There have been some very bad developments today.
There have been some very bad developments today.
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Kristi Noem personally approved all DHS contracts over a certain threshold.
But before the contracts reached her, they had to be approved by political appointees. Lewandowski was typically the last to OK a contract before Noem, DHS officials said.
TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.
CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
Authoritarians will stop at nothing to feel safe. Since they have no concept of public welfare and consider everyone an asset to be used and discarded, they will easily enter into a military conflict without a long-term strategy, regardless of the casualties it causes.
"Six Days of War, 10 Rationales." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
This is useful. (But it should have included a short list for easy access."
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me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
DHS made a massive purchase of 2,500 new custom marked ICE vehicles that are now sitting in parking garages because nobody wants to use them: βICE has never had marked vehicles. We donβt want to use these - we canβt.β www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immig...
βThe U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as "an operational trigger" for "sleeper assets" according to alert sent to law enforcement agencies.β
I was called an alarmist when I mentioned sleeper cells. π€·ββοΈ
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If you heard me speculate this morning that Trump thinks "boots on the ground" in Iran literally means shipments of footwear... I was only half-joking π€¦πΌββοΈ
So how about it, Mr. Chairman? Why not launch a probe to find out whether Foxβs editing issue was βinadvertent,β as they claim β or, as certainly seems possible given the networkβs record, βan intentional effort to mislead the American peopleβ?
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/sho...
The White House released a photo of Trump and Vance without their heads bowed during the dignified transfer ceremony.
Pete Hegseth and military officials are bowing their heads in the photo.
Representative Melanie Stansbury, a Democrat from New Mexico, right, speaks to members of the media. Photographer: Kayla Bartkowski/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Melanie Stansbury: βWhile this Administration is spending nearly $1 billion a day on a war in the Middle East that has now claimed the lives of 7 U.S. service members & doing the bidding of billionaires β Americans are struggling to put food on the table & a roof over their headsβ
The best response to Donald Trump raising gas prices is to quote Donald Trump.
"Jews don't belong in American society."
Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America.
But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
The Dow is down 3000 and gas is up 42 cents a gallon in just 9 days.
This is not trueβdriverβs licenses arenβt acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that βevery American getsβ
Trump's war is illegal and a terrible mistake. And it needs to end as soon as possible.
My latest π
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-third-...
So if the President and the Secretary of War Crimes are aware that Russia is providing intel to Iran to attack American targets, and they donβt not disclose it, say itβs βnot important,β and now want to UNSANCTION Russian oilβ¦ isnβt that, umβ¦ treason? β¨β¨
Seriously, what the fuck is going here?
Itβs honestly hard to get accurate info on this war at all. Some of the OSINT accounts are doing a great job trying, but information is being locked down everywhere.
Even the MDA account in Israel is being censored now. We went from constant updates to radio silence.
People got real mad at Biden for looking at his watch during a dignified transfer.
Looking forward to the same outrage at Trump for wearing a fucking hat
Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 30ish mins, gogo.
Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would
Jesus, Japanβs Nikkei index is down over 4,000 points, over 7%
South Koreaβs KOSPI is down 8% and hit a circuit breaker.
Tomorrow is gonna be brutal, but it will probably also eventually make Trump TACO.