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Author: patd
“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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a good compilation of who said what: Pete in plain words, Goldberg on how he handled classified info, the DOD dude dithers on
Was the KGB (new version) listening in on the super duper double secret war plans Signal group meeting? Oh most definitely. It looks like they used russian agent witkoff phone.
Remember way back in history to the U.S. Congressional delegation that went around with childrens erasable sheets to write notes instead of using electronics? Now the krasnov russian agents just open up their electronics to anyone wanting to watch and listen.
The planned waiting period implies that the KGB (new version)/FSB/GRU already knew about the meeting and wanted witkoff to do the dialing.
Something else that is important, a direct leftover from krasnov first run in the Oval Office, using social media to avoid official electronic communication tools. No FOIA is going to show the Signal meeting ever took place.
This is edited from the post I made a few hours ago.
“can’t believe a preening drunk can’t manage the largest institution in the world”
And if the Atlantic is that bad why were they sharing more plans with them?
What is he talking about? The White House CONFIRMED that Goldberg was accidentally added to the Signal chain!
“From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f—up imaginable,” Buttigieg wrote in a post on X. “These people cannot keep America safe.”
wonder if any of the clown show will be prosecuted by Dodo’s doj and how many past prosecuted and convicted disseminators/leakers of classified info are still in jail?
Who goes to jail over classified docs – and who doesn’t?
what they said back then
In all of Hillary’s emails there was exactly one that was classified and it became secret after the offending email. There were some that had classified markings but not the actual material but were from a source that was secret. She regularly used a SCIF for her SOS communications that was located in her home.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121 Impeach & remove Hegseth, JD, and Adolf, in that order.
Hegseth’s comments about Jeffrey Goldberg are just paraphrases of DODO’s. What was that book I bought 20 years ago by the guy who runs this operation? Oh, yes, “Attack the Messenger.” Poobah, krasnov and Hegseth must have read your book – or Miller read it and explained it to them on a 3rd grade level so they’d understand it.
“White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes shared with ABC News the statement he provided to The Atlantic confirming the veracity of a Signal group chat, which Goldberg said appeared to include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among others.”
Rubio should’ve known better, too.
BB – You made two great points:
1) Avoiding the FOIA
2) Were any of those phones compromised, perhaps intentionally used, to share info with Russia
OK, I’ve made my three calls to Congress for the day. Please do your part and call your Senators and Representative.
Pogeaux, this year is Attack’s 20th Anniversary (same as Trailmix) and still avail, at $7.73 a recession-ready April Fools Day gift… https://a.co/d/4WWsj7G
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said on Tuesday he would defer to the White House on whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or National Security Adviser Michael Waltz should face repercussions over war plans that were texted in a group chat that included a journalist.
But I think we should be critical,” he said.
“The fact that classified information was put on an unclassified system, I think the secretary of defense needs to answer for that,” Bacon added.
He dismissed the need for an Armed Services committee investigation, simply because the facts were apparent.
Bacon also called the White House’s saying that no war plans were shared “baloney.”
“They ought to just be honest and own up to it,” Bacon said. Bacon served nearly thirty years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, specializing in electronic warfare and intelligence.
Senate Democrats, Trump’s CIA director clash over Signal leak
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, told CIA Director John Ratcliffe that the leak was an “embarrassment” and asked whether it was “just a normal day at the CIA?”
“Don’t insult the intelligence of the American people,” Bennet told Ratcliffe before asking how Goldberg was added to the chat. “Did he invite himself to the Signal thread?”
*The question is why were they using Signal, is that the norm, why, and is anyone else accessing that intel surreptitiously or with knowledge they are doing so.
Tesla sales fall by 49% in Europe even as the electric vehicle market grows There have been complaints about an aging lineup of vehicles from Tesla and also a significant backlash against CEO Elon Musk and his affiliation with the Trump administration in the U.S. In Europe, Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party in last month’s national election drew broad condemnation.
German politicians and opinion media sharply criticized Musk over his support for the AfD, while Tesla vehicles and dealerships have been the target of protesters in the U.S. and Europe over the AfD endorsement and his role advising U.S. President Donald Trump in drastically reducing the size of the US federal government.
Tesla’s new Cybertruck has had multiple recalls including last week, when the company recalled nearly all of them because panels that run along the left and right side of the windshield can fly off when driving.
It was the eighth recall of the Cybertruck since deliveries to customers began just over a year ago.
*LoL Europeans remember fascism; they aren’t having it.
Craig – I thought maybe Schumer and Orange Adolf may have read your Machiavelli book and taken different lessons from the chapter on being more passive and more aggressive…but Adolf is barely literate.
I saw my first cyber truck this morning on our way to breakfast. Boy, are they fugly!
After reading what is known so far on what was in those chats the most disturbing thing is they didn’t really know whether Trump had approved this strike or not, which would be typical for him — to wait until its over and successful successful to take credit. The Trump officials don’t appear clear on what exactly Trump approved and just decided as a group on their own to go for it, which is a huge problem in military planning. Even Stephen Miller wasn’t really sure what Trump wanted, saying “as I heard it … green light.”
Someone should probably tell Dumbass that it’s hard to chase a Nobel Peace while you’re bombing the shit out of the Houthies and your best bud is killing the Hamas political leaders and turning Gaza into a gravel pile with weapons you’re providing. Better yet, probably don’t tell him.
Pogeaux – The strange response from krasnov may also have other answers. His first response was his patented statement if he is unsure of the question or facts. Similar to his “I don’t know him, must be coffee boy” which is what he responds to questions about someone who is in his out circle whether he knows him or not..
But, there is also the issue more frequently, his senile old mush pile is not a reliable source of memory. He does not remember. His military, and for some reason treasury, cabinet members might have mentioned something about making holes in the ground and he does really not remember it.
So, Adolf said he didn’t know what was going on, but what “green light” was Stephen-ghoulie Millier talking about & did it need to go through Congress?
Nobody in the chat questioned if they should be using Signal, so maybe they’ve done it before…or maybe that’s the norm amongst many departments in order to avoid FOIA?
Pohgo -Adolf just hates that President Obama has an award he’ll never get & mostly likely can’t be bought for him.
Gabbard just told Senate committee there was no classified information in the chat, so that clears The Atlantic of any liability if they want to publish the whole thing.
“…as I heard it…” It’s odd when the plausible deniability attaches to someone down the chain. For reasons Ms. Bronc notes, Dumbass always has plausible deniability (unless of course hey undermined it with a rage tweet or verbal nonsense spewed with his characteristic lack of thought.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is weighing the release of more chat logs from the Trump team’s Houthi strike group chat he was mistakenly added to — as ranking officials denied under oath Tuesday that the information was classified, and the White House attacks his credibility.
[…]
The report has left Washington, D.C. reeling — as well as the White House and Trump allies disputing the journalist’s claim that he was privy to highly sensitive information. After the authenticity of the chat was confirmed, Hegseth and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt attacked Goldberg’s reputation — with the latter claiming that “no classified material” was shared in the chat.
On Tuesday, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the incident, Gabbard also claimed there was no classified information shared — infuriating the committee’s ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who challenged the DNI to provide the texts.
In his initial report, Goldberg stated that he had purposefully withheld some information shared in the chat that he felt was “too confidential” and could endanger lives if released.
Speaking to The Bulwark’s Tim Miller on Tuesday, Goldberg said while he remained reluctant to, he was weighing whether to now release more of the chat transcripts.
Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) stumped Trump officials at a hearing by asking if the leaked text chain can be published in full since the Trump administration claims they weren’t classified.
[…]
Reed was among several Democrats who tried to corner the trio into admitting that there actually was classified information, which would be consistent with Goldberg’s description.
Both Ratcliffe and Patel dodged when Reed put them on the spot by asking if Goldberg could release the messages without fear of liability based on their claims:
SEN. JACK REED: If you are not aware of any classified information on the discussions back and forth, would it be appropriate for the author to release the entire text of what he heard or transcribed?
DIR. JOHN RATCLIFFE: I think the author has released, my understanding essentially, almost all of the information as it’s been related to me.
I don’t know what calculation the author made with regard to what information would be released or not, but again, I can again confirm that with respect to the communications that were related as to me, there was no classified information.
SEN. JACK REED: According to the article, quote, the message contained information that might be interpreted as related to actual and current intelligence operations, and the author did not disclose that information.
So the question would be if he disclosed everything heard, in your view
DIR. JOHN RATCLIFFE: That wouldn’t be classified information. I know the context of what that is, and I think the author said “might be interpreted as related to intelligence information.”.
It was not classified information.
SEN. JACK REED: So it goes back to my point, if he released all this information he did not release, he could do so without any liability at the federal level.
DIR. JOHN RATCLIFFE: I think you’re asking for a legal answer that I’m not able to give you, but–.
SEN. JACK REED: Mr. Patel, can you opine, you’re a lawyer and you’re the director of the FBI, would he face any legal liability if he released the information?
DIR. KASH PATEL: Because of the questions you and the vice chairman have put to me, I’m not going to prejudge the situation, and that legal call is ultimately for the Department of Justice.
…having a real hard time getting through the news without checking out in frustration
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump signaled his support for Waltz, who had privately come under criticism from some administration officials after the incident. “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News.
The president called the episode “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.”
Dodo admits boo boo: “learned a lesson” and “glitch … not to be a serious one”
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses.
The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel, who is representing them. Police told her they were being held at a military base for medical treatment, but she said Tuesday morning that she had not been able to reach them and had no further information on their whereabouts.
***
Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. He said they beat him in front of his home while they filmed the assault.
Wow, Witkoff was in Moscow during the Signal exchange. Why was tRUMPsky’s Mid-East advisor in Russia?
Louis DeJoy’s departure from USPS is conveniently timed
i mean, not for Kamala
Do the Jewish trump-enabling billionaires not understand that trump doesn’t see them as Americans?
you’re playing with fire, billionaires
“beyond the pale” more misused than “decimation”, Mr. S, drives me nuts
you’re living in the early stages of a Nazi-style dictatorship
have a great day
They didn’t burn witches—They burned women.
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What does this mean? I get it at the top
of the Trail when I log in. BiD
The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News.
Huh. It seems avoiding FOIA was more important.
Did Gabbard say she wasn’t on the chat, but then gave info about what was in the chat with regard to targets in Yemen? Cosplaying a Disney villain with that hair, too. Then, again, she is a villain. BiD
Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to far-right influencers get even weirder Some netizens also have drawn attention to Gabbard’s association with pro-Putin influencer Jackson Hinkle, an advocate for the right-wing movement known as “MAGA communism,” after Hinkle wrote on X that Trump “should be doing TARGETED STRIKES on Kiev, London, Brussels & Paris — NOT YEMEN!”
WTF? Shame in the Russo Republican senators who confirmed her. BiD
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.
*How very Dickensian of you, Florida.
BiD
I thought they fired all of the Generals
BiD
What happens when these unfunny clowns decide to invade Canada or Greenland without any normal level of oversight from Generals or Congress?
BiD
Craig – there is scarce info about the military side of the operation. Because there is discussion of timing and action teams the planning had already been completed. This seems to be more of a “cabinet briefing” call, especially since people not associated with the military were in it. Why invite a witkoff or Treasury Secretary? I did not see a vote on performing the operation, which also makes if more of a “bro – got something for you” type call.
Mentioned on the social things, by observant types, no muskie. No mention of muskovite. He was not briefed on anything. Which leads to multiple paths. He is not liked by the cabinet. He is not at the cabinet level. And the one I find interesting and leads to the other heavy path did sfb know. If they did not want input from muskie, they would not talk to krasnov. They do know that sfb is nuts and has dumped off his duties to muskovite.
This entire breach of security is like many others. It is not as simple and small as it looked like at the start.
you can just not login and put your username or nickname where “ Anonymous” is
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.”
“The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”
He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”
“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.” He had also written favorably of slavery and white nationalists in the late 2000s (though he has stated that he is not a white nationalist himself).
Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance…
Stories about Vance tend to focus on his hardscrabble Ohio roots, but his relationship with Thiel—and his stint in San Francisco—are key to understanding his politics. Vance owes his meteoric rise to Thiel, who largely bankrolled it. As a Yale Law student in 2011, he heard Thiel give a speech in which he suggested that smart people should be working in tech instead of wasting their time at elite schools. Afterward, Vance emailed Thiel, who invited him to California.
Following a brief stint as a lawyer, Vance moved to San Francisco. Eventually, he landed at Mithril Capital, a company co-founded by Thiel. He finished writingHillbilly Elegy while there, and Thiel wrote a blurb praising it. When Vance moved back to Ohio and eventually started his own fund, Narya Capital, both Thiel and Marc Andreessen invested. When Vance ran for U.S. Senate in 2022, Thiel spent an unprecedented $15 million on the campaign and persuaded Trump to endorse him (Vance had previously compared Trump to Hitler). In 2024, Thiel led the charge to convince Trump to pick Vance as V.P.
Vance is a Thiel creation. And like his billionaire benefactor—who once wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”—Vance embraces a radical ideology hell-bent on destroying government as we know it. And they got these ideas, at least in part, from Yarvin.
Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the “Dark Enlightenment.” Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called “patchworks,” which would be controlled by tech corporations.
Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.
Vance did not get this extremist ideology from his Appalachian upbringing or—needless to say—Yale Law. It was incubated in America’s tech capital, San Francisco, where he forged crucial ties with Thiel, Yarvin, and David Sacks, the longtime Thiel associate and pro-Putincrusader who recently hosted a Trump fundraiser at his mansion in Pacific Heights.
*That’s the plan for our future, folks. Yarvin was at tRUMPsky’s inauguration. They are ghouls. Cruelty is their currency.
Enough of the insane world. Tonight’s movie is You’ve Got Mail. A wonderful white version of a giant book seller takes over and destroys a little local book store. Ah the love is in the air. Oh, yes the dogo is the hero of the movie.
i was in a Mexican restaurant full of aggrieved trumpers tonight
figure that one out
in a Mexican restaurant full of aggrieved trumpers tonight
I’m in Mexico tonight. They seem fine and glad we’re here. I might move.
nice, enjoy!
Thanks, I’m on the hunt for an authentic Gulf of Mexico tee shirt, not from Cheena.
A hat will do.
BB – Try watching “The Shop Around The Corner,” if you don’t want, well, I guess “YGM” is pre-Bezos; I forgot about Barnes & Noble. Boy, they hit their come uppance quickly.
A former Meta official’s explosive insider account sold 60,000 copies in its first week and reached the top 10 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list amid efforts by the social media giant to discredit the book.
Released last week by Flatiron Books, a Macmillan imprint, Sarah Wynn-Williams’ “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by Mark Zuckerberg, Joel Kaplan and other executives and describes Zuckerberg’s alleged efforts to win favor with Chinese officials.
*This might be a good read, but sounds unsurprising.
President Donald Trump Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order that overhauls the administration of U.S. elections, including requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
It’s likely to face legal challenges from voting rights groups and Democratic state attorneys general.
Tuesday’s order aligns with a priority for House Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE, Act that would require proof of citizenship in federal elections. That bill, if signed into law, would codify parts of the executive order.
States are responsible for administering elections — even those at the federal level — but the order uses federal funding to compel states to follow it. Those that do not comply with the order will have federal funds revoked, according to the order.
*Can I secede from this timeline? I really wish the 404 Collective or some group could prove Elon rigged the election. I mean, he said he had an app giving him the vote count before it was public. Huh?
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
“We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”
*We are F-ing cooked unless the military acts now, or foreign nation(s) fix this mess. The asteroid won’t be here for years. Fun fact: It might hit the moon instead of Earth, which will still be devastating.
Shouldn’t the reporter from The Atlantic sue Pete Hegseth for saying he was “deceitful” and “peddled hoaxes,” etc.?
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans – The Atlantic
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.
By Jeffrey Goldberg
https://image.caglecartoons.com/294072/600/war-plans-security-breach.png
Attribution: War plans security breach by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
a good compilation of who said what: Pete in plain words, Goldberg on how he handled classified info, the DOD dude dithers on
Was the KGB (new version) listening in on the super duper double secret war plans Signal group meeting? Oh most definitely. It looks like they used russian agent witkoff phone.
Remember way back in history to the U.S. Congressional delegation that went around with childrens erasable sheets to write notes instead of using electronics? Now the krasnov russian agents just open up their electronics to anyone wanting to watch and listen.
The planned waiting period implies that the KGB (new version)/FSB/GRU already knew about the meeting and wanted witkoff to do the dialing.
Something else that is important, a direct leftover from krasnov first run in the Oval Office, using social media to avoid official electronic communication tools. No FOIA is going to show the Signal meeting ever took place.
This is edited from the post I made a few hours ago.
“can’t believe a preening drunk can’t manage the largest institution in the world”
awarded to anon, yesterday and today’s gold star
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.RzsPRpiiEmZHDm2dbNjy8gHaGZ?w=213&h=184&c=7&r=0&o=5&pid=1.7
This is so much worse than her “emails”
And if the Atlantic is that bad why were they sharing more plans with them?
What is he talking about? The White House CONFIRMED that Goldberg was accidentally added to the Signal chain!
“From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f—up imaginable,” Buttigieg wrote in a post on X. “These people cannot keep America safe.”
Mark Kelly letter to Hegseth: “There is a room in the building and secure systems where you are supposed to have these discussions. SIGNAL ain’t it. Your recklessness put the lives of those pilots at risk. You got lucky! Time to reevaluate the way you are doing things.” https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/03/24/sen-mark-kelly-pans-pentagon-group-chat-on-military-strikes/82642642007/
Vance politely says in chat room Trump is clueless. Vance: “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this”
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/leaked-signal-group-chat-how-jd-vance-differed-with-others-on-bombing-of-houthis/articleshow/119467998.cms
Now would be a good time to remember Trump is on tape sharing war plans with civilians
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-documents-audio/index.html
wonder if any of the clown show will be prosecuted by Dodo’s doj and how many past prosecuted and convicted disseminators/leakers of classified info are still in jail?
here’s a hint from 2 years ago in the monitor
Biden, Trump, and beyond: Punishment on classified documents varies – CSMonitor.com
Who goes to jail over classified docs – and who doesn’t?
what they said back then
In all of Hillary’s emails there was exactly one that was classified and it became secret after the offending email. There were some that had classified markings but not the actual material but were from a source that was secret. She regularly used a SCIF for her SOS communications that was located in her home.
@HillaryClinton
https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f440.svg You have got to be kidding me.
Call Congress: 202-224-3121 Impeach & remove Hegseth, JD, and Adolf, in that order.
Hegseth’s comments about Jeffrey Goldberg are just paraphrases of DODO’s. What was that book I bought 20 years ago by the guy who runs this operation? Oh, yes, “Attack the Messenger.” Poobah, krasnov and Hegseth must have read your book – or Miller read it and explained it to them on a 3rd grade level so they’d understand it.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-officials-accidentally-shared-yemen-war-plans-group/story?id=120106043
“White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes shared with ABC News the statement he provided to The Atlantic confirming the veracity of a Signal group chat, which Goldberg said appeared to include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among others.”
Rubio should’ve known better, too.
BB – You made two great points:
1) Avoiding the FOIA
2) Were any of those phones compromised, perhaps intentionally used, to share info with Russia
OK, I’ve made my three calls to Congress for the day. Please do your part and call your Senators and Representative.
Pogeaux, this year is Attack’s 20th Anniversary (same as Trailmix) and still avail, at $7.73 a recession-ready April Fools Day gift…
https://a.co/d/4WWsj7G
I always did like the cover
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-immigration-intelligence-officials-cb9d6dcb2583328a7dbaf6eba06a26b0
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., said on Tuesday he would defer to the White House on whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or National Security Adviser Michael Waltz should face repercussions over war plans that were texted in a group chat that included a journalist.
But I think we should be critical,” he said.
“The fact that classified information was put on an unclassified system, I think the secretary of defense needs to answer for that,” Bacon added.
He dismissed the need for an Armed Services committee investigation, simply because the facts were apparent.
Bacon also called the White House’s saying that no war plans were shared “baloney.”
“They ought to just be honest and own up to it,” Bacon said. Bacon served nearly thirty years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force, specializing in electronic warfare and intelligence.
*The Baconator
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-immigration-intelligence-officials-cb9d6dcb2583328a7dbaf6eba06a26b0
Senate Democrats, Trump’s CIA director clash over Signal leak
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, told CIA Director John Ratcliffe that the leak was an “embarrassment” and asked whether it was “just a normal day at the CIA?”
“Don’t insult the intelligence of the American people,” Bennet told Ratcliffe before asking how Goldberg was added to the chat. “Did he invite himself to the Signal thread?”
*The question is why were they using Signal, is that the norm, why, and is anyone else accessing that intel surreptitiously or with knowledge they are doing so.
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-sales-recall-trump-byd-b6f5da15be491d16e3020598e3ddf861
Tesla sales fall by 49% in Europe even as the electric vehicle market grows
There have been complaints about an aging lineup of vehicles from Tesla and also a significant backlash against CEO Elon Musk and his affiliation with the Trump administration in the U.S. In Europe, Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party in last month’s national election drew broad condemnation.
German politicians and opinion media sharply criticized Musk over his support for the AfD, while Tesla vehicles and dealerships have been the target of protesters in the U.S. and Europe over the AfD endorsement and his role advising U.S. President Donald Trump in drastically reducing the size of the US federal government.
Tesla’s new Cybertruck has had multiple recalls including last week, when the company recalled nearly all of them because panels that run along the left and right side of the windshield can fly off when driving.
It was the eighth recall of the Cybertruck since deliveries to customers began just over a year ago.
*LoL Europeans remember fascism; they aren’t having it.
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Newsletter #10: WTAF is going on with Trump, Musk & Putin?
Excellent analysis of media coverage
Craig – I thought maybe Schumer and Orange Adolf may have read your Machiavelli book and taken different lessons from the chapter on being more passive and more aggressive…but Adolf is barely literate.
I saw my first cyber truck this morning on our way to breakfast. Boy, are they fugly!
After reading what is known so far on what was in those chats the most disturbing thing is they didn’t really know whether Trump had approved this strike or not, which would be typical for him — to wait until its over and successful successful to take credit. The Trump officials don’t appear clear on what exactly Trump approved and just decided as a group on their own to go for it, which is a huge problem in military planning. Even Stephen Miller wasn’t really sure what Trump wanted, saying “as I heard it … green light.”
Someone should probably tell Dumbass that it’s hard to chase a Nobel Peace while you’re bombing the shit out of the Houthies and your best bud is killing the Hamas political leaders and turning Gaza into a gravel pile with weapons you’re providing. Better yet, probably don’t tell him.
Pogeaux – The strange response from krasnov may also have other answers. His first response was his patented statement if he is unsure of the question or facts. Similar to his “I don’t know him, must be coffee boy” which is what he responds to questions about someone who is in his out circle whether he knows him or not..
But, there is also the issue more frequently, his senile old mush pile is not a reliable source of memory. He does not remember. His military, and for some reason treasury, cabinet members might have mentioned something about making holes in the ground and he does really not remember it.
So, Adolf said he didn’t know what was going on, but what “green light” was Stephen-ghoulie Millier talking about & did it need to go through Congress?
Nobody in the chat questioned if they should be using Signal, so maybe they’ve done it before…or maybe that’s the norm amongst many departments in order to avoid FOIA?
Pohgo -Adolf just hates that President Obama has an award he’ll never get & mostly likely can’t be bought for him.
Gabbard just told Senate committee there was no classified information in the chat, so that clears The Atlantic of any liability if they want to publish the whole thing.
“…as I heard it…” It’s odd when the plausible deniability attaches to someone down the chain. For reasons Ms. Bronc notes, Dumbass always has plausible deniability (unless of course hey undermined it with a rage tweet or verbal nonsense spewed with his characteristic lack of thought.
Jeffrey Goldberg Considers Releasing More of Trump Team Chat
also at mediaite
Trump Officials Stumped At Hearing When Asked If Goldberg Can Post Bombshell Texts Since They Claim No Classified Info
…having a real hard time getting through the news without checking out in frustration
a lot of muttering “******g idiots” to myself
WSJ
Trump Administration Denies Signal Chat Shared Classified Details With Journalist
Dodo admits boo boo: “learned a lesson” and “glitch … not to be a serious one”
https://apnews.com/article/no-other-land-oscar-israel-palestinians-084c63f33e748a3279646759e9b705c2
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the army
Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary film “ No Other Land ” on Monday in the occupied West Bank before he was detained by the Israeli military, according to two of his fellow directors and other witnesses.
The filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was one of three Palestinians detained in the village of Susiya, according to attorney Lea Tsemel, who is representing them. Police told her they were being held at a military base for medical treatment, but she said Tuesday morning that she had not been able to reach them and had no further information on their whereabouts.
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https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-violence-settlers-oscar-hamdan-ballal-beb96478a55f42a7058a60ac5be7bd05
Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank. He said they beat him in front of his home while they filmed the assault.
Wow, Witkoff was in Moscow during the Signal exchange. Why was tRUMPsky’s Mid-East advisor in Russia?
Louis DeJoy’s departure from USPS is conveniently timed
i mean, not for Kamala
Do the Jewish trump-enabling billionaires not understand that trump doesn’t see them as Americans?
you’re playing with fire, billionaires
“beyond the pale” more misused than “decimation”, Mr. S, drives me nuts
you’re living in the early stages of a Nazi-style dictatorship
have a great day
They didn’t burn witches—They burned women.
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What does this mean? I get it at the top
of the Trail when I log in. BiD
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/
The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News.
Huh. It seems avoiding FOIA was more important.
Did Gabbard say she wasn’t on the chat, but then gave info about what was in the chat with regard to targets in Yemen? Cosplaying a Disney villain with that hair, too. Then, again, she is a villain. BiD
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/tulsi-gabbard-far-right-influencers-podcast-daniel-davis-jackson-hinkl-rcna196775
Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to far-right influencers get even weirder
Some netizens also have drawn attention to Gabbard’s association with pro-Putin influencer Jackson Hinkle, an advocate for the right-wing movement known as “MAGA communism,” after Hinkle wrote on X that Trump “should be doing TARGETED STRIKES on Kiev, London, Brussels & Paris — NOT YEMEN!”
WTF? Shame in the Russo Republican senators who confirmed her. BiD
~Very neighborly~
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Musk’s net favorable rating has dropped from +24 to -19 overall from 2017 to 2025 https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-approval-rating-polls-2049947
Their military strike chat group apparently didn’t include any generals???
https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/florida-lifting-child-labor-laws-immigrants/6428854
Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
The state’s legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If the new law is passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days. They are currently prevented from working earlier than 6:30 am or later than 11 pm per state law.
*How very Dickensian of you, Florida.
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I thought they fired all of the Generals
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What happens when these unfunny clowns decide to invade Canada or Greenland without any normal level of oversight from Generals or Congress?
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Craig – there is scarce info about the military side of the operation. Because there is discussion of timing and action teams the planning had already been completed. This seems to be more of a “cabinet briefing” call, especially since people not associated with the military were in it. Why invite a witkoff or Treasury Secretary? I did not see a vote on performing the operation, which also makes if more of a “bro – got something for you” type call.
Mentioned on the social things, by observant types, no muskie. No mention of muskovite. He was not briefed on anything. Which leads to multiple paths. He is not liked by the cabinet. He is not at the cabinet level. And the one I find interesting and leads to the other heavy path did sfb know. If they did not want input from muskie, they would not talk to krasnov. They do know that sfb is nuts and has dumped off his duties to muskovite.
This entire breach of security is like many others. It is not as simple and small as it looked like at the start.
you can just not login and put your username or nickname where “ Anonymous” is
like remember this ******g ******e?
🤓
https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas
In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed “not productive”: “convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.”
“The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”
He then concluded that the “best humane alternative to genocide” is to “virtualize” these people: Imprison them in “permanent solitary confinement” where, to avoid making them insane, they would be connected to an “immersive virtual-reality interface” so they could “experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”
“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.” He had also written favorably of slavery and white nationalists in the late 2000s (though he has stated that he is not a white nationalist himself).
Yarvin’s disturbing manifestos have earned him influential followers, chief among them: tech billionaire Peter Thiel and his onetime Silicon Valley protégé Senator J.D. Vance…
Stories about Vance tend to focus on his hardscrabble Ohio roots, but his relationship with Thiel—and his stint in San Francisco—are key to understanding his politics. Vance owes his meteoric rise to Thiel, who largely bankrolled it. As a Yale Law student in 2011, he heard Thiel give a speech in which he suggested that smart people should be working in tech instead of wasting their time at elite schools. Afterward, Vance emailed Thiel, who invited him to California.
Following a brief stint as a lawyer, Vance moved to San Francisco. Eventually, he landed at Mithril Capital, a company co-founded by Thiel. He finished writing Hillbilly Elegy while there, and Thiel wrote a blurb praising it. When Vance moved back to Ohio and eventually started his own fund, Narya Capital, both Thiel and Marc Andreessen invested. When Vance ran for U.S. Senate in 2022, Thiel spent an unprecedented $15 million on the campaign and persuaded Trump to endorse him (Vance had previously compared Trump to Hitler). In 2024, Thiel led the charge to convince Trump to pick Vance as V.P.
Vance is a Thiel creation. And like his billionaire benefactor—who once wrote, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”—Vance embraces a radical ideology hell-bent on destroying government as we know it. And they got these ideas, at least in part, from Yarvin.
Yarvin is the chief thinker behind an obscure but increasingly influential far-right neoreaction, or NRx, movement, that some call the “Dark Enlightenment.” Among other things, it openly promotes dictatorships as superior to democracies and views nations like the United States as outdated software systems. Yarvin seeks to reengineer governments by breaking them up into smaller entities called “patchworks,” which would be controlled by tech corporations.
Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.
Vance did not get this extremist ideology from his Appalachian upbringing or—needless to say—Yale Law. It was incubated in America’s tech capital, San Francisco, where he forged crucial ties with Thiel, Yarvin, and David Sacks, the longtime Thiel associate and pro-Putincrusader who recently hosted a Trump fundraiser at his mansion in Pacific Heights.
*That’s the plan for our future, folks. Yarvin was at tRUMPsky’s inauguration. They are ghouls. Cruelty is their currency.
Enough of the insane world. Tonight’s movie is You’ve Got Mail. A wonderful white version of a giant book seller takes over and destroys a little local book store. Ah the love is in the air. Oh, yes the dogo is the hero of the movie.
i was in a Mexican restaurant full of aggrieved trumpers tonight
figure that one out
I’m in Mexico tonight. They seem fine and glad we’re here. I might move.
nice, enjoy!
Thanks, I’m on the hunt for an authentic Gulf of Mexico tee shirt, not from Cheena.
A hat will do.
BB – Try watching “The Shop Around The Corner,” if you don’t want, well, I guess “YGM” is pre-Bezos; I forgot about Barnes & Noble. Boy, they hit their come uppance quickly.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/controversial-insider-account-former-meta-202745047.html
A former Meta official’s explosive insider account sold 60,000 copies in its first week and reached the top 10 on Amazon.com’s best-seller list amid efforts by the social media giant to discredit the book.
Released last week by Flatiron Books, a Macmillan imprint, Sarah Wynn-Williams’ “Careless People” alleges cruel and otherwise disturbing behavior by Mark Zuckerberg, Joel Kaplan and other executives and describes Zuckerberg’s alleged efforts to win favor with Chinese officials.
*This might be a good read, but sounds unsurprising.
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trump-signs-broad-elections-order-requiring-proof-citizenship
President Donald Trump Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order that overhauls the administration of U.S. elections, including requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
It’s likely to face legal challenges from voting rights groups and Democratic state attorneys general.
Tuesday’s order aligns with a priority for House Republicans to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE, Act that would require proof of citizenship in federal elections. That bill, if signed into law, would codify parts of the executive order.
States are responsible for administering elections — even those at the federal level — but the order uses federal funding to compel states to follow it. Those that do not comply with the order will have federal funds revoked, according to the order.
*Can I secede from this timeline? I really wish the 404 Collective or some group could prove Elon rigged the election. I mean, he said he had an app giving him the vote count before it was public. Huh?
Ivy – That’s a great cap!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-floats-eliminating-federal-courts-rcna197986
Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
“We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”
*We are F-ing cooked unless the military acts now, or foreign nation(s) fix this mess. The asteroid won’t be here for years. Fun fact: It might hit the moon instead of Earth, which will still be devastating.
Shouldn’t the reporter from The Atlantic sue Pete Hegseth for saying he was “deceitful” and “peddled hoaxes,” etc.?
Fox Noise called him “not a credible reporter.”
As Trump Dodges Court Orders, Samuel Alito Suggests Obeying Judges Can Be Optional
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