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Military affairs reporter with The Washington Post. State-school alum. Beer-league softball enthusiast. Dog guy. Signal for encrypted tips: danlamothe.30
What. A. Game.
02.11.2025 03:40 β π 37 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Each and every one is an exclusive
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The @washingtonpost.com in just the last day:
31.10.2025 18:53 β π 6 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1Gettysburg arrived in the Caribbean yesterday from Norfolk, VA.
USS Fort Lauderdale was in the Caribbean, but is now in port in Mayport, FL.
The Ford carrier group is still in the Mediterranean and was ordered west last week:
USS Gerald R. Ford
USS Mahan
USS Winston S. Churchill
USS Bainbridge
As of today, the following U.S. Navy warships are in the Caribbean:
USS Iwo Jima
USS San Antonio
USS Stockdale
USS Jason Dunham
USS Gravely
USS Lake Erie
USS Wichita
USS Gettysburg
There's also the MV Ocean Trader, a special operations vessel, and the USS Newport News, a submarine.
I remain reachable on Signal at danlamothe.30
01.10.2025 18:26 β π 52 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has arrived in Israel, official says. Visit had been anticipated this week.
31.10.2025 11:31 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1U.S. military officials with Southern Command are making plans to deploy an assessment team to Jamaica, I'm told.
State Department has received a formal request for assistance from the Jamaican government, and also is beginning to deploy a disaster response team and search-and-rescue squads.
Hurricane Melissa collides with U.S. military mission in Caribbean
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Just an absolutely incredible game of baseball tonight
28.10.2025 03:57 β π 62 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
βIf it chooses to keep the naval force focused on Venezuela rather than disaster response, it would certainly show how the administration wants to exercise its defense priorities.β
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President Donald Trumpβs military campaign against drug cartels in Latin America could soon collide with a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean Sea, as Hurricane Melissa bears down on Jamaica with a fleet of U.S. military ships deployed nearby.
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A catastrophic forecast for Hurricane Melissa with a lot of U.S. military assets already in the Caribbean.
Will the Trump administration assist regional neighbors? To what degree?
It's not lost on me that even when we scoop stories like this through good reporting despite a slew of road blocks, there are questions like this.
24.10.2025 19:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has restored but downgraded the Pentagonβs Office of Net Assessment, the independent, internal think tank focused on future wars, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the matter.
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Infowars is joining the Pentagon press corps:
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Media in the Pentagon. Marines on I-5. The military and politics.
Touched on all those things with @rieckhoff.bsky.social on his latest podcast episode:
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The Pentagon press corps has walked out. The briefings have stopped. And the most powerful military in the world is being wielded in ways few Americans understand. Washington Post national security reporter Dan Lamothe returns to break down an unprecedented crisis of transparency inside the DoD.
23.10.2025 13:11 β π 12 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1
Who's joining the Pentagon press corps after most of us departed the building last week due to new restrictions?
Gateway Pundit, Human Events, and other right-wing sites, mostly.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
In which the Pentagon continues to clamp down on communication of all kinds while falsely claiming increased transparency.
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Significantly *more* live artillery rounds were launched over Interstate 5 during Fridayβs rehearsal, defense officials said, with one estimating the number at 30.
20.10.2025 23:44 β π 32 π 18 π¬ 1 π 0
NEW: Marines launch investigation of errant live-fire blast over Californiaβs I-5
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In a WaPo article by @danlamothe.bsky.social & @taracopp.bsky.social, there's this:
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NEW TODAY: A deep dive on Tim Parlatore, Pete Hegsethβs longtime personal attorney.
He has a key role in Hegsethβs efforts to restrict news reporting in the Pentagon, and a history that includes defending alleged mobsters, accused war criminals, and President Donald Trump.
wapo.st/4h8hTsC
Turned in the badge today.
My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues.
Danlamothe.30
NEW TODAY: A deep dive on Tim Parlatore, Pete Hegsethβs longtime personal attorney.
He has a key role in Hegsethβs efforts to restrict news reporting in the Pentagon, and a history that includes defending alleged mobsters, accused war criminals, and President Donald Trump.
wapo.st/4h8hTsC
Turned in the badge today.
My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues.
Danlamothe.30
Not signing Pete Hegsethβs new media restrictions at the Pentagon:
Washington Post
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
CNN
AP
NPR
The Atlantic
Washington Times
Washington Examiner
Newsmax
There are others.
Signing:
OANN.
End of list, at least so far.
I'm not signing, and neither are my colleagues.
But the work continues.
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