New: On April 1, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George requested an in-person meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — an effort to calm months of tension between Hegseth and senior Army leaders, three officials said.
The meeting never came. The next day, he was fired in the middle of a meeting with Army staff.
“The staff proceeded to, one by one, either go and give him a handshake or a hug,” a Pentagon official recalled. By the next morning, George’s office had been emptied.
Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant
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Graham Platner is a mediocre white dude with multiple serious scandals and the left is doing backflips to keep him viable because he is cosplaying working class. A Black or Brown candidate with his resume and his baggage? Out by Feb. White progressive privilege is something else entirely.
The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
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Melinda French Gates donates $215M to menopause care. Women have been expected to deal with it on their own behind the scenes. "We're way behind on knowing exactly how the hormones change and at what time. We're way behind on sharing information w/ women."https://t.co/OW3WViugcf
Sen. @ewarren: Trump purchased up to $1M worth of Nvidia stock. One week later, Trump loosened export rules so Nvidia could sell chips to China. Now the stock is through the roof. Should the SEC start an investigation?
Bessent: Please lead by example
Warren: I would like to see the President of the United States lead by example.
Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.
And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.
His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”
Not whether it works.
Not whether Congress authorized it.
Whether it pleases Trump.
This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?
Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.
Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.
Grow a spine.
This is not about left or right.
It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.
History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
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The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.
The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.
Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: CNN's a very corrupt organization, with a corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles. Young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing with such hatred in her eyes.
🚨MAJOR NEWS: Sen. Jacky Rosen just revealed that Trump's controversial $1.7 billion payout fund could STILL move forward despite a judge's temporary pause.
Her response is BRILLIANT.
Rosen introduced legislation to redirect the money to food assistance, Medicaid, and public safety programs.
Now Republicans will be forced to take a public vote:
Do they support a $1.7 billion fund Trump could use to reward political allies and January 6 rioters...
Or do they support feeding hungry children, helping families afford healthcare, and keeping communities safe?
That's a vote they won't be able to hide from. Share this everywhere.
Kaitlan Collins: Is the $1.8B slush fund dead or is it on hold?
Trump: Uhhh I'd have to ask the lawyers, I don't know. It's a beautiful thing. It's the greatest thing. Be quiet. She used to be a conservative from Alabama
Collins: I'm still from Alabama
Perhaps the most notable secretive medical absence involving an American politician centered on another New Jerseyan: President Woodrow Wilson, the state’s former governor.
After Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke, his wife, Edith, and his physician concealed his condition from the public.
“Together they chose what they believed best for Wilson personally rather than what was good for the country,” said Christopher Cox, a Republican former member of the House and author of “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn.”
“History teaches it is difficult for important elected officials to give up power and position when health issues compromise their ability to do the job,” Cox said. “In that sense, human nature hasn’t changed.” https://t.co/3osBewrq5G