Call Tonight + Classified Material Comments
Event Tonight — How We Can A Ruckus This Summer
Hello there! We’ve got a Shift the Country event tonight on Zoom (at 8 ET / 7 CT / 6 MT / 5 PT):
With everything happening in Tennessee, with the abortion pill, with guns, and with new state laws that hurt people, science, schools, libraries, etc., we need to build a sustained movement to shift the direction of this country. Shift the Country is going to help catalyze and build it. These events are the start.
We’ve got a small group signed up for tonight, but it would be great to get more folks involved — and same for events next week. Please help us get the word out and share them around.
Classified Materials Commentary — Our First Notes Thread
You may have read our overexcited, glowing post Monday about a new short-form social media platform also on Substack (like this post) — called Notes.
With that, you might be interested in the content of our first Notes thread, so I thought we’d send it out here too.
Check out the thread on Notes, or read it here:
🗣️ Hopefully the reporting & outrage about new leaked highly classified materials by an airman will re-emphasize the danger from Trump deliberately stealing & doing who-knows-what with highly classified materials. /1
While in this new case documents were shared on Discord with multiple people having access, Trump had 18 months to photograph, email, text, or otherwise send the classified materials he stole for money or just for adulation to US enemies. /2
Also FYI, lots of people with high clearances have access to a *lot* of classified info on what's basically a "high side" classified internet. It's not unusual, & you can have access to tons-of-stuff without a specific "need to know." /3
The government allows this because once you've been vetted & cleared, you are trusted to have the moral character to not go digging into classified stuff you shouldn't, & certainly not to pilfer & share it with uncleared people. /4
Also once you have a clearance, there's a ton of training on what's allowed & what's illegal. It's not confusing. This airman knew he was violating policy & law. Most people w/clearances take care not to violate these protocols & often are terrified of what would happen if they did. /5
Now we will watch the US government's response to this airman's stealing of classified materials versus Donald Trump's. Which person gets held to account faster? 🚔
/6 end. - Vanessa Burnett