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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Noboa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Noboa</span></a> has said <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ecuador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecuador</span></a> will not receive deported migrants of other nationalities but that it will always welcome citizens, &amp; he criticized Venezuela's president for briefly rejecting flights of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States.</p><p>Noboa has also announced a "strategic alliance" w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> - a prominent <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> supporter &amp; founder of private <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> firm <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> - to take on crime &amp; narcoterrorism in the country of 17 million.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> also met w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ecuador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecuador</span></a>’s Pres Daniel <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Noboa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Noboa</span></a> in FL on Sat.</p><p>Noboa &amp; his wife also attended Trump's inauguration.</p><p>Ecuadorean ofcls… are interested in hosting a US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> base &amp; have expressed interest in a bilateral free trade deal like those for Colombia &amp; Peru.</p><p>The son of one of Ecuador's richest businessmen, Noboa has used state of emergency declarations to deploy the military on the streets &amp; in prisons, implemented harsher sentencing &amp; cheered the arrests of gang leaders.</p>
Nonilex<p>The first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> admin characterized <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> as the greatest threat to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> &amp; postured the force to prepare for &amp; deter conflict in the Pacific region. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>’s guidance is extraordinary in its description of the potential invasion of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> as the exclusive animating scenario that must be prioritized over other potential dangers—reorienting the vast US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> architecture toward the Indo-Pacific region beyond homeland defense.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leak</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The document — setting out a prioritization framework for senior <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> officials &amp; a vision to execute that work — also instructs the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> to take a more direct role in countering illegal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DrugTrafficking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrugTrafficking</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leak</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SecDef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecDef</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a> has reoriented the US <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> to prioritize deterring <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>’s seizure of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> &amp; shoring up homeland <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a> by “assuming risk” in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> &amp; other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a>, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/leak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>leak</span></a></p>
Jason Beets<p>From NBC News, "Trump White House has asked US military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say" </p><p>"Potential plans range from partnering more closesly with Panamanian security forces to a less likely option of US troops seizing the canal by force, US officials told NBC News." </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-white-house-asked-us-military-develop-options-panama-canal-offic-rcna195994" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/national-</span><span class="invisible">security/trump-white-house-asked-us-military-develop-options-panama-canal-offic-rcna195994</span></a></p><p>32/x</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Panama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panama</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PanamaCanal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PanamaCanal</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Canal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canal</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Military</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/KingTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KingTrump</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>United States and Lithuanian authorities are struggling to recover four missing U.S. soldiers who went missing three days ago. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@euronews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>euronews</span></a></span> has more.<br><a href="https://flip.it/EEBP6p" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/EEBP6p</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Lithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuania</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Military</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Army" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Army</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>During the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> admin, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> military &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> had both started to treat <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> in the Arctic as a matter of real <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> concern. Whether that will continue under <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is an open question [is it?]. Even as Trump has tried to erase US-govt action on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, when he talks about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a>, he’s tacitly acknowledging that rising temperatures are rapidly changing that part of the world—&amp; US interests there.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USexpansionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USexpansionism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HillaryClinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HillaryClinton</span></a> NYT OpEd<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftArticle</span></a> </p><p>It’s not the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/hypocrisy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrisy</span></a> that bothers me; it’s the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/stupidity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stupidity</span></a>. We’re all shocked—shocked!—that Pres Trump &amp; his team don’t actually care about protecting <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/classified" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classified</span></a> info or federal record retention laws. But we knew that already. What’s much worse is that top <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin ofcls put our troops in jeopardy by sharing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> plans on a commercial messaging app &amp; unwittingly invited a journalist….That’s dangerous. And it’s just dumb.<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/trump-hegseth-signal-chat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.YDTF.6jDHlFATvf_h&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/trump-hegseth-signal-chat.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U4.YDTF.6jDHlFATvf_h&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare</span></a></p>
Global Threads<p>🇩🇪 GERMANY<br>🔴 Debates Rise Over Bringing Back Conscription</p><p> 🔸 Berlin considers reviving mandatory service as troop targets rise to 203K by 2031.<br> 🔸 Bundeswehr lacks infrastructure, trainers, &amp; systems for conscription.<br> 🔸 58% of Germans support it, but 61% of youth (18–29) oppose.</p><p> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bundeswehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bundeswehr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Military</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conscription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conscription</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Defense</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“Any evidence that such service over the past 4 years harmed any of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a>'s inarguably critical aims would be front &amp; center. But there is none.”</p><p>“…The Court therefore enjoins the Military Ban &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> Policy on a nationwide basis.</p><p>“…Absent an injunction, all <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> service members are likely to suffer the irreparable harm of losing the military service career they have chosen, while otherwise qualified accession plaintiffs will lose the opportunity to serve.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“The govt's arguments are not persuasive, &amp; it is not an especially close question…. The govt's unrelenting reliance on deference to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> judgment is unjustified in the absence of any evidence supporting 'the military's' new judgment reflected in the [<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a>] Military Ban—in its equally considered &amp; unquestionable judgment, that very same military had only the week before permitted active-duty plaintiffs (&amp; some thousands of others) to serve openly.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigotry</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Another federal judge, this time from the US Dist Court for the Western District Of Washington at Tacoma, barred the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> from enforcing the ban on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> service members.<br>“all defendants ARE PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED, pending further order of this Court, from implementing the Military Ban….This includes the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> Policy… &amp; all other memoranda, guidance, policies, or actions issued or forthcoming implementing the Military Ban or the Hegseth Policy.”<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a><br><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.344431/gov.uscourts.wawd.344431.103.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.wawd.344431/gov.uscourts.wawd.344431.103.0.pdf</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>United States Court of Appeals for DC ordered the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a> not to take action against any <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> servicemembers while a judge's order blocking <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> / <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>'s ban is appealed.</p><p>“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/bigotry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigotry</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69800554/01208724672/nicolas-talbott-v-usa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">courtlistener.com/docket/69800</span><span class="invisible">554/01208724672/nicolas-talbott-v-usa/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“It’s so beyond what I would expect from anyone in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a>,” said Commander Kuldau, who also flew combat missions in the Middle East. “The idea that the secretary of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>defense</span></a>, who should know better, has done this, is just mind-boggling.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>A fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AirForce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirForce</span></a> fighter pilot, Maj Anthony Bourke, added: “When you disclose operational security, people can get killed.” He said that “these things are not taken lightly. I have never met anybody in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> who does not know this.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoxNews</span></a> weekend host, served as a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalGuard</span></a> infantryman.</p><p>Cmdr Parker Kuldau, a fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Navy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Navy</span></a> F/A18 pilot, called Hegseth’s disclosures, &amp; subsequent response to them, “infuriating.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Wednesday, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> called his disclosure a “team update” to “provide updates in real time, general updates in real time” to keep <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> ofcls informed.</p><p>But details of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> operations are usually kept so secret that even the service members taking part in them are “locked down.” That sometimes means they are not allowed to speak to others who do not have a need to know, let alone tell people about the plans, the fighter pilots interviewed said.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> added:</p><p>“1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME).”</p><p>This text was two hours in advance of the strikes.</p><p>“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package).”</p><p>And then, “1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts — also first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”</p><p>That text gave almost three hours’ notice.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But then came <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a>’s initial response to the disclosures. He attacked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JeffreyGoldberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JeffreyGoldberg</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a> editor, as a “so-called journalist,” &amp; sought refuge in a semantic argument, saying that he had never disclosed “war plans.”</p><p>So on Wed, The Atlantic published the actual text of what he had written.</p><p>Hegseth texted at 11:44AM the day of the attack: “1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”</p><p>30 minutes before it happened.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>He &amp; other pilots said that each day since Mon, when <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheAtlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheAtlantic</span></a> published an article about the chat disclosures, had brought a stunning new revelation. First came the news that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hegseth</span></a> had put the operational sequencing, or flight schedules, for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Houthi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Houthi</span></a> militia in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yemen</span></a> on March 15 in the unclassified <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> group chat, which included several other snr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> ofcls.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SignalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignalGate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>military</span></a></p>