It's ironic that exactly 12 years after the Pentagon lifted its ban on women in combat roles... Republicans want to confirm a Defense Secretary who repeatedly dared to say those women make our military weaker. Unlike Pete Hegseth, our women warriors earned their jobs.

No one can quash the legacy of the Tuskegee Airman. Same for the Buffalo Soldiers. That unit was sent to West Point from 1907-1947 to replace an undisciplined white unit. During segregation, they trained all the white officers who fought in WWI & II & they built a legacy. We

Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with Colombia yesterday. Under Biden/Harris, Colombia accepted more than 400 deportation flights, 120 just in 2024 alone. These were normal commercial planes. 1/

#HolocaustRemembranceDay This year marks 80 years since the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated. Twelve female SOE agents were killed at camps, brave & compassionate nurses cared for the survivors, & female war correspondents reported on the atrocities.

By 1944, 50 brave women were sent into Nazi-occupied France by SOE, despite known risks. Their handler, Vera Atkins, was relentless in tracing their fates post-war. Did women excel in espionage? Here's my answer to the question of whether courage transcends gender: (a thread)

Every veteran who is applying for a VA housing loan will have their application canceled and denied today at 5:00 EST by President Donald Trump.

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.

You can’t claim to support the Troops while attacking their healthcare. FULL funding for the VA. FULL support for VA employees. FULL accountability for the GOP’s disgraceful betrayal. #SaveVeteransHealthCare

Block block block. Every appointment. Every nominee. Every confirmation. Democrats do not give them anything until they stop this freeze. I want 2012 Mitch McConnell levels of obstruction until they give people back their public services.

I just heard from a nonprofit in Massachusetts that helps veterans with transitional housing. Trump's shutdown of gov funding hurts their ability to buy and prepare food for 100+ veterans. Rent is due in 5 days. The loss of funds could mean some veterans face eviction.

Trump is essentially carrying out an illegal shutdown of the federal government, putting tens of millions of American lives at risk. Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.

Veterans earned their healthcare through selfless service to our nation. Republican attacks on the VA betray that sacred promise. It's time to protect what we’ve fought for. #SaveVeteransHealthCare

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

Slovenian Albina Mali-Hočevar was a resistance fighter & nurse during WW2, fighting to liberate Yugoslavia from 1941, & caring for the wounded. Born Sept 1925, at 16 years old, when Germany invaded Yugoslavia in 1941, Albina joined the People’s Liberation Movement. #womenshistory

I wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

Today is Fred Korematsu Day, first celebrated in his home state of California in 2011. Korematsu was the son of Japanese immigrants who was arrested & charged in 1942 for ignoring Executive Order 9066, which allowed for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. 🧵

I’m not a lawyer and I don’t give out legal advice, but I’d rather throw my legs up over my head and scrape the backs of my thighs with a cheese grater than accept a deferred resignation offer from these unfuckable douchelords.

You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for hungry families, and fired Americans.

In its simplest terms, the apparent demise of #USAID is the result of the world's richest man ending a program that helps millions of poor people. You don't need a Ph.D. in moral theology to see why this is an evil. You can just read Jesus's parables on the rich and the poor.

If you haven’t worked in the intelligence community, I get why this doesn’t make sense. IC budgets and headcounts are *always* classified, because it’s really easy for a sophisticated foreign intelligence service to extrapolate data based on this info. FININT is a real thing.