Diabolical

The Senate has voted unanimously for the Democratic proposal to reopen DHS and fully fund TSA without giving a single dollar to ICE.

Senate Democrats had quite the week: The shoved Mike Lee and the SAVE Act into a locker and then won the DHS funding showdown. Not bad.

Lol would not be shocked to learn this was an inside job. I've never seen leaks about an FBI director in my life before Kash. The rank and file absolutely hate him.

Jesus Fucking Christ. The idiot uses GMail. Not too many steps above Yahoo or AOL. (Does AOL still exist? 😁) Not only is it vulnerable to hacking, Google scans the Emails for advertising purposes. While he is in that position, he needs to abandon that Email account. YESTERDAY.

Now they gotta get Patel’s emails back.

Wait, this Kash Patel?

Immediate dismissal of this clown.

We need the lawsuits brought to specifically charge racial discrimination in these firings and blocked promotions.

BREAKING: Iranian hackers say they hacked into Kash Patel’s email and released photos. Major Epstein updates as survivors sue DOJ and bombshell about Epstein’s private investigators exposed. Trump caves on DHS funding. And much more. Mom and baby are doing amazing! Thank you for your support.

If he spent more time securing his email and less time partying with athletes and flying his girlfriend around we wouldn’t be here.

It's hard to imagine a better symbol of the incompetence of the Trump regime than the emails of *the director of the FBI* getting hacked.

“Nothing in the governing statute,” Judge Lin wrote, “supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government.” www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

It's really weird, and a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility, that the major outlets just keep ignoring or normalizing that the president of the united states is so feeble and sick, he can't stay awake for publicly broadcast cabinet meetings. newrepublic.com/post/208134/...

they like him and want to help him rule over us.

Just a reminder that the US is not the largest contributor to NATO as a share of GDP.

In person interview today.

new Fox News polling: "Trump’s 59% disapproval is the highest of either term"

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

DOJ OFFICIAL SAYS FBI DIRECTOR'S PERSONAL EMAIL WAS BREACHED BY HACKERS

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting was demonized and harassed because JK Rowling claimed she was male. Her boxing career was disrupted for over a year. Now, she's been cleared to compete as female after further "sex eligibility reviews." This is going to happen again. www.reuters.com/sports/olymp...

If you combine these testing requirements along with the new visa bans in the US targeting female athletes, there's a nonzero chance that an accusation against an athlete at the 2028 games results in ICE detaining them, placing them with men in detention and deporting them.

chat: it is not

Two recent losses for the White House—on DHS and Anthropic—have a lot in common. In both cases, the administration held many if not most of the cards. But in both cases, it ended up falling on its face. Today's Morning Shots from @eggerdc.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social:

Rowling was still tweeting yesterday falsely accusing Lin Yu-Ting of being male. She continues to do so with Imane Khelif. So much for protecting women.

The accusations alone are enough to disrupt an athletes career and subject them to death threats, harassment, or worse. There will be massive incentive to weaponize this against particular athletes to manipulate competition, especially by corrupt regimes like Russia.

A drunk former fox news host refused to promote two Black and two female officers because a convicted felon and 5x draft dodger does not want to stand next to a Black woman at military events. Think about that for a second.

👇🎯 The sad answer is “nothing.” Presidentialism was a grave mistake & impeachment is a dead letter. In any normal, functioning parliamentary system, Hegseth would already have resigned months ago under threat of a majority no confidence vote in the entire government & new elections.

Bomb threat at Timber Creek HS near us this morning.

“Introspection is a recipe for misery” Yeah, if your inner world is uncomfortable because you’ve avoided your own personal failures in a desperate attempt to force meaning out of things that provide none. Then yes, it is a recipe for misery. You can’t run from those things, you can only lie to you

New in PN: What do you do when you can't trust the govt? "Trump contradicts himself so often that we’ve become accustomed to disregarding it as nothing but background noise, conveying nothing meaningful. At root, this is the core project of his second administration: to undermine any shared truth."

I served in the Pentagon. Surely, surely Chairs and Ranking Members of Senate and House Armed Services Committees will take action here. What's reported here is a gross stain on America and damaging to the armed services. It also fits a pattern with SecDef Hegseth. Have we no shame. Gift link:

*the blankest of stares*

Senate Dems deserve a ton of credit for holding strong. This is what we’ve been begging for over a year. Unify and be a strong opposition party.

If a secdef violating the 14th amendment rights of US servicemembers by denying promotions based on race isn’t impeachable then I don’t see what is. The man would rather the military be racist than effective.

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

I love how they’re saying this as if they didn’t cover up crimes including the murder of US citizens.

Because you know you’ve broken the law repeatedly?

The presidency is a giant ATM machine for Trump and his family.

Yikes, here's a HUGE story that it seems not enough folks are reporting on yet. Drone swarms of unknown origin this month apparently attacked an important Air Force base—"the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II."

GAETZ: "A ground invasion of Iran will make our country poorer and less safe. It will mean higher gas prices, higher food prices, and I'm not sure we’d end up killing more terrorists than we would create."

(WSJ) - The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

CPAC attendee admits GOP base is crumbling: I think Republicans will get destroyed in the midterms. A lot of people I knew who just voted for Trump because they thought it was cool are just now just being like, 'I can't stand the guy.' #sheshed

Trump announcing that *he* will "immediately pay" TSA employee *completely* undermines his claim that Democrats were the reason TSA was not getting paid. Donald is smart that way.

I was *so interested* to learn today that Trump *always* had the ability to pay DHS agents from his personal slush fund (the 2025 BBB Fund), he just chose *not to do so for a month*. Isn't that interesting?

Breaking: The Pentagon is weighing sending an additional 10,000 ground troops to the Middle East.