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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Finally, a book that provides me with the professional lexicon to explain my utter contempt for Trump, his ilk, and the damage they have wrought. No, I won't abandon my expletives. Every word has its time and place.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Last I looked, this sort of nonsense constitutes a clear violation of the Hatch Act.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A big crowd in the small town of Sedona. Our great AG, Kris Mayes, joined us. I was proud to see many fellow Veterans.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Pence is to receive the Profile in Courage award for certifying Biden' s win. Doing one's job is a low bar. I am sure we can nominate others who exhibited real courage.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The honorable and responsible thing to do is resign. Unfortunately, he is dishonorable and irresponsible and will ride it out.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Even "outraged" fails to capture it. I was fortunate to have lunch many times with GEN(Ret) Powell and to listen to him during many conferences. He always made time for subordinates, offering valuable lessons. I think he would tell us "never, never, never quit" in the face of this autocratic storm.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Really? I see no spirit in evidence among Dem Congressional leadership.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Yes, he is the wrong leader for the moment. Even if he has reasonable claims to back his decision making when facing a choice between bad options, his colleagues and the people he wants to "rise up" have lost confidence in him.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

My head hurts all the time as a blue dot in a red county. Instead of "do your research", I often hear "prove me wrong." Of course, their "truth" is predicated on MAGA fiction and zero objective research, but they want source citations for my proof, and then still double down on stupid.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Really. Reasonable people still use Musk's X? Even if clicktivism is as active a resistance as you will offer, then click X for the last time today. No, you won't persuade the cult on X by engaging with them nor will triggering MAGAts provide much satisfaction.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

A great checklist to sharpen reflective/critical thinking skills--added to my toolkit. I implore students to recognize that their own cognitive biases, usually unacknowledged, influence how they interpret information--interpretations that may be incomplete, misleading, or false.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

No more talk. Act. Start by removing feckless Schumer as minority leader.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

At best, he is dead weight on the opposition efforts of others. At worst, he is complicit in enabling MAGA's destruction of democracy. Chuckie and his f*book tour need to go.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New Yorkers, Please don't forget. Pressure him to resign and primary Schumer and Gillibrand for being complicit in the demise of our democracy. My AZ senators did the right thing in a purple state.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Well said. When the leaders are out of step with the led, it is time for those leaders to be replaced. Oppose, delay, resist--do not be complicit in the demise of our democracy and quality of life for millions.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Given the outcome of the vote, it looks like we must clean out our own house (Senate) before we can clean out the WH.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Cowards. An opposition requires an oppositional mindset and accompanying behaviors. These Dems in-name-only (and one independent) must be primaried even as they are shamed and left unsupported until their election cycle.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hey New Yorkers, ask AOC to primary this limp excuse for an opposition leader.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yes, resign. Put a principled fighter in charge now. We have a couple of AZ Senators/Vets who know how to fight. If I were a New Yorker, I would support a primary challenge by AOC.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I salute all fellow Veterans willing to fight against the MAGA assault on our democracy. Remember your oath!

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Good to see some energy and fight in an AZ Sen. Senators Gallego and Kelly, you both served, remember your oaths and lead the opposition against the threat to our democracy.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

This is the speech Schumer should have given, perhaps with a few expletives sprinkled in, but he lacked the courage to do the right thing. Good run down on the logic for voting against cloture and the CR. Thanks Sen Murray.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

He will run. The hyper-ambition disease has consumed his last brain cell of decency. There are more worthy candidates, including folks on Bluesky.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Super ambition eclipsed values. He lost my vote when he runs for Pres.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Shameful: 10 Democrats voted with Republicans (or voted present) to censure Green: Bera (CA), Case (HI), Costa (Ca), Gillen (NY), Himes (CT), Houlahan (PA), Kaptur (OH), Moskowitz (FL), Perez (WA) and Suozzi (NY).

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Ukraine's blue and yellow, yes. Pink, WTF. Better yet, why are any of you Dems attending this farce and adding any semblance of normality it?

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The non-MAGA Republican side of Congress must boycott this sham of an address. If you rationalize your presence, then at least show up wearing Canadian, Mexican, or Ukrainian colors.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Or, as Jason Stanley aptly refers to it--Erasing History.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I speak to scores of Veterans weekly and sense that many more are realizing the irreversible damage the conman is doing to our country. However, too many Veterans still mistake Trump's tough talk with actual toughness and courage. Remember your oath--you have a domestic security threat in the WH.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

WTF. If Trump isn't Krasnov, he aspires to be that traitor. I don't have the words to describe the level of disgust I feel toward Trump, Vance, Graham, and the rest of the MAGA, Putin-loving Mafia trying to make this sound like an American win. How embarrassing.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

MAGA Republicans: There is no way to spin this into something positive. Stop trying. You are embarrassing yourself with your mental contortions. Veterans: a combat leader was just berated by a bone spur conman. How long will you be silent? Congress: Impeach now and restore law, order, and decency.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Veterans: Reach out to your active duty colleagues and remind them of their oath and check in on their well-being. I have made a dozen such calls this week and found that many are struggling to make sense of the emerging mafia state and what it means for those in uniform.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I want to see retired flag officers by the hundreds joining thousands of other Vets who still embrace their oath.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Antonia Scatton offers ways to reframe the public debate to favor democracy and democratic values and how to frame MAGA in a way that resonates better than oligarchy or fascism. For example, the mafia state--corrupt, criminal, and bent on revenge. reframingamerica.substack.com?utm_source=g...

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Reframing America | Antonia Scatton | Substack

Changing the way the American Left engages in the public debate. Click to read Reframing America, by Antonia Scatton, a Substack publication.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Some Democrats are appropriately make public pronouncements about the imminent and growing threat to democracy. Yet, these Dems and others, have voted to institutionalize the threat. What are we to make of it as concerned citizens? Either you are exaggerating the threat, or you are cowards.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

When he first made this statement I was angry as hell. I remain angry and am deeply disappointed in any fellow Vet who voted for felon 47 and rationalizes away the felon's clear disdain for military service. Shame on you.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Are those who voted for the felon true believers, opportunists, cowards, or willfully ignorant? While all MAGA types enable the ongoing assault on democracy, values, and human decency, parsing MAGATs at the local level may better inform strategies to mitigate the damage and own the mid-terms.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Dumber. At least my hammer is productive. We knew that he would be a bumbling idiot who would make us less secure as a nation. My issue is with the deafening silence of flag officers and senior security professionals, retired and active duty. Follow your oath or stop drawing a government paycheck.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

As an intelligence professional for 40 years, I am dumbfounded by the GOP's (alias MAGA) support for anti-experts. The felon's supporting cast consists of anti-experts who put the US at grave risk. Our enemies are laughing.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Gallego and Kelly, Assuming we get to vote again, you won't be getting mine.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The SC Citizens United decision opened the flood gates for corporate money. The SC immunity ruling empowers the corporate-backed felon to act with impunity. Feckless Republicans bend the knee while democracy dies on their watch. The last check and balance is gone when US Marshals ignore their oath.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

How embarrassing. For the second time this week I had to discourage a young person from enlisting in the military. I don't trust the felon with the lives of America's sons and daughters and I am losing confidence in military leadership to protect our democracy against domestic threats.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

In class, I often get questions about combat. Body armor, weapons, and armed colleagues made "courage" easier. I encourage students to think about courage absent the physical enablers of courage. In honor of Black History Month, I recall the courage of Keshia Thomas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF_O...

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

An excellent summation by Dem Senators of the madness from a single week. Unfortunately, their appeals to Republican Senators were pointless--none were seated in chambers.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The silence from Dem leadership is deafening. Why aren't you dominating the media? Why aren't you putting a war room in place to counter the felon's lies 24/7? Why is it business as usual? Why are any of you voting to confirm the felon's supporters? Gallego and Kelly have lost my vote. Primary them!

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

An overarching strategy that touches on a few key issues of the many that we face. We still need a plan. Dem leadership will likely work traditional levers of power, but we need offensive tactics/strategies: divestment, boycotts, large-scale demonstrations, strikes, and a constant media presence.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I took a day off from the internet, hoping I would return to some Dem leadership statements about the way forward, and plans to counter the felon's lengthening list of assaults on our democracy, health, economy, and environment. Crickets are louder.

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Speaking Truth to Power @factualist.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Boycotting and divesting work. Look at how effectively the morally bankrupt MAGA crowd has succeeded in their efforts to tame businesses that deviate from a MAGAT vision of America. I have adjusted my lifestyle to stay clear of Kayleigh and those like her. I won't miss her.

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