Reposted by Rosemont QueenSocial Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 27/03/2025A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap? 674228496285
Reposted by Rosemont QueenGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Some things never change 5925783
Reposted by Rosemont QueenMary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison 93105472240
Reposted by Rosemont Queen𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Benghazi this shit. Make this Senate investigation last months and drag them in for questioning every day. 516225824514
Reposted by Rosemont QueenJulie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025In Feb, a Pentagon agency issued guidance that Signal is "NOT approved to process or store nonpublic unclassified information (e.g. Protected, FOUO, CUI, etc.). Any use or application must abide by DoD and NSA/CSS policy." The Sec. of Defense violated that guidance. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...open.substack.comWeeks Ago, the NSA Warned of Russian Attempts to Compromise SignalLast month, the National Security Agency issued an unclassified bulletin titled Signal Vulnerability. 30971347
Reposted by Rosemont Queen💙💙💙💙Blue wave resistance💙💙💙💙 @eliminatethegop.bsky.social · 27/03/2025It gets worse. This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration. 093
Reposted by Rosemont QueenHannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025a bunch of government goons from ICE/HSI showed up to an elementary school in DC this morning and tried to detain a staff member in the parking lot but the person's colleagues intervened and stopped it and let that be a reminder to all of us that we can do that 373366943
Reposted by Rosemont QueenJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The more they lie, obfuscate and deny the glaringly obvious facts, the more I suspect they’re trying to protect the signal chats we haven’t seen yet. 557188303801
Reposted by Rosemont QueenRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/03/2025From Fox’s Chief National Security reporter. Who can’t seem to get any airtime lately. For some reason. 377169725389
Reposted by Rosemont Queenluna @imlunahey.com · 27/03/2025we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”. 510196493938
Reposted by Rosemont QueenMiddle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025ABC News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CBS News: "An unthinkable breach of national security." MSNBC: "An unthinkable breach of national security." CNN: "An unthinkable breach of national security." Fox News: "We've all texted the wrong person before." 793318538888
Reposted by Rosemont QueenAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025The first rule of Trumpism is to never apologize or admit wrongdoing. That’s why he’s not firing anyone or even entertaining the idea anybody around him did something wrong. 1286277244930
Reposted by Rosemont QueenBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025"That’s why the CIA guards don’t allow cell phones, or even Fitbits, into their buildings. Which brings us back to Bill Murray’s question: Why was the director of the CIA using a cell phone at CIA headquarters?" www.spytalk.co/p/signalgate...spytalk.coSignalGate: Did CIA Boss Ratcliffe Use a Cell Phone in Headquarters?And why were these clowns texting secrets on Signal at all? 424140224324
Reposted by Rosemont QueenChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/03/2025This will make you smile because, lord knows, we need it right now. 269126623037
Reposted by Rosemont QueenJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025“The 5 things Pete Hegseth did last week” - Shared classified attack plans on an unsecured commercial chat application. - Denied doing it. - Denied the plans were classified. - Denied the plans were plans. - Attacked the journalist who proved he was lying. 797264787633
Reposted by Rosemont QueenCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us. 7553590710986
Reposted by Rosemont QueenBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else. 1842269878932
Reposted by Rosemont QueenPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that. 16196427920384
Reposted by Rosemont QueenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 19825602321196
Reposted by Rosemont QueenBen Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford 26284663514651
Reposted by Rosemont QueenArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Democratic House Rep. Jared Moskowitz using Pete Hegseth's emojis in his letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson to form a select committee to investigate the Signal group chat texts is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 500180164147
Reposted by Rosemont QueenWIRED @wired.com · 26/03/2025SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.wired.comMike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List PublicA WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it. 1021246768605
Reposted by Rosemont QueenMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I just read this Variety hit job in which it's clear that Disney is trying to pin the failure of Snow White on Rachel Zegler. I'm confused: Did she make the studio spend $270 million on an unasked-for remake of a 90-year-old piece of IP? 1644991669
Reposted by Rosemont QueenTim Smedley @timsmedley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025For American readers, this is from one of the UK's leading right-wing newspapers today. The game is up. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2...telegraph.co.ukIt’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free worldAccidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence 36289222863
Reposted by Rosemont QueenAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism. 658210418328
Reposted by Rosemont QueenBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like. 484199027357
Reposted by Rosemont QueenNPR @npr.org · 26/03/2025DOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases.npr.orgDOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say whyDOGE staffers have skirted privacy laws, training and security protocols to gain virtually unfettered access to financial and personal information stored in siloed government databases. 1842243863
Reposted by Rosemont QueenRick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I'm really really sick of the orange turd's clown show! 47295934407
Reposted by Rosemont Queenian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 26/03/2025billboard outside atlanta, brought to you by the canadian govt. 693135622
Reposted by Rosemont QueenAndrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 26/03/2025In a nutshell: — The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence. — The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information. Arrest them. Immediately. 305121483613
Reposted by Rosemont QueenThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat? 1621345678561
Reposted by Rosemont QueenBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate: “There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.” 704347547085
Reposted by Rosemont QueenNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/03/2025This is very, very simple. Hegseth sent precise details on the timing of the attack BEFORE it happened. There is no universe in which this is not classified information. They lied. They all lied. 25951260
Reposted by Rosemont QueenThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know 3474549710019
Reposted by Rosemont QueenChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time. 18263624716129
Reposted by Rosemont QueenRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 26/03/2025The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials. I worked at the Pentagon. If information like this is not classified, nothing is. If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so. 273116943371
Reposted by Rosemont QueenPete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops. 22857132014999
Reposted by Rosemont QueenAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Crockett: Free speech is not about whatever it is that you all want somebody to say. And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that isn’t Fox News is bullshit 252123702730
Reposted by Rosemont Queen✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025In case it gets lost in the onslaught of news, today PBS and NPR are defending themselves before Congress. If you’ve never seen this clip of Mr. Rogers advocating for PBS funding, I urge you to watch the full ~6 minutes. It’s incredibly powerful. Here’s to the helpers, indeed. #MomSky 🕊️🕊️🕊️youtu.beMay 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on CommunicationsYouTube video by Road Less Marveled 8831841131
Reposted by Rosemont QueenAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate. 544196278135
Reposted by Rosemont QueenAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Just in case anyone was wondering, every bit of this was classified. Lot of perjury in those hearings yesterday. 579134183596
Reposted by Rosemont QueenMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/03/2025As more information is revealed, it is clear that the cover-up is even worse than the crime. Every single person involved has no business being involved in our government. At minimum, there should be resignations. And prosecutions. 1359428339924
Reposted by Rosemont QueenKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit. 924216524694
Reposted by Rosemont QueenJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements. 447257317433