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[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Pete Hegseth falsely testified to both the House and the Senate last week that troops were deployed to voting places in 15 states under Joe Biden in 2024.

Not only were all National Guard activations for the 2024 election ordered by individual states rather than Biden, all 11 states that responded to my inquiries told me that *zero troops* were sent to voting places.

The Pentagon declined to comment. Fact check: https://t.co/bwMFV9hPEV

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

Last year NIH cut mRNA vaccine research by $500 million because the HHS Sec does not believe in mRNA vaccines. Now, acting CDC Dir Jay Bhattacharya is blocking publication of a paper that reportedly shows that the COVID vaccine cut emergency department visits and hospitalizations among healthy adults by about half this past winter. If this is true, Congress should remove both RFK Jr and Bhattacharya.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
https://t.co/aZiAxu5pXH

[LenaSun @bylenasun]

SCOOP: A report showing the effectiveness of the covid-19 vaccine that was previously delayed by the head of the CDC has now been blocked from being published in the agency’s flagship scientific journal, per sources. My latest. https://t.co/snXlOOIJnY

[Brody @britmebaby]

Numb to everything that she does, but it’s crazy to think that her husband got shot in the neck at a school and instead of speaking at events about gun violence which took away his life, it’s been fireworks and Israel

[Zaf @Buenozaf]

I knew it. Coachella took down the video.

Variety, NME, CNN Brasil, & Pitchfork wrote articles using this tweet.

Reposting it here in clips: the moment The Strokes criticized the CIA, the US government, and the killings in Iran and Gaza.

#Strokeschella

[Craig Harris @CraigHarrisNews]

Tonight only on @12news: We examine how 180,000 Arizona kids have been removed from Arizona's Food Stamp program since last summer as 20 percent of ESA parents misspent $10 million on luxury items like $1,500 gift cards, electric dirt bikes and sexually explicit items.

[DarrellHillAZ @az_darrell]

@HITTINGGREEN_ @UnderdogNBA Put every team in the lottery and just draw for 1st 3 spots. This proposal makes no sense.

[DarrellHillAZ @az_darrell]

@GabyBiggs There will be no investigation. No prosecution. Petersen does this with the sole intention of creating buzz for the primary.

[DarrellHillAZ @az_darrell]

This man is a weasel and a dangerous authoritarian. He would burn down our entire democracy for the smallest glimpse of power.

He knows he can’t win a fair election. So he wants his daddy to prosecute his political rivals. Pathetic.

[Warren Petersen @votewarren]

Today I referred Kris Mayes and Adrian Fontes to the Department of Justice for obstruction of justice and tampering with a witness. It is disturbing to see their resistance to an election integrity investigation.

https://t.co/pRJ3mJgsuE

[DarrellHillAZ @az_darrell]

@GabyBiggs Yes calling for an investigation into your political opponents by a corrupt AG who is unwilling to follow the law and release the Epstein files is a sign of authoritarianism.

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

Doing the whole “this is an unjustly persecuted black man” pro-black spin for the dude who said slavery was a choice, pressed up White Lives Matter and Nazi merch and made a Heil Hitler song is wild as hell folks are really fuckin crazy

[Dave Biscobing @DaveBiscobing15]

Wild stuff this morning about @PhoenixPolice...

There's a civil trial supposed to start TODAY about cops who tried to falsely charge a public defender for a made-up assault.

But officers have been ducking subpoenas to appear so they won't have to testify.

[DarrellHillAZ @az_darrell]

President Trump and the us military plan to commit atrocities against the Iranian people for the crime of not surrendering to American aggression and imperialism. This is unmistakable crime that will stain us all. Any person who stands with Trump betrays their humanity.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The President of the United States has just said “A whole civilization will die tonight.” Any politician, public figure, or person within the chain of command who does not speak up and do everything in their power to stop this will be complicit in the gravest crime against humanity, and there’s no return from that.

[AZ Sen. Priya Sundareshan @priya4az]

An order to commit war crimes is a clear example of an illegal order.

That's exactly what @SenMarkKelly has reminded our military should not comply with.

[Benny @bennythebull]

Come get your boy, @Suns 🤨

[DarrellHillAZ @az_darrell]

Perhaps if you despicable idiots took the corruption and sexual assault seriously he would not have the opportunity to commit war crimes and threaten nuclear weapons. You enabling assholes always blame everyone else for the trash you support.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

I really wish "legal experts" hadn't screamed bloody murder about every little thing Trump did, so they could speak with authority now that he's actually committing war crimes.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Hundreds of U.S. personnel have been killed or injured in the region since the U.S. launched a war on Iran just over a month ago. CENTCOM has sent outdated statements on casualty numbers. https://t.co/wkgzJPqVg3

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one.

A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it.

The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link.

General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.”

Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon.

Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to.

The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone.

Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody?

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS