The US Army will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military...

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"... and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members. Effective immediately, all new accessions for individuals with a history of gender dysphoria are paused, and all unscheduled, scheduled, or planned medical procedures associated with affirming or facilitating a gender transition for Service members are paused. Individuals with gender dysphoria have volunteered to serve our country and will be treated with dignity and respect."

2/15/2025 8:35:29 AM

Fort Liberty renamed to Fort Bragg in a memorandum signed by SecDef Hegseth

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2/15/2025 8:44:41 AM

Prosecutors resign, refusing to drop the case against NYC Mayor Adams

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"The current crisis at the Justice Department over the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York stems partly from the particulars of the law and a recent decree from Attorney General Pam Bondi. In recent days, the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove III, has demanded that career lawyers submit a court filing in New York requesting to dismiss the case against Mr. Adams."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/nyregion/bove-adams-charges-dismissal.html

Resignation letter of the lead prosecutor on the case:

2/15/2025 10:12:54 AM

Why not keep it all here?

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2/17/2025 11:49:54 AM

I guess that works, if you extend the definition of "prediction" to mean predicting what the cabinet is gonna do next

I'm all for carrying on old posts, but that seems to 10-12 pages of discussion regarding appointees and them getting fired, rather than what they're actually doing. I'll post there though I guess, or maybe mix it up -- whatever comes naturally

2/17/2025 3:45:30 PM

Kash Patel sent out an email telling FBI employees that for now they can ignore the DOGE email, and that they'll be working on their own internal methods for evaluation.

Good, but it's also something that needed to be done for a DOJ agency.

2/23/2025 12:54:46 AM

Seems ominous

“Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3liu3tpbfhs2h
“

2/23/2025 10:15:35 AM

This is just about making sure that the “mechanisms” work in the intended way…

2/23/2025 10:35:43 AM

I should finish watching "A Few Good Men." Not sure if these are even the same types of lawyers, but thanks for the reminder, Hegseth

2/23/2025 1:42:55 PM

Sec. of Commerce encourages buying Tesla stock on Fox News

[Edited on March 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM. Reason : Howard Lutnick]

3/20/2025 9:17:38 AM

I encourage all MAGA devotees to buy Tesler stock as well.

3/20/2025 1:19:44 PM

^ maybe they can buy it from Minnesota's pension: https://thehill.com/business/5205453-kevin-oleary-walz-tesla-stock/

3/20/2025 3:26:04 PM

I own every publicly traded stock through broad market index funds. I still want the bad guys to lose. Sounds like Mr. Wonderful is extra salty because he's long on Tesler stock himself. It's certainly not because he cares anything about the well-being of Minnesotans.

3/20/2025 4:42:27 PM

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

This is ineptitude of the highest order.

TL;DR - Waltz started up a group chat in Signal, a secure but unclassified, corporate messaging app, and inadvertently included an Atlantic journalist. Nobody noticed he was there, and they continued to plan and detail a strike on Houthi targets in Yemen.

3/24/2025 3:41:51 PM

I had to google who Waltz was, am I disconnect or is national security advisor not really a household name role (or both)

3/24/2025 3:51:00 PM

I figured he’d been in the news a bit. Only reason I knew it was because I read the article above.

3/24/2025 4:06:46 PM

That makes me feel better. Seems like national news is mentioning Hegseth too let's blame him.

3/24/2025 4:53:50 PM

^^^^ Didn't we establish a few years ago that it's not OK for government officials to deal in classified material over unclassified networks? I thought we sorted that out.

3/24/2025 5:30:44 PM

It doesn't count when they do it though.

For real though, speaking as someone who has literally developed cross-domain solutions for this kinda crap, they had no excuse

3/24/2025 6:46:27 PM

^^ But her emails, right?

3/24/2025 10:53:28 PM

no I'm not excusing her. What she did was inexcusable; I would have probably gone to prison if I'd done something like that.

...but this is inexcusable, too. Also what a bunch of dumbasses.

3/25/2025 12:51:31 AM

I wonder who they thought JG was in the group. And Trump gotta be pretty peeved at Vance I'd think. Hegseth and Waltz can plead ignorance and suck up to trump. Vance straight up like " I don't think trump aware"...probably like the worst thing to say about trump, if you're trump

[Edited on March 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM. Reason : T]

3/25/2025 1:15:02 AM

I just don’t understand. When I’m in a group chat on Teams at work, the first thing I do is go check my audience before I start typing. That’s just basic CYA. They couldn’t even be bothered to do that?

What are the chances that they could be held criminally liable for leaking information?

Also, could they go after Goldberg for not immediately excusing himself from the chat? I’m kinda worried about him as well.

3/25/2025 9:09:32 AM

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" What are the chances that they could be held criminally liable for leaking information?"

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

3/25/2025 9:19:12 AM

Yea, pretty much. Trump has already said he’s not planning on firing Waltz for the blunder.

Also, Levitt said no classified information was exchanged. How are they going to spin away the fact that Goldberg couldn’t release all of the screenshots because they discussed a CIA operative in the area?

3/25/2025 9:26:22 AM

COMPETENCE and ACCOUNTABILITY!

3/25/2025 9:26:36 AM

^^wheres your proof that classified information was exchanged

[Edited on March 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM. Reason : .]

3/25/2025 9:55:44 AM

Steve Witkoff was on the chat. He was in Moscow when it was set up. Russian intelligence probably knew the journalist was there before these idiots figured it out (in addition to, you know, everything that was discussed).

In any other administration in history this would be absolutely devastating. Most if not all of these people would have to resign, and the president would have no credibility with their own party.

3/25/2025 11:33:26 AM

^^Specific names of CIA operatives were discussed in the chat. Goldberg did no release screenshots of those chats.

If the names of CIA operatives in a specific area isn’t classified, then I don’t know what should be considered classified.

3/25/2025 12:52:08 PM

Apparently tulsi was also using signal on her personal phone overseas too

3/25/2025 2:59:30 PM

Yes, but she also snail-mails her reports in paper to Moscow.

3/25/2025 3:13:32 PM

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability

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"Moreover there was a memo in 2023 obtained by NPR warning of using Signal for using any non-public official information."

3/25/2025 3:26:39 PM

TL;DR - Waltz started up a group chat in Signal, a secure but unclassified, corporate messaging app, and inadvertently included an Atlantic journalist. Nobody noticed he was there, and they continued to plan and detail a strike on Houthi targets in Yemen.

3/25/2025 6:02:36 PM

STILL TL; DR: Somebody said something somewhere they shouldn't and somebody that shouldn't see it, saw it

3/25/2025 8:39:11 PM

STILL TL;DR:

3/25/2025 9:21:11 PM

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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

The Origins of Totalitarianism
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/23497-the-origins-of-totalitarianism

3/25/2025 10:51:48 PM

boring and tiresome quote

3/26/2025 5:50:02 AM

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"The bigger question we should be asking is: Why are Trump officials using Signal for their communications instead of formal, traceable channels? The answer seems clear — to avoid transparency. Signal offers end-to-end encryption and doesn’t store messages on its servers, which makes it nearly impossible for the public or investigators to access those chats. Unlike formal emails or documented communications, Signal conversations can’t be retrieved through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. That’s not just a technical loophole — it’s a deliberate choice to avoid accountability. Most official government communications, by law, are subject to FOIA because the public has a right to know how decisions are made. But when officials move to platforms designed to leave no trace, it raises serious questions about what they’re trying to hide — and why."

(from Alt National Park Service, a good source)

3/26/2025 9:44:18 AM

Well, those screenshots are certainly classified

3/26/2025 9:48:42 AM

Wrong. Trump declassified them by thinking about them. But he didn't even know about them. That's how good he is.

3/26/2025 10:12:31 AM

It’s wild we have the exact group chat of the specific people gloating over blowing up an apartment building, alongside reports of the women and children that died in the bombing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before…

Imagine having a dead child and seeing the emoji a foreign leader used to celebrate it. This seems bad…

3/26/2025 11:35:26 AM

They're so incompetent and stupid that there always feels like there is more to it

[Edited on March 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM. Reason : 1]

3/26/2025 1:48:50 PM

The Atlantic released the entire, unredacted chat. After looking at it, I see where they could argue that no classified information was sent. They were carefully vague on the plans that were sent back and forth.

Still, 100% incompetence here.

3/26/2025 2:14:52 PM

Is talking about strikes a couple hours before they happen not classified?

Because if it got back to the Houthis, they coulda prepared and it might not have been a good situation for the pilots.

3/26/2025 3:36:04 PM

I 100% agree.

But I feel like the language used in the chat was written in such a way that they can somehow slither out of that part of the hot seat.

3/26/2025 4:29:55 PM

^^^ Are you insane? That shit should have been classified as SECRET at minimum. It was not vague, it was exact times sorties would be launched, what strike packages were being used, and when bombs would be on target.

[Edited on March 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM. Reason : a]

3/26/2025 4:30:01 PM

gaslighting victim

3/26/2025 4:36:42 PM

If you look at previously released SCG (security classification guides), it's pretty clear.

I don't want to spend too much time looking for one, but this one is from the DNI (as opposed to DoD)

3/26/2025 4:40:39 PM

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" Breaking: Top Trump officials’ private data and passwords have surfaced online, including Pete Hegseth, Mike Waltz, and Tulsi Gabbard. This data could potentially be used by America’s enemies to hack into the unsecured Signal chat where they discussed war plans. "

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/hegseth-waltz-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

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" SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it. https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/ "

[Edited on March 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM. Reason : ]

3/26/2025 6:41:22 PM

Quote :

"Are you insane? That shit should have been classified as SECRET at minimum. It was not vague, it was exact times sorties would be launched, what strike packages were being used, and when bombs would be on target."

(and ^^)

Yep.

...never mind that the name of a "CIA official" was included (and is the sole thing that was redacted by the Atlantic after Trump said none of it is classified, making it legal to release. If they'd just admitted their fuckup, it probably would not have been released in its entirety.)

That name could VERY likely be classified.

3/26/2025 8:11:15 PM