How quickly this Signal scandal exploded is crazy. [View all]

Just for personal context, I've given up idle phone scrolling for Lent--meaning the only time I use the internet on my phone is to look something specific up or if I otherwise need to importantly use it. (I've found spending too much time on the phone can be addicting and distracting from the world around me, so that's the reason for the temporary break.)

Of course, I still access the internet via my PC while I'm working so generally I have a decent idea of what's going on in the country and the world despite limiting myself regarding my phone use.

But Monday morning I went away with my family for a mini-vacation through Wednesday. Didn't have access to my PC and I limited myself on the phone, so I was more or less blind to the outside world. We kept busy so I didn't watch much TV or news either.

I did see little bits and glimpses of something about a leak of military plans, which sounded pretty wild, but without greater context I had no idea of the entire story.

Finally, I came home yesterday, turned on the internet and the news and---BOOM.

It's a crazy, crazy story of ineptitude, or even worse.