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This is a really good analysis of just some of the very serious harms that we will all experience as a result of the newly announced mass firings at HHS. FDA, CDC will be slammed by latest job cuts open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...

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There is no way this massive cut in HHS employees is predicated on a careful and deliberate evaluation of the department’s resources, needs, and missions—and what’s best for the public.

submitted 20 hours ago • 66 comments

Lock up RAPEY McDrinksalot

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Daily Beast: Marco Rubio 2015: “The exposure of sensitive information to foreign intelligence agencies by communicating in an insecure manner is incompetence, it is malpractice, it’s inexcusable”. Is that True for Trump? For Hegseth? for Walz? for Gabbard?

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh, seems like the White House got a polling briefing on the Florida special elections?

submitted 19 hours ago • 31 comments

(1/X) One thing the media isn't communicating about the Signal group chat story is the following this: Trump and his inner circle are unhappy with the publicity around story but in terms of the national security ramifications, THEY JUST DON'T CARE. This is different from how ....

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1292 comments

🚨 NOMINATION PULLED Trump announces he is pulling Elise Stefanik's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations. The White House was concerned about the Republicans' slim majority in the House.

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"If you set a tariff at 300%, then nobody buys imports, so there’s no revenue collection. Trump seems to believe he can impose prohibitively high tariffs and collect revenue, which you can’t actually do."

submitted 19 hours ago • 111 comments

It's painful to watch NPR CEO Katherine Maher apologize for & abnegate her 2020 tweets that Trump is a racist. He is a racist, but the larger issue is that the value of outlets like NPR depends on 1st amendment protections; if she won't defend her own free speech, both NPR's & ours are at risk.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Pete Hegseth is the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in U.S. history. The Signal debacle is a grave warning that must be heeded. The lives of service members and America’s national security are at stake. Hegseth must resign now, before dangerous errors lead to horrifying consequences.

submitted 1 day ago • 233 comments

This is hilarious. #Greenland

submitted 1 day ago • 1833 comments

It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 1630 comments

@nedprice.bsky.social: "When you talk about pending military operations - tactics, techniques and procedures, TTP as they're called - that is by definition classified information. So it is hard to imagine that the substance that they were communicating was not classified at the time."

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NEW VIDEO: Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes joins me to discuss President Trump's latest executive order targeting elections and explains how the action will disenfranchise voters, cause chaos and make it impossible for states to run free and fair elections. youtu.be/hL4KC21v9Qw

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JUST IN: The 9th circuit court of appeals won’t clear the way for the mass firing of probationary employees at six key federal departments, leaving in place a lower court’s order reinstating thousands of terminated workers.

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I’d like to think things like this give people hope that we are still having and winning elections.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

If you believe that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was on a Signal chat with most of the cabinet members and the VP, will keep your data housed at the IRS, safe. I have a bridge to sell you. IRS has data, in real time, the following: (Thread)

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Fuck Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

@leftynavyseal.bsky.social @lonestarleft.com

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Maggie claims JD has very consistently opposed US getting drawn into conflicts the same week he and his spouse go to Greenland to stoke conflict. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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RE: Puzzle on how Jeff Goldberg got added to the Signal list. There was a story about 10-14 days ago that I haven't been able to refind w/enshittified search suggesting Mike Waltz was on the outs. He was deemed to have hidden Neocon disloyalty. But that may have been bc of a staffer.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

The Democrat who just flipped a very Trumpy seat in Pennsylvania’s Senate made opposition to Elon Musk front and center in his campaign. (lancasteronline.com/news/politic...)

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

This is one of the most telling observations abt the Signal chat (in story noting that US has not yet asked EU to pay). These people are SUPPOSED to be taking on China. But they saw the Yemen strike as helping Europe, not helping China ship goods to Europe. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

When you stop eating Pasta since you hate Europe... And America elected someone who picked these numbnuts.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

How about we hit back? Just saying...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I do think that indeed this is the European Spring. We inside of EU must rise to the expectations of the world, and the countries around who dream of belonging with us inside of EU. It is time that we become the giants that we can be.

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Jock Dump and Usha are going to Pituffik Space Base instead. Nobody in Nuuk wanted to meet them, nor could they find a hotel to bunk in, since the hotels are sold out to European security staff.

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Hi All, just released this free post outlining the Black Sea Ceasefire and how the Trump and Putin governments have basically tried to box Ukraine (and Europe) in. It was (another) betrayal of Ukraine where the US pretended to be friendly, but knifed it in the back. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

"Art of the deal"

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Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more? Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.

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I suggest that UK be honest. It was the UK Government that opted out of ReArm Europe, UK was never excluded.

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If these men had any sense of honor, they would already have resigned. The fact that they are all still in their jobs is just as damning as their terrifying and lawless incompetence.

submitted 3 days ago • 868 comments

I had some words about the Houthi Signal Chat intel disaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLn...

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

“All those men, who loudly condemned Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden for their unintentional mishandling of classified information, who demanded that DOJ prosecute such lapses, sent information on an insecure chat that happened to include a journalist.”

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Here's a simple test of the seriousness of the Republican national security massive incompetence: If this were a campaign, and a campaign manager invited a journalist into a high-level strategy text chat, every Republican would fire their campaign manager immediately. But Sec of Defense?

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I couldn't help but write up some quick thoughts trying to capture the sheer insanity (and illegality!) of that Trump group chat. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

From @rusi.bsky.social @andriypzag.bsky.social rusi.org/explore-our-...

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New in PN: Why the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big deal "Voters by now have demonstrated their ability to choose diarrhea forever over everyone gets a puppy, & to vote away their own rights and democracy. But the WI election is a chance to start turning the country away from authoritarianism"

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Yes, Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz violated all sorts of national security protocols by sharing military secrets with a journalist. But at least they were White when they did this. by Charlie Kirk

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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...

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Jeffrey Goldberg and Pete Hegseth. One takes DOD protocols seriously: Goldberg: —Did not disclose sensitive information; and —Left the chat when clear he was on chain (errantly) w/classified plans We’ve asked Pee Wee amateurs to play in big leagues. Expect (a lot) more unforced errors.

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

Obviously, Jeffrey Goldberg has the texts that Hegseth claims that he doesn’t have. The Senate or House Armed Services Chairs can easily and quickly verify who is lying about this. If Hegseth blatant lied about this on camera tonight, how in the world can he continue in this job?

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Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the names of individuals to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

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