Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
20.04.2025 21:16 — 👍 3313 🔁 968 💬 378 📌 445
One of the early outrages in the Red Scare was Truman’s EO asserting that “sympathetic association” with communist groups was grounds for being fired from a federal job.
That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”
10.04.2025 19:15 — 👍 2377 🔁 783 💬 81 📌 27
It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots.
The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination.
This should outrage every single Member of Congress.
10.04.2025 20:16 — 👍 21450 🔁 6420 💬 695 📌 299
The president today described these arrangements as law firms paying him, meaning they are bribes, and the partners of these firms are criminals.
10.04.2025 22:08 — 👍 227 🔁 53 💬 5 📌 3
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
10.04.2025 16:12 — 👍 5429 🔁 1341 💬 306 📌 196
This story gets so much worse. The trans woman who she refused to fence only finished in 24th place. Stephanie, the forfeiter, also beat *multiple* cis men in a regional match just one week earlier! And conservatives just paid her $5k for her kneel. Why is nobody talking about this?
09.04.2025 13:59 — 👍 2357 🔁 996 💬 50 📌 46
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal
08.04.2025 12:46 — 👍 7251 🔁 1508 💬 52 📌 32
Breaking: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he plans to place a hold on ALL Trump nominees going forward.
This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda.
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08.04.2025 02:00 — 👍 19013 🔁 3139 💬 1311 📌 796
There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!
07.04.2025 22:03 — 👍 10160 🔁 1642 💬 542 📌 114
The majority seems to be affording the president a strong presumption of regulatory-assuming good faith and respect for constitutional boundaries. But everything this administration has done since Jan. 20 rebuts that presumption (a reality that may be dawning on Barrett, but apparently not Roberts or Brett Kavanaugh). As Boasberg has shown, and Sotomayor noted, the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act in secret so it could hustle
migrants overseas before courts could intervene. Why should he now receive this extraordinary, undeserved assistance to continue operating what is so obviously an unlawful program, with a pinky promise that he'll afford due process this time to those ensnared on the thinnest of pretenses? Roberts' decision to bail Trump out is a deeply ominous sign that the chief justice wants to rein in lower courts standing in the way of the MAGA agenda. If he does, it won't just be Venezuelan migrants who pay the price. J
I think the Supreme Court got the law badly wrong tonight. But beyond that, it’s just incredibly ominous that Roberts would throw Boasberg under the bus and hand Trump this big win when his administration has conducted this case in EXTREME bad faith from the start. slate.com/news-and-pol...
08.04.2025 01:17 — 👍 5586 🔁 1614 💬 211 📌 107
In El Salvador, you can be jailed as a gang member for having a tattoo, even though today, actual gang members are discouraged from having tattoos. The heavily tattooed prisoners you see in Bukele’s propaganda videos are middle age lifers arrested years ago under past governments.
08.04.2025 04:15 — 👍 481 🔁 129 💬 4 📌 2
Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.
08.04.2025 00:47 — 👍 15487 🔁 4209 💬 315 📌 125
Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.
07.04.2025 23:23 — 👍 898 🔁 245 💬 35 📌 6
All I keep thinking about is that if/when Dems regain power, every action to restore normality or basic functioning of governmental institutions will be covered by the national press like it’s a controversial, partisan power play on par with a coup.
07.04.2025 22:52 — 👍 9069 🔁 1526 💬 367 📌 160
The government is snatching people off the streets and shipping them to foreign prisons from which, the government claims, they can never be extracted. All with no due process. It’s as bad as it gets. And this court is again avoiding the reality of what’s happening at all costs.
08.04.2025 00:08 — 👍 3494 🔁 1059 💬 55 📌 32
Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.
07.04.2025 23:21 — 👍 44324 🔁 12462 💬 1251 📌 601
He is one guy. Congress can stop this at any moment.
07.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 5160 🔁 779 💬 231 📌 87
I can’t believe the guy who attacked the Capitol would do this.
07.04.2025 13:42 — 👍 3267 🔁 381 💬 45 📌 12
Whoa, is this proof that the information environment is critical for a functional democracy??
07.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 233 🔁 40 💬 5 📌 0
i think it's worse than this. the Republican Party as an institution has thoroughly discredited itself as either interested in or capable of being trustworthy with respect to basic democratic governance
07.04.2025 12:42 — 👍 5659 🔁 1003 💬 120 📌 67
I'm serious about pushing Republicans on impeachment this week. Think about it. There will never be a better chance. Rich people losing their wealth is the *only* thing that can move the needle on this. Not fascism, not racism, not the destruction of public health. This is it.
07.04.2025 02:45 — 👍 4465 🔁 861 💬 110 📌 60
Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.
He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.
Bring them back!
07.04.2025 00:52 — 👍 9831 🔁 3839 💬 250 📌 246
Right now, the message needed is to convince the most normie cringe swing voters that things really are messed up, it isn't just lefty college kids upset like they always are, that other people just like them are also scared and angry and want things to change
06.04.2025 20:05 — 👍 52 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
Too high
06.04.2025 19:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it's not the biggest trump scandal obviously but lack of media curiosity about trump's obviously fake golf victories is a microcosm of how journalists have treated him for the past decade
06.04.2025 17:58 — 👍 810 🔁 182 💬 29 📌 9
Stephen Miller @ @StephenM • 1h
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The alien was a member of a designated foreign terrorist organization, ineligible for any form of relief under law. The only process he was entitled to was deportation.
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Stephen, interesting post!
In court on Friday, the Trump administration's own lawyer said this: "We concede he should not have been removed to El Salvador."
Can you reconcile that admission with the claims in your tweet?
Thanks, looking forward toward to your response!!
Just asking questions, Stephen!!!
06.04.2025 19:19 — 👍 1279 🔁 186 💬 58 📌 11
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