"The next day [the sheriff] called me and said, 'We found your pen.' And I said, 'Great.' And he said it was an elected official, and I thought, 'Well a judge wouldn’t pick up a pen and take it with him.'
And he said, 'It was Ken Paxton.'” https://t.co/MICTEFfVZ1
Admiral Stavridis is too nice to say it, but the problem is a Costume Cabinet of in-over-their-heads incompetents, if not outright crooks.
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Our country was founded on the principle that the people, not our leaders, get the final say.
This administration’s illegal attacks on the vote by mail process are undermining that principle. The courts must put a stop to it.
I encourage voters in FL-13 to return their VBM ballots as early as possible or drop them off at a secure ballot box.
We must be vigilant in making sure our calls for change are heard by November 3rd.
A company in Riga, Latvia is paying a 300,000 dollar monthly budget to overseas contractors, told explicitly to hide their location with US proxy servers, to post clips designed to look like ordinary Americans spontaneously praising the GOP. The campaign's own instructions state the goal in writing: so that republican win in USA. No disclosure that the poster was paid, no disclosure it is coordinated. The money trail traces to Blake Wynn, 26, nephew of mega donor Steve Wynn, whose company's employees uploaded the campaign's source videos.
Wynn has said he regularly talks to FBI Director Kash Patel, sat next to Trump on Election Night 2024, and was close with Charlie Kirk. The campaign's own banned topics list is its own tell, no Jan 6 videos, no Trump family crypto, no RFK Jr, careful image management dressed up as spontaneous grassroots enthusiasm. When the Atlantic's reporter contacted everyone involved, the campaign folders and Discord listings started disappearing within a day.
Because it is doomed. It's been doomed from the start. None of these are serious people. They're all just looters and vandals. When a crisis comes, a lot of people are going to die because none of them believe consequences are real and problems can be posted through.
The Pentagon is secretly putting MAGA influencers (at least 3 retired colonels with 1M+ followers combined) on the Pentagon payroll to boost Pete Hegseth and attack critics, per the Washington Post. None of it was disclosed, and it comes amidst recent purges at Stars & Stripes. They're trading in journalism for cronyism and propaganda.
@kimleclerc@RadioFreeTom yes presssec or she used to be a money honey on cnbc, certainly that qualifies her for bessent's role in this disaster cabinet that is running our country into the ground..
I stand by my views expressed five days into this administration. Rather than surrounding himself with the strongest supporting cast imaginable -- the Secretary seems to be steaming full speed in the opposite direction.
@adammocklerr that is the tried and true and why they don't like mail in voting. reduce polling place capacity and throughput in densely populated blue areas so people have to miss work and stand in line for hours to vote.
I could see RFK Jr going either way on mayonnaise. Him thinking it’s the number one thing killing our children seems just as likely as him thinking everyone should have two spoonfuls after every meal.
Pete Hegseth is trying to silence anyone who exposes his failures as Secretary of Defense. The Pentagon fired three @starsandstripes journalists just a few days after the outlet published a story about mental health and food and water shortages aboard the USS Lincoln.
These firings threaten the independence of a news source that has served our troops and their families for more than a century. I commend these reporters for having the courage to tell the truth and hold Pentagon leadership accountable.
This Administration has even tried to hide the numbers of American service members killed and wounded in this war. From silencing reporters to withholding basic information from the American people, they are doing everything they can to keep the public in the dark.