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☕️ politics & social justice

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

This is pure evil. The President of the United States’ genocidal threat to commit war crimes is illegal under federal & international law.

The U.S. military swears an oath to the Constitution, not the president. @thejointstaff is required to disobey any & all illegal orders.

@SpeakerJohnson must immediately call Congress back to Washington & rein in this mad president.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Pete Hegseth has fired twelve generals. Between them, five hundred years of military experience. Desert Storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Gone. No reason given. In the middle of a war.

These weren’t pen-pushers. They were the men who actually know what a ground invasion of Iran looks like.

Perhaps they also know something else. That the man now running the Pentagon spent his career behind a Fox News desk rather than a command post. That his qualifications for managing the world’s most powerful military were, broadly speaking, strong opinions and good hair.

Funny how they’re exactly the ones Hegseth just removed.
Their replacements come with one qualification: complete loyalty to the vision.

Five hundred years of hard-won, blood-soaked knowledge. Shown the door by a television presenter.
What could possibly go wrong.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[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?

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[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time. Michelle and I send our condolences to Bob’s family, and everyone who knew and admired him.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This week I will introduce the “No Immunity for Glyphosate Act” to undo the recent Executive Order which promotes glyphosate (Round-Up) and insulates manufacturers from liability. #MAHA

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Some of us never forgot.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This needs to be leading on every newscast. Listen to @tedlieu

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @AGPamBondi: Since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one.

Witness calls FBI’s NTOC and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her.

DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS.

When will DOJ interview this witness?

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @AGPamBondi: You did the one thing your king ordered you not to do: you made Trump look guilty.

You also lied under oath.

And you surveilled the search history of Congress Members.

We are impeaching you when we flip the House. Unless you resign first.

Good evening.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:

Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director “Melania”)
…

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Hey ⁦@DAGToddBlanche⁩, I saw the unredacted version of this email, and there is no reason it should be redacted from the public.

Unless, of course, you are trying to protect your master @realdonaldtrump.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This should be a bigger story.

A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules.

They didn’t follow the law, didn’t follow the science, and betrayed the public to serve Trump’s agenda.

Disgraceful. https://t.co/s3xD3rfeIX

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Stephanopoulos: “I want to ask you about a report breaking in the WSJ overnight, I want to show you the headline…The headline is saying ‘Spy Sheikh Bought Secret Stake In Trump Company—a $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.’ It’s referring to…Sheikh Tahnoun and he made this investment just before President Trump was inaugurated…the article goes on to say the deal marks something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president’s company…How do you respond to those who say this is a SERIOUS conflict of interest?”😳

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOMBSHELL CONFIRMED. Whistleblower Chuck Borges was RIGHT. Elon Musk's DOGE team at Social Security ILLEGALLY copied 300 MILLION Americans' private data onto unsecured servers—then signed secret agreements with political operatives to use that data to OVERTURN ELECTION RESULTS.

This isn't government efficiency. This is data TREASON. The Trump administration admitted it ALL in court.

They covered it up for months while Borges lost his career for telling the truth. If there's no justice for this anti-American corruption, there will be no peace.
PRISON. NOW.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.