We don’t easily come back from this. The guardrails of decency, always too thin as it was, are gone. And many of our neighbors will not stand up for you or me or others. Troops booing the media at the goading of the president. We don’t come back easily from this.

UPDATE: The base just released a statement on the Bragg speech. "The Army does not endorse political merchandise or the views it represents. The vendor’s presence is under review to determine how it was permitted and to prevent similar occurrences in the future," a spox said.

SCOOP: Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet military.com/daily-news/202…

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NEW: A US defense official says this attack, which Israel says will continue over multiple days, will provoke a significant Iranian response that the Israelis will then ask the United States to help counter despite the fact that it just blew up the delicate US diplomatic talks

As the Army gears up for its parade & in the wake of the Fort Bragg event this week, officials are growing increasingly concerned about military politicization. Actions that were once “labeled as partisan activity, or not appropriate, are now celebrated.” cnn.com/2025/06/14/pol…

The CNO nomination is out. President Trump picks career submariner Adm. Daryl Caudle to serve as the next chief of naval operations news.usni.org/2025/06/18/fle…

Asked if he would dismiss Kingsley Wilson due to her anti-semitic comments Hegseth tells SASC: "I've worked directly with her. She does a fantastic job. And any suggestion that I or her or other are party to anti-semitism is a mischaracterization attempting to win political points"

Kingsley Wilson Kingsley Wilson has on multiple occasions repeated a 100-year old blood libel about Leo Frank - a Jewish man lynched in 1915 - and has espoused the Great Replacement Theory, a known anti-semitic conspiracy theory that the Nazis pushed.

FY 2026 Budget: Future of F/A-XX, Frigate Unclear; $47.2B Shipbuilding Budget Split Between Base Request, Reconciliation — USNI News news.usni.org/2025/06/26/fy-…

Ship naming is typically (and legally) the purview of the Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan. It is notable that this announcement is being made by Hegseth and not the Navy.

The answer to this question is yes, but not for the reasons implied in posting this specific question with this specific video.

Pentagon Sends 200 Marines to Florida to Support ICE - USNI News news.usni.org/2025/07/03/pen…

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” — Fred Rogers

I can only think of Mariano Rivera and as a Yankee fan I feel he is the only person who can use this song.

If I had a nickel for every Pennsylvania Republican getting engaged to a Fox News journalist this week, I would have two nickels—which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice

The Kingsley Wilson Kingsley Wilson confirms that the soundtrack caused copyright issues -

A hill I will keep dying on: The media’s job is to hold politicians to account. It is not to fawn over and worship them. Please stop doing the latter. It is deeply cringe.

The church in Gaza the pope used to call nightly hit by Israeli strike washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…

SCOOP: A Marine Corps general is in line to serve as the U.S. Naval Academy's superintendent for the first time in its 180-year history. Vice Adm. Davids, the current supe, is heading to the chief of naval operations staff. news.usni.org/2025/07/17/mar… USNI News