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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 8h

"Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have announced that they are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts over abortion-pill 'shield laws.'” www.nationalreview.com/corner/life-...

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 8h

"The British government now says there are 'strong indications' that Iran was behind what may have been an attempt over the weekend to bomb the RAF base in Fairford, where the U.S. armed forces station heavy bombers that have been deployed in the ongoing war." www.nationalreview.com/corner/briti...

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British PM Suspects Iran Played a Part in Plot to Attack Air Base | National Review

Andy Burnham’s comments appear to confirm those of President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio, but so far there are no charges.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 8h

"The blunt truth is that this could all have gone very differently, and if it had, we would be looking at a different world this morning.” www.nationalreview.com/corner/somew...

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Somewhere, It’ll Always Be September 12 | National Review

This ought to serve as a reminder that there is nothing new under the sun.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 9h

"Pete Hegseth’s reported plan to cut 20% of the military’s general and flag officers, and what that means for military leadership, congressional oversight & civilian-military relations." It means purging general & flag officers who won't follow illegal orders. www.thebulwark.com/p/command-po...

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Command Post: Hegseth Takes an Axe to Generals, Admirals and Military Education

A recording from The Bulwark's live video

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

Meaning the scenario will never happen. The gist seems pretty easy to parse.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

If "they" were sending ground attack aircraft after the tyrant, why would they care about collateral damage?

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

Translation: He's more concerned about escaping the $83.3 million second judgment now. i.e. His wallet "trumped" his ego. Beats me why he hasn't just "disappeared" E. Jean Carroll and been done with it. What kind of dictator is he, anyway? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll case

The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

They will either affirm or deny it, in the latter case of which Trump will ignore them and keep the ethnic cleansing to third countries going anyway. www.scotusblog.com/2026/09/supr...

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Supreme Court to hear argument on Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants to third-party countries

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

Indeed we do. But the scenario you imagine will never escape your imagination.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

"The Conference Board, a nonprofit business research group, published its latest report, revealing that its consumer confidence index dropped 6.7 points to 81.9 in September — its lowest since 2014." www.conference-board.org/topics/consu...

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US Consumer Confidence

A monthly survey of US consumer attitudes, spending plans, and expectations for inflation, stock prices, and interest rates

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 10h

Yes - "BRRRRRT" and all that. But Warthogs can carry a widely varied munitions loadout. And that isn't really the point, now is it? Yes, I imagine "they" could arrange for a plane and its pilot to "disappear". The more pertinent questions are would they and should they? The answers to both are no.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 11h

So sending A-10 Warthogs to cluster-bomb Mafia Don on the back nine to send him to that Big Drive-Thru in the sky would be....what? A training exercise? "Oopsie, I mistook Doral for Nellis"? As the pre-2015 Rush Limbaugh used to say, "Words mean things."

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 11h

““ Attorney General Todd Blanche’s operation is so preposterously corrupt and politically compromised that even prominent ‘rigged election’ truthers are having moral qualms about working for it." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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DOJ probe into Trump foes sees another prominent departure

Kurt Olsen, who previously worked as Trump’s election security czar, resigned from the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation Monday.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 11h

Because they're guaranteed. And the Trump regime is not bothering to hide it. The man who didn't voluntarily give up power six years ago will never allow free and fair elections for the rest of his lifetime reign. It's the most predictable outcome ever. thedispatch.com/article/trum...

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Why Fears of Federal Troops at the Polls Persist

Inconsistent statements from the Pentagon keep congressional Democrats and others guessing about the prospect of troop deployment at voting spots in November.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 12h

It should never been done. History shows that modern civil wars never end well - for either side and anybody. "Burn it all down" is Seth Rollins' entrance theme, not a solution to a civic crisis that doing so would make unimaginably worse.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 12h

Have you considered what retaliatory atrocities J.D. Vance might order in response? It's not like a U.S. military that is already in Trump's total control would flip loyalties entirely and overnight. This sounds like the "progressive" version of a MAGA civil war fantasy. Again, not a good idea.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 12h

That they're pointless. And, with the midterms rigged, canceled, or overturned, impossible as well. Allthough it might have so enraged Trump that he might finally have had that massive myocardial infarction or brain aneurism we've been awaiting. Ah, well. thedispatch.com/article/trum...

thedispatch.com

How to Think About Impeachment No. 3—and the One After That

It’s not just President Trump who needs to go.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 12h

It's not often one sees a combination of calls to "defend the (functionally abolished) Constitution" and re-enact "Seven Days In May" in the same post. Turning the Ochre Ogre into a martyr is a really, really, very, extremely bad idea. Leave that to the Big Macs and KFC.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 12h

For anybody who remembers and lived through the Jimmy Carter years, this angle isn't going to have nearly the desired impact. Especially when one remembers which party was running America into the ground back then. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kU-...

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NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Misery Index

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The news out of the Strait of Hormuz is pretty straightforward: The Islamic [Empire] of Iran has all but lost whatever control it once had over the maritime traffic flowing through that contested choke point." www.nationalreview.com/2026/09/the-...

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The Parade of Hormuz Horribles Fizzles Out | National Review

What else are the foreign-policy graybeards missing?

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“[T]he latest allegations of corruption & counter-intelligence concerns surrounding the Trump [regime], including Alina Habba’s star-studded wedding & the appearance of FBI Director Kash Patel alongside a former informant who was suspected of being a double agent.” www.thebulwark.com/p/this-kash-...

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This Kash Patel Photo Raises Some VERY Awkward Questions

Michael Weiss and Marc Polymeropoulos are back to give their takes on the latest allegations of corruption and counterintelligence concerns surrounding the Trump administration, including Alina Habba’...

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Jack Smith’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Smith defended his decision to prosecute Donald Trump & said he would make the same decision regardless of whether Trump were a [Trump]lican or [DSA]crat." The former a claim, the latter a fact. www.thebulwark.com/p/breaking-j...

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BREAKING: Jack Smith Comes Out Swinging in Hearing | Morning Shots

A recording from The Bulwark's live video

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you think Trump isn't going to oust the Couch-Humper from his rigged 2028 "ticket" - probably in favor of Stephen Miller-Putin - then you haven't been paying attention. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-m...

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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA

JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The third time would not be the proverbial charm. Which everybody ought to know by now. But to do that, there would have to be more House DSAcrats than Trumplicans. And Trump will never allow that. www.thebulwark.com/p/impeach-hi...

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Impeach Him Again

There’s never been a better time.

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a free and fair election, it would be. Such a thing is impossible in MAGA States, and as for the swing ones, recall the MAGA infiltration of election boards in them in the Biden years that "helped" produce the Trump sweep in 2024. That hasn't changed. www.againstallenemies.net/p/trumps-kis...

againstallenemies.net

Trump’s Kiss of Death Tour

It’s like accepting a dinner invite from Hannibal Lecter

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Hawthorne Abendsen III ✝🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🇹🇼😺🎷 @jasmius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Recently, we were advised to increase our security. Then....federal authorities released the reason why: the Russian regime is hunting opponents on American soil." Remember that red carpet that Trump rolled out for Czar Vlad? It wasn't just symbolism. www.thenextmove.org/p/some-distu...

thenextmove.org

We’re Being Targeted by a Russian Spy Ring.

They’re trying to kill Garry on US soil. We need your help to stop them.

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