👉🏼👉🏼👉🏼A #Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal between #Israel and #Hamas has been REACHED, one US official tells The Jerusalem Post

Excuse me??? Via Phang: Sen. Durbin offers to #Bondi #Trump’s call to the GA Sec. of State telling him to “find 11,780 votes” and she denies ever hearing the call & says that the quote is being taken out of context.

🧵 The #Hegseth hearing was so disturbing that I can't seem to shake off my anger and frankly, fear, hours after witnessing the flagrant misogyny, racism, bigotry, blind loyalty, self-righteousness, and stupidity coming out of the mouths of all those white Republican men. 1/...

Just... WaPo: #Trump said he will create a new “External Revenue Service” to collect revenue from #tariffs, a signal of his determination to impose sweeping duties on imports.

I just had, like, 6 "RiyadDeals" accounts follow me, one after the other. Blocked all, reported all. I'm sick of the bots here.

Emptywheel: Tim Sheehy leads #Hegseth through questions proving he can load a gun. Sheehy declares Hegseth qualified to run the entire military.

Phang: #Duckworth tells #Hegseth that he wants the Senate to lower its standards to confirm him simply because he’s buddies with #Trump.

I’ve never been so alarmed for the US. Ever. The Christo-fascism, the blatant racism and bigotry of #Hegseth hearing is beyond anything I can even express here. Sickening. Despicable. And this is only the beginning.

Joyce Vance: Sen. King patiently trying to get an answer from #Hegseth about whether he’ll rollback compliance with the Geneva Conventions: “We’re going to unleash warfighters to win wars” is the answer.

Griffin: Sen. Mazie Hirono asks Pete #Hegseth — several times — whether he would commit to resign as Secretary of Defense if he drinks on the job. Hegseth doesn't answer.