HOLY SH*T:
Rep. Thomas Massie just announced he is going to read the names of the victims of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty, from 1967, on the House floor.
34 American crew members were murdered by an Israeli fighter jet attack.
Thank you, @RepThomasMassie.
Bill Cassidy (R-primaried out of the Senate by Trump) & Cory Booker (D-king of the filibuster) join forces to object to Trump’s slush fund. Trump’s time will come to an end.
Turns out we may already have an anti-aging vaccine.
Created originally to prevent shingles, it appears to influence aging and cognitive decline - far beyond anything it was designed to do.
The beauty of science.
https://t.co/Cynp2gcxBC
It would be really smart for @MSNOWNews to hire all of the 60 Minutes team and recreate it on their network. Huge ratings boost, and a great move for prestige.
Leaked video of Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu:
“We are working to bring Iran to places it has never been before.
They will understand that they are below, and Jews are above.”
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
Footage from an Israeli aircraft shows thousands of starving Palestinians running towards an aid truck, before it bombs and kills them all.
A video that the world must never forget.
Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites.
The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.
This fucker is mixed up with the mob and is under criminal investigation by Albanian authorities over his $4 billion development of Sazan island in the country.
Bring Sama back home.
IDF just kidnapped her in Palestine.
She is 20 years old. She is American.
Israel won’t tell anybody where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges.
IDF soldiers could be raping her right now.
Please tag @elonmusk to share this story.
Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.
Here's what happened:
He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.
These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.
Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.
A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).
The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.
But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.
With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.
And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.
The threat does all the work.
By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.
Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.
If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.
Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy just personally blamed Donald Trump for the rise in healthcare costs in our country. Woah.
It’s true that Marco Rubio provided over 1 million unnecessary deaths, half of them children. But there is probably no one more dangerous to the lives and limbs of Americans and others than Russell Vought.
Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.
Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.
The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.