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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:

"The most likely reason why Trump’s entire national security team was using an insecure platform to plan war strikes was to ensure there were no embarrassing records for posterity, a violation of the law."

~ Marcy Wheeler


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emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/seve

emptywheel · Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace - emptywheelIt's not just that Mike Waltz accidentally added the wrong person to a Signal chat, the cover story Trump has adopted. Trump's entire national security team was witness to an egregious breach that might be a crime. All should resign in disgrace.
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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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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
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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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OneCitizen 🇺🇦 ✊ ❤️ ☮️ 🗽

@wdlindsy The Pete Hegseth quote needs to be on a t-shirt or bumper sticker...

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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 

@wdlindsy
"Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.'
–Pete Hegseth, March 22, 2025

What's worse than a fool Mr Hegseth?
Tag, you're it!

#Hegseth #TrumpRegime #ShipOfFools
#Signal #GroupChat #TuckersBalls

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Ehay2k

@wdlindsy

Nah, you do a disservice to unpasteurized milk

It aged like an unflushed toilet. And even after said toilet has been flushed, the room still stinks.

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George

@wdlindsy
That’s why the AP are no longer allowed at White House briefings.

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TP

@wdlindsy As they love the word #OPSEC so much & ppl serving now rely on it, I hope the story stays alive by constant reference to the term until everyone in or considering the military has fully contemplated the consequences of amateur hour in their leadership.

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EmmaFaber
@wdlindsy I wonder how much alcohol Hesketh had drunk before he made his current public blip🤔
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Gordon J Holtslander

@wdlindsy U of Toronto’s Citizen Lab documents the widespread threats to devices. How many of these were compromised? citizenlab.ca/category/researc

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