HeatherHG

Even in Kyoto
hearing the cuckoo's cry
I long for Kyoto------Basho

I ignore DMs

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

Pretty serious leak coming from the Pentagon. In the classified Secretary of Defense Orders Book, multiple military officials warned that prolonged Iran ops are unsustainable.

The document says that leaders of US European Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command as well as the Navy's top admiral responded with a 'non-concur' assessment, meaning they disagree with the Secretary's orders but will still execute them.

https://t.co/3ICmiSAp9j

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“A former military officer now working for a navy contracting company, who has been briefed on the shortfalls, said: ‘They’re fucked. They shot all their weapons; they trashed all their ships; they ran out of their money.’”

https://t.co/9tzZCbqe6O

[ABC News @ABC]

A federal judge approved the $72.5 million settlement between Jeffrey Epstein's victims and Bank of America, the third financial institution to publicly reach such a settlement. https://t.co/78TGwIxjTn

[Sam Stein @samstein]

The Big Tech companies—Mark Zuckerberg in particular—made a big stink about the Biden administration pressuring them and trampling on speech. Now the Trump adm is demanding and obtaining records on journalists from the big tech companies and they haven't made a peep.

https://t.co/qJrmUHXsoC

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

In the news this week, a judge decided that a woman in the military being raped was "one of her duties" and a “workplace accident”. AI child SA images are covered by the First Amendment, and the FBI no longer cares about prostitution or bestiality if you want a job. Idiocracy.

[ABC News @ABC]

A Florida grand jury found that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “misappropriated” $10 million in taxpayer money it diverted to a charity run by his wife and was later used for political purposes.

Read more: https://t.co/nXDXP3XMvy

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The Trump administration told the Supreme Court that construction of a new White House East Wing was “65% finished,” arguing that the work was too far along to halt.

That claim, however, is contradicted by records reviewed by The Post. https://t.co/t8lBRtoZoB

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

“Seizing a big chunk of one of California’s most beautiful parks to boost a private oil company would be an unlawful and utterly outrageous abuse of federal power.” https://t.co/gWcfXDiLsr

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Trump Administration Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer — NOTUS

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Hat tip to the League of Women Voters, who have successfully sued Trump to block his efforts to use US Postal Service to manipulate state voting rules.
https://t.co/rqAUaXzWlH

[Mark S. Zaid @MarkSZaidEsq]

Mark Zaid, a DC lawyer who reps FBI agents & is familiar with bureau's hiring practices, agreed. "How can this not be reflective of a recruiting problem at the FBI if you are lowering your standards on issues like bestiality and prostitution," he said.

https://t.co/xLOBPjhgqw

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

Trump has wrecked many iconic D.C. sites, and now he’s taking an axe to trees in East Potomac Park, including historic cherry trees.

I’ve heard from so many locals who hate this, but all Trump's people care about is appeasing his massive ego. This is awful.

https://t.co/PqFQJxLGjJ

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The Republican governor of Wyoming has asked the state attorney general to "start looking into" the conduct of Trump Justice Department election observers deployed to the state for last week's primary election — calling the behavior of observers "aggressive" and "irregular."

[Sarah N. Lynch @SarahNLynch]

New: At the FBI, hiring prostitutes, stealing from your employer or engaging in acts of bestiality are no longer an automatic barrier to getting hired https://t.co/Pkcuzv308Q w/@dklaidman

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Trump's personal lawyer gave a think tank until five p.m. Friday to retract a crime study or face a five-billion-dollar defamation suit. A sitting president using private litigation to intimidate a critic is still extraordinary, whatever you call the lawsuit itself.

https://t.co/HI6gCQPsb2

[Tim Hirschel-Burns @TimH_B]

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

[VoteVets @votevets]

Six months ago​ Trump launched a war on Iran and promised it would be over in four to five weeks.

And six months later​ the Strait of Hormuz is still closed​, prices are way up, and American service members are still deployed with no ​end in sight.

Veterans ​and military families already KNOW how this ends. A war nobody has authorized ​is a burden our service members and their families carry​ every single day.

It's time for Republicans to give a shit about our troops and stand up to Trump and Hegseth. We need to bring them home. #OperationEpicFailure

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just cannot be said enough that Biden (w/an assist from the Fed) pulled off the best economic recovery from COVID in the world and just as we were reaching an inflection point where things were really going to soar, we kicked ourselves squarely in the crotch & handed Trump the WH

[VoteVets @votevets]

Six months after Operation Epic Fury was promised as a brief, weeks-long campaign, there is no end in sight—and the official narrative is quietly shifting. Behind the headline figures lie reclassified casualty counts, hidden economic costs for everyday households, critically depleted missile stockpiles, and historic strain on the military.

Here is where the war actually stands, by the numbers.
https://t.co/6CsGUb4mhB

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

The Trump-Vance administration is pressuring the National Park Service to surrender land within Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

“If the deal goes through, the Trump administration would be breaking with 150 years of American precedent at the birthplace of the national park system. The federal government has historically strived to expand the crown-jewel national parks, not give up land within them.”

I don’t think you can sufficiently despise this administration. Every day there’s some new way that it is working to carve up and sell off pieces of this country while making life in it worse.