The Times (London) reporting that senior GOP leaders believe that Trump has no actual plan in Iran and is flailing on the verge of mental breakdown. They fear an armageddon at the polls in November. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
So Hegseth didn’t get along with the Navy Secretary and also doesn’t get along with the Army Secretary. He seems to be the common denominator.
Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency
Dave Whamond, Toronto Star
He's still the chairman of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, though, which is what really matters (at least in my world).
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Carter Page is the next person who'll get to loot Treasury bc Trump wants to discredit investigating Russian spies.
The wonderful world of Rupert Murdoch TV. Remember, Murdoch told UK oversight that this was entertainment, not journalism.
Sean Parnell, spokesman for Pete Hegseth: STATEMENT: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately. On behalf of the Secretary of War and Deputy Secretary of War, we are grateful to Secretary Phelan for his service to the Department and the United States Navy. We wish him well in his future endeavors. Undersecretary Hung Cao will become Acting Secretary of the Navy.
Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war
NEW: Carter Page, a ubiquitous figure in the Russiagate investigation, has reached a $1.25 million settlement with the Trump administration over his long-running lawsuit over illegal FISA surveillance.
w/ @joshgerstein
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
JUST IN: The Trump administraiton tells SCOTUS that it has reached a settlement with CARTER PAGE over misuse of FISA surveillance in his case. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
A reminder.👇
One of the reasons I post about the US airstrikes in Somalia is because they ARE news!
If the US conducted an airstrike in Yemen, that would be news.
If the US conducted an airstrike in Colombia, that would be news.
US airstrikes in Africa don't get reported as news.
Why is that?
Not a big deal — it’s not like the U.S. Navy has any large-scale operations going on right now or anything.
AFRICOM reported this evening (Stuttgart time) that the US conducted an airstrike targeting al-Shabaab on Apr. 21, 2026.
www.africom.mil/pressrelease...
Pete Hegseth has consistently misrepresented the actual US intelligence assessment of Iran's military strength. Iran maintains more military capabilities than the White House or Pentagon has publicly admitted, according to multiple US officials with knowledge of intelligence on the matter.
US oil prices rise above $93/bbl after Iran says they have “no plans” to attend peace talks with the US on Friday or any other day.
Patel using the FBI for media intimidation is no surprise.
He said this? Disgusting
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Another great way to celebrate 250 years — Congress has stopped doing its constitutional duties.
“Proportionality,” huh
meaning that any prosecution would have to show that the reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, acted with the intent of harassing Ms. Wilkins, instead of intending to simply report a story
The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter. Agents interviewed the girlfriend, queried databases for information on the reporter, Elizabeth Williamson, and recommended moving forward to determine whether Ms. Williamson broke federal stalking laws, the person said. Those actions prompted concerns among some Justice Department officials who saw the inquiry as retaliation for an article that Mr. Patel and his girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, did not like, and who determined there was no legal basis to proceed with the investigation, according to the person briefed on the matter. In response to questions from The Times this week, the F.B.I. said that “while investigators were concerned about how the aggressive reporting techniques crossed lines of stalking,” the F.B.I. is not pursuing a case.
FWIW, the federal stalking statute and its cousin, the interstate threats statute, both have specific intent requirements www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
