Hal Goetz🥥
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@goetz_hal
Contract Organizer @SEIULocal284 and member @steelworkers | formerly @iowademocrats @IDPTeamsters @kinneyforiowa and @jdmerrill | Germany didn't start WWI
The deadly dangerous decisions by key NATO members to deny support to America in the Iran defensive war should be the end of NATO.
Folks haven't really realized just how much money @jamestalarico is raising. His January and February — $14.3 million just on ActBlue — were already bigger than any other Senate candidate's full quarter this cycle. And he won the nomination in March —> nytimes.com/2026/04/03/us/…
I would guess 75% of this country deals with either freezing winters or 105+ degree summers. Shut the fuck up already about “walkability”.
I honestly don’t understand the psychology of the GCC countries right now. You’re at war. Iran is routinely bombing you. Iran is not holding back. They don’t have some huge spare capacity here. And yet the GCC… is trying to stay out of it
The woke Pope always has something you say about current events except when his hometown basketball team fires a player for being a Christian. Suddenly he can’t find his tongue. Fascinating!
2) "The Groups" are doing their jobs! The candidates are the ones failing.
From last night’s Breaker: The New York Times have hired an “elevator consultant” breakermedia.com/p/tea-on-t-ms-…
Hegseth's repeated moves to purge the military of anyone not judged a Trump loyalist should set off major alarms. But, because Hegseth presents as such a buffoon, his role in Trump's authoritarian project is underrated. wapo.st/3OfHHck
waymo’s entire expansion map is red states. texas, florida, arizona, georgia. turns out if you just let people build things they build things. dc has been doing community process about a study about a report about a framework for a permit for six years. abundance is a choice.
JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
