Lisa Whitley

Certified Nurse Midwife, avid Cubs fan

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@yashar Good! I have given up all streaming services over the last year. Very liberating. I listen to sports on the radio, watch highlights. If they want me to watch movies/TV again they will make them more accessible. It’s a choice. Corporate greed and monopolies are out of control!

[John Podhoretz @jpodhoretz]

This is one of the most beautiful essays I have ever read.

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@JoJoFromJerz @Acyn Can we just skip to the part where they all drink the kool-aid?

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@MalcolmNance The dumbest timeline

[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

[Ross Hendricks @Ross__Hendricks]

Friendly reminder: Hormuz was open before we launched the war

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@cmclymer What could possibly go wrong?

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@JoJoFromJerz And mine is almost $7

[Patricia Murphy @MurphyAJC]

NEWS that Congressional staff are not going to like- Delta is suspending its special congressional desk service for members of Congress until the shutdown is over. @ajc https://t.co/q2w4VIkK7p

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@RandPaul It’s so interesting how you pick and choose when people can make decisions for themselves and when you think you should dictate them. You’re such a hypocrite.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Here are the @GOP who just voted to block TSA funding. Make sure to send them a thank you note for your airport line:

Sen. Banks (R)
Sen. Barrasso (R)
Sen. Blackburn (R)
Sen. Boozman (R)
Sen. Britt (R)
Sen. Budd (R)
Sen. Moore Capito (R)
Sen. Cassidy (R)
Sen. Collins (R)
Sen. Cornyn (R)
Sen. Cotton (R)
Sen. Cramer (R)
Sen. Crapo (R)
Sen. Cruz (R)
Sen. Ernst (R)
Sen. Fischer (R)
Sen. Graham (R)
Sen. Grassley (R)
Sen. Hagerty (R)
Sen. Hawley (R)
Sen. Hoeven (R)
Sen. Husted (R)
Sen. Hyde-Smith (R)
Sen. Johnson (R)
Sen. Justice (R)
Sen. Kennedy (R)
Sen. Lankford (R)
Sen. Lee (R)
Sen. Lummis (R)
Sen. Marshall (R)
Sen. McConnell (R)
Sen. McCormick (R)
Sen. Moody (R)
Sen. Moran (R)
Sen. Moreno (R)
Sen. Mullin (R)
Sen. Murkowski (R)
Sen. Ricketts (R)
Sen. Risch (R)
Sen. Rounds (R)
Sen. Schmitt (R)
Sen. Scott (R)
Sen. Scott (R)
Sen. Sullivan (R)
Sen. Thune (R)
Sen. Tillis (R)
Sen. Tuberville (R)
Sen. Wicker (R)
Sen. Young (R)

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@WhiteHouse @SenSchumer Lies, lies and more lies!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

well there you have it

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@JDVance You are such a lying pedo-protecting couch fucker.

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@SenatorCollins Thanks but no thanks for your “concern”. Dems are open to funding everything except the gestapo. If you cared, you would too.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

We tried to pass a bill to fund TSA, CISA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, without ICE funding, but it was blocked by Republicans. If you want to open the other agencies while we negotiate about ICE I personally guarantee you that Democrats will be unanimously in favor.

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@jasoninthehouse @Reagan_Airport You mean the Republicans that are refusing to vote for funding. Nice try though

[Lisa Whitley @ldwhitl]

@JDVance Since it’s currently zero we don’t need the useless SAVE act, or your useless self. Go back to fucking couches.

[Senator Peter Welch @SenPeterWelch]

In the span of 24 hours, Democrats went down to the Senate Floor with bills to fund TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and our national cybersecurity.

Republicans blocked all of them.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

If the SAVE Trump Act passes, it will be easier to buy an assault rifle than it will be to register to vote.

Let that sink in.