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“The president had a feeling, again, based on fact that Iran was going to strike the US, was going to strike our assets in the region, and he made a determination to launch Operation Epic Fury based on all of those reasons.”

Trump’s foreign policy is just ✨vibes✨

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Warnock on the Senate floor now following Murphy giving the sermon of why this is all wrong @chrismurphyct.bsky.social needs to be speaker.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social is doing a master class in the Senate right now. Lindsay sounded like a lunatic talking about supporting the protesters. What about our protesters?

"it's not that the US once had enough munitions for China, but then used them assisting Ukraine or in operations in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, Venezuela, Iran, etc. It's that the US never had enough munitions for China and decided to expend munitions for these other purposes anyway"

Good luck, kids.

Secretary Noem is either completely incompetent or violating our rights with impunity, she should be removed from office.

Republicans are once again trying to do what they do best: cut taxes for the ultra-wealthy.

No plan, and you got rid of the “redundancy” of support personnel who are just there “if” something happens. We don’t need contingency plans for things that never happen. Because peace president.

Q: Was there a plan in place to evacuate Americans before the attack?

MARCO RUBIO: That's the plan we're trying to carry out. The problem is airspace closures.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

🤥 @KristiNoem today: “I didn’t call Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.”

FLASHBACK: she sure did 👇🏽

The complete idiot Kaitlan is interviewing here is … {checks notes} … a United States Senator

bookmark this one

It may but it doesn’t.

Kaine: "Donald Trump abandoned diplomacy and now our service members are dying as a result. Iran has shown it will reach a deal to block its nuclear path. Donald Trump prefers war and he doesn't want to come to Congress to ask for permission."

You won’t let anyone in anyways.

JD VANCE: "There's just no way Trump is gonna about this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"

TRUMP HOURS LATER: "Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully"

GRASSLEY: The press is attacking you for changing airport shoe removal policy. Does the $1b investment relate to the issue in the IG report?

KRISTI NOEM: I can't speak to that report because it's classified. There was flawed data included in it.

Who is making the US unsafe for visitors?

"Is it so hard to say you were wrong?" -- under questioning from Durbin, Kristi Noem refuses to retract her statements about Alex Pretti and Renee Good being domestic terrorists, but throws "agents at the scene" under the bus for the fact she said it in the first place

DURBIN: Is DHS required to follow federal court orders?

NOEM: Yes sir, and we do

DURBIN: How do you explain that your agency has repeatedly violated them, as your own administration has admitted?

NOEM: We follow them when they apply


DURBIN: I'm sorry

DURBIN: Do you understand that people protected by DACA have to go through a criminal background check?

NOEM: Yes

D: Why have you deported dozens of DACA holders who complied w/ background check

N: We follow all laws

D: Why did you deport them?

N: I don't know the details of that specific case

See, the thing is we haven’t been—not because past presidents were perfect angels or thrilled with Iran, but because they didn’t want to close the Strait of Hormuz, evacuate American civilians from the whole region, and set the world economy on fire.

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KENNEDY: What got my attention was you blamed your 'domestic terrorist' comments on Stephen Miller

NOEM: No

K: Here's what you said. 'Everything I've done I've done at the direction of the president & Stephen'

N: Where?

K: Did I read your words accurately?

N: I enjoy working w/POTUS & Stephen

KLOBUCHAR: Are you aware agents bashed in the door of a citizen?

NOEM: I can't speak to specifics

K: Do you believe he was involved in fraud? Are you aware he's son of a beloved nurse that treated our soldiers in Vietnam? Did they have a judicial warrant? Are you aware he tried to show his ID?

COONS: Does DHS operate with arrest quotas?

NOEM: No we do not. We do targeted enforcement

C: I would prefer if you did, but just last year Stephen Miller went on Fox & said, 'We're setting a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day'


N: There's no quota


C: He's reportedly berating officials

COONS: Will you rule out the deployment of ICE or CBP to polling places?

NOEM: There are no plans to have ICE officers at our polling locations

C: Would you rule it out?

N: Do you plan on illegal aliens voting?

C: I do not


N: Then there should be no need


COONS: I'm concerned by your rebuttal

They seem to like to summon her for the sheer exuberant fuckyouness of it.

I don't object.

BLUMENTHAL: Wouldn't you agree no citizen working lawfully should be arrested?

NOEM: There are times when they may be arrested or detained until identity is confirmed

B: Would you agree citizens should not be arrested?

N: When there's probable cause ...

B: They said, 'Get him. He's Mexican'