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La Maison Blanche confirme qu'un journaliste a reçu par erreur des informations militaires confidentielles
La Maison Blanche confirme qu'un journaliste a reçu par erreur des informations militaires confidentielles
La Maison Blanche a confirmé lundi 24 mars qu'un journaliste américain avait été inclus par erreur dans un groupe de discussion ultra-confidentiel et a ainsi eu accès à des plans militaires top secrets, sans doute l'une des failles de sécurité les plus retentissantes de l'histoire militaire américaine récente. Donald Trump dit ne « rien savoir » de la divulgation d'informations confidentielles à ce journaliste. « Vous m'en parlez pour la première fois », a assuré le président américain à la presse
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March 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
La Maison Blanche confirme qu'un journaliste a reçu par erreur des informations militaires confidentielles
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You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
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"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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March 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing
March 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing
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"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
Israel continues to batter territory in renewed offensive as Palestinian officials say death toll of war has passed 50,000
Malnutrition is spreading in Gaza, medics and aid workers in the devastated Palestinian territory are warning, as a total Israeli blockade of all supplies enters its fourth week.
There has been no sign that Israel will open entry points to allow essential aid to flow or ease the new offensive in Gaza, which started on Tuesday with a wave of airstrikes that killed 400 people, mostly civilians, ending two months of relative calm. On Sunday, Palestinian officials said the total death toll from nearly 18 months of conflict had passed 50,000. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week
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Someone ask Senator Gallego what legal authority he believes permits the United States to pay another nation to imprison people who have committed no crimes in this country. Ask him whether that complies with the Constitution. Ask him what is more important to him; the rule of law, or the polls.
U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego said Trump has set a political “trap” for Democrats with his deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador. In an interview with the Star, Gallego also said he maintains qualified support for sending migrants to El Salvador, “if they are dangerous.” tucson.com/news/local/s...
Sen. Ruben Gallego: Trump set political 'trap' for Dems on deportation issue
U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego tells the Arizona Daily Star President Donald Trump has set a political "trap" for Democrats with his controversial deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador.
tucson.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Someone ask Senator Gallego what legal authority he believes permits the United States to pay another nation to imprison people who have committed no crimes in this country. Ask him whether that complies with the Constitution. Ask him what is more important to him; the rule of law, or the polls.
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We’re sending gay Venezuelan barbers to concentration camps right the fuck now, Chuck
Schumer: "If he defies the Supreme Court, then we are in uncharted territory ... our entire democracy is at risk. I believe that if Donald Trump should defy the courts, the public will rise up. Democrats will fight it in every single way ... autocrats only succeed if the public lets them."
March 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We’re sending gay Venezuelan barbers to concentration camps right the fuck now, Chuck
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This ridiculous deflection is such a non sequitur.
Due process is what distinguishes us as a people from the monsters who do commit heinous crimes. If there’s no due process, we’re a society that can just lynch people on an accusation, with no need to get it right.
Due process is what distinguishes us as a people from the monsters who do commit heinous crimes. If there’s no due process, we’re a society that can just lynch people on an accusation, with no need to get it right.
KARL: Do they have any due process at all?
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
HOMAN: Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?
(That's a "no")
March 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This ridiculous deflection is such a non sequitur.
Due process is what distinguishes us as a people from the monsters who do commit heinous crimes. If there’s no due process, we’re a society that can just lynch people on an accusation, with no need to get it right.
Due process is what distinguishes us as a people from the monsters who do commit heinous crimes. If there’s no due process, we’re a society that can just lynch people on an accusation, with no need to get it right.
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She needs you to imagine the violent crimes because most of them are in fact imaginary
Bondi defends migrant rendition flights to a slave prison in El Salvador: "It's basic public safety. Get these people out of our country as fast as we can. They're not immigrants. They're illegal aliens who are committing the most violent crimes you can imagine on Americans."
March 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
She needs you to imagine the violent crimes because most of them are in fact imaginary
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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This will be in tomorrow's Border Update but deserves its own separate post:
Profiles of 15 young Venezuelan men shipped off to El Salvador's prisons last Saturday. None of them seem to be gang members—not at all.
Post is here, with links to sources: adamisacson.com/who-did-the-...
Profiles of 15 young Venezuelan men shipped off to El Salvador's prisons last Saturday. None of them seem to be gang members—not at all.
Post is here, with links to sources: adamisacson.com/who-did-the-...
![Who Did the Trump Administration Just Send to El Salvador’s Dungeons?
The list below is an excerpt from tomorrow’s Border Update, which I’m still drafting. But it deserves to be shared separately.
On March 20 CBS News obtained and published a full list of all 238 Venezuelan men whom the Trump administration sent to El Salvador on March 15, despite a judge’s orders. It appears that 137 had no due process at all—they were sent under the fourth-ever invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The other 101 apparently had orders of removal.
But even though none committed any crimes in El Salvador, the government of Nayib Bukele sent them directly to the “Center for Confinement of Terrorism (CECOT),” a mega-jail built about two years ago to hold gang members, from which no prisoner is known to have been released.
For many of their loved ones, the CBS list was the first confirmation of their whereabouts. “Family members of the men say they’ve had no way to communicate with their loved ones,” noted Jonathan Lemire and Nick Miroff at the Atlantic, “So they study the [Salvadoran government’s] propaganda videos for glimpses of sons and spouses among the deportees.”
Here are profiles that I’ve seen of 15 of them, with links to sources. They really do not seem to be gang members at all.
Gustavo Adolfo Aguilera Agüero, 27, had been living in Dallas with his wife since December 2023, when they entered the United States with a CBP One appointment. In early February 2025, Aguilera was arrested while taking out the trash outside their home, his wife told the Miami Herald. He has a nine-month-old U.S. citizen son. His tattoos include his older, Venezuelan-born son’s name, his name and his mother’s name, and a reggaeton lyric. His mother says he has no criminal record.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t5hgkoxrsxpe3wfisqfeymg5/bafkreicwejjymd2hvlk2v7cwsxs3nwarg6gkknkig7v2einrl2ox63mf6e@jpeg)
March 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This will be in tomorrow's Border Update but deserves its own separate post:
Profiles of 15 young Venezuelan men shipped off to El Salvador's prisons last Saturday. None of them seem to be gang members—not at all.
Post is here, with links to sources: adamisacson.com/who-did-the-...
Profiles of 15 young Venezuelan men shipped off to El Salvador's prisons last Saturday. None of them seem to be gang members—not at all.
Post is here, with links to sources: adamisacson.com/who-did-the-...
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Tomorrow, Arizona plans to execute Aaron Gunches, the first execution under Governor Katie Hobbs. The state halted executions in 2023 over concerns about its lethal injection process but is now resuming them. boltsmag.org/secrecy...
Secrecy Clouds Arizona’s Lethal Injection Protocol as the State Restarts Executions
The decision by Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states hiding key details about executions.
boltsmag.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Tomorrow, Arizona plans to execute Aaron Gunches, the first execution under Governor Katie Hobbs. The state halted executions in 2023 over concerns about its lethal injection process but is now resuming them. boltsmag.org/secrecy...
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.
BREAKING: The US Justice Department is examining whether student protests at Columbia University over the genocide in Gaza violated federal terrorism laws, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said today.
March 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.
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Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
March 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Think about that 60-some-year-old South Korean senator who was literally climbing over walls to vote for impeachment as martial law was imposed in the country and then looking at…. Chuck Schumer.
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If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If we can "avoid a government shutdown" by voting for this CR, then why is the entire Department of Education closed today? Why is USAID closed? Why are hundreds of billions in grant contracts frozen?
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
We are already in the shutdown. And your votes DON'T stop it. In fact, they allow it to expand.
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As Heat Deaths Rise, Planting Trees Is Part of the Solution
But how do we ensure everyone has equal access to shade? Tucson, where heatwave mortality has soared, shows a path forward.
Read the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️🌲 biodiv.us/3FmMjZm
But how do we ensure everyone has equal access to shade? Tucson, where heatwave mortality has soared, shows a path forward.
Read the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️🌲 biodiv.us/3FmMjZm
As Heat Deaths Rise, Planting Trees Is Part of the Solution • The Revelator
But how do we ensure everyone has equal access to shade? Tucson, where heatwave mortality has soared, shows a path forward.
bit.ly
March 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
As Heat Deaths Rise, Planting Trees Is Part of the Solution
But how do we ensure everyone has equal access to shade? Tucson, where heatwave mortality has soared, shows a path forward.
Read the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️🌲 biodiv.us/3FmMjZm
But how do we ensure everyone has equal access to shade? Tucson, where heatwave mortality has soared, shows a path forward.
Read the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️🌲 biodiv.us/3FmMjZm
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“Somebody must have been telling lies about K, because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he woke up to find himself under arrest.”
- Kafka, The Trial
- Kafka, The Trial
March 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“Somebody must have been telling lies about K, because one morning, without having done anything wrong, he woke up to find himself under arrest.”
- Kafka, The Trial
- Kafka, The Trial
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Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide.
Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
The Trump administration’s detention of Mahmoud Khalil — a green card holder studying in this country legally — is targeted, retaliatory, and an extreme attack on his First Amendment rights.
apnews.com/article/colu...
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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says
A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
apnews.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Ripping a student from their home, challenging their immigration status, and detaining them solely based on political viewpoint will chill student speech and advocacy across campuses nationwide.
Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
Political speech should never be a basis of punishment or lead to deportation.
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This is essential reading.
Compiled in a single place here, the list of ways that speech is being silenced in America today is overwhelming.
Compiled in a single place here, the list of ways that speech is being silenced in America today is overwhelming.
New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China.
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Real chilling effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is essential reading.
Compiled in a single place here, the list of ways that speech is being silenced in America today is overwhelming.
Compiled in a single place here, the list of ways that speech is being silenced in America today is overwhelming.
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Israel will cut the flow of electricity into Gaza immediately, a week after blocking all aid into the territory: cnn.it/4kBAmiz
Israel to cut Gaza electricity immediately, energy minister says | CNN
Israel will cut the flow of electricity in the Gaza Strip immediately, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said in a statement Sunday.
cnn.it
March 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Israel will cut the flow of electricity into Gaza immediately, a week after blocking all aid into the territory: cnn.it/4kBAmiz