3 key elections today:
#Florida: 2 special elections for seats in the US #House to replace disgraced congressman & initial #Trump US AG pick, #MattGaetz & obviously incapable #NationalSecurity Adviser who set up a detailed military operation group chat on Signal & added a journalist to, #MikeWaltz.
#Wisconsin: voters will pick a new member of the state’s Supreme Court in an election #ElonMusk has contributed millions to & is essentially paying people to vote for his MAGA candidate.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "It’s been one week since the news broke about Trump’s team sharing sensitive military information in a group chat.
If Pete Hegseth had even a sliver of self-respect, he’d have resigned one week ago. And if Donald Trump were truly a leader, he’d have fired Hegseth one week ago."
#Signalgate #NationalSecurity #military #politics
As Trump's allies start turning on his DEF Sec, Jennifer Rubin explains how Pete Hegseth's tenure will get much worse—& why it'll become untenable for Trump & the GOP.
Trump’s top advisors discussed war plans in an insecure chat, a scandal that continues to shake the admin. This comes as a poll finds that 74% of Americans see the leak as a serious problem, incl 60% of Rs.
J Rubin on Sec Marco Rubio
#DOD #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #Rubio #Hegseth #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/193361/transcript-trump-text-fiasco-worsens-knives-come-hegseth
The court filing provides an accounting of the access #MarkoElez & other #DOGE employees have inside certain sensitive & secure databases. And it comes as federal judges in other cases have found the #ElonMusk-led effort has likely broken the #law & has been largely unable to explain why it needs such sweeping data access.
The #DOGE staffer who resigned from his post over old #racist tweets — & who broke data-sharing rules, an audit found — has been rehired to work w/sensitive data at several #FederalAgencies.
The staffer is #MarkoElez, a Dept of #Labor employee detailed to the DOGE entity within the #Trump WH, acc/to a Saturday court filing. It says the Labor Dept is aware of 4 other agencies, including #HHS, where Elez is also detailed or employed.
#law #privacy #NationalSecurity #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5345708/doge-data-access-labor-cfpb-hhs
Michael McFaul: "Ways to help your autocratic adversaries, China and Russia:
1. Destroy USAID
2. Destroy Voice Of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia
3. Pick fights with allies
4. Launch purges at Defense, State, and the CIA
5. Impose tariffs on allies and partners
6. Throw Ukraine under the bus; embrace Putin."
Trump, #PutinsPuppet, did all of these harmful things.
#NationalSecurity #politics #military
Ars Technica: FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado . “A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows […]
@br00t4c
How come NO ONE has asked #OrangeHitler to explain WHY obtaining #Greenland (or even #Canada) is so vitally important to "#NationalSecurity"?
Is he worried about his best buddy #Putin now? Does he think #Russia might attack the United States next? 
If THAT is the threat he's worried about, maybe he shouldn't have been encouraging Putin's expansionist fever dream in #Ukraine?
Just a thought.
The first #Trump admin & the #Biden admin characterized #China as the greatest threat to the #US & postured the force to prepare for & deter conflict in the Pacific region. But #Hegseth’s guidance is extraordinary in its description of the potential invasion of #Taiwan as the exclusive animating scenario that must be prioritized over other potential dangers—reorienting the vast US #military architecture toward the Indo-Pacific region beyond homeland defense.
The document — setting out a prioritization framework for senior #defense officials & a vision to execute that work — also instructs the #military to take a more direct role in countering illegal #immigration & #DrugTrafficking.
The doc, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance & marked “secret/no foreign national” in most passages, was distributed throughout the #Defense Dept in mid-March & signed by #Hegseth. It outlines, in broad & partisan detail, the execution of #Trump’s vision to prepare for & win a potential #war against #China & defend the #UnitedStates from threats in the “near abroad,” including #Greenland & the #PanamaCanal.
#SecDef #PeteHegseth has reoriented the US #military to prioritize deterring #China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland #defense by “assuming risk” in #Europe & other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative #HeritageFoundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
Secret #Pentagon memo on #China, #HomelandSecurity has #HeritageFoundation fingerprints
An internal guidance memo from #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of #Taiwan & 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 #Project2025.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
https://wapo.st/3Y3I0sf
On Wed evening, #Trump met w/VP #JDVance; the WH chief of staff, #SusieWiles; the WH personnel chief, #SergioGor; his Mideast envoy, #SteveWitkoff, & others about whether to stick w/ #MikeWaltz.
Late Thurs, as the controversy swirled, Trump summoned Waltz to the Oval Office. By the next morning, Trump signaled to people around him that he was willing to stick w/Waltz….
#CommanderInChief? #Unfit #NationalSecurity #Signal #SignalGate #law #military #OpSec
#Trump 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 #NationalSecurity adviser’s carelessness about discussing #military plans on a commercial app….It was that #MikeWaltz may have had some kind of connection to #JeffreyGoldberg, a… #journalist whom Trump loathes…[because] Waltz had Goldberg’s number….
‘Should I Fire Him?’ Inside #Trump’s Deliberations Over the Fate of #MikeWaltz
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.
#CommanderInChief? #Unfit #NationalSecurity #Signal #SignalGate #law #military #OpSec
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
Meanwhile...
Speaking of Swamp Creatures....
Here is the new/latest *New Yorker* Magazine cover
(April 7, 2025)
"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
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/8
"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
#Trump #immigrants #ICE #NationalSecurity #students #fascism #FreeSpeech #Ozturk
/7
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-agents-diverted-trump-immigration-crackdown-2025-03-22/
