Musk is such a sleazeball that even his AI-powered bot can see through him.
Latin Times: Musk’s AI Chatbot Defies its Maker, Declaring Million-Dollar Wisconsin Voter Giveaway ‘Likely Violates Federal Law’
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Alternet: ‘Blatant felony’: Internet celebrates as Wisconsin AG reveals ‘legal action’ against Musk
Vote buying is illegal? What’s a poor billionaire to do?
‘Blatant felony’: Internet celebrates as Wisconsin AG reveals ‘legal action’ against Musk
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could be in for a confrontation with law enforcement if he follows through on a planned visit to Wisconsin on Sunday. On Friday, Madison, Wisconsin ABC affiliate WKOW reported that Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul was announcing “legal action” against the South African centibillionaire after he offered a $2 milli…
‘Blatant felony’: Internet celebrates as Wisconsin AG reveals ‘legal action’ against Musk
CNN: Concerns about Hegseth’s judgment come roaring back after group chat scandal
“I know exactly what I’m doing,” Hegseth told reporters Tuesday.
By Wednesday, however, other defense officials were increasingly skeptical of that, especially after The Atlantic magazine revealed the details that Hegseth shared in the Signal chat about the pending strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen, including the timing and types of aircraft.
“It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court-martialed for this,” a defense official told CNN. “My most junior analysts know not to do this.”
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But former national security and intelligence officials say it’s Hegseth who looks particularly bad given the level of detail he shared.
“The egregious actor here is Hegseth,” said one former senior intelligence official. “He’s in the bullseye now because he puts all this out on a Signal chat.”
Interviews with multiple current and former national security officials this week, including career military and civilian officials, reflect growing concerns about Hegseth’s leadership at the Pentagon.
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Many of his orders are verbal and based on gut instinct rather than a deliberative, multi-layered process, people familiar with his methods said.
“He’s a TV personality,” one of the sources said. “[A general officer] makes a recommendation, and he’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, go do it.’ [Former Defense Secretary] Lloyd Austin would never be like, ‘Yeah, yeah, go do it.’
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Several DoD officials told CNN that Hegseth seems more preoccupied with appearances than with substance—wanting to appear more “lethal” than his predecessor and pulling resources from elsewhere in DoD to achieve that image.
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“Of all the things they could be doing, the places they’re putting their focuses on first are really things that just don’t matter … This was literally a waste of our time,” a defense official told CNN of the content purge. “This does absolutely nothing to make us stronger, more lethal, better prepared.”
And Hegseth is outranked and outclassed by his predecessors:
Hegseth ultimately rose to the rank of Major before leaving the National Guard in 2021, and has the least experience of any Senate-confirmed defense secretary in recent history.
His immediate predecessor Austin, a four-star general, served for 41 years and commanded US Central Command; former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper served as the Secretary of the Army before being confirmed as SecDef; and former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, also a 40-year veteran and four-star general, commanded US Central Command as well before being confirmed as Trump’s first secretary of defense.
Concerns about Hegseth’s judgment come roaring back after group chat scandal
Associated Press: Bondi [Bimbo #3] signals probe into Signal chat is unlikely, despite a long history of similar inquiries
Even as President Donald Trump insisted “it’s not really an FBI thing,” the reality is that the FBI and Justice Department for decades have been responsible for enforcing Espionage Act statutes governing the mishandling — whether intentional or negligent — of national defense information like the kind shared on Signal, a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications but is not approved for classified information.
The Justice Department has broad discretion to open an investigation, though Attorney General Pam Bondi, who introduced Trump at a Justice Department event this month, signaled at an unrelated news conference on Thursday that she was disinclined to do so. She repeated Trump administration talking points that the highly sensitive information in the chat was not classified, though current and former U.S. officials have said the posting of the exact launch times of aircraft and times that bombs would be released before those pilots were even in the air would have been classified.
Bondi signals probe into Signal chat is unlikely, despite a long history of similar inquiries
FBI Director Kash Patel may not have been part of a Signal chat in which other Trump administration national security officials discussed detailed attack plans.
Pam Bondi signals probe into Signal chat is unlikely | AP News
King Donald and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte
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Long version:
Nobody — absolutely nobody — wanted Usha Vance to visit.
Mediaite: Democratic Senator Warns Trump Putting Country Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’ After ‘Chilling’ Cloak-And-Dagger Arrest
The video is really chilling. And this should matter to every single American. Okay, first of all the president doesn’t need the Alien Enemies Act in order to remove from this country. People who pose a threat to the nation, people who have engaged in criminal behavior or who have coordinated with terrorist groups, he has that power under existing law to remove from the country non-citizens. So he doesn’t need this authority.
What he is trying to do is put America on a war footing. This is an act that has only been exercised three times in American history. During the war of 1812, during the First World War, and during the Second World War. It is a wartime authority, and what you really worry about is the president continuing to move forward in exercising wartime powers in order to suspend additional elements of the constitution.
He, of course, has shown affection for something called the Insurrection Act, which would put the military in charge of everyday law enforcement in this country.
You are watching along multiple channels this massive slide away from democracy and democratic norms. And so that video is chilling because a the president doesn’t need that act to be able to remove a threat, but it speaks to his willingness to try to put America in a kind of quasi-martial law that ultimately will come to be a threat, not just to green card holders, but to American citizens as well.
So it’s a really worrying time and everybody in America should care what’s happening.
Democratic Senator Warns Trump Putting Country Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’ After ‘Chilling’ Cloak-And-Dagger Arrest
Murphy accused Trump of putting the country under a state of “quasi-martial law” after reviewing the “chilling” footage of a Tufts University student’s arrest.
Chris Murphy: Trump ‘Putting’ U.S. Under ‘Quasi-Martial Law’
US Appeals Court Hands Trump Stinging Defeat in Deportation Case
In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the March 15 ruling from Boasberg that temporarily halted deportations under the Alien Enemies Act after ordering that the government’s “emergency motions for stay be denied,” according to court documents reviewed by Newsweek.
US appeals court hands Trump defeat in deportation case
The Justice Department had appealed the decision after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered a halt to the deportations.
US Appeals Court Hands Trump Defeat in Deportation Case – Newsweek
Newsweek: Greenland Tourism Business Accepts, Then Declines Usha Vance Visit
Vance visit refused!
Seriously, what country needs a visit from arrogant jerks that thinks they’re above the rest of the world?
“A Greenlandic tourism business has said it changed its mind about welcoming the vice president’s wife Usha Vance to their store.
“Tupilak Travel wrote on Facebook that it had informed the U.S. Consulate that it did not want Vance to visit because of the ‘underlying agenda.’ The post ended with a phrase meaning ‘Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders.'”
Greenland tourism business accepts, then declines Usha Vance visit
Tupilak Travel said it had informed the U.S. Consulate that it did not want Usha Vance to visit because of the “underlying agenda.”
Greenland Tourism Business Accepts, Then Declines Usha Vance Visit – Newsweek
The U.S. Sun: 14-year-olds to pull overnight shifts as US state moves to roll back child labor laws & combat ‘dirt cheap’ migrant work
14-year-olds to work overnight as immigrants get deported
In Florida, 16- and 17-year-olds are currently prohibited from working before 6:30 am and after 11 pm on school days.
They are also barred from working more than 30 hours a week during the school year.
A new proposal would remove all of those restrictions – including the requirement that teens get a meal break, the Miami Herald reported.
Governor Ron DeSantis supports the measure and argues it’s a way to address what he calls “dirt cheap” labor from illegal immigrants.
