Their phones should be seized and we need to find out how many signal chats they're in, casually sharing American secrets on unsecured chatrooms, I bet they're sharing secrets of allies too, America is part of The Five Eyes and they're ran by the most incompetent fuckers in the world. We know there are more signal chats because Waltz said "As we stated in the first PC" so there is absolutely more than one Signal chat. Who is in these chatrooms? Do they all have clearance? What classified information are they discussing? What are they deleting to leave no evidence of? Are they compromising allies national security as well?

Republicans are the most hypocritical MOFOs on the planet.

You are right. If I were a judge in a case like this, I would tell the witness that there are only two options in response to their testimony.

A) You are lying, so you aren't fit for your job because nobody can trust your word.

B) You are telling the truth, so you aren't fit for your job because someone who is so forgetful lacks basic competence.

It doesn't matter whether or not the witness is to believed, the reasonable outcome is the same.

Hamdan Ballal’s co-director lambasts US academy for silence after settler, soldier attacks

Yuval Abraham, an Israeli who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land with Palestinian Hamdan Ballal, has criticised the US Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for failing to voice support for Ballal after he was attacked by settlers, then detained and beaten by Israeli soldiers.

According to Abraham, several academy members supported issuing a statement condemning the assaults, but the organisation ultimately refrained, apparently believing it may have been “unrelated to the film”.

“This, it seems, gave the Academy an excuse to remain silent when a filmmaker they honoured, living under Israeli occupation, needed them the most,” said Abraham, noting Ballal’s account that soldiers mocked the Oscar he had won this month while assaulting him.

“It’s not too late to change this stance,” Abraham said. “Even now, issuing a statement condemning the attack on Hamdan and the Masafer Yatta community would send a meaningful message and serve as a deterrent for the future.”

Masafer Yatta is Ballal’s hometown in the occupied West Bank. No Other Land documents Israeli settler attacks and Israeli demolitions of homes in the village.

Sadly, the US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers.

The European Academy voiced support, as did countless other award groups and festivals. Several US…

— Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם (@yuval_abraham) March 26, 2025

US teacher unions sue Trump administration over ‘coercive’ funding cuts

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have lodged a legal complaint over the Trump administration’s decision to cut $400m in federal funding for Columbia University.

The lawsuit described the measures – tied to claims the university failed to protect Jewish students during Gaza war protests – as a “coercive tactic” aimed at curbing free expression.

“This action challenges the Trump administration’s unlawful and unprecedented effort to overpower a university’s academic autonomy and control the thought, association, scholarship, and expression of its faculty and students,” the lawsuit said.

As we’ve reported, Columbia University has already conceded to several of the government’s conditions for restoring federal funding.

They include banning face masks, empowering dozens of campus police officers with special powers to arrest students and planning to install a new provost to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies and the Center for Palestine Studies.

US protesters interrupt Senate hearings for Mike Huckabee

Protesters from Jewish and Christian activist groups have disrupted the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel.

A video of the protest, posted online by Christians for a Free Palestine, shows protesters chanting “Jews say no to Huckabee” and “free Palestine” as the Trump nominee begins speaking. A few minutes later, a protester is heard shouting, “Huckabee misuses Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing” and “Senators, ask him about the end game of Christian Zionism for Palestinians in Israel.”

Huckabee, a devout Christian who has visited Israel more than 100 times, has tied his evangelical faith to support for Israeli control of the West Bank and his support for Israeli settlements, which are illegal under international law.

🚨BREAKING 🚨🚨 Christian Leaders join beloveds from other religious traditions in disrupting the Senate confirmation hearing of Mike Huckabee, the Trump-nominee for Ambassador to Israel, boldly naming that “Huckabee misuses Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing”.#huckno pic.twitter.com/xA8eCQ2NER

— Christians for a Free Palestine (@xians4Palestine) March 25, 2025

Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.

To do so, the reporters used commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that has been published on the web. Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases.

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online - DER SPIEGEL

A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit for any number of ends, experts say.

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public | WIRED

Just days after senior Trump administration officials — including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — included a journalist in a Signal group chat discussing secret military plans, the Pentagon issued a warning that Russian hackers had cracked the app. According to the Pentagon advisory, officials should stop using the app, even for sending unclassified information, citing a "vulnerability."

Pentagon warned of Russian Signal hacker infiltration after massive war plans bungle | The Independent

US detains Turkish student who voiced support for Palestinians

US immigration authorities have detained a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston, Massachusetts, who voiced support for Palestinians during Israel’s war on Gaza and have revoked her visa.

Rumeysa Ozturk’s supporters say her detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-area student engaged in such activism to be carried out by President Donald Trump’s administration, which has detained or sought to detain several foreign-born students who are legally in the US and have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests.

The 30-year-old Turkish national was taken into custody near her home in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Tuesday evening while she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a post on X that authorities determined Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans.”

Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece in the school’s student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticised Tufts’ response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tufts-says-international-student-taken-into-us-custody-visa-revoked-2025-03-26/



This is the whole article in Tufts daily this is about

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/search?a=1&o=date&ty=article&au=Rumeysa+Ozturk

Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions

On March 4, the Tufts Community Union Senate passed 3 out of 4 resolutions demanding that the University acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, apologize for University President Sunil Kumar’s statements, disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel. These resolutions were the product of meaningful debate by the Senate and represent a sincere effort to hold Israel accountable for clear violations of international law. Credible accusations against Israel include accounts of deliberate starvation and indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.

We urge President Kumar and the Tufts administration to meaningfully engage with and actualize the resolutions passed by the Senate.

This op-ed was written by Nick Ambeliotis (CEE, ‘25), Fatima Rahman (STEM Education, ‘27), Genesis Perez (English, ‘27) and Rumeysa Ozturk (CSHD, ‘25) and is endorsed by 32 other Tufts School of Engineering and Arts and Sciences Graduate Students.

The USA is so funny. I watched short videos of the hearings and the members of the Trump administration are sitting behind nameplates that start with "The Honorable". That's the cherry on top of how stupid all of this is. Yes, the Republicans are total scumbags, but it's crazy how willing the Democrats are to play along with it.

At the very least Hegseth should get sacked because of this. But what are the chances of that happening in the current political situation of the USA? Close to zero, I'd say.

On another note, it looks like the strategy of flooding the zone has reached a dead end. The media has gone numb on a variety of stupid Trump topics, so now there's a better focus on what actually constitutes a big deal. The Trump administration seems unable to come up with something new, by now they are just trying to do reruns. It's not like this will lead to something tangible in the near future, but the end of the overwhelming craziness will make more Americans realize what a mess all of this is over time. I also imagine that Trump himself will be out of gas once he's completed his first 100 days in office, because for some reason that timeframe gets assigned a lot of importance in the American mindset.

Will it still be bad after 100 days? Of course. But it won't be every other day anymore that another layer of stupidity gets added.

US politicians, rights groups denounce arrest of Turkish student who criticised Israel

US lawmakers and rights groups have denounced the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University who has criticised Israel’s war on Gaza, and the revoking of her visa – calling it an alarming crackdown on free speech and civil liberties.

Michigan Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib slammed the arrest, warning of escalating government repression.

“The Trump administration is abducting people off the streets,” Tlaib wrote on Instagram.

“They are starting with people who stand up for Palestinians and human rights … but they won’t stop there.”

Ozturk was one of four students last March who co-authored an op-ed piece in The Tufts Daily, criticising the university’s response to its community union Senate passing resolutions that demanded Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel

Senator Elizabeth Warren also criticised the arrest, calling it part of a broader assault on fundamental rights.

“This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties,” Warren said. “The Trump administration is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our constitution and basic freedoms –and we will push back.”

Tahirah Amatul-Wadud, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Massachusetts chapter, called Ozturk’s detention an “abduction” and an attack on academic freedom.

“This alarming act of repression is a direct assault on free speech and academic freedom. Massachusetts residents must recognise the dangerous precedent being set – the federal government is resorting to draconian tactics to silence those who speak out against our nation’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.”

Rumeysa was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to.

She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process.

Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now. https://t.co/IJk3jY9GMR

— Ayanna Pressley (@AyannaPressley) March 26, 2025

Donald Trump says ‘Houthis are dying for peace’

The US president has been responding to questions about top administration officials revealing military plans to bomb Yemen in a messaging group chat that also included a journalist.

Trump, speaking at the White House, described the uproar over the war plans leak as a “witch-hunt” and said, “I wasn’t involved with it [the group chat]. I wasn’t there.”

But, he said, the result of the US campaign against Yemen’s Houthis, which began last week, is “unbelievable”.

“The Houthis want peace because they’re getting the hell knocked out of them,” he said. “The Houthis are dying for peace.”

The US offensive, which began on March 15, has killed at least 53 people, including five children and two women.

The Houthis have said the US attacks will not deter them from preventing Israeli-linked ships from transiting the Red Sea.

Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, said on Tuesday that the group’s position will not change “no matter the repercussions or results” of using “Yemen as a battlefield to flex your muscles”.

Trump's NatSec 'Signal' Disaster Just Got Worse

US Congressman says Trump’s Secretary of Defence should ‘resign now’ over scandal

A top US Congressman on Wednesday demanded an immediately resignation of US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth over the raging Signal security breach controversy. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi concluded that Hegseth had broken laws under the president’s executive order and the Department of Defence guidelines. He made his firm demand during a Congress’ Joint Intelligence Committee hearing.