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[UNCGrad]

If there's any silver lining to this collosal national security breach, it's that the bricks Thom Tillis has been shirtting over re-election in 2026 just got a lot bigger and more painful. He needs to own the Hegseth appointment.

gosh darn right.

 

[Justin_Rice]

This isn't "one guy's screwup," this is everyone on the chat not having a problem discussing this on Signal.

I would say the entire National Security team needs to do their annual security refresher, but Marty from the Future (IUKUK) is for the little people.

 

[MileHigh]

They wanted to avoid FOIA. Period.

Exactly right. Denver mayor got into some hot water late last week when it was revealed he and some top advisers were on Signal to discuss the migrant situation.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Here's the Chinese equivalent to slapping tariffs on bourbon, only more powerful.

China is turning up pressure on Walmart. That could mean higher prices for US customers

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/business/walmart-china-tariffs/index.html

"Walmart thought it could use its immense power as America's biggest retailer to make Chinese suppliers eat the cost of President Donald Trump's tariffs. But Walmart got a response it's not accustomed to hearing: No.


Trump has slapped 20% tariffs — or taxes on imported goods — on all products coming from China. That's put the squeeze on retailers like Walmart, which imports a lot of merchandise from China and sells those goods at the lowest price possible to American consumers. Walmart, in turn, has tried to pressure its Chinese suppliers to lower prices. But the Chinese government is having none of it."

 

[HanSenSE]

As stated in the Trump Bible.

 

[Neutral Corner]

If there's any silver lining to this collosal national security breach, it's that the bricks Thom Tillis has been shirtting over re-election in 2026 just got a lot bigger and more painful. He needs to own the Hegseth appointment.

He's not my Senator, but here's what I just dropped on his office call recorder:

"Senator, I just wanted you to know that we're going to remember that you are responsible for putting that idiot Hegseth in charge of the DoD. 2026 is coming. Sweat."

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Kristi Noem Takes Bizarre Revenge on Canadians at Library She Used as a Stunt

The American government is making it harder for Canadians to access the library in both countries where Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem pulled a bizarre “51st state” stunt earlier this month. Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and...

www.yahoo.com

Trump did say he loves the poorly educated.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Donald Trump is seeking to erase the United States as we know it

Laurence H Tribe


"But searching for evidence of a "constitutional crisis" in the rapidly escalating clashes of the executive branch with the judicial branch misses the larger cataclysm taking place across the US. This president, abetted by the supine acquiescence of the Republican Congress and licensed by a US supreme court partly of his own making, is not just temporarily deconstructing the institutions that comprise our democracy. He and his circle are making a bid to reshape the US altogether by systematically erasing and distorting the historical underpinnings of our 235-year-old experiment in self-government under law.

What we are currently living through is nothing less than a reorganized forgetting of the building blocks of our republic and the history of our struggles, distorting what it means to be American. The body politic is being hollowed out by a rapidly metastasizing virus attacking the underpinnings of our entire constitutional system. Make no mistake. This is how dictatorship grows."

 

[Neutral Corner]

Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace - emptywheel

It's not just that Mike Waltz accidentally added the wrong person to a Signal chat, the cover story Trump has adopted. Trump's entire national security team was witness to an egregious breach that might be a crime. All should resign in disgrace.

www.emptywheel.net

 

[garrow]

 

[Webster]

A DHS official alleged in a statement to the Daily Beast that the library was being used for drug trafficking.

"The library is still open," the statement read. "Drug traffickers and smugglers were exploiting the fact that Canadians could use the US entrance without going through customs. We are ending such exploitation by criminals and protecting Americans."

Anybody who lies this blatantly should be named and shamed.

They just say shirt which can't be disproven and repeat it until it becomes gospel to their base.

 

[poindexter]

To all the people who voted for Trump: Nice job, forkups!