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#Trump posted a photo of himself holding up a picture claiming to show #KilmarAbregoGarcia’s tattoos that prove he’s MS-13.
The picture he’s holding has obviously been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13.
The source of this BS is a neo-Nazi X user who claims the tattoos are code for “MS-13.”
This is why you try people in court of #law & not on social media.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #gaslighting #propaganda #dehumanization #immigration #HumanRights #CivilRights #DueProcess
Umm, no.
DOGE reps told leaders of a [nongovernmental] #nonprofit group Tues that it wants to assign members of its team to work at all institutes or agencies that receive federal funds….
A 20-min phone call involved 2 members of DOGE & attorneys for the Vera Institute of Justice, w/DOGE reps revealing plans to potentially attach its team members to more organizations & institutes that receive govt funding….
#law #Trump #ElonMusk #Dictatorship #tyranny #MafiaState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/15/doge-musk-nonprofit-vera-institute/
Excellent point:
Rep Suzan DelBene (D-WA) asked Jamieson Greer, the top US #trade negotiator, how any country can #trust the trade deals that #Trump is negotiating, given that he has “thrown out” previous agreements by imposing #tariffs, including the trade deal he signed with #Canada & #Mexico in his first term. Greer said that the #US was still “the consumer market of choice for everybody” [not for long] & the admin was having “several meetings” every day about new deals.
#France far-right leader Marine #LePen was banned from running for public office for 5yrs after being convicted on Monday of #embezzlement, a political watershed that effectively ruled her out of the 2027 presidential race.
The court's ruling was a catastrophic setback for Le Pen, the #NationalRally (#RN) party chief who has long been one of the most prominent figures of #Europe’s #FarRight & is the front-runner in polls for the 2027 contest.
#law #corruption #politics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-le-pen-faces-crunch-day-graft-trial-that-could-kill-her-presidential-2025-03-31/
#RFKJr Turns to a Discredited #AntiVaxxer for #Autism Study
#DavidGeier has been hired as a senior data analyst at #HHS. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between #vaccines & autism that were debunked long ago.
#science #medicine #research #USpol #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #PublicDisservice
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/rfk-jr-autism-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=29D75BEB-44F7-48D9-A9FF-0E7FD021B9F2
Reyes Mota is among the hundreds of #Venezuelans that the #Trump admin deported earlier this month through the use of extraordinary wartime powers based on a 1798 #law [#AlienEnemiesAct]. The admin sent them to #CECOT in #ElSalvador, claiming they are members of the notorious Venezuelan gang #TdA. But the 24-yr-old father does NOT have a criminal record in Venezuela. His #immigration detention records are riddled w/mistakes, raising questions about how reliable they are.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article302671624.html
#EdDavey, Ldr of the #UK’s Liberal Democrats:
“#JDVance & his mates clearly aren't fit to run a group chat, let alone the world's strongest #military force. It has to make our #security services nervous about the #intelligence we're sharing with them.”
“#Trump's #WhiteHouse can't be trusted. Their reckless approach to security means it's only a matter of time before British intelligence is leaked.
“The Govt must urgently review our intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US.”
Asked if his top #NationalSecurity, #intelligence & #military officials shared classified information on #Signal, #Trump just refuses to answer
"Another question please"
#SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
#MikeWaltz certainly knows how to handle #Trump -- blame the #media & blow smoke up his ass.
#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy
Asked if #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz owed an apology, #Trump said, “I don’t think he should apologize. I think he’s doing his best.”
Trump added that he thinks “we won’t be using it very much,” referring to the #Signal app.
#Waltz said the team is looking into “how in the heck” a journalist ended up in a group text chain on the Signal app where top ofcls were discussing plans for #military strikes against #Iran-backed #Houthi rebels in #Yemen.
[Waltz added him]
#NationalSecurity
#Trump stood by his #NationalSecurity adviser, #MichaelWaltz, Tues, calling him a “good man” a day after a report that he & other senior admin ofcls used the commercial messaging app #Signal to discuss secret #military plans for Yemen & inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat. During an interview Trump also said Waltz had “learned a lesson.”
#SignalGate #Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy
Senator #Ossoff’s questioning of #CIA director #Ratcliffe really was quite impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg1jbbVl7nc
#Signal #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
#Ossoff to #Ratcliffe: We will get the full transcript of this chain & your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.
Senator Jon #Ossoff: “Disagreements between the president & VP about US plans & intentions would be of obvious interest to foreign intelligence services, would it not?
#Ratcliffe: Yes
Ossoff: And they were discussing the timing of sending US aircrews into enemy airspace where they faced an air defense threat.
Ossoff: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?
Ratcliffe: No.
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment.
Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details:
“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?
#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)
Senator #MichaelBennet is going off! on #CIA director #JohnRatcliffe about the #Signal chat group.
#Bennet: “You’re the director of the CIA, and you didn’t check who was in the chat group?”
…
“Did you know the president’s national security adviser was in Moscow while on this thread?”
#Ratcliffe: I did not know that. (again, he’s the director of the CIA)
Senator #AngusKing, grilled #Gabbard on why #ClimateChange had been excluded for the first time in the #ThreatAssessment report.
Gabbard again said the only included the highest threats.
King rattled off the MANY effects of Climate Change that threaten security. Migration, famine, poverty, social & political tensions, etc.
Then he directly asked if she ordered that climate threats be excluded. She said no.
The reason 100% is #Trump’s war on “wokeism”
#Gabbard just had to explain why #Canada wasn’t in the threat assessment report. She answered that the report only includes countries that present the highest threats. Senator Heinrich specifically pointed to #Trump’s repeated claims there is “massive” & “unusually high” amounts of #fentanyl coming in through Canada to justify #tariffs.
