. That she can do.
https://x.com/RonBrownstein/status/2092433651686642017
How? Because his wife has made AT LEAST $10 million recently representing companies with business before the Court.
THAT’S HOW.
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
Aug 24
John Roberts, whose fortune is estimated at $25 million, saw protesters target his secluded island retreat.
thedailybeast.com/chief-justice-…
9:32 AM · Aug 25, 2026
Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾
@KwikWarren
How is a Supreme Court Justice who has spent 33 years of his 46-year career as a US Government employee worth $25 million?!
https://x.com/KwikWarren/status/2092258875198062869
ABC News
@ABC
The Fort Worth, Texas, city council unanimously approved on Tuesday a $11.25 million settlement for the family of Atatiana Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2019.
https://x.com/ABC/status/2092392822661915056
CNN Breaking News
@cnnbrk
Democrat Everton Blair, a former Gwinnett County School Board chair, will win the special runoff election for Georgia’s 13th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating late Rep. David Scott’s daughter, Marcye Scott. Follow live updates. cnn.it/4gOIigx
https://x.com/cnnbrk/status/2092414180179464626
How we are ‘ winning’ the war in Iran, so says a GOP Mouthpiece.
Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson
Except for losing control of the Strait, losing our bases in the region, strengthening the control of the Iranian regime over its suffering people, starving our sailors, running through our stockpiles of precision weapons, and giving Iran control of the global oil market. Big win.
https://x.com/TheRickWilson/status/2092030309596336511
DAMN
TERRIFYING
I love KDrama
@ilovekdramatwt
🚨 UPDATE ON THE JEJU MISSING PEOPLE CASE
After reviewing 298 missing-person cases originally handled and closed by Officer Bu, investigators identified around 10 suspicious cases where he allegedly “self-closed” the files without verification.
Authorities have been unable to contact or locate 3 individuals from these closed cases.
Police are currently conducting urgent searches to track them down, fearing there could be additional undiscovered victims.
Investigations also revealed a broader history of Jeju police manipulating internal systems (KICS) using team leader logins to “self-approve” case dismissals to lighten workloads, leading to a complete system-wide overhaul.
This is no longer a missing person case, It’s now a Serial Killer case
https://x.com/ilovekdramatwt/status/2092527387707633853
John Roberts Is the Biggest Con Man in US Politics
In his confirmation hearing, Roberts told the Senate he would all only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” He then proceeded to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.
Bill Blum
Aug 25, 2026
The Progressive
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/john-roberts-con-man
Financial Times
@financialtimes.com
The end of Trumpsplaining ft.trib.al/eRjQoFA | opinion
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3mtyav25upn2o
UNDER 90 DAYS BEFORE AN ELECTION!!!
VOTER SUPPRESSION!!!
migas7.bsky.social
@migas7.bsky.social
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More than 1.2 million Texans’ voter registrations are suspended http://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...
https://bsky.app/profile/migas7.bsky.social/post/3mtxlj67v3k2p
Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3mtybzvt23k2o
Someone was defending the racist minstrel Halloween Costume that TARGET put out for sale.
The United States versus Elon Reed Musk
@Needle_of_Arya
So when I say that friendships and acquaintanceships between white people on one side and a Black/POC on the other can come to a crashing halt because the white person held some stupid, fuckshit opinion and stood their ground rather than listen & learn, this is what I mean.
https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/2092556926651601145
PortiaMcGonagal
@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social
Today in Griftopia… 1/
“The IRS has no public record of a lobbyist-run nonprofit raking in millions of corporate dollars to fund a July 4th-themed reality show starring a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.”
Shocker.
archive.ph/xqI3o#select…
PortiaMcGonagal
@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social
2/
If only the 2024 election had been between a true public servant and a known grifter and liar who surrounds himself with the same. I mean, the choices were soooo ambiguous, and everything, domestically and internationally, is better now, right? 🙄
PortiaMcGonagal
@portiamcgonagal.bsky.social
· 32m
3/3
“Nonprofits are being hijacked for political activity,” he told Raw Story. “It’s certainly concerning.”
They found a new cow to milk dry.
https://bsky.app/profile/portiamcgonagal.bsky.social/post/3mtyj4tkdu22b
THEE ENTIRE PHUCK!!!
Stars and Stripes
@starsandstripes
A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer after it was determined that her report of being raped in her bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a worker’s comp claim. (from @Rose_Lori)
https://x.com/starsandstripes/status/2092394091384344957
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊