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[ti-amie]

Dry I trust you on this subject. It's a disgrace that in 2025 you typed the phrase "Under existing law, for those who observe and respect it..."

There is no being dramatic on this subject.

[ti-amie]

Lots of stories like this popping up now.

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[ti-amie]

Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance 'immediately,' may face demotion in retirement
Milley has had a security detail since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani
By Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News

EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is "immediately pulling" retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.

The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to "undermine the chain of command" during President Donald Trump's first term, officials say.

The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army's Marshall Corridor on the third floor honoring his service as chief-of-staff of the Army. Fox is told the removal of this second portrait will take place as soon as tonight. This means there will be no more portraits of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.

The first portrait of Gen. Milley, from his time as the U.S. military's top officer, was removed from the Pentagon last week on Inauguration Day less than two hours after President Trump was sworn into office.

The now retired Gen. Milley and other former senior Trump aides had been assigned personal security details ever since Iran vowed revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in 2020 ordered by Trump in his first term.

On "Fox News Sunday," the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton said he hoped President Trump would "revisit" the decision to pull the protective security details from John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook who previously served under Trump.

Asked why these actions were being taken, a senior administration official who requested anonymity replied, "There is a new era of accountability in the Defense Department under President Trump's leadership—and that's exactly what the American people expect."

Gen. Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023 under both Presidents Trump and Biden.

He served as the Army's chief of staff, the service's top officer, from 2015-2019.

In his new book "War," Bob Woodward writes Gen. Milley told him at a reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. on March 6, 2023, that he believed Trump was "fascist to the core!"

Gen. Milley was still serving in uniform as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when he reportedly made the remark.

Woodward wrote that Gen. Milley, "shared with me his worries about Trump's mental stability and control of nuclear weapons," in a previous book.

When the leader of ISIS was killed in a daring raid carried out by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria in October 2019, President Trump praised Milley.

"I want to thank General Mark Milley and our Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I also want to thank our professionals who work in other agencies of the United States government and were critical to the mission’s unbelievable success."

Before leaving office, President Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Milley.

In their book, "Peril," Bob Woodward and Robert Costa wrote that Gen. Milley called his Chinese counterpart on two occasions in the final months of Trump's first term, warning him the U.S. military had no plans to strike China in a bid to avert tensions between nuclear-armed countries.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white- ... retirement

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Chuck Schumer
‪@schumer.senate.gov‬

Senators’ phones have been ringing off the hook with nonstop calls from hospitals, police departments, volunteer firefighters, food pantries, drug treatment centers, on and on and on.
January 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Americans are in panic mode trying to figure out how Trump’s lawless, destructive, cruel order to halt virtually all federal assistance affects them.

If a Senator is going to say they’re getting no calls, then they’re just out of touch because it affects almost everything.

If Trump doesn’t rescind it, Congress must act.(Sorry Chuck this ain't gonna happen)

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‪Seth Abramson‬ ‪@sethabramson.bsky.social‬

During the campaign, Elon Musk promised a voluntary-retirement program for federal workers that would pay them for 2 years.

The plan just came out and—no surprise—he was lying. It’s 9 months of pay maximum.

Elon. Will. Always. Lie.

Believe anything he says and you’re the fool.

[Owendonovan]

I'm not sure what we do about it. My first instinct is to get in the best shape possible. (tough when you're rehabbing a knee)

[ti-amie]

[Owendonovan]

Can't say.

[Suliso]

I feel he'll overreach and 2026 will be a great election for Democrats again. That's in two years, though.

[ponchi101]

I am in Colorado at the moment. Been able to talk to some people, some of them republicans.
Not one single person has told me s/he likes Trump. But they simply could not go for the DEMS agenda. They say the dems simply make no sense.
"How about Trump? Does he make sense to you?"
Nope, they say. But he does a bit more than the dems.

I usually stop the conversation there, because it reminds me so much of Chavez '98. They simply could not see how much lying he did.

[Suliso]

Which part of DEMS agenda are they particularly upset about?

[dryrunguy]

The NY Times is reporting the Trump Administration has lifted the freeze of federal grants and loans. A federal judge had already blocked it.

[ti-amie]

Which part of DEMS agenda are they particularly upset about?

I'd like to ask the same question.

[dryrunguy]

Inclusivity and medical care for transpeople is a big sticking point for a lot of voters, including "liberal" ones.

Anything "woke"/DEI or anything even remotely perceived as anti-whiteness.

The price of eggs and 9 million other things that contribute to rapidly disappearing paychecks. In Pennsylvania, Trump actually ran ads featuring nothing but Kamala Harris speaking about the high price of ground beef and other items during a speech.

And then there were the ads about Bob Casey supporting allowing "men" to play in girls sports, which has never been a thing. Biological "boys", yes. Men? Never. At least not that I know of. But far too many people lack even an ounce of media literacy.

I underestimated how damning those ads were--until the day after election day.