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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A sitting member of Congress brutally beat his wife. He threw boiling water at her. He burned her.

In front of their young daughter.

The House of Representatives needs to immediately expel Rep @MaxMillerOH (R-OH).

No man who throws boiling water on his wife in front of their daughter is fit for office.

#ExpelMaxMiller #ExpelMiller

https://t.co/EdtSkcg3VZ

[Myron Medcalf @MedcalfByESPN]

Candace Parker on Geno confronting Dawn Staley last night: "The colors always come to light."

[christan (no i), ß @ChristanWNBA]

If Dawn Staley did what Geno just did, we’d be hearing about it on Fox News for a week. But we know why, right?

[Nov @WNBAUncut]

Candace Parker and Pat Summitt been telling us about the person Geno really is for years. Imma leave it at that

[Adrienne Ross | The Adrienne Ross Show on YT @Adrienne2012]

I have been around basketball all of my life, and I have NEVER seen a coach do what UCONN Coach Geno Auriemma just did to South Carolina Coach Dawn Staley after his team lost tonight's Final Four. He literally had to be pulled away from her. What an embarrassment! It's bad enough he had a fit during the sideline interview after the third quarter. I am no South Carolina fan, but I have always been "Anybody But UCONN," and if you saw what Geno did tonight, you know why, and you might even understand the friction between the late Coach Pat Summitt and Geno back in the day. Poor example as the entire nation watched and, most importantly, his own players. I hope he wakes up in the morning and gives Dawn a call--right before apologizing to his players, his staff, and his institution. Wow.

[Sean Patrick Turley @Turley33]

@UConnWBB Pathetic. Geno needs to sit at a podium and apologize and give a TED talk like does for everything else he seems to do about women’s basketball currently. I wish Pat Summit was still around call his BS out

[Lil Wayne WEEZY F @LilTunechi]

Geno a ho

[Brett Trembly @btrembly]

Incredible stat of the year:

The University of Tennessee did not beat ONE P4 team with a winning record this year, losing all 4 games they played, and THREE of their 8 wins came against G5 or worse schools, and yet…..

THEY WERE RANKED EVERY SINGLE WEEK OF THIS YEAR BY BOTH THE AP AND THE CFP COMMITTEE.

You just can’t make this stuff up.

@overrated_sec

[S.E. Cupp @secupp]

I know, people want to confuse you about tariffs. But it’s SUPER simple:

TARIFFS ARE A TAX ON YOU. AND NO ONE WINS A TRADE WAR.

Period. Economic facts. Math. Truth. Sorry, accept it, move on.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

There is a debate about whether the operational details Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the Signal Group Chat were "classified" or not. So I surveyed a range of current and former US defense officials who agreed "war plans" is not the right term but what was shared may have been FAR MORE sensitive given the operational details and time stamps ahead of the operation, which could have placed US military pilots in harms way.

What Hegseth shared two hours ahead of the strikes were time sensitive “attack orders” or “operational plans” with actual timing of the strikes and mention of F18s, MQ9 Reapers and Tomahawks. This information is typically sent through classified channels to the commanders in the field as “secret, no forn” message. In other words the information is "classified" and should not be shared through insecure channels.

“Attack orders” or “attack sequence” puts the joint force directly and immediately at risk, according to former senior defense official #1. “It allows the enemy to move the target and increase lethal actions against US forces.”

This kind of real time operational information is more sensitive than “war plans,” which makes this lapse more egregious, according to two former senior US defense officials.

“This information was clearly classified,” according to former senior defense official #1.

The Defense Secretary can retroactively declassify information after the fact, but the fact that this was shared in real time before the strike took place makes it unlikely to have been declassified when it was being shared and seen by the journalist for The Atlantic who was inadvertently included in the Signal chat.

According to a second former senior US defense official, when Hegseth says he didn’t release “war plans” that is pure semantics. These were “attack plans.” “If you are revealing who is going to be attacked (Houthis – the name of the text chain), it still gives the enemy warning. When you release the time of the attack – all of that is always ‘classified’.”

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

65% of Americans want to expand or maintain current levels of aid to Ukraine. Only 34% want to reduce it.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump just paused ALL current military aid to Ukraine, effective immediately.

At the same time we have halted all cyber operations against Russia.

WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY!

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

Tariffs on Canada will raise the price of gas. Tariffs on Mexico will raise the price of groceries. Tariffs on lumber will raise the cost of housing. That is an inflation trifecta that will be directly and solely inflicted by the federal administration.

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

In large swaths of the country, the Democratic Party’s reputation has become toxic.

Here’s why the Democrats need to become the party of workers again. (1/10)

[Big Z @liquidfox52]

@SherrodBrown Please run for Governor or Senate in 2026!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Exactly.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Alexander Vindman: Lindsey Graham is an absolute coward. Trump didn’t sound strong—he was attacking an ally when he didn’t need to. All Zelenskyy said was that Trump couldn’t trust Putin. That was it. That’s how the argument started. And JD Vance—he looked like an absolute clown. I don’t understand why Trump let Vance blow up his deal. The deal was there.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Vindman: You’re going to say a preposterous thing like Zelenskyy owes an apology for being attacked. I'm going to go ahead and say something outrageous. JD Vance should resign. How about that?

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Russian hackers infiltrate our system *every* day. They are constantly looking for persistence (long term access) in our critical infrastructure.

If Hegseth thinks that they’re going to stop just because we do, he’s even more out of his depth than I thought.