This morning’s grandstanding at Quantico only solidified what we already know: @PeteHegseth continues to disparage and lie about women in the military.
He claimed the military needs to “return to the male standard” in combat jobs (of 1990!), but here’s the truth: there has never been a separate male and female standard. When women entered combat roles, one standard was set, and we’ve been meeting it ever since. You can either do the job or you can’t. Period.
Thanks to @wolfblitzer and @cnn for having me on this morning.
🚨 BREAKING: They almost sold your country out and hoped you’d be too distracted to notice.
Tucked deep in a Senate budget bill was a land grab so bold it makes Gilded Age robber barons look subtle: millions of acres of public land — forests, tribal sites, and wildlife corridors — up for auction.
No hearings.
No local priority.
No tribal consent.
Just Wall Street developers licking their chops.
Received this memo from constituents abroad on a US military base who are parents in the DOD school system. They’re outraged that censorship like this is happening against military families. One asked a school official why they removed photos on the walls of Susan B. Anthony and Dr. King but not Leonardo DaVinci and was told: “He was a real historical figure.”
RIP Gwen Watkins, who has passed at the age of 101.
She decoded Luftwaffe codes at Bletchley Park in WW2, aiding RAF & USAAF fighters against German bombers & helping Allied aircraft evade German air defences.
Thank you for your service, heroine. 🕊
ICYMI: Yesterday, Trump fired the NLRB's general counsel and its acting chair.
Now the agency tasked with defending the right of workers to unionize can't function because it lacks a quorum.
Guess who has been fighting in court to gut the agency altogether?
Amazon and SpaceX.