Every single person on that chat needs to be fired. They all knew that it was inappropriate/illegal. Not to mention that it is also illegal to erase federal records - and the chat was programmed to do that (probably why they were using it in the first place).
Also, Trump claims he didn't know...Lying (most likely) - or completely out of control. Both can be possible. He should be impeached.
If states can serve as laboratories of democracy, they can also function as laboratories of autocracy, as David Pepper argues. Some states are more resistant to change than others for the people who live within them. Wisconsin, with its deep-rooted progressive tradition, remains one of those states where that tradition can ultimately be tapped into.
As for the Signal chat, I have no comment. One can just hope this actually tracks and doesn’t just become another crazy disaster that gets normalized by the flood of cruelty, incompetence, and ineptitude.
My election denier gop rep’s staff were not happy to hear from me on the subject this morning. I hope everyone with gop congress members keeps the pressure on demanding accountability and consequences.
Crawford's win is also essential to show that musk can't break the rules and buy another election. He continues to be as brazen and lawless as ever from his powerful perch as unelected co-president. He actually hosted a livestream with his paid for maga candidate schimel and maga senator ron johnson. The stakes couldn't be higher.
I think some of the coverage of the Wisconsin judicial election is just sanewashing what is a failure of electoral politics and evidence of democracy's failure in the US.
Electoral politics has failed if only one side is committed to ensuring free and fair elections - you can't just rely on the site promoting fair elections to always win in Wisconsin.
Electoral politics relies too on the rule of law - that is, there being one set of rules, guided by principles and rules, that doesn't often change. That a judicial election changes so much in the interpretation of law shows there is no rule of law.
Is Wisconsin (or even the US) a democracy if it doesn't have free and fair elections or the rule of law?
I try really, really hard not to make too many comparisons to Germany in the 1930s, but this screams out for an exception: "But [Schumer's] remarks show that Democrats themselves, and others who are not Trump allies, feel cowed by and uncertain about how to handle Trump’s win, and that they are looking for signs that he is weakening."
What would Schumer, the Dems, and those "others who are not Trump allies" have done when Hitler was made chancellor of Germany in 1933? Wait for signs he was weakening?
Given that Hegseth claims they are not war plans and Ratcliffe claims the CIA operative named is not covert (but works at the WH) seems that Goldberg should just call their bluff and release the entire thread and let us all see what was discussed. They're already completely dismissing this, Trump on down, so why not? Also, lost in all of this is the fact that they're handling these discussions on Signal with the conversations set to delete after a set period of time. Is the entire administration running things this way, off books? Meaning we'll never see discussions on dismantling the agencies, firings, any of it?
To understand how the Republicans engineered their takeover of Wisconsin, read the book, "The Fall of Wisconsin." It's a lesson for other states and also for the country. Some of the same tactics have been used in Indiana where I live. What Republican voters, even before MAGA, don't understand is that gerrymandering, for a Republican, means representatives who does not have to be responsive to the people in their districts because they do not have to work for re-election.
I made a donation to Susan Crawford's campaign this weekend. Republicans usually flood the airwaves with false advertising in the days leading up to the election.
As for the text message scandal, for it is a scandal, MAGA mouthpieces are attempting to spin a major security leak into a "these things happen." They will probably find some low-level person to use as scapegoat; indeed, there may be someone they want to push out, and this will give them the opportunity.
One other question: Why was the Secretary of the Treasury on these texts?
Wisconsin - one Senator, the moral and promise ignoring Ron Johnson - faces being bought by Elon Musk … whose sheer participation should bring a landslide negative vote.
Someone pointed out on BlueSky that controlling a state's supreme court makes it more likely that that state will put Trump on the ballot for 3rd term as president. I agree; another reason Musk is spending millions of dollars there.
Every single person on that chat needs to be fired. They all knew that it was inappropriate/illegal. Not to mention that it is also illegal to erase federal records - and the chat was programmed to do that (probably why they were using it in the first place).
Also, Trump claims he didn't know...Lying (most likely) - or completely out of control. Both can be possible. He should be impeached.
If states can serve as laboratories of democracy, they can also function as laboratories of autocracy, as David Pepper argues. Some states are more resistant to change than others for the people who live within them. Wisconsin, with its deep-rooted progressive tradition, remains one of those states where that tradition can ultimately be tapped into.
As for the Signal chat, I have no comment. One can just hope this actually tracks and doesn’t just become another crazy disaster that gets normalized by the flood of cruelty, incompetence, and ineptitude.
Nothing about Musk’s hundred dollar offer to voters for their contact information?
Good catch, I added a mention of that
This is what reporting looks like. Thank you, Aaron and Noah.
My election denier gop rep’s staff were not happy to hear from me on the subject this morning. I hope everyone with gop congress members keeps the pressure on demanding accountability and consequences.
Crawford's win is also essential to show that musk can't break the rules and buy another election. He continues to be as brazen and lawless as ever from his powerful perch as unelected co-president. He actually hosted a livestream with his paid for maga candidate schimel and maga senator ron johnson. The stakes couldn't be higher.
Hard to believe being personally and visibly tied to Musk could work in their favor…
I think some of the coverage of the Wisconsin judicial election is just sanewashing what is a failure of electoral politics and evidence of democracy's failure in the US.
Electoral politics has failed if only one side is committed to ensuring free and fair elections - you can't just rely on the site promoting fair elections to always win in Wisconsin.
Electoral politics relies too on the rule of law - that is, there being one set of rules, guided by principles and rules, that doesn't often change. That a judicial election changes so much in the interpretation of law shows there is no rule of law.
Is Wisconsin (or even the US) a democracy if it doesn't have free and fair elections or the rule of law?
I can't help but wonder how the rank and file military intelligence types feel about that group chat.
I try really, really hard not to make too many comparisons to Germany in the 1930s, but this screams out for an exception: "But [Schumer's] remarks show that Democrats themselves, and others who are not Trump allies, feel cowed by and uncertain about how to handle Trump’s win, and that they are looking for signs that he is weakening."
What would Schumer, the Dems, and those "others who are not Trump allies" have done when Hitler was made chancellor of Germany in 1933? Wait for signs he was weakening?
Given that Hegseth claims they are not war plans and Ratcliffe claims the CIA operative named is not covert (but works at the WH) seems that Goldberg should just call their bluff and release the entire thread and let us all see what was discussed. They're already completely dismissing this, Trump on down, so why not? Also, lost in all of this is the fact that they're handling these discussions on Signal with the conversations set to delete after a set period of time. Is the entire administration running things this way, off books? Meaning we'll never see discussions on dismantling the agencies, firings, any of it?
To understand how the Republicans engineered their takeover of Wisconsin, read the book, "The Fall of Wisconsin." It's a lesson for other states and also for the country. Some of the same tactics have been used in Indiana where I live. What Republican voters, even before MAGA, don't understand is that gerrymandering, for a Republican, means representatives who does not have to be responsive to the people in their districts because they do not have to work for re-election.
I made a donation to Susan Crawford's campaign this weekend. Republicans usually flood the airwaves with false advertising in the days leading up to the election.
As for the text message scandal, for it is a scandal, MAGA mouthpieces are attempting to spin a major security leak into a "these things happen." They will probably find some low-level person to use as scapegoat; indeed, there may be someone they want to push out, and this will give them the opportunity.
One other question: Why was the Secretary of the Treasury on these texts?
Wisconsin - one Senator, the moral and promise ignoring Ron Johnson - faces being bought by Elon Musk … whose sheer participation should bring a landslide negative vote.
Someone pointed out on BlueSky that controlling a state's supreme court makes it more likely that that state will put Trump on the ballot for 3rd term as president. I agree; another reason Musk is spending millions of dollars there.