5 hours ago, dannpan said:

This act can't be done with just an EO.  It has to be approved by Congress.  There is already a GOP Senator, Bill Cassidy who has said he will bring this up for a vote.  However, I don't think it will pass through Congress as I believe 60 votes are needed.  I would be shocked if any Dem senator voted for it so it will most likely fail.

They know it won't pass. The plan is to slash the department to bare bones so that it can't be of any use.

Barack Obama is finally on bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/barackobama.bsky.social

The Atlantic article: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

Archive link: https://t.co/YT3xaY4MaS

 

What a dumbass administration.  These people are so unqualified. 

Is it common for government officials to use a messaging app like Signal to do government business? 

 

 

1 hour ago, Toups said:

The Atlantic article: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

Archive link: https://t.co/YT3xaY4MaS

What a dumbass administration.  These people are so unqualified. 

Is it common for government officials to use a messaging app like Signal to do government business? 

It shouldn't be common but... apparently.
A bunch of unqualified idiots who accidentally invited a reporter from the Atlantic to their group chat about actual war plans that they carried out.

The incompetence of all these governmental idiots is just ...

I thought Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic did a professional write-up.  He said what he witnessed and how badly things were run.
Yet he waited until after the war event happened, and didn't give out names of secret intelligence operative(s) whose name(s) were inadvertently revealed to him.   

Edited March 24Mar 24 by janea4old

https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/1904263639605084512

👀 You have got to be kidding me.https://t.co/IhhvFvw6DG pic.twitter.com/bnNG4dGSpI

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 24, 2025

 

https://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton/posts/1191027475713834
Hillary Clinton
👀 You have got to be kidding me.

Story in The Atlantic
 

Hillary also reacted the same on threads:
https://www.threads.net/@hillaryclinton/post/DHmE6l7xQnw

 

Edited March 25Mar 25 by janea4old

cross-posted with the film awards thread

https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3ll5j7sqwvm2u

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) March 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM

 

https://apnews.com/article/no-other-land-oscar-israel-palestinians-084c63f33e748a3279646759e9b705c2

 

This whole chat group story with the journalist from The Atlantic is absolutely insane. And the hypocrisy from the people involved is on a level that is out of this world. Pete Hegseth was screeching like a banshee about Hillary Clinton's emails, but now when the shoe is on the other foot he's trying to discredit The Atlantic and Jeffrey Goldberg and denying this whole thing.

And Trump of course knew nothing..... To be fair, that I can actually believe. But for someone who spent years painting Biden as incompetent and not fit to lead, it doesn't paint a very flattering image.

"I don't recall".....

Totally unbelievable. You can see the panic in his eyes when he tries to figure out what to say. I'm stunned by the incompetence and the blatant bullshit the comes out of this idiot's mouth. I'm glad Jon Ossoff doesn't let up and keeps hammering away at him.

 

Edited March 25Mar 25 by I Am A Swede

Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was *in Moscow* while on that signal chat about Yemen.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/

Edited March 25Mar 25 by janea4old

Don't we all feel so safe and secure with this clusterfock at the helm?! Yeah...me, neither.

Some good news to report in a special Pennsylvania election for the 36th district. It has gone blue! And this was an area that Trump won by double digits - not to mention a seat held by Republicans for 46 years:

https://www.wgal.com/article/pa-special-election-results-state-senate-36th/64272825

Edited March 26Mar 26 by Wendy

Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses PBS and NPR of ‘Brainwashing Children’ Ahead of Congressional Hearing

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/marjorie-taylor-greene-accuses-pbs-and-npr-of-brainwashing-children-ahead-of-congressional-hearing/

 

2 hours ago, Marco Dane said:

Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses PBS and NPR of ‘Brainwashing Children’ Ahead of Congressional Hearing

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/marjorie-taylor-greene-accuses-pbs-and-npr-of-brainwashing-children-ahead-of-congressional-hearing/

Someone please stop the madness!! This woman is clearly completely deranged.

I don't understand what's happening. Every day you hear a new Republican make some absolutely insane statement. Like the idiot who wanted to rename Greenland into Red White and Blueland. It's like we've all fallen down a rabbithole like Alice did, but instead of ending up in Wonderland we've ended up in Nightmareland. 

(I didn't post the full-sized bsky video because it's so horrific and auschwitz-like.
This small screengrab is horrific enough).

https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3llcvtkjvos2z
and
https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3llcw7gass22t

Full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/06/trump-white-house-media-social-influencers/

no paywall copy: https://archive.is/FPk5J

All the stuff in the article is terrible, so I suggest don't read unless you have a safe person to comfort you after reading.