Trumpwatch 2.0

[ZenithCKLW]

Truly evil people populate the White House right now.

Evil, incompetent, unpatriotic.

Recipe for disaster.

Per Craig, this is completely normal.

And per "others" who quit the board, this is exactly what America voted for, so full steam ahead for everybody.

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Via Reuters… a Navy Admiral at NATO has been fired as the national security purge expands:

U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who holds a senior position in NATO, has been fired as part of what appears to be an expanding national security purge of top officials by the Trump administration, three sources told Reuters on Monday.

The information was not immediately confirmed by the Pentagon. However, the sources told Reuters that allies had been notified that Chatfield had been removed from her job.

Chatfield, the U.S. military representative to the NATO Military Committee, is one of only a handful of female Navy three-star officers and was the first woman to lead the Naval War College, a job she held until 2023.
The firing is the latest to rock the Pentagon after Thursday's removal of General Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command.

For the Navy, it follows the firing of its top officer, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to become Chief of Naval Operations.

President Donald Trump's administration has taken a cool view of NATO, as well as European allies, since taking office in January. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his first trip to NATO headquarters in February to warn Europe against treating the United States like a "sucker" by making it responsible for its defense.

It was unclear if any official reason was given for Chatfield's dismissal, or if it was related to any U.S. policy direction on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
One source said the motive may have been related to the Pentagon's crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a recent Harvard Magazine interview, Chatfield sounded eager for a time when the qualifications of women in the military would not be held in suspicion.

The article cited one example when Chatfield, herself a helicopter pilot, led an MH-60S Sea Hawk expeditionary helicopter squadron in 2005-2006.

"A mid-grade sailor ... asked, 'Ma'am, can you fly one of those helicopters?' And I chuckled and said, ‘Yes, actually it’s a prerequisite for this job!'" she was quoted as saying, adding that at the time she had been wearing her wings that showed she was a naval aviator.

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AP:
President Trump says the U.S. will hold direct talks with Iran starting Saturday as he insists Tehran can’t get nuclear weapons.

Appeals court restores DOGE access to sensitive information at US agencies.

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AP:
Chief Justice Roberts pauses order for the Trump Administration to return a man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.

U.S. Stocks end modestly lower after reeling from President Trumps latest threats to escalate his tariff fight.

MarketWatch:
S&P 500 sees biggest intraday swing since the ‘flash crash’ of 2010.

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Truly evil people populate the White House right now.

This was buried at the bottom of an AP article on this case…

A Justice Department lawyer conceded in a court hearing that Abrego Garcia should not have been deported. Attorney General Pam Bondi later removed the lawyer, Erez Reuveni, from the case and placed him on leave.

Now that is disturbing as hell.

[MegaHertz]

If I didn't have such respect for MW and his board, I would let loose. I'm so sick of these pricks and the useless cumstains that voted him in. Again. What the fuck is wrong with people? I didn't think people could be so fucking evil.

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More fun… what a day this has been…

AP:
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water.

Politico:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent encouraged President Trump to focus his message on negotiating favorable trade deals.

ABC:
RFK Jr. says vaccine is ‘most effective way to prevent the spread of measles’.

[Matt]

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-heal ... rters-fury

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He gets to keep deporting Venezuelans...

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday night that the Trump administration could continue to deport Venezuelan migrants based on a wartime powers act for now, overturning a lower court that had put a temporary stop to the deportations.

The decision marks a victory for the Trump administration, although the ruling is narrow and focused on the proper venue for the cases, rather than on the administration’s use of a centuries-old law to justify its decision to send planeloads of Venezuelans to El Salvador with little to no due process.

The justices did not address the question of whether the Trump administration improperly categorized the Venezuelans as deportable under the Alien Enemies Act, finding the migrants had improperly challenged their deportations in Washington, D.C. The justices determined that the migrants should have raised challenges in Texas, where they were being held.

“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” according to the court’s order, which was brief and unsigned, as is typical in such emergency applications.

In a concurrence, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh stressed that the justices were in agreement that the migrants should receive judicial review, but that they were divided over where the case should be heard.

“As the court stresses, the court’s disagreement with the dissenters is not over whether the detainees receive judicial review of their transfers — all nine members of the court agree that judicial review is available,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote. “The only question is where that judicial review should occur.”

The case is perhaps the most high-profile of the eight emergency applications the Trump administration has filed with the Supreme Court so far, and it presents a direct collision between the judicial and executive branches.

[MWmetalhead]

This is scary shit.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/ ... 978891007/

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KGO San Francisco:
Feds abruptly cancel $35 Million wildfire protection grant for Napa County, CA.

We have quite a theme of blue state areas being targeted and having funding they really do need… no waste or fraud in the idea of California having a fire… clawed back anyways.

[Matt]

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WABC New York:
New York City MTA and Trump Administration agree to new timeline on congestion pricing.

[MWmetalhead]

The justices did not address the question of whether the Trump administration improperly categorized the Venezuelans as deportable under the Alien Enemies Act, finding the migrants had improperly challenged their deportations in Washington, D.C. The justices determined that the migrants should have raised challenges in Texas, where they were being held.

“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” according to the court’s order, which was brief and unsigned, as is typical in such emergency applications.

This is such chicken shit on the part of the Supreme Court.

Bullshit like this gives jurists a bad name, and deservedly so.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

Trump is considering reinstating the Alien and Sedition Act as a prelude to declaring martial law. Staffers are reviewing the possibility of said action now. They are expect to give a report to Trump on April 20th, a nod to Hitler’s birthday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/german ... 025-01-18/


https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential ... ed-states/