Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife.
While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE.
This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.
Always.
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social and @preetbharara.bsky.social clip on current events. Preet gets it exactly right!
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ποΈAs an old newspaperman, this Mark Twain adage is ringing a bell this morning:
"Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel."
ποΈThe Atlantic is handling these inept, lying enemies of the people with the truth ... and nothing but the truth.
What was dumber: including a journalist on a signal chat about your bomb plans or then calling that journalist βbottom scumβ while he still had the screenshots available to publish as your colleagues were already committing perjury
They forget others have seen the chat messages.
Texted LITERALLY WAR PLANS
Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasnβt a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.
Dumb, for no good reason, dumb! And loud about it!
Some much for βnobodyβ!
The guy they invited into the chat is the βscumβ? Wow! They have a funny way of saying hero!
I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
Hereβs my ask of you today:
I want you to engage with EVERY article/post you see about Signalgate. Like, comment, share. Every one.
The reason why the media kept talking about Hillaryβs emails was because every story & post about it got massive engagement.
Sound good?
Screen shot of Signal chat on Houthi tiger team- initial chat shows "Joe Kent for DNI"
BTW, this is the slender thread on which Tulsi Gabbard is hanging her "do not recall" defense. On the initial chat it says "Joe Kent for DNI."
So Gabbard is invited on her phone & Joe Kent showed up.
Kent is nominated as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, pending confirmation.
#SignalGate
This didnβt age long β¦
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
As a casual non-white observer, itβs so bizarre to see folks work so hard to try to prove their superiority over someone like me when they could spend that time actually bettering their own lives andβ¦I donβt know, be happy instead of miserable fucks.
It's almost as if they are insincere. π€
It's always shocking to fake Christians when they meet a real one.
Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is counting on Rand Paulβs confirmation vote.
However, a now-deleted tweet shows Hegseth celebrating the defeat of the GOP Senator and his isolationist military policy.