#BOOM... #MAGA outlet's #Pentagon correspondent criticized #PeteHegseth. And then she was #Fired....
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/media/gabrielle-cuccia-oan-pentagon-maga-fired-hegseth
#BOOM... #MAGA outlet's #Pentagon correspondent criticized #PeteHegseth. And then she was #Fired....
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/media/gabrielle-cuccia-oan-pentagon-maga-fired-hegseth
In particular, they have turned to one company: #Palantir, the #data analysis & #technology firm.
#Trump expanded Palantir’s work across the #FederalGovernment in recent months. The company has received >$113M in federal govt spending since Trump took office, acc/to public records, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts w/ #DHS & the #Pentagon. (Not including a $795M contract that the Dept of #Defense awarded the company last wk…)
“The #Pentagon has erased countless #photos, #videos & articles about these units from its websites — although quickly restoring some, like the #TuskegeeAirmen, in response to an outcry.
“This isn’t a side issue — it’s a direct assault on #truth & #legacy. It’s a denial of the sacrifices of generations of #BlackAmericans who fought & died for a country that did not always return the favor.
Once again Whiskey Leaks uses his drunk white nationalist privilege to get away with things others could not...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/hegseth-pentagon-leak-investigation-wiretap
The conflict within #PeteHegseth’s inner circle persists even after he purged several political appointees in April & attempts to portray a sense of unity among his remaining *brain trust*. His claims, however, are belied by continued behind-the-scenes #dysfunction, brought on by unresolved personality conflicts, #inexperience, vacancies in key #Pentagon leadership roles & a steady-state of #paranoia over what political crisis is next…
An enduring rift among #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth’s cadre of senior advisers has divided the #Pentagon’s front office & fueled internal speculation about his long-term viability in the #Cabinet post after several episodes that attracted White House scrutiny….
#NationalSecurity #MilitaryPreparedness #military
https://wapo.st/44WJV6m
When examining the GOP's homicidal class war budget reconciliation bill, I think it's crucial to also look at why this horrible Frankenstein's monster that now exceeds a thousand pages, is being stitched together in secret and released under the cover of darkness. The fact is Republican strategists know that voting to rob and murder labor class Americans to empower and enrich billionaire broligarch nazis, while legally enshrining a fascist administrative order over US life to defend these changes, is not going to be popular with the American people once they figure out what this bullshit mega-bill actually does. Furthermore, given that there's absolutely nothing subtle about the ways the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" transforms our society at a pen stroke, it is impossible for GOP politicians to lie and deflect their way through discussions about the bill; so they'd simply prefer you didn't know about all the awful shit inside it.
Fortunately however there are a lot of groups forensically dissecting the GOP's budget reconciliation bill, which may well be the worst piece of legislation I've ever seen the US House actually pass. Take for example recent analysis by Public Citizen showing that by forgoing the proposed increases to US military spending and ballooning funding for the Trump regime's objectively illegal and unconstitutional mass deportation program, the government could keep literally millions of labor class Americans (already being ground up by capitalism) from losing healthcare and food assistance through Medicaid and SNAP.
GOP Bill’s Militarized Funding Boost Could Instead Keep Millions on Medicaid
"According to a report released Thursday by Public Citizen, the reconciliation bill proposes a boost of over $163 billion to militarized spending, including funds for the Pentagon and for the Department of Homeland Security’s mass deportation campaign. This would bring the Pentagon’s yearly budget to over $1 trillion and triple the budget for mass immigration detention, the report says.
Further, this funding boost alone could more than fund Medicaid for nearly 14 million people at risk of losing their health care coverage under the reconciliation bill, as well as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, for 11 million who may lose food assistance under the bill.
Shifting funding away from these lifesaving programs and instead allocating it to militarization is effectively “trading life for death,” the report says.
“This reconciliation package is a direct redistribution of resources from struggling Americans to the Pentagon and militarization,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, report co-author and Program Director at the National Priorities Project, in a statement. “Protecting families from losing health care and going hungry is as simple as rejecting new spending on dangerous and unnecessary weapons and indiscriminate mass deportations.”
The purpose of producing reports like this one is to demonstrate that the Regime is actively choosing to prioritize militarization, violence, and white supremacy over the healthcare and food security of labor class Americans; if somehow massive tax cuts that benefit only the top 10% of Americans, and primarily enrich the literal top 1% of earners in the country, while stacking almost another four trillion (with a t) dollars onto the debt, didn't make the point abundantly clear - this should. Naturally, this kind of analysis is rarely going to be featured in corporate media which largely supports a trillion dollar pentagon budget, and funding for militarized policing (of a particular flavor), so it behooves Americans who're aware of this objectively fascist bullshit to share this information widely; hence, this post.
If we step back to examine the broader picture here however, it's difficult to ignore the message this entire bill sends about what these nazi sociopaths want for our collective future. This is a bill that signs the death certificate for thousands, if not millions of labor class Americans, in order to enrich and empower a ruling class that bought itself a fascist government to prosecute the final stages of a real-as-fuck Pig Empire class war; while actively funding and drastically increasing the Trump regime's ability to prosecute that homicidal agenda by force, both within and beyond American borders. As the planet turns to ash, our civil rights are eroded across the entire Pig Empire, and fascist movements identify an ever-expanding circle of "others" who must be targeted for elimination, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is an open signal by the ruling fascist party in America that they are preparing to wage, and win, that war immediately; and if the dystopian future they clearly envision for us is any indication, these nazis are playing for keeps.
Weniger Zugang für Reporter auch im US-Verteidigungsministerium
Nach dem Weißen Haus setzt auch das US-Verteidigungsministerium Journalisten strengere Regeln. Künftig dürfen diese nicht mehr ohne Begleitung ins Pentagon. Medienvertreter sprechen von einem Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit.
#Hegseth's Friday order also requires members of the #Pentagon #press corps to acknowledge a responsibility to protect national #intelligence & sensitive information, & says they will be issued with new credentials that more prominently identify them as members of the press.
"We also anticipate a forthcoming announcement of additional security measures & enhanced scrutiny on the issuance of (credentials)," the memo said.
Since #Trump returned to office, the #Pentagon has launched an investigation into #leaks that resulted in 3 ofcls being placed on leave [#Signalgate].
It has also required legacy media organizations, including the #NewYorkTimes, the #WashingtonPost, #CNN & #NBCNews, to vacate their Pentagon office spaces in a new *rotation system* that brought in others, including outlets generally friendly to the Trump admin such as the #NewYorkPost, #Breitbart, the #DailyCaller & #OANN.
"The decision is purportedly based on concerns about operational security. But the #Pentagon Press Corps has had access to non-secured, unclassified spaces in the Pentagon for decades, under Republican & Democratic administrations, including in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, without any concern about #OpSec from #DoD leadership," the stmnt said.
#Hegseth called the protection of #classified national #intelligence information & operational security "an unwavering imperative for the Department” [not in this admin].
The #Pentagon Press Association, a membership organization representing the interests of the #press corps covering the US #military, said the new rules appeared to be a "direct attack on the freedom of the press."
#Trump admin puts new limits on #reporters at #Pentagon
#Defense Sec #PeteHegseth on Friday issued orders that require #journalists to have ofcl escorts within much of the Pentagon bldg, the latest in a series of Trump admin restrictions placed on the #press.
The measures, which take effect immediately, bar credentialed reporters from most of the #DoD HQ in Arlington, VA, unless they have an official approval & escort.
#law #democracy #FreePress #authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-administration-puts-new-limits-reporters-pentagon-2025-05-24/
As part of a larger reshuffle of the Pentagon’s policy apparatus, the office dedicated to Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia affairs would be shifted under a separate office that handles Europe and NATO issues.
The Pentagon has formally accepted a $400mn luxury jumbo jet gifted by Qatar that will be used as the US president’s plane, despite bipartisan concerns about ethics and security.
https://www.ft.com/content/60fe2c70-fa40-4050-86da-8ccc1268a42e
If anybody is going to bring us to nuclear war it's these cultist Jonestown fucks.
#DoD accepts Boeing 747 from #Qatar for #Trump
#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth has accepted a *gifted* Boeing 747 from Qatar for Trump to use as #AirForceOne, the #Pentagon said Wed.
Pentagon spox Sean Parnell said the dept will “work to ensure proper security measures” on the aircraft to make it safe for use by Trump. He said the plane was accepted “in accordance with all federal rules & regulations.”[not w/o the approval of #Congress it wasn’t]
#law #emoluments #corrupt
https://apnews.com/article/trump-qatar-air-force-one-gift-plane-c4e1d73c3dbe18397c10e3d3d267bcd6
#Qatar’s plane has a luxurious interior, but considerable work would be needed to prep the plane to serve as #AirForceOne —including ridding the jet of any hidden electronic listening devices & adding advanced communications equipment & specialized systems to protect the plane from a missile attack or other threats. And even if the plane is donated, the cost of those retrofits would be enormous, acc/to current & fmr #Pentagon ofcls: at least $1 billion.