This is in no way, good news.
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 Three generals have been fired today.
Reports indicate they are being removed for refusing to put troops on the ground in Iran.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2039906808626659341?s=20
Hegseth’s firing of Gen. Randy George “reflects growing hostility between Hegseth and the Army’s leadership,” military officials told NYT
By Greg Jaffe, Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt
Reporting from WashingtonDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Gen. Randy George, the Army’s chief of staff, on Thursday, a move that reflects growing hostility between Mr. Hegseth and the Army’s leadership, military officials said.
General George, who was appointed to his position in 2023, led the Army out of one of its worst recruiting crises in history in 2024 and more recently has pushed the service to accelerate its acquisition of cheap drones and other kinds of weapons that have come to dominate the war in Ukraine.
The tension with Mr. Hegseth was not rooted in substantive differences over the direction of the Army, military officials said. Rather it is the product of Mr. Hegseth’s long-running grievances with the Army, battles over personnel and his troubled relationship with Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, the officials said.
Over the last year, General George and Mr. Driscoll had formed a tight partnership, officials said.
Mr. Hegseth has also clashed in recent months with General George and Mr. Driscoll over the defense secretary’s decision to block the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals.
Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consisted of 29 other officers, most of whom are white men. Mr. Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove the officers prompted some senior military officials to question whether they were being singled out because of their race or gender, officials said.
Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long records of exemplary service.
Two weeks ago, General George asked Mr. Hegseth to meet with him to discuss the removal of the four officers from the one-star list, as well as the general’s view that Mr. Hegseth was interfering unnecessarily in Army personnel decisions overall, the officials said. Mr. Hegseth refused to meet with General George about the matter, they said.
Last week, Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist who is close to Mr. Hegseth and President Trump, posted on social media that the defense secretary was “seriously considering” removing General George. Ms. Loomer has also repeatedly attacked Mr. Driscoll.
General George also had a close relationship with Lloyd J. Austin III, Mr. Hegseth’s predecessor and a former Army four-star general.
This was a very powerful explanation as to why this firing MATTERS.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡
@shanaka86JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.
Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.
George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.
The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.
No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.
A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.
The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.
The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.
Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
Hegseth purge of Black and women officers larger than previously reported“Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for MORE THAN A DOZEN Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.”
https://x.com/rgoodlaw/status/2039885095360745503?s=20
NBC News
@NBCNews
NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, some of whom are seen as having been targeted because of their race, gender or perceived affiliation with Biden administration policies or officials, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.
https://x.com/NBCNews/status/2039868459773808648?s=20
This is who we have as Secretary of Defense after starting a war:
Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw
The destructive Pete HegsethThe Defense Secretary was ‘surprised by the barrage of retaliatory attacks Tehran launched against U.S. and Israeli targets across the region, including in countries long assumed to be off-limits … Hegseth had pointed to Iran’s muted reaction to Trump’s past attacks as evidence that calibrated force could impose costs on Tehran without triggering a broader war. Hegseth “was caught off guard. There’s no question,” says a person familiar with his thinking.’
https://x.com/rgoodlaw/status/2039824818724290657?s=20
Thank you, General George. For understanding the service and merit should be rewarded.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
NEWSMAX: I wonder if you can respond to some breaking news we got a few moments ago that the Secretary of War has asked the Army Chief of Staff to step downREP. McCORMICK: That would be news to me. That would be very surprising. I’d look into it immediately, because Gen. George is a brilliant mind.
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2039814337582301458?s=20
Alex Cole
@acnewsitics
I bet those 3 generals who were fired today were refusing to put American troops in Iran.
10:39 PM · Apr 2, 2026
https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/2039910660331749396?s=20
James Surowiecki
@JamesSurowiecki
When you put an arrogant B- manager in charge of an organization, he’s going to fire all the top A people because he’s threatened by them and he doesn’t understand what makes them valuable.
https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/2039856603462004812?s=20
Suzie rizzio
@Suzierizzo1
Breaking News! VETERANS especially WOMEN this lady went to the VA & was asked for her VA card & also her DL this time & her names didn’t match because she got divorced 18 years ago so they said that the names have to match now.They’re implementing the SAVE ACT in the VA! WATCH!
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2041253076175036705?s=20
Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social
NEW: As President Donald Trump and his administration escalate threats to interfere in this year’s midterms, at least 11 states led by Democrats are taking steps to harden their elections against White House meddling. http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3miwiwyil722m
War Witch will hold this territory
@HRHTish
EXACTLY THIS.
Far leftists demand to be pandered to, then flounce into their corners to sit out elections or vote third party because nobody is pure enough for them.
To hell with all of them. They are not reachable and they don’t matter. Ignore them all. Don’t play.
https://x.com/HRHTish/status/2041320056567525793?s=20
Roshan Rai
@RoshanKrRaii
BREAKING : Absolute scenes at the UN 🔥
US 🇺🇸 Ambassador to the UN 🇺🇳 Mike Waltz brutally BOOED after he mentioned “ President Trump” in his speech.
People even started shouting things like“WAR CRIMINAL & MURDERER”
Mike Waltz looked visibly ashamed and embarrassed.
https://x.com/RoshanKrRaii/status/2041506684858994799?s=20
Ronan Farrow
@RonanFarrow
My 18-month investigation into Sam Altman and OpenAI in
@NewYorker
, with
@andrewmarantz
, is out now.
Read here: https://newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
Thread on a few of the key findings here:
https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041533182512648337?s=20
Queerhawk 🏳️🌈 | 🇺🇦 | 🇬🇱
@alwaysadorecats.bsky.social
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The people who voted for Trump should have voted differently, though.
They wanted to give him and his party power and that’s why he and his party have power. It’s a direct cause and effect.
https://bsky.app/profile/alwaysadorecats.bsky.social/post/3mivv4ihsv22d
This entire story just enrages me.
Maggie Mayhem
@maggiemayhem.bsky.social
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Today I learned that one should ask a hospital where a loved one is being treated in an *ICU* if they will be monitored and treated by on-site care providers or through remote telehealth. This fatal dystopian story is about Yale New Haven Health.
lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/no-o…
https://bsky.app/profile/maggiemayhem.bsky.social/post/3mirxwtstoc2v
Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social
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Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.
Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3mivtna2rsq2i
James Fallows
@jfallows.bsky.social
This is already an indelible stain on our national history, culture, consciousness, influence, standing
And EVERY SINGLE member of the group that could STOP THIS immediately—the Republican members of the House and Senate—stands there in the dock of history’s judgment, like quislings of other eras
https://bsky.app/profile/jfallows.bsky.social/post/3mivvbgbhqs2f
SO GLAD that people went and found receipts on this woman.
Folks will be held accountable for their 2024 actions.
Rania Khalek
@RaniaKhalek
Why is there no one in the U.S. government stepping up to stop this insanity?
The president of the US is openly threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people, saying “a whole civilization will die tonight.”
No mass resignations and the opposition party is absent. What sick death cult.
Unbelievably and shockingly dangerous.
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https://x.com/RaniaKhalek/status/2041498995265048718?s=20
Centrism Fan Acct 🔹
@Wilson__Valdez
This is what YOU wanted. You guys got the exact outcome that you helped make happen. You wanted the Dems to be owned, so you could send them a message…well this is what the practical effects of that ‘message’ looks like.
The Dems have no power and Republicans control the entire govt. That’s why no one is ‘stepping up to stop this.’
You helped make it happen. Congrats on your election victory!
https://x.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/2041513155788935544?s=20
Saint Javelin
@saintjavelin
Bloomberg just dropped the Orbán tapes and it reads like a bad fanfic.
Hungary’s prime minister spent a phone call with Putin calling him a “lion,” casting himself as the helpful little “mouse,” offering Budapest as a venue to end the war on Russia’s terms, and closing with “I am at your service.”
https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/2041453181637382360?s=20
FactPost
@factpostnews
Fox: A pound of beef is now more expensive than the minimum wage. The minimum wage hasn’t changed in 17 years. It’s $7.25. Ground beef today is $8.34 a pound.
https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2041525745520926854?s=20
Why MAGA is still obsessed with Obama…
Or why water is wet
https://youtu.be/tGvuJd9utII?si=yCEJd_MlvQNvarWe
Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
So, if I got that right, here’s the narrative:
– A US F-15E fighter jet got shot down over Iran, despite Trump saying 2 days beforehand in his nationwide address that Iran has “no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated.” (https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-transcript-address-iran-war-b5970011fe934dde84d95d650bda56a9)
– The plane’s weapons systems officer – a “highly respected Colonel,” according to Trump – ejected from the plane and got “seriously wounded” (still according to Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116351956955900185)
– He still managed to “hike up a 7,000-foot [2.1km] mountain ridgeline and hide in a crevice” in the Zagros Mountains, despite his wounds (https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/-safe-and-sound-how-a-u-s-airman-shot-down-in-iran-was-rescued-from-a-mountain-crevice/)
– U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones started killing all “Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of [the American’s location]” (https://x.com/ByChrisGordon/status/2040652578539602101?s=20)
– To retrieve him the U.S. managed to seize an “abandoned airport,” 200 miles deep inside Iran, near Isfahan (https://bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vpz1kwreo), which happens to be where Iran’s largest atomic scientific center is located (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isfahan_Nuclear_Technology/Research_Center)
– They landed two MC-130 military transport planes in that airport (https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s-rescues-downed-f-15e-wso-deep-inside-iran/) in an operation involving “hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel” (https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/-safe-and-sound-how-a-u-s-airman-shot-down-in-iran-was-rescued-from-a-mountain-crevice/)
– Both MC-130 planes got “stuck in the sand” and the U.S. destroyed them themselves “to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands” (https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s-rescues-downed-f-15e-wso-deep-inside-iran/)
– They deployed “three new aircraft to extract all the U.S. personnel” on the ground (https://theaviationist.com/2026/04/05/u-s-rescues-downed-f-15e-wso-deep-inside-iran/)
– There are videos circulating online of “heavy clashes” with presumably Iranian missiles raining down in Kohgiluyeh County, in the Zagros Mountains during that night (https://x.com/Afshin_Ismaeli/status/2040596489412518323?s=20)
– Meanwhile a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, also crashed on Friday near the Strait of Hormuz according to two U.S. officials speaking to the NYT (https://nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump-oil?smid=url-share#47863db0-d61e-51bf-b7e1-6c4a9dc988e7). In that instance too the lone pilot was apparently “safely rescued.”
– In all this, after the multiple planes and helicopters destroyed or shot down, the documented heavy clashes, the “hundreds of special forces troops and military personnel” operating deep inside Iran, not a single US soldier was reported killed “or even wounded” (according to Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842).
– And the ‘highly respected Colonel’ this was all for? No name. No photo. No interview. Nobody has spoken to him nor knows who he is.
So to sum up: anti-aircraft equipment that supposedly didn’t exist shot down an F-15 (and, apparently, an A-10 Warthog the same day). A seriously wounded man climbed a 2.1km mountain. The US seized an airfield 200 miles inside a country it’s at war with, next to one of its most strategic nuclear sites, and deployed hundreds of troops all apparently unimpeded. Lost two planes to “sand” and destroyed their own helicopters. Videos show heavy clashes, missiles raining down – but not a single person got “even wounded”. And the man at the center of it all? Nobody knows who he is, completely anonymous, zero pictures, but Trump says he is “SAFE and SOUND.” And so is the rescued A-10 Warthog pilot, who also remains anonymous.
Trump concludes this all proves the US has “achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies” (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116350133044957842), despite the whole episode only happening because Iran shot his planes out of the sky.
Basically, the only thing that’s “overwhelming” here is the audacity of the storytelling…
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2040995918192005310?s=20
another grift.
another muthaphuckin’ grift
Talking Points Memo
@TPM
The only way to released from immigration detention is paying bond in full. Under Trump II, the amounts that people have to come up with have skyrocketed, with judges setting bonds as high as $80,000.
https://x.com/TPM/status/2041109917281476920?s=20
Suzie rizzio
@Suzierizzo1
The Secretary of State’s voter purge in Louisiana is way worse than anyone imagined because they have already purged over 500,000 voters & put them on the inactive list so the deadline is April 15th therefore you need to go get it fixed before then at your Parish in person only.
https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/2040648515202760903?s=20
Don Salmon
@dijoni
Dr. King America always take one step forward towards equality for African-Americans and then take two step backward. We have always have white backlash against progressive protection for African-American.
https://x.com/dijoni/status/2040667269706227937?s=20
Magdi Jacobs
@magi_jay
For the 1st time in 10 years, Democrats have finally gained some power over the psychopathic-election-sabotaging faction of the online “Left” & we did it by telling them they do not matter. I’ve never seen them act this way before. They keep ranting but the deflation is palpable.
10:47 AM · Apr 6, 2026
https://x.com/magi_jay/status/2041181039486271586?s=20
Amichai Stein
@AmichaiStein1
🚨🚨 NEW DETAILS: A source close to Ukrainian intelligence told The Jerusalem Post Russia gave Iran a list of the 55 most important Israel’s energy infrastructure. More details on the info transferred, and Russia ambassador in Israel response – in the story.
https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/2041223518625345987?s=20
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
We are about to see Trump’s promise to find and imprison whoever leaked the info about the second pilot vanish into the ether. It came from the Israeli government:
Ryan Grim
@ryangrim
As
@AmitSegal
just acknowledged on his Telegram channel, he was the first to publish details about the missing second airman. Segal is an Israeli journalist known for his immediate proximity to Netanyahu.
Trump has threatened to jail the journalist who first reported on the missing airman in order to force him to confess the identity of his source. Segal does not appear concerned.
https://x.com/ryangrim/status/2041223638142054517?s=20
MeidasTouch
@meidastouch.com
At this point, you don’t even have to look at a calendar. You can tell the day of the week by following the news. Once a fake story about Trump being “close to a deal” drops, you know it’s Sunday and the futures markets are opening soon. When Iran responds and says it’s BS, you know it’s Monday.
10:42 AM · Apr 6, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3mitm3esvbc2c
Hala Ayala 🪷
@HalaAyala
Virginia early voting for the redistricting referendum is exceeding the turnout seen in the 2025 governor’s race! 🔥
https://x.com/HalaAyala/status/2041201302944797145?s=20
Trita Parsi
@tparsi
Disgraceful!
The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran’s best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering.
It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov
And Trump just bombed it…
https://x.com/tparsi/status/2041000496916222129?s=20
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