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The CIA Director testified today that he is not sure a reporter was on the unclassified national security group chat that recklessly disclosed military plans in Yemen. The whole world is aware of who was part of Signalgate. These people cannot be trusted with America’s national security.

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"Keep Elon Musk the hell away from Social Security!" – Senator Peter Welch 🔥🔥

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Sen. @wyden.senate.gov asks Frank Bisignano, Trump's pick to lead Social Security, if he will stop DOGE from accessing the American people's private data. Bisignano refuses.

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Wow, Wyden catches the SSA nominee Frank Bisignano in a lie in his first question. He asked Bisignano if he was involved in discussions about DOGE? Bisignano said no. But Wyden has a statement from a senior official that Bisignano insisted "on personally approving DOGE hires at the agency."

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

“A Mack-truck-size breach”: @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social discusses being accidentally added to a Trump administration group chat planning military strikes. Read more in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/0VASTR78

submitted 11 hours ago • 35 comments

The White House has apparently decided the best course of action is to lie their way through it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2546 comments

“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.” NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

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They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

submitted 12 hours ago • 387 comments

🚨More news, this time from Isaac Stanley-Becker. Excellent and important reporting about fear and capitulation as defining qualities of the new Trump era: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 23 hours ago • 25 comments

The arrogance and incompetence of the Trump administration is stunning. Democrats will grill several national security officials under oath this week. And expose the harm they have done to the American people.

submitted 14 hours ago • 536 comments

President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.

submitted 17 hours ago • 56 comments

You've got to wonder how many signal chats are going on in the Trump administration that they didn't accidentally include the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic in.

submitted 22 hours ago • 267 comments

Young men don't open bank accounts. They are too expensive. They download coin base or Robinhood app and buy crypto. That's their savings If one party pushes that number higher. They vote for em. Gensler/Biden caused those savings to go down. The demo with the biggest change was young men

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SCOOP: Shortly after senior Trump officials discussed the bombing of Yemen in a Signal group chat that just happened to include the Atlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join. wrd.cm/41Yztbw

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NEW: The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica. One climate health expert called the directive “catastrophic.” With @fastlerner.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/nih-...

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From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

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From @blumenthal.senate.gov, D-Conn., a senior member of the Armed Services Committee: "Teenagers making plans for a Saturday night mix up group text chains – the National Security Advisor and Secretary of Defense discussing mission details where American lives might be at risk cannot."

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Circling back on this…

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Billionaires hate Social Security because it functions as insurance for working Americans and not a piggy bank for Wall Street. @alaw202.bsky.social

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Judge Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, has raised a record $24 million for the April 1 election with contributions from 113,000 donors, her campaign said. Judge Brad Schimel, the conservative candidate, is benefiting from two super PACs tied to Elon Musk.

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What happened when the editor of @theatlantic.com was included on Mike Walz's group chat www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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NEW from Bill Kristol: "Among those who might be expected to stand up against Donald Trump's authoritarianism, the hills are alive with the sound of excuses." www.thebulwark.com/p/stop-makin...

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Furious at Elon Musk? The best way to channel your anger at Musk is coming up. On April 1, there is a Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, and Musk has spent $10M on the race. Let’s send a message that grassroots activism can beat Musk’s millions. www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-to-cha...

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The Usha Vance led delegation to Greenland was unsought by the Greenlanders and has been angrily rejected by them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

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The White House wants to recruit corporate sponsors to contribute to its Easter Egg Roll next month, raising ethical and legal concerns that President Trump is allowing companies to profit from the 147-year-old tradition by turning it into a showcase for their brands.

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The Trump administration appears to be actively contemplating an act of Putin-like aggression and annexation against a NATO ally.

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Usha Vance, the second lady, is scheduled to join the White House national security adviser, the energy secretary and other U.S. officials to visit Greenland this week, amid President Trump’s continued push to take over the island, officials said on Sunday.

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All you need to know about Twitter

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A tiny French village became an ALS hot spot. Neurologists found that the patients consistently ate three foods: game, dandelion greens, and, notably, wild mushrooms. Shayla Love traveled there to investigate:

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JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally" "If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

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So, if you’re not a good ally, we can takeover your territory? Sounds like the German approach ahead of the start of WW II.

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If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

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We have a pro- fraud regime

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NEW: Trump allies press the White House to dial back Elon Musk's media interviews over his Social Security jabs Republicans are getting nervous about Musk downsizing the SSA. Democrats are readying for battle to defend Social Security. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Elon Musk is spending millions of dollars to elect Brad Schimel, a conservative judge in Wisconsin, to the State Supreme Court. If he succeeds, conservatives will retake a 4-to-3 majority and be in a position to push the state rightward on issues like abortion, labor rights and congressional maps.

submitted 3 days ago • 222 comments

Has Howard Lutnick done anything of value as Commerce Secretary ?

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Jaw dropping ignorance. Witkoff knows nothing. Has no knowledge of the violence that Russians have used to suppress Ukrainians in Occupied Ukraine

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Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire. Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would. They're not fraudsters. They earned it. How out of touch are you not to realize that?

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JUST IN: Judge excoriates Trump administration lawyers at hearing over deportations reut.rs/4j5bDSr

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