Phelan’s firing comes after a rocky tenure under Hegseth and Feinberg, including tension over Phelan’s close relationship with President Trump, according to three people familiar with the internal discussions. Phelan regularly chats with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club, just down the street from his own Florida home, and told lawmakers last year that he texts with the president about shipbuilding in the middle of the night. The top Pentagon leaders were particularly annoyed last fall when Phelan pitched the idea for a modern battleship directly to Trump, bypassing Hegseth, the people said. 

According to the WSJ, Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy Secretary in the middle of a crucial wartime naval blockade because he was jelly of his closeness with Trump. These are the dumbest, most embarrassing, childish nitwits alive - and they are in charge of the world's most monumental military might.

And then the returning officer should read the tallies aloud while the candidates stand next to Lord Buckethead wearing little colored ribbons

Query successful Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian BREAKING: IRAN SAYS IT DOES NOT KNOW WHO IS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF THE UNITED STATES chris evans @notcapnamerica B!TCH WE DONT EITHER

We're NOT okay

I loved Descent II and I had no idea this existed, what a gift

jesus christ

Nothing to worry about, just the Heritage Foundation publishing an article on how the Republican Congress can refuse to seat Democrats www.heritage.org/election-int...

A friend of mine was briefly hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar at the start of 3L year.

They denied her admission to the bar and only relented after lobbying by the partners at her BigLaw firm.

JORDAN, Circuit Judge: 24-10797 Defendant. The wood and a brass doorknob that had become a smear of fire gave him a sense of everything around him: the miles of space filled with sun, between the burning spreads of sky and ocean. It was February, and the yacht lay still, her engines idle, in the Southern Pacific. —Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead 600–01 (1943) This case concerns the arbitrability of claims by a seaman who was injured aboard the M/Y Fountainhead, a 288-foot yacht. The yacht sailed under the flag of the Cayman Islands, and its home port was the Island Gardens Marina on Watson Island in Miami, Florida.

Am I in hell?

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Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe X.com EXCLUSIVE: It could take six months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz of mines deployed by the Iranian military, and any such operation is unlikely to be carried out until the U.S. war with Iran ends, the Pentagon has informed Congress — an assessment that means the conflict's economic impact could extend late into this year or beyond. 11:52 AM • 4/22/26 • 5.3K Views

Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe X.com A senior Pentagon official shared the estimate, which has not been previously reported, during a classified briefing Tuesday for members of the House Armed Services Committee, officials said. The timeline was met with frustration by Democrats and Republicans alike. 11:55 AM • 4/22/26 • 1.4K Views

⚠️ It could take six months AFTER the Iran War ends to clear mines from Strait of Hormuz, per Pentagon.

This timeline means the war’s economic impact could extend late into this year and beyond.

Reporting by WaPo:

An email with the subject "Message from Senator Richard J. Durbin." "Dear Matt: Thank you for contacting me to share your views. I always enjoy hearing from concerned citizens like you. There are many difficult issues before Congress, and I am honored that the people of Illinois have given me the opportunity to continue representing their interests in our nation's capital. As we make these major decisions, I will make sure that the voices of Illinoisans are heard every step of the way. I will continue to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pursue our shared goal of moving the country in the right direction. I will keep your thoughts in mind as I continue to do this important work on behalf of the people of Illinois. Thank you again for contacting me. Please feel free to stay in touch."

I have no idea what this is in response to. I haven't contacted Durbin's office in weeks. But I'm glad he's continuing to work with the Nazis to "pursue our shared goal of moving the country in the right direction."

I hope you kick yourself in the balls on the way out the door, Dick.

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Ok!

New little thing I put together that might interest you. It’s in beta so it might have some rough edges still.

Are you tired of seeing people with blogs on Nazi-enabling Substack?

Do you want to boycott fascist-captured media?

Introducing: @snubstack.boo.

A labeler to detect Substack links

Trump is considering a large bailout for a multibillionaire dictator while he cuts health care for 15 million Americans.

This is insane. The working families of the United States need help, not one of the richest families in the world.

Chip Roy of Texas just wrote to his constituents about his cosponsorship of new-ish bill to provide new tools to denaturalize and deport foreign-born Marxists and Islamists:

Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists (MAMDANI) Act

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

Got exactly one citation and ignored by several major pubs covering the official Microsoft post here, looking forward to Thursday when they get to do it again when token-based billing is announced ❤️

Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3

Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

Just added "aforedescribed" to my Word custom dictionary. How's your Monday night going?

I'm sure the logic is GeoIP-based, so I'm guessing Starlink is connecting you via a ground station in Australia.

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

if Tim Curry had only blessed us with this speech it would have been enough, but he has given us so much more

pope or palantir, which way modern man?

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views

Pope Leo on AI:

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

This short thread is worth reading:

Salute to an all-time tweet

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

Genuinely I think it would be a sound strategy to go absolutely all in on calling these people satanic idolators

jamelle @jamellebouie.net Joined Apr '23 shouldn't be allowed to choose their own clerks, shouldn't be allowed to accept fees for speaking or prize money or awards. shouldn't be able to get book deals, etc. etc. if what you want is to be famous, well, no one is forcing you to be a supreme court justice. 8:47 PM • Apr 18, 2026 20 reposts 169 likes 1 save 2 20 169 ...

New idea:

Law monastery in Alaska; justices have to take a vow of poverty and they’re not allowed to leave the monastery once they’re on SCOTUS