A Court Just Called Pete Hegseth’s Trans Troop Ban a Cover Story
A federal court ruled Pete Hegseth's transgender military ban is likely unconstitutional and built on animus. The judge quoted Groucho Marx. Hegseth answered with four words.
The Pentagon Is Lying About Dead Americans While Writing Legal Cover to Kill Iranian Civilians
The Pentagon has three casualty counts. None of them are the same. I’ve been staring at two documents from the Pentagon and I keep coming back to the same question: are they bad at counting, or are they lying? The Intercept published a piece this week showing that CENTCOM’s official casualty count for the Iran…
Altman Proposes Taxing Robots While Selling Them to the Pentagon
The company that dropped its ethics lost to the one that kept them People think I’m a cheerleader for AI. I would say that I’m not a cheerleader for anything. I just want to look at issues logically. AI is not good or bad - it’s just a tool - used by people - who…
The CIA Director’s Grandson Summoned the Pope’s Envoy - and Many at the Vatican Heard a Threat
The Pentagon invoked a medieval hostage crisis to silence the pope So, the Pentagon summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to a meeting in January and it went about as well as you’d expect. Elbridge Colby - he’s the Under Secretary of War for Policy, which, yes, they actually call it the Department of War now - …
The War Is a Product Launch
The Pentagon asked for $200 billion. The president's sons own $750 million in drone companies bidding on those contracts. Nobody blinks.
Party Foul at Fort Bliss
Hey - do you remember last month when they shut down airspace around El Paso TWICE? Well, now we know why. The Pentagon loaned Customs and Border Protection a high-energy laser cannon and told them to go zap some cartel drones on the Texas border. CBP fired it near Fort Bliss without telling the FAA,…
The 26-Year-Old Who Fired the Ethics Lawyers Is Now Running Pentagon AI
Gavin Kliger got caught with illegal stock holdings at the CFPB, fired the lawyers who flagged it, and just got named Pentagon Chief Data Officer. During a war.
The Pentagon’s No. 2 Used to Own the Companies Now Winning Golden Dome Contracts
Steve Feinberg built a private equity empire of defense contractors. Trump made him #2 at the Pentagon. Now those companies are winning Golden Dome contracts. He "divested." His kids got the money.
Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Rapture Prep at the Pentagon
Military commanders told troops the Iran war is the biblical apocalypse. Over 110 complaints. Every branch. The trail leads straight to Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth Wants to Use a Korean War Law to Make AI Less Safe
Pete Hegseth wants to weaponize a 1950 Korean War law to strip Anthropic's only two AI safety rules - no autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance. Two guardrails. That was apparently too much.
Hegseth Moves to Cut a Combat Veteran Senator’s Military Retirement Pay Over a Video
Pete Hegseth just announced he’s cutting a sitting U.S. Senator’s military retirement pay. The Senator in question is Mark Kelly, who flew 39 combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, commanded Space Shuttle missions, and spent 25 years serving in the Navy. His crime? Making a video that reminded service members they have a duty to…
Pete Hegseth Reportedly Ordered ‘Kill Everybody.’ Attacking Shipwrecked Men Is a War Crime.
Under the laws of war, you never attack anyone who is hors de combat: shipwrecked, wounded, defenseless, or already in your power. But on September 2, according to the Washington Post, Pete Hegseth gave an order to do exactly that. The DOD Law of War Manual is explicit about this. Section 5.9 states that persons…