Governor Christine Todd Whitman

Trump needs to be removed from office; he has clearly lost what little control of himself he had. He is a disgrace. The only good thing is that his derangement is becoming clearer even to his strongest supporters, so maybe the country can salvage its reputation after he's gone.

This is UNCONSCIONABLE. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…

"Protesting is an act of love. It is born of a deeply held conviction that the world can be a better, kinder place. Saying "no" to injustice is the ultimate declaration of hope." - Amy Goodman, investigative journalist, columnist, and author (b. 13 Apr 1957)

Attorney General Ford, alongside Secretary of State Aguilar, announced he is leading a coalition of 23 AGs and one governor in suing President Trump over an unconstitutional executive order that interferes with states’ authority by restricting voter eligibility and mail voting.

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…

major military resignations. The American people need to call on their representatives – demand that they stand up & do their jobs & make the president be accountable to the people’s elected representatives. (2/2)

We’ve now had American soldiers die in this war, which was never authorized. They were shot down by a country that Trump has claimed we have devastated, eliminating those capabilities. His lies are so transparent now. He lacks a cohesive plan on Iran, which is why we are seeing

"History is a novel whose author is the people." - Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and novelist (27 Mar 1797-1863). That, my friends, is us.

Maybe Trump will learn that you have to nuture alliances. bbc.com/news/live/cx2l…

A classic sign of a true dictator is control of the press. nytimes.com/2026/03/14/wor…

"We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying." - Douglas Adams, author (1952-2001)

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991)

The callouness and cavalier attitude of the administration toward the war - comparing it to football - is beyond comprehension. Ask the families of those who have been brought home in body bags just how much of a game this is.

2 weeks ago, they closed the El Paso airspace to shoot down a drone that ended up being a party balloon. Now we learn they closed the airspace again & this time they shot down a drone, except it was one of ours. Can this administration do anything right? Does anyone feel safe?

Trump will falsely claim Chinese interference to take over the '26 elections. This isn't just Trump blustering; the SOTU was about inciting people to execute that plan. Find orgs like @statesunited and @Fwd_Party that are fighting for democracy & get active before it's too late.

It's depressing to see Trump turn the Olympics political. Posting a meme of himself scoring a hockey goal, using the men’s team as ploys in the SOTU is frustrating, especially after the remarks he made about the women’s hockey team whose record is better than the men's.

Listening to Trump talk about patriotism and honoring all those who served makes me sick. He didn’t have that level of patriotism when it came to serving in Vietnam, he just claimed to have bone spurs.

"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment." - Ansel Adams, photographer (20 Feb 1902-1984)