As if all of that wasn’t already bad enough, the Times found that Hegseth’s personal cell phone (which he used for Signal) is easily accessible online. You can trace it to Airbnb, Microsoft Teams, and even an email address that is also linked to a Google Maps profile. Mike Casey, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Services, told the Times, “There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone. He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”
Trump Administration Loosening Safety Requirements For Self-Driving Vehicles
The Trump administration says it plans to speed up to the deployment of self-driving vehicles on public roads by getting rid of some of the safety requirements that kept folks like you and me safe. They also want to ease requirements for reporting safety incidents. Great. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the plans for autonomous vehicles Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid out at an earnings call earlier this week or the fact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration probed Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software while President Biden was in office.
Someone on tv was saying that his office is also a SCIF. He just gave access to one of the most important SCIF’s in the country to the world’s intelligence agencies.
I wrote my representative and senators. Here’s what I wrote to my senators:
Senator [Wyden, Merkley] thank you as a constituent for all you do to advocate for Oregonians and for all Americans in the Senate.
I’ve just been reading about the Trump Administration’s illegal arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I would ask you and your colleagues in the Senate to act to counter this illegal and unconstitutional action. It represents only the latest in the administration’s march into authoritarian fascism. It cannot stand while we still claim to be a democracy.
Kash Patel as FBI Director appears to be taking the lead on this illegal action. While I was disappointed that he was confirmed by your Republican colleagues, I have to believe this unconscionable action crosses a line even for most of them. I would ask that you work with the rest of the Senate to call Mr. Patel in front of the Senate to answer for this, and if he perjures himself like he did in his confirmation hearings, to take action to remove him.
Well @#$n done! If you don’t mind i’m cribbing that for my letter to my Senators [Murray, Cantwell] and Representative [Jayapal].
arresting judges is such an obvious direct threat to the whole of democracy @#$!!! (“uh… we’re out of judges to arraign our latest batch of incarcerated judges…”)
Pardoning and/or hiring criminals guarantees ‘fall guys’ who’d be less likely to cause him problems after he throws them under the bus. And “loyalty” to Trump means a willingness to take one for a criminal boss who plans on committing more crimes.
That is indeed how it tends to go in movies and novels, but I’d think that in reality, some criminals can’t necessarily be relied upon to follow the leader. Who knows though, maybe he’s established a good vetting process by this point.
I agree. My point (poorly put) was that Trump believes that the strategy works. Regarding his vetting process, our increasing struggles and suffering may be directly proportional to his own success in his vetting process, so, we’ll see.
The Trump administration has restored the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students studying in the United States who had minor — and often dismissed — legal infractions.
The Justice Department announced the wholesale reversal in federal court Friday after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges who deemed the mass termination of students from a federal database — used by universities and the federal government to track foreign students in the U.S. — as flagrantly illegal.
