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Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Late-stage radicalization and instability have characterized the actions and mood of autocrats in decline. We are seeing a version of it taking shape in the White House now. The Republican wipeout in the elections is prompting a dangerous reaction in a leader whose personality cult is shrinking and fading and whose foreign patrons are taking advantage of his weakness to make their influence over him more visible.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
This is why he must go. We have service members in combat right now and all the SecDef cares about is his own political survival. Our military deserves leaders that put them first. Hegseth has always only cared about his own image and political agenda. This isn’t a game. It’s life and death. He must be investigated and removed. @WellmanForMO
“Pete is focused on three things: survival, survival, and survival,” said a U.S. official. “He wants to survive long enough where he can leave on his own terms… He wants to survive to preserve a political future.” @JackDetsch @dlippman
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Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Trump is never responsible. It's always the advisors. In 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2025, and 2026. Trump didn't know about all the bad things that were happening. They advisors hoodwinked him. And he's also the smartest most savvy president in history. Sure teapaw.org/atrupar/status/2119464…
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
The thing I keep returning to after watching the Musk documentary is not the fraud, not the lies about self-driving cars, not the staged battery swap in 2013 or the “flying car” demo in October. It is the question of how a person becomes this.
You lie, the market rewards the lie, you lie bigger, the market rewards you bigger, the people around you who could stop you get fired or leave, and after about fifteen years of this you no longer know you are lying. You believe you are correct, and “correct” in your head now means correct about the shape of the future, about who should run things, about which humans matter.
That is the god complex, which is a trained response to a market that would not say no.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
This is a very big deal.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
450000 Russians killed in senseless war. Putin will go down I history as one of Russias worst leaders.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
We were elected to elevate the lives of working people across this country. We’re coming in LASER FOCUSED on the mission.
Help people. Hold anyone who has hurt people accountable. Tax the billionaires. The end.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: UKRAINE SAYS NEPTUNE MISSILES STRUCK A RUSSIAN FACTORY SUPPLYING ISKANDER MISSILE COMPONENTS.
Ukraine's military says it hit the Proton-Electrotex defense-electronics plant in Oryol, Russia, overnight November 6–7.
A fire broke out. Explosions were reported.
THE TARGET MATTERS MORE THAN THE FLAMES.
According to Ukraine's General Staff, the factory produces electronic components used in Russia's Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Kover cruise missiles.
This is reportedly the second strike on the facility in roughly two weeks.
Ukraine is targeting the supply chain behind Russian missiles, not just the weapons themselves.
The extent of production damage remains unknown.
THE OBJECTIVE: DISRUPT RUSSIA'S ABILITY TO BUILD THE MISSILES IT USES AGAINST UKRAINE.
Watch the reported strike footage. 👇
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Hugely useful reporting but “govern” is not the word. Trump’s only constitutional authority is to execute the laws Congress passes or has passed. To try to exercise power otherwise is to “attempt a coup” or more politely “try to rule” or “reign.”
reuters.com/legal/government…
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Lying is their brand. It is at the core of the MAGA movement. If they are talking, they are lying. teapaw.org/atrupar/status/2119461…
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Measles.
What we hear: Just a fever and a rash. I had it as a child and did just fine.
The actual consequences, which no one can predict: Pneumonia, hearing loss, encephalitis (brain swelling), immune amnesia, death.
There is no reason for any child to suffer from this preventable disease.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
I am all for this! 100%
In eight weeks El-Sayed will carry his pesticide ban into the Senate.
Abdul El-Sayed, who wants toxic pesticides out of American food, won Michigan's Senate race on November 3. El-Sayed beat Republican Mike Rogers with about 52 percent. El-Sayed will be sworn in on January 3, when the new Congress starts, and his food plan moves with him.
His pesticide plan, called Building a Healthier America, came out in September. It calls for limiting pesticide use, banning pesticides that Europe already prohibits and fighting the legal protection that shields the companies that make them. It also asks for safer drinking water, new lead pipes and healthier school lunches.
First El-Sayed has to write the federal bill. He described it as broad legislation led by science, and he has kept the list of chemicals open so far. Farm groups and pesticide makers will get their say before any vote on the bill.
Sources: Washington Post, Associated Press
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
This bill is a Trojan Horse.
Why would anyone vote for this permitting bill after voters have just handed us the largest midterm repudiation of a sitting President in American history?
I urge my Senate colleagues to vote NO.
We cannot greenlight transmission at any cost, including undermining tribal sovereignty, protections for sacred sites, public lands, clean water, wildlife, and the environment for generations to come. We can, and we must, pass a bill we can actually believe in—not a false promise.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
I’m just going to say it.
Pete Hegseth is threatened by diversity because he knows he’s mediocre at best.
His entire career is a masterclass in failing upward.
His attacks on DEI have nothing to do with strengthening our military. They’re about tearing down the very people whose qualifications and accomplishments expose his own shortcomings.
All that macho posturing doesn’t fool anyone.
#SupportTheTroops
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Mass arrests of young men in Moscow: Russian media report that they are being handed military conscription notices.
Individuals were detained during raids on clubs and bars in the Russian capital.
Among those who received conscription notices are students—including some who had actually been granted a deferment from military service. Some of those detained reported that they were beaten.
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Wow I see the GOP is still not wanting to understand the situation. But this is a party that backed Trump even after he incited a violent mob to go after them. They even praised their own attackers as patriots to please h.
Republicans are furious at Trump for promoting Stephen Miller, according to Fox News. As I noted, this will crush the GOP in 2028. They say he should fire him instead.
foxnews.com/politics/house-g…
Jim McCasland ☮️ retweeted
Retired Navy Vice Admiral and Congresswoman-elect Nancy Lacore (D-SC) said she “was never given a reason” as to why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired her in August 2025, but “at this point, it doesn't really matter.”
“It opened a door for me to do what I'm doing now and continuing my service in Congress,” she told @margbrennan on Friday.
When asked what impeachable offenses she thinks Secretary Hegseth has committed, she said “there’s probably plenty, and I do believe that this will be handled before I get there.”
