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NonilexThe first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> admin characterized <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> as the greatest threat to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> & postured the force to prepare for & deter conflict in the Pacific region. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a>’s guidance is extraordinary in its description of the potential invasion of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> as the exclusive animating scenario that must be prioritized over other potential dangers—reorienting the vast US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> architecture toward the Indo-Pacific region beyond homeland defense.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leak</a>

NonilexThe document — setting out a prioritization framework for senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defense</a> officials & a vision to execute that work — also instructs the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> to take a more direct role in countering illegal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DrugTrafficking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrugTrafficking</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leak</a>

NonilexThe doc, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance & marked “secret/no foreign national” in most passages, was distributed throughout the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Defense</a> Dept in mid-March & signed by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a>. It outlines, in broad & partisan detail, the execution of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s vision to prepare for & win a potential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#war</a> against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> & defend the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> from threats in the “near abroad,” including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> & the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PanamaCanal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PanamaCanal</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leak</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SecDef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SecDef</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeteHegseth</a> has reoriented the US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> to prioritize deterring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a>’s seizure of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> & shoring up homeland <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defense</a> by “assuming risk” in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> & other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeritageFoundation</a>, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leak</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GiftArticle</a>Secret <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pentagon</a> memo on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomelandSecurity</a> has <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeritageFoundation</a> fingerprints  An internal guidance memo from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Defense</a> Secy <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PeteHegseth</a> focuses on deterring China’s seizure of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> & shoring up homeland defense. In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report from the conservative think tank behind <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leak</a> <a href="https://wapo.st/3Y3I0sf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wapo.st/3Y3I0sf</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> told allies that he was unhappy w/the press coverage but…he did not want to be seen as caving to [the] media….& he said he was reluctant to fire people in snr ranks so early in his 2nd term.But…the real problem did not appear to be his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> adviser’s carelessness about discussing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> plans on a commercial app….It was that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeWaltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MikeWaltz</a> may have had some kind of connection to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffreyGoldberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffreyGoldberg</a>, a… <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalist</a> whom Trump loathes…[because] Waltz had Goldberg’s number….

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GiftArticle</a>‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s Deliberations Over the Fate of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeWaltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MikeWaltz</a>In public, President Trump has defended his national security adviser. But behind the scenes, he has been asking people inside & outside the administration what they thought he should do.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CommanderInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommanderInChief</a>? <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Unfit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unfit</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SignalGate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/OpSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpSec</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/politics/trump-signal-michael-waltz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.mPYh.-3zVC5P5UD8M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/politics/trump-signal-michael-waltz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7k4.mPYh.-3zVC5P5UD8M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a>

Michael FenichelMeanwhile...Speaking of Swamp Creatures.... Here is the new/latest *New Yorker* Magazine cover (April 7, 2025)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Truth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GQP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GQP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TextGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TextGate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MikeWaltz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MikeWaltz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/treason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#treason</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#incompetence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TulsiGabbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TulsiGabbard</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpVirus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yemen</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Just so it’s clear: It does not END with snatching people off the street on student visas who advocate positions the regime doesn't approve of—that is how it BEGINS."~ Dean Obeidallah<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a> /8

William Lindsey :toad:"As U.S. President Donald Trump pledges to deport 'millions and millions' of 'criminal aliens,' thousands of federal law enforcement officials from multiple agencies are being enlisted to take on new work as immigration enforcers, pulling crime-fighting resources away on other areas -- from drug trafficking and terrorism to sexual abuse and fraud."~ Reuters<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a> /7<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"This [i.e., the kidnapping of Rumeysa Ozturk] is an illegitimate act of political kidnapping, straight out of the Pinochet-Videla-Ríos Montt playbook. And it is no longer an isolated incident."~ Charles Pierce<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ozturk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ozturk</a> /5<a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64309330/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-ice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64309330/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-detained-ice/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"They are flexing their powers and normalizing their fascist behavior by going after the most vulnerable and marginalized among us. They are punishing innocent immigrants, college students, and foreign academics. They have expanded their targets to include law firms, media companies, and judges, and it will eventually include anyone who dares defy their authoritarian dictates."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:"It begins with pro-Palestinian students and brown-skinned immigrants as the Trump Administration and the MAGA movement are going to abuse their power to silence all their critics and enemies. ...None of us are safe in the Trump regime."~ Wajahat Ali<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> /2<a href="https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-trump-administration-is-targeting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-the-trump-administration-is-targeting</a>

William Lindsey :toad:Landry Ayres notes,"The White House is using national security as a pretext for suppressing ideological dissidents."And this is "part of a larger pattern—one that threatens not just immigrants, but all of us."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICE</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> /1<a href="https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-cruel-and-lawless-deportations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-cruel-and-lawless-deportations</a>

Kim Perales🚨"The worst thing that the fed govt has done to labor <a href="https://toad.social/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unions</a> in my lifetime: Trump signed an EO saying that the govt will no longer recognize & bargain with a huge portion of the unions that rep fed WKRs: VA, St Dept, DOE, EPA, TSY, DOJ... To justify the move -said: agencies are involved in <a href="https://toad.social/tags/nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nationalsecurity</a> -FICTION.There're >1M union members working in the fed govt, EO: targets most of them. They don’t give a fuck. This isn't about law. This is about power."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-going-to-take-everything" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-going-to-take-everything</a>

NonilexThis is the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new admin that are squandering America’s strength & threatening our <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a>. Firing hundreds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a> charged w/protecting our nation’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> weapons is also <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dumb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dumb</a>. So is shutting down efforts to fight <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pandemics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pandemics</a> just as a deadly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ebola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ebola</a> outbreak is spreading in Africa. It makes no sense to purge talented generals, diplomats & spies at a time when rivals like China & Russia are trying to expand their…reach.

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s instructions to his team late this week remained to attack <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffreyGoldberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffreyGoldberg</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheAtlantic</a>, & not “produce a scalp” by firing any members of his Cabinet, in the words of one outside adviser consulted by the White House who described the discussions to us.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SignalGate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kakistocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propaganda</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-hegseth-waltz-signal/682220/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-hegseth-waltz-signal/682220/</a>

Nonilex“It’s so beyond what I would expect from anyone in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a>,” said Commander Kuldau, who also flew combat missions in the Middle East. “The idea that the secretary of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defense</a>, who should know better, has done this, is just mind-boggling.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SignalGate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#idiocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kakistocracy</a>

NonilexA fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AirForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AirForce</a> fighter pilot, Maj Anthony Bourke, added: “When you disclose operational security, people can get killed.” He said that “these things are not taken lightly. I have never met anybody in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> who does not know this.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a>, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoxNews</a> weekend host, served as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalGuard</a> infantryman.Cmdr Parker Kuldau, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Navy</a> F/A18 pilot, called Hegseth’s disclosures, & subsequent response to them, “infuriating.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SignalGate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signal</a>

NonilexWednesday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hegseth</a> called his disclosure a “team update” to “provide updates in real time, general updates in real time” to keep <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> ofcls informed.But details of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> operations are usually kept so secret that even the service members taking part in them are “locked down.” That sometimes means they are not allowed to speak to others who do not have a need to know, let alone tell people about the plans, the fighter pilots interviewed said.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SignalGate</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signal</a>

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