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Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

In his press conference today, Pete Hegseth "used the deaths of U.S. military personnel to air his own grievances with the press," @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

Another data point for "everyone in this administration is twelve"

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

The third is what the IDF does sometimes because they're murderous shitheads, but contra a bunch of dumb reporting the US doesn't

The second example probably didn't occur here, but absent other info two hits occurring at different times isn't sufficient to distinguish between one and three

Unlike in Gaza, I don’t think the IDF hit a school on purpose. Obviously they’re not above it, but in this case it simply doesn’t align with their goals of regime collapse.

so there's a couple things that are getting conflated here

- two deliberate strikes against the same target that are temporally distinct for temporal/routing (for standoff weapon) reasons - not a war crime if the target is legal

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

636 British dead in Iraq and Afghanistan you fuck.

I want to say this delicately, but if you can’t see and hear the Corky St. Clair in this, I can’t help you.

We simply cannot allow these fucking morons to act like they're the ones who truly love this country. They don't take matters of life and deaths seriously. They aren't patriots--they're the most selfish people on the planet.

00s-era China levels of corruption but without the occasional anti-corruption drive or death sentence

Iran should send this guy a medal

A Kuwaiti F-18 could do the funniest thing right now

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

Secretary Marco Rubio claimed no one died as a result of cuts to USAID. That’s not what we found.

After Trump officials cut food aid to Kenya, children starved to death in an American-made hunger crisis.

(Published Dec. 2025)

They hate us for our freedoms

“You’re gonna get tired of winning so much”

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

“My God, 3x friendly PPLI? The Iranians must have hacked Link 16. Well, not on my watch. Fox 3, 3-ship!!”

10/10 No notes.

This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Hamdi Mohamud’s Case Against St. Paul Officer Who Framed Her - Institute for Justice Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by the Institute for Justice (IJ) on behalf of Hamdi Mohamud. The petition asked the […]

A St. Paul police officer fabricated a massive sex trafficking case and had multiple people locked up under false charges. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a ruling that she can't be sued by her victims. She appears to still be employed by the St. Paul PD. ij.org/press-releas...

The cheap shot at Zelensky is still the most evil, outrageous part.

Popular term in his search history.

It’s called a “LEAKER,” you fucking incompetent weekend-backup-news-host fuck.

If you’re gonna pretend to be an operator, get your brevity right, you grease-coiffed grifter.

He’s wrong, because he’s an idiot. the term is “leaker”

US intel did not suggest a preemptive strike from Iran before US-Israeli attacks, AP sources say Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike against the U.S.

Looks like some very senior admin officials lied brazenly to journalists. "Trump administration officials told congressional staff in private briefings Sunday that U.S. intelligence did not suggest Iran was preparing to launch a preemptive strike"
apnews.com/article/iran...

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

"Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first." www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...