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William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump officials accidentally invited the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to their Signal group chat. Hours after bombs dropped on Yemen, they partied at a $1-million-per-seat Mar-a-Lago dinner."

~ Wired Daily


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wired.com/story/trump-official

WIRED · Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating BombingBy Leah Feiger
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William Lindsey :toad:

"The recklessness was criminal; any government employee of lower rank who committed the same offense would be behind bars on Monday evening—awaiting trial without the benefit of bail."

~ Robert B. Hubbell


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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/c

Today's Edition Newsletter · Criminal recklessness.By Robert B. Hubbell
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William Lindsey :toad:

"These guys organized a meeting to discuss a military strike and nobody thought to ask, 'Gee, fellas, isn’t it kind of weird that we invited the editor of The Atlantic to this top-secret strategy conference?'”

~ Charles Pierce


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esquire.com/news-politics/poli

Esquire · The Secretary of Defense TEXTED Top-Secret War Plans to the Editor of ‘The Atlantic’?!By Charles P. Pierce
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William Lindsey :toad:

“'If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now,' Hegseth said of the disclosure [that Hillary was using a private email server as Secretry of State] in 2016. He added, 'If you are using unclassified means, there is the potential for and likelihood that foreign governments are targeting those accounts.'”

~ Oliver Willis


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dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/25

Daily KosHegseth should go to jail for war plan leaks, according to HegsethSeveral of the top Trump administration officials involved in the leak of war plans to a private online chat previously called for criminal prosecution when former Secretary Hillary Clinton’s private emails were leaked. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,...
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William Lindsey :toad:

"All the speculation that goofs like Hegseth and Gabbard and Ratcliff and the rest of them were amateurs and jokes has brought us to a place where the people supposedly in charge of our national security were celebrating the attacks on the Houthis by posting 'fist' and 'flexed bicep' and 'American flag' and 'hands praying' emojis along with reassurances to each other that they had said 'a prayer for victory.'”

~ Lucian Truscott


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William Lindsey :toad:

A screenshot from Truscott /25 of part of the puerile emoji top-level national security conversation that took place on an insecure app

See also mastodon.bida.im/@jones_/11421, noted by Jayne in the thread below.


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A screenshot from Truscott /25 of part of the puerile emoji top-level national security conversation that took place on an insecure app
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Steve Witkoff was on there too, texting the most emojis of all, five in a row (two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags)! And guess where Steve Witkoff happened to be on Thursday, March 13? Why, in RUSSIA, getting choked up while Putin told him he’d prayed in church for Trump after he got shot in the ear."

~ Marcie Jones


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wonkette.com/p/worst-security-

Wonkette · Worst. Security. Breach. Ever. 🤯By Marcie Jones
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William Lindsey :toad:

Everywhere this morning, MAGA meatheads are manning the front lines. Testosterone-poisoned blockheads, muscles stuffed into ill-fitting suits, clamor for headspace in the online green rooms of right-wing media, waiting for a minute or two to perform the spectacular logistic acrobatics that will please the circus master."

~ Nina Burleigh


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americanfreakshow.news/p/this-

www.americanfreakshow.newsThis Is How the World EndsNot with a bang but a text string.
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bk

@wdlindsy
Kick them out and put adults back in charge.

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Wyatt H Knott

@wdlindsy I'm going to have to invent some new punctuation marks and exclamations, because WTAF FFS and !? just aren't cutting it anymore.

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JJDavis :terminal:

@wdlindsy These were people they were consigning to death. It's disgusting to reduce that to emojis.

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William Lindsey :toad:

@jjdavis I absolutely agree. Thank you for stating that point clearly.

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Maddler :sarcasm: :antifa:

@wdlindsy on an insecure app used on a, more than likely, insecure phone over an insecure connection. Let me add.

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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 

@wdlindsy
MAL = Mar-A-Lago
So the gang that couldn't do security straight was giving a shout out to Trump at his roach motel.

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Finitum

@wdlindsy "Politically motivated leaks undermine our national security and the trust of the American people and will not be tolerated"
Boy how I wish that were true. Wouldn't that be fun if any of these people actually had integrity or principles?

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nanowiz

@wdlindsy

Pete Headset

expect so much less

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Urzl

@wdlindsy As punitive as the GOP loves to be, they're awfully picky about who gets punished.

Trump could eat a human baby on live TV 5 days in a row and every time the GOP would excuse it and say "We think he's learned his lesson". There is absolutely no limit to their hypocrisy because they don't hold moral or ethical consistency as values to be upheld.

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nanowiz

@wdlindsy

just after a two cocktail lunch

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Six Grandfathers Mountain

@wdlindsy
RE
there were no embarrassing records for posterity, a violation of the law

But, of couse‼️This was not (as of the 1st hr of the Tue Mar 25 11.13am) and probably will not be mentioned in this #senate #intelligence hearing

All govt intel text, etc MUST BE _saved_. It seens from the #jeffreygoldberg #theatlantic article that they might of set the text to ⭕auto delete after a short time. that's not breaking the norm, that's breaking the law.

mastodon.social/@6G/1142192841

MastodonSix Grandfathers Mountain (@6G@mastodon.social)@mattblaze@federate.social @skykiss@sfba.social RE #signalapp software has nothing to do with the current #trumpadministration Some of its members happen to use it. Just like, say, Microsoft Word But they were are breaking the rules, all govt intel text, etc MUST BE saved. It seens from the #jeffreygoldberg #theatlantic article that they might of set the text to ⭕auto delete after a short time. that's not breaking the norm, that's breaking the law. #mikewaltz #hegseth March 24 2025 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
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tlariv

@wdlindsy
Their most dramatic blunder *so far*

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DTrasler Writing

@wdlindsy Their most dramatic blunder that we know about. So far.

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FallsMom 🌻

@wdlindsy

And again. . . .“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” The Great Gatsby 1925

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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 

@wdlindsy
What's the over/under for a Hegseth resignation today?

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Nicole Parsons

@wdlindsy

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Rich people partied while Yemeni died.

All over religion & oil.

The rich rely on fossil fuel fascism to keep funding genocides and wars."

carnegieendowment.org/research

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

middleeasteye.net/opinion/brit

apnews.com/article/yemen-houth

It's happened before: factional violence between oligarchs destroys nations

fanack.com/economy/features-in

Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceRussia’s Great Energy Game in the Middle EastRussia has largely inherited the Soviet Union’s Middle East foreign policy. China may be best positioned to take advantage of this historical relationship.
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