U.S. President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" lawyer pushed a U.S. intelligence agency to look for evidence of voter fraud pertaining to the 2020 presidential race, sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/12/world/politics/trump-lawyer-voter-fraud-us-intelligence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #republicans #fraud #tulsigabbard
U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard has said she wound down a controversial task force she launched last year with the declared goal of rooting out politicization from intelligence agencies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/world/politics/trump-spy-gabbard-intelligence-force/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #tulsigabbard #espionage #us #donaldtrump #republicans
bhaugen
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As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.
MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor
"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
/17
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter
As Jennifer Rubin explains, the reason Trump's ratcheting up the diversionary fits — the FBI raid in Georgia, arresting Don Lemon, etc. — even as he refuses de-escalation in Minnesota is that he's caught between a rock and a hard place.
MAGA is driven by theocratic fury fed by white supremacy. MAGA wants the assaults on immigrants.
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
/18
https://newrepublic.com/article/205923/trump-gop-panic-ice-grows-maga-goes-off-rails-race-traitor
"(As this newsletter was being finalized Thursday evening, Trump did a gaggle where he admitted there is no draw down in Minnesota, telling reporters he’s not pulling back and 'nothing is going to change.')"
#Trump #StephenMiller #TomHoman #Minnesota #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #WhiteSupremacy
/16
"The actual physical seizure of a state’s voting materials was a Rubicon we hoped Trump would not dare cross. But here we are, and it’s only January."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation
/17
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theyre-seizing-the-ballots-and-voter
Approval numbers are plummeting, he feels checked with ICE and Minnesota (though he refuses to de-escalate). Queue wild diversions, from raiding an election office, resurrecting lies about the 2020 election being stolen, advancing Tulsi Gabbard as the new face while Kristi Noem is shoved to the side, arresting Don Lemon.
As Peter Rothpletz says,
"A floundering Donald Trump gaslights on overdrive."
#Trump #lies #misinformation. #ICE #violence #authoritarianism
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"Donald Trump is enormously dangerous. And we would be fools to look at a small rhetorical retreat from the horrors of his armed occupation in Minneapolis as a victory that will last."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #AlexPretti #ICE #Minnesota #lies #disinformation #gaslighting #violence #BigLie #TulsiGabbard #DonLemon #FultonCounty
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/congress-clawing-back-ice-funding
Alex Akselrod
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#Senate #Democrats renewed their request for more info about the strikes in a [strongly worded] letter on Friday to Secy of State #MarcoRubio, DNI #TulsiGabbard & #Hegseth.
"We also request that you provide all legal opinions related to these strikes & a list of the groups or other entities the President has deemed targetable," the senators wrote.
#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Autocracy #MafiaState
#US lawmakers have been repeatedly
rebuffed by the White House in their demand that the #Trump admin release more info about the legal justification for the strikes as well as greater details about which cartels have been targeted & the individuals killed.
#Hegseth in his posting announcing the latest strike said "narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home" & the Defense Dept "will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda."
#Senate #Democrats renewed their request for more info about the strikes in a [strongly worded] letter on Friday to Secy of State #MarcoRubio, DNI #TulsiGabbard & #Hegseth.
"We also request that you provide all legal opinions related to these strikes & a list of the groups or other entities the President has deemed targetable," the senators wrote.
#Trump #criminal #law #murder #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #Constitution #Congress #WarPowers #AbuseOfPower #Autocracy #MafiaState
#UkraineWar, Day 1,275: #Zelensky Highlights #Russia "Massive Attacks"
https://eaworldview.com/2025/08/ukraine-war-zelensky-highlights-russias-massive-attacks/
"Informed sources": US Director of National Intelligence #TulsiGabbard bans sharing of information about talks between #Russia and #Ukraine with Five Eyes allies of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK
July 20 directive classifies all information related to the negotiation process as "NOFORN"
The U.K. has agreed to drop its mandate for iPhone-maker Apple to provide a "backdoor" enabling access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/19/tech/us-gabbard-uk-backdoor-apple/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #us #uk #apple #tulsigabbard #iphone
"How John Durham Buried Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of Russian Spies … and then Tulsi Gabbard Buried More"
"Durham — as well as John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel — should have recognized they were pursuing an investigation of Hillary Clinton based off a deliberate Russian spy hoax."
"Durham (who continued his investigation for two more years after he would have concluded the emails were “composites”)"
from @emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/05/19/john-durhams-lies-with-metadata/
der.hans
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Trump set up his aides to fk each other over. It started with #TulsiGabbard screwing over Radcliffe & goes from there.
As Marcy says "They are stepping on each other's dicks trying to please the liege."
Listen live to @emptywheel explain NOW (Started at 3pm ET - 4:ish)
https://www.youtube.com/live/HY14oXfvtf0?si=S0HX8ClXX-RoBKZg or later at nicolesandler.com
@GottaLaff @lolgop
#uspol
Trump set up his aides to fk each other over. It started with #TulsiGabbard screwing over Radcliffe & goes from there.
As Marcy says "They are stepping on each other's dicks trying to please the liege."
Listen live to @emptywheel explain NOW (Started at 3pm ET - 4:ish)
https://www.youtube.com/live/HY14oXfvtf0?si=S0HX8ClXX-RoBKZg or later at nicolesandler.com
@GottaLaff @lolgop
#uspol
der.hans
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Wait so which one is the coup that #TulsiGabbard was talking about?
Wait so which one is the coup that #TulsiGabbard was talking about?
'There Is No Intel': #Trump's Attacks on #Iran Were Based on Vibes, Sources Say
Following Trump's attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, "The intelligence assessments have not really changed"
After Trump's decision to strike 3 Iranian #nuclear facilities on Sat, admin ofcls are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented—& potentially calamitous—attacks were motivated by new #intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
Just months ago, Trump's Director of National Intelligence #TulsiGabbard testified to #Congress, in her opening statement, that the US intel community "continues to assess that #Iran is not building a #nuclear weapon" & had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
While #Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard's testimony, acc/to 2 admin ofcls with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, Trump's decision to strike was not driven by any new US #intelligence on Iran.