Trump Cabinet Appointments

[Winehole23]

The real reason Eagle Ed Martin is being shown the door is failing to prosecute Schiff and James, but the reason given the press is that he shared grand jury materials with unauthorized (*cough, Bill Pulte*) people

Can't even do weaponization right, maybe Ed Martin can recommend himself for a pardon going out the door


A Justice Department review found that Ed Martin improperly handled grand jury materials that were part of an investigation targeting Donald Trump’s political enemies, at least two sources familiar with the review told CNN. It was at least part of the reason Martin was pushed out of DOJ headquarters (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/politics/ed-martin-to-leave-justice-department) early this year.

The review (https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/politics/justice-department-adam-schiff-ed-martin-bill-pulte-christine-bish), which was overseen by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, focused on whether grand jury material gathered in the department’s mortgage fraud inquiries into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff (https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/politics/adam-schiff-investigation-donald-trump-ed-martin) and New York Attorney General Letitia James had been illegally shared with people not authorized to possess that information, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.

The department found that Martin had shared the secret grand jury material in the Schiff case, one of the sources said. The person said Martin initially denied sharing the material with unauthorized people when asked by department leaders, but emails soon surfaced showing that Martin had in fact shared the grand jury material.


A second person told CNN a finding of misconduct gave the deputy attorney general a reason to further ostracize Martin. Martin was removed as the head of the so-called Weaponization Working Group on the first day of 2026 and he was relocated out of department headquarters to a building across town that houses the pardon attorney — Martin’s one remaining role.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/politics/ed-martin-review-improperly-handled-grand-jury

[Winehole23]

Tulsi Gabbard related?



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[Winehole23]

from Axis of Resistance progressive lib to MAGA DNI, what a career arc

[Winehole23]

Rubio steps down as US Archives director, illegally names his preplacement

Impeachable per se, the attempts to avoid Senate confirmation are by now systematic


As Federal News Network first reported (https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2026/02/marco-rubio-out-as-acting-head-of-national-archives/) today, Secretary of State and acting National Security Advisor Marco Rubio is no longer serving as acting Archivist of the United States. Citing a National Archives and Records Administration spokesperson, FNN reported that Rubio’s time in the post ended after having served for the statutory limit for acting agency heads under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.


However, that limit—which was 300 days, since the vacancy occurred within the first 60 days after the inauguration, and President Trump has nominated no one as permanent Archivist—was up on December 13, 2025. Had Rubio been serving as acting Archivist past that time, any non-delegable actions he took may have been null from the beginning, and have no force and effect.


Rubio’s name, title, and photograph were removed from NARA’s leadership page sometime late last week, as David Sewell first noted (https://bsky.app/profile/davidsewell.bsky.social/post/3mdqsnws7ok2y) on Bluesky.


FNR also reported NARA said that before he left, Rubio named political appointee James Byron “to serve and perform the functions of archivist.”


Rubio did not have the legal authority to name anyone to serve in that role or to perform such functions, nor does anyone other than the President.1 (https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-at-nara-illegally-names#footnote-1-186914354) And even if he had such authority, naming anyone after he no longer lawfully exercised the authority of the office would make it invalid.



The Archivist position has been vacant since Trump fired Archivist Colleen Shogan last year—only the second (https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/the-us-archivist-should-not-be-political#:~:text=IN%20NARA%E2%80%99S%20NINETY%2DY EAR%20HISTORY%2C%20only%20one%20other%20president% 20has%20removed%20an%20archivist%3A) time in NARA history that a President removed an Archivist. To date, the White House has not named a nominee, nor seriously floated any possible names (https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/the-us-archivist-should-not-be-political).


Byron, who has been “Senior Advisor to the Archivist” since pushing out Deputy Archivist William “Jay” Bosanko almost one year ago, forcing him (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/national-archives-head-resigns-as-trump-takes-control-of-records/#:~:text=Bosanko%20was%20pushed%20out%20by%20Jim%2 0Byron%2C%20the%2031%2Dyear%20old%20president%20of %20the%20Richard%20Nixon%20Foundation.%20Byron%20d elivered%20Bosanko%20an%20ultimatum%3A%20Resign%20 now%20or%20be%20fired%20next%20week.) to resign or be fired, is the CEO of the private Richard Nixon Foundation, “on leave (https://www.nixonfoundation.org/foundation/)” while running NARA day to day in an unprecedented appointment.


According to his biography on the foundation’s website, Byron has no education, credentials, or experience that would qualify him to serve in any senior leadership position in any federal agency, much less run a complex, distributed organization such as the National Archives.



In the case of a vacancy, the Deputy Archivist automatically becomes, by law, the acting Archivist. In the case of vacancies in both positions, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, at 5 U.S. Code § 3345 (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3345)(a), authorizes “the President (and only the President)” to name someone to serve as acting Archivist “to perform the functions and duties of the vacant office temporarily.”

The person the President names may only be someone who already is serving in a position requiring a presidential nomination and Senate confirmation,3 (https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-at-nara-illegally-names#footnote-3-186914354) or someone who has served in a senior position in the agency for not less than 90 days during the 365-day period prior to the vacancy beginning. Trump fired Shogan on February 7, 2025; so that period would be 90 days between February 8, 2024, and February 6, 2025.
Byron meets neither requirement. He is, therefore, not eligible to serve as Archivist or acting Archivist, nor to “serve and perform the functions of archivist.”4 (https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-at-nara-illegally-names#footnote-4-186914354)https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-at-nara-illegally-names

[Winehole23]

Warsh is a hawk, except when Trump is appointing a new Fed chair


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[Winehole23]

Tulsi Gabbard related?



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Last spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close to Donald Trump (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump),according to a whistleblower’s attorney briefed on the existence of the call.

The highly sensitive communique, which has roiled Washington (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/republicans-tulsi-gabbard-whistleblower-complaint) over the past week, was brought to the attention of the director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard – but rather than allowing NSA officials to distribute the information further, she took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, the attorney, Andrew Bakaj, said.

One day after meeting Wiles, Gabbard told the NSA (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/nsa) not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office.

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Tulsi Gabbard running solo 2020 election inquiry separate from FBI investigation

Read more

(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/tulsi-gabbard-2020-election-investigation-ed)
Details of this exchange between Gabbard and the NSA were shared directly with the Guardian andhave not been previously reported. Nor has Wiles receipt of the intelligence report.

The office of the director of national intelligence (ODNI) did not immediately respond to questions about the unusual call detected by the NSA, or Gabbard’s handling of the intelligence.

On 17 April, a whistleblower contacted the office of the inspector general alleging that Gabbard had blocked highly classified intelligence from routine dispatch, according toBakaj, who has been briefed on details surrounding the highly sensitive phone call flagged by the NSA. The whistleblower filed a formal complaint about Gabbard’s actions on 21 May, Bakaj said.

For eight months, the intelligence report has been kept under lock and key, even after the whistleblower pushed (https://whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblower-aid-chief-legal-counsel-sends-new-correspondence-to-director-of-national-intelligence-tulsi-gabbard/) to disclose details to congressional intelligence committees.

Acting inspector general Tamara A Johnson dismissed the complaint at the end of a 14-day review period, writing in a 6 June letter (https://whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblower-aid-chief-legal-counsel-sends-new-correspondence-to-director-of-national-intelligence-tulsi-gabbard/) addressed to the whistleblower that “the Inspector General could not determine if the allegations appear credible”.
The letter stipulated that the whistleblower could take their concerns to Congress, only after receiving DNI guidance on how to proceed, given the highly sensitive nature of the complaint.

The independence of the watchdog’s office may be compromised, lawmakers have said, ever since Gabbard assigned (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/tulsi-gabbard-odni-watchdog-signalgate/) one of her top advisers, Dennis Kirk, to work there on 9 May, two weeks after the whistleblower first made contact with the inspector general’s hotline.

Gabbard’s office issued its first public acknowledgment of the highly sensitive complaint in a letter addressed to lawmakers on Tuesday, one day after the Wall Street Journal reported (https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/classified-whistleblower-complaint-about-tulsi-gabbard-stalls-within-her-agency-027f5331?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqcnitXRP0Z3JW4IliTowiB8ih2lgJWWO08Mp8_Y ZiKy2J8758Xy6gLanSJxUPM%3D&gaa_ts=69873150&gaa_sig=IkFrxM3ri4oUfYENpPK1BNnnxBihE5ifFaNAIJsZ_0 FQatgFa5BEVkOUiGZy97b1WoOy9pmGMZlWKoZcvsypbQ%3D%3D ) on the classified brief. It was posted (https://x.com/ODNIgov/status/2018877869888246162/photo/1) to the ODNI’s X account, including claims that the inspector general had not informed Gabbard of her obligations to transmit the complaint to Congress.

Bakaj said that the ODNI’s office cited various reasons for the delay in intelligence sharing, including the complaints’ top secret classification, the fall government shutdown and the intelligence community inspector general’s failure to notify Gabbard of her reporting requirements.

Two attorneys and two former intelligence professionals who reviewed details of the incident and ensuing complaint shared with the Guardian have identified what they believe are a series of procedural anomalies that raise questions about Gabbard’s handling of national intelligence and the whistleblower disclosure, which was reported to the inspector general as a matter of “urgent concern”.

Members of the “gang of eight”, a group of Senate and House leaders privy to classified information from the executive branch, received a heavily redacted version for review on Tuesday night. They have disagreed about the legality of Gabbard’s conduct, as well as the credibility of the whistleblower complaint.

Two Republican lawmakers dismissed its credibility and backed Gabbard’s conduct, including the Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who said in a statement on X (https://x.com/SenTomCotton/status/2019389292343357681?s=20) that “the DNI took the necessary steps to ensure the material has handled and transmitted appropriately in accordance with law”.

But Democrats have raised questions about the delay. “The law is clear: when a whistleblower makes a complaint and wants to get it before Congress the agency has 21 days to relay it,” said the senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the senior Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, in a Thursday press conference. “This whistleblower complaint was issued in May. We didn’t receive it until February.”

Warner said that the months-long delay reflected an effort to “bury the complaint”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower

[Winehole23]

a security blanket?


Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees (https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-kristi-noem-employee-polygraph-tests-7249fc38?mod=article_inline) they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.


Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter. On at least one occasion, she asked aides to ensure she drew a bigger crowd at a conference than Homan, who was speaking on a different day, one of the people said.


Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.


In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.


The DHS spokeswoman didn’t address the episode but said the secretary has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chaos-kristi-noem-homeland-security-f095ac95?st=Bg9f76&reflink=desktopwebshare_permali

[Winehole23]

a security blanket?


Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees (https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dhs-kristi-noem-employee-polygraph-tests-7249fc38?mod=article_inline) they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.


Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter. On at least one occasion, she asked aides to ensure she drew a bigger crowd at a conference than Homan, who was speaking on a different day, one of the people said.


Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski have cut employees or put them on administrative leave. The pair have fired or demoted roughly 80% of the career ICE field leadership that was in place when they started.


In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.


The DHS spokeswoman didn’t address the episode but said the secretary has “made personnel decisions to deliver excellence.”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/chaos-kristi-noem-homeland-security-f095ac95?st=Bg9f76&reflink=desktopwebshare_permali

[Winehole23]

Homan and Scott clearly have knives out for Noem/Lewandowski

[Winehole23]

Corey Lewandowski running DHS without Senate confirmation ought to be the end of him and Noem both, but you know, there's zero accountability for Trump's special pets

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[velik_m]

Pam Bondi tried to steal a 4-year-old's dog

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The story has been told but bears repeating. Master Tank belonged to Steve and Dorreen Couture and their grandson, who was 4, recovering from the murder-suicide of his parents and losing his dog during the storm. Bondi said the dog was a ‘walking skeleton’ and ‘dying from heartworms’ when she adopted him. The Coutures eventually tracked down Master Tank, but instead of giving him back, Bondi hired a lawyer, who accused the Coutures of abusing the dog, which Bondi had renamed Noah. ‘She lied,’ Dorreen told a Palm Beach Post columnist years later. ‘My little grandson begged her to take the dog home, and she refused. She thought she would just wear us down. That we were unstable people and would just quit.’ The case was settled out of court, with Bondi securing visitation rights, but she never did visit. She got another dog.”
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https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/pam-bondi-stole-dog-21352565.php

[ChumpDumper]

I'm assuming the money shot is in the Patreon feed.

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https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2023860472026669400

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[Winehole23]

I know it’s naïve to even suggest comparisons anymore, but can you imagine the FBI director in any other administration taking a luxury jet overseas to party at the Olympics while presumed assassins are being shot at the president’s house.

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[ChumpDumper]

SERIOUS BUSINESS

[Winehole23]

Kash Patel delayed the FBI investigation of the Charlie Kirk murder by one day. Then he announced -- almost immediately and 100% erroneously -- that the suspect was in custody

The Trump administration is really bad at governing


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[Winehole23]

Kash Patel should resign, he's disgracing his office and his command

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[ChumpDumper]

WE ARE IN THE GOLDEN AGE.

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https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2027428889102880838

[Winehole23]

Noem once again guides public money to Strategy Group, which is owned by her spokesman's husband and at which her boyfriend Corey Lewandowski has worked

She did this in South Dakota too

Trump 2.0 is very corrupt

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-groupTillis and Kennedy raked Noem with questions today

Knives out in the Republican caucus

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[Winehole23]

Rubio still doesn't get the joke


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[Spurs Homer]

puppy killer removed...

maybe trump will appoint her and corey lewandowski somewhere else?

ICE K9 commander?

[Winehole23]

Markwayne Mullin?

:lol



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[Winehole23]

liberals killed Alex Pretti with their incivility and mean words


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[Winehole23]

Wednesday night, after a full day of coverage of Sen. MARKWAYNE MULLIN’s (R-Okla.) near-fisticuffs with a Teamsters leader — and his subsequent unapologetic victory lap of media appearances — we got an email from former Rep. DAVID TROTT (R-Mich.), who served with Mullin in the House: “My wife and I have a story about Senator Mullin if you’re interested.”


Consider our interest piqued.


We called up the former congressman, who told us about an AIPAC-sponsored trip to Israel in August 2015 that he remembered about 40 members attending, plus many spouses. Among those spouses was his wife, KATHLEEN “KAPPY” TROTT.


At this point, he handed the phone over to Kappy. She told us about the flight to Israel, which was hampered by layovers and delays. Though they were promised a quick shower in the hotel upon arriving, that schedule was revised on the fly: Instead, they’d immediately board buses to see an Iron Dome installation and a kibbutz.


“We were in the clothes we’d been wearing for like 24 hours,” Kappy says. “We get on this bus, and it’s a couple-hour bus ride and people were kind of leaning on their spouse’s shoulder and falling asleep. And this idiot starts walking up and down the bus with his camera and anyone who fell asleep, he would put his finger in their nose and take a picture.”


“I said [to myself, ‘If] that idiot comes near me when I fall asleep, I’m going to punch him,’” Kappy told us. “And I said to Dave: ‘This is a U.S. congressman?’”


That congressman? Markwayne Mullin.


“Some people were mad, and some people were laughing. There were a couple of women who were mad,” Kappy said. “You’re trying to fall asleep, somebody you don’t know has his finger … It was just middle school. And we were in Israel, and we’re going to go see the Iron Dome and go to a kibbutz. Just didn’t seem appropriate.”


They said that Mullin’s recent round of publicity jostled their memory. Contemporary press reports verify that Mullin was, in fact, on this 2015 trip to Israel.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/11/17/the-case-for-triangulation-on-immigration-00127765

[Winehole23]

allegedly, Noem was saying this in front of journalists who were getting text notifications that Noem had been fired

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"It reminded me of the quote that is often attribute to George Orwell that states, 'People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.'"

[Winehole23]

Kristi Noem misattributing a paraphrase of Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell really does sum it all up huhhttps://bsky.app/profile/alexshephard.bsky.social/post/3mgdjmpgg3c2b

[Winehole23]

spicy language from Sen. Ron Wyden


Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3mgdivc4oxs2n

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Now that she is fired, Kristi Noem will have more time to spend with someone else's husband.https://bsky.app/profile/mitchellepner.bsky.social/post/3mgdnlyo72k25

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WHITEHOUSE: Could you explain this?

NOEM: Sir, I’m looking at a picture of an interior. It looks like a bedroom.

WHITEHOUSE: Of an airplane.

NOEM: Yes, sir.

WHITEHOUSE: You’re not familiar with that?

NOEM: These photos are not accurate if you’re referring to the airplanes that the Department of Homeland Security has purchased and are purchasing. We’re using them for long-range command and control aircraft that is dictated in statute by Congress for the Department of Homeland Security to have a plane–

WHITEHOUSE: You did not use luxury jet with a bedroom in it?

NOEM: We used a 737. I’ve been on it once, but it is being used by other administration officials and it is used for command and control flights for the department. The department has found that in purchasing our aircraft, that we will save the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars–

WHITEHOUSE: Does it have a bedroom in it?

NOEM: –In fact, we spent $1.42 billion on ICE deportation flights last year.

WHITEHOUSE: Does it have a bedroom in it?

NOEM: I believe it’s being refurbished and not having a bedroom in it, so it is being refurbished.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/democrat-confronts-noem-luxury-jet-165752062.html

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(black lights were allegedly installed on Kristi Noem's luxury deportation jet)

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ICE released half-blind and mobility-impaired Nurul Amin Shah Alam in the dead of night in Buffalo, NY in subzero weather, without coordinating with advocates and next of kin, miles from his house

Nural Amin Shah Alam died


Jerry Nadler: Will you cooperate with the investigation of the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam?

Kristi Noem: "I don't conduct the investigations - "

Nadler: "I'll take that as a no."https://bsky.app/profile/craigbrittain.com/post/3mgao3m6k6k24

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President Donald Trump apparently has a bizarre obsession with Michael Jackson’s favorite men’s shoe brand and it’s becoming a problem for his inner circle.


The 79-year-old has reportedly sought to force his own aides to share in his obsession, buying up shoes from the Chicago-based brand Florsheim that his underlings are then expected to wear.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-aides-too-afraid-to-take-off-the-145-shoes-he-keeps-buying-them/

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You can just buy the right size of the same shoe from Amazon, Marco. It's not like Trump's going to know.

Jesus.

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Vance and Rubio


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“Vance lifted his leg in the air to show the president the pair he was wearing,” White House Correspondent Katie Rogers wrote at the time.https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-aides-too-afraid-to-take-off-the-145-shoes-he-keeps-buying-them/

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just resign, Kash

you're a f@cking joke


“I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar between the FBI and the UFC (https://deadline.com/tag/ufc/) at Quantico,” said Patel in a statement released today by the UFC. “This is a tremendous opportunity for our FBI agents to learn and train with some of the greatest athletes on earth — helping the world’s premier law enforcement agency be even better prepared to protect the American people.”https://deadline.com/2026/03/kash-patel-ufc-fighters-train-fbi-agents-1236750897/

[Winehole23]

the friggin FBI is the Make-A-Wish Foundation for Kash Patel


When Kash Patel said in one of his first video calls as FBI director that he wanted agents to train with UFC cage fighters, many officials thought he was joking. He wasn’t.htps://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ufc-fighters-to-hold-training-event-for-fbi-agents-75e9f2af

[Winehole23]

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“While South Africa welcomes active public diplomacy and the strengthening of bilateral ties, we emphasize that such engagements must remain consistent with established diplomatic etiquette and international protocols,” Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola told a press conference. “In this regard, we have called in the ambassador of the United States, Ambassador Bozell, to explain his undiplomatic remarks.”


Foreign ministry director-general Zane Dangor said Bozell met with South African officials and the ambassador “apologized and expressed regret.”
https://apnews.com/article/south-africa-ambassador-summon-trump-criticism-ff87a823e90b833fd8d4320bc3e7e248

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State and local public health officials have interviewed 3 ill people about food exposures of interest in this outbreak. All 3 people (100%) reported eating RAW FARM- brand raw cheddar cheese. State and local officials are working to gather additional data for the 4 other illnesses, including 2 illnesses that occurred in 2025. Epidemiologic evidence indicates that RAW FARM-brand raw cheddar cheese products made by RAW FARM, LLC are the likely source of this outbreak.


FDA has recommended that RAW FARM, LLC voluntarily remove their raw cheese products from the market, and the firm has declined.
https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/outbreak-investigation-e-coli-o157h7-raw-cheddar-cheese-march-2026

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RFK's vaccine panel illegally appointed, says judge



The appointment of a controversial slate of vaccine advisers by Robert F Kennedy Jr (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/robert-f-kennedy-jr) likely violated federal law, and all votes taken by the committee over the past year have been stayed, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

The advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) is not able to meet later this week, since its membership has been invalidated, the judge said. The meeting has been postponed, an HHS official said.

The unprecedented changes to routine US immunization recommendations in January, when health officials unilaterally changed one-third of the schedule, were “arbitrary and capricious” and were also blocked, the court found.
Judge Brian E Murphy ruled on a lawsuit brought by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) against the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

“This is a major victory,” said Richard Hughes IV, one of the lawyers representing the AAP.

When Kennedy fired all 17 members of the ACIP in June and replaced them with his own hand-picked advisers, many of whom have expressed anti-vaccine views, the health secretary likely violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), the judge found.

For that reason, the 13 appointments were stayed by the judge, essentially invalidating their role on the committee.

All votes made by those advisers are also invalidated, including decisions to ban thimerosal (thiomersal) from flu vaccines; ending the recommendation for the combination measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and chickenpox vaccine; and the end of the universal birth dose recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine.

“HHS looks forward to this judge’s decision being overturned just like his other attempts to keep the Trump administration (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) from governing,” said HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/judge-blocks-rfk-jr-vaccine-policy-changes

[Winehole23]

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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/escherichia-coli-o157-h7

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And a very high risk of cross contamination to other foods as it survives on surfaces for a very long time and appears to survive some disinfectionhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4270005/

[Winehole23]

actually argued the discretion of CDC to promote the spread of disease isn't judicially reviewable



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[Winehole23]

Kari Lake's appointment has already been ruled illegal, the court is now ordering Voice of America back to work

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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279211/gov.uscourts.dcd.279211.222.0.pd

h/t, @chrisgeidner (https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social)

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blatant graft alleged by prison contractor

his mistress, the former DHS Secretary, approved all contracts over 100,000


https://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Untitled-design-2026-02-12T223208-957.jpg

More than a year ago, The GEO Group founder George Zoley asked for a meeting with Corey Lewandowski, a close ally of President Donald Trump who had just started a powerful position as a top adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

As a titan of the private prison industry, GEO Group stood to benefit from Trump’s mass deportation agenda, which would require the federal government to spend tens of billions of dollars to transport, detain, monitor and deport undocumented immigrants. The company’s federal contracts in those areas already totaled more than $1 billion per year.

But Zoley and his advisers were worried that the road to securing new government contracts now ran through Lewandowski. The two had history: Lewandowski and Zoley had butted heads during the transition between Trump’s November 2024 election and his January 2025 inauguration, before Lewandowski officially worked for the government, according to two industry sources and one senior DHS official familiar with the matter.

During the transition, Lewandowski told Zoley that he wanted to be paid in exchange for protecting and growing GEO Group’s DHS contracts, according to a senior DHS official and three people familiar with their discussion. Zoley, concerned about the propriety of the ask, told Lewandowski he would have no part of it, the sources said, describing the confrontation as tense.

Lewandowski took a role as an unpaid “special government employee” at DHS once the new administration was sworn in, where he advised and acted as a “ (https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2025-09-05.garcia-to-dhs-re-lewandowski-financial-disclosure.pdf)de facto chief of staff” (https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/doc/2025-09-05.garcia-to-dhs-re-lewandowski-financial-disclosure.pdf) to Noem and, sources said, influenced contract awards. Zoley scrambled to find a way to assuage tensions from the meeting during the transition, two industry sources familiar with the matter said. He secured a follow-up with Lewandowski in late February or early March 2025.
That second meeting did not go much better.

Zoley offered to put Lewandowski on retainer — a recurring consulting fee — with GEO Group, according to two industry sources familiar with the matter.

Lewandowski balked, saying he wanted to be compensated based on the company’s new or renewed contracts with DHS, the two sources said.

“He wanted payments — what some people would call a success fee,” said a person with knowledge of the meeting.

Zoley declined, the two sources said. In the months that followed, the length of two of GEO Group’s federal contracts shrank, and currently several of its facilities that could house migrants sit idle, even as Congress and Trump have poured money into DHS to execute the mass deportation campaign. GEO Group officials believe that is tied to their not agreeing to Lewandowski’s solicitations, said a source familiar with the GEO Group officials’ thinking.

A senior DHS official told NBC News that within weeks of Lewandowski’s second meeting with Zoley, Lewandowski told him not to award more contracts to GEO Group. Lewandowski, through a spokesperson, denied that. Months later, in December 2025, GEO Group did receive a new contract for $121 million for services that help locate immigrants DHS is trying to find.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dhs-contractors-told-white-house-officials-asked-pay-corey-lewandowski-rcna263744

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Robert Malone steps down from CDC vaccine panel


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Robert Malone, an ideological ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is stepping away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee following a court ruling that effectively nullified the panel.https://rollcall.com/2026/03/24/cdc-vaccine-adviser-malone-steps-down-to-avoid-drama/

[Winehole23]

.

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"nomination imperilled"

MAHA is losing its rizz with Murkowski, Collins and Cassidy

CDC has been exposing the public to disease by withholding their honest services, tbh


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Wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means' nomination to be U.S. surgeon general is stalled a month after senators of both major political parties grilled her on vaccines and other health topics during a tense confirmation hearing, deepening doubts about her ability to secure the votes she needs for the role.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/casey-means-surgeon-general-nomination-is-stalled

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:lmao they haven't had a vote on this grifter yet?

[Winehole23]

this is the pic of Leavitt the White House leaned on AFP/Getty to scrub


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https://x.com/Daily_MailUS/status/2038981992142737650

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weirdos

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~an hour apart

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https://people.com/kristi-noem-devastated-husband-bryon-report-11938365

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https://people.com/kristi-noem-devastated-husband-bryon-report-11938365

Comment section closed after about an hour.

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FBI agents think their firings violated due process and civil service laws

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.290982/gov.uscourts.dcd.290982.1.0.pdf

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https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5978bfde14d01710f83e5cb5/master/w_2560%2Cc_limit/DC072617A.jpg


President Donald Trump has privately mused about firing his Attorney General Pam Bondi and replacing her with EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.


Frustrated by the backlash and anger in his base over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files (https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/politics/bondi-epstein-files-client-list-suicide-memo), Trump has asked people about replacing Bondi, who faces a deposition later this month (https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/politics/bondi-epstein-files-subpoena-oversight-committee) on Capitol Hill related to the congressional investigation into the late sex trafficker, the sources said. He has also fumed that she hasn’t investigated enough of his political opponents.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/pam-bondi-trump-discussed-ousting

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[Winehole23]

Kash Patel is also rumored to be on the chopping block


Several ​of the sources said Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's director of national intelligence, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are among those potentially on the chopping block, after Trump ousted Bondi and Homeland Security ⁠Secretary Kristi Noem in recent weeks.


Trump has in recent months expressed displeasure with Gabbard, said one senior White House official. Another source with direct knowledge of the matter said Trump had asked allies about their thoughts on potential replacements for ​his intelligence chief.


Some high-profile Trump allies, meanwhile, are privately pushing for the removal of Lutnick, a close personal friend of the president who has faced renewed scrutiny (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-justice-department-releases-new-cache-jeffrey-epstein-files-2026-01-30/) in recent months for his relationship with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-weighs-broader-cabinet-shake-up-iran-war-pressure-grows-2026-04-04/

[Winehole23]

knives out for Kash Patel

binge drinking and unexplained absences




Several officials told me that Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government. They said that he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication, in many cases at the private club Ned’s in Washington, D.C., while in the presence of White House and other administration staff. He is also known to drink to excess at the Poodle Room, in Las Vegas, where he frequently spends parts of his weekends. Early in his tenure, meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights, six current and former officials and others familiar with Patel’s schedule told me.


On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated, according to information supplied to Justice Department and White House officials. A request for “breaching equipment”—normally used by SWAT and hostage-rescue teams to quickly gain entry into buildings—was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors, according to multiple people familiar with the request.



Inside the FBI, which had been wounded by a number of scandals, many hoped that Patel could give the bureau a fresh start. But even many of those who had been enthusiastic about his arrival have since been disappointed. Officials said that Patel has been an irregular presence at FBI headquarters and in field offices, and that he has compounded the agency’s existing bureaucratic bottlenecks. Several current and former officials told me that Patel is often away or unreachable, delaying time-sensitive decisions needed to advance investigations. On several occasions, an official told me, Patel’s delays resulted in normally unflappable agents “losing their shit.”


Patel has publicly proclaimed that the FBI needs to demonstrate that it is “fierce,” and officials I spoke with said that he is fixated on that image in private as well. He recently expressed frustration with the look of FBI merchandise, complaining that it isn’t intimidating enough. Officials have grown accustomed to such behavior, and they have learned to roll their eyes at it. But they said that the absurdity masks real concerns about what Patel’s leadership has meant for an institution that the country relies on for national security and the safety of its citizens. “Part of me is glad he’s wasting his time on bullshit, because it’s less dangerous for rule of law, for the American public,” one official told me, “but it also means we don’t have a real functioning FBI director.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/kash-patel-fbi-director-drinking-absences/686839/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oRx

[Winehole23]

Sending in the SWAT team to breach Patel's bedroom door so he can make some sort of critical executive level decision while being some combination of drunk and stoned out of his mind seems like a recipe for success.

[Winehole23]

I'd love to see this play out in open court, it's great publicity for Kash Patel


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[Winehole23]

Kash Patel knows he's a clown, that's why he's so desperate to project fierceness


my theory with Kash is that he is smart enough to know that his girlfriend will leave him if he isn't providing her with a certain lifestyle and that the man he has bound himself to is a senile fascist who betrays everyone he ever works with, and that this is why his drinking has gotten worse.

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao

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https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/2045316339372265564

Kash Patel’s legal team may have just poured fuel on the fire by spelling out in detail the very allegations they’re trying to kill.

Lawyers for Patel fired off a cease-and-desist letter to The Atlantic demanding it scrap an upcoming story, while simultaneously laying out a string of explosive claims about the FBI director’s alleged behavior.

Among them are allegations that Patel was viewed as a “threat to public safety,” including concerns about how he would respond in the event of a domestic terror attack.

The letter also claims he once had his security detail shut down the FBI Association Store so he could shop alone, and complained that the merchandise “wasn’t intimidating enough.”

Those details, presented as claims his lawyers say are false, appear to go beyond what has been publicly reported, effectively putting them into circulation as part of the legal threat itself.

[Winehole23]

Boozed up Labor Secretary resigns

Hegseth and Patel should follow suit

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Chavez-DeRemer has been under scrutiny since January, when DOL Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito opened an investigation into allegations that she was involved in an extramarital affair with a member of her security detail, that she drank on the job and that top aides concocted official events to facilitate her personal travel plans.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/labor-secretary-lori-chavez-deremer-resigns-rcna266579

[Winehole23]

DeRemer got fired via tweet

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Family values.

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https://x.com/janecoaston/status/2046346198488060050

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this should be entertaining


FBI Director Kash Patel's libel lawsuit against the Atlantic was assigned to Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Clinton appointee in DC. Sullivan won few fans in the MAGA camp with his handling of the case against former DNI Michael Flynn. www.politico.com/news/2026/04... (https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/kash-patel-defamation-lawsuit-the-atlantic-00880802)


(https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/20/kash-patel-defamation-lawsuit-the-atlantic-00880802)

[Blake]

Family values.

2046346198488060050

https://x.com/janecoaston/status/2046346198488060050

I love the sign:
"Dancers
Lottery
Food"

[ChumpDumper]

Uh, why not a decade ago?

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https://x.com/atrupar/status/2046601357663064372

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https://x.com/atrupar/status/2046616549759295951

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anonymous sauces say

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The White House has indicated to Gabbard that they want her gone before the midterms, but the timing of her departure remains vague, according to two sources familiar with the discussions who spoke to Sherwood News in recent weeks.https://sherwood.news/power/whos-next-to-leave-the-trump-admin-following-chavez-deremers-departure/

[Blake]

anonymous sauces say

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https://sherwood.news/power/whos-next-to-leave-the-trump-admin-following-chavez-deremers-departure/

Lolllll

[Winehole23]

reportedly, Tulsi has not been allowed in the room for natsec meetings related to the war on Iran

[Winehole23]

:lmao

2045316339372265564

https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/2045316339372265564

Kash Patel’s legal team may have just poured fuel on the fire by spelling out in detail the very allegations they’re trying to kill.

Lawyers for Patel fired off a cease-and-desist letter to The Atlantic demanding it scrap an upcoming story, while simultaneously laying out a string of explosive claims about the FBI director’s alleged behavior.

Among them are allegations that Patel was viewed as a “threat to public safety,” including concerns about how he would respond in the event of a domestic terror attack.

The letter also claims he once had his security detail shut down the FBI Association Store so he could shop alone, and complained that the merchandise “wasn’t intimidating enough.”

Those details, presented as claims his lawyers say are false, appear to go beyond what has been publicly reported, effectively putting them into circulation as part of the legal threat itself."J. Edgar Boozer"

[Winehole23]

Kash Patel's defamation lawsuit against Frank Figliuzzi dismissed


A Houston federal court (https://www.txs.uscourts.gov/) judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2011606/gov.uscourts.txsd.2011606.1.0.pdf) by FBI Director Kash Patel (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/20/kash-patel-atlantic-lawsuit-alcohol-fbi.html) alleging that former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi (https://frankfigliuzzi.com/) defamed him by saying Patel last year had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of” the bureau’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.



“The Court finds that Figliuzzi’s statement is rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation,” U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr. wrote in his decision (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2011606/gov.uscourts.txsd.2011606.38.0.pdf). “Accordingly, Dir. Patel has failed to state a claim against Figliuzzi, and his lawsuit must be dismissed.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/kash-patel-fbi-defamation-lawsuit-figliuzzi-dismissed.html

[Winehole23]

hired straight out of grad school to a top counterterrorism job in DHS


Top Trump counterterrorism official placed on leave after ex claims she solicited funds from ‘sugar daddies’https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-trump-counterterrorism-official-placed-033831430.html

[Winehole23]

Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Steven Miller, comforting himself with a grope in a tense moment


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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

actually argued the discretion of CDC to promote the spread of disease isn't judicially reviewable

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[Winehole23]

reportedly, Tulsi has not been allowed in the room for natsec meetings related to the war on Iranhaving a DNI who's not allowed in the room in a Mideast war sounds fairly drastic, no?

[Winehole23]

(Steven Miller had two human shields)

[Winehole23]

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"nomination imperilled"

MAHA is losing its rizz with Murkowski, Collins and Cassidy

CDC has been exposing the public to disease by withholding their honest services, tbh

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/casey-means-surgeon-general-nomination-is-stalledCasey Means nomination withdrawn

Trump sucks at nomination

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/casey-means-surgeon-general-withdraw.html

[Winehole23]

third time is a charm

[Winehole23]

Aside from being a Fox News personality, Saphier is actually a practicing doctor (https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/doctors/nicole-saphier), which is a positive development. She is a graduate of the Ross University School of Medicine, which (https://www.shemmassianconsulting.com/blog/ross-university-school-of-medicine), according to the med-school admissions consulting firm Shemmassian Academic Consulting, is “considered one of the best medical schools in the Caribbean” and “appeals to many students with low stats who couldn’t get accepted to U.S. med schools.”https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/05/01/trump-nicole-saphier-surgeon-general-fox-news/89879532007/

[Winehole23]

RFK Jr. wants to take black kids away from their parents and send them to labor farms and wilderness camps

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5798733/rfk-jr-addiction-treatment-centers

[Winehole23]

Woke 1.0 was spot-on identifying the erstwhile tacit white supremacy of the GOP

Now it is explicit

[Winehole23]

putting the FBI seal on bottles of booze


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[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Kash Patel is wrecking his authority inside the FBI and hastening his own demise


FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the polygraphing of more than two dozen former and current members of his security detail, as well as other staff, and has been described as being in panic mode to save his job and find leakers among his team, according to two people briefed on the development.

Patel walled himself off from some senior bureau leaders this week after multiple media reports raised red flags about his leadership, according to three people familiar with his recent actions. Two of the people told MS NOW that the director ordered the polygraphing this week of former and current security detail members, as well as several information technology staff.

The director has also avoided meeting this week with some key operational leaders of the bureau, the people said, raising concerns inside the FBI about Patel’s ability to stay abreast of pressing threats and investigations in order to make the best decisions. ttps://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-ordered-polygraphs-of-more-than-two-dozen-members-of-his-team-sources-tell-ms-now

[Winehole23]

lol Kash polygraphing *his security staff*

[Winehole23]

also, lol wasting public resources on the director's bad press

loser sh!t

[Winehole23]

Trump is totally checked out

Who's making the decisions here?


Q: What's going on with Marty Makary?

TRUMP: Nothing much. He's fine.

Q: Are you going to fire him?

TRUMP: Uhhh. I've been reading about it, but I know nothing about it.

[Winehole23]

also abortion and vaccines


"Trump became frustrated with Makary for not moving fast enough to approve flavored vapes. Makary refused to authorize blueberry and mango vape flavors from LA manufacturer Glas, worried they would encourage youth vaping. After the pressure from Trump, he reversed course and authorized the flavors."https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/trump-planning-to-fire-fda-commissioner-marty-makary-34c072e2

[Winehole23]

Trump likes to keep incompetent people in his government even after they screw up royally


Trump nominated Kari Lake as U.S. ambassador to Jamaica. If confirmed, it will mark the end of a tumultuous tenure in charge of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America, in which she shrunk the agency while fighting its employees in court.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/11/kari-lake-jamaica-trump/

[ChumpDumper]

You Trumptards lost your fucking minds when Buttigieg took paternity leave.

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https://x.com/dlippman/status/2054260263944114187

[Blake]

RFK Jr. wants to take black kids away from their parents and send them to labor farms and wilderness camps

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5798733/rfk-jr-addiction-treatment-centers

Make American communities White again

[Blake]

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The little dollar sign for the letter S in Kash is the chef's kiss

[Winehole23]

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy Took A Corporate-Sponsored Family Road Trip. Taxpayers Paid His Salary The Whole Way.


Boeing, Toyota and Shell sent Duffy, a multimillionaire, and ten family members on multiple all-expenses-paid vacations while he draws a taxpayer-funded salary.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2026/05/13/heres-how-much-multimillionaire-transport-secretary-sean-duffy-got-paid-while-taking-a-corporate-america-sponsored-family-road-trip/

[Winehole23]

vapes and tanning beds for kids, RFK Jr insists


Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s (https://thehill.com/people/robert-f-kennedy-jr/)chief spokesperson resigned from the role on Wednesday, citing irreconcilable differences with an effort to advance e-cigarette flavors that could cause children to become addicted.


Rich Danker left his role as assistant secretary for public affairs a day after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary (https://thehill.com/people/marty-makary/)officially stepped down for the same reason.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5876725-kennedy-hhs-spokesperson-resigns-e-cigarette-flavors/

[Winehole23]

$50,000 in a CAVA bag, well-spent


Last year, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee wrote to White House border czar Tom Homan, raising concern thatVenturella's return to ICE to oversee (https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-08-25.raskin-jayapal-crockett-to-homan-dhs-re-geo-group_0.pdf)contracts that would go to companies like Geo Group, his previous employer, presented a conflict of interest. They also complained about Homan himself coming to the White House after being a paid consultant to Geo Group.https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/g-s1-121766/ice-acting-director-venturella

[Winehole23]

A federal ethics rule generally bars government employees from working on contracts awarded to their former employers for one year, but the Trump admin. granted him a waiver.

[Blake]

vapes and tanning beds for kids, RFK Jr insists

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5876725-kennedy-hhs-spokesperson-resigns-e-cigarette-flavors/

Would it surprise anyone if he included vaping in his upside down food pyramid at this point?

[Winehole23]

shadow president Russ Vought

w1LuV82l0vs

[Winehole23]

Jay Bhattacharya personally orders mandatory quarantine for one of 17 US citizens exposed to Ebola who refused to isolate at home

where my COVID truthers at?



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Markwayne Mullin wants to use TSA to squeeze airport security in and near large, sanctuary cities a few months before national elections

Nobody ever accused Markwayne Mullin of being a genius


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Last Wednesday, Mullin convened a small group of airline and travel-industry executives at DHS headquarters in Washington and told them he may reduce Customs and Border Protection staffing at major airports that serve sanctuary jurisdictions. Mullin told the executives the locations could include Portland International Airport, in Oregon; New York City–area airports such as John F. Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport; and Washington Dulles International Airport, according to two people with knowledge of the discussion who were not authorized to speak publicly. Mullin did not indicate when DHS would begin the pullback, but it would likely occur sometime after the United States finishes hosting the World Cup in July, the two people told me.



Travel executives are alarmed, and have told DHS that international travelers and cargo cannot be easily routed elsewhere, these people said. The disruption would cause chaos in major U.S. airports and inflict significant economic damage beyond the cities Mullin is seeking to pressure, executives have told the department. “The message was this is a real proposal that is being considered by the administration,” one of the people with knowledge of the meeting told me, calling the potential impact on the airline industry “devastating.”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/dhs-ice-sanctuary-cities-airports/687245/

[Winehole23]

Republicans continue to screw up everything

[Winehole23]

citing her husband's ill-health, Tulsi Gabbard resigns as DNI

[Winehole23]

fuckin weirdo


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[Blake]

citing her husband's ill-health, Tulsi Gabbard resigns as DNI

Uh huh

[Winehole23]

wow

new acting ODNI is real estate man Bill Pulte


* TRUMP: DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY, AND CHAIRMAN OF FANNIE MAE/FREDDIE MAC, WILL SERVE AS ACTING DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE.

[Winehole23]

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[ChumpDumper]

More evidence DNI shouldn't exist.

[Winehole23]

Romans putting a horse in the Senate territory

[Winehole23]

lolol


* THUNE, WHEN ASKED ABOUT PULTE: WE DON'T NEED A WEAPONIZED DNI

[Winehole23]

Trump's contempt for the law stands out again


Congressional statute:

"There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise."

50 U.S. Code § 3023

[Winehole23]

freaked about Ebola, laying the groundwork to fire RFK Jr.


Rubio tosses RFK Jr under the bus on vaccines: "The State Dept made the decision that we are going to reengage ... we have certainly allowed Sec. Kennedy to play a leading role, but right now we're at a stage where we are going to reengage."

[Yonivore]

Trump's contempt for the law stands out again
Too bad they failed to define "extensive national security expertise." Also, he's only been appointed Acting DNI. He maintains his current role of having, as the President explained, "...deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac..."

I guess we'll find out if he faces a the Senate in a confirmation hearing.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Too bad they failed to define "extensive national security expertise." Also, he's only been appointed Acting DNI. He maintains his current role of having, as the President explained, "...deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac..."

I guess we'll find out if he faces a the Senate in a confirmation hearing.do you think Bill Pulte is qualified, or you just take Trump's word that he is?

[Winehole23]

(in a vein with hiring decisions like this)

https://archive.ph/QNUr9

[ChumpDumper]

Too bad they failed to define "extensive national security expertise." Also, he's only been appointed Acting DNI. He maintains his current role of having, as the President explained, "...deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac..."

I guess we'll find out if he faces a the Senate in a confirmation hearing.

Oh look, yoni supports the dildo nepo baby guy.

[ChumpDumper]

Recipient of the coveted "Fucks Only the Young" award -- just two years ago.

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https://x.com/parismartineau/status/2061865805818548270
https://x.com/parismartineau/status/2061871358808576371

This completely tracks with yoni's support of pedophilia.

[ChumpDumper]

lol probably the first appointee who merited a content warning for a real video.

[Winehole23]

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another fun fact is that Pulte used to host meetups for fellow memestock fans and went through a period where he unironically wore a "bulletproof vest" to bars because he was concerned his Enemies would Stop Him

[ChumpDumper]

Not a female in sight tbh.

Not specified in his award either.

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Trump to nominate his personal defense lawyer for US Attorney General


Trump said at a dinner at the White House that he plans to nominate Blanche formally on Thursday, according to a video of the event posted on social media by a White House aide.

“We are going to make him permanent attorney general,” Trump said at the Rose Garden event.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/president-trump-will-nominate-todd-blanche-as-attorney-general/4112402/