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I can’t help but to think of some of the most controversial intelligence leaders in American history, and what they would think of the blistering incompetence we are witnessing currently. None of this should be partisan at this point.

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GABBARD: "I can attest to the fact there were no classified or intelligence equities that were included in that chat group, at any time." KING: "So, the attack sequencing, and timing, and weapons, and targets--you don't consider should've been classified?" GABBARD: "I defer to the Sec'y of Defense…”

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😳DEER IN HEADLIGHTS moment for Tulsi Gabbard

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⚠️Threat goes FAR beyond inclusion of reporter in chat 📲📲📲📲How many linked devices w/Signal, for each? How/when did each join chat? Has any participant EVER clicked inside an email seemingly from Signal? What about other access to linked devices (staff, family)? cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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⚠️We now have to ask: are NSC & Dept of Defense thoroughly uncoordinated here? And if so, how would that play out in a major natsec crisis? - NSC spox CONFIRMED text chain? - Yet, SecDef now crying: "deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes."

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Has Pentagon spox Sean Parnell commented yet on the Hegseth classified info debacle? Just curious.

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People you can trust more than the Trump admin, with national security info:

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“Worse than expected on the manufacturing front. We are actually looking at a contraction in terms of #manufacturing”

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What does Chuck Schumer really believe? Changing his tune just to seem more atuned to Dem grassroots anger?

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Putin had a pole-dancer stage built in his secret palace on the Black Sea coast. For real. So much bother, when America sends a pole dancer directly to the Kremlin. CONSERVATIVE paper btw.

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👀 Pentagon Launches Probe Including Polygraphs After Musk Visit www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Hall of Fame for very out of touch with real world. Millions depend on that check for food and shelter.

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Make it make sense. I am begging someone. #SBA #studentloans #educationdepartment

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😱 Commerce Sec’y Lutnick (worth $2-4B): “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks…my mother-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain…a fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming and yelling and complaining”

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Trump just completely DODGED direct question re whether he’s considering abandoning NATO command. Reporter asked, then asked again. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Trump just promised the cost of education will be HALVED in the U.S. While results will soar to leading the world. WHO believes this guy?

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🔴NEW analysis of House CR: "More than 100% of the net fiscal benefit would accrue to the top quintile." budgetlab.yale.edu/news/250319/...

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DEMS’ MINDSET PROB: - Voting the same as Schumer actually gets you cred for future leadership. - So, if/when torches are passed…will they even illuminate the way? - Only in Washington. Because these dynamics were understandable in a previous era. But we are in a new one.

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🔴New evidence of MASSIVE Dem missed oppty: - Even Trump WH realizes it lacks a coherent economic message. - Dems could be offering one, precisely when Trump’s WH is on the back foot! - But Dems stuck in anemic reactive mode, instead of working on a lift-all-boats plan, pro prosperity, pro stability

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Autopen is perfectly fine when you’re passing off “signed” MAGA hats (made overseas?) at $243 a pop!

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Recipe to crack the Social Security system. Acknowledged by an inside memo: popular.info/p/exclusive-...

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🔥 📉GEE I wonder how that happened!? Any theories out there? #manufacturing

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Our problem is Schumer AND beyond. Others. Mindset. Awareness. From his big NYTimes interview:

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Putin couldn’t smother Radio Free Europe. And then…

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1991. I was giving a fellow Hill staffer a ride home. This song came on as we coursed thru the city. “Anything is possible!” He said. “Just look at Berlin, Bucharest, all of it!” I think about that moment a lot. We were so hopeful. I will never surrender hope. Never. youtu.be/n4RjJKxsamQ?...

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Schumer couldn’t see the rage on his flip phone. And others never saw it in stacks of printed-off emails.

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State Dept “quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell The New Republic.” newrepublic.com/article/1927...

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Letting Putin pick America’s negotiators. Art of the deal!

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If one side is already getting things they want, *before* signing, why not play hard to get? Reluctance was incentivized. Art of the deal! (L: AP, R: FT) #Putin #Trump #Ukraine

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“All cards are on the table” in US attacks inside Mexico: Ambassador nominee

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Kinda hilarious that Biden was far better for Tesla, no dog and pony show required:

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DEMS DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH LEVERAGE 🤷‍♂️

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I am asking yet again

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This clip is getting attention because someone spoke the PLAIN TRUTH. And that it’s a standout moment tells us a lot about legacy media, in this sad era of history. Steve Liesman:

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Trump’s doing all this for his 51st state crackpottery. Seriously. And notice: no mention of fentanyl, despite days of them drumbeating that horseshit excuse.

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Complete economic policy disorientation

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theonion.com/trump-says-r...

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“I will not hesitate to increase this charge. If the United State escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said at a news conference in Toronto…”It’s one person who is responsible, it’s President Trump.” apnews.com/article/cana...

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Putin gets special treatment. Again. Funny how that keeps happening.

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It doesn't require one shred of legislative experience, for you to cut through the jungle of details (and accusations) that are headed your way, re: govt funding v shutdown. Keep this simple contradiction in mind next week. Says it all: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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🚨HELL NO🚨 Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum, listed for sale by DOGE: www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...

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To the “when they get here they should USE ENGLISH!” folks…here’s a Pittsburgh newspaper from 1962. 🇺🇸God Bless America and have a diverse day! 🤓Happy perusing: www.loc.gov/item/sn85055...

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