Retired Soldier (Officer type, 35D/35G), MI Corps, Former DoD Civil Servant (GG-0132), 30+ yrs US IC, From Cold War to War on Terror, StL Cardinals fan
@hugolowell
So, Judge Cannon wants these witnesses to become targets of MAGA terroristic threats and witness intimidation? I hope Jack Smith has seen enough and now moves to have her recused. She's putting people's lives at risk.
@DogginTrump
I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories but this was some peak color commentary & I appreciate that!
Yes, there's a lot of unanswered questions. Bear in mind Napoleon's maxim: "Never attribute to malice that which is better explained by incompetence". It's early, let it play.
@DonLew87
A *traffic incident* is speeding, making a *California stop* at a stop sign, or an illegal lane change. Under the law, I've crimed a couple times in my life while driving & was duly ticketed. I was never put on the ground & cuffed. Yes, I'm white.
@WillingWitness
Yeah, that's a Stryker armored infantry carrier. It's out of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard's 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, likely 1st Battalion-111th Infantry out of Plymouth Meeting, PA, about 30 minutes north of Philly. Knock it off.
@Eve_Barlow
Israel wouldn't have it either if it wasn't for the US funding its R&D to the tune of over $3B ... yes, that's billion with a "B".... The US also makes over 50% of the component parts for Iron Dome's Tamir interceptor missile.
@ianbassin
If you accept University of Washington IHME's May '21 study of excess deaths that were actually COVID deaths then we're well over a million dead.... passed that milestone in August...
@BeschlossDC
Someday some historian will have to fully explain why it took over 3 years to investigate, indict & maybe, MAYBE hold a trial for an obviously seditionist, treasonous criminal who committed or admitted to his crimes on live TV.
@harrylitman
They should rename this case:
303 Creative LLC v Stalking Horse.
When they're not doing this BS, they're doing what they did in Citizens United, ruling wildly beyond the express issue at hand.
@RepSpanberger
Just watch, there's going to be a run on 5.7x28mm high velo handguns. That'll be the take-away in gun-nutter USA as more active shooters employ body armor.
As a Boomer, I practiced getting under my desk for nuclear war but never, ever did I think or worry abt a school shooting
@RpsAgainstTrump
This is the Russians reminding Trump - and everyone else - that they own him and can spill a lot more dirt on him. Keeping the poodle in line.
Yeah, there's vax for this. When my parents were kids in the 30s & 40s, whooping cough killed over 9K Americans every year. With the vaccine, abt 10 Americans died of it in 2019, before the pandemic when we lost our senses & turned on med science.
@MartyTa94849826
They're domestic enemies. They're still American citizens with the same rights as we but no one should delude themselves that they would ever hesitate to strip you of your rights (they've already begun). I hate saying this but it's true. I arrived at this pt. long before 1/6.
@harrylitman
If this is what an umpire calling balls and strikes looks like then bring on the computerized, AI-enabled strike zone. It couldn't be any worse than this travesty of a court.
@RepJamesComer
@GOPoversight
An FD-1023 form is not an affidavit and the information in it is not verified, corroborated information. It only captures what a source happens to pass on to an FBI Special Agent. The source could be wrong or could be lying, kinda like you do all the freak'in time.
@FrankFigliuzzi1
@HoustonChron
And Perry has his gun rights restored to boot. If you vote for Trump or a 3rd party candidate this November then you're voting for Open Season on POC & religious minorities. It's not as if we didn't see this 2017 - 2020.
Voters beware.
@politico
That mission rescued 124,000 souls from Taliban revenge & depredation. My heart goes out to Mr. Nikoui for his immense loss but his son did not die in vain.
Noncombatant Evacuation Ops under non-permissive conditions are always fraught with risk & danger.
@KamalaHQ
This creep thinks sexual assault victims are like candidates on The Apprentice.
He is a stench in the nostrils of every good & decent person in America.
@MadronaCitizen
@JimLaPorta
Wait! It's totally *normal* for an American President to salute a commie general. 🤣 That *WTF* look on Rocket Man's face is priceless...
@WUTangKids
In the 2020 election, Trump did the same thing to his cult after a rally in Omaha. Left 'em stranded for hours in freezing weather. 🤣
Trump rally attendees were stranded in the cold for hours in Omaha via
@CBSNews
@BradMossEsq
@mehdirhasan
Jill Stein won't call Putin a war criminal because she's part of his active measures campaign against the US election with Ukraine on the menu and what would that make Stein?
An accomplice.
@atrupar
This is the same guy who posted a selfie on his front porch waiting for the Chinese spy balloon with a shotgun.
JD Vance is a Peter Thiel funded neo-fascist and a natural liar.
@FrankFigliuzzi1
I hope to hell you're right abt your former colleagues & their sense of patriotism & fidelity to the Constitution & the rule of law, but for everyone of you there seems to be a Gagliano or a Casey.
Caputo, who worked for oligarchs in Ukraine, ought to be arrested for sedition
@atrupar
Maryanne Trump Barry in a conversation with her niece Mary Trump:
“His goddamned tweet and the lying, oh, my God,” she says in one of the recordings posted by the newspaper. “I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying.”
@MollieKatzen
Let's not forget last year's Feb 2021 CPAC in Orlando, FL where the stage iconography replicated the Odal Rune symbol that the Nazi SS used in WWII. After WWII, white supremacists in Europe & in North America adopted the Odal Rune as one of their symbols.
@marcorubio
No one ever said the Russians hacked the '16 election. YOU and the Senate Intel Committee said the Russians ran an active measures influence op against the '16 election to harm Clinton and help Trump, remember?
@MarkSZaidEsq
If I or any other mere mortal was suspected of violating the Espionage Act & had a search warrant executed on my home, I'm pretty sure there would also be a FISA wrnt on my comms. I would also be under physical surveillance & they would've already done a covert search of my home
@JoyceWhiteVance
@RadioFreeTom
Too many local and municipal cops and, especially Sheriffs, act like partisan Praetorian Guards. They're not professionals or public servants & they rarely police their own.
@JimLaPorta
More faux outrage from those who worked themselves up into a lather over Obama's "latte salute"...These guys need to get a new playbook; this one is old & worn out. Zero entertainment value.
@JR_Highnote
@RadioFreeTom
This is why Dems need to build a better integrated political machine than the GOP. You can't reason with them & no one is going to convert them. They will never *unite* with Dems. To the extent this is ever solvable, it'll only happen through brute political power.
@RonFilipkowski
BLM RI has something to say:
"In response to recent media coverage, BLM RI PAC (Black Lives Matter Rhode Island Political Action Committee) is issuing a statement to clarify that Mark Fisher is not and has never been affiliated with our organization."
@yashar
A one week pause for the sake of decency is not caving in ... but the campaign (and the media) should not stop messaging that Trump is an existential threat to American democracy and a wannabe dictator.
It's the stark truth.
@SaintLaurant
@FrankFigliuzzi1
@joncoopertweets
It's not like they're being purged. I've known a fair # of FBI Special Agents & they were all traditional conservatives in their personal lives & politics. Some are bound to be radicalized & even more are inclined to see liberals as the enemy. Liberals need to show up & serve.
@mehdirhasan
Are you now fanboying for Iranian proxies? They killed 3 Americans. I know that doesn't bother you but it does bother most of us so we spoke to them in the only language they understand.
@shadihamid
We hear you fine. We disagree with you and we're sick and tired of a small minority attempting to coerce the rest us by threatening to take the nation down by ushering Trump back into the White House. That minority is unreasonable, maximalist, and uncompromising.
@BeschlossDC
Trump made Captain Queeg from the Caine Mutiny look perfectly normal, sane, and rational. That presser was an off-the-rails, delusional lie fest. Trump is more than just a pathological liar; he's completely detached from reality.
@WalshFreedom
Not quite. There's verified facts of the Trump family's corruption & 2 of the grifters held Admin posts with policy portfolios.
We don't have any of that with Biden's family & there's no demonstrative, verified nexus to POTUS.
Hold my beer, this is Billy Carter redux stuff.
@AdrienneMH2425
@BeschlossDC
The Founders did not envision that the constitutional Commander-in-Chief would become The Insider Threat-in-Chief. Nor did they envision today's party tribalism that render impeachment and removal from office unimaginable.
@mccaffreyr3
Makes you wonder what he and Putin talked about during their one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, the one where Trump promptly took custody of his translator's notes. It'll take us decades to overcome the damage he's inflicted upon the nation.
@kenvogel
@TIME
@washingtonpost
You were shady long before Parnas ever went public. He's now dirtied you up just like you did to a drug addled private citizen because he was POTUS's son. You & the NYT will wrap yourselves in the 1A & the mantra of the 4th Estate as democracy's guardian.
F U and your career.
@brianschatz
@Patranoid
Republicans don't believe in governance.
They believe in pure, brute power and they intend to exercise it if they get it....
.... regardless of norms, regardless of the law, and regardless of ethics and morality.
@FrankFigliuzzi1
UK Change
#1
: "Similar to Helmand province in Afghanistan, UK citizens should avoid the former Confederate states while visiting America".
@anders_aslund
He was a JWICS Systems Administrator. Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System, our TS/SCI network. As a SysAd, he had the God Gun & his unit is integrated into a federated intel enterprise that provides contributory support to real-world requirements.
@mehdirhasan
We're not going to allow a tiny number of Far Left socialists (who would never vote for Biden or most Dems), know-nothing kids (who mostly don't vote), and Arab- & Muslim-Americans who care more about Hamas than they do American democracy to blackmail us - the vast majority.
@ByronDonalds
$2B from Mohammed bin Bonesaw as a QPQ for his threatened invasion of Qatar and for support to their war in Yemen.
You have no idea what his business is; who are you kidding?
@TinaMcGugan
@RadioFreeTom
Same in St Louis Metro Area. Tried to make an appt with my dentist & half their freak'in staff is unvaxed to include my now ex-dental hygienist. They wanted me to sign a waiver that I accepted risk of aerosol spread. I told them "to hell with U, I'll find a new dentist" & did.
@JohnSLombardi
@WillingWitness
Didn't have to resort to google. For a long time, the 56th was the only Stryker Brigade Combat Team in the Army Nat'l Guard. Long time ago, I was involved with the Regular Army Stryker brigade that was on Oahu in the 25th Infantry Division.
@JayinKyiv
Anyone know SSG Gordon Black's unit or MOS? Rest assured that his Russian *girlfriend* already knew it. Black is 34 yrs old. How many times do they have to be told to stay the hell away from Russian & Chinese women?
@mehdirhasan
Jesus H. Christ, nice to know they're all in for America ... My ancestors left England, Scotland and Germany and never once looked back over their shoulder at the old Mother Country. Hell, they fought against Britain and later Germany, on two occasions.
@NickKristof
Oh FFS, stop it. Stop infantilizing Trump supporters. They have agency & are solely responsible for their actions & words. They have turned against democracy & threaten armed violence against others without consequence if they don't get their way. They need to be deradicalized.
@academic_la
I don't live in Cori Bush's district (my Congress Rep is GOP Hitler fangirl Mary Miller) but I've made contributions to her primary challenger Wesley Bell who's up by 22 pts. FWIW, I'm also not Jewish. Dems take out their own trash. So should the GOPers with the Trumpublicans.
@John_Hudson
@RepJasonCrow
@juliaioffe
Expected better out of Crow. A President has to lead and must communicate. Biden has never been a great communicator but no President should have to bear the burden of conveying the message alone.
@dlowther715
@WajahatAli
@1jasliz
A President has a duty to safeguard the American People; Woodward didn't. We all know Woodward sat on the information but shouldn't a President level with the American People during a lethal pandemic?
@Susan_Hennessey
There's only one thing I'd like to hear out of his mouth:
"I was wrong to be silent. My silence enabled an abomination & I'm ashamed".
Then he can stay gone...forever.
@Lalaloo1228
@PaulCogan
Something or other about the supposed evils of "cancel culture" which is really "consequence culture"...Watters knows exactly what he's doing. It's nothing less than stochastic terrorism. If one did what he's doing in the name of Allah, they'd get all sorts of FBI attention.
@WajahatAli
I'd say Hamas has quite a robust bag of capabilities on the subject of asymmetrical warfare. Iran and Syria saw to it. War isn't fair, Waj. Hamas knew what would happen to Palestinians in Gaza when they broke the ceasefire & started this one. Hamas must be removed from power.
@FrankFigliuzzi1
D'Antuono's pushback is totally indefensible. Where is FBIHQ in all of this? Are we to believe that Field Offices do as they wish? Unfortunately, this isn't a one-off incident. In the military, there would be a back-to-basics stand-down, like what the oath actually means.
@mrwlcar
@mchooyah
@AriFleischer
McRaven is a private citizen who has as much right to free expression under the 1A as you & I.
That doesn't make him a politico.....It makes him an American.
@Stonekettle
They can't even get her on a parking ticket. It's reality TV politics for a base that loves reality TV. Her people were very sloppy & entitled with classified which isn't uncommon with government executives, even in the military.
@bludvl82
@DavidLarter
In peacetime, every officer has a loco parentis responsibility....
My mentors impressed that upon me early and often... and it registered. Sacred responsibility. We would want the same for our kids.
@RonFilipkowski
During last night's MSNBC coverage of the RNC convention, former GOPer & US House Rep David Jolly was truth telling about Trump's dictatorial & autocratic desires but prefaced his remarks with "I have to be careful what I say now but...." You could hear Nicole Wallace gasp...
@SteveBreyman
@LizSly
When the target is engaged in lethal military operations against that state's armed forces, sure ....
Stop thinking "Law & Order" on TV. This is war, low-intensity but war nonetheless.
@lawofruby
Not a surprise that a sexual predator POTUS would nominate a judge who's a sexual predator.
Guys like Kindred always have a history, usually leave a trail of bread crumbs, & someone knows. A journo should ask SEN Murkowski for comment.
@davidconstable6
@visegrad24
The criminal wanted to spend $28B (a low ball cost estimate) on a wall that wouldn't work. I'd rather give $ to Ukraine to defeat naked RU aggression & thwart Putin from reassembling an empire that would threaten other democracies & our own vital security interests.
@BPUnion
You don't even try to be professional, do you? Asshole tweets like this is one reason why so many Americans dislike and won't support law enforcement.
Good job you goon.
@briantylercohen
@ChrisCuomo
Cuomo was always Mr. Both Sides. He's been hostile to Dems ever since Biden & Establishment Dems refused to bail out his creepy bro. Chris then gets busted by the NYT & fired by CNN for helping Andy with the damage control spin. How's that for journalistic ethics & integrity?
@brianstelter
I thought journalism's job was to report news, not *make news*. Last night was an unmitigated national disgrace. I didn't need to be reminded on how some Americans, Trumpers, embrace & glory in depravity. I already know that all too well.
@WajahatAli
"Ensure"? The history of Hamas hostage taking doesn't suggest their release is like an Amazon order. They kidnapped babies & are holding them under threat of murder. That's not only a crime under int'l law, it's against the Koran.
@DiannaW26626161
@NBCNews
We just had an off-year county election for judges and school boards in my downstate Illinois. I arduously hunted down information on all the candidates and it was a helluva task. None of them said one thing abt what they wanted to do, the local newspaper provided zero insight.
@frankthorp
Republicans won't do anything until the Dems act in the exact same way that they're doing now...and they know the Dems won't do this.
Romney is just virtue signaling. At the end of the day, it's party over country for the GOP as an institution. They've proven that in spades.
@FaithRubPol
@MichaelSteele
@SykesCharlie
@DrJasonJohnson
@11thHour
They don't; they're beyond facts, reason and salvage. The vast majority of them will take this to the grave with them. They need to be rendered irrelevant and that means the good people in this country need to engage and stay engaged.
@TheMarionD
@shadihamid
@WhimsyWithStyle
He's conveniently left out the suicide bombings in the 2nd Intifada against soft targets. He's not acting as a journo. Neither is Mehdi Hasan or Wajahat Ali... They're activists and advocates; almost as if they're part of an information operation.
@Aviation_Intel
The obvious institutional culture problem within the US Navy is how we lose a maritime war to China in 2035 - 2040. This is just the latest in a long line of ship program failures. You're spot on about the opportunity costs.