Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 intelligence officers over messages in a chat tool
The discussions went beyond work to sexual themes and political messages.
Anyone interested in the real story here needs to read the Erin Reed article on this. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism-lgbtq-purges
This story isn't being covered well by the mainstream press. They've always tended to "both sides" trans issues, and here they're simply accepting fascist talking points at face value. What's really happening is that there was a chat group provided by the NSA to employees specifically to discuss trans-related issues. They have groups like this to support the needs of all sorts of demographic groups. The trans group, unsurprisingly, sometimes contained discussions of trans issues like surgery, hormones, etc. Fascists like Gabbard consider trans people to be pornographic for simply existing. A trans person walking down the street is pornographic to her. Any discussion of any of the realities of trans existence is considered elicit and pornographic to them.
This is actually part of Project 2025's explicitly stated plan to imprison and eventually exterminate the trans population. When people use the phrase "trans genocide," this is exactly what they're talking about. The goal has always been to define trans people as pornographic, to make trans people being in the presence of minors a sex offense. And they also wish to make sex offenses against children punishable by the death penalty.
That is what these people are for. That is what they believe. Unfortunately, the main stream media is ignorant, complicit, or both. They simply accept the framing that any discussion of trans people or their issues is "explicit," and they repeat fascist talking points without thought or criticism.
So for anyone who didn't want to read the long comment: they created a discussion group specifically for trans people to discuss trans issues... Then they used that information against them.
If you work for the government at all, DO NOT use any official/government-provided means of communication for anything other than work. Even if they tell you it's ok.
This is generally good advice if you work for anything but the smallest of companies.
If you don't directly answer to a C suite exec while being an individual contributer AND know and trust the (singular) IT person, the company is too big to trust with non work information.
Small addendum: As fascists often seek to indoctrinate the population into longing for a natural order only they (the fascists) can provide, a minority of relatively niche needs is the ideal target to demonstrate this supposed ‘nature’ in order to obtain the perceived moral right to structure society as they see fit. That science and society do not actually reflect this ‘nature’ is irrelevant. The enemy has been created.
Russian asset fires trans works because she's a bigoted piece of shit. There I corrected the headline.
Gabbard told Fox News the terminations were part of a wider effort to ferret out bad actors in the spy agencies
Would that include Russian assets? The call is coming from inside the house, Tulsi.
These lib conspiracy theories are (like any conspiracy) just a distraction from the actual problem (fascism, etc).
Seems like gaslighting, it's not exactly a consipacy theory when it's well documented with facts, just take a look for yourself, here is a quick example. But as I mentioned , look for yourself.
Hmm without seeing what was said it's hard to say if this was justified or not. Certainly some of the things mentioned would warrant at least a warning about using work tools for personal discussions, but some of the other examples given don't seem particularly problematic (except that the current administration has decided to launch a jihad against specific ideas and minority groups).
The transcripts included some political discussion, including a few people criticizing Gabbard and three people celebrating the death of televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson in 2023.
We can safely say this is a coup now.
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t celebrate the death of a televangelist.
Unfortunately it was justified. The messages were extremely explicit for a government collaboration chat
Most of it seemed to be just discussions of healthcare that are only defined as "explicit" because it's talking about the healthcare trans people need. It's just part of the long-running attempt to define trans people as porn. If you are trans, you are walking pornography to these people.
Remember, this was on a chat that was specifically set up, by the agency, to serve as a resource and information sharing section for trans and LGBT people. The employer told them to use it, and they did. Now the new administration, following the model of Florida and other shithole states, has decided that trans people by their nature are pornographic, and any discussion of trans issues is explicit.
And worst, they went through years of texts and found the most explicit messages they could. They leaked these texts to fascist hate mongers to stir shit up. Then they fired anyone who had ever posted on the chat. You could have gone on the company LGBT chat once, said, "Hi," and then never used it again. And you would be fired for it.
This is the Lavender Scare all over again. They are simply using the chats as a pretext to fire every trans person from the agency.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-new-mccarthyism-lgbtq-purges