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Trump fires Pam Bondi after mounting frustrations over Epstein files, DOJ pace washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4…

Copying Pinochet, who closed sociology and other departments saying they were unserious and laboratories of Marxism.

Massive corruption exposed on ABC News. A UAE official bought a 500 million dollar secret stake in a Trump company right before getting access to guarded US AI chips. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche desperately tries to deflect. The White House is for sale.

If Gen. George saw something, he needs to say something.

TRUMP SAID YESTERDAY THAT (quote follows): “THE RUSSIAN CONSTITUTION IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE AMERICAN ONE. Putin told me he never has any problems with his constitution.” — THAT’S A QUOTE, DAMN IT! “Russia has much better constitution writers than we do,” he said. “I talked to Putin, and he said their constitution never gives him problems.”

@davematt88 Showing your age, Dave. Charlie's Angels is decades old.

It won't be long before Pam Biondi and Kristi Noem start a detective agency. Donald's Devils

Army Chief of Staff fired: THIS IS VERY BIG. Firing the Army Chief now, and replacing him with a loyalist, is preparation for orders the previous leadership might have slow-walked or resisted. When you fire a service chief mid-war with no stated cause, the real reason is almost certainly doctrinal disagreement — how the war is being fought. It should be noted that the US started bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure today (Iran's largest bridge). A career infantry officer like George, who ran the Army's transformation initiative, would have serious institutional opinions about the feasibility and cost of a ground operation in Iran. If he was pushing back — even through internal channels — that's exactly the kind of friction Hegseth would remove. The likely replacement is Gen. Christopher LaNeve, formerly Hegseth's own military aide — meaning Hegseth is installing a loyalist at the top of the Army during active combat operations against Iran. Hegseth has now fired over a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife, and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse. Bottom line: This is escalatory. The civilian leadership is systematically removing any institutional brake on military options — this is what the entire purge has been building toward. The George ouster happening simultaneously with Trump's "stone ages" speech is not coincidence. Expect the next two weeks to be the most kinetically intense phase of the war so far.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is reportedly urging White House aides to stop censoring reports of US military losses and Iranian military successes as well as plunging poll numbers and gas price trends from President Trump to make him realize what a disaster his great power war with Iran has become.

We’ve had presidents who didn’t understand economics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and lacked knowledge of historical lessons. But they were advised by people who did and listened to them. Now we have a president who doesn’t understand anything and won’t listen to people who do.

Massive geopolitical shift. France and Japan are stepping in to de-escalate the Middle East and secure the Strait of Hormuz. They are completely bypassing Washington. The world is moving on from the Trump administration's disastrous warmongering.

Trump's threat to withdraw from NATO is a giant gift to Putin.

You can’t vote out Trump in the midterms, but you can vote out the people who enable him.

@MikeSington Sooner the better, I say. But, then, there's Vance.

“The American people can’t stand the sight of you.” James Carville predicts Trump will resign the presidency within the next year.

Democrats have sued to block Trump's dubious executive order restricting mail voting — arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail.

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The threat of NATO’s break-up, easing sanctions on Russia, a massive energy crisis in Europe, halting aid for Ukraine and blocking the loan for Kyiv by Orbán - it all looks like Putin’s dream plan.

“It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. He also once said, at the beginning of the pandemic, that COVID would end by itself. "One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear"

The US 🇺🇸 “We can’t send Ukraine 🇺🇦 50 Tomahawks or ATACMS because we don’t have enough for China 🇨🇳” Fires 900 Tomahawks, 800 JASSMs, and 400 ATACMS at Iran 🇮🇷 in 3 weeks

Regime change has not occurred. It was a theocratic dictatorship a month ago and remains so today. And the claim that the new leaders are more reasonable is a hope, not a fact supported by data.