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The government’s Signal leak is a national security nightmare, but the memes are great

Mashable Tech

airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, and then the airstrikes took place. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg called "the highest level of fuckup imaginable," online posters rolled up their sleeves and got to work. They made a callback to the JD Vance big head memes. Yet, in response to what former U.S.

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The Democrats’ X account is starting to get spicy. It’s about time.

Fast Company Tech

On Sunday afternoon, the official X account for the Democrats responded to news that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly had a second Signal group chat about missile strikes in Yemen by demanding that Hegseth be removed from his role. This game of attention and power unfolds online 24/7, with the deck stacked in Trumps favor.

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‘Signalgate’ has turned a string of patriotic emoji into a meme that will live in infamy

Fast Company Tech

The fiasco known as Signalgate introduced what may already be the most infamous group chat in American history, inspiring a flood of memes across all social media realms and unveiling a string of patriotic emoji that now holds a permanent smirking perch in the public lexicon.

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