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Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.

submitted 7 hours ago • 319 comments

He would have never been appointed by a president who cared about our military. He’s a disgrace to the people in uniform who serve www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 6 hours ago • 455 comments

If you're struggling to keep all of the different immigration/deportation cases straight, I've got a post for you: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…

submitted 6 hours ago • 235 comments

"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 5 hours ago • 1184 comments

When you hire people who mock the very idea of standards or integrity (especially as applied to them), then this is exactly what you get: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth is equally responsible and owns this. Your confirmation served as a stamp of approval and your judgment shouldn't be trusted. This goes for every failure of any official confirmed by the Senate.

submitted 7 hours ago • 152 comments

“She said, ‘I think this is going to be the last time I get to visit you,’” Öztürk’s friend recalled. “I told her, ‘No, no, you’re going to be able to come again, don’t worry, and I’m going to come visit you.’ That all turned out to be wrong.” By @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 7 hours ago • 9 comments

Chair Comer denied our request for an official trip to El Salvador to advocate for due process and the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Pretty shameful. Good thing I don’t need Comer’s permission to get on a plane.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1120 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 7 hours ago • 943 comments

trump's attacks on higher ed, research, media, firms, individuals requires this caution: if you run a nonprofit touching any disfavored subject, be prepared to defend yourself -- your tax status, your funds, your security (digital & physical), & so on. all signs point to a broadening assault.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The nutty thing abt Tim Parlatore being included in Whiskey Pete Hegseth's FAMILY Signal chat, along with the people ousted as scapegoats for leaks, is that Parlatore leaked all the time when he repped Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

If you work in the Department of Health and Human Services or any of agencies and your work on autism has been affected by RFK Jr.’s policies or approach, I would love to talk to you. My Signal is emgarcia.85

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The Pentagon is in "total chaos" and Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and missteps at the highest levels of the department. "The building is in disarray." www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 7 hours ago • 587 comments

Is it spam or is it just Pete Hegseth texting you classified information?

submitted 7 hours ago • 199 comments

AP's Tara Copp reports that there were 13 people on Whiskey Pete's family Signal thread. x.com/TaraCopp/sta...

submitted 7 hours ago • 144 comments

An open letter to law enforcement from my friend Mike Fanone; open.substack.com/pub/michaelf...

submitted 10 hours ago • 103 comments

Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1195 comments

All this because they didn’t have a hotel pre-booked when they arrived. Insane.

submitted 14 hours ago • 145 comments

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

submitted 14 hours ago • 280 comments

I wonder what Jesus would say about cutting off aid to people who are starving and facing deadly diseases overseas. Would he cheer shutting down pediatric cancer research and making it easier for big financial companies to exploit consumers? Yeah, we’re really a Christian nation.

submitted 13 hours ago • 52 comments

Previous FBI directors kept their distance from the president so as to not seem political and also because they might have to mount investigations that could have ties to the White House and the administration. Guess that’s not a concern now.

submitted 13 hours ago • 37 comments

Love this

submitted 14 hours ago • 261 comments

I'm honestly baffled why this angle is not being covered more thoroughly by MSM

submitted 16 hours ago • 78 comments

Van Hollen is, curiously, one of very few electeds acting the way the founders envisioned—using the opportunity of one of the branches overreaching to further his own career. It’s a good thing, but passing strange we don’t see more of it.

submitted 16 hours ago • 67 comments

Many things have contributed to this terrible moment but perhaps chief among them is the historic cowardice of Thune, Johnson, and other Congressional Rs who have the power to stop the madness and refuse to use it on behalf of the American people. It is a Great Betrayal. bsky.app/profile/mona...

submitted 15 hours ago • 95 comments

I messaged Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline about the Easter "ceasefire". Their answer: Russia is firing as usual and preparing new attacks. "For us, it’s just another day of war, with shelling and even an attempt to assault our positions," one brigade told me www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Alongside the recent book banning, this is another unsettling event at USNA. What are authorities afraid of in terms of who speaks there? Our young officers need to be educated, not indoctrinated. Pulling out of a philosophy lecture is sailing into danger. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

I've been shown what purports to be a draft version of a soon to be released Executive Order reorganizing the State Dept. The chain of custody is a bit indirect and it's important to be clear that there can be many versions of such orders circulating and they can be subject to subsequent edits etc.

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

The interesting thing is that according to our own Justice Department, MS-13 began restricting tattoos (c. 2015) on its members precisely bc law enforcement was using them to ID them. Members have to get permission, which means fewer people would have them over last decade

submitted 1 day ago • 244 comments

An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor. A 93-year-old woman who never protested before. They're mad as hell at what Trump is doing to America, as they joined about 80 others in their senior complex in Haverford, Pa. for a "No Kings!" protest like no other My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

This week was definitive proof that pushback works, just like it did during the first trump administration. You may think “resistance” is cringe but it WORKED.

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"It sounds like Trump’s idea of protecting women is limiting their rights to preserve his own grip on power." - Susan Rinkunas www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Stuff like this is very funny until I remember that these same kinds of models are being used to determine if people get chemo.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

These cuts mean worse forecasts, fewer alerts, and more lives at risk during fires, floods, and storms. Cutting off the data that keeps communities safe is dangerous, shortsighted, and unacceptable.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Two-thirds of voters at Indiana University Bloomington’s sole on-campus polling site used their university ID to vote last fall. This week, the state banned students from using these IDs for voting.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

fancy politics lads: have you considered the salience online football guy:

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New: Here's a chart of the top conservative / liberal accounts on X. See that small blue dot? That's @acyn.bsky.social. His fast-cut clips of political combat get hundreds of millions more views than major news sources - and basically no one knows who he is. So I profiled him. wapo.st/3RpEvJ7

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

submitted 1 day ago • 448 comments