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One of the most alarming aspects of the Signal Scandal is the fact that Trump regime officials used the Signal app to hide what was happening from the government itself. Signal messages National Security Adviser Michael Waltz sent to the group chat were set to disappear after one week. That’s…

She must want Musk deported.

Here you have it. The problem is they now have the credibility of a used car salesman, or the President of the United States. They didn’t even mention state secrets until their 3rd or 4th attempt at evasion. Scoundrels. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

I hope the technical details. ofTrump's State Secrets invocation don't get missed amid the frenzy abt the Signal chat. Eg, DOJ is pulling a fast one here, claiming Boasberg only needs info to find out of State Secrets applies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

How? The GOP, that’s how.

Would a headline ever, EVER have called this a “mishap” if it had been done under Biden or Obama? No, absolutely not. And, for bonus, a Susan Collins-esque “learned a lesson” quote from the president, treating his national security advisor like a chastened 7-year-old.

Got an idea for a new drinking game we can call “Pete”: You take a shot every time you get a Signal notification

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...

ICYMI Trump endorsed Brad Schimel for the swing seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court over the weekend, ensuring that this race will be taken as a referendum on his term - as well as deciding the future of reproductive rights and collective bargaining in WI. Help stick it to him. Turn out Dem voters.

📌The biggest problem isn't that Pete Hegseth is an under-qualified moron who is texting our military secrets to our enemies like some 15-year-old, blackout drunk. The problem is there is an entire anti-American, bought-off political empire on the Right that simply doesn't give a shit anymore ...

“By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration’s executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer...” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/a...

@ossoff.bsky.social: "My first reaction... was 'what absolute clowns.' Total amateur hour... And this is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials."

It is personally very funny to me that Donald Trump signed a kind-of-insane trade policy today (25% tariffs on any country that continues importing oil from Venezuela after April 2nd, which most of the world’s major economies do right now) and it’s getting no coverage for uhh obvious reasons

I didn't see this segment, but no one who's ever worked in the government could say something like this and believe it.

Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

Yeah, Marie Antoinette thought they were paid protestors too.

This was what Judge Millett was getting at today in the D.C. Circuit oral argument. If the government doesn't have to give you notice or a hearing before removing you from the country, what's to stop them from removing you - literally you, the person reading this - from the country tomorrow?

The Trump administration has now filed six emergency applications at #SCOTUS challenging rulings by six different federal district judges spread across five different federal district courts. Maybe it's not the judges who are "rogue"?

lol. they think the problem was not following best practices in keeping Waltz's Signal leak channel separate from his Signal war planning channel.

Leader Jeffries: "If House Republicans are truly serious about keeping America safe, and not simply being sycophants and enablers, they must join Democrats in a swift, serious and substantive investigation into this unacceptable and irresponsible national security breach."

Just accidentally texted Steve Harvey the plans for my invasion of France. I'd appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.

just think if Jeffrey Goldberg didn't voluntarily leave that group chat. they never would've figured out he was in there.

Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.

This is depravity

Circling back on this…

Hegseth needs to go under oath before Congress ASAP. Republicans need to at least try to pretend to put country over party for once.

Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade

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

NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

It’s all bad, obviously, but something about this really brought home the seriousness of our national security team.

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

Not to mention that people were tracking the planes on FlightRadar 24@

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

Call Sen. Wicker. 202-224-3121

these guys are treating the state secrets privilege like it's an immunity rather than an evidentiary privilege. good luck guys, i'm sure this will turn out great for you. great lawyering, as always. d team forever.

Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.

The Columbus City School District just outed every trans kid whose parents allowed them to change their name in the school’s database. Without notice, CCS switched from preferred names to legal names in class rosters, Google Forms, emails & much more. Outed trans kids are being harassed.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Republicans are not going to take this seriously and are banking that it will just blow over

Trump never knows what his own administration is doing, but he’s fully aware of every single mean thing everyone on TV said about him that day.