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2025-09-21 01:55:07 UTC

‘That is not the law’: Bondi promised to target ‘hate speech.’ She’s facing backlash from all corners.
“There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech. And there is no place — especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie — in our society,” Bondi told Katie Miller, the former DOGE aide, on her podcast that was released Monday. “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/pam-bondi-first-amendment-hate-speech-prosecution-00566424

2025-09-21 01:23:33 UTC

Pentagon to limit journalists’ access unless they agree not to publish certain information
The unprecedented move is the strongest action yet in restricting how reporters cover the country’s largest federal agency
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/pentagon-limits-access-journalists-00574227

2025-09-21 01:20:26 UTC

Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal.
The administration says the sweeping detentions are a key prong of Trump’s deportation strategy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/ice-detention-immigration-policy-00573850

2025-09-21 01:16:18 UTC

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380

2025-09-05 13:24:10 UTC

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With the profits they buy Bitcoin. They are doing what Michael Saylor is doing with debt and preferred stock issuance, but smarter. No regulation with token issuances, no debt to repay, no interest to pay, no expectation of profit,...

2025-09-05 12:23:36 UTC

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#nevent1q…hfy8

2025-09-05 12:19:36 UTC

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#nevent1q…lyst

2025-09-05 12:14:18 UTC

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Who cares as long as you can sell you shit and collect fees on subsequent transactions?

2025-09-05 10:49:53 UTC

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What empire?

2025-07-24 15:47:13 UTC

Trump to decrease the price of drugs by "1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%. Numbers that are not even though to be achievable."
What a businessman!

2025-06-18 00:46:21 UTC

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The US can't even put a weak military parade without sponsors. Pathetic.

2025-06-18 00:06:31 UTC

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US military deployed in the US against US citizens. Vastly preferable to the alternative.

2025-05-06 12:27:25 UTC

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Paid by 100% tariff on foreigners crossing the boarder.

2025-05-05 23:22:52 UTC

Why We Shouldn't Underestimate This Spy Network
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P3P5OkGt8Q
The world is connected by just 500 cables. America is spying on them, China is building out a competing network, Russia is threatening to break them, and everyone else is caught in the middle.

2025-05-05 22:09:53 UTC

How global trade killed the liberal world order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptZs1l-RCq8
The United States, once hailed as the leader of the free world, is turning autocratic. While it`s easy to tie the shift specifically to Donald Trump, the conditions that enabled both his rise and that of other authoritarian leaders, have been developing for decades. The seeds of destruction lie in economic institutions established under a false assumption: that freer trade would lead to freer societies. This episode of Business Beyond examines the trend through the rise of China, the decline of US manufacturing, and the emergence of new regional groupings, like BRICS and ASEAN.

2025-05-05 22:09:30 UTC

Inside the Most Prepared Country on Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msfrit12u0M
Why Finland is Preparing for war with Russia
I traveled to Finland to train for arctic warfare and to learn what compelled the Finns to join NATO after decades of neutrality. I also visited the Finland-Russian border to understand how Finland’s relationship with its long-time neighbor and former occupier has changed.

2025-05-05 22:09:15 UTC

Why the U.S. Military Spends So Much Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJ0kg9xvLs
The US spends more on its military than any other country in the world. But where does all the money really go?

2025-05-05 22:08:44 UTC

Why the Swiss Love Their Guns (more than Americans)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnBDK-QNZkM
How Switzerland’s Obsession with Guns is Different
Americans and Swiss citizens have some of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, but their gun cultures differ wildly. One country has seen over 500 mass shootings in 2023 alone, while the other has had less than a handful over the past twenty years. To understand why there’s such a stark difference between these two countries’ gun cultures, we traveled to Switzerland to see how each of these cultures started, and where they began to part ways.

2025-05-05 22:08:07 UTC

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Best times for foreign Intel agencies.
#nevent1q…n6m7

2025-05-05 22:03:53 UTC

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned.

2025-04-29 14:00:57 UTC

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And make a nice profit.

2025-04-29 14:00:14 UTC

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Lots of money to be made and lots of political donations to be received.
The government loves crypto. Crypto, lots of Bitcoiners included, love the government.
A new exclusive private club, Executive Branch, was recently launched.
It's founding members include Web3 ambassador Donald Trump Jr. of World Liberty Financial, Omeed Malik and Christopher Buskirk of 1789 Capital, Alex Witkoff and Zach Witkoff co-founder of World Liberty Financial, the sons of billionaire real estate developer and Trump Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, White House crypto czar David Sacks, crypto investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya.
World Liberty Financial is a decentralized finance protocol founded in 2024 with Donal Trump as chief crypto advocate, Barron Trump as DeFI visionary, and Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as Web3 ambassadors.
Then there is the Donald and Milania memecoins, the stablecoin, and the strategic reserve.
Lots of money to be made and lots of political donations to be received.

2025-04-27 00:24:40 UTC

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Have Dinner with President TRUMP
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Only for the TOP 220 $TRUMP Meme Coin Holders.
President Donald J. Trump is Known as the “Crypto President!” At this Intimate Private Dinner, Hear First-Hand President Trump Talk about the Future of Crypto.
https://gettrumpmemes.com/dinner

2025-04-27 00:24:10 UTC

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Trump Meme Coin Price Surges After Top Holders Are Invited For Dinner With President
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/04/24/trump-meme-coin-price-surges-after-top-holders-are-invited-for-dinner-with-president/
The price of President Donald Trump’s official meme coin jumped up sharply late on Wednesday night, after an announcement that the token’s top 220 holders will be given a chance to attend an exclusive “gala dinner” where the president will be in attendance, in a move that is likely to raise ethical concerns, as the Trump Organization and its affiliates own 80% of the token’s supply.

2025-04-25 15:02:01 UTC

Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-dirty-internet-line-6a64707f10ca553eb905e5a70e10bd9d
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, two people familiar with the line told The Associated Press.
The existence of the unsecured internet connection is the latest revelation about Hegseth’s use of the unclassified app and raises the possibility that sensitive defense information could have been put at risk of potential hacking or surveillance.

2025-04-25 15:00:22 UTC

Hegseth had a second Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike
https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-houthis-attack-8dbf9dd6c711796438a5c1c84831c40b
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders, The New York Times reported.

2025-04-25 11:48:18 UTC

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2025-04-25 11:44:30 UTC

2025-04-22 17:50:33 UTC

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R.I.P. U.S. Constitution.

2025-04-20 14:52:16 UTC

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Publicly praising Trump and buying lots of his tokens help others getting out of legal troubles.

2025-04-19 23:31:58 UTC

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I meant to check to whom the protection of the Constitution extents to. Your criminality and experience with being interrogate by law enforcement is irrelevant here. Although I guess you are glad they didn't ship you to an El Salvadorian jail.

2025-04-19 11:28:13 UTC

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Palantir: The New Deep State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ95Gmvg_D4
A former Palantir employee is sounding the alarm. The tech company, founded by Peter Thiel, claims they can revolutionize government systems with their AI-powered software. They’ve been hired by the Department of Defense, the FBI, ICE, and even Wendy’s. Now DOGE will likely hire Palantir as well.
We talked to a former Palantir employee, dug into decades of research and listened to hours of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's own words to carefully unwrap the layers of Palantir’s carefully cultivated sales pitch — and how they capitalize on fear and unrest to make money.

2025-04-18 23:14:19 UTC

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Have you checked? You might learn something.

2025-04-18 17:02:51 UTC

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Due process is a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. It protects people against arbitrary government decisions and ensures fairness in legal matters. Both citizens and non-citizens in the U.S. have the right to due process - a chance to defend their rights and to have a fair hearing.

2025-04-18 16:29:05 UTC

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One day shipping to foreign jail.

2025-04-18 16:28:08 UTC

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Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he would like the agency to implement a system of trucks that rounds up immigrants for deportation in a system similar to how Amazon delivers packages around the US.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” the acting Ice director, Todd Lyons, said. He said that he wanted to see a deportation process “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.

2025-04-18 16:25:46 UTC

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Haha! ICE give you a change. Good one.

2025-04-18 16:23:32 UTC

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Foreigners legally in the US don't have a US birth certificate or passport.

2025-04-18 16:19:33 UTC

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And married women also have to have their marriage certificate with their birth certicate to prove the name change.

2025-04-18 16:15:05 UTC

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How many people carry a passport or birth certificate daily to go to work, go for grocery, pickup kids from school, visiting family,...?
So from now on having a valid passport and birth certificate is mandatory to avoid a one way ticket to a foreign jail for life?

2025-04-18 00:00:56 UTC

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Trump has always had a fascination for dictators: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, and Viktor Orban. His latest bromance is with Nayib Bukele, the "world's coolest dictator," as he likes to call himself.
Trump said he would be a dictator on Day 1. And he is delivering.
Bukele is helping him by offering to jail the people he doesn't want, including US citizens. For a fee of course.
You think Trump having the power to disappear people to El Salvador is a good thing.
There are many gangs operating in the US and criminals with no gang affiliation.
So let's "suspend certain rights" and "clean up the streets."
Let's disregard the Constitution and the laws, remove judges, intimidate political adversaries, crack down on journalists and activities, bypass due process, and ignore term limits.
What can go wrong?
I don't share you dictatorial tendencies. It never ends well for the people.

2025-04-17 12:45:24 UTC

2025-04-17 00:12:40 UTC

The Roman Way to Trash a Republic
When you’re the emperor Augustus, they let you do it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/rome-senators-republic-augustus/682469/
In about 80 years, roughly the same length of time between the end of World War II and now, the Roman Republic was transformed into a dictatorship. If you had told a Roman senator at the beginning of the first century B.C.E. that his grandchildren would willingly hand over governance to a monarch, he would not have believed you. Like the American one, the Roman Republic was founded on the rejection of a king. Rome had a representative government that, though flawed, was based on the rule of law, with freedom of speech and rights to legal recourse for its citizens.
The Roman Republic lasted nearly 500 years, about twice as long as Americans have had theirs. As was surely true for the Romans, most Americans can hardly imagine that their system of self-government might break and be replaced by an imperial dynasty. That is why considering what undid the Roman Republic is useful today—if we can learn from the Romans’ mistakes.
Augustus was Rome’s first emperor. In so becoming, he dismantled the republic and founded a monarchy that would last for more than a millennium. In Rome, most aristocratic men were also senators and usually held that position for life. In the later republic, some of those men—notably, Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus—grew so extraordinarily rich and influential that they began to ignore the constraints of the Senate and the law. In the first century B.C.E., decades of aristocratic overreach and the authoritarian violence of Augustus’s predecessors Sulla and Caesar brought Rome to the brink more than once, but Augustus pushed it over the edge.
He took control of the government gradually but completely, with the support of those wealthy aristocrats who valued fortune above principle and with the complaisance of a population exhausted by conflict and disillusioned by a system that favored the rich and connected. Perhaps most salient for us today, Augustus consolidated his power with the institutional blessing of the Senate.
At first, the Senate let Augustus bend rules and push boundaries. It allowed him to accumulate domestic powers and bring unqualified members of his family into government. The Senate stood by while Augustus removed enemies from his path, and supported him when he put a self-serving spin on recent actions. Even when elections were held under Augustus, he often handpicked state officials.
The senators never called him emperor in his own day, but as primus inter pares, or first among equals, Augustus was allowed to pretend he was part of the republican system even as he destroyed it. Those who praised Augustus and those who failed to fight back, despite their misgivings, created a king by another name. They may have believed they were securing their own positions by doing so, but their acquiescence to Augustus meant the practical end of their power, forever. In their defense, Rome’s senators legitimately feared death if they broke with him; Augustus certainly had a lot of people killed. Our American senators apparently have only primaries to fear—yet they and their congressional colleagues have shown little inclination to rein in their leader or assert their own constitutional powers.
An ambitious and ruthless political operator such as Augustus provides opponents with only so many chances to stop him. The Framers of our Constitution drew on ancient Greek and Roman history when they established our republic and sought to protect it from the inevitable threat of dictatorship. When they discussed ways to avoid despotism, the Romans served as a cautionary tale. The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution look very much like those that were in place in Rome before Augustus. There were none after him.
All of this might raise a flag over the love for ancient Rome expressed by our contemporary elites. Mark Zuckerberg’s admiration of Augustus is famous. He recently gave up his “Caesar” haircut for young–Marcus Aurelius curls and wears big T-shirts printed with Latin slogans. Elon Musk has donated several million dollars to support the study and “appreciation of Greek-Roman culture.” Steve Bannon regularly cites Roman history, in a selective and idiosyncratic way, as a guide for modern politics. During Donald Trump’s first term, Bannon helped found a “gladiator school” at a former monastery near Rome, where students would be trained in a curriculum designed to save Western civilization.
Like the wealthy elites of ancient Rome who aligned themselves with a dictator so that they could increase their fortunes, the richest and most influential men in America seem willing to let our republic fall apart as long as they believe that its demise is in their interest. And they might prosper by it. Or not. That’s the thing about capricious one-man rule—no one, not even billionaires with spaceships, can be sure they won’t get on the bad side of the emperor and suffer as a result. Thanks to the Senate that enabled him, Augustus—and every Roman emperor who followed—was a brutal dictator.
Some might argue that the empire that rose from the ashes of the republic brought peace and stability to the world for centuries to come. But this ignores the costs. The Romans were nearly always at war; their celebrated expansion was achieved by military subjugation of foreign lands and harsh repression of those they conquered. Augustus alone ordered the extrajudicial killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of domestic enemies. The supposedly stable dynasty he founded gave Rome Caligula and Nero; the latter’s death was followed by a bloody civil war. More mayhem followed, and not until a century after Augustus did the Senate finally reassert itself—by appointing another emperor and initiating a new line of succession. Some emperors made sure the roads were safe and the water clean, but these more admired rulers—Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius—were nonetheless dictators. Even for the most privileged Romans, the empire could be a terrifying and unpredictable place in which a single man held absolute, arbitrary power.
The United States, too, may endure as a great power for centuries to come. The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return. When Augustus died in his bed at a ripe old age, the Roman Senate made him a god. This seems an honor that even the most sycophantic U.S. senators would be unlikely to suggest for our president. But as they cede ever more of their power to him, our own era of Roman-style imperial rule may be drawing closer than we think.

2025-04-16 23:41:04 UTC

ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’
Trump immigration officials tout expanding the Alien Enemies Act while courting private contractors for mass removals
https://azmirror.com/2025/04/08/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages.
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

2025-04-16 23:18:37 UTC

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It's not the media's take, it's federal courts and supreme court decisions, and it's Trump' words.
Due process and judicial review is there to limit things going wrong.
Either the rule of law matters or it doesn't. If it does, the government has to follow the laws and court orders. If it doesn't, the government get to do what it wants.

2025-04-16 21:24:57 UTC

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Abrego Garcia is a legal resident of the United States. His wife is an American citizen. He has no charges against him. He has a valid work permit. He is a sheet metal worker.
The federal judge presiding over his case said he has no criminal record in the US or El Salvador, and the gang ties is an unsubstantiated allegation.
In 2019, an immigration judge granted him legal protection from deportation on the grounds that he might be at risk of persecution from local gangs.
The court found his deportation illegal. The government acknowledged he was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador mega-prison.
The Supreme Court said that deportation requires due process and that the people sent El Salvador were not given due process.
"The Government's argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene," wrote Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in a statement released with the Abrego Garcia ruling.
Trump asked Bukele to open 5 more facilities for homegrown criminals.
Personally, I don't think that extraordinary renditions going mainstream is good for democracy.

2025-04-16 01:54:32 UTC

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They want greater oversight over universities. Same as for the government, law firms, courts, and media.

2025-04-16 01:47:47 UTC

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By the way Trump is for deporting "homegrown" criminals to El Salvador.

2025-04-16 01:39:22 UTC

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You would think. But the US has adopted a new policy by which they are not returning people to their country of citizenship.
Non-Mexicans have been deported to Mexico. A mother of four children was deported with two of her kids, the two others remained in the US. She is not from Mexico. She is a foreigner with nothing, no job, and two kinds. Had they been sent back home, they would have had their family to help them out.
Usually, the process for deportation requires the government to prove the criteria for deportation are met, allows for the defendant to have representation, and requires for a judge to decide on the merit of the case if the defendant contests the deportation. But the US government doesn't follow those rules.
To make things worst, in the case of El Salvador, the US government is contracting the El Salvadorian government to detain people they have deported. In other words they are paying to have people detained in a foreign country without having being charged for a crime.
The US has deported Venezuelan to El Salvador. Some of them were legally living in the US.
One Salvadoran legally living in the US, and has a protected status preventing his deportation to El Salvador, was deported to El Salvador. He is in jail, not with his family. The US government won't bring him back.
That's why due process is important. You can't let government agents decide who gets deported and to which country. With the courts, the process is public and fallows a clearly defined process. With ICE, the process is secretive and arbitrary.
The government is not transparent about who is being deported. Some families discovered a family member had been deported because they saw them in a video filmed in an El Salvadorian prison.
How would Americans react if compatriots where deported to a foreign country without due process? My guess is, they would be outraged.

2025-04-15 23:50:43 UTC

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Nope! Not a citizen, no right. We do what we want with you.

2025-04-15 22:37:52 UTC

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Cool!! So when US tourists gets assaulted or or killed in foreign countries, they shouldn't get justice, they are not citizen.
When Americans commit crimes in foreign countries, they should be deported to foreign countries
Countries like Afghanistan, Russia, Iran would love to host them.

2025-04-15 22:07:00 UTC

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Let's hope the President respects the Constitution and the rule of law.
Let's hope the President respects Congress and courts authority.
Let's hope everyone is given due process.
Let's hope government agents don't kidnapped and rendition people to foreign jails.
Let's hope the President doesn't retaliate against people and organizations that oppose him.
Let's hope the President doesn't blackmail universities and law firms into doing what he wants.
Let's hope the President doesn't try to impeach judge who don't rule in his favor.
Let's hope the President will have a carefully throughout trade plan that will not heart small businesses consumers.
Let's hope the President doesn't start a trade war with the rest of the world.
Let's hope the President understands that tariffs are taxes payed by US businesses and customers, what reciprocal means, and how to calculate reciprocal tariffs properly.
Let's hope the President doesn't dismantled organizations protecting workers and consumers' rights.
Let's hope the President's cabinet doesn't have sensitive and top secret discussions on their personal phones using Signal and Gmail.
Let's hope foreign intelligence agencies haven't compromised those insecure personal phones and commercial apps.
Let's hope the President limits his terms in office to two.
Let's hope the President doesn't deport all Palestinians to foreign countries.
Let's hope the President doesn't order the annexation of Canada and Greenland.
Let's hope media, Congress, law firms, universities,... don't capitulate to the President's demands.
Let's hope....

2025-04-08 00:21:20 UTC

Make Smuggling Great Again
Canada’s ultimate retaliation for Trump’s tariffs will be to turn ordinary Americans who cross the border to shop for cheaper goods into latter-day bootleggers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-tariffs-smugglers/682303/
President Donald Trump’s high-tariff regime will impose higher prices and lower growth on Americans. It will have another effect that nobody in the administration seems to have considered at all: a tsunami of smuggling.
In a few days’ time, every desirable consumer good will be dramatically more expensive in the United States than on world markets. Flat-screen TVs, athletic shoes, video-game equipment, even household basics such as coffee, toilet paper, and soy sauce—all will soon cost 20, 25, 35 percent more than they cost on world markets.
Trump has just opened perhaps the greatest arbitrage opportunity in the history of world trade. His effort to repeat the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s will also replicate the cross-border bootlegging of alcohol during Prohibition.
From around the world, goods will flow to American black markets. That flow will overwhelm U.S. enforcement capability. Only about 26,000 officers in the Department of Homeland Security are charged with enforcing customs duties at borders, seaports, and airports. Policing flows of fentanyl has been difficult enough. But as abundant as fentanyl is, most Americans don’t buy it: It’s an extremely harmful product, trafficked by some of the world’s most vicious criminals, and most people rightly want nothing to do with it.
But not even the most fervent MAGA supporter will think it harmful to bargain-shop for free-trade underwear out of the back of a truck driven from Mexico or Canada. Nor will it be easy to motivate state and local police to raid the stalls and stands that will soon appear on the streets of American towns, let alone monitor the near-infinite quantity of transactions in online marketplaces such as eBay and Etsy.
Against the illegal fentanyl trade, Americans can seek the help of friendly countries. But why would any country help the United States enforce its unilateral trade aggression against the rest of the world? If European luxury brands, Asian electronics manufacturers, or Indian grocery chains suddenly open enormous outlet malls in Bermuda, the French and Dutch Caribbean islands, or Toronto and Vancouver, few local authorities will pay attention to the Trump administration’s objections.
In fact, those governments have every reason to help freedom-loving American citizens defeat the outrageous tariffs imposed on them. As angry as Canadians, for example, are with the U.S. government, they have no quarrel with the American people. And what better way to show friendship to Americans in a time of hardship than helping them drive home with a brand-new set of tires or replacement car battery at everyday low prices? On the way home, the cross-border American could enjoy a free-trade chocolate bar at free-trade prices.
A border-town retail explosion could offset some of the economic pain inflicted on Canadian workers laid off thanks to the Trump tariffs. A job selling auto parts may not pay as well as a job making them, but it’s better than nothing. And every additional retail job has the consolation that it strikes a retaliatory blow at the hostile U.S. government that caused the layoffs.
Canada could stimulate the surge in the cross-border retail sector by offering tax relief to American visitors. Canada collects a federal value-added tax of 5 percent; in some provinces, that tax is combined with a local sales tax to make the rate as high as 15 percent. Even after a retail tax, Canadian prices (adjusted for currency) will soon be much lower than U.S. prices. But what if goods were sold tax-free altogether to shoppers who carry a U.S. passport?
Tariff- and tax-free shopping for Americans would stoke a Canadian retail bonanza that would cushion the shock to the rest of the Canadian economy. The United States might respond by constricting highway border crossings, creating traffic jams for drivers reentering the United States. Such countermeasures would only intensify the bitter unpopularity of Trump’s tariffs—and, as with Prohibition’s alcohol ban, they would dismally fail. The goods will move by boat from Halifax southward along the Eastern Seaboard, from Kingston and Thunder Bay across the Great Lakes, from Vancouver via the Georgia Strait, and so on. They will move by small plane, by snowmobile, and by foot.
Canada could become a consumer paradise: a shiny new West Berlin to a drab MAGA version of East Germany. Even the brutal East German secret police lost their fight against the movement of goods. By the end, the Stasi had given up trying.
For Canada to assist U.S. smugglers might seem an unfriendly act, but the U.S. tariffs are an unfriendlier act. The Trump administration has already made clear that the United States no longer seeks or wants allies. It has abandoned Ukrainian troops in the field. It is plotting how to annex Greenland, which is Danish territory. It does not honor Trump’s own signature on the trade treaty it imposed on Canada and Mexico just five years ago. Why would betrayed ex-friends assist the United States government in preventing Americans from buying cinnamon and cloves at normal prices?
The Trump tariff scheme is headed for collapse sooner or later. The sooner, the better for both Americans and the rest of the world. Everything that can be done to accelerate that outcome is a service to humanity.
The U.S.-Canada bond was forged in the agony of two world wars, strengthened by cooperation in the long struggle against Soviet Communism and Islamist terrorism, and demonstrated in happy decades of cross-border cooperation against many shared threats. That bond can now triumphantly find expression in millions of consensual retail exchanges: the world’s desirable products at honest world prices, all sold with a smile and a friendly “Alrighty then!” to every satisfied American customer.

2025-04-04 21:35:40 UTC

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Jubilation in South Korea After President Who Declared Martial Law Is Ousted
The nation’s top court unanimously upheld the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, clearing the way for the election of a new president.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/03/world/south-korea-yoon
South Korea’s top court voted unanimously to dismiss the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on Friday. The decision clears the way for the election of a new leader after months of political turmoil that has tested its democratic guardrails.
In a ruling that millions of South Koreans watched on live television, the Constitutional Court’s eight justices endorsed the National Assembly’s decision to impeach Mr. Yoon for his failed attempt to place his country under martial law in December. With that ruling, Mr. Yoon, who had been suspended from office since the parliamentary vote on Dec. 14, was formally unseated.
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This is what happens in a democracy where elected representatives and courts uphold the Constitution and the rule of law. Unlike the US where the President disregard the Constitution, the rule of law, and court orders.

2025-04-04 02:33:06 UTC

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Import taxes are payed by US businesses and customers. US workers will loose their jobs, businesses will go bankrupt.
The rest of the world will retaliate making it worst for the US.
This is bad for the US and the world.

2025-04-03 09:57:40 UTC

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Is Trump right about Canada charging 250% tariffs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lURdVBCBo8
President Donald Trump says Canada has been ripping off the United States, imposing tariffs of up to 400 per cent on imported American dairy products. Andrew Chang breaks down Trump’s claims, explaining how dairy tariffs work and how likely it is that anyone is actually paying such sky-high charges.

2025-04-03 09:51:34 UTC

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Why experts think Trump’s new auto tariff plan 'defies logic'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQ-t8g7iZQ
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to levy a new 25 per cent tariff on vehicles imported to the United States. Andrew Chang explains why this latest threat is different, and why it's concerning trade and industry experts.

2025-04-03 09:50:27 UTC

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Trump’s Auto Tariffs: We Broke Down an F-150 to Explain Industry Impact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLpUEACVBlE
President Trump says cars made in the U.S. will face “absolutely no tariff,” but it’s not so simple. No car is built from 100% U.S. parts—not even the U.S.-built Ford F-150 pickup truck. Major components of the car are from Mexico, Canada and South Korea, which could all be a part of the auto tariffs.

2025-04-03 09:47:59 UTC

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No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers
They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-tariff-carveout-farmers/682260/
American farmers are pleading for exemptions from President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Republican members of Congress from farm states are working to deliver the relief farmers want. But farmers do not deserve special treatment and should not get it.
Tariffs will indeed hurt farmers badly. Farm costs will rise. Farm incomes will drop. Under Trump’s tariffs, farmers will pay more for fertilizer. They will pay more for farm equipment. They will pay more for the fuel to ship their products to market. When foreign countries retaliate, raising their own tariff barriers, American farmers will lose export markets. Their domestic sales will come under pressure too, because tariffs will shrink Americans’ disposable incomes: Consumers will have to cut back everywhere, including at the grocery store.
Farmers will share this tariff predicament of higher costs and lower incomes with almost all Americans—except the very wealthiest, who are less exposed to tariffs because they consume less of their incomes and can offset the pain of tariffs with other benefits from Trump, beginning with a dramatic reduction in tax enforcement.
Farmers are different from other Americans, however, in three ways.
First, farmers voted for Trump by huge margins. In America’s 444 most farm-dependent counties, Trump won an average of 77.7 percent of the vote—nearly two points more than Trump scored in those same counties in 2020.
Second, farmers have already pocketed windfall profits from Trump’s previous round of tariffs.
When Trump started a trade war with China in 2018, China switched its soybean purchasing from the United States to Brazil. By 2023, Brazil was exporting twice as much as the United States. Trump compensated farmers with lavish cash payouts. The leading study of these effects suggests that soybean farmers may have received twice as much from the Trump farm bailout as they lost from the 2018 round of tariffs, because the Trump administration failed to consider that U.S. soybeans not exported to China were eventually sold elsewhere, albeit at lower prices. The richest farmers collected the greatest share of the windfall. The largest 10 percent of farms received an average of $85 an acre in payouts, according to a 2019 study by the economists Eric Belasco and Vincent Smith for the American Enterprise Institute. The median-size farm received only $56 an acre. Altogether, farmers have been amply compensated in advance for the harm about to be done to them by the man most farming communities voted for.
Third, farmers can better afford to pay the price of Trump’s tariffs than many other tariff victims.
Farmers can already obtain federal insurance against depressed prices for their products. Most farmers report low incomes from farming, but they have a high net worth. The median American farm shows net assets of about $1.5 million. Commercial-farm households show median net assets of $3.6 million. The appearance of low incomes is in any case misleading. Again, according to Smith, families that own farms earn only 20 percent of their income from farming. Even the richest farmers, those with farm assets above $6 million, still earn about half their income from other sources, including a spouse’s employment in a local business or through a rural government job such as a county extension agent. On average, farm families earn higher total incomes than nonfarm families, and their debt-to-equity ratio is typically low.
None of this is to deny that farmers will suffer from the tariffs. They will. A lot. But so will city people. As will people in industries that use steel or aluminum or copper as components. As will people in service industries and export industries, people who rely on the trade treaties trashed by Trump to protect their copyrights and patents. And anybody with money invested in stocks. And anybody who drives a car or truck.
During the 2024 election campaign, Americans were told, in effect, that no sacrifice was too great to revive the domestic U.S. toaster-manufacturing industry. If that claim is true, then farmers should be proud to pay more and receive less, making the same sacrifice as any other American.
But if a farm family voted for Trump, believing that his policies were good, it seems strange that they would then demand that they, and only they, should be spared the full consequences of those policies. Tariffs are the dish that rural America ordered for everyone. Now the dish has arrived at the table. For some reason, they do not want to partake themselves or pay their share of the bill.
That’s not how it should work. What you serve to others you should eat yourself. And if rural America cannot choke down its portion, why must other Americans stomach theirs?

2025-04-03 09:43:19 UTC

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Trump already weighing multi-billion-dollar tariff bailout for US farmers
‘With today's actions, we're also standing up for our great farmers and ranchers who are brutalized by nations all over the world,’ Trump said, after telling farmers last month to ‘have fun’ selling to Americans
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bailout-farmers-tariffs-b2726416.html
The Trump administration is already considering bailing out farmers caught in the middle of the White House’s escalating trade war that’s now encompassing the rest of the world.
The administration is weighing a new batch of emergency aid to farmers as trading partners push back against U.S. tariffs with their own measures, The New York Times has reported. The last time Trump was in office, his administration spent $23 billion in subsidy payments to farmers to protect them from his trade war then with China, which purchased far fewer American agricultural products.
Such payments, as they did then, would now shield a vital voting base for Republicans.
Trump also announced that trading partners such as China, Japan, and Europe will face tariffs two to three times higher as the last time he was in office, and are far more widespread. That means aid to farmers may cost much more this time around. In addition, the possible retaliatory measures from trading partners may lead to more extreme, and longer-lasting, consequences.
Trump’s new tariffs are expected to hit farmers particularly hard as China has already retaliated with levies on corn, wheat, chicken, and cotton. The European Union, meanwhile, has put together a long list of agricultural and consumer products that it may target. Foreign nations are a massive market for American farm products.
The president of the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association, Illinois farmer Kenneth Hartman, told The Times that there are concerns about a long trade war leading to U.S. producers losing market share to competitors abroad.
USDA economists estimate that Trump’s last tariff policies, beginning in 2018, led to a $27 billion loss of agricultural exports. Large parts of those losses came as part of the trade war with China. Some market relationships were permanently altered.

2025-04-02 22:56:46 UTC

2025-04-02 20:03:14 UTC

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In practice they haven't. Imports have not surpassed the tariff free quota. So all import have been tax free.

2025-04-02 19:29:08 UTC

"A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."
— Trump on Truth Social on December 3, 2022
https://archive.ph/u0vZk

2025-04-02 19:26:26 UTC

Can Trump really run for a 3rd term?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGpUZYBKx08
U.S. President Donald Trump says he's 'not joking' about potentially running for a third term in office — but if a president isn't allowed to serve more than two terms, why does he think he can do it? Andrew Chang breaks down potential avenues through which Trump could seek re-election which, as of now, is barred by the U.S. Constitution.

2025-04-02 19:21:56 UTC

2025-04-01 22:53:21 UTC

"If you violated the law, you are not entitled to due process."
— U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind.

2025-04-01 19:12:01 UTC

Can the U.S. auto industry survive without Canada?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpehUVAx0k
President Donald Trump says he wants every car sold in the United States to be made domestically, a move which experts say would disrupt the entire North American auto sector for years. Andrew Chang explains how interdependent the Canadian and U.S. auto industries are, and the widespread impacts of severing a 70-year partnership.

2025-04-01 18:53:07 UTC

2025-04-01 00:21:26 UTC

Tesla released data showing the company paid zero federal income taxes on $2.3 billion of U.S. income in 2024 and avoided almost all taxes on $11 billion of U.S. income since 2022. As recently as 2018, Musk “paid no federal income taxes.”

2025-04-01 00:11:03 UTC

Bezos is always listening. On March 28, Amazon is sunsetting its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy option for Echo home devices — meaning everything users say to their Echos will be recorded and sent to Amazon’s cloud platform, where the data will never expire. Why? To train artificial intelligence. This month, Amazon is rolling out a new and improved generative AI-powered Alexa+.

2025-04-01 00:03:05 UTC

Nothing says late-stage empire quite like reading text screenshots containing detailed U.S. war plans over morning coffee.

2025-03-31 23:58:33 UTC

https://www.levernews.com/content/images/size/w1600/2025/03/data-src-image-ff0da9ea-c5b6-43dd-a619-43f4ef457202.png

2025-03-31 23:47:53 UTC

$7,500
The average amount American households pay extra every year on products with patent and copyright monopolies. The monopolies raise the cost of these items by more than $1 trillion annually.

2025-03-31 16:41:09 UTC

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Last time. Next year it will to Trump.

2025-03-31 16:37:01 UTC

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Don't worry, the VA is getting cuts as well and veterans a getting fired.

2025-03-31 15:43:00 UTC

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Better than Tesla!

2025-03-31 15:31:59 UTC

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Good news. DOGE to bring an Apple Store-like experience to the government. Beautifully designed, great user experience, modern system.

2025-03-29 00:38:37 UTC

Canadian Actress Recounts Her Terrifying Experience in ICE Custody
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/canadian-actress-recounts-her-terrifying-experience-in-ice-custody/ar-AA1Bgugb
The Canadian actress who was shackled and detained for 12 days earlier this month by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration is speaking out about her traumatizing experience.
“It felt like we had all been kidnapped, thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity,” she wrote in a new Medium article called “You’re Not a Criminal, But You’re Going to Jail: My ICE Detention Story as a Canadian Citizen.”
“I don’t know your case,” said one man. “Could be days. Could be weeks. But I’m telling you right now—you need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”
“Women were picked up off the street, from outside their workplaces, from their homes—one woman’s daughter was outside the detention center protesting for her release.”
“They don’t lobby for stricter immigration policies in the name of national security—they do it to protect their bottom line," she said.
https://medium.com/@jasminemooney/youre-not-a-criminal-but-you-re-going-to-jail-my-ice-detention-story-as-a-canadian-citizen-08b4fa77a15c
#Trump #ICE #kidnapping #immigration #rendition #authoritarian #autocracy

2025-03-28 23:50:50 UTC

“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/trump-el-salvador-venezulea-deportation-prison-cecot-bukele/
The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.
“Well, you’re here because of your tattoos,” the ICE agent replied, according to Hernández. “We’re finding and questioning everyone who has tattoos.”
Like other men sent to El Salvador, Wuilliam has tattoos.
Other reporting and court briefs further support the families’ suspicions that their loved ones were primarily targeted for deportation because of their tattoos.
John Dutton, a Houston-based immigration attorney, said that he started noticing ICE officers detaining Venezuelans during check-ins due to their tattoos earlier this year. “If they notice they have a tattoo, they’re just taking them into custody,” he explained. “No more questions to ask.” Dutton estimated he now has about a dozen clients who have been arrested because of tattoos.

2025-03-28 23:20:35 UTC

Venezuelan tattoo artist who agreed to go back home was sent to El Salvador prison, family says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-prison-venezuelan-jhon-chacin-trump-immigration-rcna197780
Relatives and attorneys seek answers about the men sent to the high-security prison as the Venezuelan government calls for their return.
Were it not for bad weather, Jhon Chacin would have been aboard a flight to his native Venezuela on March 13, having volunteered to go home after giving up on an asylum request that was initially denied. Instead, his brother said, Jhon was among the nearly 300 Venezuelan men sent by U.S. immigration officials to El Salvador's notorious megaprison.
#Trump #rendition #authoritarian #autocracy

2025-03-28 23:11:32 UTC

The Associated Press, banned from White House press pool, renews request to court for reinstatemen
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-white-house-press-pool-ban-cdf091900ae5371329234ddfafef3a91
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for The Associated Press asked a federal judge Thursday to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and other official events, saying the Trump administration’s ban is a fundamental attack on freedom of speech and should be overturned. The government insisted there was no evidence that AP had been harmed irreparably.
“AP has now spent 44 days in the penalty box,” said Charles Tobin, speaking on behalf of the news agency.
#freedom #freepress #autocracy #Trump

2025-03-28 03:52:38 UTC

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Get your new car now! Before the 25% Trump tax. Enjoy!

2025-03-28 03:36:11 UTC

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Racism is not a white man disagreeing with another white man.

2025-03-28 03:30:22 UTC

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Let's rip off the American people by adding more taxes. Brilliant plan!

2025-03-28 03:28:31 UTC

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Weak man destroying the US economy.

2025-03-28 02:07:20 UTC

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https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/03/27/social-security-cuts-efficiency-destruction/82693746007/

2025-03-28 02:04:01 UTC

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I'm not thinking about myself. Luckily for me, I don't need social security.
They are making more difficult to get security social by making it mandatory to go in person to SS office rather than interact with the agency over the phone, while at the same time cutting staff and offices.
Having a job, or even two, is not always enough.
A lot of Trump supporters depends on social security.

2025-03-28 01:46:50 UTC

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It's the reality of what is happening.
Trump is governing by executive orders, not all are constitutionally legal. Congress is in charge of passing the laws and allocating funds. Not Trump or DOGE.
You don't impeach judges because you disagree with their decisions.
Tariffs will hurt the US. Allies will retaliate, which will hurt the US even more. US companies will loose international customers. The economy will take a hit. Price will go up.
Allies are reconsidering the purchase of US military equipment in favor of EU, UK, South Corean equipment. They will be putting more money in R&D and expending their own production capabilities.
People are being arrested and deported without cause and due process.
People are going to loose their social security.

2025-03-28 01:14:16 UTC

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He is weak, incompetent and dangerous to the US and the World.
Disregarding the Constitution, Congress and court orders.
Fighting with with everyone: media, law firms, judges, universities with presidential orders, legal threats,...
Bulling allies (Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, South Corea) with tariffs, which will hurt American consumers and businesses.
Threatening the sovereignty of Canada, Greenland, and Panama.
Doing his best to help Putin with his war on Ukraine by conceding to his demands.
He is isolating the US military, economically and diplomatically from allies.

2025-03-28 00:52:19 UTC

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The chat provide Intel ahead of the bombings.
Timing: launch times, estimated strike time
Platforms: F-18s, MQ-9s, tomahawks, carrier group
Location: Yemen
“TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.”
“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”
“1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”
“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)
1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.
MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)”
It's not only what is the chat, it's what can be inferred from the Intel in it.
https://theaviationist.com/2025/03/26/signal-group-chat-leaks/

2025-03-28 00:16:26 UTC

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Because they admitted being part of the chat and the nation security adviser Mike Waltz admit he was the one who setup the group and took responsibility for inviting the journalist. No one denied being part of the chat.
Five Cabinet members are facing a federal lawsuit over the use of Signal to coordinate military strikes in Yemen.
It's all over the news!

2025-03-26 19:23:04 UTC

Bernie Sanders Issues Epic Takedown Of Trump, Musk, And 'The Greed Of The Oligarchy'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EirWe1z3kk

2025-03-26 18:55:54 UTC

Lawsuit over Trump administration's Signal group chat assigned to judge in deportation case
https://abcnews.go.com/US/lawsuit-trump-administrations-signal-group-chat-assigned-judge/story?id=120175517
Five Cabinet members are facing a federal lawsuit over the use of Signal to coordinate military strikes in Yemen, with the case presided over by the same judge handling the case against the Trump administration over its deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act.
Transparency nonprofit American Oversight filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., alleging that the use of Signal violates the federal law that governs the preservation of government records, asking a federal judge to order the cabinet members to preserve the messages.
The lawsuit – which names Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the National Archives as defendants – asked a federal judge to declare the use of Signal unlawful and order the cabinet members to preserve the records immediately.

2025-03-26 17:12:05 UTC

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Tech support Elon and big balls are on it according to Fox News. They'll find out how that sneaky journalist invited himself into this private, not classified, military planning chat.

2025-03-26 15:37:44 UTC

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
So, about that Signal chat.
On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”
At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, were both asked about the Signal chat, to which Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently invited by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz. “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ratcliffe said much the same: “My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”
President Donald Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the same matter, said, “It wasn’t classified information.”

2025-03-26 15:24:18 UTC

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Nothing classified in the chat. So no big deal!

2025-03-26 15:14:28 UTC

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Oops! Sorry! Military operations are not classified according to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and NI Director Tulsi Gabbard. My bad!

2025-03-26 11:00:13 UTC

Trump fires independent inspectors general in Friday night purge
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/donald-trump-inspectors-general-firing-00200611
The watchdogs say the removals may be invalid for failing to comply with a 2022 law requiring a 30-day notification to Congress before removals.
President Donald Trump fired multiple independent federal watchdogs, known as inspectors general, in a Friday night purge, removing a significant layer of accountability as he asserts his control over the federal government in his second term, according to two people with knowledge of the dismissals, granted anonymity to share details they were not authorized to speak about publicly.

2025-03-26 10:52:03 UTC

Trump has the least qualified people on National Security in American history.

2025-03-26 10:12:59 UTC

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.
I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.