A reminder that several years ago Democrats introduced a bill that would’ve banned gerrymandering in all states nationwide and every single republican voted against it, so they don’t get to cry foul now.
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.
No proof yet, but I truly believe that this is hinting at the truth.
This, combined with Lindsey Graham posting about a great call he had with POTUS about Iran five hours ago makes me really nervous.
Fun fact: the guy (Hung Cao) who now leads the US Navy claimed that Monterey, California (median home price $1.2M) had been taken over taken over with witchcraft.
www.montereycountynow.com/opinion/mcno...
#BREAKING: Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is departing the administration, effective immediately.
In 2002 a 17 year old from Londrina, Brazil boarded Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet in Paris and was trafficked to New York. Around 30 girls were on that flight. Ghislaine Maxwell prowled the cabin. Some girls sat on Epstein’s lap. The teenager was Amanda Ungaro.
www.yacnews.com/amanda-ungar...
Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Dr Fatih Birol: “We are facing the biggest threat to energy security in history.”
omg, a truth from her mouth... lol
🚨NEWS🚨
Rep. Massie and I just introduced a bipartisan amendment to strip the pesticide liability shield from the Farm Bill.
If a company’s product makes people sick, it should be held accountable. If states and communities want to create stronger protections, they should have every right to do so.
There is no excuse. None.
Republicans have the votes, they have the power—and tonight they are choosing, deliberately, to do nothing for families and everything for ICE.
It’s past 3 AM and they’re jamming through $70 billion for ICE and $0 for families.
Spread the word.
Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.
OTD in 2004 the Treaty on the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait came into force between Russia & Ukraine.
As we've followed this and many other treaties, it means you can trust us on a new peace deal now.
Today in Rhode Island History:
1774: Barrington votes to not buy any more dutied English tea.
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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Why would any other country trust us?
Jim McGovern continues to go off:
"This farm bill is a disaster. It's awful. It's terrible. It's beyond words. It's a giveaway to Big Ag and chemical companies. There's actually liability protection in this bill for people who make pesticides. Like, who thinks like that?!"
Keep cooking, Jim!
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The hose they apparently all drank from so I can test it for MAGA-causing lead
Sick MotherFuckers -- Chavez, her husband, and her FATHER.
(SHE told the young staffers to make themselves available to her husband and her FATHER.) (And there's only ONE reason she'd do/say that.)
This is the Pedo/Predator/Incest Presidency.
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.
Eight children were murdered in the shooting.
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Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Hundreds of animal rights activists who tried to gain entry Saturday to a beagle breeding and research facility in Wisconsin were turned back by police who fired tear gas and pepper spray into the crowd and arrested the group’s leader.
Meet Joe Giacinto, a blind and autistic clarinet phenom, performing a spectacular rendition of the National Anthem at the Diamondbacks game
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA,
Come laugh deep, healthy belly laughs at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Arts on Fri. June 12. tickets.thewallis.org/21897/21898 It may be the only health care we get for a while.
For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
For 24 hours over Easter weekend, Trump’s team dialed into the Situation Room: Vice President JD Vance from Camp David, Wiles from her home in Florida. They received almost minute-by-minute progress reports, of the military entering Iran, the rescue planes getting stuck in the sand, the efforts to distract the Iranians. They called the last airman by a code name. Trump wasn’t included in the meeting but received updates by phone.
10¶¶ later, WSJ seems to reveal that Trump was too lazy to go from the residence to the Situation Room to monitor the rescue of an airman.
This was the weekend people THOUGHT he was having a health crisis.
Was he?
Trump is prepping to betray Taiwan.
